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EX-3.2 - EXHIBIT 3.2 - NIC INCbrhc10023436_ex3-2.htm
8-K - 8-K - NIC INCbrhc10023436_8k.htm

Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
NIC INC.

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is NIC Inc.

SECOND: The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 1675 South State Street, Suite B, Dover, Kent County, Delaware 19901. The name of its registered agent at such address is Capitol Services, Inc.

THIRD: The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”).

FOURTH: The total number of shares of capital stock that the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares of Common Stock with a par value of $0.001 per share.

FIFTH: The number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed in the manner provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation, and until changed in the manner provided in the Bylaws the number of directors shall be one (1).

SIXTH: In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall have the power to adopt, amend, or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation.

SEVENTH: The Corporation reserves the right to amend, alter, change, or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner prescribed by statute, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation.

EIGHTH: 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, if required by the DGCL, for liability (i) for any 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 a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. If the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as so amended. Any repeal or modification of this Article EIGHTH 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.


NINTH: The Corporation shall indemnify each person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director or an officer of the Corporation, or is or was a director or officer of the Corporation serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan, to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by law and such right to indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer of the Corporation and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and personal and legal representatives. The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors, provide rights to indemnification to employees and agents of the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by law. The Corporation may advance expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an indemnitee in defending any action, suit, or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by law. The rights to indemnification conferred in this Article NINTH shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under this Certificate of Incorporation, the bylaws of the Corporation, any statute, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise. Any repeal or modification of this Article NINTH shall not adversely affect any rights to indemnification of any indemnitee existing at the time of such repeal or modification with respect to any acts or omissions occurring prior to such repeal or modification.

TENTH: Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (ii) any action asserting a claim for breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL, this Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine, in each case subject to said Court of Chancery having personal jurisdiction over the indispensable parties named as defendants therein.


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