1.2 The Council is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. The Corporation is organized exclusively as an organization described in Section 501©(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the corresponding provision in any future United States internal revenue law (the "Code"). Notwithstanding any other provision herein, the Corporation shall not engage in a regular business activity of a kind ordinarily carried on for profit and shall not carry on any other activity not permitted to be carried on by a corporation exempt from federal income tax under Section 501©(6) of the Code. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. Such purposes specifically include:With respect to buildings and structures: (a) the lessening of burdens of government through the development, maintenance and publication of model statutes and standards for the use by federal, state and local governments in connection with the administration of building laws and regulations, and (b) the lessening of the burdens of government through the performance of certain services for the benefit of federal, state and local governments in connection with the
administration of building law and regulation.
1.3 Principal Office - The Corporation shall have and continuously maintain a registered office in the State of California and a registered agent whose principal business office is identical with such registered office.