Exhibit 3.2
AMENDED AND RESTATED
BYLAWS
OF
DROPCAR, INC.
(As Amended on December 18, 2019)
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
Section
1.01 Registered
Office. The registered office
of DropCar, Inc. (the “Corporation”) in the State of Delaware shall be at 1209
Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware, and the name of the registered
agent at that address shall be the Corporation Trust
Company.
Section
1.02 Principal
Office. The principal office
for the transaction of the business of the Corporation shall be at
1412 Broadway, Suite 2105, New York, New York 10018. The Board of
Directors (hereafter called the “Board”) is hereby granted full power and
authority to change said principal office from one location to
another.
Section
1.03 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 may
from time to time determine or as the business of the Corporation
may require.
ARTICLE II
STOCKHOLDER’S MEETINGS
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 shall be held each year on a date and
at a time designated by the Board.
Section
2.02 Special
Meetings. Special meetings of
the stockholders for any purpose or purposes may be called by the
Chairman of the Board, the Board or a committee of the Board which
has been duly designated by the Board and whose powers and
authority, as provided in a resolution of the Board or in these
Bylaws, include the power to call such meetings. Unless otherwise
prescribed by statute, the Certificate of Incorporation or these
Bylaws, special meetings may not be called by any other person or
persons. No business may be transacted at any special meeting of
stockholders other than such business as may be designated in the
notice calling such meeting.
Section
2.03 Place
of Meeting. The Board, the
Chairman of the Board, or a committee of the Board, as the case may
be, may designate the place of meeting for any annual meeting or
for any special meeting of the stockholders called by the Board,
the Chairman of the Board, or a committee of the
Board.
Section
2.04 Notice
of Meeting. Unless otherwise
provided by law, written notice stating the place, date and hour of
the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or
purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be delivered by the
Corporation not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60)
days before the date of the meeting, either personally or by mail,
to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting. If
mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited
in the United States mail with postage thereon prepaid, addressed
to the stockholder at his address as it appears on the stock
transfer books of the Corporation. Such further notice shall be
given as may be required by law. Only such business shall be
conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been
brought before the meeting pursuant to the Corporation’s
notice of meeting. Meetings may be held without notice if all
stockholders entitled to vote are present (unless any stockholder
is present at the 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), or if
notice is waived by those not present in accordance with Section
8.02 of these Bylaws. Any previously scheduled meeting of the
stockholders may be postponed, and (unless the Certificate of
Incorporation otherwise provides) any special meeting of the
stockholders may be canceled, by resolution of the Board upon
public notice given prior to the date previously scheduled for such
meeting of stockholders.
Section
2.05 Quorum
and Adjournment. Except in the
case of any meeting for the election of directors summarily ordered
as provided by law, the holders of record of thirty-three and
one-third percent (33.33%) 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. Where a separate vote by a class or
classes is required, a majority of the outstanding shares of such
class or classes, present in person or represented by proxy, shall
constitute a quorum entitled to take action with respect to that
vote on that matter and the affirmative vote of the majority of the
shares of such class or classes present in person or represented by
proxy at the meeting shall be the act of such class. In the absence
of a quorum at any meeting or any adjournment thereof, a majority
in voting interest of the shareholders present in person or by
proxy and entitled to vote thereat or, in the absence therefrom of
all stockholders, any officer entitled to preside at, or to act as
secretary of such meeting may adjourn such meeting from time to
time. The Chairman of the meeting or a majority of the shares so
represented may adjourn the meeting from time to time, whether or
not there is such a quorum. No notice of the time and place, of
adjourned meetings need be given except as required by law. No
business may be transacted at a meeting in the absence of a quorum
other than the adjournment of such meeting, except that if a quorum
is present at the commencement of a meeting, business may be
transacted until the meeting is adjourned even though the
withdrawal of stockholders results in less than a
quorum.
Section
2.06 Notice
of Stockholder Business and Nominations.
(a) Annual
Meetings of Stockholders.
(i) Nominations
of persons for election to the Board and the proposal of business
to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual
meeting of stockholders (A) pursuant to the Corporation’s
notice of meeting, (B) by or at the direction of the Board or
(C) by any stockholder of the Corporation who was a stockholder of
record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Bylaw,
who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the
notice procedures set forth in this Bylaw.
