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SECOND
RESTATEMENT
OF THE
RESTATED AND AMENDED
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC.
Casey's General Stores, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing
under the Iowa Business Corporation Act, Chapter 490, Code of Iowa, 2017, as
amended, does hereby restate its Restatement of the Restated and Amended
Articles of Incorporation, as amended to date, pursuant to the provisions of said
Act and all amendments thereto.
ARTICLE I
The name of the corporation shall be Casey's General Stores, Inc. Its
principal place of business shall be in Polk County, Iowa.
ARTICLE II
The corporation's existence shall be perpetual.
ARTICLE III
The purpose which the corporation is authorized to pursue is and includes
the transaction of any and all lawful businesses for which corporations may be
incorporated under the Iowa Business Corporation Act.
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ARTICLE IV
A. The aggregate amount of authorized capital stock of this Corporation
shall be divided into two classes: (i) 120,000,000 shares, consisting of one class
designated as Common, and having no par value and no pre-emptive rights, and
(ii) 1,000,000 shares, consisting of one class designated as Serial Preferred having
no par value. The preferences, voting rights, if any, limitations and relative rights
of the Serial Preferred Stock are as follows:
1. The holders of each series of the Serial Preferred Stock shall be
entitled to receive dividends when and as declared by the Board of Directors at
such rate or rates and on such dates as shall be fixed for each such series by
resolution of the Board of Directors as hereafter provided before any dividends
shall be paid or set apart for payment on the Common Stock. Such dividends on
the shares of each such series shall be fully cumulative from the date of first
original issue of the shares of each such series. Unless dividends at the rate fixed
for each series of the Serial Preferred Stock shall have been declared and paid in
full on the shares of each such series for all past dividend periods and any dividend
period ending on the date of any payment, purchase, redemption or other
acquisition hereinafter referred to, and unless the full amount of all mandatory
redemption and sinking fund payments then required to be made on each series of
the Serial Preferred Stock shall have been made in full, no dividends shall be
declared or paid or set apart for payment upon any shares of the Common Stock
and no purchase, redemption or other acquisition for value of any shares of the
Common Stock shall be made. If the payment of full cumulative dividends with
respect to the shares of any series of the Serial Preferred Stock shall be in arrears,
the Corporation thereafter shall (so long as such arrearage continues), whenever it
shall make any dividend payment with respect to the shares of any series of the
Serial Preferred Stock, make such dividend payment to the holders of the shares of
each series of the Serial Preferred Stock as to which there shall be an arrearage and
to the holders of the shares of each series of the Serial Preferred Stock as to which
a dividend is then payable, pro rata among each such series in proportion to the full
amount of dividends in arrears or then payable on the shares of each such series of
the Serial Preferred Stock. The holders of the Serial Preferred Stock shall have no
rights to share in any dividend or distribution of the profits or assets of the
Corporation, whether in the form of cash, stock dividend or otherwise, except to
the extent specifically provided herein or in said resolutions of the Board of
Directors establishing the series of the Serial Preferred Stock.
2. In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution
or winding up of the Corporation, the holders of shares of each series of the Serial
Preferred Stock shall be entitled to be paid such amount as shall be fixed by
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resolution of the Board of Directors for each such series as hereafter provided
before any amount shall be paid on the Common Stock. If, in the event of any
such voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the
Corporation, the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to the holders
of the Serial Preferred Stock shall be insufficient to permit full payment to the
holders of each series of the Serial Preferred Stock of their respective preferential
amounts fixed by such resolution of the Board of Directors, then such assets shall
be distributed ratably among such holders in proportion to their respective
preferential amounts. After the payment to the holders of the Serial Preferred
Stock of all such amounts to which they are entitled pursuant to said resolutions of
the Board of Directors, the remaining assets and funds of the Corporation shall be
divided and paid to the holders of the Common Stock. Neither the consolidation
nor the merger of the Corporation with or into any other corporation or
corporations, nor a reorganization of the Corporation alone, nor the sale or transfer
by the Corporation of all or any part of its assets, shall be deemed to be a
liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation for the purpose of this
paragraph 2.
