Bylaws - Liquidmetal Technologies Inc.
BYLAWS
OF
LIQUIDMETAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
Section 1.1 Registered Office. The registered office of
the Corporation shall be located in the City of Wilmington, County of New
Castle, State of Delaware.
Section 1.2 Other Offices. The Corporation may also have
offices at such other places both within and without the State of Delaware as
the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or the business of the
Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
STOCKHOLDERS
Section 2.1 Place of Meeting. All meetings of the
stockholders for the election of directors shall be held at such place as may be
fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors, or at such other place either
within or without the State of Delaware as shall be designated from time to time
by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting. Meetings of
stockholders for any other purpose may be held at such time and place, within or
without the State of Delaware, as shall be stated in the notice of the meeting
or in a duly executed waiver of notice thereof.
Section 2.2 Annual Meeting. Annual meetings of
stockholders shall be held at such date and time as shall be designated from
time to time by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting.
At each annual meeting, the stockholders shall elect directors to succeed those
directors whose terms expire in that year and shall transact such other business
as may properly be brought before the meeting. Written notice of the annual
meeting stating the place, date and hour of the meeting shall be given to each
stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting not less than ten (10) nor more
than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting.
Section 2.3 Special Meetings. Special meetings of
stockholders for any purpose or purposes may be held at any time upon call of
the Board of Directors. A special meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation
shall be called by the President or the Secretary upon the written request of
the stockholders who together own of record 25% of the outstanding
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stock of all classes entitled to vote at such meeting. The request shall state
the date, time, and place by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed
to be present and vote at such meeting and purpose or purposes of the proposed
meeting. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be
limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 2.4 Notice of Meetings. Written notice of
stockholders' meetings, stating the place, date, and hour thereof, and, in the
case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is
called, shall be given by or at whose direction the notice is being issued. A
copy of the notice of any meeting shall be delivered personally or shall be
mailed, not less than ten days but not more than sixty days before the date of
such meeting, unless a different period is prescribed by law. If mailed, the
notice shall be deemed given when deposited in the United States mail, postage
prepaid, directed to each stockholder at such stockholder's address as it
appears on the records of the Corporation, unless such stockholder shall have
filed with the Secretary of the Corporation a written request that such notice
be mailed to some other address, in which case it shall be directed to such
other address. Notice of any meeting of stockholders need not be given to any
stockholder who shall attend the meeting, other than for the express purpose of
objecting at the beginning thereof to the transaction of any business because
the meeting is not lawfully called or convened, or who shall submit, either
before or after the time stated therein, a written waiver of notice. Unless the
Board of Directors, after an adjournment is taken, shall fix a new record date
for an adjourned meeting or unless the adjournment is for more than thirty days,
notice of an adjourned meeting need not be given if the place, date and time to
which the meeting shall be adjourned are announced at a meeting at which the
adjournment is taken.
Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be
given effectively to stockholders, unless excepted under Sections 164, 296, 311,
312, or 324 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, any notice to stockholders
given by the Corporation under any provision of these Bylaws or the Certificate
of Incorporation shall be effective if given by a form of electronic
transmission consented to by the stockholder to whom the notice is given. Any
such consent shall be revocable by the stockholder by written notice to the
Corporation. Any such consent shall be deemed revoked if (1) the Corporation is
unable to deliver by electronic transmission two consecutive notices given by
the Corporation in accordance with such consent and (2) such inability becomes
known to the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation or to the
transfer agent, or other person responsible for the giving of notice; provided,
however, the inadvertent failure to treat such inability as a revocation shall
not invalidate any meeting or other action.
Notice given by a form of electronic transmission shall be
deemed given: (1) if by facsimile telecommunication, when directed to a number
at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice; (2) if by electronic
mail, when directed to an electronic mail address at which the stockholder has
consented to receive notice; (3) if by a posting on an electronic network
together with separate notice to the stockholder of such specific posting, upon
the later of (A) such posting and (B) the giving of such separate notice; and
(4) if by any other form of electronic transmission, when directed to the
stockholder. An affidavit of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or of the
transfer agent or other agent of the Corporation that the notice has been given
by a form of electronic transmission shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima
facie evidence of the facts stated therein.
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Electronic transmission includes any form of communication not
directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record
that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that
may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an
automated process.
Whenever any notice is required to be given under the
provisions of any law, or under the provisions of the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Corporation or these Bylaws, a waiver thereof in writing,
or a waiver by electronic transmission, signed by the person or persons entitled
to said notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed
equivalent thereto.
