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By-Laws - Jack in the Box Inc.
JACK IN THE BOX INC.
(a Delaware corporation)
BY-LAWS
AMENDED AND RESTATED
EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 8, 2002
ARTICLE I
Offices
SECTION 1.01 Registered Office. The registered office of Jack
in the Box Inc. (hereinafter called the Corporation) in the State of Delaware
shall be at 1209 Orange Street, City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, and
the name of the registered agent in charge thereof shall be The Corporation
Trust Company.
SECTION 1.02 Other Offices. The Corporation may also have an
office or offices at such other place or places, either within or without the
State of Delaware, as the Board of Directors (hereinafter called the Board) may
from time to time determine or as the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
Meetings of Stockholders
SECTION 2.01 Annual Meetings. Annual meetings of the
stockholders of the Corporation for the purpose of electing directors and for
the transaction of such other proper business as may come before such meetings
may be held at such time, date and place as the Board shall determine by
resolution.
SECTION 2.02 Special Meetings. A special meeting of the
stockholders for the transaction of any proper business may be called at any
time by the Board or by the President.
SECTION 2.03 Place of Meetings. All meetings of the
stockholders shall be held at such places, within or without the State of
Delaware, as may from time to time be designated by the person or persons
calling the respective meeting and specified in the respective notices or
waivers of notice thereof.
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SECTION 2.04 Notice of Meetings. Except as otherwise required
by law, notice of each meeting of the stockholders, whether annual or special,
shall be given not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the
date of the meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such
meeting by delivering a typewritten or printed notice thereof to him personally,
or by depositing such notice in the United States mail, in a postage prepaid
envelope, directed to him at his post office address furnished by him to the
Secretary of the Corporation for such purpose or, if he shall not have furnished
to the Secretary his address for such purpose, then at his post office address
last known to the Secretary, or by transmitting a notice thereof to him at such
address by telegraph, cable, or wireless. Except as otherwise expressly required
by law, no publication of any notice of a meeting of the stockholders shall be
required. Every notice of a meeting of the stockholders shall state the place,
date and hour of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, shall also
state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. Notice of any
meeting of stockholders shall not be required to be given to any stockholder who
shall have waived such notice and such notice shall be deemed waived by any
stockholder who shall attend such meeting in person or by proxy, except as a
stockholder who shall attend such meeting for the express purpose of objecting,
at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the
meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Except as otherwise expressly
required by law, notice of any adjourned meeting of the stockholders need not be
given if the time and place thereof are announced at the meeting at which the
adjournment is taken.
SECTION 2.05 Quorum. Except in the case of any meeting for the
election of directors summarily ordered as provided by law, the holders of
record of a majority in voting interest of the shares of stock of the
Corporation entitled to be voted thereat, present in person or by proxy, shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the
stockholders of the Corporation or any adjournment thereof. In the absence of a
quorum at any meeting or any adjournment thereof, a majority in voting interest
of the stockholders present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereat
or, in the absence therefrom of all the stockholders, any officer entitled to
preside at, or to act as secretary of, such meeting may adjourn such meeting
from time to time. At any such adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present
any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting
as originally called.
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SECTION 2.06 Voting.
(a) Each stockholder shall, at each meeting of the
stockholders, be entitled to vote in person or by proxy each share or fractional
share of the stock of the Corporation having voting rights on the matter in
question and which shall have been held by him and registered in his name on the
books of the Corporation:
(i) on the date fixed pursuant to Section 6.05
of these By-laws as the record date for the determination of
stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such
meeting, or
(ii) if no such record date shall have been so
fixed, then (a) at the close of business on the day next
preceding the day on which notice of the meeting shall be
given or (b) if notice of the meeting shall be waived, at the
close of business on the day next preceding the day on which
the meeting shall be held.