3. The price at and terms and conditions on which the shares of each
series of the Serial Preferred Stock may be redeemed shall be fixed for each such
series by resolution of the Board of Directors as hereafter provided. Whenever the
Corporation shall have failed to make any mandatory redemption or sinking fund
payment in whole or in part on the date provided therefor (and so long as such
nonpayment shall be continuing), the Corporation shall thereafter make mandatory
redemption or sinking fund payments on each series of the Serial Preferred Stock
(as to which it shall have failed to make all or any part of such payment or as to
which it has a mandatory redemption or sinking fund obligation then due) pro rata
among each such series in proportion to the sum of (i) any mandatory redemption
or sinking fund payment then due and (ii) the amount of any previously unpaid
mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments, in each case with respect to each
such series of the Serial Preferred Stock. Redemption obligations of the
Corporation shall be cumulative.
4. Each share of Serial Preferred Stock shall be entitled to such
privileges of conversion, if any, as are provided and declared by the Board of
Directors at such time as the issue of which it is part is established by the Board of
Directors.
5. Shares of Serial Preferred Stock shall be entitled to vote only upon
those matters required by Sections 57 and 70 of the Iowa Business Corporation
Act, Chapter 496A, Code of Iowa, as amended, as the same or any substitute
provisions therefor may be in effect from time to time.
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The Serial Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in series.
Authority is hereby expressly granted to the Board of Directors to establish one or
more series of Serial Preferred Stock and, in the resolution establishing each such
series, to fix and determine the number of shares to constitute each such series, the
distinctive designations thereof and the relative rights and preferences of the shares
of each such series. All shares of the Serial Preferred Stock shall be identical in all
respects, except as to the following rights and preferences as to which there may
be variations as between different series:
(a) The rate of dividend and the dates on which dividends are payable.
(b) The price at and the terms and conditions upon which shares may be
redeemed.
(c) The amount payable upon shares in the event of involuntary
liquidation.
(d) The amount payable upon shares in the event of voluntary
liquidation.
(e) Sinking fund provisions for the redemption or purchase of shares.
(f) The terms and conditions on which shares may be converted, if the
shares of any series are issued with the privilege of conversion.
(g) Voting rights, if any.
Any unissued shares of the Corporation may be issued and any treasury
shares of the Corporation may be disposed of from time to time in such amount,
for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as the Board of
Directors may determine.
ARTICLE V
A. The number of directors of the Corporation shall be not fewer than
four (4) and not greater than nine (9). Vacancies in the Board of Directors or new
directorships created by an increase in the number of directors shall be filled by
election by a majority of the remaining members of the Board, though less than a
quorum, and the person filling such vacancy or newly-created directorship shall
serve out the remainder of the term for the vacated directorship, or in the case of a
new directorship, the term designated for the class of directors of which that
directorship is a part.
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B. The shareholders may at any time at a meeting expressly called for
that purpose remove any or all of the directors, for cause, by a vote of two-thirds of
the shares then entitled to vote at an election of directors. For purposes of this
Article, removal "for cause" shall mean that the director to be removed has been
convicted of a felony by a court of competent jurisdiction and such conviction is
no longer subject to direct appeal, or that the director to be removed has been
adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his duty
to the Corporation by a court of competent jurisdiction and such adjudication is no
longer subject to direct appeal.
C. This Article V may not be amended, altered or repealed without the
approval of two-thirds of the shares entitled to vote at the time such amendment,
alteration or repeal is proposed.
ARTICLE VI
The Board of Directors of the Corporation shall have the power to adopt a
corporation seal which shall be the corporate seal of this Corporation.
ARTICLE VII
The private property of the shareholders of this Corporation shall at all
times be exempt from liability of corporate debts of any kind and this Article shall
not be amended or repealed.
ARTICLE VIII
Stock in this Corporation shall be transferred only by assignment upon the
books of the Corporation, subject to and in accordance with such restrictions as
may be provided in the Bylaws of this Corporation.
ARTICLE IX
A. The Corporation is subject to Section 490.806A, subsection 1 (the
"Act"), of the Iowa Business Corporation Act, which was enacted as part of
Senate File 325 during the 2011 session of the Iowa General Assembly.
B. The terms of directors of the Corporation shall be staggered by
dividing the number of directors into three groups, as nearly equal in number of
possible. The first group shall be referred to as "class I directors", the second
group shall be referred to as "class II directors", and the third group shall be
referred to as "class III directors".
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C. On or before the date on which the Corporation first convenes an
annual shareholders' meeting following the time the Corporation became subject to
the Act, the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall by majority vote designate
from among its members directors to serve as class I directors, class II directors,
and class III directors.
