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Exhibit 3.2

 

RESTATED BYLAWS

 

OF

 

JOHNSON CONTROLS, INC.

 

(a Wisconsin corporation)

 

ARTICLE I.  OFFICES

 

1.01.                     Principal and Business Offices.

 

The corporation may have such principal and other business offices, either within or without the State of Wisconsin, as the Board of Directors may designate or as the business of the corporation may require from time to time.

 

1.02.                     Registered Office.

 

The registered office of the corporation required by the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law to be maintained in the State of Wisconsin may be, but need not be, identical with the principal office in the State of Wisconsin, and the address of the registered office may be changed from time to time by the Board of Directors or by the registered agent.  The business office of the registered agent of the corporation shall be identical to such registered office.

 

ARTICLE II.  SHAREHOLDERS

 

2.01.                     Annual Meeting.

 

The annual meeting of the shareholders shall be held during the first ninety (90) days of the corporation’s fiscal year on such date and time as shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors, for the purpose of electing directors and for the transaction of such other business as may come before the meeting.  If the day fixed for the annual meeting shall be a legal holiday in the State of Wisconsin, such meeting shall be held on the next succeeding business day.

 

2.02.                     Special Meeting.

 

Special meetings of the shareholders, for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute, may be called by the Board of Directors or the President or by the person, or in the manner, designated by the Board of Directors.

 



 

2.03.                     Place of Meeting.

 

The Board of Directors may designate any place, either within or without the State of Wisconsin, as the place of meeting for any annual meeting or for any special meeting of shareholders called by the Board of Directors.  If no designation is made, or if a special meeting be otherwise called, the place of meeting shall be the registered office of the corporation in the State of Wisconsin.

 

2.04.                     Notice of Meeting.

 

Written notice stating the place, day and hour of the meeting of shareholders and, in case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be delivered to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting not less than ten (10) days (unless a longer period is required by law or the articles of incorporation) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting, by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, the President, the Secretary, or any other officer or persons calling the meeting.  If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail, addressed to the shareholder at his, her or its address as it appears on the stock record books of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid.

 

2.05.                     Adjournment.

 

Any meeting of shareholders may be adjourned to reconvene at any place designated by vote of a majority of the shares represented thereat.  At the adjourned meeting, the corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting.  No notice of the time or place of an adjournment need be given if the time and place are announced at the meeting at which an adjournment is taken, unless the adjournment is for more than thirty (30) days or a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, in which case notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each shareholder.  Unless a new record date for the adjourned meeting is fixed, the determination of shareholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at the meeting at which adjournment is taken shall apply to the adjourned meeting.

 

2.06.                     Fixing of Record Date.

 

For the purpose of determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of shareholders or any adjournment thereof, or shareholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in order to make a determination of shareholders for any other proper purpose, the Board of Directors may fix in advance a date as the record date for any such determination of shareholders, such date in any case to be not more than sixty (60) days and, in case of a meeting of shareholders, not less than ten (10) days prior to the date on which the particular action requiring such determination of shareholders is to be taken.  If no record date is fixed, then the record date for determining:

 

(a)                                 shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders 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;

 

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(b)                                 shareholders entitled to express consent to a corporate action in writing without meeting shall be the day on which the first written consent is expressed; or

 

(c)                                  shareholders for any other purpose shall be the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

2.07.                     Voting Records.

 

The officer having charge of the stock transfer books for shares of the corporation shall, at least ten (10) days before each meeting of shareholders, make a complete record of the shareholders entitled to vote at such meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of and the number of shares held by each.  Such record shall be produced and kept open to the examination of any shareholders, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting, either (a) on a reasonably accessible electronic network, or (b) at the principal place of business of the corporation.  The record shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any shareholders present.  The original stock transfer books shall be the only evidence as to who are the shareholders entitled to examine such record or transfer books or to vote at any meeting of shareholders.

