Bylaws - XM Satellite Radio Inc.
AMENDED AND RESTATED
BYLAWS OF
XM SATELLITE RADIO INC.
A Delaware Corporation
Article I
Offices
SECTION 1. Registered Office. The registered office of XM Satellite Radio
Inc. (hereinafter called the "Corporation") shall be within the State of
Delaware.
SECTION 2. Other Offices. The Corporation may also have offices at such
place or places as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine or
the business of the Corporation may require.
Article II.
The Stockholders;
Meeting of The Stockholders
SECTION 1. Place of Meeting. All meetings of the stockholders shall be
held at any such place, either within or without the State of Delaware, but
within the United States of America, as shall be designated from time to time by
the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of meeting or in a duly executed
waiver thereof.
SECTION 2. Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the stockholders for the
election of directors and for the transaction of such other business as may come
before the meeting shall be held at such time and place as shall be determined
by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting.
SECTION 3. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders, for
any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute, may be called
by the Board of Directors, by stockholders holding at least fifteen percent of
the outstanding common stock of the Corporation or by the Chief Executive
Officer or the President.
SECTION 4. Notice of Meetings. Notice of meetings of the stockholders
shall be given as required by applicable law.
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SECTION 5. Organization. At every meeting of the stockholders, the Chief
Executive Officer or the President or, in their absence or inability to act, the
person whom the Chief Executive Officer or the President shall appoint shall act
as chairman of the meeting. The Secretary, or, in his or her absence or
inability to act, the person whom the chairman of the meeting shall appoint,
shall act as secretary of the meeting and keep the minutes thereof.
SECTION 6. Order of Business. The order of business at all meetings of
the stockholders shall be as determined by the chairman of the meeting.
SECTION 7. Action by Consent. Any action required or permitted to be
taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation
may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a
consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by
stockholders holding 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 and shall be
delivered to the Corporation and the other stockholders.
Article III.
Board of Directors
SECTION 1. General Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation
shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.
SECTION 2. Number, Qualifications, Election and Term of Office. The Board
of Directors shall consist of that number of directors as provided for in that
certain Shareholders Agreement dated as of July 7, 1999, by and among XM
Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., American Mobile Satellite Corporation and the
Investors named therein (the "Shareholders Agreement"). Subject to the
provisions of the Shareholders Agreement, the stockholders holding a majority of
all the Issued and outstanding shares entitled to vote thereon, by resolution
from time to time, may increase or decrease the number of directors to any
number not less than three and not more than nine. Members of the Board need
not be residents of the State of Delaware and need not be stockholders of the
Corporation. Subject to the provisions of the Shareholders Agreement, and
except as set forth in the bylaws, directors shall be elected at the annual
meeting of the stockholders.
SECTION 3. Place of Meetings. Meetings of the Board of Directors shall be
held at such place or places within or without the State of Delaware, as the
Board of Directors may from time to time determine or as shall be specified in
the notice of any such meeting.
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SECTION 4. Annual Meeting. The Board of Directors shall meet for the
purpose of organization, the election of officers and the transaction of other
business, as soon as practicable after each annual meeting of the stockholders,
on the same day and at the same place where such annual meeting shall be held.
Notice of such meeting need not be given. In the event such annual meeting is
not so held, the annual meeting of the Board of Directors may be held at such
other time or place (within or without the State of Delaware) as shall be
specified in a notice thereof given as hereinafter provided in Section 7 of this
Article III.
SECTION 5. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors
shall be held at such time and place as the Board of Directors may fix. Notice
of regular meetings of the Board of Directors need not be given except as
otherwise required by statute or these Bylaws.
SECTION 6. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors
may be called by the Chief Executive Officer or the President or at the request
of one-third of the directors.
SECTION 7. Notice of Meetings. Notice of each special meeting of the
Board of Directors (and of each regular meeting for which notice shall be
required) shall be given by the Secretary as hereinafter provided in this
Section 7, in which notice shall be stated the time and place of the meeting.