Section 2.5 Quorum. Except as otherwise provided by law
or in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or these Bylaws, at
any meeting of stockholders, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares
of each class of stock entitled to vote thereat shall be present or represented
by proxy in order to constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business. In
the absence of a quorum, a majority in interest of the stockholders present or
the chairman of the meeting may adjourn the meeting from time to time in the
manner provided for in this Section 2.5 until a quorum shall attend.
In case a quorum shall not be present at any meeting, a
majority in interest of the stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in
person or by proxy, shall have the power to adjourn the meeting from time to
time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting of the time, place,
if any, thereof by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be
present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting, until the requisite amount
of stock entitled to vote shall be present. At any such adjourned meeting at
which the requisite amount of stock entitled to vote shall be represented, any
business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as
originally noticed; but only those stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting
as originally noticed shall be entitled to vote at any adjournment or
adjournments thereof.
Section 2.6 Conduct of Meeting. The Chairman of the
Board of Directors, if any, or, in his absence, the Chief Executive Officer, or
in his absence, the President, or in their absence, any Vice President, shall
call to order meetings of stockholders and shall act as chairman of such
meetings. If none of the forgoing is present, the stockholders entitled to vote
and who are present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting shall
appoint any person to act as chairman of the meeting. The Secretary of the
Corporation shall act as secretary of all meetings of stockholders, but, in the
absence of the Secretary, the chairman of the meeting may appoint any other
person to act as secretary of the meeting. The order of business at all meetings
of the stockholders shall be as determined by the chairman of the meeting.
At any meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be
conducted as shall have been brought before the meeting (a) pursuant to the
corporation's notice of meeting, (b) by or at the direction of the Board of
Directors or (c) by any stockholder of the corporation who is a stockholder of
record at the time of giving of the notice provided for in this Bylaw, who shall
be entitled to vote at such meeting and who complies with the notice procedures
set forth in this Bylaw; provided, however, that business transacted at any
special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the
notice.
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For business to be properly brought before any meeting by a
stockholder pursuant to clause (c) above of this Section 2.6, the stockholder
must have given 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 prior to the date of the meeting. A stockholder's
notice to the secretary shall set forth as to each matter the stockholder
proposes to bring before the meeting (a) a brief description of the business
desired to be brought before the meeting and the reasons for conducting such
business at the meeting, (b) the name and address, as they appear on the
corporation's books, of the stockholder proposing such business, and the name
and address of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is
made, (c) the class and number of shares of the corporation which are owned
beneficially and of record by such stockholder of record and by the beneficial
owner, if any, on whose behalf of the proposal is made, and (d) any material
interest of such stockholder of record and the beneficial owner, if any, on
whose behalf the proposal is made in such business.
Notwithstanding anything in these Bylaws to the contrary, no
business shall be conducted at a meeting except in accordance with the
procedures set forth in this Section 2.6. The presiding officer of the meeting
shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that business
was not properly brought before the meeting and in accordance with the
procedures prescribed by this Section 2.6, and if such person should so
determine, such person shall so declare to the meeting and any such business not
properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted. Notwithstanding the
foregoing provisions of this Section 2.6, a stockholder shall also comply with
all applicable requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth
in this Section 12.
Section 2.7 Voting. Except as otherwise provided by law
or in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation or these Bylaws, any
corporate action to be taken by a vote of the stockholders, other than for the
election of directors, at any meeting duly called and held at which a quorum is
present, shall be authorized by the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares
present or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the
subject matter. At any meeting of the stockholders duly called and held for the
election of directors at which a quorum is present, those persons receiving a
plurality of the votes cast whether in person or represented by proxy and
entitled to vote for the election of directors shall be elected.
Section 2.8 Stockholder List. A complete list of the
stockholders entitled to vote at the ensuing election, arranged in alphabetical
order, with the address of each, and the number of shares held by each, shall be
open to the examination of any stockholder for any purpose germane to the
meeting for a period of at least 10 days prior to the meeting: (1) on a
reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the information required
to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of the meeting, or (2)
during ordinary business hours, at the principal place of business of the
Corporation. The Corporation shall not be required to include electronic mail
addresses or other electronic contact information on such list. In the event
that the Corporation determines to make the list available on an electronic
network, the Corporation may take reasonable steps to ensure that such
information is available only to stockholders of the Corporation. If the meeting
is to be held at a place, then the list shall be
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produced and kept at the place of the meeting during the whole time thereof and
may be inspected by any stockholder who is present.