 

2.08.                     Quorum.

 

Except as otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation, a majority of the shares entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of shareholders, but in no event shall less than one-third of the shares entitled to vote constitute a quorum.  If a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of the majority of the shares represented at the meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall be the act of the shareholders unless the vote of a greater number or voting by classes is required by law or the articles of incorporation.  Though less than a quorum of the outstanding shares are represented at a meeting, a majority of the shares represented at a meeting which initially had a quorum may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.

 

2.09.                     Conduct of Meeting.

 

The President, and in his or her absence, any Vice President, and in their absence, any person chosen by the shareholders present shall call the meeting of the shareholders to order and shall act as chairman of the meeting.  The Secretary of the corporation shall act as secretary of all meetings of the shareholders, but, in the absence of the Secretary, the presiding officer may appoint any other person to act as secretary of the meeting.

 

2.10.                     Proxies.

 

At all meetings of shareholders, a shareholder entitled to vote may vote in person or by proxy appointed in writing (including by telegram, cablegram or other means of electronic transmission) by the shareholder or by his, her or its duly authorized attorney-in-fact.  Such proxy shall be filed with the Secretary of the corporation before or at the time of the meeting.  Unless otherwise provided in the proxy and supported by sufficient interest, a proxy may be

 

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revoked at any time before it is voted, either by written notice filed with the Secretary or the acting secretary of the meeting or by oral notice given by the shareholder to the presiding officer during the meeting.  The presence of a shareholder who has filed a proxy shall not of itself constitute a revocation.  No proxy shall be valid after eleven (11) months from the date of its execution, unless otherwise provided in the proxy.  The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make rules establishing presumptions as to the validity and sufficiency of proxies.

 

2.11.                     Voting of Shares.

 

Each outstanding share shall be entitled to one (1) vote upon each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of shareholders, except to the extent that the voting rights of the shares of any class or classes are enlarged, limited or denied by the articles of incorporation.

 

2.12.                     Voting of Shares by Certain Holders.

 

(a)                                 Intentionally Deleted.

 

(b)                                 Legal Representatives and Fiduciaries.  Shares held by any administrator, executor, guardian, conservator, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver or assignee for creditors may be voted by a duly executed proxy, without a transfer of such shares to his or her name.  Shares standing in the name of a fiduciary may be voted by him or her, either in person or by proxy.  A proxy executed by a fiduciary shall be conclusive evidence of the signer’s authority to act, in the absence of express notice to this corporation, given in writing to the Secretary of this corporation, that such manner of voting is expressly prohibited or otherwise directed by the document creating the fiduciary relationship.

 

(c)                                  Pledgees.  A shareholder whose shares are pledged shall be entitled to vote such shares unless in the transfer of the shares the pledgor has expressly authorized the pledgee to vote the shares and thereafter the pledgee, or his, her or its proxy, shall be entitled to vote the shares so transferred.

 

(d)                                 Treasury Stock and Subsidiaries.  Neither treasury shares, nor shares held by another corporation if a majority of the shares entitled to vote for the election of directors of such other corporation is held by this corporation, shall be voted at any meeting or counted in determining the total number of outstanding shares entitled to vote, but shares of its own issue held by this corporation in a fiduciary capacity, or held by such other corporation in a fiduciary capacity, may be voted and shall be counted in determining the total number of outstanding shares entitled to vote.

 

(e)                                  Joint Holders.  Shares of record in the names of two or more persons or shares to which two or more persons have the same fiduciary relationship, unless the Secretary of the corporation is given notice otherwise and furnished with a copy of the instrument creating the relationship, may be voted as follows:  (i) if voted by an individual, then his or her vote binds all holders; or (ii) if voted by more than one holder, then the majority vote binds all, unless the vote is evenly split in which case the shares may be voted proportionately, or according to the ownership interest as shown in the instrument filed with the Secretary of the corporation.

 

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2.13.                     Waiver of Notice by Shareholders.

 

Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given to any shareholder of the corporation under the articles of incorporation or bylaws or any provision of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law, a waiver thereof in writing, signed at any time, whether before or after the time of meeting, by the shareholder entitled to such notice, 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, except where the person attends for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business.  Neither the business, nor the purpose of any regular or special meeting of shareholders, directors or members of a committee of directors need be specified in the waiver.

