Exhibit 3.15
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT
OF
STRATOSPHERE ADVERTISING AGENCY LLC
A Delaware limited liability company
This Limited Liability Company
Agreement (the “ Agreement ”) of Stratosphere
Advertising Agency LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the
“ Company ”), is made, adopted and entered into
at Las Vegas, Nevada, as of February 12, 2008 (the “
Effective Date ”), by Stratosphere LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (the “ Member ”),
which is the sole member of the Company, with reference to the
recitals set forth below.
R E C I
T A L
S
A.
On the Effective Date, the Company was converted from a Nevada
corporation named “Stratosphere Advertising Agency”, by
the filing of Articles of Conversion in the office of the Nevada
Secretary of State and by the filing of a Certificate of Conversion
and the Certificate of Formation in the office of the Delaware
Secretary of State;
B.
As of the Effective Date, the Member desires to set forth and adopt
the limited liability company agreement of the Company to provide
for the conduct of the Company’s business and affairs on and
after the Effective Date.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Member hereby
agrees to and adopts the following:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1
Defined Terms . The capitalized terms used in this Agreement
shall have the following meanings:
Act . “Act” means the Delaware
Limited Liability Company Act.
Affiliate . “Affiliate” means with
respect to a specified Person, any other Person who or which is
(a) directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under
common control with the specified Person, or (b) any member,
stockholder, director, officer, manager, or comparable principal
of, or relative or spouse of, the specified Person. For purposes of
this definition, “control”, “controlling”,
and “controlled” mean the right to exercise, directly
or indirectly, more than fifty percent of the voting power of the
stockholders, members or owners and, with respect to any
individual, partnership, trust or other entity or association, the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management or policies of the controlled
entity.
Agreement . “Agreement” means this
Limited Liability Company Agreement.
Certificate of
Formation .
“Certificate of Formation” means the Certificate of
Formation of the Company as filed with the office of the Delaware
Secretary of State.
Capital Contribution
. “Capital
Contribution” means a contribution to the capital of the
Company in cash, property, or otherwise.
Code . “Code” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or any
corresponding United States federal tax statute enacted after the
Effective Date. A reference to a specific section of the Code
refers not only to such specific section but also to any
corresponding provision of any United States federal tax statute
enacted after the Effective Date, as such specific section or
corresponding provision is in effect on the date of application of
the provisions of this Agreement containing such
reference.
Company . “Company” means Stratosphere
Advertising Agency LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company.
Covered Person
. “Covered Person”
means the Member, any officer of the Company and any other Person
designated by the Member as a Covered Person, or any Person who
was, at the time of the act or omission in question, a Member, an
officer of the Company or a Person designated by a Member as a
Covered Person.
Interest . “Interest” means the entire
ownership interest of the Member in the Company at any time,
including the right of the Member to any and all benefits to which
the Member may be entitled as provided under the Act and this
Agreement.
Member . “Member” means Stratosphere
LLC, the sole member of the Company. As of the Effective Date,
immediately after the conversion of the Company, the Member was
converted from Stratosphere Corporation, a Delaware corporation,
into Stratosphere LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
The Member’s name, address and ownership interest are as set
forth on Schedule I attached hereto.
Person . “Person” means a natural
person, any form of business or social organization and any other
non-governmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a
corporation, partnership, association, trust, unincorporated
organization, estate or limited liability company.
Regulations
. “Regulations”
means the regulations currently in force from time to time as final
or temporary that have been issued by the U.S. Department of the
Treasury pursuant to its authority under the Code. If a word or
phrase is defined in this Agreement by cross-referencing the
Regulations, then to the extent the context of this Agreement and
the Regulations require, the term “Member” shall be
substituted in the Regulations for the term “partner”,
the term “Company” shall be substituted in the
Regulations for the term “partnership”, and other
similar conforming changes shall be deemed to have been made for
purposes of applying the Regulations.
UCC . “UCC,” means the Uniform
Commercial Code as enacted and in effect in the State of Delaware
and any other applicable state or jurisdiction.
1.2
Terms and Usage Generally . All references herein to
articles, sections, exhibits and schedules shall be deemed to be
references to articles and sections of, and exhibits and schedules
to, this Agreement unless the context shall otherwise require. All
exhibits and
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schedules attached hereto
shall be deemed incorporated herein as if set forth in full herein.
The words “include”, “includes” and
“including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation”. The words
“hereof”, “herein” and
“hereunder” and words of similar import when used in
this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any particular provision of this Agreement. References to a Person
are also to his, her or its successors and permitted assigns.
Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, any agreement,
instrument or statute defined or referred to herein or in any
agreement or instrument defined or referred to herein means such
agreement, instrument or statute as from time to time amended,
modified or supplemented, including (in the case of agreements or
instruments) by waiver or consent and (in the case of statutes) by
succession of comparable successor statutes, and references to all
attachments thereto and instruments incorporated
therein.
