EX-99.A17 3 a17.txt (a)(17) ARTICLES SUPPLEMENTARY SANFORD C. BERNSTEIN FUND, INC. SANFORD C. BERNSTEIN FUND, INC. (the "Fund"), a Maryland corporation with its principal corporate offices in the State of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY: 1. The Fund is registered as an open-end company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. 2. The total number of shares of capital stock of all classes that the Fund has authority to issue are six billion (6,000,000,000) shares having an aggregate par value of Six Million Dollars ($6,000,000). 3. The number of shares of each portfolio (each a Portfolio, and collectively, the "Portfolios") are as follows: Name of Portfolio Number of Shares ----------------- ---------------- U.S. Government Short Duration 200,000,000 shares Short Duration Plus 200,000,000 shares Diversified Municipal 1,600,000,000 shares Intermediate Duration 600,000,000 shares New York Municipal 800,000,000 shares California Municipal 800,000,000 shares Short Duration California Municipal 100,000,000 shares Short Duration Diversified Municipal 100,000,000 shares Short Duration New York Municipal 100,000,000 shares Tax-Managed International Value 400,000,000 shares Emerging Markets Value 200,000,000 shares International Value II 600,000,000 shares 4. The number of authorized shares of capital stock of the Fund is increased by Six Hundred Million (600,000,000) shares, par value $.001 per share with an aggregate par value of Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($600,000), to Six Billion Six Hundred Million (6,600,000,000) shares with an aggregate par value of Six Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars ($6,600,000). 5. The number of authorized shares of the Portfolios listed below, such Portfolios to be divided into four classes with each class consisting of the number of shares indicated below, is increased as follows:
Amount of Authorized Total Number of Amount of Shares to be Portfolio Share Increase Shares Authorized Allocated to Each Class --------- -------------- ----------------- ----------------------- Short Duration Plus 600,000,000 800,000,000 AllianceBernstein Short Duration Class A: 200,000,000 AllianceBernstein Short Duration Class B: 200,000,000 AllianceBernstein Short Duration Class C: 200,000,000 Short Duration Plus Class: 200,000,000
6. The Shares classified hereby shall have the preferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications, and terms and conditions of redemption as set forth in Article V of the Charter and shall be subject to the all provisions of the Charter relating to Shares generally. 7. The Board of Directors of the Fund increased the total number of authorized shares of capital stock that the Fund has authority to issue in accordance with Section 2-105(c) of the Maryland General Corporation Law and classified the shares of the Portfolios under the authority contained in Article V of the Charter. 8. These Articles shall be effective on May 15, 2003. 2 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed these Articles Supplementary on behalf of Sanford C. Bernstein Fund, Inc. and acknowledge that it is the act and deed of the Fund and state, under penalty of perjury, to the best of the knowledge, information and believe of each of them, that the matters contained herein with respect to the approval thereof are true in all material respects. Dated: April 29, 2003 SANFORD C. BERNSTEIN FUND, INC. By: /s/ Roger Hertog Name: Roger Hertog Title: President ATTEST: /s/ Edmund P. Bergan, Jr. Name: Edmund P. Bergan, Jr. Title: Secretary 3