D. The terms of directors serving in office on the date that the
Corporation became subject to the Act shall be as follows:
(1) class I directors shall continue in office until the first annual
shareholders' meeting following the date that the Corporation
became subject to the Act, and until their successors are
elected. The shareholders' meeting shall be conducted not
less than eleven months following the last annual
shareholders' meeting conducted before the Corporation
became subject to the Act.
(2) class II directors shall continue in office until one year
following the first annual shareholders' meeting described in
subparagraph (1), and until their successors are elected.
(3) class III directors shall continue in office until two years
following the first annual shareholders' meeting described in
subparagraph (1), and until their successors are elected.
E. At each annual shareholders' meeting of the Corporation, the
successors to the class of directors whose term expires at that meeting shall be
elected to hold office for a term of three years following such meeting and until
their successors are elected.
ARTICLE X
A. A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the
Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty
as a director, except for liability (i) for a breach of the director's duty of loyalty to
the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or
which involve intentional misconduct or knowing violation of law, (iii) for a
transaction from which the director derives an improper personal benefit, or (iv)
under Section 496A.44 of the Iowa Business Corporation Act.
If the Iowa Business Corporation Act is amended to authorize
corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors,
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then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to
the fullest extent permitted by the Iowa Business Corporation Act, as so amended.
Any repeal or modification of this Article X by the stockholders of
the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of
the Corporation existing at the time of such repeal or modification.
B. (1) Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be
made a party to or is involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of
the fact that he or she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, (a)
is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or (b) is or was serving (at such
time as he or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation) at the request of
the Corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, administrator, employee or
agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, whether the
basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director,
officer, partner, trustee, administrator, employee or agent or in any other capacity
while serving as a director, officer, partner, trustee, administrator, employee or
agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest
extent authorized by the Iowa Business Corporation Act, as the same exists or may
hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent
that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification
rights than said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such
amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees,
judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid or to be paid
in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection
therewith, and such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased
to be such a director or officer and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs,
executors and administrators; provided, however, that, (a) with respect to
proceedings seeking to enforce rights to indemnification as provided in paragraph
(2) of this Section B, the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking
indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such
person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of
Directors of the Corporation, (b) in the case of a proceeding brought by or in the
right of the Corporation, any such indemnification shall be limited as provided in
the Iowa Business Corporation Act and (c) no such indemnification shall be
provided to any director or officer, as applicable, for any proceeding wherein it
shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision that such director or
officer is liable (i) for a breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation
or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve
intentional misconduct or knowing violation of law, (iii) for a transaction from
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which the director derives an improper personal benefit or (iv) under Section
496A.44 of the Iowa Business Corporation Act. The right to indemnification
conferred in this Section B shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be
paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in
advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that if the Iowa Business
Corporation Act requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a director or
officer in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity
in which service was or is rendered by such person while a director or officer,
including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of
the final disposition of a proceeding, shall be made only upon delivery to the
Corporation of the written affirmation of the good faith belief of such director or
officer that he or she has met the standard of conduct necessary for
indemnification, and an undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to
repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial
decision that such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this
Section B or otherwise. The Corporation may, by action of its Board of Directors,
provide indemnification to other employees and agents of the Corporation with the
same scope and effect as the foregoing indemnification of directors and officers.
(2) If a claim under paragraph 1 of this Section B is not paid in
full by the Corporation within thirty days after a written claim has been received
by the Corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the
Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful in whole
or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting
such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought
to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance
of its final disposition where the required affirmation and undertaking, if any is
required, has been tendered to the Corporation) that the claimant has not met the
standards of conduct which make it permissible under the Iowa Business
Corporation Act for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount
claimed, but the burden of proving such defense shall be on the Corporation.
Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors,
independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior
to the commencement of such action that indemnification of the claimant is proper
in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct
set forth in the Iowa Business Corporation Act, nor an actual determination by the
Corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel or its
stockholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard of conduct,
shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not
met the applicable standard of conduct.
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(3) The right to indemnification and the payment of expenses
incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in
this Article shall not be exclusive of any other rights which any person may have
or hereafter acquire under a provision of the Restated and Amended Articles of
Incorporation, By-Laws, agreements, vote of stockholders or disinterested
directors or otherwise, both as to action in a person's official capacity and as to
action in another capacity while holding the office. The Corporation may enter
into separate written agreements with directors, officers, employees and agents of
the Corporation and of other enterprises, which agreements expressly provide for
indemnification and reimbursement of such persons to the fullest extent now or
hereafter permitted by this Article or applicable law.