 

2.14.                     Shareholders Consent without Meeting.

 

Any action required or permitted by the articles of incorporation or bylaws or any provision of law to be taken at a meeting of the shareholders may be taken without a meeting, prior notice or vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the number of shareholders required to authorize such action at a meeting.  If the action is authorized by less than unanimous consent, then notice of the action shall be given to nonconsenting shareholders.

 

2.15.                     Acceptance of Instruments Showing Shareholder Action.

 

If the name signed on a vote, consent, waiver or proxy appointment corresponds to the name of a shareholder, then the corporation, if acting in good faith, may accept the vote, consent, waiver or proxy appointment and give it effect as the act of a shareholder.  If the name signed on a vote, consent, waiver or proxy appointment does not correspond to the name of a shareholder, then the corporation, if acting in good faith, may accept the vote, consent, waiver or proxy appointment and give it effect as the act of the shareholder if any of the following apply:

 

(a)                                 The shareholder is an entity and the name signed purports to be that of an officer or agent of the entity.

 

(b)                                 The name purports to be that of a personal representative, administrator, executor, guardian or conservator representing the shareholder and, if the corporation requests, evidence of fiduciary status acceptable to the corporation is presented with respect to the vote, consent, waiver or proxy appointment.

 

(c)                                  The name signed purports to be that of a receiver or trustee in bankruptcy of the shareholder and, if the corporation requests, evidence of this status acceptable to the corporation is presented with respect to the vote, consent, waiver or proxy appointment.

 

(d)                                 The name signed purports to be that of a pledgee, beneficial owner, or attorney-in-fact of the shareholder and, if the corporation requests, evidence acceptable to the corporation of the signatory’s authority to sign for the shareholder is presented with respect to the vote, consent, waiver or proxy appointment.

 

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(e)                                  Two or more persons are the shareholders as co-tenants or fiduciaries and the name signed purports to be the name of at least one of the co-owners and the person signing appears to be acting on behalf of all co-owners.  The corporation may reject a vote, consent, waiver or proxy appointment if the Secretary or other officer or agent of the corporation who is authorized to tabulate votes, acting in good faith, has reasonable basis for doubt about the validity of the signature on it or about the signatory’s authority to sign for the shareholder.

 

ARTICLE III.  BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

3.01.                     General Powers and Number.

 

The business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed by its Board of Directors.  The number of directors, which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors, shall consist of one (1) or more directors, determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

3.02.                     Tenure and Qualifications.

 

Each director shall hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until his or her successor shall have been qualified and elected, or until his or her prior death, resignation or removal.  A director may be removed from office by affirmative vote of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote for the election of such director, taken at a meeting of shareholders called for that purpose.  A director may resign at any time by filing his or her written resignation with the Secretary of the corporation.  Directors need not be residents of the State of Wisconsin or shareholders of the corporation.

 

3.03.                     Regular Meetings.

 

A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held without other notice than this bylaw immediately after the annual meeting of shareholders, and each adjourned session thereof.  The place of such regular meeting shall be the same as the place of the meeting of shareholders that precedes it, or such other suitable place as may be announced at such meeting of shareholders.  The Board of Directors may provide, by resolution, the time and place, either within or without the State of Wisconsin, for the holding of additional regular meetings without other notice than such resolution.

 

3.04.                     Special Meetings.

 

Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by or at the request of the President, Secretary or any director.  The President or Secretary calling any special meeting of the Board of Directors may fix any place, either within or without the State of Wisconsin, as the place for holding any special meeting of the Board of Directors called by them, and if no other place is fixed, then the place of the meeting shall be the registered office of the corporation in the State of Wisconsin.

 

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3.05.                     Notice; Waiver.

 

Notice of each meeting of the Board of Directors (unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to Section 3.03) shall be given to each director not less than twenty-four (24) hours prior to the meeting by giving oral, telephone or written notice to a director in person, or by telegram, or not less than twenty-four (24) hours prior to a meeting by delivering or mailing notice to the business address or such other address as a director shall have designated in writing and filed with the Secretary.  If mailed, then such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail so addressed, with postage thereon prepaid.  If notice be given by telegram, then such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when the telegram is delivered to the telegraph company.  Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given to any director of the corporation under the articles of incorporation or bylaws or any provision of law, a waiver thereof in writing, signed at any time, whether before or after the time of meeting, by the director entitled to such notice, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice.  The attendance of a director at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a director attends a meeting and objects thereat to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.  Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting.

