Exhibit 3.01
RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
USG CORPORATION
(Originally incorporated October 22, 1984)
(Pursuant to Section 303 of the
Delaware General Corporation Law)
USG Corporation (the corporation), a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue
of the Delaware General Corporation Law, does hereby certify:
FIRST: That the corporation filed a plan of reorganization (the Plan) which,
pursuant to chapter 11 of Title 11 the United States Code, was confirmed by an order dated June 16,
2006 of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, a Court having
jurisdiction of a proceeding under the United States Bankruptcy Code (the Order), and that such
Order provides for the making and filing of this Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
SECOND: That this Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been duly adopted and
executed in accordance with Sections 303, 242 and 245 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, as
authorized by the Order, it being necessary to put into effect and carry out the Plan by amending,
restating and integrating the corporations Restated Certificate of Incorporation as set forth
herein, and that this Restated Certificate of Incorporation shall become effective at 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on June 19, 2006.
THIRD: That, pursuant to the Order, the provisions of the corporations Restated
Certificate of Incorporation to be effected thereunder and hereunder are as follows:
ARTICLE FIRST
The name of the corporation is USG Corporation.
ARTICLE SECOND
The corporations registered office in the State of Delaware is located at Corporation Trust
Center, 1209 Orange Street in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its
registered agent is The Corporation Trust Company.
ARTICLE THIRD
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which
corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
ARTICLE FOURTH
The total number of shares which the corporation shall have authority to issue is 236,000,000,
of which 36,000,000 shares of the par value of one dollar each shall be preferred stock and
200,000,000 shares of the par value of $0.10 each shall be common stock.
Shares of the stock of any class of the corporation may be issued by the corporation from time
to time for such consideration as may be fixed from time to time by the board of directors thereof,
and any and all such shares so issued the full consideration for which shall have been paid or
delivered, shall be deemed fully paid and nonassessable stock and not liable to any further call or
assessment thereon.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article FOURTH, (i) the corporation will not issue
any nonvoting equity securities, within the meaning of §1123(a)(6) of the United States Bankruptcy
Code, 11 U.S.C., or any successor statute thereto and (ii) in the event that the corporation issues
any class of equity securities having a preference over another class of equity securities with
respect to dividends, the terms of such class of equity securities will include adequate provisions
for the election of directors representing such preferred class in the event of default in the
payment of such dividends, within the meaning of §l123(a)(6) of the United States Bankruptcy Code,
11 U.S.C., or any successor statute thereto.
A description of the different classes of stock of the corporation and a statement of the
designations and the powers, preferences and rights and the qualifications, limitations or
restrictions thereof, in respect of each class of said stock are as follows:
Section 1. Provisions Applicable to Preferred Stock
(a) The board of directors is expressly authorized at any time and from time to time to
provide for the issuance of shares of preferred stock in one or more series with such voting powers
full or limited or, subject to the other provisions of this article FOURTH, without voting powers
and with such designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special
rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof as shall be stated and expressed in
the resolution or resolutions providing for the issue thereof adopted by the board of directors and
as are not stated and expressed in the Restated Certificate of Incorporation including (but without
limiting the generality thereof) the following:
(i) The designation of such series.
(ii) The dividend rate of such series, the conditions and dates upon which such dividends
shall be payable, the relation which such dividends shall bear to the dividends payable on any
other class or classes of stock and whether such dividends shall be cumulative or non-cumulative.
(iii) Whether the shares of such series shall be subject to redemption by the corporation and,
if made subject to such redemption, the time, prices and other terms and conditions of such
redemption.
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(iv) The terms and amount of any sinking fund provided for the purchase or redemption of the
shares of such series.
(v) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be convertible into or exchangeable for
shares of any other class or classes or of any other series of any class or classes of stock of the
corporation, and if provision be made for conversion or exchange, the times, prices, rates,
adjustments, and other terms and conditions of such conversion or exchange.
(vi) The extent, if any, to which the holders of the shares of such series shall be entitled
to vote with respect to the election of directors or otherwise.
(vii) The restrictions, if any, on the issue or reissue of any additional preferred stock.
(viii) The rights of the holders of the shares of such series upon the dissolution of, or upon
the distribution of, assets of the corporation.
(b) Except as otherwise required by law and except for such voting powers with respect to the
election of directors or other matters as may be stated in paragraph (c) hereof or in the
resolutions of the board of directors creating any series of preferred stock, the holders of any
such series shall have no voting power whatsoever. Any amendment to the Restated Certificate of
Incorporation which shall increase or decrease the authorized stock of any class or classes may be
adopted by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the
voting stock of the corporation.