(4) The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to
protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or
another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any
expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to
indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the Iowa
Business Corporation Act.
ARTICLE XI
These Articles may be amended, modified, revised and/or restated only by
resolution by the Board of Directors, which resolution is submitted to the
shareholders at an annual or special meeting and receives the affirmative vote of
the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote thereon.
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This Second Restatement of the Amended and Restated Articles of
Incorporation of Casey's General Stores, Inc., as amended to date, does not contain
an amendment requiring shareholder approval and has been adopted by the Board
of Directors this 6th day of December, 2017.
/s/ Terry W. Handley
Terry W. Handley, President and
Chief Executive Officer
ATTEST:
/s/ Julia L. Jackowski
Julia L. Jackowski, Senior Vice President,
Corporate General Counsel and Secretary
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STATE OF IOWA )
) SS
COUNTY OF POLK )
We, Terry W. Handley and Julia L. Jackowski, being first duly sworn on
oath, depose and state that we are the President and Chief Executive Officer and
Senior Vice President, Corporate General Counsel and Secretary, respectively, of
Casey's General Stores, Inc. and that we have executed the foregoing Second
Restatement of the Restated and Amended Articles of Incorporation, as amended
to date, of Casey's General Stores, Inc. as the President and Chief Executive
Officer and Senior Vice President, Corporate General Counsel and Secretary of
Casey's General Stores, Inc., and that the statements contained therein are true.
/s/ Terry W. Handley
Terry W. Handley, President and
Chief Executive Officer
/s/ Julia L. Jackowski
Julia L. Jackowski, Senior Vice President,
Corporate General Counsel and Secretary
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of December, 2017.
/s/ Amy L. Duffy
Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa
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ANNEX A
DESIGNATIONS, PREFERENCES AND RELATIVE
PARTICIPATING, OPTIONAL AND OTHER SPECIAL RIGHTS
AND QUALIFICATIONS, LIMITATIONS OR RESTRICTIONS OF
SERIES A SERIAL PREFERRED STOCK OF
CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC.
SECTION l. Designation and Number of Shares. The shares of such
series shall be designated as "Series A Serial Preferred Stock" (the "Series A Serial
Preferred Stock"). The number of shares initially constituting the Series A Serial
Preferred Stock shall be 250,000;plgvidgd, hotvevero that, if more than a total of 250,000
shares of Series A Serial Preferred Stock shall be issuable upon the exercise of Rights
(the "Rishts") issued pursuant to the Rights Agreement dated as of April 16,2010,
between Casey's General Stores, Inc. (the "Company") and Computershare Trust
Company, N.A., a federally chartered trust company, as Rights Agent (the "BigbIS
Agreement"), the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board"), pursuant to Section
490.602 of the Iowa Business Corporation Act, shall direct by resolution or resolutions
that a certificate be properly executed, acknowledged, filed and recorded, in accordance
with the provisions of Section 490.120 thereof; providing for the total number of shares
ofseries A Serial Preferred Stock authorized to be issued to be increased (to the extent
that the Restatement of the Restated and Amended Articles of Incorporation of the
Company (the "Articles of Incorporation") then permits) to the largest number of whole
shares (rounded up to the nearest whole number) issuable upon exercise of such Rights.