 

3.06.                     Quorum.

 

Except as otherwise provided by law or by the articles of incorporation or these bylaws, a majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board of Directors, but in no event shall less than one-third of the directors constitute a quorum.  A majority of the directors present (though less than such quorum) may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.

 

3.07.                     Manner of Acting.

 

The act of the majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors, unless the act of a greater number is required by law or by the articles of incorporation or these bylaws.

 

3.08.                     Conduct of Meetings.

 

The President, and in his or her absence any Vice President, and in their absence, any director chosen by the directors present, shall call meetings of the Board of Directors to order and shall act as chairman of the meeting.  The Secretary of the corporation shall act as secretary of all meetings of the Board of Directors but in the absence of the Secretary, the presiding officer may appoint any Assistant Secretary or any director or other person present to act as secretary of the meeting.

 

3.09.                     Vacancies.

 

Any vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors, including a vacancy created by an increase in the number of directors, may be filled until the next succeeding annual election by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, though less than a quorum of the

 

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Board of Directors; provided that in case of a vacancy created by the removal of a director by vote of the shareholders, the shareholders shall have the right to fill such vacancy at the same meeting or any adjournment thereof.

 

3.10.                     Compensation.

 

The Board of Directors, by affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, and irrespective of any personal interest of any of its members, may establish reasonable compensation of all directors for services to the corporation as directors, officers or otherwise, or may delegate such authority to an appropriate committee.  The Board of Directors also shall have authority to provide for or delegate authority to an appropriate committee to provide for reasonable pensions, disability or death benefits, and other benefits or payments, to directors, officers and employees and to their estates, families, dependents or beneficiaries on account of prior services rendered by such directors, officers and employees to the corporation.

 

3.11.                     Presumption of Assent.

 

A director of the corporation who is present at a meeting of the Board of Directors or a committee thereof of which he or she is a member at which action on any corporate matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his or her dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he or she shall file his or her written dissent to such action with the person acting as the secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered mail to the Secretary of the corporation immediately after the adjournment of the meeting.  Such right to dissent shall not apply to a director who voted in favor of such action.

 

3.12.                     Committees.

 

The Board of Directors by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors may designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more directors elected by the Board of Directors, which to the extent provided in said resolution as initially adopted, and as thereafter supplemented or amended by further resolution adopted by a like vote, shall have and may exercise 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 that may require it.  Each such committee shall fix its own rules governing the conduct of its activities and shall make such reports to the Board of Directors of its activities as the Board of Directors may request.

 

3.13.                     Unanimous Consent without Meeting.

 

Any action required or permitted by the  articles of incorporation or bylaws or any provision of law to be taken by the Board of Directors or any committee thereof at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and the writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions are filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee.

 

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3.14.                     Telephonic Meetings.

 

Members of the Board of Directors, or any committee designated by the Board of Directors, may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be, by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this bylaw shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

 

ARTICLE IV.  OFFICERS

 

4.01.                     Number.

 

The principal officers of the corporation shall be a President and a Secretary, each of whom shall be elected by the Board of Directors.  Such other officers and assistant officers as may be deemed necessary may be elected or appointed by the Board of Directors.  Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

 

4.02.                     Election and Term of Office.

 

The officers of the corporation to be elected by the Board of Directors shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors at the first meeting of the Board of Directors held after each annual meeting of the shareholders.  If the election of officers shall not be held at such meeting, then such election shall be held as soon thereafter as conveniently may be.  Each officer shall hold office until his or her successor shall have been duly elected or until his or her prior death, resignation or removal.  Any officer may resign at any time upon written notice to the corporation.  Failure to elect officers shall not dissolve or otherwise affect the corporation.

