Longboat Key Turtle Watch, Inc.

                                              6940 Poinsettia Ave.

                                           Longboat Key, FL 34228

                                          Telephone (941) 383-1588

 

 

 

November 22, 2002

 

Internal Revenue Service

P.O. Box 192

Covington, KY 41012-0192

 

Dear Sir or Madam:

 

            Please find enclosed the following documents for the application for recognition of

exemption under section 501(c)(3)  for the Longboat Key Turtle Watch, Inc:

 

            Form 8718 User Fee for Exempt Organization Determination Letter Request with

            a check in the amount of $150.

 

            Form 1023 Application for Recognition of Exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of

            the Internal Revenue Code

 

            The Articles of Incorporation of Longboat Key Turtle Watch, Inc. as certified by

            the Florida Secretary of State.

 

I, the undersigned, being the incorporator of this corporation, for the purpose of

 

forming this nonprofit charitable corporation under the laws of the State of Florida, have

 

executed these articles of incorporation on ___________________,  2002.  I also accept

 

 

the designation as registered agent for the corporation and agrees to carry out such office

 

in accord with the Florida General Corporation Act, with which I am well acquainted.

 

 

 

                                    ____________________________________

                                    GILLIAN BUSARD

 

 

 

STATE OF FLORIDA

COUNTY OF MANATEE

 

            BEFORE ME, the undersigned authority, personally appeared GILLIAN

 

BUSARD, who is to me personally known or who has produced her driver’s license as

 

identification, to me know to be the person described in and who subscribed the above

 

Articles of Incorporation, and she did freely and voluntarily acknowledge before me

 

according to law that she made the subscribed the same for the uses and purposes therein

mentioned and set forth.

 

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and my official seal, at

 

Longboat Key in said County and State this ______day of ____________, 2002.

 

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Notary Public                                                          My Commission Expires:__________