As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 15, 2005
Registration No. 333-_______

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
AMERICA’S CAR-MART, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Texas
 
630851141
(State or other jurisdiction
 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification
of incorporation or organization)
 
Numberr

802 Southeast Plaza Ave., Suite 200, Bentonville, AR
72712
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(Zip Code)
   

2005 RESTRICTED STOCK PLAN
(Full Title of the Plan)

Tilman J. Falgout, III
Chief Executive Officer
802 Southeast Plaza Ave.
Suite 200
Bentonville, Arkansas 72712
(479) 464-9944
(Name, address, telephone number, including
area code, of agent for service)
______________________
Copies Requested to:
Terry F. Schwartz, Esq.
Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP
Suite 3100, Promenade II
1230 Peachtree Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3592
(404) 815-3500
______________________

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
         
 
Title of Securities
to be Registered
 
Amount to be
Registered
 
Proposed Maximum
Offering Price Per
Share (1)  
 
Proposed Maximum
Aggregate Offering
Price (1)  
 
Amount of
Registration Fee
Common Stock, Par
Value $0.01 Per Share
100,000
Shares
 
$15.305
 
$1,530,500
 
$180.14
 
(1)   Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) based upon the average of the high and low reported prices of the common stock on the Nasdaq National Market on November 10, 2005.  



Part II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT


Item 3.       Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The documents listed below are hereby incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement, and all documents subsequently filed by America’s Car-Mart, Inc. (the “Company”) pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing such documents:

1.
The Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended April 30, 2005;

2.
All other reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Annual Report referred to in (1) above; and

3.
The description of the Company’s Common Stock contained in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 10, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), pursuant to the Exchange Act on December 23, 1986, as amended by a Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 2, 2005, as filed with the Commission on November 2, 2005.

Item 4.         Description of Securities.

No response is required to this item.

Item 5.         Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

No response is required to this item.

Item 6.         Indemnification of Officers and Directors.
 
The Articles of Incorporation of the Company provide for the elimination of monetary liability of directors of the Company pursuant to Article 7.06(B) of the Texas Miscellaneous Corporation Laws Act.

The Company's Bylaws provide that to the extent that a director or officer has been successful in the defense of any proceeding to which he was a party by virtue of his being a director or officer of the Company, the Company shall indemnify the director or officer for reasonable expenses incurred therewith.

In addition, the Company may indemnify a director or officer of the Company who is or is threatened to be made a named defendant or respondent in a proceeding because he is or was a director or officer, against liability incurred in the proceeding if he acted in his official capacity and in a manner he believed in good faith to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and, in the case of any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful; except that, in general, no indemnification shall be made in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the Company in which the director or officer was adjudged liable to the Company or in connection with any other proceeding in which a director or officer is adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by him. If the person is found liable to the Company on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by the person, the Company may indemnify that person, but such indemnification is limited to reasonable expenses actually incurred by the person in connection with the proceeding and shall not be made in respect of any proceeding in which the person shall have been found liable for willful or intentional misconduct in the performance of his duty to the Company.

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Article 2.02-1 of the Texas Business Corporation Act sets forth the applicable terms, conditions, and limitations governing the indemnification of officers, directors and other persons.

Item 7.         Exemption From Registration Claimed.

No response to this item is required.

Item 8.         Exhibits.

The following exhibits are filed with or incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement:


Exhibit Number
Description of Exhibit            (Commission File No. 0-14939)
   
4.1
Articles of Incorporation of the Company (formerly SKAI, Inc.).
   
4.2
Articles of Merger of the Company and Skylink America Incorporated filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Alabama on September 29, 1989.
   
4.3
Articles of Merger of the Company and Skylink America Incorporated filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on October 10, 1989.
   
4.4
Articles of Merger of the Company and Skylink Video Services, Inc. and Skylink, Video Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on April 1, 1991.
   
4.5
Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on October 7, 1993.
   
4.6
Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on October 5, 1994.
   
4.7
Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on October 2, 1997.
   
4.8
Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on March 20, 2002.
   
4.9
By-Laws dated August 24, 1989.
   
5.1
Opinion of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, as to the legality of the securities being registered.

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23.1
Consent of Grant Thornton LLP.
   
23.2
Consent of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (contained in their opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1).
   
24.1
Powers of Attorney (contained on the signature page to this Registration Statement).


Item 9.         Undertakings.

(a)       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

(1)       To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the Registration Statement.

(2)       That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(3)       To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

(b)       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the Registrant’s Annual Report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c)       Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

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SIGNATURES


 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Irving, State of Texas, on the 15th day of November, 2005.

 
AMERICA’S CAR-MART, INC.
   
   
 
By: /s/ Tilman J. Falgout, III                                           
 
Tilman J. Falgout, III
 
Chief Executive Officer
 
(Principal Executive Officer)
   
   
 
By: /s/ Jeffrey A. Williams                                             
 
Jeffrey A. Williams
Chief Financial Officer
 
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
   



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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Tilman J. Falgout, III and Jeffrey A. Williams, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him, in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, including a Registration Statement filed under Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully and to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

Signature
Title
Date
 
/s/ Tilman J. Falgout, III

Tilman J. Falgout, III
Chairman of the Board, Chief
Executive Officer and Director
(principal executive officer)
November 15, 2005
 
/s/ Jeffrey A. Williams

  Jeffrey A. Williams
Chief Financial Officer
(principal financial and accounting
officer)
November 15, 2005
 
/s/ William H. Henderson

  William H. Henderson
Director
 
November 15, 2005
 
/s/ J. David Simmons

  J. David Simmons
Director
 
November 15, 2005
 
/s/ Carl E. Baggett

  Carl E. Baggett
Director
 
November 15, 2005
 
/s/ William M. Sams

  William M. Sams
Director
 
November 15, 2005



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Exhibit Index


Exhibit
 
Number
Description of Exhibit
   
4.1
Articles of Incorporation of the Company (formerly SKAI, Inc.).
   
4.2
Articles of Merger of the Company and Skylink America Incorporated filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Alabama on September 29, 1989.
   
4.3
Articles of Merger of the Company and Skylink America Incorporated filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on October 10, 1989.
   
4.4
Articles of Merger of the Company and Skylink Video Services, Inc. and Skylink, Video Systems, Inc. filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on April 1, 1991.
   
4.5
Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on October 7, 1993.
   
4.6
Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on October 5, 1994.
   
4.7
Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on October 2, 1997.
   
4.8
Articles of Amendment filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Texas on March 20, 2002.
   
4.9
By-Laws dated August 24, 1989.
   
5.1
Opinion of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP as to the legality of the securities being registered.
   
23.1
Consent of Grant Thornton LLP.
   
23.2
Consent of Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (contained in their opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1).


 
 
 
 
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Exhibit 4.1
 
 
 
 
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
 
OF
 
SKAI INC.
 
 
 
I, the undersigned natural person of the age of eighteen years or more, acting as incorporator of a corporation under the Texas Business Corporation Act, does hereby adopt the following Articles of Incorporation for such corporation:
 
ARTICLE ONE
 
The name of the Corporation is SKAI INC.
 
ARTICLE TWO
 
The period of the Corporation's duration is p erpetual.
 
 
ARTICLE THREE
 
 
The purposes for which the Corporation is organized are the transaction of all lawful business for which corporations may be incorporated under the Texas Business Corporation Act. Without limiting the foregoing, the purposes for which the Corporation is organized, and its powers and authority, shall include the following:
 
(a)
  To   purchase, own, hold, control, use, manage, develop, improve, exchange, mortgage, service, lease, rent, sell, convey and otherwise acquire, dispose of, and deal generally with electronic equipment including satellite cable systems;
     
(b)
To contract for, provide, sell and otherwise deal in satellite and master antenna cable television services of all kinds as well as pay-per-view and free-to-guest cable distribution systems and services;  
     
(c)
To purchase, own, hold, control, use, develop, improve, exchange, mortgage, lease, rent, sell, convey, or otherwise acquire and dispose of and deal generally in and with, real property, both improved and unimproved,   and any and all oil, gas and other minerals and mineral rights of every kind and any easement or other interest therein, wherever situate; to erect, or cause to be erected, on any lands owned, held or occupied by the Corporation, houses, buildings, or other structures, with their appurtenances; to manage, operate, lease, rebuild, enlarge, alter or improve any buildings or other structures, now or hereafter erected on lands so owned, held or occupied; to encumber, sell or otherwise
     
 
 
 

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dispose of any lands or interests in lands, and any buildings or other structures, and any houses, stores, shops, suites, rooms or part of any buildings or other structures, at any time owned or held by the Corporation;
 
(d)
To purchase or otherwise acquire, and to sell, let or grant letters patent, concessions, licenses, inventions, rights, and privileges, subject to royalty or otherwise, and whether exclusive, nonexclusive, or limited, or any part interest in such letters patent, concessions, licenses, inventions, rights, and privileges, whether in the United States or in any other part of the world;
     
(e)
To acquire   by purchase,   exchange, lease or otherwise,   and to own,   hold, use, develop, improve, operate, sell, assign, lease, transfer,   convey, exchange, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of or deal in and with all   kinds of equipment, fixtures, appliances, machinery, vehicles, structures,   buildings, facilities,   intangibles,   choses in   action and other personal   property, and all kinds of real property of every class or description and interests, rights and privileges therein wheresoever situate;
     
(f)
To acquire and pay for in cash, stocks, bonds, debentures, or other securities of the Corporation or otherwise, the good will, rights, assets   and property and to undertake or assume the whole or any part of the obligations or liabilities of any person, firm, association or corporation;  
     
(g)
To purchase or otherwise acquire, and to own, engage in, operate and maintain, any and all types and kinds of lawful businesses;  
     
(h)
To acquire, by subscription, discount, purchase or otherwise, own, hold, underwrite, guarantee, negotiate, sell, assign, discount, exchange, mortgage, pledge, dispose of, realize upon and deal in and with securities of all kinds, including, but not limited to, shares of stock, bonds, debentures, scrip, warrants, rights, voting trust certificates, coupons, notes, accounts receivable, contracts, mortgages, commercial paper, evidences of indebtedness, certificates of interest, participation certificates, acceptances and interim receipts and certificates, issued or created by any   corporation, association, joint stock company, partnership, firm, individual, trustee, syndicate, government, governmental authority, state, municipal corporation, or any governmental division or subdivision; to possess and exercise any and all rights, powers and privileges of ownership of any of the stock or other property of the Corporation, including the
 
 
 

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right to vote or consent or otherwise act with respect thereto; and to do any acts or things for the protection, preservation, improvement and enhancement in value of any property of the Corporation;  

(i)
To borrow or raise money for any of the purposes of the Corporation and, from time to time, without limit as to amount, to draw, make, accept, endorse, execute and issue promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, warrants, bonds, debentures and other types of indebtedness and securities and to secure the payment of any thereof and of the interest thereon by mortgage upon, pledge, conveyance or assignment in trust of the whole or any part of the properties, assets, business and good will of the corporation, whether at the time owned or thereafter acquired, and to sell, pledge or otherwise dispose of such bonds or other obligations of the Corporation for its corporate purposes;  