(c) If at any time dividends in respect of any series of preferred stock shall be in default
in an amount equal to or exceeding the dividend thereon for six quarterly periods at the rate fixed
therefore, the holders of the outstanding preferred stock of all series, voting separately as a
class, each share of preferred stock having one vote, in addition to any other voting right of such
stock with respect to election of directors, shall become entitled at the next annual meeting of
stockholders and at each annual meeting thereafter until all dividends in default on all series of
preferred stock shall have been paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof set
apart, to elect two directors of the corporation, and the remaining directors of the corporation
shall be elected by the holders of stock of the corporation entitled to vote at elections of
directors in the absence of such a default in the payment of dividends, including the holders of
outstanding preferred stock with voting rights in the election of directors. When all dividends in
default on all series of preferred stock shall thereafter be paid or declared and a sum sufficient
for the payment thereof set apart, the holders of the outstanding preferred stock shall then be
divested of such right to elect two directors of the corporation and at the next annual meeting of
stockholders and at each annual meeting thereafter each holder of preferred stock shall again have
the same voting rights at the election of directors as such holder would have had but for such
default in the payment of dividends, but always subject to the same provisions for the vesting of
such right to elect two directors in case of any similar future default in the payment of dividends
on any series of preferred stock.
(d) No holder of shares of preferred stock of the corporation shall be entitled as a matter of
right, to any preemptive right to subscribe to any additional issues of stock of the
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corporation of
any class, or any securities convertible into any class of stock of the corporation, except as may
otherwise be stated in the resolution of the board of directors creating any series of preferred
stock.
Section 2. Junior Participating Preferred Stock, Series C
There is hereby established a series of preferred stock which shall be designated as Junior
Participating Preferred Stock, Series C (the Series C Preferred Stock) and shall consist of two
million (2,000,000) shares. The voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional
and other special rights of the shares of such series, and the qualifications, limitations or
restrictions are as follows:
A. Dividends and Distributions.
(1) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of
Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series C Preferred Stock with respect
to dividends, the holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of
Common Stock, $0.10 par value per share, of the corporation (the common stock) and of any other
junior stock, shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the board of directors out
of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the fifteenth
day of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as
a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after
the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series C Preferred Stock, in an amount per
share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (a) $25.00 or (b) subject to the
provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all
cash dividends, and 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash
dividends or other distributions other than a dividend payable in shares of common stock or a
subdivision of the outstanding shares of common stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared
on the common stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with
respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or
fraction of a share of Series C Preferred Stock. In the event the corporation shall at any time on
or after May 7, 1993 declare or pay any dividend on common stock payable in shares of common stock,
or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of common stock
(by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of common stock) into a
greater or lesser number of shares of common stock, then in each such case the amount to which
holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under
clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction the
numerator of which is the number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately after such event
and the denominator of which is the number of shares of common stock that were outstanding
immediately prior to such event.
(2) The corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series C Preferred Stock
as provided in paragraph (1) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or
distribution on the common stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of common stock);
provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the common
stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent
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Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $25.00 per share on the Series C Preferred Stock
shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.
(3) Dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of Series C
Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Dale next preceding the date of issue of such
shares of Series C Preferred Stock, unless the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record
date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment date, in which case dividends on such shares shall
begin to accrue from the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly
Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders of shares
of Series C Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly
Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue and be
cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall not bear
interest. Dividends paid on the shares of Series C Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total
amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rats
on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the lime outstanding. The board of directors may
fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock entitled
to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be not
more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.
B. Voting Rights. The holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall have the following
voting rights:
(1) Subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, each share of Series C
Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 100 votes on all matters submitted to a vote of
the stockholders of the corporation. In the event the corporation shall at any time on or after May
7, 1993 declare or pay any dividend on common stock payable in shares of common stock, or effect a
subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of common stock (by
reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of common stock) into a
greater or lesser number of shares of common stock, then in each such case the number of votes per
share to which holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to
such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such number by a fraction the numerator of which is the
number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of
which is the number of shares of common stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such
event.
(2) Except as otherwise provided herein or by law, the holders of shares of Series C Preferred
Stock and the holders of shares of common stock shall vote together as one class on all matters
submitted to a vote of stockholders of the corporation.
