Registration of Securities Issued in a Business-Combination Transaction — Form S-4
Filing Table of Contents
Document/Exhibit Description Pages Size
1: S-4 Registration of Securities Issued in a 180 1.08M
Business-Combination Transaction
2: EX-3.1 Certificate of Formation 1 15K
3: EX-3.2 Limited Liability Company Agreemen 35 137K
4: EX-3.3 Articles of Incorporation 2 18K
5: EX-3.4 Acme Intermediate Finance, Inc. By-Laws 14 56K
6: EX-4.1 Indenture 148 473K
7: EX-4.2 Indenture 135 432K
9: EX-5.1-INT Exhibit 5.1-Int - Opinion Re: Legality 3 23K
8: EX-5.1-INT Intermediate Opinion 3 24K
10: EX-10.1 Stock Purchase Agreement 46 204K
19: EX-10.10 Management Agreement 14 53K
20: EX-10.11 Exhibit 10.11 - Amendment (Channel 32) 2 20K
21: EX-10.12 Exhibit 10.12 - Noncompetition Agreement for Kwbp 5 28K
22: EX-10.13 Exhibit 10.13 - Management Agreement for Station 16 50K
23: EX-10.14 Management Agreement 14 47K
24: EX-10.15 Exhibit 10.15-Wint Escrow 9 43K
25: EX-10.18 Exhibit 10.18 - Affiliation Agreement for Kwbp 21 67K
26: EX-10.19 Exhibit 10.19 - Commitment Letter From Wb 1 18K
11: EX-10.2 Exhibit 10.2 - Escrow Agreement for Kplr 14 61K
27: EX-10.20 Exhibit 10.20 - Employment Agreement With Gealy 6 33K
28: EX-10.21 Exhibit 10.21 - Employment Agreement With Allen 6 32K
29: EX-10.22 Exhibit 10.22 - Consulting Agreement With Kellner 6 30K
30: EX-10.23 Exhibit 10.23 - Commercial Building Lease for Kwbp 15 68K
31: EX-10.24 Exhibit 10.24 - Lease Agreement for Kwbp Tower 16 65K
32: EX-10.25 Exhibit 10.25 - Lease Agreement for Wbxx 22 74K
33: EX-10.26 Exhibit 10.26 - Tower Lease for Wbxx 13 38K
34: EX-10.27 Exhibit 10.27 - First Modification to Agreement 4 24K
12: EX-10.3 Exhibit 10.3 - Time Brokerage Agreement 19 69K
35: EX-10.30 Exhibit 10.30 - Studio Lease for Kplr 4 27K
36: EX-10.31 Exhibit 10.31 - Tower Lease for Kplr 26 51K
37: EX-10.32 Exhibit 10.32 - Amendment to Tower Leases for Kplr 3 22K
38: EX-10.33 Exhibit 10.33 - Koplar/Roberts - Agreement 15 69K
39: EX-10.35-INT Exhibit 10.35 - Registration Rights Agreement 34 119K
40: EX-10.36-INT Exhibit 10.36 - Membership Unitholders Agreement 31 108K
41: EX-10.37 Purchase Agreement for Intermediate 41 152K
42: EX-10.38-INT Exhibit 10.38 - Securities Pledge Agreement 21 73K
13: EX-10.4 Membership Contribution Agreement 28 102K
14: EX-10.5 Exhibit 10.5 - Asset Purchase Agreement 25 87K
15: EX-10.6 Exhibit 10.6 - Purchase Agreement for Wbxx 63 133K
16: EX-10.7 Exhibit 10.7-Asset Purchase Agreement for Kwbp 38 163K
17: EX-10.8 Exhibit 10.8 - Amendment 3 20K
18: EX-10.9 Exhibit 10.9 - Amendment (Acme) 3 18K
43: EX-21.1-INT Exhibit 21.1 - Subsidiaries 1 15K
44: EX-23.2 Consent of Experts and Counsel 1 15K
45: EX-23.3 Consents of Experts 1 15K
46: EX-23.4 Consent of Experts and Counsel 1 15K
47: EX-24.1-INT Power of Attorney - Allen 1 16K
48: EX-24.2-INT Power of Attorney - Gealy 1 16K
49: EX-24.3-INT Power of Attorney - Kellner 1 16K
50: EX-25.1-INT Exhibit 25.1-Int - Statement of Eligibility 30 106K
51: EX-27.1 Financial Data Schedule 1 19K
52: EX-99.1-INT Exhibit 99.1-Int - Letter of Transmittal 20 68K
53: EX-99.2-INT Exhibit 99.2-Int - Notice of Guaranteed Delivery 5 26K
54: EX-99.3-INT Exhibit 99.3-Int - Letter to Brokers 2 19K
55: EX-99.4-INT Exhibit 99.4-Int - Letter to Clients 2 18K
56: EX-99.5-INT Exhibit 99.5-Int - Instruction to Holder 2 19K
57: EX-99.6-INT Exhibit 99.6-Int - Guidelines for Certification 7 27K
58: EX-99.7 Consent as Member-Koplar 1 16K
59: EX-99.8 Consent as Member-Roberts 1 16K
EX-3.4 — Acme Intermediate Finance, Inc. By-Laws
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ACME INTERMEDIATE FINANCE, INC.
