Filing Fee: $50.00 ID Number: ____________ STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS Office of the Secretary of State Corporations Division 100 North Main Street Providence, Rhode Island 02903-1335 CONSUMERS COOPERATIVE _________________ ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION (To Be Filed In Duplicate Original) The undersigned, acting as incorporator(s) of an association under Chapter 7-8 of the General Laws, 1956, as amended, adopt(s) thefollowing Articles of Association for such association: 1. The name of the consumers cooperative association is (The name must contain the word cooperative.) 2. The period of its duration is (if perpetual, so state) 3. The purpose or purposes for which the association is organized are: 4. The association is organized with shares or without shares (check one box only) 5. The aggregate number of shares which the association shall have the auth ority to issue is: (a) If only one class: Total number of shares (If the authorized shares are to consist of one class only, state the par value of such shares or a statement that all of such shares are to be without par value.): or (b) If more than one class: Total number of shares (State (A) the number of shares of each class thereof that are to have a par vlue and the par value of each share of each such class, and/or (B) the number of such sh ares that are a to be without par vlue, and (Ca) a statement of all or any of the designations and the powers, preferences and rights, including voting rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, wich are permitted hby the provisions of Title 7 of the Ge neral Laws in respect of any class or classes of stock of the corporation and the fixing of wich byh the articles of association is desired, and an express grant of such authority as it may then be desired to grant to the board of directors to fix by vte or votes anyo the reof that may be desired but which shall not be fixed by the articles.) 6. The minimum number of value of shares which must be owned in order to qu alify for membership is 7. If organized without shares, state whether the property rights of members shall be equal or unequal, and if unequal, the rule by which their rights shall be determined: 8. The maximum amount or percentage of capital which may be owned or contro lled by any member is Form No. 601 Revised: 01/99 >>>> 2 9. The method by which any surplus, upon dissolution of the association, shall be distributed is 10. Provisions (if any), dealing with the preemptive right of shareholders pursuant to Section 7-1.1-24 of the General Laws, 19 56, as amended: 11. Provisions (if any), for the regulation of the internal affairs of the association: 12. The address of the initial registered office of the association is (Street) , RI and the name of its initial registered agent at such (City/Town) (Zip Code) address is (Name of Agent) 13. The number of directors constituting the initial board of directors of the association is and the names and addresses of the persons who are to serve as directors until the first annual meeting of shareholders or unt il their successors are elected and shall qualify are: Name Address 14. The name and address of each incorporator is: Name Address 15. Date when corporate existence to begin (not prior to, nor more than 30 days after, the filing of these Articles of Association) Date: Signature of each Incorporator STATE OF COUNTY OF In , on this day of , , personally appeared before me each and all known to me and known by me to be the parties executing the foregoing instrument, and they severally acknowledged said instrument by them subscribed to be their free act and deed. ________________________________________________________ N otary Public My Commission Expires: ___________________________________