(3) Except as set forth herein, holders of Series C Preferred Stock shall have no special
voting rights and their consent shall not be required (except to the extent they are entitled to
vote with holders of common stock as set forth herein) for taking any corporate action.
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C. Certain Restrictions.
(1) Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on the Series C
Preferred Stock as provided in Section A are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and
unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series C Preferred Stock
outstanding shall have been paid in full, the corporation shall not:
(i) declare or pay dividends on, or make any other distributions on, any shares of stock
ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the
Series C Preferred Stock;
(ii) declare or pay dividends on or make any other distributions on any shares of stock
ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with
the Series C Preferred Stock, except dividends paid ratably on the Series C Preferred Stock and all
such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts
to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled;
(iii) redeem ox purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking
junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series C
Preferred Stock, provided that the corporation may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise
acquire shares of any such junior stock in exchange for shares of any stock of the corporation
ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding up) to the
Series C Preferred Stock; or
(iv) purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Series C Preferred Stock,
or any shares of stock ranking on a parity with the Series C Preferred Stock, except in accordance
with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the board of directors)
to all holders of such shares upon such terms as the board of directors, after consideration of the
respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective series
and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the
respective series or classes.
(1) The corporation shall not permit any subsidiary of the corporation to purchase or
otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the corporation unless the corporation
could, under paragraph (1) of this Section C, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such
time and in such manner.
D. Reacquired Shares. Any shares of Series C Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired
by the corporation in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and cancelled promptly after the
acquisition thereof. All such shares shall upon their cancellation become authorized but unissued
shares of preferred stock and may be reissued as part of a new series of preferred stock to be
created by resolution or resolutions of the board of directors, subject to the conditions and
restrictions on issuance set forth therein.
E. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of
the corporation, no distribution shall be made (1) to the holders of shares of stock ranking junior
(either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series C Preferred
Stock unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall
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have received
$100.00 per share, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon,
whether or not declared, to the date of such payment, provided that the holders of shares of Series
C Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive an aggregate amount per share, subject to the
provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, equal to 100 times the aggregate amount to be
distributed per share to holders of common stock, or (2) to the holders of stock ranking on a
parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series C
Preferred Stock, except distributions made ratably on the Series C Preferred Stock and all other
such parity stock in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are
entitled upon such liquidation, dissolution or winding up. In the event the corporation shall at
any time on or after May 7, 1993 declare or pay any dividend on common stock payable in shares of
common stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of
common stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of common
stock), then in each such case the aggregate amount to which holders of shares of Series C
Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under the proviso in clause (1) of
the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction the numerator of
which is the number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately after such event and the
denominator of which is the number of shares of common stock that were outstanding immediately
prior to such event.
F. Consolidation, Merger, etc. In case the corporation shall enter into any consolidation,
merger, combination or other transaction in which the shares of common stock are exchanged for or
changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then in any such case the
shares of Series C Preferred Stock then outstanding shall at the same time be similarly exchanged
or changed in an amount per share (subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth)
equal to 100 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property
(payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each share of common stock is
changed or exchanged. In the event the corporation shall at any time on or after May 7, 1993
declare or pay any dividend on common stock payable in shares of common stock, or effect a
subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of common stock, (by
reclassification or otherwise) into a greater or lesser number of shares of common stock, then in
each such case the amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or
change of shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a
fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately
after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of common stock that were
outstanding immediately prior to such event.
G. No Redemption. The shares of Series C Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.
H. Amendment. The Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of the corporation shall
not be amended in any manner which would materially alter or change the powers, preferences or
special rights of the Series C Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely without the
affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds of the outstanding shares of Series C Preferred
Stock, voting together as a single class.
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Section 3. Provisions Applicable to Common Stock
(a) After the requirements in respect of dividends upon the preferred stock to the end of the
then current quarterly dividend period or periods for the preferred stock shall have been met, the
holders of the common stock shall be entitled to receive out of any remaining net profits or net
assets of the corporation applicable to dividends, such dividends as may from time to time be
declared by the board of directors, and the holders of the common stock shall be entitled to share
ratably in any dividends so declared to the exclusion of the holders of the preferred stock.
(b) In the event of any liquidation or dissolution or winding up of the corporation (whether
voluntary or involuntary) after payment in full of the amounts payable in respect of the preferred
stock, the holders of the common stock shall be entitled, to the exclusion of the holders of the
preferred stock, to share ratably in all the assets of the corporation then remaining.
