ROANOKE TECHNOLOGY CORP
SB-2, EX-3.2, 2000-10-18
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EXHIBIT 3.2
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                         BYLAWS
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                           OF
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               SUFFIELD TECHNOLOGIES CORP
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                        ARTICLE I
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SHAREHOLDERS
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1.  SHARE CERTIFICATES.  Certificates evidencing fully-paid
    shares of the corporation shall set forth thereon the
    statements prescribed by Section 607.0625 of the Florida
    Business Corporation Act ("Business Corporation Act") and by
    any other applicable provision of law, must be signed, either
    manually or in facsimile, by any one of the following
    officers:  the President, a Vice President, the Secretary, an
    Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer, an Assistant Secretary,
    by an officer designated by the Board of Directors, and may
    bear the corporate seal or its facsimile.  If the person who
    signed, either manually or in facsimile, a share certificate
    no longer holds office when the certificate is issued, the
    certificate is nevertheless valid.
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2.     FRACTIONAL SHARES OR SCRIP.  The corporation may:
    issue fractions of a share or pay in money the fair value of
    fractions of share:  make arrangements, or provide reasonable
    opportunity, for any person entitled to or holding a
    fractional interest in a share to sell such fractional
    interest or to purchase such additional fractional interests
    as may be necessary to acquire a full share; and issue scrip
    in registered or bearer form, over the manual or facsimile
    signature of an officer of the corporation or its agent,
    entitling the holder to receive a full share upon surrendering
    enough scrip to equal a full share.  Each certificate
    representing scrip must be conspicuously labeled "scrip" and
    must contain the information required by of Section 607.0625
    of the Business Corporation Act.  The holder of a fractional
    share is entitled to exercise the rights of a shareholder,
    including the right to vote, to receive dividends, and to
    participate in the assets of the corporation upon liquidation.
    The holder of scrip is not entitled to any of these rights
    unless the scrip provides for them.  The Board of Directors
    may authorize the issuance of scrip subject to any condition
    considered desirable, including (a) that the scrip will become
    void if not exchanged for full shares before a specified date;
    and (b) that the shares for which the scrip is exchangeable
    may be sold and the proceeds paid to the scripholders.
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3.     SHARE TRANSFERS.     Upon compliance with any
    provisions restricting the transferability of shares that may
    be set forth in the articles of incorporation, these Bylaws,
    or any written agreement in respect thereof, transfers of
    shares of the corporation shall be made only on the books of
    the corporation by the registered holder thereof, or by his
    attorney thereunto authorized by power of attorney duly
    executed and filed with the Secretary of the corporation, or
    with a agent or a registrar and on surrender of the
    certificate or certificates for such shares properly endorsed
    and the payment of all taxes thereon, if any.  Except as may
    be otherwise provided by law or these Bylaws, the person in
    whose name shares stand on the books of the corporation shall
    be deemed the owner thereof for all purposes as regards the
    corporation; provided that whenever any transfer of shares
    shall be made for collateral security, and not absolutely,
    such fact, if known to the Secretary of the
    corporation shall be so expressed in the entry of transfer.
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4.     RECORD DATE FOR SHAREHOLDERS.  For the purpose of
    determining shareholders entitled  to notice of or to vote any
    meeting of shareholders to demand a special meeting, or to
    take any other action, the Board of Directors, of the
    corporation may fix a date as the record date for any such
    determination of shareholders, such date in any case to be not
    more than seventy days before the meeting or action requiring
    such determination of shareholders.  A determination of
    shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a
    shareholders' meeting is effective for any adjournment of the
    meeting unless the Board of Directors fixes a new record date,
    which it must do if the meeting is adjourned to a date more
    than one hundred twenty days (120) days after the date fixed
    for the original meeting.
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5.     MEANING OF CERTAIN TERMS.  As used herein in respect of the
    right to notice of a meeting of shareholders or a waiver
    thereof or to participate or vote thereat or to consent or
    dissent in writing in lieu of a meeting, as the case may be,
    the term "share"  or  "shares" or "shareholder"  or
    "shareholders" refers to an outstanding share or shares and to
    a holder or holders of record of outstanding shares when the
    corporation is authorized to issue only on a class of shares,
    and said reference is also intended to include any outstanding
    share or shares and any holder or holders of record of
    outstanding shares of any class upon which or upon whom the
    articles of incorporation confer such rights where there are
    two or more classes or series of shares or upon whom the
    Business Corporation Act confers such rights
    notwithstanding that the articles of incorporation may provide
    for more than one class or series of shares, one or more of
    which are limited or denied such rights thereunder.