(j)
To guarantee the payment of the dividends on any shares of any corporation, joint stock company or association in which the Corporation has or may at any time have an interest; to endorse, or otherwise guarantee the payment of the principal of, or interest on, any bonds, mortgages, debentures, or other securities issued or created by any corporation, joint stock company or association, in which the Corporation has an interest, or whose shares or securities it owns; to become surety for, and to guarantee, the carrying out or the performance of any contract of every kind of any corporation, joint stock company or association in which the Corporation has an interest or whose shares or securities it owns; and to do any and all lawful things designed to protect, preserve, improve or enhance the value of any such shares, bonds, mortgages, debentures, securities, or other evidences of indebtedness of any corporation, joint stock company or association in which the Corporation has an interest or whose shares or securities it may own;  

(k)
To purchase, hold, cancel, reissue, sell, exchange, transfer, or otherwise deal in its own securities from time to time, to such extent, in such manner and upon such terms as the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall determine to the extent now or hereafter allowed by law, and provided further that the shares of its own capital stock belonging to the Corporation shall not be voted upon directly or indirectly;  

(l)
To have one or more offices, to carry on all or any part of its operations and business without restriction or limit as to amount; to purchase or otherwise acquire, hold, own, mortgage, sell, convey or otherwise dispose of, real and personal property of every class and   description in any of the States or the District of Columbia of the United States, subject to the laws of such State or District;
 
 
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(m)
To enter into, make and perform contracts of every kind and description with any person, firm, association, corporation, municipality, county, State, body politic, or government;  

(n)
To lend   its   funds or credit from time to time to such   extent, to   such persons, firms, associations,   corporations, governments, or subdivisions thereof, and   on such   terms and on such security, if any, or without   security,   as   the Board of Directors of the Corporation   may determine and as may be lawful;

(o)
To carry on any other lawful business whatsoever in connection with any of the foregoing, or which is calculated   directly or indirectly to promote the   interest of the Corporation or to enhance the value of its property; and to execute from time to time, general and special powers of attorney to persons, firms, associations or corporations, and to revoke the same as and when the Board of Directors may determine; and  

(p)
In general, to have and exercise all the powers conferred by the laws of Texas upon corporations formed under the laws of the State of Texas, and to do any or all of the things hereinabove set forth to the same extent as natural persons might or could do.  
 
The foregoing clauses shall be construed as being objects and purposes and powers and the foregoing clauses shall, except where otherwise expressed, be in nowise limited to, restricted by reference to, or inference from, the terms of any other clause in these Articles of Incorporation, but the objects and purposes and powers specified in each of the foregoing clauses of this Article shall be regarded as independent objects, purposes and powers. The foregoing enumeration of specific objects, purposes and powers shall not be deemed to restrict or diminish the general powers of the Corporation, and the enjoyment and exercise thereof, as conferred by the laws of the State of Texas on business corporations organized pursuant to said laws.
 
ARTICLE FOUR
 
The Corporation shall have authority to issue 11,000,000 shares of capital stock, which shall be divided into classes and shall have the following designations, preferences limitations and relative rights:
 
A.       Common Stock .  One class shall consist of 10,000,000 shares of common stock of $0.01 par value, designated "Common Stock." The holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to elect all of the members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, and such holders shall be entitled to vote as a class on all matters required or permitted to be submitted to the shareholders of the Corporation.
 
 
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B.       Preferred Stock . One class shall consist of 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock of $0.01 par value, designated "Preferred Stock." The Board of Directors of the Corporation shall be empowered to divide any and all shares of the Preferred Stock into series and to fix and determine the relative rights and preferences of the shares of any series so established. Before any shares of Preferred Stock of any particular series shall be issued, the Board of Directors shall fix and determine, and is hereby expressly empowered to fix and determine, in the manner provided by law, the following provisions of the shares of such series: (i) the distinctive designation of such series and the number of shares which shall constitute such series, which number may be increased (except where otherwise provided by the Board of Directors in creating such series) or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) from time to time by like action of the   Board  of Directors; (ii) the annual rate of dividends payable on shares of such series, whether dividends shall be cumulative and conditions upon which and the date when such dividends shall be accumulated on all shares of such series issued prior to the record date for the first dividend of such series; (iii) the time or times when and the price or prices at which shares of such series shall be redeemable at the option of the holder or of the Corporation and the sinking fund provisions, if any, for the purchase or redemption of such shares; (iv) the amount payable on shares of such series in the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Corporation, whether all or a portion is paid before any amount is paid on the Common Stock: (v) the rights, if any, of the holders of shares of such series to convert such shares into, or exchange such shares for, shares of Common Stock or shares of any other series of Preferred Stock and the terms and conditions of such conversion or exchange; and (vi) whether the shares of such series have voting rights and the extent of such voting rights, if any.
 
The Board of Directors shall have the power to reclassify any unissued shares of any series of Preferred Stock from time to time by setting or changing the preferences, conversion or other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications, or terms or conditions of redemption, including but not limited to, but subject to the limitations described in, the above provision.
 

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Any action by the Board of Directors in authorizing the issuance of Preferred Stock and fixing and determining the provisions thereof is hereby ratified and approved.
 
C.        Genera l . No shareholder shall have any preemptive right to subscribe to an additional issue of shares of any class of stock of the Corporation or to any security convertible into such stock. No shareholder shall have the right to cumulate his vote on any matter on which he is entitled to vote, including elections of directors.
 
ARTICLE FIVE
 
The Corporation will not commence business until it has received for the issuance of its shares consideration of the value of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), consisting of money, labor done or property actually received.
 
ARTICLE SIX
 
The post office address of the Corporation's initial registered office is 2415 West Northwest Highway, Suite 103, Dallas, Texas 75220, and the name of its initial registered agent at such address is Edward R. McMurphy.
 
ARTICLE SEVEN
 
The number of directors constituting the initial Board of Directors is nine (9),   and the name and address of each person who is to serve as director until the first annual meeting of the shareholders or until a successor is elected and qualified are:
 


NAME
ADDRESS
   
Edward R. McMurphy
2415 W. Northwest Highway
Suite 103
Dallas, Texas 75220
   
R. Clark Sledge
2415 W. Northwest Highway
Suite 103
Dallas, Texas 75220
   
John David Simmons
100 Century Park South
Suite 204
Birmingham, Alabama 35226
   
William C. Brookshire, Jr.
950 E. Paces Ferry
Suite 2300
Atlanta, Georgia 30326
   
Joel B. Piassick
2400 First Atlanta Tower
Atlanta, Georgia 30383






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George H. Covert  
1700 W. 6th Street  
 
Austin, Texas 78703  
   
John Adel, Sr.  
7615 Mason Dell  
 
Dallas, Texas 75220  
   
John A. Stephens  
2708 Grand Avenue  
 
Des Moines, Iowa 50312  
   
Gary D. Baumgart  
50005 LBJ Freeway  
 
Suite 1230  
 
Dallas, Texas 75244  



ARTICLE EIGHT

The name and address   of the incorporator is: Helen T. Ferraro, Esq., 1800 East   Tower, 3333 Peachtree Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30326.

 
ARTICLE NINE
 
No director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for an act or omission in the director's capacity as a director, except that this Article does not authorize the elimination or limitation of the liability of a director to the extent the director is found liable for:
 
(1)      a breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its shareholders;
 
(2)      an act or omission not in good faith that constitutes a breach of duty of the director to the Corporation or an act or omission that involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of the law;
 
( 3 )       a transaction from which the director received an improper benefit, whether or not the benefit resulted from an action taken within the scope of the director's office; or
 
(4)       an act or omission for which the liability of a director is expressly provided by an applicable statute.
 
If applicable law is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the liability of directors, then the liability of each director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, as amended. Neither the amendment or repeal of this Article, nor the adoption of any provision of these Articles of Incorporation inconsistent with this Article, shall eliminate or reduce the effect of this Article in respect of any acts or omissions occurring prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.
 

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ARTICLE TEN
 
Notwithstanding any provision of law requiring the affirmative vote of a greater percentage or proportion than a majority of the outstanding shares of all classes or of any class of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote to take or authorize any action, such action may be taken or authorized upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares of all classes or of any class of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon, except as may be otherwise provided in these Articles of Incorporation or in the By-laws.
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set her hand, this 22nd day of August, 1989.
 
 
/s/ Helen T. Ferraro
 

Helen T. Ferraro
 

 
 

 
 

 
         
STATE OF GEORGIA  
 
)  
 
 
 
 
)  
 
ss:  
COUNTY OF FULTON  
 
)  
 
 

 
I, Robert T. Molinet, a notary public, do hereby certify that on this 22nd day of August, 1989, personally appeared before me, Helen T. Ferraro, who being by me first duly sworn, declared that she is the person who signed the foregoing document as incorporator, and that the statements therein contained are true.
 
 
 
/s/ Robert T. Molinet
Notary Public
Notary Public , DeKalb County, Georgia  
My C ommission Expires Dec   27, 1991
 

 [NOTARIAL SEAL]
 
 
 
 
 
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Exhibit 4.2
 


ARTICLES OF MERGER
OF SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED
AND
SKAI INC.
 
The undersigned, duly authorized officers of their respective corporations, pursuant to § 10-2A-143 of the Alabama Business Corporation Act and § 5.04 of the Texas Business Corporation Act, hereby execute the following Articles of Merger on behalf of their respective corporations:
 
I.    Names of Corporations
 
The names of the corporations proposing to merge are Skylink America Incorporated, an Alabama corporation ("Skylink") and SKAI Inc., a subsidiary of Skylink and a Texas corporation ("SKAI").
 
II.    Agreement of Merger
 
 
Skylink shall be merged into SKAI, and SKAI shall be the surviving corporation, in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Agreement"), attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and by this reference incorporated herein. The "Effective Date" of the Agreement shall be the date on which the Secretary of State of Alabama and the Secretary of State of Texas issue a Certificate of Merger evidencing the merger of Skylink into SKAI.  As of the Effective Date of the Agreement, the name of the surviving corporation shall be changed to Skylink America Incorporated.
 
III.    Approval of Agreement

A.      On September 28, 1989, the date on which the shareholders of Skylink approved the Agreement, there were 4,048,78l shares of Skylink's common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote on the Agreement. Of those shares, 3,121,737 voted "FOR" and 2,459 voted "AGAINST" the Agreement.
 
B.      On September 28, 1989, the date on which the sole shareholder of SKAI approved the Agreement, there were 100 shares of SKAI’s common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote on the Agreement. Of those shares, 100 voted "FOR" and 0 voted "AGAINST" the Agreement.
 
IV.     Incorporation
 
The Articles of Incorporation of Skylink are filed in Baldwin County, Alabama.
 



 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the corporations has caused these Articles of Merger to be executed in their respective names by their respective duly authorized officers on the 28th day of September, 1989.
 