(c) Except as otherwise made mandatory by law, each holder of common stock shall be entitled
to one vote for each full share of such stock then outstanding and of record in his name on the
books of the corporation.
(d) The holders of common stock shall have no preemptive right to purchase or subscribe for
any additional shares of capital stock (or securities convertible into capital stock) which may
hereafter be issued or sold by the corporation.
(e) Upon the filing in the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of this
Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the shares of common stock, par value $0.10 per share, of
the corporation issued and outstanding immediately prior to the time when this Restated Certificate
becomes effective are hereby automatically reclassified and changed without any action on the part
of the holders thereof so that each fifty (50) shares of common stock becomes one (1) validly
issued, fully paid and non-assessable share of common stock of the corporation. When such
reclassification of any holders shares of common stock would otherwise result in a number of
shares that is not a whole number, the actual reclassified number of shares of such stock shall be
rounded to the next higher or lower whole number as follows: (i) fractions of 1/2 or greater shall
be rounded to the next higher or lower whole number, and (ii) fractions of less than 1/2 shall be
rounded to the next lower whole number. Upon consummation of the reclassification of the common
stock of the corporation as set forth in this paragraph, the holders of shares of common stock of
the corporation shall have all of the rights accorded to them by law.
ARTICLE FIFTH
Any action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders
of the corporation may only be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing setting forth the
action so taken shall be signed by the holders of 80% of the voting power of all of the stock of
the corporation entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
ARTICLE SIXTH
(a) Except as set forth in paragraph (d) of this article SIXTH, the affirmative vote or
consent of the holders of 80% of the voting power of all of the stock of this corporation entitled
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to vote in elections of directors (computed without regard to the additional voting rights referred
to in Section 1(c) of article FOURTH) shall be required:
(i) for a merger or consolidation of this corporation or any subsidiary thereof with or into
any other corporation, or
(ii) for any sale or lease of all or any substantial part of the assets of this corporation or
any subsidiary thereof to any other corporation, person or other entity, or
(iii) for any sale or lease of this corporation or any subsidiary thereof of any assets
(except assets having an aggregate fair market value of less than $10,000,000) in exchange for
voting securities (or securities convertible into voting securities or options, warrants, or rights
to purchase voting securities or securities convertible into voting securities) of this corporation
or any subsidiary by any other corporation, person or other entity, if as of the record date for
the determination of stockholders entitled to notice thereof and to vote thereon or consent thereto
such other entity which is party to such a transaction is the beneficial owner, directly or
indirectly of 5% or more in number of shares of the outstanding shares of any class of stock of
this corporation entitled to vote in elections of directors.
(b) For purposes of this article SIXTH, any corporation, person or other entity, shall be
deemed to be the beneficial owner of arty shares of stock of this corporation,
(i) which it owns directly, whether or not of record, or
(ii) which it has the right to acquire pursuant to any agreement or understanding or upon
exercise of conversion rights, warrants or options or otherwise, whether or not presently
exercisable, or
(iii) which are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly (including shares deemed to be
owned through application of clause (ii) above), by an affiliate or associate as those terms
are defined herein, or
(iv) which are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly by any other corporation, person or
entity (including any shares which such other corporation, person or entity has the right to
acquire pursuant to any agreement or understanding or upon exercise of conversion rights, warrants
or options or otherwise, whether or not presently exercisable) with which it or its affiliate or
associate has any agreement or arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring,
holding, voting or disposing of stock of this corporation.
For the purposes of this article SIXTH, the outstanding shares of stock of this corporation shall
include shares deemed owned through the application of clauses (b)(ii), (iii) and (iv) above, but
shall not include any other shares which may be issuable pursuant to any agreement or upon exercise
of conversion rights, warrants, options or otherwise.
For the purposes of this article SIXTH, the term affiliate shall mean any person that directly,
or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under
common control with, such corporation, person or other entity. The term control (including the
terms controlling, controlled by and under common control with) means the possession,
directly
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or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of a corporation, person or other entity, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract, or otherwise.