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6.     SHAREHOLDER  MEETING.
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     -TIME.  The annual meeting shall be held on the date fixed
    from time to time by the directors.  A special meeting shall
    be held on the date fixed from time to time by the directors
    except when the Business Corporation Act confers
    the right to call a special meeting upon the shareholders.
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     -PLACE.  Annual meetings and special meetings shall be held
    at such place in or out of the State of Florida as the
    directors shall from time to time fix.
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     -CALL.  Annual meetings may be called by the directors or the
    Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the
    Board of Directors, the President , or the Secretary or by an
    officer instructed by the directors or the President to call
    the meeting.  Special meetings may be called in like manner.
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     -NOTICE OR ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER OF NOTICE .  The
    corporation shall notify shareholders of the date, time, and
    place of each annual and special shareholders' meeting.  Such
    notice shall be no fewer than ten or more than sixty days
    before the meeting date.  Unless the Business Corporation Act
    or the articles of incorporation require otherwise, notice of
    an annual meeting need not include a description of the
    purpose or purposes for which the meeting need not include a
    description of the purpose or purposes for which the meeting
    is called.  Notice shall be given in the manner provided in
    Section 607.0141 of the Business Corporation Act, by or at
    the direction of the President, the Secretary, or the officer
    or persons calling the meeting.  Notice of a special meeting
    must include a description of the purpose or purposes for
    which the meeting is called.  Unless the Business Corporation
    Act or the articles of incorporation require
    otherwise, the corporation is required to give notice only to
    shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting.  A shareholder
    may waive any notice required by the Business Corporation Act,
    the articles of incorporation, or the Bylaws before or after
    the date and time stated in the notice.  The waiver must be in
    writing, be signed by the shareholder entitled to the notice,
    and be delivered to the corporation for inclusion in the
    objection to lack of notice or defective notice of the
    meeting, unless the shareholder at the beginning of the
    meeting objects to holding the meeting or transacting business
    at the meeting; or waives objection to consideration of a
    particular matter at the meeting that is not within the
    purpose or purposes described in the meeting notice, unless
    the shareholder objects to considering the matter when it is
    presented.
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     -VOTING LIST FOR MEETING.  After fixing a record date for a
    meeting, the corporation shall prepare an alphabetical list of
    the names of all its shareholders who are entitled to notice
    of a shareholders' meeting, arranged by voting group, with the
    address of and number  and class and series, if any of shares
    held by each shareholder.  The shareholders' list must be
    available for inspection by any shareholder, for a period of
    ten days prior to the meeting or such sorter time as exists
    between the record date and the meeting and continuing
    through the meeting at the corporation's
    principal office, or at a place identified in the meeting
    notice in the city where the meeting will be held, or at the
    office, of the corporation's transfer agent or registrar.  A
    shareholder, his agent or attorney is entitled on written
    demand to inspect the list subject to the requirements of
    Section 607.1602(3) of the Business Corporation Act, to copy
    the list, during regular business hours and at his expense,
    during the period it is available for inspection.  The
    corporation shall make the shareholders' list available at the
    meeting, and any shareholder, or his agent or attorney is
    entitled to inspect the list at any time during the meeting or
    any adjournment.
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     -CONDUCT OF MEETING.  Meetings of the shareholders shall be
    presided over by one of the following officers in the order of
    seniority and if present and acting - the Chairman of the
    Board, if any, the Vice Chairman of the Board,  if any, the
    President, a Vice President, if any, or, if none of the
    foregoing is in office and present and acting, by a chairman
    to be chosen by the shareholders.  The Secretary of the
    corporation, or his absence, an Assistant Secretary, shall act
    as secretary of every meeting, but, if neither the Secretary
    nor an Assistant Secretary is present, the chairman of the
    meeting shall appoint a secretary of he meeting.
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     -PROXY REPRESENTATION.  A shareholder may appoint a proxy to
    vote or otherwise act for him by signing an appointment from,
    either personally or his attorney-in-fact.  An appointment of
    a proxy is effective when received by the Secretary or other
    officer or agent authorized to tabulate votes.