 
 
SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED
 
 
By:   /s/ Edward R. McMurphy    
Edward R. McMurphy
President and Chief
Executive Officer
 
 
Attest:

/s/ R. Clark Sledge    
R. Clark Sledge
Secretary

[Corporate Seal]

VERIFICATION

STATE OF TEXAS

COUNTY OF DALLAS
 
Before me, the undersigned authority in and for said county and state, personally appeared Edward R. McMurphy and R. Clark Sledge who being by me first duly sworn, did depose and say that they are the President and Secretary, respectively, of Skylink America Incorporated and that the foregoing statements in this Articles of Merger are true, full and correct.

 
 
/s/ Edward R. McMurphy      
Edward R. McMurphy, President
 
Subscribed and sworn to before me on the 28th day of September, 1989.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto subscribe my name and attach to the seal of my office.

 
 
/s/ Jane S. Wagner        
Notary Public

[SEAL]

 
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By:  /s/ Edward R. McMurphy
Edward R. McMurphy
President and Chief
Executive Officer

 
Attest:


/s/ R. Clark Sledge    
R. Clark Sledge
Secretary

[Corporate Seal]


VERIFICATION
STATE OF TEXAS
 
COUNTY OF DALLAS
 
Before me, the undersigned authority in and for said county and state, personally appeared Edward R. McMurphy and R. Clark Sledge who being by me first duly sworn, did depose and say that they are the President and Secretary, respectively, of SKAI Inc. and that the foregoing statements in this Articles of Merger are true, full and correct.
 
 
/s/ Edward R. McMurphy      
Edward R. McMurphy, President

Subscribed and sworn to before me on the 28th day of September, 1989.
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto subscribe my name and attach to the seal of my office.
 

 
/s/Jane S. Wagner        
Notary Public

[SEAL]
 
 
 


 
EXHIBIT "A"
 

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER
 
AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER dated as of August 25, 1989, by and between SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED, an Alabama corporation (herein called the "Alabama Company"), and SKAI INC., a Texas corporation duly (herein called the "Texas Company"), said companies being herein sometimes referred to as the "Constituent Companies."
 
W   I   T   N   E   S   S   E   T   H :
 
WHEREAS, the Alabama Company is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, having been organized thereunder on April 29, 1983. The Texas Company is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas, having been incorporated thereunder on August 23, 1989.
 
WHEREAS, the authorized capital of the Alabama Company consists of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of which 4,211,230 shares are now issued and outstanding. The authorized capitalization of the Texas Company consists of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of which 100 shares are now issued, outstanding and owned by the Alabama Company.
 
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Alabama Company and the Board of Directors of the Texas Company deem it to be for the benefit and advantage of each of the companies and their respective stockholders that the companies merge under and pursuant to the provisions of Section 10-2A-146 of the Alabama Business Corporation Act and Section 5.07 of the Texas Business Corporation Act, and the Board of Directors of each of the Constituent Companies, by resolution duly adopted, has approved this Agreement and Plan of Merger (sometimes herein called the "Agreement") and a majority of the Directors of each has duly authorized the execution of the same and each of the Boards of Directors has directed that the Agreement be submitted to a vote of the respective stockholders of the Alabama Company and the Texas Company entitled to vote thereon (namely, all of the stockholders of each) at stockholders meetings called separately for the purpose, among others, of considering approval of the Agreement.
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto agree that in accordance with the provisions of Section 10-2A-146 of the Alabama Business Corporation Act and Section 5.07 of the Texas Business Corporation Act, the Alabama Company shall be merged with and into the Texas Company, and that the terms and conditions of such merger and the mode of carrying it into effect are, and shall be, as herein set forth.
 

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ARTICLE I

Except as herein specifically set forth, the corporate existence of the Texas Company, with all its purposes, powers and objects, shall continue in effect and unimpaired by the merger, and the corporate identity and existence, with all the purposes, powers, and objects of the Alabama Company, shall be merged into the Texas Company and the Texas Company, as the company surviving the merger, shall be fully vested therewith. The separate existence and corporate organization of the Alabama Company shall cease as soon as the merger shall become effective as herein provided, and thereupon the Alabama Company and the Texas Company shall be a single company, to wit, the Texas Company (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Surviving Company"). This Agreement shall continue in effect and the merger shall become effective only if the Agreement is adopted by the stockholders of the Constituent Companies as provided in Article X   hereof. Upon such adoption, that fact shall be certified upon the Agreement by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of each of the Constituent Companies, under the seal thereon. Thereupon, under Section 5.04 of the Texas Business Corporation Act, Articles of Merger shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Texas, and under Section 10-2A-143 of the Alabama Business Corporation Act, Articles of Merger shall be filed with the Secretary of State of Alabama. The merger shall become effective on the date on which a Certificate of Merger is issued by the Secretary of State of Texas and the Secretary of State of Alabama.

ARTICLE II

Upon the effective date of the merger, the Articles of Incorporation of the Texas Company shall be the Articles of Incorporation of the Surviving Company; except that upon effectiveness of the merger, the name of the Surviving Company shall be changed to "Skylink America Incorporated." Such Articles of Incorporation are made a part of this Agreement with the same force and effect as if set forth in full.

ARTICLE III

Upon the effective date of the merger, the Bylaws of the Texas Company shall be the Bylaws of the Surviving Company until the same shall thereafter be altered, amended, or repealed in accordance with the law, the Articles of Incorporation, and such Bylaws.

ARTICLE IV

On the effective date of the merger, the Surviving Company shall continue in existence and, without further transfer, succeed to and possess all of the rights, privileges, and purposes of each of the Constituent Companies; and all of the property, real and personal, including subscriptions to shares, causes of action and every other asset of each of the Constituent Companies, shall vest in the Surviving Company without further act or deed; and the Surviving Company shall be liable for all of the liabilities, obligations and penalties of each of the Constituent Companies. No liability or obligation due or to become due, claim or demand for any cause existing against either Constituent Company, or any stockholder, officer, director or employee thereof, shall be released or impaired by such merger. No action or proceeding, whether civil or criminal, then pending by or against either Constituent Company or any stockholder, officer, director or employee thereof shall abate or be discontinued by such merger, but may be enforced, prosecuted, defended, settled or compromised as if such merger had not occurred and the Surviving Company may be substituted in any action or proceeding in place of either Constituent Company.

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If at any time the Surviving Company shall consider or be advised that any further assignments, conveyances or assurances in law are necessary or desirable to vest, perfect or confirm of record in the Surviving Company the title to any property or rights of the Constituent Companies, or otherwise to carry out the provisions hereof, the proper officers and directors of the Constituent Companies, as of the effective date of the merger, shall execute and deliver any and all proper deeds, assignments and assurances in law, and do all things necessary or proper to vest, perfect or confirm title to such property or rights in the Surviving Company, and otherwise to carry out the provisions hereof.

ARTICLE V

The number of shares of stock which the Surviving Company shall have authority to issue shall be 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, and 1,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share.

ARTICLE VI

Upon the effective date of the merger, each issued and outstanding share of Common Stock of the Alabama Company, $.01 par value, shall be and become converted into one fully paid and nonassessable share of Common Stock, $.01 par value, of the Surviving Company. Outstanding certificates representing shares of Common Stock of the Alabama Company shall thenceforth represent the same number of shares of Common Stock of the Surviving Company, and the holder thereof shall be entitled to precisely the same rights he would enjoy if he held certificates issued by the Surviving Company. Upon the surrender of any such certificate to the Surviving Company at the office of its transfer agent, the transferee or other holder of the certificates surrendered shall receive in exchange therefor a certificate or certificates of the Surviving Company. Upon the effective date of the merger, each outstanding option or right to purchase or otherwise acquire shares of Common Stock of the
 
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Alabama Company shall be converted, forthwith upon the merger becoming effective, into and become an option or right to purchase or otherwise acquire the same number of shares of Common Stock of the Surviving Company on the same terms and conditions, and, in connection therewith, the same number of shares of Common Stock of the Surviving Company shall be reserved for issuance by the Surviving Company as were reserved by the Alabama Company immediately prior to the merger.

 
ARTICLE VII

Upon the consummation of the merger, the shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Texas Company which shall be outstanding immediately prior to the effective date of the merger, shall be cancelled and retired.

ARTICLE VIII

The officers and directors of the Alabama Company immediately prior to the effective date of the merger shall serve as the officers and directors of the Surviving Company, until their successors shall have been elected and shall qualify or as otherwise provided in the Bylaws of the Surviving Company.
 
If, on or after the effective date of the merger, a vacancy shall exist in the Board of Directors of the Surviving Company, or in any of the offices specified above, such vacancy may be filled in the manner provided in the Bylaws of the Surviving Company.

ARTICLE IX

All corporate acts, plans, policies, approvals and authorizations of the Alabama Company, its stockholders, Board of Directors, committees elected or appointed by the Board of Directors, officers and agents, which were valid and effective immediately prior to the effective date of the merger, shall be taken for all purposes as the acts, plans, policies, approvals and authorizations of the Surviving Company and shall be as effective and binding thereon as they were on the Alabama Company. Without limiting the foregoing, all stock option, stock purchase and profit sharing plans of the Alabama Company, all as amended and in effect immediately prior to the merger becoming effective, and any and all outstanding options and rights thereunder, shall be continued by the Surviving Company, which shall be substituted for the Alabama Company. Such merger shall not, in itself, effect any other change in such plans, options or rights. The employees of the Alabama Company shall become the employees of the Surviving Company and continue to be entitled to the same rights and benefits they enjoyed as employees of the Alabama Company. It is intended that the transaction described herein qualifies as a reorganization within the definition of Clause (F)   of Section 368(a)(1)   of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.


 
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ARTICLE X

This Agreement shall be submitted to the stockholders of each of the Constituent Companies as provided by the applicable laws of the States of Alabama and Texas. There shall be required for the adoption of this Agreement by (1) the Alabama Company, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the capital stock outstanding; and by (2) the Texas Company, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the capital stock outstanding.

ARTICLE XI

The Surviving Company hereby agrees that it may be served with process in the State of Alabama in any proceeding for enforcement of any obligation of the Alabama Company as well as for enforcement of any obligation resulting from the merger, including any proceeding for the enforcement of the rights of a dissenting stockholder of the Alabama Company against the Surviving Company, and hereby irrevocably appoints the Secretary of State of the State of Alabama as its agent to accept service of process in any such suit or other proceeding. The address to which a copy of such process shall be mailed by the Secretary of State of the State of Alabama is Skylink America Incorporated, 2415 West Northwest Highway, Suite 103, Dallas, Texas 75220, Attention: Edward R. McMurphy, President.

ARTICLE XII

The Texas Company shall promptly pay to the dissenting stockholders of the Alabama Company the amount, if any, to which they shall be entitled under the provisions of the Alabama Business Corporation Act with respect to the rights of dissenting stockholders, provided the Agreement is approved by the stockholders of the Constituent Companies and further provided the Agreement and merger are not terminated and abandoned prior to the merger becoming effective.

ARTICLE XIII

This Agreement and the merger may be terminated and abandoned by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Company prior to the merger becoming effective and whether before or after approval by the shareholders of the Alabama Company. In the event of the termination and the abandonment of this Agreement and the merger pursuant to the foregoing provision of this ARTICLE XIII, this Agreement shall become void and of no further effect without any liability on the part of either of the Constituent Companies or its stockholders or the directors or officers in respect thereto.

