Attached files
file | filename |
---|---|
8-K/A - 8-K/A - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843ae8vkza.htm |
EX-4.18 - EX-4.18 - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843aexv4w18.htm |
EX-10.93 - EX-10.93 - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843aexv10w93.htm |
EX-10.94 - EX-10.94 - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843aexv10w94.htm |
EX-10.95 - EX-10.95 - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843aexv10w95.htm |
EX-10.97 - EX-10.97 - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843aexv10w97.htm |
EX-10.99 - EX-10.99 - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843aexv10w99.htm |
EX-10.96 - EX-10.96 - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843aexv10w96.htm |
EX-10.98 - EX-10.98 - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843aexv10w98.htm |
EX-10.100 - EX-10.100 - ALION SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY CORP | w77843aexv10w100.htm |
Exhibit 3.4
AMENDED AND RESTATED
BY-LAWS
OF
ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
(A Delaware Corporation)
(A Delaware Corporation)
Dated: March 2010
AMENDED AND RESTATED
BY-LAWS
OF
ALION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
SECTION 1. PRINCIPAL OFFICE. The registered office of the corporation shall be located in the
County of New Castle, State of Delaware.
SECTION 2. OTHER OFFICES. The corporation may also have offices at such other place, 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 1. PLACE OF MEETING. Meetings of stockholders may be held at such place, either
within or without the State of Delaware, as may be designated by the Board of Directors. If no
designation is made, the place of the meeting shall be the principal office of the corporation.
SECTION 2. ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the stockholders shall be held following the
end of the corporations fiscal year at a date and time determined by the Board
-2-
of Directors for the purpose of electing directors and for the transaction of such other business
as may come before the meeting. If the election of directors shall not be held on the day
designated by the Board of Directors for any annual meeting, or at any adjournment thereof, the
Board of Directors shall cause the election to be held at a meeting of the stockholders as soon
thereafter as is convenient.
SECTION 3. SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called by the Chief
Executive Officer, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or a majority of the Board of Directors,
or by written request of stockholders of the corporation owning a majority of the issued and
outstanding shares of common stock of the corporation.
SECTION 4. NOTICE. Written notice stating the date, time and place of the meeting, and in
case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes thereof, shall be given to each stockholder
entitled to vote thereat not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days prior thereto, either
personally or by mail, addressed to each stockholder at his address as it appears on the records of
the corporation. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the
United States mail so addressed, with postage thereon prepaid.
SECTION 5. ADJOURNED MEETINGS. When a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, notice
of the adjourned meeting need not be given if the time and place thereof are announced at the
meeting at which the adjournment is taken, if the adjournment is for not more than thirty (30)
days, and if no new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting. At the adjourned meeting the
corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting.
-3-
SECTION 6. QUORUM. The holders of a majority of each class of the shares of stock issued and
outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall
constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business. If,
however, such quorum shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, the
stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have the
power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the
meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented. At such adjourned meeting at which a
quorum shall be present or represented any business may be transacted which might have been
transacted at the meeting as originally notified. When a quorum is present at any meeting, the
vote of the holders of a majority of each class of the shares of stock having voting power present
in person or represented by proxy shall decide any question brought before such meeting, unless the
question is one upon which by express provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law or of the
corporations certificate of incorporation, as amended and restated (the Certificate of
Incorporation), a different vote is required in which case such express provision shall govern and
control the decision of such question.
SECTION 7. VOTING. Each stockholder shall at every meeting of the stockholders be entitled to
one (1) vote in person or by proxy for each share of the class of capital stock having voting power
held by such stockholder, but no proxy shall be voted after three (3) years from its date, unless
the proxy provides for a longer period. Election of directors need not be by written ballot.
SECTION 8. ACTION WITHOUT MEETING. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any annual
or special meeting of the 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 either before or after such action, by the holders of outstanding
-4-
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. All
such written consents shall be filed in the Corporations minute book.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
SECTION 1. NUMBER AND TENURE. The Board of Directors shall consist of at least three (3) and
not more than twelve (12) directors. The authorized number of directors of the Corporation shall
be set at seven (7), and shall be subject to change as set from time to time pursuant to a
resolution duly adopted by a majority of the Board of Directors then in office. Consistent with
the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, the directors shall be classified, with respect
to the time for which they severally hold office, into three (3) classes, as nearly equal in number
as possible as determined from time to time. At each annual election held after such
classification, directors shall be chosen for a full term to succeed those whose terms expire. Any
decrease in the authorized number of directors shall not be effective until the expiration of the
term of the directors then in office, unless, at the time of such decrease there shall be vacancies
on the Board of Directors which are being eliminated by such decrease.