    An appointment is valid for up to eleven months, unless a
    longer period is expressly provided in the appointment form.
    An appointment of a proxy is revocable by the shareholder
    unless the anointment form conspicuously states that it is
    irrevocable and the appointment is coupled with an interest.
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     -SHARES HELD BY NOMINEES.  The corporation may establish a
    procedure by which the beneficial owner of shares that are
    registered in the name of a nominee is recognized by the
    corporation as the shareholder.  The extent of this
    recognition may be determined in the procedure.
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    -QUORUM .  Unless the articles of incorporation or the
    Business Corporation Act provides otherwise, a majority of the
    votes entitled to be cast on a matter by a voting a group
    constitutes a quorum o that voting group for action on that
    matter.  Shares entitled to vote as a separate voting group
    may take action on a matter at a meeting only if a quorum of
    those shares exists with respect to that matter.  Once a share
    is represented for any purpose at a meeting, it is deemed
    present for quorum purposes for the remainder of the meeting
    and for any adjournment of that meeting unless a new record
    date is or must be set for that adjourned meeting.
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     -VOTING.  Directors are elected by a plurality of the votes
    cast by the shares entitled to vote in the election at a
    meeting at which a quorum is present.  If a quorum exists,
    action on a matter, other than the election of directors, by a
    voting group  is approved if the votes cast within the voting
    group favoring the action exceed the votes cast opposing the
    action, unless the articles of incorporation or the Business
    Corporation Act requires a greater number of affirmative
    votes.
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7.  ACTION WITHOUT MEETING.  Unless otherwise provided in the
    articles of incorporation action required or permitted by the
    provisions of the Business Corporation Act to be taken at an
    annual or special meeting of shareholders may be taken without
    a meeting, without prior notice, and without a vote if the
    action is taken by the holders of outstanding stock of each
    voting group entitled to vote thereon having not less than the
    minimum number of votes with respect to each voting group that
    would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a
    meeting at which all voting groups and shares entitled to vote
    hereon were present and voted.  In order to be effective the
    action must be evidenced by one or more written consents
    describing the action taken , dated and signed by approving
    shareholders having the requisite number of each voting group
    entitled to vote thereon, and delivered to the corporation by
    delivery to its principal office in State of Florida, its
    principal place of business, the corporate Secretary, or
    another officer or agent of the corporation having custody of
    the book in which proceedings of meetings of shareholders are
    recorded.  No written consent shall be effective to take the
    corporate action referred to therein, unless within sixty days
    of the date of the earliest dated consent delivered in the
    manner require by Section 607.0704 of the Business Corporation
    Act, written consents signed by holders of shares having the
    number of votes required to take action are delivered to the
    corporation by delivery as set forth in Section 607.0704 of
    the Florida Business  Corporation Act.  Action under thus
    paragraph be subject to the requirements of Section 607.0704
    of the Business Corporation Act.
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                       ARTICLE II
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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1.  FUNCTIONS GENERALLY - COMPENSATION.  All corporate power
shall be exercised by or under the authority of, and the business
and affairs of the corporation managed under the direction of,
a Board of Directors.  The Board may fix the compensation of
directors.
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2.QUALIFICATIONS AND NUMBER.  A director need not be a
shareholder, a citizen of the United States, or a resident of
the State of Florida.  The initial Board of Directors shall
consist of one person, which shall be the number of directors
until changed.  Thereafter, the number of directors shall not be
less than one (1) nor more than ten (10).  The number of
directors may be fixed or changed from time to time by the
shareholders.  The number shall never be less than one.
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3.   TERMS AND VACANCIES.  The Terms of the initial directors of
the corporation expire at the first shareholders' meeting at
which directors are elected.  The terms of all other directors
expire at the next annual shareholders' meeting following
their election.  A decrease in the number of
directors does not shorten an incumbent director's term.  The term
of a director elected to fill a vacancy expires at the next
shareholders' meeting at which directors are elected.  Despite
the expiration of a director's term, the director
continues to serve until his successor is elected and qualifies or
until there is a decrease in the number of directors.
Whenever a vacancy occurs on the Board of Directors, including
a vacancy resulting from an increase in the numbers of directors,
it may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the
remaining directors, through less than a quorum of the Board
of Directors, or by the shareholders, unless the articles of
incorporation provide otherwise.