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ARTICLE XIV
This Agreement and Plan of Merger may be executed in counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each party to this Agreement and Plan of Merger, pursuant to authority duly given by its respective Board of Directors, has caused these presents to be executed on its behalf by its President and Chief Executive Officer, and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested to by its Secretary as of the day and year first hereinabove written.


ATTEST:
SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED,
an Alabama Corporation
   
/s/ R. Clark Sledge  
 
R. Clark Sledge
 
Secretary
By:   /s/ Edward R. McMurphy
 
Edward R. McMurphy
 
President and Chief
 
Executive Officer
   
 
"Alabama Company"
   
   
   
ATTEST:
SKAI INC.,
a Texas Corporation
   
/s/ R. Clark Sledge
 
R. Clark Sledge
 
Secretary
By :   /s/ Edward R. McMurphy
 
Edward R. McMurphy
 
President and Chief
 
Executive Officer
   
 
"Texas Company"

 
 
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Exhibit 4.3
 
 
ARTICLES OF MERGER
OF SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED
AND
SKAI INC.
 
 
The undersigned, duly authorized officers of their respective corporations, pursuant to § 10-2A-143 of the Alabama Business Corporation Act and § 5.04 of the Texas Business Corporation Act, hereby execute the following Articles of Merger on behalf of their respective corporations:
 
I.     Names of Corporations
 
The names of the corporations proposing to merge are Skylink America Incorporated, an Alabama corporation ("Skylink") and SKAI Inc., a subsidiary of Skylink and a Texas corporation ("SKAI").
 
II.     Agreement of Merger
 
Skylink shall be merged into SKAI, and SKAI shall be the surviving corporation, in   accordance with the provisions of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Agreement"), attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and by this reference incorporated herein. The "Effective Date" of the Agreement shall be the date on which the Secretary of State of Alabama and the Secretary of State of Texas issue a Certificate of Merger evidencing the merger of Skylink into SKAI. As of the Effective Date of the Agreement, the name of the surviving corporation shall be changed to Skylink America Incorporated.
 
III.     Approval of Agreements
 
A.       On September 28, 1989, the date on which the shareholders of Skylink approved the Agreement, there were 4,048,781 shares of Skylink's common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote on the Agreement. Of those shares, 3,121,737 voted "FOR" and 2,459 voted "AGAINST" the Agreement.
 
B.       On September 28, 1989, the date on which the sole shareholder of SKAI approved the Agreement, there were 100 shares of SKAI's common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote on the Agreement. Of those shares, 100 voted "FOR" and 0 voted "AGAINST" the Agreement.
 
IV.     Incorporation
 
The Articles of Incorporation of Skylink are filed in Baldwin County, Alabama.
 
V.     Authorization
 
The approval of the Agreement was duly authorized by all action required by the laws under which it was incorporated or organized and by its constituent documents.
 



 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the corporations has caused these Articles of Merger to be executed in their respective names by their respective duly authorized officers on the 28th day of September, 1989.
 

 
SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED


 
By : /s/  Edward R. McMurphy
Edward R. McMurphy
President and Chief
Executive Officer


Attest:

/s/ R. Clark Sledge  
R. Clark Sledge
Secretary

[Corporate Seal]

VERIFICATION

STATE OF TEXAS

COUNTY OF DALLAS

 
Before me, the undersigned authority in and for said county and state, personally appeared Edward R. McMurphy and R. Clark Sledge who being   by me first duly sworn, did depose and say that they are the President and Secretary, respectively, of Skylink America Incorporated and that the foregoing statements in this Articles of Merger are true, full and correct.
 

 
/s/ Edward R. McMurphy
 
Edward R. McMurphy, President

Subscribed and sworn to before me on the 28th day of September, 1989.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto subscribe my name and attach to the seal of my office.


 
/s/ Jane Wagner
 
Notary Public
   
 
[SEAL]




(Signatures continued on next page)





 
SKAI INC.
   
   
 
By: /s/ Edward R. McMurphy
 
Edward R. McMurphy
 
President and Chief
 
Executive Officer




Attest:



/s/ R. Clark Sledge
R. Clark Sledge
Secretary

[Corporate Seal]

VERIFICATION


STATE OF TEXAS

COUNTY OF DALLAS

Before me, the undersigned authority in and for said county and state, personally appeared Edward R. McMurphy and R. Clark Sledge who being by me first duly sworn, did depose and say that they are the President and Secretary, respectively, of SKAI Inc. and that the foregoing statements in this Articles of Merger are true, full and correct.


 
/s/ Edward R. McMurphy
 
Edward R. McMurphy, President



Subscribed and sworn to before me on the 28 th day of September, 1989.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto subscribe my name and attach to the seal of my office.

 
/s/ Jane S. Wagner
 
Notary Public
 
 
[SEAL]
   






EXHIBIT "A"

AGREEMENT AND   PLAN OF MERGER

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER dated as of August 25, 1989, by and between SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED, an Alabama corporation (herein called the “Alabama Company”), and SKAI INC., a Texas corporation duly (herein called the “Texas Company”), said companies being herein sometimes referred to as the “Constituent Companies.”

WHEREAS , the Alabama Company is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, having been organized thereunder on April 29, 1983. The Texas   Company is a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Texas, having been incorporated thereunder on August 23, 1989.

WHEREAS , the authorized capital of the Alabama Company consists of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of which 4,211,230 shares are now issued and outstanding. The authorized capitalization of the Texas Company consists of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of which 100 shares are now issued, outstanding and owned by the Alabama Company.

WHEREAS , the Board of Directors of the Alabama Company and the Board of Directors of the Texas Company deem it to be for the benefit and advantage of each of the companies and their respective stockholders that the companies merge under and pursuant to the provisions of Section 10-2A-146 of the Alabama Business Corporation Act and Section 5.07 of the Texas Business Corporation Act, and the Board of Directors of each of the Constituent Companies, by resolution duly adopted, has approved this Agreement and Plan of Merger (sometimes herein called the “Agreement”) and a majority of the Directors of each has duly authorized the execution of the same and each of the Boards of Directors has directed that the Agreement be submitted to a vote of the respective stockholders of the Alabama Company and the Texas Company entitled to vote thereon (namely, all of the stockholders of each) at stockholders meetings called separately for the purpose, among others, of considering approval of the Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual agreements hereinafter set forth, the parties hereto agree that in accordance with the provisions of Section 10-2A-146 of the Alabama Business Corporation Act and Section 5.07 of the Texas Business Corporation Act, the Alabama Company shall be merged with and into the Texas Company, and that the terms and conditions of such merger and the mode of carrying it into effect are, and shall be, as herein set forth.






 
ARTICLE I
 
Except as herein specifically set forth, the corporate existence of the Texas   Company, with all its purposes, powers and objects, shall continue in effect and unimpaired by the merger, and the corporate identity and existence, with all the purposes, powers, and objects of the Alabama Company, shall be merged into the Texas Company and the Texas Company, as the company surviving the merger, shall be fully vested therewith. The separate existence and corporate organization of the Alabama Company shall cease as soon as the merger shall become effective as herein provided, and thereupon the Alabama Company and the Texas Company shall be a single company, to wit, the Texas Company (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Surviving Company"). This Agreement shall continue in effect and the merger shall become effective only if the Agreement is adopted by the stockholders of the Constituent Companies as provided in Article X hereof. Upon such adoption, that fact shall be certified upon the Agreement by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of each of the Constituent Companies, under the seal thereon. Thereupon, under Section 5.04 of the Texas   Business Corporation Act , Articles of Merger shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of Texas, and under Section 10-2A-143 of the Alabama Business Corporation Act, Articles of Merger shall be filed with the Secretary of State of Alabama. The merger shall become effective on the date on which a Certificate of Merger is issued by the Secretary of State of Texas and the Secretary of State of Alabama.
 
ARTICLE II
 
Upon the effective date of the merger, the Articles of Incorporation of the Texas Company shall be the Articles of Incorporation of the Surviving Company; except that upon effectiveness of the merger, the name of the Surviving Company shall be changed to "Skylink America Incorporated." Such Articles of Incorporation are made a part of this Agreement with the same force and effect as if set forth in full.
 
ARTICLE III
 
Upon the effective date of the merger, the Bylaws of the Texas Company shall be the Bylaws of the Surviving Company until the same shall thereafter be altered, amended, or repealed in accordance with the law, the Articles of Incorporation, and such Bylaws.
 
ARTICLE IV
 
On the effective date of the merger, the Surviving Company shall continue in existence and, without further transfer, succeed to and possess all of the rights, privileges, and purposes of each of the Constituent Companies; and all o f the property, real and personal, including subscriptions to shares,
 

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causes of action and every other asset of each of the Constituent Companies, shall vest in the Surviving Company without further act or deed; and the Surviving Company shall be liable for all of the liabilities, obligations and penalties of each of the Constituent Companies. No liability or obligation due or to become due, claim or demand for any cause existing against ether Constituent Company, or any stockholder, officer, director or employee thereof, shall be released or impaired by such merger. No action or proceeding, whether civil or criminal, then pending by or against either Constituent Company or any stockholder, officer, director or employee thereof shall abate or be discontinued by such merger, but may be enforced, prosecuted, defended, settled or compromised as if such merger had not occurred and the Surviving Company may be substituted in any action or proceeding in place of either Constituent Company.
 
If at any time the Surviving Company shall consider or be advised that any further assignments, conveyances or assurances in law are necessary or desirable to vest, perfect or confirm of record in the Surviving Company the title to any property or rights of the Constituent Companies, or otherwise to carry out the provisions hereof, the proper officers and directors of the Constituent Companies, as of the effective date of the merger, shall execute and deliver any and all proper deeds, assignments and assurances in law, and do all things necessary or proper to vest, perfect or confirm title to such property or rights in the Surviving Company, and otherwise to carry out the provisions hereof.
 
ARTICLE V

The number of shares of stock which the Surviving Company shall have authority to issue shall be 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, and 1,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share.

ARTICLE VI

Upon the effective date of the merger, each issued and outstanding share of Common Stock of the Alabama Company, $.01 par value, shall be and become converted into one fully paid and nonassessable share of Common Stock, $.01 par value, of the Surviving Company. Outstanding certificates representing shares of Common Stock of the Alabama Company shall thenceforth represent the same number of shares of Common Stock of the Surviving Company, and the holder thereof shall be entitled to precisely the same rights he would enjoy if he held certificates issued by the Surviving Company. Upon the surrender of any such certificate to the Surviving Company at the office of its transfer agent, the transferee or other holder of the certificates surrendered shall receive in exchange therefor a certificate or certificates of the Surviving Company. Upon the effective date of the merger, each outstanding option or right to purchase or otherwise acquire shares of Common Stock of the


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Alabama Company shall be converted, forthwith upon the merger becoming effective, into and become an option or right to purchase or otherwise acquire the same number of shares of Common Stock of the Surviving Company on the same terms and conditions, and, in connection therewith, the same number of shares of Common Stock of the Surviving Company shall be reserved for issuance by the Surviving Company as were reserved by the Alabama Company immediately prior to the merger.
 