BY-LAWS
Article I
OFFICES
Section 1. The registered office shall be in the City of Wilmington,
County of New Castle, State of Delaware.
Section 2. The corporation may also have offices at such other
places 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
MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS
Section 1. All meetings of the stockholders for the election of
directors shall be held at such place as may be fixed from time to time by the
board of directors or at such other places either within or without the State of
Delaware as shall be designated from time to time by the board of directors and
stated in the notice of the meeting.
Section 2. Annual meetings of stockholders, commencing with the year
1997, shall be held at such date and time as shall be designated from time to
time by the board of directors and stated in the notice of the meeting, at which
they shall elect by a plurality vote a board of directors, and transact such
other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 3. Written notice of the annual meeting stating the place,
date and hour of the meeting shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote
at such meeting not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of
the meeting.
Section 4. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the
corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten days before every meeting of
stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the
meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each
stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder.
Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose
germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least
ten days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the
meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the
meeting, or, if not so specified, at
the place where the meeting is to be held. The list 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 stockholder who is present.
Section 5. Special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or
purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute or by the certificate of
incorporation, may be called by the chairman of the board or the president and
shall be called by the chairman of the board or the president or secretary at
the request in writing of a majority of the board of directors, or at the
request in writing of stockholders owning a majority in amount of the entire
capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote.
Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting.
Section 6. Written notice of a special meeting stating the place,
date and hour of the meeting and the purpose or purposes for which the meeting
is called, shall be given not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the
date of the meeting, to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting.
Section 7. Business transacted at any special meeting of
stockholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 8. The holders of a majority of the 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 except as otherwise provided by statute or by the
certificate of incorporation. 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 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. If the adjournment is for more than thirty days, or if after the
adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of
the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to
vote at the meeting.
Section 9. When a quorum is present at any meeting, the vote of the
holders of a majority of the 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 statutes or of
the certificate of incorporation, a different vote is required, in which case
such express provision shall govern and control the decision of such question.
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Section 10. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of
incorporation each stockholder shall at every meeting of the stockholders be
entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for each share of the capital stock
having voting power held by such stockholder, but no proxy shall be voted on
after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period.
Section 11. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of
incorporation, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting
of stockholders of the corporation, or any action which may be taken at any
annual or special meeting of such stockholders, may be taken without a meeting,
without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth
the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding 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. Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action
without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent shall be given to those
stockholders who have not consented in writing.
Article III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. The number of directors of the corporation shall be not
less than two (2) nor more than eleven (11), the exact number of directors to be
determined from time to time by resolution adopted by a majority of the entire
board. The directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders,
except as provided in Section 2 of this Section, and each director elected shall
hold office until his successor is elected and qualified. Directors need not be
stockholders. Any director may resign at any time upon written notice to the
corporation.
Section 2. Vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from
any increase in the authorized number of directors may be filled by a majority
of the directors then in office, though less than a quorum, or by a sole
remaining director, and each of the directors so chosen shall hold office until
the next annual election for the term for which he is elected and until his
successor is duly elected and qualified or until his earlier resignation or
removal. No decrease in the board shall shorten the term of any incumbent
director. If, at the time of filling any vacancy or any newly created
directorship, the directors then in office shall constitute less than a majority
of the whole board (as constituted immediately prior to any such increase), the
Court of Chancery may, upon application of any stockholder or stockholders
holding at least ten percent of the total number of the shares at the time
outstanding having the right to vote for such directors, summarily order an
election to be held to fill any such vacancies or newly created directorships,
or to replace the directors chosen by the directors then in office.
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Section 3. The business of the corporation shall be managed by or
under the direction of its board of directors which may exercise all such powers
of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute
or by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws directed or required
to be exercised or done by the stockholders.
MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 4. The board of directors of the corporation may hold
meetings, both regular and special, either within or without the State of
Delaware.
Section 5. The first meeting of each newly elected board of
directors shall be held immediately following the annual meeting of the
stockholders, unless otherwise determined by the board of directors or the
stockholders at the annual meeting and no notice of such meeting shall be
necessary to the newly elected directors in order legally to constitute the
meeting, provided a quorum shall be present. In the event of the failure of the
stockholders to fix the time or place of such first meeting of the newly elected
board of directors, or in the event such meeting is not held at the time and
place so fixed by the stockholders, the meeting may be held at such time and
place as shall be specified in a notice given as hereinafter provided for
special meetings of the board of directors, or as shall be specified in a
written waiver signed by all of the directors.
Section 6. Regular meetings of the board of directors may be held
without notice at such time and at such place as shall from time to time be
determined by the board.
Section 7. Special meetings of the board may be called by the
chairman of the board or the president, and the chairman of the board or the
president or the secretary shall call a special meeting upon the written request
of two directors unless the board consists of only one director; in which case
special meetings shall be called by the chairman of the board or the president
or secretary on the written request of the sole director. If given personally,
by telephone or by telegram, the notice shall be given at least two days prior
to the meeting. Notice may be given by mail if it is mailed at least three days
before the meeting.
Section 8. At all meetings of the board a majority of the directors
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a
majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum
shall be the act of the board of directors, except as may be otherwise
specifically provided by statute or by the certificate of incorporation. If a
quorum shall not be present at any 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.
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Section 9. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of
incorporation or these by-laws, 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 or committee, as the case may be,
consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the
minutes of proceedings of the board or committee.
Section 10. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of
incorporation or these by-laws, 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 any committee, by means of 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 the meeting.
COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS
Section 11. The board of directors may, by resolution passed by a
majority of the whole board, designate one or more committees, each committee to
consist of one or more of the directors of the corporation. The board may
designate one 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 a member of a committee, the
member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from
voting, whether or 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 the resolution of the
board of directors, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority 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 corporation's 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; and,
unless the resolution or the certificate of incorporation expressly so provide,
no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to
authorize the issuance of stock. Such committee or committees shall have such
name or names as may be determined from time to time by resolution adopted by
the board of directors.
Section 12. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its
meetings and report the same to the board of directors when required.
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COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS
Section 13. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of
incorporation or these by-laws, the board of directors shall have the authority
to fix the 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 and/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 special or standing committees may be allowed like
compensation for attending committee meetings.
REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS
Section 14. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of
incorporation or by-laws, any director or the entire board of directors may be
removed, with or without cause, at any time by the holders of a majority of
shares then entitled to vote at an election of directors, and the vacancy in the
board of directors caused by such removal may be filled by the stockholders at
the time of such removal.
Article IV
NOTICES
Section 1. Whenever, under the provisions of the statutes or of the
certificate of incorporation or of these by-laws, notice is required to be given
to any director or stockholder, it shall not be construed to mean personal
notice, but such notice may be given in writing, by mail, addressed to such
director or stockholder, at his address as it appears on the records of the
corporation, with postage thereon prepaid, and such notice shall be deemed to be
given at the time when the same shall be deposited in the United States mail.
Notice to directors may also be given by telegram.
Section 2. Whenever any notice is required to be given under the
provisions of the statutes or of the certificate of incorporation or of these
by-laws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled
to said notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed
equivalent thereto.
Article V
OFFICERS
Section 1. The officers of the corporation shall be chosen by the
board of directors as soon as practicable after each annual meeting of
stockholders and shall be a
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president, a secretary and a treasurer. Any number of offices may be held by the
same person, unless the certificate of incorporation or these by-laws otherwise
provide.
Section 2. The board of directors may appoint such other officers
and agents as it shall deem necessary, including a chairman of the board, a vice
chairman of the board, one or more vice presidents and one or more assistant
secretaries and assistant treasurers, who shall hold their offices for such
terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be
determined from time to time by the board.
Section 3. The salaries of all officers and agents of the
corporation shall be fixed by or under the direction of the board of directors.
Section 4. The officers of the corporation shall hold office at the
pleasure of the board of directors. Each officer shall hold his office until his
successor is elected and qualified or until his earlier resignation or removal.