ARTICLE II
INTRODUCTORY MATTERS
2.1
Formation . Pursuant to the Nevada Revised Statutes and the
Act, the Company has been converted from a Nevada corporation into
a Delaware limited liability company. To the extent that the rights
or obligations of the Member are different by reason of any
provision of this Agreement than they would be in the absence of
such provision, this Agreement shall, to the extent permitted by
the Act, control.
2.2
Name . The name of the Company shall be “Stratosphere
Advertising Agency LLC.” Subject to compliance with
applicable law, the business and affairs of the Company may be
conducted under that name or any other name that the Member deems
appropriate or advisable.
2.3
Principal Office . As of the Effective Date, the
principal place of business of the Company is 2000 Las Vegas Blvd.
South, Las Vegas, Nevada. This principal office may be changed to
another location within the State of Nevada as the Member may from
time to time determine.
2.4
Other Offices . The Company may establish and maintain
other offices at any time and at any place or places as the Member
may designate or as the business of the Company may
require.
2.5
Registered Agent and Registered Office . The registered
agent of the Company for service of process shall be as set forth
in the Certificate of Formation or as changed by the Member from
time to time. The Company shall have as its registered office in
the State of Delaware the street address of its registered
agent.
2.6
Purpose . The Company is formed for the object and purpose
of, and the nature of the business to be conducted and promoted by
the Company is, engaging in any lawful act or activity for which
limited liability companies may be formed under the Act and
engaging in any and all activities necessary or incidental to the
foregoing.
2.7
Powers of the Company . The Company shall have the power and
authority to take any and all actions necessary, appropriate,
advisable, convenient or incidental to or for
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the furtherance of the
purpose set forth in Section 2.6, including, but not limited
to, the power and authority to:
(a)
borrow money and issue evidences of indebtedness, and to secure the
same by a mortgage, pledge or other lien on any or all of the
assets of the Company;
(b)
conduct its business, carry on its operations and have and exercise
the powers granted by the Act in any state, territory, district or
possession of the United States or in any foreign
country;
(c)
acquire, by purchase, lease, contribution of property or otherwise,
and own, hold, maintain, improve, finance, lease, sell, convey,
transfer, exchange, demolish or dispose of any real or personal
property;
(d)
enter into guarantees and incur liabilities, borrow money at such
rates of interest as the Company may determine, issue its notes,
bonds and other obligations, and secure any of its obligations by
mortgage or pledge of all or any part of its real or personal
property, franchises, and income;
(e)
negotiate, enter into, perform, renegotiate, extend, renew,
terminate, modify, amend, waive, execute, acknowledge or take any
other action with respect to contracts of any kind, including
without limitation, contracts with the Member or any Affiliate of
the Member;
(f)
purchase, take, receive, subscribe for or otherwise acquire, own,
hold, vote, use, employ, sell, mortgage, lend, pledge or otherwise
dispose of, and otherwise use and deal in and with, shares,
members’ interests or other interests in or obligations of
domestic or foreign entities, joint ventures or similar
associations, general or limited partnerships or natural persons,
or direct or indirect obligations of the United States or of any
government, state, territory, governmental district and
municipality or of any instrumentality of thereof;
(g)
lend money (including to its Member), invest and reinvest its funds
and take and hold real and personal property for the payment of
funds so loaned or invested;
(h)
sue and be sued, complain and defend and participate in
administrative or other proceedings, in its name;
(i)
appoint employees, agents and officers of the Company, and define
their duties and fix their compensation;
(j)
indemnify any Person and obtain any and all types of
insurance;
(k)
cease its activities and cancel its insurance; and
(l)
pay, collect, compromise, litigate, arbitrate or otherwise adjust
or settle any and all other claims or demands of or against the
Company or hold such proceeds against the payment of contingent
liabilities.
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ARTICLE III
CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS
The Member shall have the Interest
set forth on Schedule I attached hereto. The Member shall make any
additional Capital Contributions to the Company as it determines to
be advisable or necessary.
ARTICLE IV
PROFITS AND LOSSES
4.1
Profits and Losses . The Company’s profits and losses
for any period shall be allocated to the Member.
4.2
Tax Classification . So long as the Company has only one
Member, it is intended that the Company be disregarded for federal
and all relevant state income tax purposes and that the activities
of the Company be deemed to be activities of the Member for such
purposes, as provided for by Regulations Sections 301.7701-1, et
seq ., and comparable provisions of applicable state tax
law. The Company has not filed and will not file an election
to be treated as an association taxable as a corporation pursuant
to Treasury Regulations Section 301.7701-3 or any similar
state or local provisions or take any other action that would cause
it to be an association taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal,
state or local income tax purposes.
ARTICLE V
DISTRIBUTIONS
5.1
Operating Distributions . Subject to Section 5.2, the
Company shall from time to time distribute to the Member such
amounts in cash and other assets as shall be determined by the
Member.
5.2
Limitations on Distribution . Notwithstanding any provision
to the contrary contained in th
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