ARTICLE VII
 
Upon the consummation of the merger, the shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Texas Company which shall be outstanding immediately prior to the effective date of the merger, shall be cancelled and retired.
 
ARTICLE VIII
 
The officers and directors of the Alabama Company immediately prior to the effective date of the merger shall serve as the officers and directors of the Surviving Company, until their successors shall have been elected and shall qualify or as otherwise provided in the Bylaws of the Surviving Company.
 
If, on or after the effective date of the merger, a vacancy shall exist in the Board of Directors of the Surviving Company, or in any of the offices specified above, such vacancy may be filled in the manner provided in the Bylaws of the Surviving Company,
 
ARTICLE IX
 
All corporate acts, plans, policies, approvals and authorizations of the Alabama Company, its stockholders, Board of Directors, committees elected or appointed by the Board of Directors, officers and agents, which were valid and effective immediately prior to the effective date of the merger, shall be taken for all purposes as the acts, plans, policies, approvals and authorizations of the Surviving Company and shall be as effective and binding thereon as they were on the Alabama Company. Without limiting the foregoing, all stock option, stock purchase and profit sharing plans of the Alabama Company, all as amended and in effect immediately prior to the merger becoming effective, and any and all outstanding options and rights thereunder, shall be continued by the Surviving Company, which shall be substituted for the Alabama Company. Such merger shall not, in itself, effect any other change in such plans, options or rights. The employees of the Alabama Company shall become the employees of the Surviving Company and continue to be entitled to the same rights and benefits they enjoyed as employees of the Alabama Company. It is intended that the transaction described herein qualifies as a reorganization within the definition of Clause (F) of Section 368(a)(l) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
 

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ARTICLE X

This Agreement shall be submitted to the stockholders of each of the Constituent Companies as provided by the applicable laws of the States of Alabama and Texas. There shall be required for the adoption of this Agreement by (1) the Alabama Company, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the capital stock outstanding; and by (2) the Texas Company, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the capital stock outstanding.

ARTICLE XI

The Surviving Company hereby agrees that it may be served with process in the State of Alabama in any proceeding for enforcement of any obligation of the Alabama Company as well as for enforcement of any obligation resulting from the merger, including any proceeding for the enforcement of the rights of a dissenting stockholder of the Alabama Company against the Surviving Company, and hereby irrevocably appoints the Secretary of State of the State of Alabama as its agent to accept service of process in any such suit or other proceeding. The address to which a copy of such process shall be mailed by the Secretary of State of the State of Alabama is Skylink America Incorporated, 2415 West Northwest Highway, Suite 103, Dallas, Texas 75220, Attention: Edward R, McMurphy, President.

ARTICLE XII

The Texas Company shall promptly pay to the dissenting stockholders of the Alabama Company the amount, if any, to which they shall be entitled under the provisions of the Alabama Business Corporation Act with respect to the rights of dissenting stockholders, provided the Agreement is approved by the stockholders of the Constituent Companies and further provided the Agreement and merger are not terminated and abandoned prior to the merger becoming effective.

ARTICLE XIII

This Agreement and the merger may be terminated and abandoned by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Company prior to the merger becoming effective and whether before or after approval by the shareholders of the Alabama Company. In the event of the termination and the abandonment of this Agreement and the merger pursuant to the foregoing provision of this ARTICLE XIII, this Agreement shall become void and of no further effect without any liability on the part of either of the Constituent Companies or its stockholders or the directors or officers in respect thereto.


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ARTICLE XIV

This Agreement and Plan of Merger may be executed in counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original, and such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each party to this Agreement and Plan of Merger, pursuant to authority duly given by its respective Board of Directors, has caused these presents to be executed on its behalf by its President and Chief Executive Officer, and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested to by its Secretary as of the day and year first hereinabove written.


ATTEST :
SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED,
an Alabama Corporation
/s/ R. Clark Sledge
 
R. Clark Sledge
 
Secretary
By:    /s/ Edward R. McMurphy
 
Edward R. McMurphy
President and Chief
Executive Officer
   
 
"Alabama Company"
   
   
Attest:
SKAI INC.,
a Texas Corporation
   
   
/s/ R. Clark Sledge
 
R. Clark Sledge
 
Secretary
By:      /s/ Edward R. McMurphy
Edward R. McMurphy
President and Chief
Executive Officer
 
"Texas Company"

 
 
 
 
 
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Exhibit 4.4
 
ARTICLES OF MERGER
 
 
Skylink America Incorporated, a Texas corporation ("Skylink") hereby executes the following Articles of Merger, by its duly authorized officers:
 
1.      The names of the parties to the merger are Skylink America Incorporated, who is the parent corporation, and Skylink Video Services, Inc. ("Services") and Skylink Video Systems, Inc. ("Systems"), which are subsidiaries of Skylink.  Each of the foregoing corporations is organized under the laws of the State of Texas.
 
2.      There are presently outstanding 1,000 shares of common stock of Services, and 1,000 shares of common stock of Systems.  Skylink owns all of the outstanding shares of both Services and Systems.
 
3.      Pursuant to Section 5.16 of the Texas Business Corporation Act, Services and Systems shall be merged into Skylink, and Skylink shall be the sole surviving corporation.  No plan of merger is required by the Texas Business Corporation Act.
 
4.      A copy of the resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of Skylink approving the merger of Services and Systems with and into Skylink is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.  Such resolutions were adopted by the Board of Directors of Skylink on March 25, 1991.
 
      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned corporation has caused these Articles of Merger to be executed by its duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.
 
 
SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED
 
 
 
By:   /s/ Edward R. McMurphy
Edward R. McMurphy
President
 
 
Attest:
 
/s/ Mark D. Slusser
Mark D. Slusser
Secretary
 
 
 

 
 
MINUTES OF ACTIONS OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS
SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED
 
MARCH 25, 1991
 
 
As permitted by the Texas Business Corporation Act, the undersigned, being all of the directors of Skylink America Incorporated, a Texas corporation (the "Company"), do hereby take the actions set forth below in this document.  The within actions are taken by Unanimous Written Consent in lieu of a Special Meeting of the Board of Directors.  This Unanimous Consent shall be effective as of the date first above written.
 
The following resolutions are hereby unanimously adopted:
 
RESOLVED, that the directors of the Company hereby approve the merger of Skylink Video Services, Inc. and Skylink Video Systems, Inc., wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company, with and into the Company, pursuant to which the Company will be the sole surviving corporation as set forth in the Plan and Agreement of Merger and Liquidation attached hereto; and
 
FURTHER RESOLVED, as the sole stockholder of Services and Systems, the Company hereby approves the merger of Services and Systems with and into the Company; and
 
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the President and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer are hereby authorized and directed to take any and all actions deemed necessary or desirable in order to carry out in full the foregoing resolutions, including, without limitation, the preparation of any required plan of merger, articles of merger or other agreement, and filing of same with the Secretary of State of Texas.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Exhibit 4.5
 
 
ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT
 
OF
 
SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED
 
 
I.
 
The name of the Corporation is Skylink America Incorporated.
II.
 
The Articles of Incorporation of Skylink America Incorporated shall be amended by deleting Article I thereof in its entirety and substituting the following in lieu of said Article I:
 
"I
The name of the Corporation is Crown Casino Corporation "
 
III.
 
The Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation shall be further amended by deleting Article IV, Section A thereof in its entirety and substituting the following in lieu of said Article IV, Section A:  
 
"IV
The Corporation shall have authority to issue 51,000,000 shares of capital stock, which shall be divided into classes and shall have the following designations, preferences, limitations, and relative rights.
 
A.       Common Stock .  One class shall consist of 50,000,000 shares of common stock of $.01 par value, designated "Common Stock."  The holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to elect all of the members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, and such holders shall be entitled to vote as a class on all matters required or permitted to be submitted to the stockholders of the Corporation."
 
 

 
 
V.
 
The Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation shall be further amended by adding a new Section D to Article IV thereof to read in its entirety as follows:
 
"D.        Mandatory Divestiture .    (i)   Any person who beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 5% or more of the shares of any class of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote in elections of directors (hereinafter "Stock"), who is found by any Regulatory Authority (as hereinafter defined) to be unsuitable to hold the Corporation's Stock (hereinafter "Disqualified Holder") shall be required to divest all shares of Stock of the Corporation owned by such person in the manner provided for in subparagraph (ii) below
 
(ii)      Within 45 days from the date on which the Corporation notifies in writing a Disqualified Holder that any Regulatory Authority has notified the Corporation that such Disqualified Holder has been found to be unsuitable to own Stock of the Corporation, such Disqualified holder shall sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of all shares of Stock of the Corporation held by such Disqualified Holder to one or more third parties who are not "affiliates" or "associates" (as hereinafter defined) of such Disqualified Holder.   Such sale or disposition may be made by open market sales or privately negotiated transactions.  Following such 45-day period, the Corporation shall, for a period of 60 days, have the right, but not the obligation , to purchase all or part of the Stock then owned by the Disqualified Holder at a price per share equal to the"Fair Market Value" (as hereinafter defined) of such Stock, less 25%.  In the event that the Corporation exercises its right to purchase all or any portion of such Stock owned by such Disqualified Holder, the Corporation shall pay for such shares of Stock in cash and shall arrange to close such sale at the Corporation's principal executive offices within 30 days of delivering written notice to such Disqualified Holder that the Corporation intends to exercise its option to purchase all or a portion of such shares, specifying the number of shares to be purchased.  In the event that a Disqualified Holder fails to comply with the provisions of this subparagraph (ii) within the specified periods, such Disqualified Holder shall at the expiration of such periods forfeit the right to vote or receive dividends on the shares of Stock held by such Disqualified Holder, and shall not be recognized as a stockholder of the Company for any purpose.
 
(iii)       Definitions .    The terms "affiliate" and "associate" shall have the respective meanings given those terms in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as in effect on August 1, 1993.
 
A person shall be the "beneficial owner" and "beneficially own" shares of any class of capital stock of the Corporation (other than shares of the Corporation's stock held in its treasury) (a) which such person and its affiliates and associates beneficially own, directly or indirectly, whether of record or not, (b) which such person or any
 
 
 
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of its affiliates or associates has the right to acquire, pursuant to any agreement, upon the exercise of conversion rights, warrants or options, or otherwise, (c) which such person or any of its affiliates or associates has the right to sell or vote pursuant to any agreement, or (d) which are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any other person with which such first mentioned person or any of its affiliates or associates has any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of stock of the Corporation.

The term "person" shall mean any individual , partnership, corporation, trust or other entity.