Section 2.9 Written Consent of Stockholders in Lieu of
Meeting. Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation of the
Corporation, any action required to be taken or which may be taken at any annual
or special meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior
notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth
the action so taken, shall be signed, in person or by proxy, 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 in person or by proxy and shall
be delivered to the Corporation as required by law. An electronic transmission
consenting to an action to be taken and transmitted by a stockholder or
proxyholder, or by a person or persons authorized to act for a stockholder or
proxyholder, shall be deemed to be written, signed, and dated for the purposes
of this section, provided that any such electronic transmission sets forth or is
delivered with information from which the Corporation can determine (1) that the
electronic transmission was transmitted by the stockholder or proxyholder, or by
a person or persons authorized to act for the stockholder or proxyholder and (2)
the date on which such stockholder or proxyholder or authorized person or
persons transmitted such electronic transmission. 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.
ARTICLE III
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 3.1 Function. The business and affairs of the
Corporation shall be managed by, or under the direction of, the Board of
Directors, which may exercise all such powers of the corporation and do all such
lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the Certificate of
Incorporation or by these Bylaws directed or required to be exercised or done by
the stockholders.
Section 3.2 Number and Term of Office. Except as
otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, until
such time as the Board of Directors determines otherwise, the number of
directors shall initially be seven (7). The directors shall be classified, with
respect to the time for which they severally hold office, into three (3)
classes, Class I, Class II, and Class III, each of which shall be as nearly
equal in number as possible. Class I shall be established for a term expiring at
the annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2005 and shall consist
initially of two (2) directors. Class II shall be established for a term
expiring at the annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2006 and shall
consist initially of two (2) directors. Class III shall be established for a
term expiring at the annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2004 and shall
consist initially of three (3) directors. Each director shall hold office until
his or her successors are elected and qualified, or until such director's
earlier death, resignation or removal as hereinafter provided. At each annual
meeting of the stockholders, the successors of the class of directors whose
terms expire at that meeting shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring
at the annual meeting of shareholders held in the third (3rd) year following
the year of their election. The number of directors may be reduced or
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increased from time to time by action of a majority of the directors then in
office, and the board of directors shall determine the class or classes to which
the increased or decreased number of directors shall be apportioned; provided,
however, that no decrease in the number of directors shall affect the term of
any director then in office.
Section 3.3 Chairman of the Board. The directors may
elect one of their members to be Chairman of the Board of Directors. The
Chairman of the Board of Directors shall be subject to the control of, and may
be removed by, the Board of Directors. He shall perform such duties as may from
time to time be assigned to him by the Board of Directors.
Section 3.4 Meetings. The annual meeting of the Board of
Directors shall be held either without notice immediately after the annual
meeting of stockholders and in the same place, if any, or at such time and
place, if any, as shall be fixed by the vote of the stockholders at the annual
meeting or as soon as practicable after the annual meeting of stockholders on
such date and at such time and place if any, as the Board of Directors
determines from time to time.
The Board of Directors of the corporation may hold meetings,
both regular and special, either within or without the State of Delaware.
Regular and special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held at such
time and place if any, as shall be designated in the notice of the meeting
whenever called by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, if any, or the Chief
Executive Officer, and shall be called by the Chief Executive Officer or
Secretary upon the written request of a majority of the directors then in
office. The request shall state the date, time, place, and purpose or purposes
of the proposed meeting.
Section 3.5 Notice of Meetings. Regular meetings of the
Board of Directors may be held without notice at such time and at such place as
shall from time to time be determined by the Board. Special meetings of the
Board may be called by the Chairman of the Board or the Chief Executive Officer
on twelve (12) hours' notice to each director either personally or by telephone,
facsimile, or electronic mail; special meetings shall be called by the Chief
Executive Officer or Secretary in like manner and on like notice on the written
request of a majority of the Board unless the Board consists of only one
director, in which case special meetings shall be called by the Chairman of the
Board, the Chief Executive Officer, or Secretary in like manner and on like
notice on the written request of the sole director. A written waiver of notice,
signed by the person entitled thereto, whether before or after the time of the
meeting stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice.
