EX1A-2B BYLAWS 4 v430604_ex2b.htm EXHIBIT (2)(B)

 

Exhibit (2)(b)

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

BYLAWS

 

OF

 

BEAUTYKIND HOLDINGS, INC.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDEX TO BYLAWS

 

OF

 

BEAUTYKIND HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

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ARTICLE I – OFFICES   1
        
1.01  Principal Office   1
1.02  Other Offices   1
1.03  Registered Office   1
        
ARTICLE II – MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS   1
        
2.01  Place of Meetings   1
2.02  Annual Meeting   1
2.03  Special Meeting   1
2.04  Notice of Annual or of Special Meeting   1
2.05  Business at Special Meeting   2
2.06  Quorum of Shareholders   2
2.07  Act of Shareholders’ Meeting   2
2.08  Voting of Shares   2
2.09  Proxies   2
2.10  Voting List   3
2.11  Closing of Transfer Books and Fixing Record Date   3
2.12  Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting   3
        
ARTICLE III – BOARD OF DIRECTORS   4
        
3.01  Powers   4
3.02  Number of Directors   4
3.03  Election and Term   4
3.04  Vacancies   4
3.05  Resignation or Removal   4
3.06  Compensation of Directors   4
3.07  Interested Directors   5
        
ARTICLE IV – MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS   5
        
4.01  First Meeting   5
4.02  Regular Meetings   5
4.03  Special Meetings   5
4.04  Business at Regular or Special Meetings   5
4.05  Quorum of Directors   6

 

 

 

 

 

4.06  Act of Directors’ Meeting   6
4.07  Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting   6
        
ARTICLE V – COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS   6
        

ARTICLE VI – NOTICES TO THE SHAREHOLDERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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6.01  Methods of Giving Notice   6
6.02  Waiver of Notice   7
6.03  Attendance of Waiver   7
        
ARTICLE VII – ACTION WITHOUT A MEETING   7
        
ARTICLE VIII – OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION   7
        
8.01  Executive Officers   7
8.02  Election and Qualification   7
8.03  Other Officers and Agents   7
8.04  Salaries   7
8.05  Term, Removal and Vacancies   7
8.06  Chief Executive Officer   8
8.07  President   8
8.08  Vice Presidents   8
8.09  Secretary   8
8.10  Assistant Secretaries   8
8.11  Treasurer   8
8.12  Assistant Treasurers   9
8.13  Officer’s Bond   9
        
ARTICLE IX – INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS   9
        
9.01  Indemnification   9
9.02  Insurance   9
        
ARTICLE X – CERTIFICATE FOR SHARES   10
        
10.01  Certificates Representing Shares   10
10.02  Restriction on Transfer of Shares   10
10.03  Transfer of Shares   11
10.04  Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Certificates   11
10.05  Distributions to Record Shareholders   11
10.06  Registered Shareholders   12

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE XI – GENERAL PROVISIONS   12
        
11.01  Distribution   12
11.02  Reserves   12
11.03  Reports   12
11.04  Checks   12
11.05  Fiscal Year   12
11.06  Seal   12
        
ARTICLE XII – AMENDMENTS   13

 

 

 

  

BYLAWS

OF

BEAUTYKIND HOLDINGS, INC.

 

 

ARTICLE I

OFFICES

 

1.01 Principal Office. The principal office of the corporation shall be located in the City of Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

 

1.02 Other Offices. The corporation also may have offices at such other places both within and without the State of Delaware as the Board of Directors (the “Board of Directors” or the “Board”) may from time to time determine or as the business of the corporation may require. The corporation shall maintain an office in California currently located at 6101 W. Centinela Avenue, Suite 394, Culver City, California 90230 (the “California Office”), or such other location in California as determined by the Board.

 

1.03 Registered Office. The corporation shall maintain a registered office in the State of Delaware

 

ARTICLE II

MEETING OF THE SHAREHOLDERS

 

2.01 Place of Meetings. All meetings of shareholders for the election of directors or for any other proper purpose shall be held at the California office, or at such other place within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate, as stated in the notice of such meeting or a duly executed waiver of notice thereof.