SECTION 2. RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL. Any director may at any time resign by delivering to the
Board of Directors his resignation in writing, to take effect no later than ten days thereafter.
Any director may at any time be removed effective immediately, with or without cause, by the vote,
either in person or represented by proxy, of a majority of the shares of stock issued and
outstanding and entitled to vote at a special meeting held for such purpose or by the written
consent of a majority of the shares of stock issued and outstanding.
-5-
SECTION 3. VACANCIES. Vacancies resulting from resignation or removal may be filled by the
vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even if less than a quorum. Newly created
directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors shall be filled by
a vote of stockholders of the corporation.
SECTION 4. REGULAR MEETINGS. A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held
annually at a date, time and place set by the Chairman of the Board of Directors.
SECTION 5. SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by or
at the request of the Chief Executive Officer, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or a majority
of the members of the Board of Directors.
SECTION 6. NOTICE. Written notice of any regular meeting or a special meeting shall be given
at least ten (10) days prior thereto, either personally or by air courier, addressed to each
director at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation; provided,
however, that written notice of any regular meeting or a special meeting to be conducted by
conference telephone shall be given at least three (3) days prior thereto, either personally, or by
air courier. If by air courier, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited with
the air courier, with postage thereon prepaid
SECTION 7. QUORUM. At all meetings of the Board of Directors, a majority of the total number
of directors then in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Except as
expressly provided otherwise by the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Certificate of
Incorporation, or other provisions of these By-Laws, in order for a proposed action or resolution
to be approved as an action or resolution of the Board of Directors, it must be approved by a
majority of the directors then in office. If a quorum shall not be present at any
-6-
meeting of the Board of Directors the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time
to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present. A
director present at a meeting shall be counted in determining the presence of a quorum, regardless
of whether a contract or transaction between the corporation and such director or between the
corporation and any other corporation, partnership, association, or other organization in which
such director is a director or officer, or has a financial interest, is authorized or considered at
such meeting.
SECTION 8. ACTION WITHOUT MEETING. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any
meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all
members of the Board of Directors or such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing
and such written consent is filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or
committee.
SECTION 9. ACTION BY CONFERENCE TELEPHONE. Members of the Board of Directors or any committee
thereof may participate in a meeting of such Board of Directors or 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, and such participation in a meeting shall
constitute presence in person at such meeting.
SECTION 10. COMMITTEES. The Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by the majority of the
whole Board, may designate one (1) or more committees, each committee to consist of two (2) or more
directors. The Board may designate one (1) 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 any member of a committee, the member or members thereof present
at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or
-7-
not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of
Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such
committee, to the extent provided in such resolution, shall have and may exercise all of the powers
of the Board of Directors 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 corporations property and assets,
recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the corporation or a revocation of a dissolution,
or amending the By-Laws of the corporation; nor shall such committee have the power or authority to
declare a dividend or to authorize the issuance of stock.
SECTION 11. 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 committees may be allowed like compensation for serving on such committees
and attending committee meetings.
-8-
ARTICLE IV
OFFICERS
SECTION 1. NUMBER. The officers of the corporation shall consist of a Chairman of the Board
of Directors, a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), a Chief Operating Officer (COO) (if deemed
necessary by the Board of Directors), one (1) or more Executive Vice Presidents (the number thereof
to be determined by the Board of Directors), one (1) or more Senior Vice Presidents (the number
thereof to be determined by the Board of Directors), one (1) or more Corporate Vice Presidents (the
number thereof to be determined by the Board of Directors), a Secretary, and a Treasurer. Such
other officers and assistant officers and agents as may be deemed necessary may be elected or
appointed directly by the CEO. Any two (2) or more offices may be held by the same person.
SECTION 2. ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE. The officers of the corporation shall be elected or
appointed by the Board of Directors and shall serve until their successors shall be elected or
appointed by the Board. Any officer elected or appointed by the Board may be removed, with or
without cause, at any time by the Chairman of the Board or the CEO; provided that, for those
officers who have written employment contracts with the corporation, the provisions of such
contracts shall govern and control the issue of their removal from office. The Chairman of the
Board and the CEO, however, may only be removed by the affirmative vote of a majority of all
directors, and this provision of the By-Laws shall not be amended without the affirmative vote of a
majority of all directors. An officer may resign at any time upon written notice to the
corporation.