Section 3.6 Quorum and Conduct of Meetings. Except as
otherwise provided in these Bylaws or by statute, a majority of the Board shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but, if at any meeting of
the Board of Directors (whether or not adjourned from a previous meeting) there
shall be less than a quorum present, a majority of those present may adjourn the
meeting to another time and place, and the meeting may be held as adjourned
without further notice or waiver.
Except as otherwise provided by law or in the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Corporation or these Bylaws, a majority of the directors
present at any meeting at which a quorum is present may decide any question
brought before such meeting. Meetings shall be presided over by the Chairman of
the Board of Directors, if any, or in his absence, by the Chief
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Executive Officer, or in the absence of both, by such other person as the
directors may select. The Secretary of the Corporation shall act as secretary of
the meeting, but in his absence the chairman of the meeting may appoint any
person to act as secretary of the meeting. The order of all business at all
meetings of the Board of Directors shall be determined by the person presiding
over the meeting.
Section 3.7 Committees. The Board of Directors may, by
resolution adopted by a majority of the Board, designate one or more committees,
each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation.
The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members
of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any
meeting of the committee. 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 of Directors to act at the
meeting in place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee,
to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors, shall have
and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the
management of the business, property, and affairs of the Corporation, and may
authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may
require it; but no such committee shall have power or authority in reference to
amending the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (except that a
committee may, to the extent authorized in the resolution or resolutions
providing for the issuance of shares of stock adopted by the Board of Directors
pursuant to authority expressly granted to the Board of Directors by the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation and the General Corporation Law,
fix the designation and any of the preferences or rights of such shares relating
to dividends, redemption, dissolution, any distribution of the assets of the
Corporation, or the conversion into, or the exchange of such shares for, shares
of any other class or classes or any other series of the same or any other class
or classes of stock of the Corporation or fix the number of shares of any series
of stock or authorize the increase or decrease of the shares of any series),
adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation, recommending to the
stockholders the sale, lease, or exchange of all or substantially all of the
Corporation's property and assets, recommending to the stockholders a
dissolution of the Corporation or a revocation of dissolution, or amending these
Bylaws; and, unless such resolution or resolutions expressly so provides, no
such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend, to
authorize the issuance of stock, or to adopt a certificate of ownership and
merger pursuant to Section 253 of the General Corporation Law. Each committee
which has been established by the Board of Directors pursuant to these Bylaws
may fix its own rules and procedures; provided that a majority of all the
members of a committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business, and the vote a majority of all the members of a committee present at a
meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the committee. Notice
of meetings of committees, other than of regular meetings provided for by
committee rules, shall be given to committee members. All action taken by
committees shall be recorded in minutes of the meetings.
Section 3.8 Action Without Meeting. Unless otherwise
prohibited by law or the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, the
Board of Directors or any committee thereof may take any action required or
permitted to be taken by them without a meeting if all of the members of the
Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be, consent in writing or by
means of electronic transmissions, and such written consent or electric
transmission is filed with
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the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee. Such filing
shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be
in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.
Section 3.9 Telephonic Meetings. Members of the Board of
Directors, or any committee thereof, may participate in a meeting of the Board
of Directors or committee, as the case may be, by means of conference telephone
or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating
in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation shall constitute
presence in person at the meeting.
Section 3.10 Removal. A director may be removed at any
time, with or without cause, by the holders of a majority of the shares then
entitled to vote at an election of directors.
Section 3.11 Compensation. Unless otherwise restricted by
the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the Board of Directors shall
have the authority to fix the compensation of directors. The directors may be
paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board of
Directors and may be paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the
Board of Directors or a stated salary as director. No such payment shall
preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and
receiving compensation therefor. Members of special or standing committees may
be allowed like compensation for attending committee meetings.
Section 3.12 Resignations. Any director may resign at any
time by giving written notice or by electronic transmission of his resignation
to the Corporation. A resignation shall take effect at the time specified
therein or, if the time when it shall become effective shall not be specified
therein, immediately upon its receipt.
Section 3.13 Vacancies. Except as otherwise provided in
the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, any vacancy in the Board of
Directors arising from an increase in the number of directors or otherwise may
be filled by the vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even if
less than a quorum, or by sole remaining director, and the directors so chosen
shall hold office until the next election of the class for which such directors
were chosen and until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until
earlier resignation or removal. If there are no directors in office, then an
election of directors may be held in the manner provided by statute.