 

4.03.                     Removal.

 

Any officer or agent may be removed by the Board of Directors whenever in its judgment the best interests of the corporation will be served thereby, but such removal shall be without prejudice to the contract rights, if any, of the person so removed.  Election or appointment shall not of itself create contract rights.

 

4.04.                     Vacancies.

 

A vacancy in any principal office because of death, resignation, removal, disqualification or otherwise, shall be filled by the Board of Directors for the unexpired portion of the term.

 

4.05.                     President.

 

The President shall be the principal executive officer of the corporation and, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors, shall in general supervise and control all of the business and affairs of the corporation.  The President shall, when present, preside at all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors.  He or she shall have authority, subject to such rules as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors, to appoint such agents and employees of the corporation as he or she shall deem necessary, to prescribe their powers, duties and

 

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compensation, and to delegate authority to them.  Such agents and employees shall hold office at the discretion of the President.  He or she shall have authority to sign, execute and acknowledge, on behalf of the corporation, all deeds, mortgages, bonds, stock certificates, contracts, leases, reports and all other documents or instruments necessary or proper to be executed in the course of the corporation’s regular business, or which shall be authorized by resolution of the Board of Directors; and, except as otherwise provided by law or the Board of Directors, he or she may authorize any Vice President or other officer or agent of the corporation to sign, execute and acknowledge such documents or instruments in his or her place and stead.  In general he or she shall perform all duties incident to the office of President and such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors from time to time.

 

4.06.                     The Vice Presidents.

 

In the absence of the President or in the event of his or her death, inability or refusal to act, or in the event for any reason it shall be impracticable for the President to act personally, any Vice President shall perform the duties of the President, and when so acting, shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the President.  Any Vice President may sign, with the Secretary or Assistant Secretary, certificates for shares of the corporation; and shall perform such other duties and have such authority as from time to time may be delegated or assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board of Directors.  The execution of any instrument of the corporation by any Vice President shall be conclusive evidence, as to third parties, of his or her authority to act in the stead of the President.

 

4.07.                     The Secretary.

 

The Secretary shall do the following:  (a) keep the minutes of the meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors in one or more books provided for the purpose; (b) attest instruments to be filed with the Secretary of State; (c) see that all notices are duly given in accordance with the provisions of these bylaws or as required by law; (d) be custodian of the corporate records and of the seal of the corporation and see that the seal of the corporation is affixed to all documents the execution of which on behalf of the corporation under its seal is duly authorized; (e) keep or arrange for the keeping of a register of the post office address of each shareholder which shall be furnished to the Secretary by such shareholder; (f) sign with the President, or a Vice President, certificates for shares of the corporation, the issuance of which shall have been authorized by resolution of the Board of Directors; (g) have general charge of the stock transfer books of the corporation; and (h) in general perform all duties incident to the office of Secretary and have such other duties and exercise such authority as from time to time may be delegated or assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board of Directors.

 

4.08.                     The Treasurer.

 

The Treasurer shall do the following:  (a) have charge and custody of and be responsible for all funds and securities of the corporation; (b) receive and give receipts for moneys due and payable to the corporation from any source whatsoever, and deposit all such moneys in the name of the corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositaries as shall be selected in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.04; and (c) in general perform all of the duties incident to the office of Treasurer and have such other duties and exercise such

 

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other authority as from time to time may be delegated or assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board of Directors.  If required by the Board of Directors, the Treasurer shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of his or her duties in such sum and with such surety or sureties as the Board of Directors shall determine.

 

4.09.                     Other Assistants and Acting Officers.

 

The Board of Directors shall have the power to appoint any person to act as assistant to any officer, or as agent for the corporation in his or her stead, or to perform the duties of such officer whenever for any reason it is impracticable for such officer to act personally, and such assistant or acting officer or other agent so appointed by the Board of Directors shall have the power to perform all the duties of the office to which he or she is so appointed to be an assistant, or as to which he or she is so appointed to act, except as such power may be otherwise defined or restricted by the Board of Directors.