(ii) For
nominations or other business to be properly brought before an
annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (C) of paragraph
(a)(i) of this Bylaw, the stockholder must have given timely notice
thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation and such
other business must otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder
action. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be
delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of
the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 60th
day nor earlier than the close of business on the 90th day prior to
the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting;
provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual
meeting is more than 30 days before or more than 60 days after such
anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so
delivered not earlier than the close of business on the 90th day
prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of
business on the later of the 60th day prior to such annual meeting
or the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of
the date of such meeting is first made by the Corporation. In no
event shall the public announcement of an adjournment of an annual
meeting commence a new time period for the giving of a
stockholder’s notice as described above. Such
stockholder’s notice shall set forth (A) 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 in an election contest, or is otherwise
required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Exchange Act”) and Rule 14a-11 thereunder (including
such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy
statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected);
(B) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring
before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to
be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such
business at the meeting and any material interest in such business
of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose
behalf the proposal is made; and (C) as to the stockholder giving
the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the
nomination or proposal is made (1) the name and address of such
stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and
of such beneficial owner and (2) the class and number of shares of
the Corporation which are owned beneficially and of record by such
stockholder and such beneficial owner.
(iii) Notwithstanding
anything in the second sentence of paragraph (a)(ii) of this
Bylaw to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to
be elected to the Board of the Corporation is increased and there
is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the
nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board
at least 70 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding
year’s annual meeting, a stockholder’s notice required
by this Bylaw shall also be considered timely, but only with
respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase,
if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal
executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of
business on the 10th day following the day on which such public
announcement is first made by the Corporation.
(b) Special
Meetings of Stockholders. Only
such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of
stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant
to the Corporation’s notice of meeting. Nominations of
persons for election to the Board may be made at a special meeting
of stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to
the Corporation’s notice of meeting (i) by or at the
direction of the Board or (ii) provided that the Board has
determined that directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any
stockholder of the Corporation who is a stockholder of record at
the time of giving of notice provided for in this Bylaw, who shall
be entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice
procedures set forth in this Bylaw. In the event the Corporation
calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing
one or more directors to the Board, any such stockholder may
nominate a person or persons (as the case may be), for election to
such position(s) as specified in the Corporation’s notice of
meeting, if the stockholder’s notice required by paragraph
(a)(ii) of this Bylaw shall be delivered to the Secretary at the
principal executive offices of the Corporation not earlier than the
close of business on the 90th day prior to such special meeting and
not later than the close of business on the later of the 60th day
prior to such special meeting or the 10th day following the day on
which public announcement is first made of the date of the special
meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board to be elected at
such meeting. In no event shall the public announcement of an
adjournment of a special meeting commence a new time period for the
giving of a stockholder’s notice as described
above.
(c) General.
(i) Only
such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures
set forth in this Bylaw shall be eligible to serve as directors and
only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders
as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with
the procedures set forth in this Bylaw. Except as otherwise
provided by law, the Chairman of the meeting shall have the power
and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed
to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case
may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Bylaw
and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance
with this Bylaw, to declare that such defective proposal or
nomination shall be disregarded.
(ii) For
purposes of this Bylaw, “public announcement” 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
Exchange Act.
(iii) Notwithstanding
the foregoing provisions of this Bylaw, a stockholder shall also
comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the
rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set
forth in this Bylaw. Nothing in this Bylaw shall be deemed to
affect any rights (A) of stockholders to request inclusion of
proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to
Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or (B) of the holders of any
series of Preferred Stock to elect directors under specified
circumstances.
Section
2.07 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 5.05 of these Bylaws 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. Nothing in this section
shall be construed as limiting the right of the Corporation to vote
stock, including but not limited to its own stock, held by it in a
fiduciary capacity. Persons holding stock of the Corporation in a
fiduciary capacity shall be entitled to vote such stock. Persons
whose stock is pledging 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, tenants in common, tenants by the
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.
(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 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 Bylaws or by
law, shall be decided by the vote of a majority of the shares
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 questions shall be by ballot and 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.
The chairman of the meeting shall fix and announce at the meeting
the date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for
each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a
meeting.
Section
2.08 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, for a period of at least ten
(10) days prior to the meeting during ordinary business hours at
the principal place of business of the Corporation. The list shall
also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting
during the duration thereof, and may be inspected by any
stockholder who is present.