SECTION 3. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings
of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors; the Chairman shall be
-9-
empowered to sign all certificates, contracts and other instruments of the corporation; and the
Chairman shall have such other duties and shall supervise such matters as may be designated to him
by the Board of Directors.
SECTION 4. THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. The CEO shall have general and active supervision of
the business of the corporation subject to the direction of the Board of Directors; the CEO shall
be empowered to sign or countersign all certificates, contracts or other instruments of the
corporation; the CEO shall serve on the ESOP Committee of the corporations employee stock
ownership plan as long as such plan is in existence; and the CEO shall perform any and all duties
assigned to him by the Board of Directors or as are incident to the office of the CEO of a
corporation.
SECTION 5. CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER. If appointed or elected by the Board of Directors, the
COO shall oversee the general operations and internal processes of the corporation subject to the
direction of the CEO, and perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned by the
Board of directors or directed by the CEO. In the absence of the CEO or in the event of his
inability or refusal to act, the COO shall perform the duties of the CEO, and when so acting, shall
have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the CEO.
SECTION 6. THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS. The Executive Vice Presidents shall perform such
duties as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or directed by the
CEO. In the absence of the CEO or the COO or in the event of their inability or refusal to act, the
Executive Vice President (or in the event there be more than one Executive Vice President, the
Executive 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 CEO or the COO, and when so acting,
shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the
-10-
restrictions upon the CEO or the COO. The Executive Vice President shall perform such other duties
as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of Directors or directed by the CEO.
SECTION 7. THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENTS. The Senior Vice Presidents shall perform such duties
as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or directed by the CEO or
the President (if any). In the absence of the CEO, the COO and any Executive Vice President(s), or
in the event of their inability or refusal to act, the Senior Vice President (or in the event there
be more than one Senior Vice President, the Senior 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 CEO, the COO or any Executive Vice President(s), and when so acting, shall have all the powers
of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the CEO, the COO or any Executive Vice President.
SECTION 8. THE CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENTS. The Corporate Vice Presidents shall perform such
duties as from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors or directed by the
CEO, the COO, the Executive Vice Presidents or the Senior Vice Presidents.
SECTION 9. THE SECRETARY. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of the proceedings of the
stockholders and the Board of Directors; the Secretary shall give, or cause to be given, all
notices in accordance with the provisions of these By-Laws or as required by law; the Secretary
shall be custodian of the corporate records and of the seal of the corporation; the Secretary shall
keep at the registered office or principal place of business of the corporation a record of the
stockholders of the corporation, giving the names and addresses of all such stockholders (which
addresses shall be furnished to the Secretary by such stockholders) and the
-11-
number and class of the shares held by each; the Secretary shall have general charge of the
stock transfer books of the corporation; and in general the Secretary shall perform all duties as
from time to time may be assigned to him by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or directed by
the CEO.
SECTION 10. TREASURER. The Treasurer shall have the custody of the corporate funds and
securities and shall keep, or cause to be kept, correct and complete books and records of account,
including full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the
corporation and shall deposit all monies and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit
of the corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors; and in
general shall perform all the duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as
from time to time may be assigned to him by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the CEO or the
COO.
SECTION 11. ASSISTANT SECRETARIES AND ASSISTANT TREASURERS. The Assistant Secretaries and
Assistant Treasurers, if any, in general shall perform such duties as from time to time may be
assigned to them by the Secretary or Treasurer, as the case may be, or by the Chairman of the Board
of Directors, the CEO or the COO, and shall in the absence of the Secretary or Treasurer, as the
case may be, perform his functions.
ARTICLE V
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK
SECTION 1. SIGNATURE BY OFFICERS. Every holder of stock in the corporation shall be entitled
to have a certificate signed by or in the name of the corporation by (1) the Chairman of the Board
of Director, the CEO, the President (if any) or a Senior Vice President,
-12-
and (2) by the Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or an Assistant Treasurer of
the corporation, certifying the number of shares owned by the stockholder in the corporation.