The term "Regulatory Authority" shall mean any governmental or quasi-governmental agency which is authorized and empowered to regulate the gaming operations of the Company

The term "Fair Market Value" shall be the price per share of Stock represented by the average of the closing bid prices of the Corporation's Stock, as quoted by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. Automated Quotations System (NASDAQ) (or such other securities association, quotation system or securities exchange on which the Corporation's Stock is then listed or authorized for quotation), for the 30 trading days prior to the date on which the Corporation provides written notice to the Disqualified Holder that the Corporation intends to purchase all or a portion of the shares of Stock held by such Disqualified Holder. In the event that there is no organized trading market for the Corporation's Stock at the time the Corporation provides such notice to the Disqualified Holder, then the Fair Market Value of the shares of Stock to be sold by the Disqualified Holder and purchased by the Corporation shall be equal to the book value per share of the Corporation's Stock as of the end of the most recent fiscal quarter prior to the date the Corporation delivers such notice to the Disqualified Holder, determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, multiplied by the number of shares being purchased by the Corporation from the Disqualified Holder "

VI

 
The A r t icles of   Incorporation of the Corporation shall be further amended by adding a new Section E to Article IV thereof to read in its entirety as follows:

"E. Restrictions on Ownership by Non-United States Citizens . (i) These Articles shall be generally subject to the federal Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as amended, and the federal Shipping Act of 1916, as amended, and applicable regulations thereunder (hereinafter the "Acts"), including, without limitation, restrictions on the ability of or required approvals for, a holder of shares of Stock of the Corporation to transfer, receive or hold shares, securities or other interests in the Corporation. In the event that the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall determine that the Corporation is not in compliance with the Acts in any way, the
 
 
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Board of Directors shall have the power to require any stockholder, who alone or with other stockholders has rendered the Corporation in non-compliance with the Acts, to divest, in the manner provided in subparagraph (ii) below, a number of shares of Stock of the Corporation sufficient to bring the Corporation into compliance with the Acts.
 
(ii) Within 45 days of the date on which the Corporation notifies in writing a stockholder that such stockholder's beneficial ownership of Stock, whether alone or in concert with others, renders the Corporation in violation of the Acts, any one or more of such persons shall be required to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of the number of shares of Stock of the Corporation specified by the Board of Directors of the Corporation to one or more third parties who are (a) citizens of the United States of America and (b) not "affiliates" or "associates" of such stockholder.  Such sale or disposition may be made by open market sales or privately negotiated transactions.  Following such 45-day period, the Corporation shall, for a period of 60 days, have the right, but not the obligation, to purchase all or any part of such shares of Stock from the selling stockholders within such 60 day period at a price per share equal to the Fair Market Value of such Stock, less 25%.  In the event that the Corporation exercises its right to purchase all or any portion of such shares of Stock, the Corporation shall pay for such shares in cash and shall arrange to close such sale at the Corporation's principal executive offices within thirty days of delivering notice to such stockholders that the Corporation intends to exercise its option to purchase all or a portion of such shares, specifying the number of shares to be purchased from each stockholder.  In the event that a stockholder fails to comply with the provisions of this subparagraph (ii), such stockholder shall forfeit the right to vote or receive dividends on all shares of Stock of the Corporation beneficially owned by such stockholder, and shall not be recognized as a stockholder of the Company for any purpose.
 
(iii)  Definitions .  All terms defined under subsection (D) of this Article Four shall apply and have the same meanings when used in this subsection (E) "
 
 
VII.
 
The Amendments set forth in Articles II, III, IV and V of these Articles of Amendment were adopted by the shareholders of the Corporatation on October 5, 1993.
 
VIII.
 
 
On August 20, 1993, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at the shareholders meeting, there were 5,419,836 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote on each of the Amendments.
 
 
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IX.
 
 
The Amendments set forth in Articles II, III, IV and V hereof received the number of votes in favor of and opposed to their Adoption indicated below:
 
 
 
Amendment Set Forth in Article
Votes In Favor
Votes Opposed
     
II 
 5,054,222
 16,311
     
III
 5,023,458
 47,851
     
IV
 3,983,335
 18,628
     
V
 3,997,507
 14,691
     
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused these Articles of Amendment to be executed by its President, a duly authorized officer of the Corporation on this 5th day of October, 1993.
 
 
 
 
SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED
 
 
By:  /s/ Edward W. McMurphy
Edward W. McMurphy
President and Chief Executive Officer
 
 
 
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Exhibit 4.6
 
ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT
 
OF
 
CROWN CASINO CORPORATION
 
 
I.
 
The name of the corporation is Crown Casino Corporation.
 
II.
 
The Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation shall be amended as follows:
 
Paragraph D of Article IV of the Articles of Incorporation shall be amended by deleting subdivisions (i) and (ii) thereof in their entirety and substituting therefor the following new subdivisions (i) and (ii):
 
"D.       Mandatory Divestiture .  (i)  Any person who beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, shares of any class of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote in elections of directors (hereinafter "Stock"), who is found by the Regulatory Authority (as hereinafter defined) to be unsuitable to hold the Corporation's Stock (hereinafter "Disqualified Holder") shall be required to divest a number of shares of Stock of the Corporation owned by such person in the manner provided for in subparagraph (ii) below.
 
(ii)      Within 45 days from the date on which the Corporation notifies in writing a Disqualified Holder that any Regulatory Authority has notified the Corporation that such Disqualified Holder has been found to be unsuitable to own Stock of the Corporation, such Disqualified Holder shall sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of such number of shares of Stock of the Corporation held by such Disqualified Holder as may be specified by the Corporation in such notice, to one or more third parties who are not "affiliates" or "associates" (as hereinafter defined) of such Disqualified Holder.  Such sale or disposition may be made by open market sales or privately negotiated transactions.  Following such 45-day period, the Corporation shall, for a period of 60 days, have the right, but not the obligation, to purchase all or any part of the Stock then owned by the Disqualified Holder at a price per share equal to the "Fair Market Value" (as hereinafter defined) of such stock, less 25%.  In the event that the Corporation exercises its right to purchase all or any portion of such Stock owned by such Disqualified Holder, the Corporation shall pay for such shares of Stock in cash and shall arrange to close such sale at the Corporation's principal executive offices within 30 days of delivering written notice to such Disqualified Holder that the Corporation intends to exercise its option to purchase all or a portion of such shares, specifying the number of shares to be purchased.  In the event that a Disqualified Holder fails to comply with the provisions of this subparagraph (ii) within the specified periods, such Disqualified Holder shall at the expiration of such periods, forfeit the right to vote or receive dividends on the shares of Stock held by such Disqualified Holder, and shall not be recognized as a stockholder of the Company for any purpose.
 
 
 

 
 
 
III.
 
The Amendments set forth in Article II of these Articles of Amendment were adopted by the shareholders of the Corporation on September 30, 1994.
 
IV.
 
On August 23, 1994, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at the shareholders meeting, there were 9,635,625 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote on each of the Amendments.
 
V.
 
The Amendments set forth in Article II hereof received the number of votes in favor of and opposed to its adoption indicated below:
 
 
 Votes in Favor
 Votes Opposed
   
  5,438,833
8,171
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused these Articles of Amendment to be executed by its President, a duly authorized officer of the Corporation on this 30th day of September, 1994.
 
 
 
 
 
Crown Casino Corporation
 
 
 
By:  /s/  Edward R.McMurphy
Edward R. McMurphy
President and Chief Executive Officer

 
Exhibit 4.7
 
ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT
of
CROWN CASINO CORPORATION
 
 
I.
 
The name of the Corporation is Crown Casino Corporation.
 
II.
 
 
The Articles of Incorporation of Crown Casino Corporation shall be amended by deleting Article I thereof in its entirety and substituting the following in lieu thereof.
 
 
"Article One
 
The name of the Corporation is Crown Group, Inc."
 
III.
 
The amendment set forth in these Articles of Amendment was adopted by the stockholders of the Corporation on October 1, 1997.
 
IV.
 
On August 15, 1997, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to vote at the stockholders' meeting, there were 9,935,785 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote on the amendment to the Articles of Incorporation.
 
V.
 
The amendment set forth in these Articles of Amendment received the number of votes in favor of and against its adoption as indicated below.
 
 
 
Votes in
Favor
Votes
Against  
   
 9,211,650
37,567
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused the Articles of Amendment to be executed by its president, a duly authorized officer of the Corporation on this 1st day of October, 1997.
 
 
 
     
  CROWN CASINO CORPORATION
 
 
 
 
 
 
   By:   /s/ Edward R. McMurphy
 
Edward R. McMurphy
  President and Chief Executive Officer

 
Exhibit 4.8
 
ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT
TO THE
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
CROWN GROUP, INC.
 
Pursuant to the provisions of Article 4.04 of the Texas Business Corporation Act, the undersigned corporation adopts the following Articles of Amendment to its Articles of Incorporation:
 
ARTICLE I
The name of the Corporation is "CROWN GROUP, INC".
ARTICLE II
The Articles of Incorporation of Crown Group, Inc. shall be amended by deleting Article I thereof in its entirety and substituting the following in lieu of said Article I:
 
"Article I.
The name of the Corporation is America's Car-Mart, Inc."
ARTICLE III
The Articles of Incorporation shall be further amended by deleting Section D and Section E of Article IV thereof in their entirety.
ARTICLE IV
The Amendments set forth in Articles II and III of these Articles of Amendment were adopted by the shareholders of the Corporation on January 16, 2002.
ARTICLE V
On November 23, 2001, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to vote at the shareholders' meeting, there were 6,748,424 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote on each of the amendments.
 
 
 

 
 
ARTICLE VI
 
The Amendments set forth in Article II and III hereof received the number of votes in favor of and opposed to their adoption indicated below:
 
 
Amendments Set Forth In Articles
Votes in Favor 
Votes Opposed 
     
 II and III
6,283,381
7,492
 
 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused these Articles of Amendment to be executed by its Executive Vice President, a duly authorized officer of the Corporation on this 19th day of March, 2002.
 
 
 
 
 
CROWN GROUP, INC.
 