Except as otherwise required by these Bylaws, such notice need not state the
purposes of such meeting. Notice of each such meeting shall be mailed, postage
prepaid, to each director and to each party with observation rights as provided
for in the Shareholders Agreement, addressed to his or her residence or usual
place of business, by first class mail or by overnight courier, at least five
(5) days before the day on which such meeting is to be held, or shall be sent
addressed to such party at such place by telegraph, cable, telex, telecopier or
other similar means, or be delivered to such director personally or be given to
him or her by telephone or other similar means, at least seventy-two (72) hours
before the time at which such meeting is to be held and if given by telephone or
other similar means, shall be followed by a confirmation in writing by
telegraph, cable, telex, telecopier or similar means within twenty-four (24)
hours after such telephone or other similar means, but such confirmation shall
not be necessary for the validity of such notice. Notice of any such meeting
need not be given to any director who shall, either before or after the meeting,
submit a signed waiver of notice or who shall attend such meeting, except when
he or she shall attend 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.
SECTION 8. Quorum and Manner of Acting. A majority of the entire Board of
Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any
meeting of the Board of Directors, and, except as otherwise expressly required
by statute or the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the act of a
majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present
shall be the act
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of the Board of Directors. In the absence of a quorum at any meeting of the
Board of Directors, a majority of the directors present thereat may adjourn such
meeting to another time and place. Notice of the time and place of any such
adjourned meeting shall be given to all of the directors unless such time and
place were announced at the meeting at which the adjournment was taken, in which
case such notice shall only be given to the directors who were not present
thereat. At any adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present, any business may
be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally
called. The directors shall act only as a Board and the individual directors
shall have no power as such.
SECTION 9. Organization. At each meeting of the Board of Directors, a
director chosen by a majority of the directors present shall act as chairman of
the meeting and preside thereat. The person appointed by the chairman shall act
as secretary of the meeting and keep the minutes thereof.
SECTION 10. Resignations. Any director of the Corporation may resign at
any time by giving written notice of his or her resignation to the Corporation,
attention: Secretary. Any such 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. Unless otherwise specified
therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it
effective.
SECTION 11. Vacancies. Unless otherwise provided for by the Shareholders
Agreement, any vacancy in the Board of Directors, whether arising from death,
resignation, removal (with or without cause), an increase in the number of
directors or any other cause, shall be filled by the stockholders at the next
annual meeting thereof or at a special meeting thereof. Each director so
elected shall hold office until his or her successor shall have been elected and
qualified.
SECTION 12. Removal of Directors. Subject to the provisions of the
Shareholders Agreement, any director may be removed, either with or without
cause, at any time, by the stockholders of the Corporation that nominated that
director.
SECTION 13. Compensation. The Corporation shall compensate the directors
for serving as directors, and shall reimburse the directors for any expenses
incurred in attending the meetings of the Board of Directors or any committee
thereof, solely to the extent approved by the Board of Directors.
SECTION 14. Committees. The Board of Directors may, by resolution passed
by a majority of the whole Board, designate one or more committees, each
committee to consist of three or more of the directors of the Corporation. The
Board 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
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thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not
the member of members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another
member of the Board to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or
disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the
resolution of the Board, shall have and may exercise all the powers and
authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the
Corporation and may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all
papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or
authority in reference to amending the Certificate of Incorporation, 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 a dissolution, or amending these Bylaws of the Corporation; and,
unless the resolution designating it expressly so provides, no such committee
shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to authorize the
issuance of stock.
SECTION 15. Action by Consent. Unless restricted by the Certificate of
Incorporation, any action required or permitted to be taken by the Board of
Directors or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members
of the Board of Directors of such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto
in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of the
proceedings of the Board of Directors or such committee, as the case may be.
SECTION 16. Telephonic Meeting. Unless restricted by the Certificate of
Incorporation, any one or more members of the Board of Directors or any
committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or such
committee by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment
by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other.
Participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at a meeting.
Article IV.
Officers
SECTION 1. Number and Qualifications. The officers of the Corporation
shall be elected by the Board of Directors and shall include the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, one or more Vice Presidents, the Treasurer and the
Secretary and such other officers and assistant officers as the Board of the
Corporation may from time to time appoint, or authorize the Chief Executive
Officer or the President to appoint.
