Exhibit 3.24
LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT
OF
STRATOSPHERE LAND LLC
a Delaware limited liability company
This Limited Liability Company
Agreement (the “ Agreement ”) of Stratosphere
Land 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 Land Corporation”, 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
Land 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 schedules attached hereto shall be
deemed incorporated herein as if set forth in full herein.
The
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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 Land 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.
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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 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
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(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.
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 this Agreement, the Company
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