(b) Shares of its own stock belonging to the Corporation or to
another corporation, if a majority of the shares entitled to vote in the
election of directors in such other corporation is held, directly or indirectly,
by the Corporation, shall neither be entitled to vote nor be counted for quorum
purposes. Persons holding stock of the Corporation in a fiduciary capacity shall
be entitled to vote such stock. Persons whose stock is pledged shall be entitled
to vote, unless in the transfer by the pledgor on the books of the Corporation
he shall have expressly empowered the pledgee to vote thereon, in which case
only the pledgee, or his proxy, may represent such stock and vote thereon. Stock
having voting power standing of record in the names of two or more persons,
whether fiduciaries, members of a partnership, joint tenants in common, tenants
by entirety or otherwise, or with respect to which two or more persons have the
same fiduciary relationship, shall be voted in accordance with the provisions of
the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
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(c) Any such voting rights may be exercised by the stockholder
entitled thereto in person or by his proxy appointed by an instrument in
writing, subscribed by such stockholder or by his attorney thereunto authorized,
or by any other means permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, and
delivered to the secretary of the meeting; provided, however, that no proxy
shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date unless said proxy
shall provide for a longer period. The attendance at any meeting of a
stockholder who may theretofore have given a proxy shall not have the effect of
revoking the same unless he shall in writing so notify the secretary of the
meeting prior to the voting of the proxy. At any meeting of the stockholders all
matters, except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, in
these By-laws or by law, shall be decided by the vote of a majority in voting
interest of the stockholders present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote
thereat and thereon, a quorum being present. The vote at any meeting of the
stockholders on any question need not be by ballot, unless so directed by the
chairman of the meeting. On a vote by ballot each ballot shall be signed by the
stockholder voting, or by his proxy, if there be such proxy, and it shall state
the number of shares voted.
SECTION 2.07 List of Stockholders. The Secretary of the
Corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten (10) days before every meeting
of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the
meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each
stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder.
Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose
germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least
ten (10) days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the
meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the
meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held.
The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting
during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is
present.
SECTION 2.08 Judges. If at any meeting of the stockholders a
vote by written ballot shall be taken on any question, the chairman of such
meeting may appoint a judge or judges to act with respect to such vote. Each
judge so appointed shall first subscribe an oath faithfully to execute the
duties of a judge at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the
best of his ability. Such judges shall decide upon the qualification of the
voters and shall report the number of shares represented at the meeting and
entitled to vote on such question, shall conduct and accept the votes, and, when
the voting is completed, shall ascertain and report the number of shares voted
respectively for and against the question. Reports of judges shall be in writing
and subscribed and delivered by them to the Secretary of the Corporation. The
judges need not be stockholders of the Corporation, and any officer of the
Corporation may be a judge on any question other than a vote for or against a
proposal in which he shall have a material interest.
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SECTION 2.09 Action Without Meeting. Any action required to be
taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, or
any action which may be taken at any annual or special meeting of such
stockholders, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a
vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be
signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum
number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a
meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted.
Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without a meeting by less
than unanimous written consent shall be given to those stockholders who have not
consented in writing.
SECTION 2.10 Stockholder Proposals at Annual Meetings
(a) Business may be properly brought before an annual meeting
by a stockholder only upon the stockholder's timely notice thereof in writing to
the Secretary of the Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder's notice must be
delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the
Corporation not less than one hundred twenty (120) days in advance of the first
anniversary of the date that the Corporation's proxy statement was first
released to stockholders in connection with the previous year's annual meeting
of stockholders, except that if no annual meeting was held in the previous year
or the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty (30) calendar days earlier
than the date contemplated at the time of the previous year's proxy statement,
notice by the stockholders to be timely must be received not later than the
close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which the date of
the annual meeting is publicly announced. "Public announcement" for purposes
hereof shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News
Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or in a document
publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission
pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
"Exchange Act"). In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or
postponement of an annual meeting commence a new time period (or extend any time
period) for the giving of a stockholder's notice as described above. For
purposes of this Section 2.10, any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) of the
original meeting which do not require a new written notice shall be deemed for
purposes of notice to be a continuance of the original meeting and no business
may be brought before any reconvened meeting unless timely notice of such
business was given to the Secretary of the Corporation for the meeting as
originally scheduled. A stockholder's notice to the Secretary shall set forth as
to each matter the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting (i) a
brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, (ii)
the name and address, as they appear on the Corporation's books, of the
stockholder proposing such business, (iii) the class and number of shares of the
Corporation which are beneficially owned by the stockholder, and (iv) any
material interest of the stockholder in such business. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, nothing in this Section 2.10 shall be interpreted or construed to
require the inclusion of information about any such proposal in any proxy
statement distributed by, at the direction of, or on behalf of the Board."