 

2.02 Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of shareholders, commencing in the year 2016, shall be held each year at a date and time published by the corporate secretary at least 10 calendar days in advance, unless such day is a legal holiday, in which case such meeting shall be held at the specified time on the next full business day thereafter which is not a legal holiday. At such meeting the shareholders entitled to vote thereat shall elect by a plurality vote a Board of Directors and may transact such other business as may be properly brought before the meeting.

 

2.03 Special Meeting. Special meetings of shareholders may be called by the President, the Board of Directors, or the holders of not less than one-third of all shares entitled to vote at the meeting.

 

2.04 Notice of Annual or of Special Meeting. Written or printed notice stating the place, day and hour of the meeting and, in case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be delivered not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting, either personally or by mail, by or at the direction of the President, the Secretary, or the officer or person calling the meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States Mail, addressed to the shareholder at his address as it appears on the stock transfer books of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid. However, no notice need be given to a shareholder if (i) notice of two consecutive annual meetings and all notices of meetings held during the period between those annual meetings, if any, or (ii) all (but in no event less than two) payments (if sent by first class mail) of distributions or interest on securities during a twelve (12) month period have been mailed to that person, addressed at his address as shown on the records of the corporation, and have been returned undeliverable. Any action or meeting taken or held without notice to such person shall have the same force and effect as if the notice had been duly given and, if the action taken by the corporation is reflected in any articles or document filed with the Secretary of State, those articles or that document may state that notice was duly given to all persons to whom notice was required to be given. If such a person delivers to the corporation a written notice setting forth his then current address, the requirement that notice be given to that person shall be reinstated.

 

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2.05 Business at Special Meeting. The business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice thereof.

 

2.06 Quorum of Shareholders. Unless otherwise provided in the Articles of Incorporation, the holders of 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 a quorum consist of the holders of less than one-third (1/3) of the shares entitled to vote and thus represented at such meeting. If, however, a quorum shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the shareholders, the shareholders 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.

 

2.07 Act of Shareholders’ Meeting. The vote of the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote and thus represented e a meeting which a quorum is present shall be the act of the shareholders' meeting, unless the vote of a greater number is required by law or the Articles of Incorporation.

 

2.08 Voting of Shares. Each outstanding share, regardless of class, shall be entitled to one vote on 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 are limited or denied by the Articles of Incorporation or are otherwise provided by law. At each election for directors, every shareholder entitled to vote at such election shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares owned by him for as many persons as there are directors to be elected and for whose election he has the right to vote, or unless expressly prohibited by the Articles of Incorporation to cumulate his votes.

 

2.09 Proxies. At any meeting of the shareholders, each shareholder having the right to vote shall be entitled to vote either in person or by proxy executed in writing by the shareholder or by his duly authorized attorney-in-fact. No proxy shall be valid after eleven (11) months from the date of its execution unless otherwise provided in the proxy. Each proxy shall be revocable unless the proxy form conspicuously states that the proxy is irrevocable and the proxy is coupled with an interest, or unless otherwise made irrevocable by law.

 

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2.10 Voting List. The officer or agent having charge of the stock transfer books for shares of the corporation shall make, at least ten (10) days before each meeting of shareholders, a complete list of the shareholders entitled to vote at such meeting or any adjournment thereof, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of and number of shares held by each shareholder, which list, for a period of ten (10) days prior to such meeting, shall be kept on file at the registered office of the corporation and shall be subject to inspection by any shareholder at any time during usual business hours. Such list shall also be produced and kept open at the time and place of the meeting and shall be subject to the inspection of any shareholder during the whole time of the meeting. The original stock transfer books shall be prima facie evidence as to who are the shareholders entitled to examine such list or transfer books or to vote at any such meeting of shareholders.