For purposes of this article SIXTH, the term associate shall mean (1) any corporation or
organization (other than this corporation or a majority-owned subsidiary of this corporation) of
which such corporation, person or other entity is an officer or partner or is, directly or
indirectly, the beneficial owner of ten percent (10%) or more of any class of equity securities,
(2) any trust or other estate in which such corporation, person or other entity has a substantial
beneficial interest or as to which such corporation, person or other entity serves as a trustee or
in a similar fiduciary capacity and (3) any relative or spouse of such person or arty relative of
such spouse who has the same home as such person or who is a director or officer of this
corporation or any of its subsidiaries.
(c) The board of directors shall have the power and duty to determine for the purposes of this
article SIXTH on the basis of information known to the board of directors of this corporation,
whether
(i) such other corporation, person or other entity beneficially owns more than 5% in number of
shares of the outstanding shares of any class of stock of this corporation entitled to vote in
elections of directors,
(ii) a corporation, person or other entity is an affiliate or associate (as defined in
paragraph (b) above) of another, and
(iii) the assets being acquired by this corporation, or any subsidiary thereof, have an
aggregate fair market value of less than $10,000,000.
Any such determination shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes of this article SIXTH.
(d) The provisions of this article SIXTH shall not apply to any merger or other transaction
referred to in this article SIXTH with any corporation, person or other entity if (1) the board of
directors of this corporation has approved a memorandum of understanding with such other
corporation, person or other entity with respect to such transaction prior to the time that such
other corporation, person or other entity shall have become a beneficial owner of more than
5% in
number of shares of the outstanding shares of stock of any class of this corporation entitled to
vote in elections of directors, or (2) if such transaction is otherwise approved by the board of
directors of this corporation, provided that a majority of the members of the board of directors
voting for the approval of such transaction were duly elected and acting members of the board of
directors prior to the time that such other corporation, person or other entity shall have become a
beneficial owner of more than
5% in number of shares of the outstanding shares of stock of any
class of this corporation entitled to vote in elections of directors. In addition, the provisions
of this article SIXTH shall not apply to any merger or other transaction referred to in this
article SIXTH with a subsidiary (which term shall mean a corporation of which a majority of the
outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote in elections of directors is owned by this corporation
directly, and/or indirectly through one or more other subsidiaries).
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ARTICLE SEVENTH
The number of directors of the corporation shall be fixed from time to time by or in the
manner provided in the by-laws and may be increased or decreased as therein provided, but the
number thereof may not be less than three.
The directors to be elected by the holders of all classes of stock entitled to vote thereon shall
be divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as may be, the term of office of those of
the first class to expire at the first annual meeting of stockholders after their election, the
term of office of those of the second class to expire at the second annual meeting of stockholders
after their election, and the term of office of those of the third class to expire at the third
annual meeting of stockholders after their election, At each annual election, directors elected to
succeed those whose terms expire shall be elected for a term of office to expire at the third
annual meeting of stockholders after their election.
Newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors
and vacancies in the board of directors from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification,
removal from office or other cause shall be filled by a majority vote of the directors then in
office, and directors so chosen shall hold office for a term expiring at the annual meeting at
which the term of the class to which they shall have been elected expires. No decrease in the
number of directors constituting the board of directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent
director. The affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds (2/3) of the voting power of all of the
stock of the corporation entitled to vote in the election of directors (computed without regard to
the additional voting rights referred to in Section 1(c) of article FOURTH) shall be required to
remove a director from office. The stockholders of the corporation are expressly prohibited from
cumulating their votes in any election of directors of the corporation. The right provided by
Section 1(c) of article FOURTH to elect two directors shall be construed as the right to elect not
more than an aggregate of two members of the board of directors (of any class or classes); and, any
other provision herein or in the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware to the contrary
notwithstanding, any director elected pursuant to such right may be removed from office without
cause but in such case only by the holders of a majority of the voting power of the outstanding
preferred stock of all series, voting separately as a class.