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4.     MEETINGS.
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     -TIME.  Meetings shall be held at such time as the Board
    shall fix, except that the first meeting of a newly elected
    Board shall be held as soon after its election as the
    directors may conveniently assemble.
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     -PLACE. The Board of Directors may hold regular or special
    meetings in or out of the State of Florida at such place as
    shall be fixed by the Board.
     -CALL.  No call shall be required for regular meetings for
    which  time and place have been fixed.  Special meetings may
    be called by or at the direction of the Chairman of the Board,
    if any, the Vice Chairman of the Board, if any, of the
    President, or of a unanimous decision by all of the directors
    in office.
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     -NOTICE OR ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER.  Regular meetings
    of the Board of Directors may be held without notice of the
    date, time, place, or purpose of the meeting.  Written, or
    oral, notice of the time and place shall be given for special
    meetings in sufficient time for the convenient assembly of the
    directors thereat.  The notice of a special meeting need not
    describe the purpose of the meeting.  Notice of a meeting of
    the Board of Directors need not given to any director who
    signs a waiver of notice of such meeting and a waiver of any
    and all objection to the place of the meeting, the time of the
    meeting, or the manner in which it has been called or
    convened, except when a director states, at the beginning of
    the meeting or promptly upon arrival at the meeting, any
    objection to the transaction of business because the meeting
    is not lawfully called or convened.
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     -QUORUM AND ACTION.  A quorum of the Board of Directors
    consists of a majority of the number of directors prescribed
    in or fixed in accordance with these Bylaws.  If a quorum is
    present when a vote is taken, the affirmative vote of a
    unanmious vote of directors present is the act of the Board of
    Directors.  The Board of Directors may permit any or all
    directors to participate in a regular or special meeting by,
    or conduct the meeting through use of, any means of
    communication by which all directors participating may
    simultaneously hear each other during the meeting.  A director
    participating in a meeting by this means is deemed to be
    present in person at the meeting.
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     -CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING.  Meetings of the Board of Directors
    shall be presided over by the following directors in the order
    of seniority and if present and acting the Chairman of the
    Board, if any, the Vice Chairman of the Board, if any, the
    President, or ny other director chosen by the Board.
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5.  REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS .  The shareholders may remove one or
    more directors with or without cause pursuant to the
    provisions of Section 607.0808 of the Business Corporation
    Act.
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6.  COMMITTEES.  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 the Bylaws,
    shall have and may exercise all the authority of the Board of
    Directors, except such authority as may not be delegated under
    the Business Corporation Act.  Each committee may have two or
    more members, who serve at the pleasure of the Board of
    Directors. The provisions of Sections 607.082, 607.0823, and
    607.0824 of the Business Corporation Act, which govern
    meetings, notice and waiver of notice, and quorum and voting
    requirements, apply to committees and their members as well.
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7.  ACTION WITHOUT MEETING.  Action required or permitted by the
    Business Corporation Act to be taken at a Board of Directors'
    meeting or committee meeting may be taken without a meeting if
    the action is taken by all members of the Board or of the
    committee.  The action must be evidenced by one or more
    written consents describing the action taken, signed by each
    director or committee member.  Action taken under this
    paragraph is effective when the last director signs the
    consent, unless the consent specifies a different effective
    date.
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                        ARTICLE III
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OFFICERS
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    The corporation shall have a President, and a Secretary, and
    such other officers as may be deemed necessary, who may be
    appointed by the directors.  The same individual may
    simultaneously hold more than one office in the corporation.
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    A duly appointed officer may appoint one or more officers or
    assistant officers is authorized by the Board of Directors.
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    Each officer of the corporation has the authority and shall
    perform the duties prescribed by the Board of Directors or by
    direction of an officer authorized by the Board of Directors
    to prescribe the duties of other officers; provided, that the
    Secretary shall have the responsibility for preparation and
    custody of minutes of the directors' and shareholders'
    meetings and for authenticating records of the corporation.
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    The Board of Directors may remove any officer at any time with
    or without cause.
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                        ARTICLE IV
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               REGISTERED OFFICE AND AGENT
    The address of the initial registered office of the
    corporation and the name of the initial registered agent of
    the corporation are set forth in the original articles of
    incorporation.
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