I

The undersigned hereby apply to the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs for the grant of a charter by letters patent under the provisions of Part II of the Canada Corporations Act constituting the undersigned, and such others as may become members of the Corporation thereby created, a body corporate and politic under the name of the 

WORLD ORGANIZATION OF BUILDING OFFICIALS

The undersigned have satisfied themselves and are assured that the proposed name under which incorporation is sought is not the same or similar to the name under which any other company, society, association or firm, the existence is carrying on business in Canada or is incorporated under the laws of Canada or any province thereof or so nearly resembles the same as to be calculated to deceive and that it is not a name which is otherwise on public grounds objectionable.

II

The applicants are individuals of the full age of twenty-one years with power under law to contract. The name, the place of residence and the calling of each of the applicants are as follows:

• Omkar Nath Channan, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Everett Dunham, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Clarence Robert Bechtel, Beecher, IL, USA
• Roger Valcourt Hebert, West Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Cecil Raymond Smith, Timaru, New Zealand
• Raymond Frank Browne, Springwood, NSW, Australia
• Mpaphi Richman Tibone, Gaborone, Botswana
• Pai Lin Li, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Hubert M.J. Nijssen, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• C.D. Howard, Jr., Birmingham, AL, USA
• Paul J. Imhoff, Pittsburgh, PA USA
• Douglas Ernest Harrison, Bucks, England
• P.J. Joseph, Thodupuzha, Kerala, India
• Hassan Bin Mohammad Ali, Selangor, Malaysia
• Gilbert Frank Williams, Garran, ACT, Australia 
• Jack S. Atkins, El Dorado, CA, USA
• B. Dayal, Delhi, India
• Martin Grimes, Sudbury, MA USA
• Ramesh Chandra, New Delhi, India
• James Cunningham, New Barnet Herts, England
• W.A. Black, Harrow, Middlesex, England
• Richard Kuchnicki, Herndon, VA, USA
• Richard E. Wolfe, Glendale, AZ, USA
• Jose Lei, Hong Kong
• Edward Geres, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Sospeter O. Mageto, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Herbert Charles Martin, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

III

The objects of the organization are:

The object for which the organization is established is to advance education through the dissemination of knowledge in the building science, technology and construction, and in furtherance thereof and ancillary thereto but not otherwise the organization shall have power to do all or any of the following:

a) To collate and disseminate information and views already available in regard to the primary object of the organization;

b) To enter upon and initiate research and study on problems of man's wellbeing connected with the primary object of the organization or some aspect of aspects thereof;

c) To provide encouragement, initiative, stimulation and support to all in furthering Progress of the primary object of the organization as far as practicable;

d) To promote safeguards from potential hazards;

e) To find solutions for preventing fire risks in existing buildings and under construction;

f) To promote the concept of standardizing construction materials, equipment, appliances and related matters and things in cooperation with other disciplines;

g) To pool resources of members in order to facilitate progress of mutual concerns and of finding ways and means of promoting unification of legislation, building, fire and allied codes, procedures, practices and directives;

h) To provide and maintain where appropriate and insofar as practicable in collaboration with other bodies means of information upon all questions affecting the primary object of the organization by the preparation of books, periodicals, records, reports or other works or otherwise as may be deemed desirable;

i) To establish relations and cooperate with the United Nations Organization, Commonwealth Foundation, governments and its agencies, professional groups, voluntary bodies, foundations, universities, technical colleges, educational institutes and such other corporations, organizations, groups or individuals having aims, objects and interests similar to the primary object of the organization and advancement thereof;

j) To promote cooperation as far as practicable among skilled, scientific, professional and lay groups which contribute to the advancement and having aims, objects and interests similar to the primary object of the organization;

k) To cooperate with the United Nations and its specialized agencies as may be engaged in any aspect of the promotion of the aims, objects and interests similar to the primary object of the organization and in particular with the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization and the United Nations Economic and Social Council;

l) To seek consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council and to provide an important means of furthering the purposes and principles of the United Nations, and with such other organizations as may be deemed fit;

m) To reflect major interests of all regions and areas of the world or where the organization has special experience upon which the United Nations Economic and Social Council or any of the other United Nations' agencies may wish to draw;

n) To declare, where appropriate, any financial contribution or other support, direct or indirect, received from a government and fully recorded in the financial and other records of the organization and shall be devoted to purposes in accordance with the aims of the United Nations;

o) The organization shall have authority to speak for its members through its authorized representatives and to make written submissions as may be deemed appropriate;

p) To encourage and promote in all countries of the world the establishment of appropriate means of study and action within each nation and of communication between the citizens of all nations with respect to the advancement of the primary object of the organization, and in this connection, to encourage the formation in every country of national building officials organization;

q) To recommend awards, prizes, fellowships and scholarships for study and research and contribution in furthering the primary object of the organization, and give such awards, prizes, fellowships and scholarships as fund permits;

r) To hold meetings, assemblies, conventions, conferences, seminars, courses, workshops and congresses of a local, national or international character in any part of the world in connection with and in furthering the primary object of the organization;

s) To do any or all lawful acts and things which may be necessary, useful, suitable or proper for the furtherance, accomplishment or attainment of any or all of the objects or powers of the organization;

t) To secure the greatest degree of harmony, agreement and cooperation among the members;

u) To retain, employ and remunerate skilled, professional, secretarial or technical persons in achieving the primary object of the organization, if appropriate and necessary;

v) To apply solely the income and property of the organization whencesoever derived, solely towards the promotion of the objects of the organization;

w) To do all such other charitable acts as may be necessary for the attainment of the primary object of the organization;

x) To accept, hold, invest, reinvest and administer gifts, legacies, bequests, devices, funds, grants and property of any sort or nature, without limitation as to amount or value, and to use, apply, expend, disburse or donate the income or principal thereof for, and to devote the same to, any of the purposes or objects of the organization;

y) To do all such other things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the foregoing objects and are not prejudicial and detrimental to the cause of the organization.

IV

The Operations of the organization may be carried on throughout Canada and elsewhere.

V

The place within Canada where the head office of the organization is to be situated is Calgary in the Province of Alberta in Canada.

VI

It is specially provided that in the event of dissolution or winding-up of the organization all its remaining assets after payments of its liabilities shall be distributed to one or more organizations in Canada having cognate or similar objects.

VII

In accordance with Section 65 of the Canada Corporations Act, it is provided that, when authorized by bylaw, duly passed by the directors and sanctioned by at least two-thirds of the votes cast at a special general meeting of the members duly called for considering the bylaw, the directors of the organization may from time to time:

a) borrow money upon the credit of the organization;

b) limit or increase the amount to be borrowed;

c) issue debentures or other securities of the organization;

d) pledge or sell such debentures or other securities for such sums and at such prices as may be deemed expedient; and, 

e) secure any such debentures, or other securities, or any other present or future borrowing or liability of the organization, by mortgage, hypothec, charge or pledge of all on any currently owned or subsequently acquired real and personal, movable and immovable, property of the organization, and the undertaking and rights of the organization.

Any such bylaw may provide for the delegation of such powers by the directors to such officers or directors of the organization to such extent and in such manner as may be set out in the bylaw.

Nothing herein limits or restricts the borrowing on money by the organization on bills of exchange or promissory notes made, drawn, accepted or endorsed by or on behalf of the organization.

VIII

The bylaws of the organization shall be those filled with the application for letters patent until repealed, amended, altered or added to.

IX

The organization is to carry on its operations without pecuniary gain to its members and any profits or other accretions to the organization are to be used in promoting its objects.

DATED at the City of Saskatoon in the Province of Saskatchewan, this sixth day of June, 1984.