 

ARTICLE V.  CONTRACTS, LOANS, CHECKS
AND DEPOSITS; SPECIAL CORPORATE ACTS

 

5.01.                     Contracts.

 

The Board of Directors may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute or deliver any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the corporation, and such authorization may be general or confined to specific instances.  In the absence of other designation, all deeds, mortgages, bonds, stock certificates, contracts, leases, reports made by the corporation shall be executed in the name of the corporation by the President or a Vice President and by the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer; the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, when necessary or required, shall affix the corporate seal thereto; and when so executed no other party to such instrument or any third party shall be required to make any inquiry into the authority of the signing officer or officers.

 

5.02.                     Loans.

 

No indebtedness for borrowed money shall be contracted on behalf of the corporation and no evidences of such indebtedness shall be issued in its name unless authorized by or under the authority of a resolution of the Board of Directors.  Such authorization may be general or confined to specific instances.

 

5.03.                     Checks, Drafts, Etc.

 

All checks, drafts or other orders for the payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued in the name of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers, or agent or agents, and in such manner as shall from time to time be determined by or under the authority of a resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

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5.04.                     Deposits.

 

All funds of the corporation not otherwise employed shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositaries as may be selected by or under the authority of a resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

5.05.                     Voting of Securities Owned by the Corporation.

 

Subject always to the specific directions of the Board of Directors, (a) any shares or other securities issued by any other corporation and owned or controlled by this corporation may be voted at any meeting of security holders of such other corporation by the President of this corporation if he or she is present, or in his or her absence, by a Vice President of this corporation who may be present, and (b) whenever, in the judgment of the President, or in his or her absence, of a Vice President, it is desirable for this corporation to execute a proxy or written consent in respect to any shares or other securities issued by any other corporation and owned by this corporation, such proxy or consent shall be executed in the name of this corporation by the President or one of the Vice Presidents of this corporation, without necessity of any authorization by the Board of Directors, affixation of corporate seal or countersignature or attestation by another officer.  Any person or persons designated in the manner above stated as the proxy or proxies of this corporation shall have full right, power and authority to vote the shares or other securities issued by such other corporation and owned by this corporation the same as such shares or other securities might be voted by this corporation.

 

ARTICLE VI.  CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES AND THEIR TRANSFER

 

6.01.                     Certificates for Shares.

 

Shares may be certificated or uncertificated.  Certificates representing shares of the corporation shall be in such form, consistent with law, as shall be determined by the Board of Directors.  Such certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer.  All certificates for shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified.  The name and address of the person to whom the shares represented thereby are issued, with the number of shares and date of issue, shall be entered on the stock transfer books of the corporation.  All certificates surrendered to the corporation for transfer shall be canceled and no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificate for a like number of shares shall have been surrendered and canceled, except as provided in Section 6.06.

 

The corporation is authorized to issue different classes of shares or different series within a class, and the front or back of each certificate shall either contain a summary of the designations, relative rights, preferences and limitations applicable to each class, and the variations in rights, preferences and limitations determined for each series and the authority of the Board of Directors to determine variations for future series or a conspicuous statement that the corporation will furnish the shareholder the information described herein on request, in writing and without charge.

 

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certificates.  The authorization does not affect shares already represented by certificates until the certificates are surrendered to the corporation.  Within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of shares without certificates, the corporation shall send the shareholder a written statement of the information required on share certificates by Wisconsin Business Corporation Law §180.0625 (1) and (2) and, if applicable, §180.0627.  Unless as otherwise provided in the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law, the rights and obligations of shareholders are identical whether or not their shares are represented by certificates.

 

6.02.                     Facsimile Signatures and Seal.

 

The seal of the corporation on any certificates for shares may be a facsimile.  The signature of the President or Vice President and the Secretary or Assistant Secretary upon a certificate may be facsimiles if the certificate is manually signed on behalf of a transfer agent, or a registrar, other than the corporation itself or an employee of the corporation.

 

6.03.                     Signature by Former Officers.

 

In case any officer, who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon any certificate for shares, shall have ceased to be such officer before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer at the date of its issue.