SECTION 2. Tenure. Officers and assistant officers of the Corporation
may, but need not, also be members of' the Board. Each officer shall hold his
or her office until a successor is elected and qualified or until his or her
earlier death,
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resignation or removal in the manner specified in this Section 2 of Article IV
of these Bylaws. Any officer elected or appointed by the Board may be removed by
the Board with or without cause. In addition, however, any officer or assistant
officer appointed by the Chief Executive Officer or the President and, if the
Chief Executive officer or the President is so authorized by the Board, any
officer or assistant officer appointed by the Board of the Corporation, may be
removed from office by the Chief Executive Officer or the President upon such
terms as the Chief Executive Officer or the President may specify in writing to
such officer. The removal of an officer without cause shall be without prejudice
to his or her contract rights, if any. The election or appointment of an officer
shall not of itself create contract rights. Should any vacancy occur among the
officers by reason of' any of the specified acts or events, the position shall
be filled by appointment made by a majority vote of the Board or by the Chief
Executive Officer or the President, if he or she is so authorized by a
resolution approved by an unanimous vote of the Board.
SECTION 3. Duties. The powers and duties of the several officers shall be
as provided from time to time by resolution or other directive of the Board. In
the absence of such provisions, the respective officers shall have the powers
and shall discharge the duties customarily and usually held and performed by
like officers of corporations similar in organization and business purposes to
the Corporation.
SECTION 4. Compensation. Officers may be paid such reasonable
compensation as the Board may from time to time authorize and direct.
Article V.
Stock Certificates and Their Transfer
SECTION 1. Regulations. Subject to the shareholders Agreement, the Board
of' Directors may make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with these
Bylaws, as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration
of certificates for shares of stock of the Corporation.
Article VI.
Indemnification
SECTION 1. Indemnification. Each person who is or was a director or
officer of the Corporation shall be indemnified by the Corporation to the
fullest extent permitted or authorized by the General Corporation Law of the
State of Delaware or any other applicable laws as presently or hereafter in
effect. The Corporation may, but shall not be obligated to, maintain insurance,
at its expense, for the benefit of the Corporation and of any person to be
indemnified.
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Article VII.
General Provisions
SECTION 1. Dividends. Subject to the provisions of statute and the
Certificate of Incorporation, dividends upon the shares of capital stock of the
Corporation may be declared by the Board of Directors at any regular or special
meeting. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of stock of
the Corporation, unless otherwise provided by statute or the Certificate of
Incorporation.
SECTION 2. Reserves. Before payment of any dividend, there may be set
aside out of any funds of the Corporation available for dividends such sum or
sums as the Board of Directors may, from time to time, in its absolute
discretion, think proper as a reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for
equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the
Corporation or for such other purpose as the Board of Directors may think
conducive to the interests of the Corporation. The Board of Directors may
modify or abolish any such reserves in the manner in which it was created.
SECTION 3. Seal. The seal of the Corporation shall be in such form as
shall be approved by the Board of Directors.
SECTION 4. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall end on
December 31 of each year. The fiscal year of the Corporation may hereafter be
changed, by resolution of the Board of Directors.
SECTION 5. Checks, Notes, Drafts, Etc. All checks, notes, drafts or other
orders for the payment of money of the Corporation shall be signed, endorsed or
accepted in the name of the Corporation by such officer, officers, person or
persons as from time to time may be designated by the Board of Directors or by
an officer or officers authorized by the Board of Directors to make such
designation.
SECTION 6. Execution of Contracts, Deeds, Etc. The Board may authorize
any officer, employee or agent to enter into any contract or execute and deliver
any instrument in the name and on behalf of the Corporation. Such authority may
be general or confined to specific instances, or otherwise limited, and if the
Board so provides may be delegated by the person so authorized.
SECTION 7. Loans. No loans shall be contracted on behalf of the
Corporation and no evidence of indebtedness shall be issued in its name unless
authorized by a resolution of the Board. Such authority may be general or
confined to specific instances and if the Board so provides may be delegated by
the person so authorized.
Article VIII.
Amendments
SECTION 1. Amendments. Subject to the provisions of the Shareholders
Agreement, these Bylaws may be amended or repealed or new bylaws adopted by the
Board of Directors of the Corporation.