SECTION 2. FACSIMILE SIGNATURES. The signature of the Chairman of the Board of Directors,
CEO, President (if any), Senior Vice Presidents, Corporate Vice Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary,
Assistant Secretaries or Assistant Treasurers may be a facsimile. In case any officer or officers
who have signed, or whose facsimile signature or signatures have been used on any such certificate
or certificates shall cease to be such officer or officers of the corporation, whether because of
death, resignation or otherwise, before such certificate or certificates have been delivered by the
corporation, such certificate or certificates may nevertheless be adopted by the corporation and be
issued and delivered as though the person or persons who signed such certificate or certificates or
whose facsimile signature or signatures have been used thereon had not ceased to be such officer or
officers of the corporation.
SECTION 3. LOST CERTIFICATES. The Board of Directors or any committee thereof may direct a
new certificate or certificates to be issued by the corporation in place of a certificate or
certificates alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact
by the person claiming the certificate or certificates of stock to be lost or destroyed. When
authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors or any
committee thereof may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof,
require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his or her legal
representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or to give the
corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made
against the corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
-13-
SECTION 4. TRANSFER OF STOCK. Upon surrender to the corporation or the transfer agent of the
corporation of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of
succession, assignment or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the corporation to issue a
new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate and record the
transaction upon its books.
SECTION 5. CLOSING OF TRANSFER BOOKS OR FIXING OF RECORD DATE. The Board of Directors may
close the stock transfer books of the corporation for a period of no more than sixty (60) nor less
than ten (10) days preceding the date of any meeting of stockholders or the date for payment of any
dividend or the date for the allotment of rights or the date when any change or conversion or
exchange of capital stock shall go into effect or for a period of no more than sixty (60) nor less
than ten (10) days in connection with obtaining the consent of stockholders for any purpose. In
lieu of closing the stock transfer books as aforesaid, the Board of Directors may fix in advance a
date of no more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days preceding the date of any dividend, or
the date for the allotment of rights, or the date when any change or conversion or exchange of
capital stock shall go into effect, or a date in connection with obtaining such consent, as a
record date for the determination of the stockholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, any
such meeting, and any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any such dividend, or
to any such allotment of rights, or to exercise the rights in respect of any change, conversion or
exchange of capital stock, or to give such consent, and in such case such stockholders and only
such stockholders as shall be stockholders of record on the date so fixed shall be entitled to such
notice of, and to vote at, such meeting and any adjournment thereof, or to receive payment of such
dividend, or to receive such allotment of rights, or to exercise such rights, or to give such
consent, as the case may be, notwithstanding any transfer of any stock on the books of the
corporation after any such record date fixed as aforesaid.
-14-
SECTION 6. REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS. 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 shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or
interest in such 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 the State of Delaware.
SECTION 7. [RESERVED].
SECTION 8. [RESERVED].
ARTICLE VI
[RESERVED]
ARTICLE VII
CONTRACT AND CHECKS
SECTION 1. CONTRACTS. When the execution of any contract or other instrument has been
authorized by the Board of Directors without specification of the executing officers, the Chairman
of the Board of Directors, CEO, President (if any), or any Senior Vice President, Corporate Vice
President, Treasurer, or the Secretary, or any Assistant Secretary or Assistant Treasurer, may
execute the same in the name of and on behalf of the corporation and may affix the corporate seal
thereto.
-15-
SECTION 2. CHECKS. All checks or demands for money and notes of the corporation shall be
signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the Board of Directors may
from time to time designate.
ARTICLE VIII
DIVIDENDS
SECTION 1. DECLARATION OF DIVIDENDS. Dividends upon the capital stock of the corporation may
be declared by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting, pursuant to law.
Dividends may be paid in cash, in property or contractual rights, or in shares of the capital
stock, subject to the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law.
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 directors from time to time, in
their 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 directors shall think conducive to the interests of the corporation, and the
directors may modify or abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.
ARTICLE IX
FISCAL YEAR
The fiscal year of the corporation shall be determined by the Board of Directors.
-16-
ARTICLE X
WAIVER OF NOTICE
Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given by law, the Certificate of Incorporation
or these By-Laws, a written waiver thereof, signed by the person or persons entitled to such
notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving
of such notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such
meeting.
ARTICLE XI
SEAL
The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the corporation, the year of its
organization and the words Corporate Seal, Delaware. The seal may be used by causing it or a
facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or reproduced otherwise.