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(b) The chairman of the annual meeting shall, if the facts
warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that business was not properly
brought before the meeting in accordance with the provisions of this Section
2.10, and in such case, any such business not properly brought before the
meeting shall not be transacted.
ARTICLE III
Board of Directors
SECTION 3.01 General Powers. The property, business and
affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by the Board.
SECTION 3.02 Number and Term of Office. The exact number
of directors shall be fixed from time to time by resolution of the board of
directors or the stockholders. Directors need not be stockholders. Each of the
directors of the Corporation shall hold office until his successor shall have
been duly elected and shall qualify or until he shall resign or shall have been
removed in the manner hereinafter provided.
SECTION 3.03 Election of Directors. The directors shall be
elected annually by the stockholders of the Corporation and the persons
receiving the greatest number of votes, up to the number of directors to be
elected, shall be the directors.
SECTION 3.04 Resignations. Any director of the Corporation may
resign at any time by giving written notice to the Board or to the Secretary of
the Corporation. Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified
therein, or, if the time be not specified, it shall take effect immediately upon
its receipt; and unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such
resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.
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SECTION 3.05 Vacancies. Except as otherwise provided in the
Certificate of Incorporation, any vacancy in the Board, whether because of
death, resignation, disqualification, an increase in the number of directors, or
any other cause, may be filled by vote of the majority of the remaining
directors, although less than a quorum. Each director so chosen to fill a
vacancy shall hold office until his successor shall have been elected and shall
qualify or until he shall resign or shall have been removed in the manner
hereinafter provided.
SECTION 3.06 Place of Meeting, Etc. The Board may hold any of
its meetings at such place or places within or without the State of Delaware as
the Board may from time to time by resolution designate or as shall be
designated by the person or persons calling the meeting or in the notice or a
waiver of notice of any such meeting. Directors may participate in any regular
or special meeting of the Board by means of conference telephone or similar
communications equipment pursuant to which all persons participating in the
meeting of the Board can hear each other, and such participation shall
constitute presence in person at such meeting.
SECTION 3.07 First Meeting. The Board shall meet as soon as
practicable after each annual election of directors and notice of such first
meeting shall not be required.
SECTION 3.08 Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board
may be held at such times as the Board shall from time to time by resolution
determine. If any day fixed for a regular meeting shall be a legal holiday at
the place where the meeting is to be held, then the meeting shall be held at the
same hour and place on the next succeeding business day not a legal holiday.
Except as provided by law, notice of regular meetings need not be given.
SECTION 3.09 Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board
shall be held whenever called by the President or a majority of the authorized
number of directors. Except as otherwise provided by law or by these By-laws,
notice of the time and place of each such special meeting shall be mailed to
each director, addressed to him at his residence or usual place of business, at
least five (5) days before the day on which the meeting is to be held, or shall
be sent to him at such place by telegraph or cable or be delivered personally
not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the time at which the meeting is to
be held. Except where otherwise required by law or by these By-laws, notice of
the purpose of a special meeting need not be given. Notice of any meeting of the
Board shall not be required to be given to any director who is present at such
meeting, except a director who shall attend such meeting for the express purpose
of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any
business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.
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SECTION 3.10 Quorum and Manner of Acting. Except as otherwise
provided in these By-laws or by law, the presence of a majority of the
authorized number of directors shall be required to constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business at any meeting of the Board, and all matters shall be
decided at any such meeting, a quorum being present, by the affirmative votes of
a majority of the directors present. In the absence of a quorum, a majority of
directors present at any meeting may adjourn the same from time to time until a
quorum shall be present. Notice of any adjourned meeting need not be given. The
directors shall act only as a Board, and the individual directors shall have no
power as such.