Section
2.09 Inspectors
of Election. The Corporation
shall, in advance of any meeting of stockholders, appoint one or
more inspectors to act at the meeting and make a written report
thereof. The Corporation may designate one or more persons as
alternate inspectors to act at the meeting. If no inspector or
alternate is able to act at a meeting of stockholders, the chairman
of such meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the
meeting. Each inspector so appointed shall first sign an oath
faithfully to execute the duties of inspector at such meeting with
strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability. The
inspectors shall ascertain the number of shares outstanding and the
voting power of each, determine the shares represented at a meeting
and the validity of proxies and ballots, count all votes and
ballots, determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of
the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the
inspectors, and certify their determination of the number of shares
represented at the meeting and their count of all votes and
ballots. Reports of the inspectors shall be in writing and
subscribed and delivered by them to the Secretary of the
Corporation. The inspectors may appoint or retain other persons or
entities to assist them in the performance of their duties as
inspectors. The inspectors need not be stockholders of the
Corporation, and any officer of the Corporation may be an inspector
on any question other than a vote for or against a proposal in
which he shall have a material interest.
Section
2.10 Stockholder
Action by Written Consent.
Whenever the vote of stockholders at a meeting thereof is required
or permitted to be taken for or in connection with any corporate
action, by any provision of the statutes, the meeting and vote of
stockholders may be dispensed with if all of the stockholders who
have been entitled to vote upon the action if such meeting were
held shall consent in writing to such corporate action being taken,
or if the certificate of incorporation authorized the action to be
taken with the written consent of the holders of less than all of
the stock who would have been entitled to vote upon the action if a
meeting were held, then on the written consent of the stockholders
having not less than such percentage of the number of votes as may
be authorized in the certificate of incorporation; provided that in
no case shall the written consent be by the holders of stock having
less than the minimum percentage of the vote required by statute
for the proposed corporate action, and provided that prompt notice
must be given to all stockholders of the taking of corporate action
without a meeting by less than unanimous written
consent.
Section
2.11 Record
Date for Written Consent. In
order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled
to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the
board of directors may fix a record date, which record date shall
not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record
date is adopted by the board of directors, and which date shall not
be more than ten (10) days after the date upon which the resolution
fixing the record date is adopted by the board of directors. Any
stockholder of record seeking to have the stockholders authorize or
take corporate action by written consent shall, by written notice
to the Secretary, request the board of directors to fix a record
date. The board of directors shall promptly, but in all events
within ten (10) days after the date on which such a request is
received, adopt a resolution fixing the record date (unless a
record date has previously been fixed by the board of directors
pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 2.11). If no record
date has been fixed by the board of directors pursuant to the first
sentence of this Section 2.11 or otherwise within ten (10) days of
the date on which such a request is received, the record date for
determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in
writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the board of
directors is required by applicable law, shall be the first date on
which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or
proposed to be taken is delivered to the corporation by delivery to
its registered office in Delaware, its principal place of business,
or to any officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the
book in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded.
Delivery shall be by hand or by certified or registered mail,
return receipt requested. If no record date has been fixed by the
board of directors and prior action by the board of directors is
required by applicable law, the record date for determining
stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing
without a meeting shall be at the close of business on the date on
which the board of directors adopts the resolution taking such
prior action.
Section
2.12 Inspection
of Written Consents. In the
event of the delivery, in the manner provided by Section 2.11, to
the Corporation of the requisite written consent or consents to
take corporate action and/or any related revocation or revocations,
the corporation shall engage independent inspectors of elections
for the purpose of performing promptly a ministerial review of the
validity of the consents and revocations. For the purpose of
permitting the inspectors to perform such review, no action by
written consent without a meeting shall be effective until such
date as the independent inspectors certify to the corporation that
the consents delivered to the corporation in accordance with
Section 2.11 represent at least a minimum number of votes that
would be necessary to take the corporate action. Nothing contained
in this Section 2.12 shall in any way be construed to suggest or
imply that the board of directors or any stockholder shall not be
entitled to contest the validity of any consent or revocation
thereof, whether before or after such certification by the
independent inspectors, or to take any other action (including,
without limitation, the commencement, prosecution, or defense of
any litigation with respect thereto, and the seeking of injunctive
relief in such litigation).
Section
2.13 Form
of Written Consents. Every
written consent shall bear the date of signature of each
stockholder who signs the consent and no written consent shall be
effective to take the corporate action referred to therein unless,
within sixty (60) days of the earliest dated written consent
received in accordance with Section 2.11, a written consent or
consents signed by a sufficient number of holders to take such
action are delivered to the corporation in the manner prescribed in
Section 2.11.
ARTICLE III
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section
3.01 General
Powers. The property, business
and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the
direction of the Board.
Section
3.02 Number,
Election and Terms. The number
of the directors of the Board of the Corporation, which shall
consist of not less than one nor more than ten members, shall be
fixed from time to time exclusively pursuant to a resolution
adopted by a majority of the total number of directors which the
Corporation would have if there were no vacancies. Directors, who
shall be elected at the annual meeting of stockholders for a term
of one (1) year, shall hold office until their successors are
elected and qualify. Directors need not be
stockholders.