ARTICLE XII
INDEMNIFICATION
SECTION 1. INDEMNIFICATION. The corporation, to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware
General Corporation Law, including, without limitation, to the fullest extent permitted by Section
145 of the same (as that section may be amended and supplemented from time to time), shall
indemnify any director, and officer which it shall have power to indemnify under Section 145, and
also any employee who acts as a fiduciary of any benefit plan of the corporation against any
expenses, liabilities or other matters referred to in or covered by that Section. The
indemnification provided for in this ARTICLE XII (i) shall not be deemed exclusive of any other
rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under these By-Laws,
-17-
agreement or vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in
their official capacities and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, (ii)
shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer or fiduciary and (iii) shall
inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such person. The corporations
obligation to provide indemnification under this ARTICLE XII shall be offset to the extent of any
other source of indemnification or any otherwise applicable insurance coverage under a policy
maintained by the corporation or any other person.
Expenses incurred by a director or officer of the corporation, or by an employee who acts as a
fiduciary of any employee benefit plan of the corporation, in defending a civil or criminal action,
suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that he is or was a director or officer of the corporation
(or was serving at the corporations request as a director or officer of another corporation), or
by reason of the fact that he is or was acting as a fiduciary of any employee benefit plan of the
corporation, 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 such director, officer or
fiduciary to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be
indemnified by the corporation as authorized by relevant sections of the Delaware General
Corporation Law.
To assure indemnification under this ARTICLE XII of all such employees who are determined by
the corporation or otherwise to be or to have been fiduciaries of any employee benefit plan of
the corporation which may exist from time to time, such Section 145 shall, for the purposes of this
ARTICLE XII, be interpreted as follows: an other enterprise shall be deemed to include such
employee benefit plan, including, without limitation, any plan of the corporation which is governed
by the Act of Congress entitled the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended
from time to time, or an employee stock ownership plan; the corporation shall be deemed to have
requested an employee to serve as a fiduciary of an employee benefit plan where the performance by
such employee of his duties to the corporation
-18-
also imposes duties on, or otherwise involves services by, such employee to the plan or
participants or beneficiaries of the plan; excise taxes assessed on an employee with respect to an
employee benefit plan pursuant to such Act of Congress shall be deemed fines; and action taken or
omitted by an employee with respect to an employee benefit plan in the performance of such
employees duties for a purpose reasonably believed by such employee to be in the interest of the
participants and beneficiaries of the plan shall be deemed to be for a purpose which is not opposed
to the best interests of the corporation.
SECTION 2. CONTRACT. The provisions of SECTION 1 above shall be deemed to be a contract
between the corporation and each director and officer who serves in such capacity at any time when
such By-Law is in effect, and any repeal or modification thereof shall not affect any rights or
obligations then existing with respect to any state of facts then or theretofore existing or any
action, suit or proceeding theretofore or thereafter based in whole or in part upon any such state
of facts.
SECTION 3. NON-EXCLUSIVITY. The rights of indemnification provided by this ARTICLE XII shall
not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which any director or officer of the corporation may
be entitled apart from the provisions of this ARTICLE XII.
SECTION 4. INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS. The Board of Directors in its discretion
shall have the power on behalf of the corporation to indemnify any person, other than a director or
officer, made a party to any action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that such person, or
such persons testator or intestate, is or was an employee or agent of the corporation.
-19-
SECTION 5. INSURANCE. The corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any
person who is or was a director, officer, employer or agent of the corporation or is or was serving
at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him
and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the
corporation would have the power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of
the Delaware General Corporation Law.
ARTICLE XIII
AMENDMENTS
Except as expressly provided otherwise by the Delaware General Corporation Law, the
Certificate of Incorporation, or other provisions of these By-Laws, these By-Laws may be altered,
amended or repealed and new By-Laws adopted at any regular or special meeting of the Board of
Directors by an affirmative vote of a majority of all directors; provided, however,
that at least ten days advance written notice of the meeting is given to the directors, describing
the proposed amendment or alteration of these By-Laws.
-20-
[Adopted: December 19, 2001]
[Revised: June 4, 2002]
[Revised: November 14, 2002]
[Revised: September 13, 2005]
[Revised: September 12, 2006]
[Revised:
March 18, 2010]
-21-