SECTION 2. Dividends or Distributions. (a) Subject to the superior
rights of the holders of shares of any other series of preferred stock of the Company or
other class of capital stock of the Company ranking superior to the shares of Series A
Serial Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of Series A Serial
Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board, out of
the assets of the Company legally available therefor, (1) quarterly dividends payable in
cash on the last day ofeach fiscal quarter in each year, or such other dates as the Board
shall approve (each such date being referred to herein as a "Ouarterly Dividend Payment
D.de"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance
of a share or a fraction of a share of Series A Serial Preferred Stock, in the amount of
$0.085 per whole share (rounded to the nearest cent) less the amount of all cash dividends
declared on the Series A Serial Preferred Stock pursuant to the following clause (2) since
the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the first
Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a
share of Series A Serial Preferred Stock (the total of which shall not, in any event, be less
than zero) and (2) dividends payable in cash on the payment date for each cash dividend
declared on the shares of Common Stock, no par value per share, of the Company (theooeelnmon_S1esk") in an amount per whole share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to
the Formula Number (as hereinafter defined) then in effect times the cash dividends then
to be paid on each share of Common Stock. In addition, if the Company shall pay any
dividend or make any distribution on the Common Stock payable in assets, securities or
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other forms of noncash consideration (other than dividends or distributions solely in
shares of Common Stock), then, in each such case, the Company shall simultaneously
pay or make on each outstanding whole share of Series A Serial Preferred Stock a
dividend or distribution in like kind equal to the Formula Number then in effect times
such dividend or distribution on each share of Common Stock. As used herein, the
"Formula Number" shall be 1,000; ry]dgd, however, that, if at any time after April 16,
2010, the Company shall (i) declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable
in shares of Common Stock or make any distribution on the Common Stock in shares of
Common Stock, (ii) subdivide (by a stock split or otherwise) the outstanding shares of
Common Stock into a larger number of shares of Common Stock or (iii) combine (by a
reverse stock split or otherwise) the outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller
number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such event the Formula Number shall
be adjusted to a number detennined by multiplying the Formula Number in effect
immediately prior to such event by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of
shares of Common Stock that are outstanding immediately after such event and the
denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that are outstanding
immediately prior to such event (and rounding the result to the nearest whole number);
and provided further that, if at any time after April 16,2010, the Company shall issue any
shares of its capital stock in a merger, reclassification, or change of the outstanding
shares of Common Stock, then in each such event the Formula Number shall be
appropriately adjusted to reflect such merger, reclassification or change so that each share
of Series A Serial Preferred Stock continues to be the economic equivalent of a Formula
Number of shares of Common Stock prior to such merger, reclassification or change.
(b) The Company shall declare a cash dividend on the Series A Serial
Preferred Stock as provided in Section 2(a\(2) immediately prior to or at the same time it
declares a cash dividend on the Common Stock;@vided, however, that, in the event no
cash dividend shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between
any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend
Payment Date or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, during the
period between the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series A Serial
Preferred Stock, a dividend of S0.085 per whole share on the Series A SerialPreferred
Stock shall nevertheless accrue on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or
the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, as the case may be. The Board may fix a
record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Serial Preferred Stock
entitled to receive a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be
the same as the record date for any corresponding dividend or distribution on the
Common Stock.
(c) Whether or not declared, dividends shall begin to accrue and be
cumulative on outstanding shares of Series A Serial Preferred Stock from and after the
Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless
the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend
Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue and be
cumulative from and after the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a
Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination
of holders of shares of Series A SerialPreferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly
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dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events
such dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from and after such Quarterly
Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shallnot bear interest.
Dividends paid on the shares of Series A Serial Preferred Stock in an amount less than
the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall
be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time
outstanding.
(d) So long as any shares ofSeries A Serial Preferred Stock are
outstanding, no dividends or other distributions shall be declared, paid or distributed, t-rr
set aside for payment or distribution, on the Common Stock unless, in each case, the
dividend required by this Section 2 to be declared on the Series A Serial Preferred Stock
shall have been declared and set aside.
(e) The holders ofshares ofSeries A Serial Preferred Stock shall not be
entitled to receive any dividends or other distributions except as herein provided.
SECTION 3. Voting Rishts. The Series A Serial Preferred Stock shall
have such voting rights as and to the extent required by the Iowa Business Corporation
Act, and otherwise shall have no voting rights.
SECTION 4. Certain Restrictions. (a) Whenever quarterly dividends or
other dividends or distributions on the Series A Serial Preferred Stock as provided in
Section 2 are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and
distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series A Serial Preferred Stock
outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Company shall not:
(i) declare or pay dividends on, make any other distributions on, or
redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock
ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding
up) to the Series A Serial Preferred Stock;
(ii) declare or pay dividends on or make any other distributions on any
shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Serial Prefelred Stock, except
dividends paid ratably on the Series A Serial Preferred Stock and all such parity
stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total
amounts to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled;
(iii) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of
any stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Serial Preferred Stock; plgvidgd,
however, that the Company may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise
acquire shares ofany such parity stock in exchange for shares ofany stock ofthe
Company ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or
winding up) to the Series A Serial Preferred Stock; or
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(iv) purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Series
A Serial Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity with the
Series A Serial Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made
in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board) to all holders of such
shares upon such terms as the Board, after consideration of the respective annual
dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences ofthe respective series
and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable
treatment among the respective series or classes.