SECTION 3.11 Action by Consent. Any action required or
permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board or of any committee thereof
may be taken without a meeting if a written consent thereto is signed by all
members of the Board or of such committee, as the case may be, and such written
consent is filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee.
SECTION 3.12 Removal of Directors. Subject to the provisions
of the Certificate of Incorporation, any director may be removed at any time,
either with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of the stockholders having
a majority of the voting power of the Corporation given at a special meeting of
the stockholders called for the purpose.
SECTION 3.13 Compensation. The directors shall receive only
such compensation for their services as directors as may be allowed by
resolution of the Board. The Board may also provide that the Corporation shall
reimburse each such director for any expense incurred by him on account of his
attendance at any meetings of the Board or Committees of the Board. Neither the
payment of such compensation nor the reimbursement of such expenses shall be
construed to preclude any director from serving the Corporation or its
subsidiaries in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.
SECTION 3.14 Committees. The Board may, by resolution passed
by a majority of the whole Board, designate one or more committees, each
committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. Any
such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board and except
as otherwise limited by law, shall have and may exercise all the powers and
authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the
Corporation, and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all
papers which may require it. Any such committee shall keep written minutes of
its meetings and report the same to the Board at the next regular meeting of the
Board. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member
or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting,
whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another
member of the Board to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or
disqualified member.
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SECTION 3.15 Nominations for Election to the Board of
Directors.
(a) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of
Directors shall be made only at a meeting of stockholders and only (1) by or at
the direction of the Board of Directors or (2) by any stockholders of the
Corporation entitled to vote for the election of directors at such meeting who
complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 3.15. Such
nominations, other than those made by or at the direction of the Board of
Directors, shall be made only pursuant to timely notice in writing to the
Secretary of the Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder's notice shall be
delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the
Corporation not less that ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred and twenty
(120) days prior to the meeting; provided, however, that in the event that less
than one hundred (100) days' notice or prior public disclosure of the date of
the meeting is given or made to stockholders, notice by the stockholder to be
timely must be so received not later than the close of business on the 10th day
following the day on which such notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or
such public disclosure was made. For purposes of this Section 3.15, any
adjournment(s) or postponement(s) of the original meeting which do not require a
new written notice shall be deemed for purposes of notice to be a continuation
of the original meeting and no nominations by a stockholder of persons to be
elected directors of the Corporation may be made at any such reconvened meeting
unless pursuant to a notice which was timely for the meeting on the date
originally schedule. Such stockholder's notice shall set forth: (i) as to each
person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as
a director, all information relating to such person that is required to be
disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (including such person's written
consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a
director if elected); and (ii) as to the stockholder giving the notice (A) the
name and address as they appear on the Corporation's books, of such stockholder,
and (B) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are beneficially
owned by such stockholder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this
Section 3.15 shall be interpreted or construed to require the inclusion of
information about any such nominee in any proxy statement distributed by, at the
direction of, or on behalf of the Board.
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(b) The chairman of the meeting shall, if the facts warrant,
determine and declare to the meeting that a nomination was not made in
accordance with the procedures prescribed by this Section 3.15, and in such
case, the defective nomination shall be disregarded.
ARTICLE IV
Officers
SECTION 4.01 Number. The officers of the Corporation shall be
a President, one or more Vice Presidents (the number thereof and their
respective titles to be determined by the Board), a Secretary and a Treasurer.
SECTION 4.02 Election, Term of Office and Qualifications. The
officers of the Corporation, except such officers as may be appointed in
accordance with Section 4.03, shall be elected annually by the Board at the
first meeting thereof held after the election thereof. Each officer shall hold
office until his successor shall have been duly chosen and shall qualify or
until his resignation or removal in the manner hereinafter provided.
SECTION 4.03 Assistants, Agents and Employees, Etc. In
addition to the officers specified in Section 4.01, the Board may appoint other
assistants, agents and employees as it may deem necessary or advisable,
including one or more Assistant Secretaries, and one or more Assistant
Treasurers, each of whom shall hold office for such period, have such authority,
and perform such duties as the Board may from time to time determine. The Board
may delegate to any officer of the Corporation or any committee of the Board the
power to appoint, remove and prescribe the duties of any such assistants, agents
or employees.