 

2.11 Closing of Transfer Books and Fixing 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 entitled to receive a distribution by the corporation (other than a distribution involving a purchase or redemption by the corporation of any of its own shares) or a share dividend, or in order to make a determination of shareholders for any other proper purpose, the Board of Directors may provide that the stock transfer book shall be closed for a stated period but not to exceed, in any case, sixty (60) days. If the stock transfer books shall be closed for the purpose of determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders, such books shall be closed for at least ten (10) days immediately preceding such meeting. In lieu of closing the stock transfer books, 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 the stock transfer books are not closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders, or shareholders entitled to receive a distribution by the corporation (other than a distribution involving a purchase or redemption by the corporation of any of its own shares) or a share dividend, the date on which notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on which the resolution of the Board of Directors declaring such distribution or share dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall be the record date for such determination of shareholders. When a determination of shareholders entitled to vote at any meeting of shareholders has been made as provided in this Section 2.11, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof, except where the determination has been made through the closing of stock transfer books and the stated period of closing has expired.

 

2.12 Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting. Notwithstanding any other provisions of these Bylaws, any action required by statute to be taken at any annual or special meeting of shareholders, or any action which may be taken at any annual or special meeting of shareholders, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice, and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holder or holders of shares having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to take such action at a meeting at which the holders of all shares entitled to vote on the action were present and voted.

 

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ARTICLE III

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

3.01 Powers. The business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed by 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 law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws directed or required to be exercised and done by the shareholders.

 

3.02 Number of Directors. The number of directors of the corporation constituting the Board of Directors shall not be less than three (3) nor more than nine (9). The Board of Directors as of the date of adoption of these Bylaws shall consist of three (3) directors; however, thereafter, the number of directors shall be determined in accordance with these Bylaws by resolution of the Board of Directors or of the shareholders.

 

3.03 Election and Term. The directors, other than the first Board of Directors, shall be elected at the annual meeting of the shareholders, except as provided in Section 3.04 of this Article, and each director elected shall hold office until the next succeeding annual meeting and until his successor is elected and qualified or until his death, resignation or removal. Each member of the first Board of Directors shall hold office until the first annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor is elected and qualified or until his death, resignation or removal. Directors need not be residents of the State of Delaware or shareholders of the corporation.

 

3.04 Vacancies. Any vacancy occurring in the Board of Directors may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors although less than a quorum of the Board of Directors. A director elected to fill a vacancy shall be elected for the unexpired term of his predecessor in office. Any directorship to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of directors shall be filled by election at an annual meeting or at a special meeting of the shareholders called for that purpose or may be filled by the Board of Directors for a term of office continuing only until the next election of one or more directors by the shareholders; provided that the Board of Directors may not fill more than two such directorships during the period between any two successive annual meetings of shareholders. A director elected to fill a newly created directorship shall hold office until the next succeeding annual meeting of shareholders and until his successor is elected and qualified or until his death, resignation or removal.

 

3.05 Resignation or Removal. Any director may resign at any time upon giving written notice to the corporation. At any meeting of shareholders called expressly for the purpose of removing a director or directors, any director may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote at an election of directors, and such director shall be replaced at the same meeting.

 

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3.06 Compensation of Directors. As specifically prescribed from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors, the directors of the corporation may be paid their expenses of attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors and may be paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors or a stated salary in their capacity as directors. This provision shall not preclude any director from serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefore. Members of special or standing committees may be allowed like compensation for attending committee meetings.

 

3.07 Interested Directors. No contract or transaction between the corporation and one or more of its directors or officers or between the corporation and any other corporation, partnership, association or other organization in which one or more of its directors or officers are directors or officers or have a financial interest, shall be void or voidable solely for this reason, solely because the director or officer is present at or participates in the meeting of the Board of Directors or committee thereof which authorizes the contract or transaction, or solely because his or their votes are counted for such purpose if (i) the material facts as to his relationship or interest and as to a contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the Board of Directors or the committee, and the Board of Directors or committee in good faith authorizes the contract or transaction by the affirmative vote of a majority of the disinterested directors, even though the disinterested directors be less than a quorum; or (ii) the material facts as to his relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the shareholders entitled to vote thereon, and the contract or transaction is specifically approved in good faith by vote of the shareholders; or (iii) the contract or transaction is fair as to the corporation as of the time it is authorized, approved , or ratified by the Board of Directors, a committee thereof, or the shareholders. Common or interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the Board of Directors or of a committee which authorizes the contract or transaction.