(b) The Company shall not permit any subsidiary of the Company to
purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the Company
unless the Company could, under Section 4(a), purchase or otherwise acquire such shares
at such time and in such manner.
SECTION 5. Liquidation Riehts. Upon the liquidation, dissolution or
winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, no distribution shall be
made (l) to the holders of any shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or
upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Serial Preferred Stock unless,
prior thereto, the holders of shares of Series A Serial Preferred Stock shall have received
an amount equalto the accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether
or not declared, to the date of such payment, plus an amount equal to the greater of (x)
$ I,000 per whole share or (y) an aggregate amount per share equal to the Formula
Number then in effect times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to holders
of Common Stock or (2) to the holders of any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either
as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Serial
Preferred Stock, except distributions made ratably on the Series A Serial Preferred Stock
and all other such parity stock in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of
all such shares are entitled upon such liquidation, dissolution or winding upi provided,
that no holder of any Series A Serial Preferred Stock shall be authorized or entitled to
receive upon involuntary liquidation of the Company an amount in excess of $100.00 per
share ofSeries A Serial Preferred Stock.
SECTION 6. Consolidation. Merger" etc. In case the Company shall enter
into any consolidation, merger, combination or other transaction in which the shares of
Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash or any
other property, then in any such case the then outstanding shares ofSeries A Serial
Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed into an amount
per share equal to the Formula Number then in effect times the aggregate amount of
stock, securities, cash or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into
which or for which each share of Common Stock is exchanged or changed. In the event
both this Section 6 and Section 2 appear to apply to a transaction, this Section 6 will
control.
SECTION 7. No Redemption: No Sinking Fund. (a) The shares of Series
A Serial Preferred Stock shall not be subject to redemption by the Company or at the
option of any holder of Series A Serial Preferred Stock; provided, however, that, subject
to Section 4(a)(iv), the Company may purchase or otherwise acquire outstanding shares
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of Series A Serial Preferred Stock in the open market or by offer to any holder or holders
ofshares ofSeries A Serial Preferred Stock.
(b) The shares ofseries A Serial Preferred Stock shall not be subject to or
entitled to the operation of a retirement or sinking fund.
SECTION 8. Ranking. The Series A Serial Preferred Stock shallrank
junior to all other series of preferred stock of the Company unless the Board shall
specifically determine otherwise in tixing the powers, preferences and relative,
parlicipating, optionaland othcr spccial rights of the shares of such series and the
qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof.
SECTION 9. Fractional Shares. The Series A Serial Preferred Stock shall
be issuable upon exercise of the Rights issued pursuant to the Rights Agreement in whole
shares or in any fraction ofa share that is one one-thousandth ofa share (as such fraction
may be adjusted as provided in the Rights Agreement) or any integral multiple of such
fraction which shall entitle the holder, in proportion to such holder's fractional shares, to
receive dividends, participate in distributions and to have the benefit of all other rights of
holders of Series A Serial Preferred Stock. In lieu of any fractional shares, the Company
may elect (a) to make a cash payment as provided in the Rights Agreement for fractions
ofa share other than one one-thousandths ofa share (as such fraction may be adjusted as
provided in the Rights Agreement) or any integral multiple thereof or (b) to issue
depositary receipts evidencing fractional shares of Series A Serial Preferred Stock
pursuant to an appropriate agreement between the Company and a depository selected by
the Company; provided, however, that such agreement shall provide that the holders of
such depositary receipts shall have all the rights, privileges and preferences to which they
are entitled as holders of the Series A Serial Preferred Stock.
SECTION 10. Reacquired Shares. Any shares of Series A Serial
Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company in any manner
whatsoever shall be retired and canceled promptly after the acquisition thcrcof. All such
shares shall upon their cancelation become authorized but unissued shares of Preferred
Stock, without designation as to series until such shares are once more designated as part
of a particular series by the Board pursuant to the provisions of the Articles of
Incorporation.
SECTION 11. Amendment. So long as any shares of Series A Serial
Preferred Stock shall be outstanding, (i) none of the powers, preferences and relative,
participating, optional and other special rights ofthe Series A Serial Preferred Stock as
herein provided shall be amended in any manner which would alter or change the powers,
preferences, rights or privileges ofthe holders ofSeries A Serial Preferred Stock so as to
affect them adversely and (ii) no amendment, alteration or repeal of the Articles of
Incorporation or of the By-laws of the Company shall be effected so as to affect
adversely any of such powers, preferences, rights or privileges. FILED
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