EX-99.A 12 dot.htm AMENDED & RESTATED DECLARATION OF TRUST

AMENDMENT No. 3

to the

AMENdED AND RESTATED DECLARATION OF TRUST

of

OPPENHEIMER AMT-FREE NEW YORK MUNICIPAL FUND

     This Amendment Number 3 is made as of September 23, 2010 to the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Municipal Fund (the “Trust”), dated as of August 15, 2002, by the individual executing this Amendment below on behalf of the Trustees of the Trust.

     WHEREAS, the Trustees established Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Municipal Fund as a trust fund under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the investment and reinvestment of funds contributed thereto, under a Declaration of Trust dated August 21, 1995 as amended and restated August 15, 2002, and as further amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as of January 14, 2003 and by Amendment No. 2 dated as of May 19, 2003;
 
     WHEREAS, the Trustees, acting pursuant to Section 12 of Article NINTH of the Trust’s Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust dated August 15, 2002, have determined that it is advisable to establish and designate an additional class of Shares to the Fund;
 
     NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to Part 2 of Article FOURTH and Section 12 of Article NINTH the Trust’s Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust is amended as follows:

     Article FOURTH, Part 3 of the Trust’s Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust is amended by replacing it with the following paragraph:

“Without limiting the authority of the Trustees set forth in parts 1 and 2 of this Article FOURTH to establish and designate any further Series or Classes of Series, the Trustees hereby establish one Series of Shares having the same name as the Trust, and said Shares shall be divided into four Classes, which shall be designated as Class A, Class B, Class C and Class Y. In addition to the rights and preferences described in parts 1 and 2 of this Article FOURTH with respect to Series and Classes, the Series and Classes established hereby shall have the relative rights and preferences described in this part 3 of this Article FOURTH. The Shares of any Series or Class that may from time to time be established and designated by the Trustees shall (unless the Trustees otherwise determine with respect to some Series or Classes at the time of establishing and designating the same) have the following relative rights and preferences:”

     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has signed this instrument and has caused it to be lodged among the records of the Fund on September 23, 2010.

                         Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Municipal Fund
 
 
                         /s/ Taylor Edwards

                         Taylor Edwards,
                         Assistant Secretary

The Declaration of Trust establishing Oppenheimer AMT-Free New York Municipal Fund, dated August 21, 1995 as amended and restated August 15, 2002, and as amended thereafter, a copy of which, together with all amendments thereto, is on file in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, provides that no Trustee, shareholder, officer, employee or agent of the Trust shall be held to any personal liability, nor shall resort be had to their private property for the satisfaction of any obligation or claim or otherwise in connection with the affairs of the Trust but the Trust Property only shall be liable.