 

ARTICLE IV

MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

4.01 First Meeting. The first meeting of each newly elected Board of Directors shall be held at such time and place either within or without the State of Delaware as shall be fixed by the vote of the Shareholders 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, or the meeting may be convened at such place and time as shall be fixed by the consent in writing of all the directors.

 

4.02 Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held with or without notice at such time and at such place either within or without the State of Delaware as from time to time shall be prescribed by resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

4.03 Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the President or Chief Executive Officer, and shall be called by the President or the Secretary on the written request of one (1) directors. Written notice of special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least one (1) day prior to the date of the meeting.

 

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4.04 Business at Regular or Special Meetings. 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.

 

4.05 Quorum of Directors. A majority of the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, unless a greater number is required by law or the Articles of Incorporation. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting of the Board of Directors, the directors present there at may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present.

 

4.06 Act of Directors’ Meeting. The act of a 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 the Articles of Incorporation.

 

4.07 Action by Written Consent Without a Meeting. Any action required or permitted by law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws to be taken at a meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by all members of the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be. Such consent shall have the same force and effect as an unanimous vote at such meeting.

 

ARTICLE V

COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

The Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by a majority of the full Board of Directors, may designate from among its members an executive committee and one or more other committees, each of which, to the extent provided in such resolution or in the Articles of Incorporation or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise all of the authority of the Board of Directors, except that no such committee shall have the authority of the Board of Directors in reference to amending the Articles of Incorporation, approving a plan of merger or consolidation, recommending to the shareholders the sale, lease, or exchange of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the corporation otherwise than in the usual and regular course of its business, recommending to the shareholders a voluntary dissolution of the corporation or a revocation thereof, amending, altering, or repealing the Bylaws of the corporation or adopting new Bylaws for the corporation, filling vacancies in the Board of Directors or any such committee, electing or removing officers, members of the Board of Directors or members of any such committee, fixing the compensation of any member of such committee, or altering or repealing any resolution of the Board of Directors, which by its terms provides that it shall not be so amendable or repealable. No such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to authorize the issuance of shares of the corporation. Vacancies in the membership of the committee shall be filled by the Board of Directors at a regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors. The executive committee shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings and report the same to the Board of Directors when required. The designation of such committee and the delegation thereto of authority shall not operate to relieve the Board of Directors, or any member thereof, of any responsibility imposed upon it or him by law.

 

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ARTICLE VI

NOTICES TO THE SHAREHOLDERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

6.01 Methods of Giving Notice. Whenever any notice is required to be given to any shareholders or director under the provisions of any statute, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, it shall be given in writing and delivered personally or mailed to such shareholder or director at such address as appears on the books of the corporation, and such notice shall be deemed to be given at the time when the same shall be deposited in the United State mail with sufficient postage thereon prepaid. Notice to directors may also be given by electronic transmission, mail/email, and notice given by such means shall be deemed given at the time it is sent.

 

6.02 Waiver of Notice. Whenever any notice is required to be given to any shareholder or director wider the provisions of any law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a waiver thereof in writing signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated therein shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice.

 

6.03 Attendance as Waiver. Attendance of a director at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

ARTICLE VII

ACTION WITHOUT A MEETING

VIA TELEPHONIC OR ELECTRONIC MEANS

 

Subject to the provisions required or permitted for notice of meetings, unless otherwise restricted by the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, shareholders, members of the Board of Directors or members of any committee designated by such Board of Directors may participate in and hold a meeting of such shareholders, Board of Directors or 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 participation in such a meeting shall constitute presence in person at such meeting, except where a person participates in the meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

ARTICLE VIII

OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION

 

8.01 Executive Officers. The officers of the corporation shall consist of a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, each of whom shall be elected by the Board of Directors as provided in Section 8.02 of this Article.