Section
3.03 Procedure
for Election of Directors; Required Vote. Election of directors at all meetings of the
stockholders at which directors are to be elected shall be by
ballot, and each director to be elected by stockholders shall be
elected by the vote of a plurality of the votes cast at any meeting
for the election of directors at which a quorum is
present.
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.
Section
3.05 Removal.
Subject to the rights of any class or series of stock having a
preference over the Common Stock as to dividends or upon
liquidation to elect directors under specified circumstances, any
director may be removed from office at any time, with or without
cause and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of sixty-six
and two-thirds percent (66.66%) of the combined voting power of the
then outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote generally in the
election of directors, voting together as a single
class.
Section
3.06 Vacancies.
Subject to applicable law and unless the Board of Directors
otherwise determines, vacancies resulting from death, resignation,
retirement, disqualification, removal from office or other cause,
and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the
authorized number of directors, may be filled only by the
affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors, though
less than a quorum of the Board of Directors, and directors so
chosen shall hold office for a term expiring at the annual meeting
of stockholders at which the term of office to which they have been
elected expires and until such director’s successor shall
have been duly elected and qualified. No decrease in the number of
authorized directors constituting the Board of Directors of the
Corporation shall shorten the term of any incumbent
director.
Section
3.07 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
3.08 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 may be called by the Chairman of the Board of Directors
or the Chief Executive Officer. Notice of any special meeting of
directors shall be given to each director at his business or
residence in writing by hand delivery, first-class or overnight
mail or courier service, telegram or facsimile transmission,
electronic mail or electronic messaging system, or orally by
telephone. If mailed by first-class mail, such notice shall be
deemed adequately delivered when deposited in the United States
mails so addressed, with postage thereon prepaid, at least five (5)
days before such meeting. If by telegram, overnight mail or courier
service, such notice shall be deemed adequately delivered when the
telegram is delivered to the telegraph company or the notice is
delivered to the overnight mail or courier service company at least
twenty-four (24) hours before such meeting. If by facsimile
transmission, electronic mail, or electronic messaging system, such
notice shall be deemed adequately delivered when the notice is
transmitted at least twelve (12) hours before such meeting. If by
telephone or by hand delivery, the notice shall be given at least
twelve (12) hours prior to the time set for the meeting. Such
notice may be waived by any director and any meeting shall be a
legal meeting without notice having been given if all the directors
shall be present thereat or if those not present shall, either
before or after the meeting, sign a written waiver of notice of, or
a consent to, such meeting or shall after the meeting sign the
approval of the minutes thereof. All such waivers, consents or
approvals shall be filed with the corporate records or be made a
part of the minutes of the meeting.
Section
3.10 Quorum
and Manner of Acting. Except as
otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or these
Bylaws or by law, the presence of a majority of the total number of
directors then in office shall be required to constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board. Except
as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or these
Bylaws or by law, 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 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
3.13 Executive
Committee. There may be an
Executive Committee of two or more directors appointed by the
Board, who may meet at stated times, or in notice to all by any of
their own number, during the intervals between the meetings of the
Board; they shall advise and aid the officers of the Corporation in
all matters concerning its interest and the management of its
business, and generally perform such duties and exercise such
powers as may be directed or delegated by the Board from time to
time. The Board of Directors may also designate, if it desires,
other directors as alternate members who may replace any absent or
disqualified member of the Executive Committee at any meeting
thereof. To the full extent permitted by law, the Board may
delegate to such committee authority to exercise all the powers of
the Board while the Board is not in session. Vacancies in the
membership of the committee shall be filled by the Board at a
regular meeting or at a special meeting for that purpose. In the
absence or disqualification of any member of the Executive
Committee and any alternate member in his or her place, the member
or members of the Executive Committee present at the meeting and
not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or she or they
constitute a quorum, may, by unanimous vote, appoint another member
of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of the
absent or disqualified member. The Executive Committee shall keep
written minutes of its meeting and report the same to the Board
when required. The provisions of Sections 3.08, 3.09, 3.10 and 3.11
of these Bylaws shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any Executive
Committee of the Board.
Section
3.14 Other
Committees. The Board may, by
resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board, designate one
or more other committees, each such committee to consist of one or
more of the directors of the Corporation. The Board of Directors
may also designate, if it desires, other directors as alternate
members who may replace any absent or disqualified member of any
such committee at any meeting thereof. To the full extent permitted
by law, any such committee shall have and may exercise such powers
and authority as the Board may designate in such resolution.