The board of directors, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole board, may designate
one or more committees, each committee to consist of two or more of the directors of the
corporation, which, to the extent provided in the resolution or in the by-laws of the corporation,
shall have and may exercise the powers of the board of directors in the management of the business
and affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all
papers which may require it. Such committee or committees shall have such name or names as may be
stated in the by-laws of the corporation or as may be determined from time to time by resolution
adopted by the board of directors.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, the corporation shall maintain a Finance Committee,
which shall have the power to review all of the corporations significant financial matters,
including, but not limited to, strategies, policies or transactions, contemplated by the
corporation. Without limiting the foregoing, the Finance Committee shall provide review
and oversight of and make recommendations to the board of directors on the corporations financing
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requirements and programs to obtain funds; relations with banks, bondholders and other creditors;
forecasting procedures on revenues, expenses, earnings, and cash flow; operating and capital
expenditure budgets; dividend policy; the adoption of any compensation plan for key employees which
contemplates the issuance of stock of the corporation or which is a significant cash compensation
plan (other than an annual cash bonus plan consistent with past practice); and acquisitions,
divestitures and significant transactions affecting the corporations capital structure or
ownership. The Finance Committee shall confer with the Pension Committee established under the
corporations retirement plan and report periodically to the board of directors on the funding of
qualified pension plans of the corporation and its subsidiaries and the investment performance of
plan funds and, on behalf of the board of directors, authorize necessary or desirable changes in
actuarial assumptions for funding the plans. The Finance Committee shall consider such other
matters as may be referred to it from time to time by the board of directors and shall at all times
prior to June 22, 1997 be composed of four members of the board of directors who are not officers
or employees of the corporation. Any actions by the Finance Committee shall be by a majority vote
of at least 3 of its members. Prior to June 22 1997, (i) the scope and power of review of the
Finance Committee as set forth herein shall not in any way be limited or reduced and (ii) the
composition, existence and function of the Finance Committee as set forth herein shall not be
altered or diminished, in either such case without the unanimous consent of all directors then in
office.
The by laws of the corporation shall designate the officers of the corporation, which shall
include but not necessarily be limited to, a president, a secretary and a treasurer to be elected
by the board of directors.
Any officer elected by the board of directors may be removed at any time with or without cause
by a majority of the whole board of directors.
The board of directors shall have power to issue bonds, debentures and other obligations,
either nonconvertible or convertible into the corporations stock, upon such terms, in such manner
and under such conditions in conformity with law, as may be fixed by the board of directors prior
to the issuance of such bonds, debentures and other obligations.
ARTICLE EIGHTH
Meetings of stockholders may be held outside the State of Delaware, if the by-laws so provide.
Elections of directors need not be by ballot unless the by laws of the corporation shall so
provide.
ARTICLE NINTH
By-laws of the corporation may be adopted, amended or repealed by the affirmative vote of a
majority of the total number of directors (fixed by, or in the manner provided in, such by-laws as
in effect immediately prior to such vote) or by the affirmative vote of the holders of 80% of the
voting power of the corporations stock outstanding and entitled to vote thereon. Such by-laws may
contain any provision for the regulation and management of the affairs of the corporation and the
rights or powers of its stockholders, directors or employees not inconsistent with statute or this
Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
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ARTICLE TENTH
The corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained
in this Restated Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by
statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Restated Certificate of Incorporation or the by-laws of
this corporation (and in addition to any other vote that may be required by law, this Restated
Certificate of Incorporation or the by-laws of this corporation), the affirmative vote of the
holders of 80% of the voting power of all stock of this corporation entitled to vote in elections
of directors (considered for this purpose as one class and with such voting power computed without
regard to the additional voting rights referred to in Section 1(c) of article FOURTH) shall be
required to amend, alter, change or repeal article FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH, NINTH, TENTH, ELEVENTH or
TWELFTH of this Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
ARTICLE ELEVENTH
No director shall be liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for
breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except (i) for any breach of a directors duty of loyalty
to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which
involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the
General Corporation Law of Delaware and (iv) for any transaction from which a director derived an
improper personal benefit.
ARTICLE TWELFTH
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Restated Certificate of Incorporation, those
provisions of the by-laws of the corporation which relate to the Finance Committee shall not, prior
to June 22, 1997, be amended or deleted without amendment of this article TWELFTH and those
provisions of the by-laws of the corporation which relate to indemnification of directors and
officers shall not, prior to June 22, 2003, be amended so as to reduce or prejudice the rights of
directors or officers thereunder or be deleted without amendment of this article TWELFTH.
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FOURTH: That no trustee has been appointed to act for and on behalf of the
corporation, and the undersigned officers of the corporation have been duly designated under the
Plan to execute and file this Restated Certificate of Incorporation.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, for the purpose of amending, integrating and restating
the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation pursuant to the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware, do each hereby declare and certify that this Restated Certificate of
Incorporation has been duly adopted in accordance with Sections 303, 242 and 245 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
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USG CORPORATION
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Richard H. Fleming |
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Richard H. Fleming |
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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
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Suzanne K. Torrey |
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Suzanne K. Torrey |
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Assistant Secretary |
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