 

8.02 Election and Qualification. The Board of Directors, at its first meeting after each annual meeting of shareholders, shall choose a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer, none of whom need be a member of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors also may elect one or more Vice Presidents, Assistant Secretaries, and Assistant Treasurers.

 

8.03 Other Officers and Agents. The Board of Directors may elect or appoint such other officers, assistant officers and agents as may be desirable, 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 of Directors.

 

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8.04 Salaries. The salaries of all officers and agents of the corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

8.05 Term, Removal and Vacancies. Each officer of the corporation shall hold office until his successor is chosen and qualified or until his death, resignation or removal. Any officer may resign at any time upon giving written notice to the corporation. Any officer or agent or member of a committee elected or appointed by the Board of Directors 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 of an officer or agent or member of a committee shall not of itself create contract rights. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation by death, resignation, removal or otherwise shall be filled by the Board of Directors.

 

8.06 Chief Executive Officer. The Board of Directors may designate whether the President shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation. The officer so designated as the chief executive officer shall preside at all meetings of the shareholders and the Board of Directors, and shall have such other powers and duties as usually pertain to such office or as may be delegated by the Board of Directors.

 

8.07 President. The President shall have such powers and duties as usually pertain to such office, except as the same may be modified by the Board of Directors. Unless the Board of Directors shall otherwise delegate such duties, the President shall be ex-officio a member of all standing committees, shall have general powers of oversight, supervision and management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board of Directors are carried into effect. He shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts requiring a seal, under the seal of the corporation, except where required or permitted by law to be otherwise signed and executed, and except where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board of Directors to some other officer or agent of the corporation.

 

8.08 Vice Presidents. The Vice Presidents, in the order of their seniority, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, shall, in the absence or disability of the President, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the President. They shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors shall prescribe.

 

8.09 Secretary. The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board of Directors and all meetings of the shareholders, 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 shareholders 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 keep in safe custody the seal of the corporation, and, when authorized by the Board of Directors, affix the same to any instrument requiring it, and, when so affixed, it shall be attested by his signature or by the signature of the Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary.

 

8.10 Assistant Secretaries. The Assistant Secretaries, in the order of their seniority, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, shall, in the absence or disability of the Secretary, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Secretary. They shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors from time to time may prescribe.

 

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8.11 Treasurer. 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 monies and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors. 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 to the President and the Board of Directors, at its regular meeting, or when the Board of Directors so requires, an account of all his transactions as Treasurer, and of the financial condition of the corporation.

 

8.12 Assistant Treasurers. The Assistant Treasurers, in the order of their seniority, unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, shall, in the absence or disability of the Treasurer, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Treasurer. They shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors from time to time may prescribe.

 

8.13 Officer’s Bond. If required by the Board of Directors, any officer so required shall give the corporation a bond (which shall be renewed as the Board of Directors may require) 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 any and all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in his possession or under his control belonging to the corporation.

 

ARTICLE IX

INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

 

9.01 Indemnification. To the extent required by the Articles of Incorporation of the corporation, the corporation shall indemnify each of its directors, to the full extent allowed under applicable law, pursuant to the terms, conditions, restrictions and requirements set forth in the Delaware Business Corporation Act, as amended from time to time, 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, arbitrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise. The corporation may indemnify any person, including without limitation, directors, officers, employees and agents of the corporation, to the full extent allowed under applicable law, or any lesser amount, 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, arbitrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, (i) pursuant to the terms, conditions, restrictions and requirements set forth in the Delaware Business Corporation Act, as amended from time to time, with regard to directors and (ii) to the extent the corporation could provide indemnification for a director, with regard to officers, employees and agents. Any such director, officer, employee or agent desiring indemnification shall make written application for such indemnification to the Board of Directors of the corporation. A special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be called within ten (10) days after receipt of such application to determine if the person so applying Shall be indemnified, and if so, to what extent.