Vacancies in the membership of a committee shall be filled by the
Board at a regular meeting or a special meeting for that purpose.
Any such committee shall keep written minutes of its meeting and
report the same to the Board when required. In the absence or
disqualification of any member of any such committee and any
alternate member or members of any such committee present at the
meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he or she
or they constitute a quorum, may, by unanimous vote, appoint
another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in
the place of the absent or disqualified member. The provisions of
Section 3.08, 3.09, 3.10 and 3.11 of these Bylaws shall apply,
mutatis mutandis, to any such committee of the
Board.
ARTICLE IV
OFFICERS
Section
4.01 Number.
The officers of the Corporation shall be a Chief Executive Officer,
a Chief Financial Officer, one or more Vice Presidents, a Secretary
and a Treasurer. The Board may also elect one or more Assistant
Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers. A person may hold more than
one office providing the duties thereof can be consistently
performed by the same person.
Section
4.02 Other
Officers. The Board may appoint
such other officers as it shall deem necessary who shall hold their
offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform
such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the
Board.
Section
4.03 Election.
Each of the officers of the Corporation, except such officers as
may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.02
or Section 4.05 of this Article, shall be chosen annually by the
Board and shall hold his office until he shall resign or shall be
removed or otherwise disqualified to serve, or his successor shall
be elected and qualified.
Section
4.04 Salaries.
The salaries of all executive officers of the Corporation shall be
fixed by the Board or by such committee of the Board as may be
designated from time to time by a resolution adopted by a majority
of the Board.
Section
4.05 Removal;
Vacancies. Subject to the
express provisions of a contract authorized by the Board, any
officer may be removed, either with or without cause, at any time
by the Board or by any officer upon whom such power of removal may
be conferred by the Board. Any vacancy occurring in any office of
the Corporation shall be filled by the Board.
Section
4.06 Chairman
of the Board. The Chairman of
the Board, if any, shall preside at all meetings of the Board and
stockholders at which he or she is present and shall have such
authority and perform such duties as may be prescribed by these
By-Laws or from time to time be determined by the
Board.
Section
4.07 Chief
Executive Officer. The Chief
Executive Officer shall be an officer of the Corporation and shall
have general supervision and direction over the business and
affairs of the Corporation, subject to the control of the Board and
the provisions of Section 4.06 of this Article IV, and shall report
directly to the Board. The Chief Executive Officer shall see that
all orders and resolutions of the Board are carried into effect;
shall, if present and in the absence of the Chairman of the Board,
preside at meetings of the stockholders and of the Board; and in
general shall exercise all powers and perform all duties as may
from time to time be assigned to the Chief Executive Officer by the
Board or as may be prescribed in these Bylaws.
Section
4.08 Chief
Financial Officer. The Chief
Financial Officer shall perform all the powers and duties of the
office of the chief financial officer and in general have overall
supervision of the financial operations of the Corporation. The
Chief Financial Officer shall, when requested, counsel with and
advise the other officers of the Corporation and shall perform such
other duties as he may agree with the Chief Executive Officer or as
the Board may from time to time determine. The Chief Financial
Officer shall report directly to the Chief Executive Officer. The
Chief Financial Officer shall perform all the duties of the Chief
Executive Officer if the Chief Executive Officer is absent or for
any other reason is unable to perform his
duties.
Section
4.09 The
Vice Presidents. In the absence
of the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer or in
the event of their inability or refusal to act, the Vice President
(or in the event there be more than one Vice President, the Vice
Presidents in the order designated, or in the absence of any
designation, then in the order of their election) shall perform the
duties of the Chief Executive Officer, and when so acting, shall
have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon
the Chief Executive Officer. The Vice Presidents shall perform such
other duties and have such other powers as the Board may from time
to time prescribe.
Section
4.10 The
Secretary and Assistant Secretary. The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the
Board and all meetings of the stockholders and record all the
proceedings of the meetings of the Corporation and of the Board in
a book to be kept for that purpose and shall perform like duties
for the standing and special committees of the Board when required.
He shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the
stockholders and special meetings of the Board, and shall perform
such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board or Chief
Executive Officer, under whose supervision he shall act. He shall
have custody of the corporate seal of the Corporation and he, or an
assistant secretary, shall have authority to affix the same to any
instrument requiring it and, when so affixed, it may be attested by
his signature or by the signature of such assistant secretary. The
Board may give general authority to any other officer to affix the
seal of the Corporation and to attest the affixing by his
signature.