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SECTION 4.04 Removal. Any officer, assistant, agent or
employee of the Corporation may be removed, with or without cause, at any time:
(i) in the case of an officer, assistant, agent or employee appointed by the
Board, only by resolution of the Board; and (ii) in the case of an officer,
assistant, agent or employee, by any officer of the Corporation or committee of
the Board upon whom or which such power of removal may be conferred by the
Board.
SECTION 4.05 Resignations. Any officer or assistant may resign
at any time by giving written notice of his resignation to the Board or the
Secretary of the Corporation. Any such resignation shall take effect at the time
specified therein, or, if the time be not specified, upon receipt thereof by the
Board or the Secretary, as the case may be; and, unless otherwise specified
therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it
effective.
SECTION 4.06 Vacancies. A vacancy in any office because of
death, resignation, removal, disqualification, or other cause, may be filled for
the unexpired portion of the term thereof in the manner prescribed in these
By-laws for regular appointments or elections to such office.
SECTION 4.07 The President. The President of the Corporation
shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and shall have, subject
to the control of the Board, general and active supervision and management over
the business of the Corporation and over its several officers, assistants,
agents and employees.
SECTION 4.08 The Vice Presidents. Each Vice President shall
have such powers and perform such duties as the Board may from time to time
prescribe. At the request of the President, or in case of the President's
absence or inability to act upon the request of the Board, a Vice President
shall perform the duties of the President and when so acting, shall have all the
powers of, and be subject to all the restrictions upon, the President.
SECTION 4.09 The Secretary. The Secretary shall, if present,
record the proceedings of all meetings of the Board, of the stockholders, and of
all committees of which a secretary shall not have been appointed in one or more
books provided for that purpose; he shall see that all notices are duly given in
accordance with these By-laws and as required by law; he shall be custodian of
the seal of the Corporation and shall affix and attest the seal to all documents
to be executed on behalf of the Corporation under its seal; and, in general, he
shall perform all the duties incident to the office of Secretary and such other
duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the Board.
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SECTION 4.10 The Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have the
general care and custody of the funds and securities of the Corporation, and
shall deposit all such funds in the name of the Corporation in such banks, trust
companies or other depositories as shall be selected by the Board. He shall
receive, and give receipts for, moneys due and payable to the Corporation from
any source whatsoever. He shall exercise general supervision over expenditures
and disbursements made by officers, agents and employees of the Corporation and
the preparation of such records and reports in connection therewith as may be
necessary or desirable. He shall, in general, perform all other duties incident
to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as from time to time may be
assigned to him by the Board.
SECTION 4.11 Compensation. The compensation of the officers of
the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time by the Board. None of such
officers shall be prevented from receiving such compensation by reason of the
fact that he is also a director of the Corporation. Nothing contained herein
shall preclude any officer from serving the Corporation, or any subsidiary
corporation, in any other capacity and receiving such compensation by reason of
the fact that he is also a director of the Corporation. Nothing contained herein
shall preclude any officer from serving the Corporation, or any subsidiary
corporation, in any other capacity and receiving proper compensation therefor.
ARTICLE V
Contracts, Checks, Drafts, Bank Accounts, Etc.
SECTION 5.01 Execution of Contracts. The Board, except as in
these By-laws otherwise provided, may authorize any officer or officers, agent
or agents, to enter into any contract or execute any instrument in the name of
and on behalf of the Corporation, and such authority may be general or confined
to specific instances; and unless so authorized by the Board or by these
By-laws, no officer, agent or employee shall have any power or authority to bind
the Corporation by any contract or engagement or to pledge its credit or to
render it liable for any purpose or in any amount.
SECTION 5.02 Checks, Drafts, Etc. All checks, drafts or other
orders for payment of money, notes or other evidence of indebtedness, issued in
the name of or payable to the Corporation, shall be signed or endorsed by such
person or persons and in such manner as, from time to time, shall be determined
by resolution of the Board. Each such officer, assistant, agent or attorney
shall give such bond, if any, as the Board may require.
