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BY-LAWS
OF
DREYFUS BASIC MUNICIPAL FUND, INC.
(A Maryland Corporation)
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ARTICLE I
STOCKHOLDERS
1. CERTIFICATES REPRESENTING STOCK. Certificates representing shares
of stock shall set forth thereon the statements prescribed by Section 2-211 of
the Maryland General Corporation Law ("General Corporation Law") and by any
other applicable provision of law and shall be signed by the Chairman of the
Board or the President or a Vice President and countersigned by the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer and may be
sealed with the corporate seal. The signatures of any such officers may be
either manual or facsimile signatures and the corporate seal may be either
facsimile or any other form of seal.
In case any such officer who has signed manually or by facsimile any such
certificate ceases to be such officer before the certificate is issued, it
nevertheless may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if the
officer had not ceased to be such officer as of the date of its issue.
No certificate representing shares of stock shall be issued for any
share of stock until such share is fully paid, except as otherwise authorized in
Section 2-206 of the General Corporation Law.
The corporation may issue a new certificate of stock in place of any
certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or
destroyed, and the Board of Directors may require, in its discretion, the owner
of any such certificate or the owner's legal representative to give bond, with
sufficient surety, to the corporation to indemnify it against any loss or claim
that may arise by reason of the issuance of a new certificate.
The Board of Directors at any time may discontinue the issuance of
certificates representing shares of stock and by written notice to each
stockholder, may require the surrender of certificates of stock to the
corporation for cancellation. Such surrender and cancellation shall not affect
the ownership of stock in the corporation.
2. SHARE TRANSFERS. Upon compliance with provisions restricting the
transferability of shares of stock, if any, transfers of shares of stock of the
corporation shall be made only on the stock transfer books of the corporation by
the record 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
transfer agent or a registrar, if any, and on surrender of the certificate or
certificates, if any, for such shares of stock properly endorsed and the payment
of all taxes due thereon.
3. RECORD DATE FOR STOCKHOLDERS. The Board of Directors may fix, in
advance, a date as the record date for the purpose of determining stockholders
entitled to notice of, or to vote at, any meeting of stockholders, or
stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or the allotment of any
rights or in order to make a determination of stockholders for any other proper
purpose. Such date, in any case, shall be not more than 90 days, and in case of
a meeting of stockholders not less than 10 days, prior to the date on which the
meeting or particular action requiring such determination of stockholders is to
be held or taken. In lieu of fixing a record date, the Board of Directors may
provide that the stock transfer books shall be closed for a stated period but
not to exceed 20 days. If the stock transfer books are closed for the purpose of
determining stockholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at, a meeting of
stockholders, such books shall be closed for at least 10 days immediately
preceding such meeting. If no record date is fixed and the stock transfer books
are not closed for the determination of stockholders: (1) The record date for
the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at, a
meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day on which
the notice of meeting is mailed or the day 30 days before the meeting, whichever
is the closer date to the meeting; and (2) The record date for the determination
of stockholders entitled to receive payment of a dividend or an allotment of any
rights shall be at the close of business on the day on which the resolution of
the Board of Directors declaring the dividend or allotment of rights is adopted,
provided that the payment or allotment date shall not be more than 60 days after
the date on which the resolution is adopted.
4. MEANING OF CERTAIN TERMS. As used herein in respect of the right to
notice of a meeting of stockholders 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 of stock" or "shares of stock" or "stockholder" or
"stockholders" refers to an outstanding share or shares of stock and to a holder
or holders of record of outstanding shares of stock when the corporation is
authorized to issue only one class of shares of stock and said reference also is
intended to include any outstanding share or shares of stock and any holder or
holders of record of outstanding shares of stock of any class or series upon
which or upon whom the Charter confers such rights where there are two or more
classes or series of shares or upon which or upon whom the General Corporation
Law confers such rights notwithstanding that the Charter may provide for more
than one class or series of shares of stock, one or more of which are limited or
denied such rights thereunder.
5. STOCKHOLDER MEETINGS.
ANNUAL MEETINGS. If a meeting of the stockholders of the
corporation is required by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, to
elect the directors, then there shall be submitted to the stockholders at such
meeting the question of the election of directors, and a meeting called for that
purpose shall be designated the annual meeting of stockholders for that year. In
other years in which no action by stockholders is required for the aforesaid
election of directors, no annual meeting need be held.
SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special stockholder meetings for any purpose
may be called by the Board of Directors or the President and shall be called by
the Secretary for the purpose of removing a Director whenever the holders of
shares entitled to at least ten percent of all the votes entitled to be cast at
such meeting shall make a duly authorized request that such meeting be called.