The
assistant secretary, or if there be more than one, the assistant
secretaries in the order determined by the Board (or if there be no
such determination, then in the order of their election), shall, in
the absence of the Secretary or in the event of his inability or
his refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of
the Secretary and shall perform such other duties and have such
other powers as the Board may from time to time
prescribe.
Section
4.11 The
Treasurer. The Treasurer shall
have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall
keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in
books belonging to the Corporation and shall deposit all moneys and
other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the
Corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the
Board.
He
shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by
the Board, making proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall
render to the Chief Executive Officer and the Board, at its regular
meetings, or when the Board so requires, an account of all his
transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the
Corporation.
If
required by the Board, he shall give the Corporation a bond (which
shall be renewed every six (6) years) in such sum and with such
surety or sureties as shall be satisfactory to the Board for the
faithful performance of the duties of his office and for the
restoration to the Corporation, in case of his death, resignation,
retirement or removal from office, of all books, papers, vouchers,
money and other property of whatever kind in his possession or
under his control belonging to the Corporation.
Section
4.12 The
Assistant Treasurer. The
Assistant Treasurer, or if there be more than one, the assistant
treasurers in the order determined by the Board (or if there be no
such determination, then in the order of their election), shall, in
the absence of the Treasurer or in the event of his inability or
refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the
Treasurer and shall perform such other duties and have such other
powers as the Board may from time to time
prescribe.
ARTICLE V
SHARES AND THEIR TRANSFER
Section
5.01 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
Chairman, Vice Chairman, Chief Executive Officer or President or a
Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or
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
5.04.
Section
5.02 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 5.03, 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
5.03 Regulations.
The Board may make such rules and regulations as it may deem
expedient, not inconsistent with these Bylaws, 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
5.04 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
5.05 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 to receive payment of any dividend or other
distribution or allotment of any rights or to exercise any rights
in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for
the purpose of any other lawful action except for consenting to
corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board of
Directors may fix a record date, which shall not precede the date
the resolution fixing the record date is adopted and which record
date shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days
before the date of any meeting of stockholders, nor more than sixty
(60) days prior to the time for such other action as herein before
described; provided, however, that if no record date is fixed by
the Board of Directors, the record date for determining
stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of
stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day preceding
the day on which notice is given or, if notice is waived, at the
close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the
meeting is held and, for determining stockholders entitled to
receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment
of any rights or to exercise any rights in respect of any change,
conversion or exchange of stock or any other lawful action except
for consenting to corporate action in writing without a meeting,
the record date shall be the close of business on the day on which
the Board of Directors adopts a resolution relating
thereto.
ARTICLE VI
DIVIDENDS AND FINANCES
Section
6.01 Dividends.
Dividends may be declared by the directors and paid out of any
funds legally available therefor under the laws of Delaware, as may
be deemed advisable from time to time by the Board of Directors of
the Corporation. Before declaring any dividends, the Board of
Directors may set aside out of net profits or earned or other
surplus such sums as the Board may think proper as a reserve fund
to meet contingencies or for other purposes deemed proper and to
the best interests of the Corporation.
Section
6.02 Monies.
The monies, securities, and other valuable effects of the
Corporation shall be deposited in the name of the Corporation in
such banks or trust companies as the Board of Directors shall
designate and shall be drawn out or removed only as may be
authorized by the Board of Directors from time to
time.
ARTICLE VII
INDEMNIFICATION
Section
7.01 Indemnification
of Officers, Directors, Employees and Agents;
Insurance.
(a) Right
to Indemnification. Each person
who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to
or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether
civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a
“proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she is
or was a director or officer of the Corporation or is or was
serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer,
employee, trustee, agent or fiduciary of another corporation or of
a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including
service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter an
“indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is
alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer,
employee, trustee, agent, fiduciary, or in any other capacity,
while serving as a director, officer, employee, agent, trustee or
fiduciary of another corporation shall be indemnified and held
harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the
Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may
hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only
to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to
provide broader indemnification rights than permitted prior
thereto), against all expense, liability and loss (including
attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or
penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or
suffered by such indemnitees in connection therewith and such
indemnification shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased
to be a director, officer, employee, trustee, agent, fiduciary or
in any other capacity, and shall inure to the benefit of the
indemnitee’s heirs, executors and administrators; provided,
however, that except as provided in paragraph (c) hereof with
respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the
Corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with
a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if
such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or is subsequently
ratified by the Board of Directors of the Corporation. The
Corporation shall not be liable to indemnify the indemnitee with
regard to any award in any proceeding if the Corporation was not
given a reasonable and timely opportunity, at its expense, to
meaningfully participate in the defense of such
proceeding.
