Entity# 6889683
Date Filed 05/17/2019
RETURN PER Department of State

INSTRUCTIONS ON
EXPEDITE FORM

COMMONWEALTH OF 

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION - DOMESTIC NONPROFIT CORPORATION

In compliance with the requirements of 15 Pa. C.S. 5306 (relating to articles of
incorporation):

1. Name. The name of the corporation is: Professional Women?s Hockey
Players Association.

2. Address. The address of the corporation?s registered of?ce in this
Commonwealth is:

0/0 Diana (Dee) Spagnuolo
1735 Market Street, 51St Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103

The county of venue is Philadelphia County.

3. Purposes and Operation. The corporation is incorporated under the
Nonpro?t Corporation Law of 1988 (as amended). The nature of the business or
purposes to be conducted or promoted is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which
corporations may be organized under the Nonpro?t Corporation Law of 1988 (as
amended). The corporation is a not?for-pro?t trade organization, organized in
accordance with Section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code, dedicated to promoting,
advancing, and supporting a single, viable professional women?s ice hockey league in North
America that showcases the greatest product of women?s professional ice hockey in the world.

No part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure to the bene?t of, or be
distributable to, its directors or other private persons, except that the corporation shall be
authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make
payments and distributions in furtherance of its exempt purposes.

4. Nonpro?t. The corporation does not contemplate pecuniary gain or pro?t,
incidental or otherwise. 

5. Nonstock. The corporation is organized upon a nonstock basis.
6. Incorporator. The name and address of the incorporator is:
Diana Spagnuolo
1735 Market Street, 51? Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103

7. Members. The corporation shall have no members.



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8. Dissolution. Upon the dissolution of the corporation, the Board of
Directors shall, after paying or making provisions for the payment of all of the liabilities of the
corporation, dispose of all the assets of the corporation exclusively for the exempt purposes of
the corporation in such manner, or to such organization or organizations organized and operated
exclusively for charitable purposes which at the time qualify as an exempt organization or
organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code, as the Board of Directors shall determine.
Any assets not so distributed by the Board of Directors shall be distributed by the Court of
Common Pleas of the county in which the corporation?s principal of?ce is then located
exclusively for the corporation?s exempt purposes. The use of any surplus funds for private
inurement to any person in the event of a sale of the assets or dissolution of the corporation is
expressly prohibited.

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