ARTICLE IV
OFFICERS
Section 4.1 Executive Officers. The executive officers
of the Corporation shall be a President, a Chief Financial Officer, and a
Secretary, each of whom shall be appointed by the Board of Directors. The Board
of Directors also may elect or appoint such other officers (including, without
limitation, a Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer, one or more Vice Presidents,
and one or more Assistant Treasurers and Assistant Secretaries) as it may deem
necessary or desirable for the conduct of business of the Corporation, and each
of whom shall have such powers and duties as the Board of Directors determines.
Each officer shall hold office
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for such term as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors from time to time.
Any person may hold at one time two or more offices.
Section 4.2 Powers and Duties.
(a) Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the
Board, if such an officer is elected, shall exercise and perform such powers and
duties as may be from time to time assigned to him by the Board of Directors or
prescribed by the Bylaws.
(b) Chief Executive Officer. Subject to such
supervisory powers, if any, as may be given by the Board of Directors to the
Chairman of the Board, if there be such an officer, the Chief Executive Officer
shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and shall, subject to
the control of the Board of Directors, have general supervision, direction, and
control of the business and the officers of the Corporation. He shall preside at
all meetings of the stockholders. He shall have the general powers and duties of
management usually vested in the office of the Chief Executive Officer of a
corporation, and shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by
the Board of Directors or the Bylaws.
(c) President. In the absence or disability of
the Chief Executive Officer, the President shall perform all the duties of the
Chief Executive Officer, and when so acting shall have all of the powers of, and
be subject to all the restrictions upon, the Chief Executive Officer. The
President shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as from
time to time may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or the Bylaws or the
Chief Executive Officer or the Chairman of the Board.
(d) Chief Financial Officer. The Chief Financial
Officer shall have care and custody of the corporate funds and shall keep and
maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, adequate and correct books and
records of accounts of the properties and business transaction of the
corporation, including accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts,
disbursements, gains, losses, capital, retained earnings, and shares. The books
of account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any Director.
The Chief Financial Officer shall render to the Chief Executive Officer and the
Board, whenever they request it, an account of all of his transactions as Chief
Financial Officer and of the financial condition of the corporation, and shall
have other power and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board
of Directors of the Bylaws.
(e) Secretary. The Secretary shall keep or cause
to be kept, at the principal executive office or such other place as the Board
of Directors may direct, a book of minutes of all meetings and actions of
Directors, committees or Directors, and shareholders, with the time and place of
holding, whether regular or special, and, if special, how authorized, the notice
given, the names of those present at the Directors' meetings or committee
meetings, the number of shares present or represented at shareholders' meetings,
and the proceedings.
The Secretary shall keep, or cause to be kept, at the
principal executive office or at the office of the corporation's transfer agent
or registrar, as determined by resolution of the Board of Directors a share
register, or a duplicate share register, showing the names of all shareholders
and their addresses, the number and classes of shares held by each, the number
and
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date of certificates issued for the same, and the number and date of
cancellation of every certificate surrendered for cancellation.
The secretary shall give, or cause to be given,
notice of all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors
required by the Bylaws or Bylaw to be given, and he shall keep the seal of the
corporation if one be adopted, in safe custody, and shall have such other powers
and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or
by the Bylaws.
Section 4.3 Resignations. Any officer may resign at any
time by giving written notice of his resignation to the Corporation. A
resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or if the time when
it shall become effective shall not be specified therein, immediately upon its
receipt.
Section 4.4 Vacancies and Term. If an office becomes
vacant for any reason, the Board of Directors may fill the vacancy, and such
officer so elected or appointed shall serve for the remainder of his
predecessor's term and until his successor shall have been elected or appointed
and shall have qualified. The officers of the corporation shall hold office
until their successors are chosen and qualify. Any officer elected or appointed
by the Board of Directors may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of
a majority of the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE V
CAPITAL STOCK
Section 5.1 Stock Certificates. The certificates
representing shares of the capital stock of the Corporation shall be in such
form as shall be prescribed by law and approved, from time to time, by the Board
of Directors. Each certificate shall be signed in the name of the Corporation by
the President or any Vice President and by the Secretary, any Treasurer, any
Assistant Secretary or any Assistant Treasurer. Any or all of the signatures on
a certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer who shall have signed or
whose facsimile signature shall have been placed on any certificate shall have
ceased to be such officer before the certificate shall be issued, the
certificate may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he were
such officer, at the date of issue.
Section 5.2 Transfer of Shares. Transfers of shares
shall be registered on the books of the Corporation maintained for that purpose
after due presentation of the stock certificates therefor, appropriately
endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or
authority to transfer.