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SECTION 5.03 Deposits. All funds of the Corporation not
otherwise employed shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the
Corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Board
may select, or as may be selected by any officer or officers, assistant or
assistants, agent or agents, or attorney or attorneys of the Corporation to whom
such power shall have been delegated by the Board. For the purpose of deposit
and for the purpose of collection for the account of the Corporation, the
President, any Vice President or the Treasurer (or any other officer or
officers, assistant or assistants, agent or agents, or attorney or attorneys of
the Corporation who shall from time to time be determined by the Board) may
endorse, assign and deliver checks, drafts and other orders for the payment of
money which are payable to the order of the Corporation.
SECTION 5.04 General and Special Bank Accounts. The Board may
from time to time authorize the opening and keeping of general and special bank
accounts with such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Board may
select or as may be selected by any officer or officers, assistant or
assistants, agent or agents, or attorney or attorneys of the Corporation to whom
such power shall have been delegated by the Board. The Board may make such
special rules and regulations with respect to such bank accounts, not
inconsistent with the provisions of these By-laws, as it may deem expedient.
ARTICLE VI
Shares and Their Transfer
SECTION 6.01 Certificates for Stock. Every owner of stock of
the Corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate or certificates, to be
in such form as the Board shall prescribe, certifying the number and class of
shares of the stock of the Corporation owned by him. The certificates
representing shares of such stock shall be numbered in the order in which they
shall be issued and shall be signed in the name of the Corporation by the
President or a Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or
by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. Any of or all of the signatures on
the certificates may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or
registrar who has signed, or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon, any
such certificate, shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or
registrar before such certificate is issued, such certificate may nevertheless
be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as though the person who
signed such certificate, or whose facsimile signature shall have been placed
thereupon, were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.
A record shall be kept of the respective names of the persons, firms or
corporations owning the stock represented by such certificates, the number and
class of shares represented by such certificates, respectively, and the
respective dates thereof, and in case of cancellation, the respective dates of
cancellation. Every certificate surrendered to the Corporation for exchange or
transfer shall be canceled, and no new certificate or certificates shall be
issued in exchange for any existing certificate until such existing certificate
shall have been so canceled, except in cases provided for in Section 6.04.
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SECTION 6.02 Transfers of Stock. Transfers of shares of stock
of the Corporation shall be made only on the books of the Corporation by the
registered holder thereof, or by his attorney thereunto authorized by power of
attorney duly executed and filed with the Secretary, or with a transfer clerk or
a transfer agent appointed as provided in Section 6.03, and upon surrender of
the certificate or certificates for such shares properly endorsed and the
payment of all taxes thereon. The person in whose name shares of stock stand on
the books of the Corporation shall be deemed the owner thereof for all purposes
as regards the Corporation. Whenever any transfer of shares shall be made for
collateral security, and not absolutely, such fact shall be so expressed in the
entry of transfer if, when the certificate or certificates shall be presented to
the Corporation for transfer, both the transferor and the transferee request the
Corporation to do so.
SECTION 6.03 Regulations. The Board may make such rules and
regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with these By-laws,
concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates for shares of
the stock of the Corporation. It may appoint, or authorize any officer or
officers to appoint, one or more transfer clerks or one or more transfer agents
and one or more registrars, and may require all certificates for stock to bear
the signature or signatures of any of them.
SECTION 6.04 Lost, Stolen, Destroyed, and Mutilated
Certificates. In any case of loss, theft, destruction, or mutilation of any
certificate of stock, another may be issued in its place upon proof of such
loss, theft, destruction, or mutilation and upon the giving of a bond of
indemnity to the Corporation in such form and in such sum as the Board may
direct; provided, however, that a new certificate may be issued without
requiring any bond when, in the judgment of the Board, it is proper so to do.
