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ARTICLE VI
Certificates of Stock, Transfer, Etc.
(a) Issuance. Shares of the capital
stock of the corporation may be certificated or uncertificated, as provided
under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware. Any
certificated shares shall remain certificated until the certificate representing
such shares is surrendered to the corporation. Every holder of stock represented
by certificates and upon request every holder of uncertificated shares shall be
entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the corporation by,
the chairman or vice chairman of the board of directors, or the chief executive
officer, president or vice president, and by the treasurer or an assistant
treasurer, or the secretary or an assistant secretary, representing the number
of shares registered in certificate form.
(b) Form and Records. Stock
certificates of the corporation shall be numbered and in such form as approved
by the board of directors. The stock record books and the blank stock
certificate books shall be kept by the secretary or by any agency designated by
the board of directors for that purpose. The shares of common stock of the
corporation shall be registered in the stock ledger and transfer books of the
corporation as they are issued.
(c) Signatures. Any of or all the
signatures upon the stock certificates of the corporation may be a facsimile. In
case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed, or whose facsimile
signature has been placed upon, any share certificate shall have ceased to be
such officer, transfer agent or registrar, before the certificate is issued, it
may be issued with the same effect as if the signatory were such officer,
transfer agent or registrar at the date of its
issue.
SECTION 6.02. Transfer. Transfers
of shares shall be made on the share register or transfer books of the
corporation by the holder of record thereof or by an attorney lawfully
constituted in writing and, if certificated, upon surrender of the certificate
therefor, endorsed by the person named in the certificate. No transfer shall be
made which would be inconsistent with the provisions of Article 8, Title 6 of
the Delaware Uniform Commercial Code-Investment
Securities.
SECTION 6.03. Lost, Stolen, Destroyed
or Mutilated Certificates. The board of directors may direct a new
certificate of stock or uncertificated shares to be issued in place of any
certificate 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 of stock to be lost, stolen or destroyed. When
authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, 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 the legal representative of the owner, to give the corporation
a bond sufficient to indemnify against any claim that may be made against the
corporation on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of such
certificate or the issuance of such new certificate or uncertificated
shares.
SECTION 6.04. Record Holder of
Shares. The corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right
of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends,
and to vote as such owner, and to hold liable for calls and assessments a person
registered on its books as the owner of shares, and shall not be bound to
recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on
the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other
notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of
Delaware.
SECTION 6.05. Determination of
Stockholders of Record.
(a) Meetings of Stockholders. In order
that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to
vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, 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 record date shall not be more than 60 nor less than ten
days before the date of such meeting. 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 next 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. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote
at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting
unless the board of directors fixes a new record date for the adjourned
meeting.
(b) Consent of Stockholders. 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 days after the date upon which the resolution fixing
the record date is adopted by the board of directors. If no record date has been
fixed by the board of directors, 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 the GCL, 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 an officer or
agent of the corporation having custody of the book in which proceedings of
meetings of stockholders are recorded. Delivery made to a corporation's
registered office 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 the GCL, 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 day on which
the board of directors adopts the resolution taking such prior
action.
(c) Dividends. In order that the
corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any
dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights of the stockholders
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, and which record date shall be
not more than 60 days prior to such action. If no record date is fixed, the
record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the
close of business on the day on which the board of directors adopts the
resolution relating thereto.
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