Section 5.3 Fixing Record Date. For purposes of
determining 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 change, conversion, or exchange of stock,
or for the purpose of any other lawful action, 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
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record date shall not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date
of such meeting, nor more than sixty days prior to any other action.
Section 5.4 Lost Certificates. The Board of Directors or
any transfer agent of the Corporation may direct a new certificate or
certificates representing stock of the Corporation to be issued in place of any
certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the Corporation, alleged to
have been lost, stolen, or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that
fact by the person claiming the certificate to be lost, stolen, or destroyed.
When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of
Directors (or any transfer agent of the Corporation authorized to do so by a
resolution of the Board of Directors) may, in its discretion and as a condition
precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen, or
destroyed certificate or certificates, or his legal representative, to give the
Corporation a bond in such sum as the Board of Directors (or any transfer agent
so authorized) shall direct to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that
may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate or
certificates alleged to have been lost, stolen, or destroyed or the issuance of
such new certificate or certificates, and such requirement may be general or
confined to specific instances.
Section 5.5 Regulations. The Board of Directors shall
have power and authority to make all such rules and regulations as it may deem
expedient concerning the issue, transfer, registration, cancellation, and
replacement of certificates representing stock of the Corporation.
ARTICLE VI
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 6.1 Indemnification. The Corporation shall, to
the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the General Corporation Law or
any successor provision or statute, as the same may be amended from time to
time, indemnify any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or
any person serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer,
employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or
other enterprise.
Section 6.2 Advancement of Expenses. Expenses (including
attorneys' fees) incurred by any person in his capacity as a director or an
officer of the Corporation in defending a civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative action, suit or proceeding of the type contemplated by Section 145
of the General Corporation Law, or any successor provision or statute, as the
same may be amended from time to time, shall be paid by the Corporation in
advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt
of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer to repay such
amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to
be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article VI.
Section 6.3 Other Rights and Remedies. The
indemnification provided by this Article VI shall not be deemed exclusive of any
other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any
Bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or
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disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person's
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 person.
Section 6.4 Insurance. Upon resolution passed by the
Board of Directors, 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 such
person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such
person's status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to
indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this
Article VI.
ARTICLE VII
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.1 Corporate Seal. The corporate seal shall
have inscribed thereon the name of the Corporation, the year of its
organization, and the words "Corporate Seal" and "Delaware."
Section 7.2 Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the
Corporation shall end on December 31 or such date as otherwise determined by the
Board of Directors.
Section 7.3 Stock of Other Corporations or Other
Interests. Unless otherwise ordered by the Board of Directors, the President,
the Secretary, and such attorneys or agents of the Corporation as may be, from
time to time, authorized by the Board of Directors or the President shall have
full power and authority on behalf of the Corporation to attend and to act and
vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of the holders of securities of any
corporation or other entity in which the Corporation may own or hold shares or
other securities, and at such meetings shall possess and may exercise all the
rights and powers incident to the ownership of such shares or other securities
which the Corporation, as the owner or holder thereof, might have possessed and
exercised if present. The President, Secretary, or such attorneys or agents may
also execute and deliver on behalf of the Corporation powers of attorney,
proxies, consents, waivers, and other instruments relating to the shares or
securities owned or held by the Corporation.
Section 7.4 Variations in Pronouns. All pronouns and any
variations thereof refer to the masculine, feminine or neuter, singular or
plural, as the context requires.
ARTICLE VIII
AMENDMENTS
These Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed or new Bylaws
may be adopted by the affirmative vote of holders of at least a majority of the
outstanding voting stock
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of the corporation. These Bylaws may also be altered, amended or repealed or
new Bylaws may be adopted by the Board of Directors, when such power is
conferred upon the Board of Directors by the Certificate of Incorporation. The
foregoing may occur at any regular meeting of the stockholders or of the Board
of Directors or at any special meeting of the stockholders or of the Board of
Directors if notice of such alteration, amendment, repeal, or adoption of new
Bylaws be contained in the notice of such special meeting. If the power to
adopt, amend or repeal Bylaws is conferred upon the Board of Directors by the
Certificate of Incorporation, it shall not divest or limit the power of the
stockholders to adopt, amend, or repeal Bylaws.
ARTICLE IX
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
These Bylaws shall be subject to the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Corporation. All references in these Bylaws to the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation shall be construed to mean the
Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation and any Certificate of
Designation to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as the same
may be amended from time to time.
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