 
By:     /s/ T. J. Falgout, III                                             
T.J. Falgout, III, Executive Vice
President and General Counsel
 

 
Exhibit 4.9
 

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BYLAWS OF
CROWN CASINO CORPORATION
(FORMERLY SKYLINK AMERICA INCORPORATED)
Adopted: August 24, 1989
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ARTICLE I.
OFFICES
Section 1. The registered office shall be located at 2415 West Northwest Highway, Suite 103, Dallas, Texas 75220.
Section 2. The corporation may also have offices at such other places both within and without the State of Texas as the Board of Directors from time to time may determine or the business of the corporation may require.
ARTICLE II.
ANNUAL MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. All meetings of the shareholders for the election of directors shall be held in Dallas, State of Texas, at such place and at such time and date as may be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. Said meetings may also be held at such other place either within or without the State of Texas as shall be designated from time to time by the Board of



Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting. At such meetings, the shareholders shall elect by a plurality vote a Board of Directors, and transact such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2. Written or printed notice of the annual meeting stating the place, day and hour of the meeting shall be delivered not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting, either personally or by mail, by or at the direction of the President, the Secretary, or the officer or persons calling the meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting.
ARTICLE III.
SPECIAL MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Special meetings of shareholders for any purpose other than the election of directors may be held at such time and place within or without the State of Texas as shall be stated in the notice of the meeting or in a duly executed waiver of notice thereof.
Section 2. Special meetings of the shareholders, for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute or by the Articles of Incorporation, may be called by the President, the Board of Directors, or the holders of not less than one-tenth of all the shares entitled to vote at the meeting.
Section 3. Written or printed notice of a special meeting stating the place, day and hour of the meeting and the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be delivered not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days

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before the date of the meeting, either personally or by mail, by or at the direction of the President, the Secretary, or the officer or persons calling the meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting.
ARTICLE IV.
QUORUM AND VOTING OF STOCK
Section 1. The holders of a majority of the shares of stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the shareholders for the transaction of business except as otherwise provided by statute or by the Articles of Incorporation. If, however, such quorum shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the shareholders, the shareholders present in person or represented by proxy shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified.
Section 2. If a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the shareholders unless the vote of a greater number of shares of stock is required by law or the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 3. Each outstanding share of stock, having voting power, shall be entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of shareholders. A shareholder

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may vote either in person or by proxy executed in writing by the shareholder or by his duly authorized attorney-in-fact.
In all elections for directors every shareholder entitled to vote shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares of stock owned by him, for as many persons as there are directors to be elected.
Section 4. Any action required to be taken at a meeting of the shareholders may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all of the shareholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
ARTICLE V.
DIRECTORS
Section 1. The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than three (3) nor more than fifteen (15) members, the precise number to be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors from time to time. The number of directors may be increased to more than fifteen or decreased to less than three (but in no event less than one) from time to time by amendment to these Bylaws, but no decrease shall have the effect of shortening the term of any incumbent director. Directors need not be residents of the State of Texas nor shareholders of the corporation. The directors, other than the first Board of Directors, shall be elected at the annual meeting of the shareholders, and each director elected shall serve until the next succeeding annual meeting and until his successor shall have

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been elected and qualified. The first Board of Directors shall hold office until the first annual meeting of shareholders.
Section 2. Any vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors may be filled by the shareholders at an annual or a special meeting or by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors. A director elected to fill a vacancy shall be elected for the unexpired portion of the term of his predecessor in office.
Any directorship to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of directors may be filled by election at an annual meeting or at a special meeting of shareholders called for that purpose. A director elected to fill a newly created directorship shall serve until the next succeeding annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor shall have been elected and qualified. Any directorship to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of directors may also be filled by the Board of Directors for a term of office until the next election of directors by shareholders; provided no more than two directorships may be so filled during a period between any two successive annual meetings of shareholders.
Whenever the holders of any class or series of shares are entitled to elect one or more directors by the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, any vacancies in such directorships and any newly created directorships of such class or series to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of such directors may be filled by the affirmative vote of a


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majority of the directors elected by such class or series then in office or by a sole remaining director so elected, or by the vote of the holders of the outstanding shares of such class or series, and such directorships shall not in any case be filled by the vote of the remaining directors or the holders of the outstanding shares as a whole unless otherwise provided in the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 3. The business affairs of the corporation shall be managed by its Board of Directors which may exercise all such powers of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the Articles of Incorporation or by these Bylaws directed or required to be exercised or done by the shareholders.
Section 4. The directors may keep the books of the corporation, except such as are required by law to be kept within the state, outside of the State of Texas, at such place or places as they may from time to time determine.
Section 5. The Board of Directors, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, and irrespective of any personal interest of any of its members, shall have authority to establish reasonable compensation of all directors for services to the corporation as directors, officers or otherwise.
ARTICLE VI.
MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 1. Meetings of the Board of Directors, regular or special, may be held either within or without the State of Texas.

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Section 2. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held upon such notice, or without notice, and at such time and at such place as shall from time to time be determined by the Board.
Section 3. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the President on two days' notice to each director, either personally or by mail or by telegram; special meetings shall be called by the President or Secretary in like manner and on like notice on the written request of two directors.
Section 4. Attendance of a director at any meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a director attends for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting.
Section 5. A majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business unless a greater number is required by law or by the Articles of Incorporation. The act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors, unless the act of a greater number is required by statute or by the Articles of Incorporation. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting of directors, the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to

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time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present.
Section 6. Unless otherwise restricted by the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting, if all members of the Board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing which shall set forth the action taken and be signed by all members of the Board of Directors or of the committee as the case may be.
ARTICLE VII.
COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS
Section 1. The Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by a majority of the full Board of Directors, may designate from among its members an executive committee and one or more other committees, each of which shall be comprised of one or more members and, to the extent provided in the resolution, shall have and may exercise all of the authority of the Board of Directors, except that no such committee shall have the authority of the Board of Directors in reference to amending the Articles of Incorporation, proposing a reduction of the stated capital of the corporation, approving a plan of merger, consolidation or share exchange, recommending to the shareholders the sale, lease, or exchange of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the corporation otherwise than in the usual and regular course of its business, recommending to the shareholders a voluntary dissolution of the corporation or a revocation thereof,

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amending, altering, or repealing the Bylaws of the corporation or adopting new Bylaws for the corporation, filling vacancies or designating alternate members of the Board of Directors or any committee, filling any directorship to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of directors, electing or removing officers of the corporation or members or alternate members of any committee, fixing the compensation of any member or alternate members of a committee, or altering or repealing any resolution of the Board of Directors that by its terms provides that it shall not be so amendable or repealable; and, unless the resolution designating a particular committee or the Articles of Incorporation expressly so provides, no committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to authorize the issuance of shares of the corporation.
ARTICLE VIII.
NOTICES
Section 1. Whenever, under the provisions of the statutes or of the Articles of Incorporation or of these Bylaws, notice is required to be given to any director or shareholder, it shall not be construed to mean personal notice, but such notice may be given in writing, by mail, addressed to such director or shareholder, at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid, and such notice shall be deemed to be given at the time when the same shall be deposited in the United States mail. Notice to directors may also be given by telegram.

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Section 2. Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given under the provisions of the statutes or under the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a waiver thereof in writing signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice.
ARTICLE IX.
OFFICERS

Section 1. The officers of the corporation shall be chosen by the Board of Directors and shall be a President and a Secretary. The Board of Directors may also elect or appoint such other officers, including assistant officers and agents as may be deemed necessary.
Section 2. The Board of Directors at its first meeting after each annual meeting of shareholders shall choose a President and a Secretary neither of whom need be a member of the Board.
Section 3. The Board of Directors may also appoint such other officers and agents as it shall deem necessary who shall hold their offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors.
Section 4. The salaries of all officers and agents of the corporation shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.
Section 5. The officers of the corporation shall hold office until their successors are chosen and qualify. Any officer elected or appointed by the Board of Directors may be

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removed at any time by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation shall be filled by the Board of Directors.
THE PRESIDENT
Section 6. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation, shall preside at all meetings of the shareholders and the Board of Directors, shall have general and active management of the business of the corporation and shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board of Directors are carried into effect.
Section 7. The President shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts requiring a seal, under the seal of the corporation, except where required or permitted by law to be otherwise signed and executed and except where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board of Directors to some other officer or agent of the corporation.
THE VICE PRESIDENTS
Section 8. The Vice-President, if there is one, or if there shall be more than one, the Vice-Presidents in the order determined by the Board of Directors, shall, in the absence or disability of the President, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the President and shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe.
THE SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT SECRETARIES
Section 9. The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board of Directors and all meetings of the shareholders and

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record all the proceedings of the meetings of the corporation and of the Board of Directors in a book to be kept for that purpose and shall perform like duties for the standing committees when required. He shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the shareholders and special meetings of the Board of Directors, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or President, under whose supervision he shall be. He shall have custody of the corporate seal of the corporation and he, or an Assistant Secretary, shall have authority to affix the same to any instrument requiring it and when so affixed, it may be attested by his signature or by the signature of such Assistant Secretary. The Board of Directors may give general authority to any other officer to affix the seal of the corporation and to attest the affixing by his signature.
Section 10. The Assistant Secretary, if there is one, or if there be more than one, the Assistant Secretaries in the order determined by the Board of Directors, shall, in the absence or disability of the Secretary, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Secretary and shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe.
THE TREASURER AND ASSISTANT TREASURERS
Section 11. The Treasurer, if there is one, shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the corporation and shall deposit all moneys and


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other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors.
Section 12. The Treasurer shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the President and the Board of Directors, at its regular meetings, or when the Board of Directors so requires, an account of all his transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the corporation.
Section 13. If required by the Board of Directors, he shall give the corporation a bond in such sum and with such surety or sureties as shall be satisfactory to the Board of Directors for the faithful performance of the duties of his office and for the restoration to the corporation, in case of his death, resignation, retirement or removal from office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in his possession or under his control belonging to the corporation.
Section 14. The Assistant Treasurer, if there is one, or, if there shall be more than one, the Assistant Treasurers in the order determined by the Board of Directors, shall, in the absence or disability of the Treasurer, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Treasurer and shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe.

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ARTICLE X.
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. The shares of the corporation shall be represented by certificates signed by the President and Secretary or such other officers as may be elected or appointed, and may be sealed with the seal of the corporation or a facsimile thereof.
When the corporation is authorized to issue shares of more than one class there shall be set forth upon the face or back of the certificate, or the certificate shall have a statement that the corporation will furnish to any shareholder upon request and without charge, a full statement of the designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights of the shares of each class authorized to be issued and, if the corporation is authorized to issue any preferred or special class in series, the variations in the relative rights and preferences between the shares of each such series so far as the same have been fixed and determined and the authority of the Board of Directors to fix and determine the relative rights and preferences of subsequent series. When the corporation is authorized to issue shares of more than one class, every certificate shall also set forth upon the face or the back of such certificate a statement that there is set forth in the Articles of Incorporation on file in the office of the Secretary of State a full statement of all the designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights, including voting rights, of the shares of each class authorized to be issued and the corporation will furnish a copy of such statement to the record holder of the

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certificate without charge on written request to the corporation at its principal place of business or registered office. Every certificate shall have noted thereon any information required to be set forth by the Texas Business Corporation Act and such information shall be set forth in the manner provided in said Act.
Section 2. The signatures of the officers of the corporation upon a certificate may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent, or registered by a registrar, other than the corporation itself or an employee of the corporation. In case any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon such certificate shall have ceased to be such officer before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he were such officer at the date of its issue.
LOST CERTIFICATES
Section 3. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate to be issued in place of any certificate theretofore issued by the corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate, the Board of Directors, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, may prescribe such terms and conditions as it deems expedient, and may require such indemnities as its deems adequate, to protect the corporation from any claim that may be made against it with respect to any such certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.