(b) Right
to Advancement of Expenses. The
right to indemnification conferred in paragraph (a) of this Section
shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses
(including attorneys’ fees) incurred in defending any
proceeding for which such right to indemnification is applicable in
advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an “advancement
of expenses”); provided, however, that, if the Delaware
General Corporation Law requires, an advancement of expenses
incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a director or
officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is
rendered by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service
to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to
the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an
“undertaking”), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to
repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined
by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to
appeal (hereinafter a “final adjudication”) that such
indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses
under this Section or otherwise.
(c) Written
Request. To obtain
indemnification under this Bylaw, a claimant shall submit to the
Corporation a written request, including therein or therewith such
documentation and information as is reasonably available to the
claimant and is reasonably necessary to determine whether and to
what extent the claimant is entitled to indemnification. Upon
written request by a claimant for indemnification pursuant to the
first sentence of this paragraph (c), a determination, if required
by applicable law, with respect to the claimant’s entitlement
thereto shall be made as follows: (1) if requested by the claimant,
by Independent Counsel (as hereinafter defined), or (2) if no
request is made by the claimant for a determination by Independent
Counsel, (i) by the Board by a majority vote of a quorum consisting
of Disinterested Directors (as hereinafter defined), or (ii) if a
quorum of the Board consisting of Disinterested Directors is not
obtainable or, even if obtainable, such quorum of Disinterested
Directors so directs, by Independent Counsel in a written opinion
to the Board, a copy of which shall be delivered to the claimant,
or (iii) if a quorum of Disinterested Directors so directs, by the
stockholders of the Corporation. In the event the determination of
entitlement to indemnification is to be made by Independent Counsel
at the request of the claimant, the Independent Counsel shall be
selected by the Board unless there shall have occurred within two
years prior to the date of the commencement of the action, suit or
proceeding for which indemnification is claimed a “Change of
Control” as defined in the Senior Executive Severance Policy,
in which case the Independent Counsel shall be selected by the
claimant unless the claimant shall request that such selection be
made by the Board. If is so determined that the claimant is
entitled to indemnification, payment to the claimant shall be made
within 10 days after such determination.
(d) Right
of Indemnitee to Bring Suit.
The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses
conferred in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section shall be a
contract between the Corporation and each director or officer of
the Corporation who serves or served in such capacity at any time
while this Article VII is in effect. Any repeal or modification of
this Article VII or any repeal or modification of relevant
provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law or any other
applicable laws shall not in any way diminish any rights to
indemnification of such director or officer or the obligations of
the Corporation hereunder. If a claim under paragraph (a) or (b) of
this Section is not paid in full by the Corporation within
thirty (30) days after a written claim pursuant to paragraph
(c) has been received by the Corporation, or in the case of a claim
for advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period
shall also be thirty (30) days, the indemnitee may at any time
thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid
amount of the claim. If successful in whole or in part in any such
suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an
advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking,
the indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of
prosecuting or defending such suit. In (i) any suit brought by the
indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not
in a suit brought by the indemnitee to enforce a right to an
advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (ii) in
any suit by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses
pursuant to the terms of an undertaking the Corporation shall be
entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that,
the indemnitee has not met any applicable standard for
indemnification set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of
Directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have
made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that
indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances
because the indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct
set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual
determination by the Corporation (including its board of directors,
independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the indemnitee
has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a
presumption that the indemnitee has not met the applicable standard
of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the
indemnitee, be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the
indemnitee to enforce a right to indemnification or to an
advancement of expenses hereunder, or by the Corporation to recover
an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking,
the burden of proving that the indemnitee is not entitled to be
indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Section
or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.
(e) Non-Exclusivity
of Rights. The rights to
indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in
this Section shall not be exclusive of any other right which any
person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, the
Corporation’s certificate of incorporation, by-law,
agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or
otherwise.
(f) Insurance.
The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect
itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the
Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss,
whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify
such person against such expense, liability or loss under the
Delaware General Corporation Law, provided that such insurance is
available on acceptable terms, which determination shall be made by
the Board of Directors or by a committee
thereof.
(g) Indemnification
of Employees and Agents of the Corporation. The Corporation may, to the extent and in
accordance with the terms authorized from time to time by the board
of directors, grant rights to indemnification, and to the
advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of the Corporation
to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Section with
respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of
directors and officers of the Corporation.
(h) For
purposes of this Section, references to “the
Corporation” shall include, in addition to the Corporation,
any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a
constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its
separate existence had continued, would have had power and
authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or
agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer,
employee or agent of such 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 this Section with respect to the
Corporation as he would have with respect to such constituent
corporation if its separate existence had
continued.