 

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9.02 Insurance. The corporation may purchase and maintain insurance or make other arrangements on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or who is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, venturer, proprietor, trustee, employee or similar functionary of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise.

ARTICLE X

CERTIFICATE FOR SHARES

 

10.01 Certificates Representing Shares. The corporation shall deliver certificates representing all shares to which shareholders are entitled. Certificates representing shares of the corporation shall be in such form as may be determined by the Board of Directors. Such certificates shall be numbered and shall be entered in the books of the corporation as they are issued, and shall be signed by the President or a Vice President, and the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the corporation, and may be sealed with the seal of the corporation or a facsimile thereof The signatures of the President or Vice President, and the Secretary or Assistant Secretary, upon a certificate may be facsimiles, if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent or registered by a registrar, either of which is other than the corporation itself or an employee of the corporation. In case any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon such certificate 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 were such officer at the date of its issuance. If the corporation is authorized to issue shares of more than one class, each certificate representing shares issued by such corporation (1) shall conspicuously set forth on the face or back of the certificate a full statement of (a) all of the designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights of the shares of each class authorized to be issued and, (b) if the corporation is authorized to issue shares of any preferred or special class in series, the variations in the relative rights and preferences of the shares of each such series to the extent the same have been fixed and determined and the authority of the Board of Directors to fix and determine the relative rights and preferences of subsequent series; or (2) shall conspicuously state on the face or back of the certificate that (a) such a statement is set forth in the Articles of Incorporation on file in the office of the Secretary of State of Delaware and (b) the corporation will furnish a copy of such statement to the record holder of the certificate without charge on written request to the corporation at its principal place of business or registered office. If the corporation has by its Articles of Incorporation limited or denied the preemptive rights of shareholders to acquire unissued or treasury shares of the corporation, each certificate representing shares issued by such corporation (1) shall conspicuously set forth on the face or back of the certificate a full statement of the limitation or denial of preemptive rights contained in the Articles of Incorporation, or (2) shall conspicuously state on the face or back of the certificate that (a) such a statement is set forth in. the Articles of Incorporation on file in the office of the Secretary of State of Delaware and (b) the corporation will furnish a copy of such statement to the record holder of the certificate without charge on request to the corporation at its principal place of business or registered office. Each certificate representing shares shall state upon the face thereof that the corporation is organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, the name of the person to whom issued, the number and class of shares and the designation of the series, if any, which such certificate represents and the par value of each share represented by such certificate or a statement that the shares are without par value. No certificate shall be issued for any share until the consideration therefore, fixed as provided by law, has been fully paid.

 

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10.02 Restriction on Transfer of Shares. If any restriction on the transfer, or registration of the transfer, of shares shall be imposed or agreed to by the corporation, as permitted by law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, each certificate representing shares so restricted (1) shall conspicuously set forth a full or summary statement of the restriction on the face of the certificate, or (2) shall set forth such statement on the back of the certificate and conspicuously refer to the same on the face of the certificate, or (3) shall conspicuously state on the face or back of the certificate that such a restriction exists pursuant to a specified document and (a) that the corporation will furnish to the record holder of the certificate without charge on written request to the corporation at its principal place of business or registered office a copy of the specified document, or (b) if such document is one required or permitted to be and has been filed under applicable law, that such specified document is on file in the Office of the Secretary of State of Delaware and contains a full statement of such restriction. Unless such document was on file in the Office of the Secretary of State of Delaware at the time of the request, if the corporation fails within a reasonable time to furnish the record holder of a certificate, upon such request and without charge, a copy of the specified document, the corporation shall not be permitted thereafter to enforce its rights under the restriction imposed on the shares represented by such certificate. Any restriction on the transfer, or registration of transfer, of shares of the corporation, if reasonable and noted conspicuously on the certificates representing such shares, may be enforced against the holder of the restricted shares or any successor or transferee of the holder including an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, or other fiduciary entrusted with like responsibility for the person or estate of the holder. Unless noted conspicuously on the certificates representing such shares, a restriction, even though otherwise enforceable, is ineffective except against a person with actual knowledge of the restriction.