Any officer may resign at any time upon written notice to the corporation. Any
officer elected or appointed by the board of directors may be removed at any
time by the affirmative vote of a majority of the board of directors. Any
vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation by death, resignation,
removal or otherwise shall be filled by the board of directors.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Section 5. The chairman of the board shall be a member of the board
and shall preside at its meetings and at all meetings of stockholders. The
chairman of the board shall exercise such other powers and perform such other
duties as may from time to time be assigned to him by the board or prescribed by
the by-laws.
THE PRESIDENT
Section 6. The president shall, subject to the direction and under
the supervision of the board, be the principal executive officer of the
corporation and shall have general charge of the business and affairs of the
corporation and shall keep the board fully advised. At the direction of the
board, he shall have power in the name of the corporation and on its behalf to
execute any instruments in writing. He shall employ and discharge employees and
agents of the corporation, except such as shall hold their offices by
appointment of the board, but he may delegate these powers to other officers as
to employees under their immediate supervision. He shall have such powers and
perform such duties as generally pertain to the office of president, as well as
such further powers and duties as may be prescribed by the board.
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THE VICE-PRESIDENTS
Section 7. In the absence of the president or in the event of his
inability or refusal to act, the vice-president (or in the event there be more
than one vice-president, the vice-presidents in the order designated by the
directors, or in the absence of any designation, then in the order of their
election) 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. The vice-presidents shall perform such other duties and have such
other powers as the board of directors may from time to time prescribe.
THE SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY
Section 8. The secretary shall attend all meetings of the board of
directors and all meetings of the stockholders and record all the proceedings of
the meetings of the corporation and of the board of directors in a book to be
kept for that purpose and shall perform like duties for the standing committees
when required. He shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of
the stockholders and special meetings of the board of directors, and shall
perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or
president, under whose supervision he shall be. He shall have custody of the
corporate seal of the corporation and he, or an assistant secretary, shall have
authority to affix the same to any instrument requiring it and when so affixed,
it may be attested by his signature or by the signature of such assistant
secretary. The board of directors may give general authority to any other
officer to affix the seal of the corporation and to attest the affixing by his
signature.
Section 9. The assistant secretary, or if there be more than one,
the assistant secretaries in the order determined by the board of directors (or
if there be no such determination, then in the order of their election) shall,
in the absence of the secretary or in the event of his inability or refusal to
act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the secretary and shall
perform such other duties and have such other powers as the board of directors
may from time to time prescribe.
THE TREASURER AND ASSISTANT TREASURER
Section 10. The treasurer shall have the custody of the corporate
funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and
disbursements in books belonging to the corporation and shall deposit all moneys
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.
Section 11. He shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be
ordered by the board of directors, taking proper vouchers for such
disbursements, and shall render
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to the president and the board of directors, at its regular meetings, or when
the board of directors so requires, an account of all his transactions as
treasurer and of the financial condition of the corporation.
Section 12. If required by the board of directors, he shall give the
corporation a bond (which shall be renewed every six years) in such sum and with
such surety or sureties as shall be satisfactory to the board of directors for
the faithful performance of the duties of his office and for the restoration to
the corporation, in case of his death, resignation, retirement or removal from
office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever
kind in his possession or under his control belonging to the corporation.
Section 13. The assistant treasurer, or if there be more than one,
the assistant treasurer in the order determined by the board of directors (or if
there be no such determination, then in the order of their election) shall, in
the absence of the treasurer or in the event of his inability or refusal to act,
perform the duties and exercise the powers of the treasurer and shall perform
such other duties and have such other powers as the board of directors may from
time to time prescribe.
Article VI
CERTIFICATE OF STOCK
Section 1. Every holder of stock in the corporation shall be
entitled to have a certificate, signed by, or in the name of the corporation by,
the chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, or the president or a
vice-president and the treasurer, or the secretary or an assistant secretary of
the corporation, certifying the number of shares owned by him in the
corporation.
Section 2. Any of or all the signatures on the certificate may be
facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or
whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased
to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is
issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he were
such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.
LOST CERTIFICATES
Section 3. 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
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discretion and as a condition precedent to issuance thereof, require the owner
of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his 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, stolen or destroyed.
TRANSFER OF STOCK
Section 4. 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, assignation 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.
FIXING RECORD DATE
Section 5. In order that the corporation may determine the
stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or
any adjournment thereof, or to express consent to corporate action in writing
without a meeting, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other
distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in
respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any
other lawful action, the board of directors may fix, in advance, a record date,
which shall not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date of
such meeting, nor more than sixty days prior to any other action. A
determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a
meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided,
however, that the board of directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned
meeting.
REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS
Section 6. The corporation shall be entitled to recognize the
exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to
receive dividends, and to vote as such owner, and to hold liable for calls and
assessments a person registered on its books as the owner of shares, and shall
not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such
share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have
express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of
Delaware.
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Article VII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Dividends upon the capital stock of the corporation,
subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation, if any, 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 in shares of the capital
stock, subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation.
Section 2. 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
purposes as the directors shall think conducive to the interest of the
corporation, and the directors may modify or abolish any such reserve in the
manner in which it was created.
EXECUTION OF DOCUMENTS
Section 3. Unless otherwise authorized by the board of directors,
all contracts, leases, deeds, deeds of trust, mortgages, powers of attorney to
transfer stock and for other purposes, and all other documents requiring the
seal of the corporation shall be executed for and on behalf of the corporation
by the president or any vice president and the corporate seal shall be affixed
and attested by the secretary or an assistant secretary, or the treasurer or an
assistant treasurer.
ANNUAL STATEMENT
Section 4. The board of directors shall present at each annual
meeting, and at any special meeting of the stockholders when called for by vote
of the stockholders, a full and clear statement of the business and condition of
the corporation.
FISCAL YEAR
Section 5 The fiscal year of the corporation shall be the one year
period ending on September 30 of each calendar year or as may otherwise be fixed
by resolution of the board of directors.
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SEAL
Section 6 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 or otherwise.
Article VIII
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 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, is or was a director or officer of the corporation or is or was
serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or
agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other
enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans
(hereinafter an "indemnitee"), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged
action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent or in
any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent,
shall be indemnified and held harmless by the corporation to the fullest extent
permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, 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 indemnitee in connection
therewith. Such indemnification shall continue as to an indemnitee who has
ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the
benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however,
that, except as provided in subparagraph (b) hereof, the corporation shall
indemnify any such indemnitee seeking indemnification in connection with a
proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such
proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the board of directors of the
corporation. The right to indemnification conferred in this Article VIII 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 (an "expense advancement"); provided, however, that, if the Delaware
General Corporation Law so requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by an
indemnitee in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the corporation
(and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such
indemnitee 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 upon delivery to the corporation of an undertaking, by
or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it
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shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no
further right to appeal that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified
under this Article VIII or otherwise; and provided, further, that no expense
advancement shall be paid by the corporation if independent legal counsel shall
advise the board of directors in a written opinion that based upon the facts
known to such counsel at the time, (i) the indemnitee acted in bad faith or
deliberately breached his or her duty to the corporation or its stockholders,
and (ii) as a result of such conduct by the indemnitee, it is more likely than
not that it will ultimately be determined that such indemnitee has not met the
standards of conduct which make it permissible under the Delaware General
Corporation Law for the corporation to indemnify such indemnitee. The
corporation may, by action of its board of directors, provide indemnification to
employees and agents of the corporation with the same scope and effect as the
foregoing indemnification of directors and officers.
(b) If a claim under subparagraph (a) of this Article VIII is not
paid in full by the corporation within 30 days after a written claim has been
received by the corporation, the indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring
suit against the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If
successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the
corporation to recover an expense advancement, the indemnitee shall also be
entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. It shall
be a defense to any such action that the indemnitee has not met the standards of
conduct which make it permissible under the Delaware General Corporation Law 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 indemnitee is proper in the circumstances
because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the
Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the corporation
(including its board of directors, independent legal counsel, or its
stockholders) that the indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of
conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the
indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct; provided, however,
that a determination by the board of directors denying an expense advancement
based upon the written opinion of independent legal counsel as provided for in
subparagraph (a) above shall be a complete defense to any action seeking an
expense advancement, but such determination shall not be a defense or create a
presumption that the indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified hereunder upon
the final disposition of the proceeding.
(c) The right to indemnification and the payment of expense incurred
in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in this
Article VIII shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have
or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested
directors or otherwise.
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(d) 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 such expense, liability or loss under the Delaware General
Corporation Law.
Article IX
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. These by-laws may be altered, amended or repealed or new
by-laws may be adopted by the stockholders or by the board of directors, when
such power is conferred upon the board of directors by the certificate or
incorporation, at any regular meeting of the stockholders or of the board of
directors or at any special meeting of the stockholders or of the board of
directors if notice of such alteration, amendment, repeal or adoption of new
by-laws be contained in the notice of such special meeting. If the power to
adopt, amend or repeal by-laws is conferred upon the board of directors by the
certificate of incorporation it shall not divest or limit the power of the
stockholders to adopt, amend or repeal by-laws.
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