 

6.04.                     Transfer of Shares.

 

Prior to due presentment of a certificate for shares for registration of transfer the corporation may treat the registered owner of such shares as the person exclusively entitled to vote, to receive notifications and otherwise to have and exercise all the rights and power of an owner.  Where a certificate for shares is presented to the corporation or upon surrender to the corporation via appropriate documentation from the registered owner of uncertificated shares, with a request to register for transfer, the corporation shall not be liable to the owner or any other person suffering loss as a result of such registration of transfer if (a) there were on or with the certificate the necessary endorsements, or the necessary assignments with respect to uncertificated shares and (b) the corporation had no duty to inquire into adverse claims or has discharged any such duty.  The corporation may require reasonable assurance that said endorsements are genuine and effective and compliance with such other regulations as may be prescribed by or under the authority of the Board of Directors.  Upon notice of transfer to the corporation or the transfer agent of the corporation from the registered owner of uncertificated shares, such uncertificated shares shall be cancelled, the issuance of new equivalent uncertificated shares or certificated shares shall be made to the person entitled thereto and the transaction shall be recorded upon the books of the corporation.  Where a transfer of shares is made for collateral security, and not absolutely, it shall be so expressed in the entry of transfer if, when the shares are presented, both the transferor and the transferee so request.

 

6.05.                     Restrictions on Transfer.

 

The face or reverse side of each certificate representing shares shall bear a conspicuous notation of any restriction imposed by the corporation upon the transfer of such

 

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shares.  Otherwise the restriction is invalid except against those with actual knowledge of the restriction.

 

In the case of uncertificated shares, the corporation shall provide a written statement to any holder of uncertificated shares of any restrictions on transfer.

 

6.06.                     Lost, Destroyed or Stolen Certificates.

 

The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates 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 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 person requesting such new certificate or certificates, or his, her or its legal representative, 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, stolen or destroyed.

 

6.07.                     Consideration for Shares.

 

The shares of the corporation may be issued for such consideration as shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors, consistent with the law of the State of Wisconsin.

 

6.08.                     Stock Regulations.

 

The Board of Directors shall have the power and authority to make all such further rules and regulations not inconsistent with the statutes of the State of Wisconsin as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates representing shares of the corporation.

 

ARTICLE VII.  SEAL

 

7.01.                     Seal.

 

The Board of Directors may provide a corporate seal in an appropriate form.

 

ARTICLE VIII.  FISCAL YEAR

 

8.01.                     Fiscal Year.

 

The fiscal year of the corporation for accounting and income tax purposes shall begin on the first day of October and end on the thirtieth day of September each year.

 

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ARTICLE IX.  AMENDMENTS

 

9.01.                     By Shareholders.

 

These bylaws may be adopted, amended or repealed and new bylaws may be adopted by the shareholders entitled to vote at the shareholders’ annual meeting without prior notice or at any other meeting provided the amendment under consideration has been set forth in the notice of meeting, by affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the shares present or represented at any meeting at which a quorum is in attendance.

 

9.02.                     By Directors.

 

These bylaws may be adopted, amended or repealed by the Board of Directors in accordance with provisions of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law; but no bylaw adopted by the shareholders shall be amended or repealed by the Board of Directors if the bylaws so provide.

 

9.03.                     Implied Amendments.

 

Any action taken or authorized by the Board of Directors, which would be inconsistent with the bylaws then in effect but is taken or authorized by affirmative vote of not  less than the number of directors required to amend the bylaws so that the bylaws would be consistent with such action, shall be given the same effect as though the bylaws had been temporarily amended or suspended so far, but only so far, as is necessary to permit the specific action so taken or authorized.

 

ARTICLE X.  NOTICE

 

10.01.              Notice.

 

Except as otherwise required by law or these By-Laws, any notice required to be given by these By-Laws may be given orally or in writing, and notice may be communicated in person, by telephone, telegraph, teletype, facsimile or other form of wire or wireless communication, or by email or private carrier.  Except where these By-Laws require a notice to be delivered to or received by the recipient of the notice, written notice required to be given by these By-Laws is effective, if communicated (i) by mail when deposited in the United States, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed, (ii) by private carrier, when delivered to the carrier, and (iii) by telegram, when the telegram is delivered to the telegraph company.

 

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