SECTION 6.05 Fixing Date for Determination of Stockholders of
Record. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to
notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof,
or to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, or
entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment
of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any other
change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful
action, the Board may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more
than 60 nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting, nor more than 60
days prior to any other action. If in any case involving the determination of
stockholders for any purpose other than notice of or voting at a meeting of
stockholders or expressing consent to corporate action without a meeting the
Board shall not fix such a record date, the record date for determining
stockholders for such purpose shall be the close of business on the day which
the Board shall adopt the resolution relating thereto. A determination of
stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall
apply to any adjournment of such meeting; provided, however, that the Board may
fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
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ARTICLE VII
Indemnification
SECTION 7.01 Action, Etc. Other Than by or in the Right of the
Corporation. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or
is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action,
suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative
(other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the
fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the
Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a
director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys'
fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably
incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted
in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to
the best interests of the Corporation, and with respect to any criminal action
or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The
termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement,
conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of
itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a
manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, that he had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was
unlawful.
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SECTION 7.02 Actions, Etc., by or in the Right of the
Corporation. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or
is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action
or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor
by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent
of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a
director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys' fees)
actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or
settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he
reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
Corporation, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any
claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be
liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty to the
Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the
court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application
that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances
of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such
expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
SECTION 7.03 Determination of Right of Indemnification. Any
indemnification under Section 7.01 or 7.02 (unless ordered by a court) shall be
made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a
determination that indemnification of the director, officer, employee or agent
is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of
conduct set forth in Section 7.01 and 7.02. Such determination shall be made (i)
by the Board by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not
parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (ii) if such a quorum is not
obtainable, or, even if obtainable a quorum of disinterested directors so
directs, by counsel in a written opinion, or (iii) by the stockholders.
SECTION 7.04 Indemnification Against Expenses of Successful
Party. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Article, to the extent that
a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation has been successful on
the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to
in Section 7.01 or 7.02, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he
shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually and
reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith.
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SECTION 7.05 Prepaid Expenses. Expenses incurred by an officer
or director in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding may be
paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit
or proceeding as authorized by the Board in the specific case upon receipt of an
undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay such amount
unless it shall ultimately be determined that he is entitled to be indemnified
by the Corporation as authorized in this Article. Such expenses incurred by
other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if
any, as the Board deems appropriate.
SECTION 7.06 Other Rights and Remedies. The indemnification
provided by this Article shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to
which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any By-laws,
agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as
to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while
holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a
director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the
heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
SECTION 7.07 Insurance. Upon resolution passed by the Board,
the Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who
is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or
was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee
or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any
such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the
Corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under
the provisions of this Article.
SECTION 7.08 Constituent Corporations. For the purposes of
this Article, references to "the Corporation" include all constituent
corporations absorbed in a consolidation or merger as well as the resulting or
surviving corporation, so that any person who is or was a director, officer,
employee or agent of such a constituent corporation or is or was serving at the
request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or
agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article
with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he would if he had
served the resulting or surviving corporation in the same capacity.
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SECTION 7.09 Other Enterprises, Fines, and Serving at
Corporation's Request. For purposes of this Article, references to "other
enterprises" shall include employee benefit plans; references to "fines" shall
include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee
benefit plan; and references to "serving at the request of the Corporation"
shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the
corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director,
officer, employee, or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its
participants, or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a
manner he reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and
beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a
manner "not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation" as referred to in
this Article.
ARTICLE VIII
Miscellaneous
SECTION 8.01 Seal. The Board shall provide a corporate seal,
which shall be in the form of a circle and shall bear the name of the
Corporation and words and figures showing that the Corporation was incorporated
in the State of Delaware and the year of incorporation.
SECTION 8.02 Waiver of Notices. Whenever notice is required to
be given by these By-laws or the Certificate of Incorporation or by law, the
person entitled to said notice may waive such notice in writing, either before
or after the time stated therein, and such waiver shall be deemed equivalent to
notice.
SECTION 8.03 Amendments. These By-laws, or any of them, may be
altered, amended or repealed, and new By-laws may be made, (i) by the Board, by
vote of a majority of the number of directors then in office as directors,
acting at any meeting of the Board, or (ii) by the stockholders, at any annual
meeting of stockholders, without previous notice, or at any special meeting of
stockholders, provided that notice of such proposed amendment, modification,
repeal or adoption is given in the notice of special meeting. Any By-laws made
or altered by the stockholders may be altered or repealed by either the Board or
the stockholders.
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