(i) For
purposes of this Section, references to “serving at the
request of the Corporation” shall include any service as
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
Section.
(j) Notwithstanding
anything else in this Article VII, in the event that the express
provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law relating to
indemnification of, or advancement of expenses by the Corporation
to, persons eligible for indemnification or advancement of expenses
under this Article VII are amended to permit broader
indemnification or advancement of expenses, then the Corporation
will provide such indemnification and advancement of expenses to
the maximum extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation
Law.
(k) If
this Article VII or any portion hereof shall be invalidated on any
ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, then the Corporation
shall nevertheless indemnify each indemnitee of the Corporation as
to costs, charges and expenses (including attorneys’ fees),
judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement with respect to any
action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative
or investigative, including an action by or in the right of the
Corporation, to the full extent permitted by any applicable portion
of this Article VII that shall not have been invalidated and to the
full extent permitted by applicable law.
(l) If
a determination shall have been made pursuant to paragraph (c) of
this Bylaw that the claimant is entitled to indemnification, the
Corporation shall be bound by such determination in any judicial
proceeding commenced pursuant to paragraph (d) of this
Bylaw.
(m) The
Corporation shall be precluded from asserting in any judicial
proceeding commenced pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Bylaw that
the procedures and presumptions are not valid, binding and
enforceable and shall stipulate in such proceeding that the
Corporation is bound by all the provisions of this
Bylaw.
(n) For
purposes of this Bylaw:
(i) “Disinterested
Director” means a director of the Corporation who is not and
was not a party to the matter in respect of which indemnification
is sought by the claimant; and
(ii) “Independent
Counsel” means a law firm, a member of a law firm, or and
independent practitioner, that is experienced in matters of
corporation law and shall include any person who, under the
applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing, would
not have a conflict of interest in representing either the
Corporation or the claimant in an action to determine the
claimant’s rights under this Bylaw.
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 Bylaws 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 Fiscal
Year. The fiscal year of the
Corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the
Board.
Section
8.04 Amendments.
These Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed at any meeting of
the Board or of the stockholders, provided notice of the proposed
change was given in the notice of the meeting and, in the case of a
meeting of the Board, in a notice given not less than two days
prior to the meeting; provided, however, that, in the case of
amendments by stockholders, notwithstanding any other provisions of
these Bylaws or any provision of law which might otherwise permit a
lesser vote or no vote, but in addition to any affirmative vote of
the holders of any particular class or series of the capital stock
of the Corporation required by law, the Certificate of
Incorporation of these Bylaws, the affirmative vote of the holders
of at least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66.66%) of the total
voting power of all the then outstanding shares of Voting Stock of
the Corporation, voting together as a single class, shall be
required to alter, amend or repeal this Section 8.04 or any
provision of Sections 2.06, 2.10, 3.02, 3.05 and 3.06 of these
Bylaws.
Section
8.05 Voting
Stock. Any person so authorized
by the Board, and in the absence of such authorization, the
Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief
Financial Officer or any Vice President, shall have full power and
authority on behalf of the Corporation to attend and to act and
vote at any meeting of the stockholders of any corporation in which
the Corporation may hold stock and at any such meeting shall
possess and may exercise any and all rights and powers which are
incident to the ownership of such stock and which as the owner
thereof the Corporation might have possessed and exercised if
present. The Board by resolution from time to time may confer like
powers upon any other person or persons.
Section
8.06 Conflicts
of Interest. No contract or
other transaction of the Corporation with any other persons, firms
or corporations, or in which the Corporation is interested, shall
be affected or invalidated by the fact that any one or more of the
directors or officers of the Corporation is interested in or is a
director or officer of such other firm or corporation; or by the
fact that any director or officer of the Corporation, individually
or jointly with others, may be a party to or may be interested in
any such contract or transaction.
Section
8.07 Exclusive
Forum. Unless the corporation
consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the
Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall, to the fullest
extent permitted by applicable law, be the sole and exclusive forum
for (A) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf
of the corporation;
(B) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty
owed by any director, officer or other employee of the
corporation to the corporation
or the corporation’s stockholders; (C) any action
asserting a claim against the corporation or any director or officer or other employee of
the corporation arising pursuant to any provision of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the Certificate of Incorporation or these
Bylaws; or (D) any action asserting a claim against the
corporation or any director or officer
or other employee of the corporation governed by the internal
affairs doctrine. This provision does not apply to actions
arising under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.