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PART II CORPORATE PURPOSES AND POWERS
Purposes
11. Corporations may be organized under this Ordinance for any lawful business purpose or purposes.
General Powers
12. Subject to any limitations provided in this Ordinance or any other law of Nevis or its articles of incorporation, every corporation shall have power in furtherance of its corporate purposes irrespective of corporate benefit and whether or not enumerated in its articles: (1) To have perpetual succession. (2) To sue and be sued in all courts of competent jurisdiction. (3) To have a corporate seal, and to alter such seal at pleasure, and to use it by causing it or a facsimile to be affixed impressed or reproduced in any other manner. (4) To purchase, receive, take by grant, gift, devise, bequest or otherwise, lease or otherwise acquire, own, hold, improve, employ, use and otherwise deal in and with, real or personal property, or any interest therein, wherever situated. (5) To sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, or mortgage or pledge, or create a security interest in, all or any of its real or personal property, or any interest therein. (6) To purchase, take, receive, subscribe for, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, vote, employ, sell, lend, lease, exchange, transfer, or otherwise dispose of, mortgage, and pledge, bonds and other obligations, shares, or other securities or interests issued by others, whether engaged in similar or different business, governmental, or other activities (7) To make contracts, give guarantees and incur liabilities, borrow money at such rates of interest as the corporation may determine, issue its notes, bonds, and other obligations, and secure any of its obligations by mortgage or pledge of all or any of its property or any interest therein, wherever situated, in any currency. (8) To lend money, invest and reinvest its funds, and take and hold real and personal property as security for the payment of funds so loaned or invested, in any currency. (9) To do business, carry on its operations, and have offices and exercise the powers granted by this Part in any jurisdiction within or without Nevis. Provided that any business conducted within Nevis is restricted to the activities specified in sub-section (2) of section 123 of this Ordinance. (10) To elect or appoint officers, managing directors, employees and other agents of the corporation, define their duties, fix their compensation, and the compensation of directors, and to indemnify corporate personnel. (11) To adopt, amend or repeal bylaws relating to the business of the corporation, the conduct of its affairs, its rights or powers or the rights or powers of its shareholders, directors or officers. (12) To make donations for the public welfare or for charitable, educational, scientific, civic or similar purposes. (13) To pay pensions and establish pension plans, pension trusts, profit sharing plans, stock bonus plans, stock option plans and other incentive plans for any or all of its directors, officers, and employees. (14) To purchase, receive, take, or otherwise acquire, own, hold, sell, lend, exchange, transfer or otherwise dispose of, pledge, use and otherwise deal in and with its own shares. (15) To be a promoter, incorporator, partner, member, associate, or manager of any partnership, corporation, joint venture, trust or other enterprise. (16) To have and exercise all powers necessary or convenient to effect any or all of the purposes for which the corporation is formed. (17) To be recognized and to be domiciled or domesticated within or without Nevis, and to change the situs of said domicile or domestication from time to time. (18) To protect the assets of the corporation for the benefit of the corporation, its creditors and its members, and at the discretion of the directors, for any person having a direct or indirect interest in the company. 13. A guarantee may be given by a corporation not in furtherance of its corporate purposes, when authorized at a meeting of shareholders by vote of the holders of a majority of all outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon. If authorized by a like vote, such guarantee may be secured by a mortgage or pledge of, or the creation of a security interest in, all or any part of the corporate property or any interest therein wherever situated.
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