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TRANSFERS OF SHARES
Section 4. Upon surrender to the corporation or the transfer agent of the corporation of a certificate representing shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, a new certificate shall be issued to the person entitled thereto, and the old certificate cancelled and the transaction recorded upon the books of the corporation.
CLOSING OF TRANSFER BOOKS
Section 5. For the purpose of determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of shareholders, or any adjournment thereof or entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in order to make a determination of shareholders for any other proper purpose, the Board of Directors may provide that the share transfer records shall be closed for a stated period but not to exceed, in any case, sixty (60) days. If the share transfer records shall be closed for the purpose of determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders, such records shall be closed for at least ten (10) days immediately preceding such meeting. In lieu of closing the share transfer records, the Board of Directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for any such determination of shareholders, such date in any case to be not more than sixty (60) days and, in case of a meeting of shareholders, not less than ten (10) days prior to the date on which the particular action, requiring such determination of shareholders, is to be taken. If the share transfer records are not closed and no

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record date is fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders, or shareholders entitled to receive payment of a dividend, the date on which notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on which the resolution of the Board of Directors declaring such dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination of shareholders. When a determination of shareholders entitled to vote at any meeting of shareholders has been made as provided in this section, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof.
REGISTERED SHAREHOLDERS
Section 6. The corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered in its share transfer records as the owner of shares to receive dividends, and to vote as such owner, and to hold liable for calls and assessments a person registered on its records as the owner of shares, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Texas.
LIST OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 7. The officer or agent having charge of the transfer books for shares shall make, at least ten (10) days before each meeting of shareholders, a complete list of the shareholders entitled to vote at such meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of each and the number of

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shares held by each, which list, for a period of ten (10) days prior to such meeting, shall be kept on file at the registered office of the corporation and shall be subject to inspection by any shareholder at any time during usual business hours. Such list shall also be produced and kept open at the time and place of the meeting and shall be subject to the inspection of any shareholder during the whole time of the meeting. The original share ledger or transfer book, or a duplicate thereof, shall be prima facie evidence as to who are the shareholders entitled to examine such list or share ledger or transfer book or to vote at any meeting of the shareholders.
ARTICLE XI.
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 1.     DEFINITIONS FOR INDEMNIFICATION PROVISIONS. As used in this Article XI, the term:
 
(1)
"Corporation" includes any domestic or foreign predecessor entity of the corporation in a merger, consolidation or other transaction in which the liabilities of the predecessor are transferred to the corporation by operation of law and in any other transaction in which the corporation assumes the liabilities of the predecessor.

 
(2)
"Director" means an individual who is or was a director of the corporation or an individual who, while a director of the corporation, is or was serving at the corporation's request as a director, officer, partner, venturer, proprietor, trustee,

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employee, agent, or similar functionary of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise.
 
(3)
"Expenses" include court costs and attorneys' fees.
 
(4)
"Official capacity" means
(a)  when used with respect to a director, the office of director in the corporation, and
(b)  when used with respect to a person other than a director, the elective or appointive office in the corporation held by the officer or the employment or agency relationship undertaken by the employee or agent in behalf of the corporation, but
(c)  in both paragraphs (a) and (b) does not include service for any other foreign or domestic corporation or any partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise.
 
(5)
"Proceeding" means any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative, or investigative, any appeal in such an action, suit or proceeding, and any inquiry or investigation that could lead to such an action, suit or proceeding.
Section 2.      MANDATORY INDEMNIFICATION AGAINST EXPENSES. To the extent that a director has been successful, on the merits

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or otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding to which he was a party, or in defense of any claim, issue, or matter therein, because he is or was a director of the corporation, the corporation shall indemnify the director against reasonable expenses incurred by him in connection therewith.
Section 3.     AUTHORITY FOR PERMISSIVE INDEMNIFICATION
(a)     Except as provided in subsections (c) and (d) of this Section 3, and subject to the provisions of Section 4 hereof, the corporation may indemnify or obligate itself to indemnify an individual who was, is, or is threatened to be made a named defendant or respondent in a proceeding because he is or was a director against liability incurred in the proceeding if: (1)  acting in his official capacity as a director of the corporation, he acted in a manner he believed in good faith to be in the best interests of the corporation and, (2) in all other cases, his conduct was at least not opposed to the corporation's best interests, and (3) in the case of any criminal proceeding, he had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
(b)     The termination of a proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent is not, of itself, determinative that the director did not meet the standard of conduct set forth in subsection (a) of this Section 3. A director shall be deemed to have been found liable in respect of any claim, issue or matter only after the director shall have been so adjusted by a court of competent jurisdiction after exhaustion of all appeals therefrom.

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(c)     Except to the extent permitted by subsection (d) of this Section 3, the corporation may not indemnify a director under this Section 3:
 
(1)
In connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation in which the director was adjudged liable to the corporation; or
 
(2)
In connection with any other proceeding in which he was adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by him, whether or not the benefit resulted from an action taken in the person's official capacity.
(d)     A person may be indemnified under subsection (a) of this Section 3 against judgments, penalties (including excise and similar taxes), fines, settlements, and reasonable expenses actually incurred by the person in connection with the proceeding, but if the person is found liable to the corporation or is found liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by the person, the indemnification (1) is limited to reasonable expenses actually incurred by the person in connection with the proceeding and (2) shall not be made in respect of any proceeding in which the person shall have been found liable for willful or intentional misconduct in the performance of his duty to the corporation.
Section 4.     DETERMINATION AND AUTHORIZATION OF PERMITTED INDEMNIFICATION.
(a)     The corporation may not indemnify a director under Section 3 of this Article XI unless a determination has been made

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in the specific case that indemnification of the director is permissible in the circumstances because he has met the standard of conduct set forth in subsection (a) of such Section 3.
 
(b)
The determination required by subsection (a) hereof shall be made:
 
(1)
By the Board by majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors not at the time parties to the proceeding;
 
(2)
If a quorum cannot be obtained under paragraph (1) of this subscrtion (b), by majority vote of a committee duly designated by the Board, consisting solely of two or more directors not at the time parties to the proceeding;
 
(3)
By special legal counsel:
(A)     Selected by the Board or its committee in the manner prescribed in paragraph (1) or (2) of this subsection; or
(B)     If a quorum of the Board cannot be obtained under paragraph (1) of this subsection and a committee cannot be designated under paragraph (2) of this subsection, selected by majority vote of the full Board; or
 
(4)
By the shareholders, but shares owned by or voted under the control of directors who are at the time parties to the proceeding may not be voted on the determination.

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(c)     Authorization of indemnification or an obligation to indemnify and evaluation as to reasonableness of expenses shall be made in the same manner as the determination that indemnification is permissible, as set forth in subsection (b) hereof, except that if such determination is made by special legal counsel, authorization of indemnification and evaluation as to reasonableness of expenses shall be made by those entitled to select counsel under paragraph (3) of subsection (b) of this Section 4.
Section 5.     ADVANCES FOR EXPENSES.
(a)     The corporation may pay for or reimburse the reasonable expenses incurred by a director who is a party to a proceeding in advance of final disposition of the proceeding, and without the authorization or evaluation specified in subsection C of Section 4, if:
(1)  
The director furnishes the corporation a written affirmation of his good faith belief that he has met the standard set forth in subsection (a) of Section 3 of this Article XI; and
(2)  
The director furnishes the corporation a written undertaking, executed personally or on his behalf, to repay any advances if it is ultimately determined that he is not entitled to indemnification under this Article.
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accepted without reference to financial ability to make repayment.
Section 6.      INDEMNIFICATION OF OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS. Except as otherwise provided in the Articles of Incorporation, an officer of the corporation who is not a director is entitled to mandatory indemnification under Section 2 of this Article XI, and is entitled to permissive indemnification and advancement of expenses under the standards and procedures set forth in Section 3 and 4 of this Article XI, to the same extent as a director, consistent with public policy.
Section 7.     INSURANCE. The corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of an individual who is or was a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation or who, while a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, venturer, proprietor, trustee, employee, agent, or similar functionary of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise, against liability asserted against or incurred by him in that capacity or arising from his status as such a person, whether or not the corporation would have power to indemnify him against the same liability under this Article XI or applicable law.
Section 8.     EXPENSES FOR APPEARANCE AS WITNESS. Nothing contained in this Article XI shall be deemed to limit the corporation's power to pay or reimburse expenses incurred by a

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director or officer in connection with his appearance as a witness in a proceeding at a time when he has not been made a named defendant or respondent to the proceeding.
ARTICLE XII.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation relating thereto, if any, dividends may be declared by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting, pursuant to law. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of the capital stock, subject to any provisions of the Articles of Incorporation.
Section 2. Before payment of any dividend, there may be set aside out of any funds of the corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the directors from time to time, in their absolute discretion, think proper as a reserve fund to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the corporation, or for such other purpose as the directors shall think conducive to the interest of the corporation, and the directors may modify or abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.
CHECKS
Section 3. All checks or demands for money and notes of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.

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FISCAL YEAR
Section 4. The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors.
SEAL
Section 5. The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the corporation, the year of its organization and the words "Corporate Seal, Texas". The seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any manner reproduced.
ARTICLE XIII.
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. These Bylaws may be altered, amended, or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting of the board subject to repeal or change at any regular or special meeting of shareholders at which a quorum is present or represented, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares entitled to vote, provided notice of the proposed repeal or change be contained in the notice of such meeting.
Section 2. These Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted at any regular or special meeting of shareholders at which a quorum is present or represented, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares entitled to vote, provided notice of the proposed alteration, amendment or repeal be contained in the notice of such meeting.
 
 
 
 
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EXHIBIT 5.1





November 15, 2005

Board of Directors
America’s Car-Mart, Inc.
802 Southeast Plaza Ave.
Suite 200
Bentonville, AR 72712

RE:
America’s Car-Mart, Inc.
Registration Statement on Form S-8
100,000 Shares of Common Stock
2005 Restricted Stock Plan
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel for America’s Car-Mart, Inc. (the “Company”) in connection with the registration of 100,000 shares of its $0.01 par value common stock (the “Shares”) reserved under the Company’s 2005 Restricted Stock Plan (the “Plan”), pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), on or about the date hereof.

In connection therewith, we have examined the following:

(1)   The Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended, certified by the Secretary of State of the State of Texas;

(2)   The Bylaws of the Company;

(3)   Resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company adopting the Plan;

(4)   The Registration Statement on Form S-8 to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Act (the “Registration Statement”).

Based upon such examination and upon examination of such other instruments and records as we have deemed necessary, we are of the opinion that the Shares covered by the Registration Statement have been legally authorized by the Company and, when issued and sold in accordance with the terms of the Plan, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.




Board of Directors
America’s Car-Mart, Inc.
November 15, 2005
Page 2


We consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus. In giving this consent, we do not thereby admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act, or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
 

 
 
Sincerely,

SMITH, GAMBRELL & RUSSELL, LLP

/s/ Terry F. Schwartz

Terry F. Schwartz





EXHIBIT 23.1


CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM


We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of America’s Car-Mart, Inc. of our report dated July 12, 2005, relating to the financial statements and financial statement schedule of America’s Car-Mart, Inc and our report dated July 12, 2005 relating to management’s report on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of America’s Car-Mart, Inc. for the year ended April 30, 2005.

/s/ Grant Thornton LLP



Dallas, Texas
November 15 , 2005