 

10.03 Transfer of Shares. Upon surrender to the corporation or the transfer agent of the corporation of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the corporation to issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate, and record the transaction upon its books.

 

10.04 Lost, Stolen or Destroyed 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, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, may 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.

 

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10.05 Distributions to Record Shareholders. Distributions of cash or property (tangible or intangible) made or payable by any corporation, whether in liquidations or from earnings, profits, assets, or capital, including all distributions that were payable but not paid to the registered owner of the shares, his heirs, successors, or assigns but that are now being held in suspense by the corporation or that were paid or delivered by it into an escrow account or to a trustee or custodian, shall be payable by the corporation, escrow agent, trustee, or custodian to the person registered as owner of the shares in the corporation's stock transfer books as of-the record date determined for that distribution as provided in Section 2.11 of these Bylaws, his heirs, successors, or assigns. The person in whose name the shares are or were registered in the stock transfer books of the corporation as of the record date shall be deemed to be the owner of the shares registered in his name at that time. Neither the corporation nor any of its officers, directors, or agents shall be under any liability for making such a distribution to a person in whose name shares were registered in the stock transfer books as of the record date or to the heirs, successors, or assigns of the person, even though the person, or his heirs, successors, or assigns, may not possess a certificate for shares.

 

10.06 Registered Shareholders. The corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive distributions, and to vote as such owner, 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 the State of Delaware.

 

ARTICLE XI

GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

11.01 Distribution. The Board of Directors from time to time may authorize, and the corporation make distributions in cash, in property, or in its own shares, except when the corporation is insolvent, or when the payment thereof would render the corporation insolvent, the distribution exceeds the surplus of the corporation or when the declaration or payment thereof would be contrary to any restrictions contained in the Articles of Incorporation. Such distributions may be declared at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors, and the declaration and payment shall be subject to all applicable provisions of law, the Articles of Incorporation and these Bylaws.

 

11.02 Reserves. Before payment of any distributions, there may be set aside out of any funds of the corporation available for distributions such sum or sums as the directors from time to time, in their absolute discretion, deem proper as a reserve fund to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the corporation, or for such other purpose as the directors shall deem 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.

 

 

11.03 Reports. The Board of Directors shall, when requested by the holders of at least a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote, prepare and send to the shareholders a report, not more often than quarterly, of the amount of business and the financial condition of the corporation.

 

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11.04 Checks. All checks or demands for money and notes of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the Board of Directors from time to time may designate.

 

11.05 Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors.

 

11.06 Seal. The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the corporation and may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.

 

 

ARTICLE XII

AMENDMENTS

 

12.01 Amendments. The Bylaws of the corporation shall be adopted by the Board of Directors. The power to alter, amend, or repeal the Bylaws or adopt new Bylaws, subject to repeal or change by action of the shareholders, is vested in the Board of Directors. Thus, these Bylaws may be altered, amended, or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors at which a quorum is present, subject to repeal or change at any regular or special meeting of the shareholders at which a quorum is present, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares entitled to vote at such meeting and present or represented thereat, provided notice of the proposed repeal or change is contained in the notice of such meeting. The Bylaws may contain any provision for the regulation and management of the affairs of the corporation not inconsistent with law or the Articles of Incorporation.

 

 

Adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation on this the [ ] day of [ ], 2016.

 

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

 

 

By:  
John Hilburn Davis, IV, Director
     
     
By:  
Neil S. Waterman, III, Director
     
     
By:  
E. Pierce Marshall, Jr., Director

 

 

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