The Secretary shall call a special meeting of stockholders for all other
purposes whenever the holders of shares entitled to at least a majority of all
the votes entitled to be cast at such meeting shall make a duly authorized
request that such meeting be called. Such request shall state the purpose of
such meeting and the matters proposed to be acted on thereat, and no other
business shall be transacted at any such special meeting. The Secretary shall
inform such stockholders of the reasonably estimated costs of preparing and
mailing the notice of the meeting, and upon payment to the corporation of such
costs, the Secretary shall give notice in the manner provided for below.
PLACE AND TIME. Stockholder meetings shall be held at such
place, either within the State of Maryland or at such other place within the
United States, and at such date or dates as the directors from time to time may
fix.
NOTICE OR ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER OF NOTICE. Written or
printed notice of all meetings shall be given by the Secretary and shall state
the time and place of the meeting. The notice of a special meeting shall state
in all instances the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.
Written or printed notice of any meeting shall be given to each stockholder
either by mail or by presenting it to the stockholder personally or by leaving
it at his or her residence or usual place of business not less than 10 days and
not more than 90 days before the date of the meeting, unless any provisions of
the General Corporation Law shall prescribe a different elapsed period of time,
to each stockholder at his or her address appearing on the books of the
corporation or the address supplied by the stockholder for the purpose of
notice. If mailed, notice shall be deemed to be given when deposited in the
United States mail addressed to the stockholder at his or her post office
address as it appears on the records of the corporation with postage thereon
prepaid. Whenever any notice of the time, place or purpose of any meeting of
stockholders is required to be given under the provisions of these by-laws or of
the General Corporation Law, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the
stockholder and filed with the records of the meeting, whether before or after
the holding thereof, or actual attendance or representation at the meeting shall
be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice to such stockholder. The
foregoing requirements of notice also shall apply, whenever the corporation
shall have any class of stock which is not entitled to vote, to holders of stock
who are not entitled to vote at the meeting, but who are entitled to notice
thereof and to dissent from any action taken thereat.
QUORUM. At any meeting of stockholders, the presence in person
or by proxy of stockholders entitled to cast one-third of the votes thereat
shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum, the stockholders present
in person or by proxy, by majority vote and without notice other than by
announcement, may adjourn the meeting from time to time, but not for a period
exceeding 120 days after the original record date until a quorum shall attend.
ADJOURNED MEETINGS. A meeting of stockholders convened on the
date for which it was called (including one adjourned to achieve a quorum as
provided in the paragraph above) may be adjourned from time to time without
further notice to a date not more than 120 days after the original record date,
and any business may be transacted at any adjourned meeting which could have
been transacted at the meeting as originally called.
CONDUCT OF MEETING. Meetings of the stockholders shall be
presided over by one of the following officers in the order of seniority and if
present and acting: the President, a Vice President or, if none of the foregoing
is in office and present and acting, by a chairman to be chosen by the
stockholders. The Secretary of the corporation or, in his or her 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 the meeting.
PROXY REPRESENTATION. Every stockholder may authorize another
person or persons to act for him by proxy in all matters in which a stockholder
is entitled to participate, whether for the purposes of determining the
stockholder's presence at a meeting, or whether by waiving notice of any
meeting, voting or participating at a meeting, expressing consent or dissent
without a meeting or otherwise. Every proxy shall be executed in writing by the
stockholder or by his or her duly authorized attorney-in-fact or be in such
other form as may be permitted by the General Corporation Law, including
documents conveyed by electronic transmission and filed with the Secretary of
the corporation. A copy, facsimile transmission or other reproduction of the
writing or transmission may be substituted for the original writing or
transmission for any purpose for which the original transmission could be used.
No unrevoked proxy shall be valid after 11 months from the date of its
execution, unless a longer time is expressly provided therein. The placing of a
stockholder's name on a proxy pursuant to telephonic or electronically
transmitted instructions obtained pursuant to procedures reasonably designed to
verify that such instructions have been authorized by such stockholder shall
constitute execution of such proxy by or on behalf of such stockholder.
INSPECTORS OF ELECTION. The directors, in advance of any
meeting, may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting
or any adjournment thereof. If an inspector or inspectors are not appointed, the
person presiding at the meeting may, but need not, appoint one or more
inspectors. In case any person who may be appointed as an inspector fails to
appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the directors in
advance of the meeting or at the meeting by the person presiding thereat. Each
inspector, if any, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take
and sign an oath to execute faithfully the duties of inspector at such meeting
with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability. The
inspectors, if any, shall determine the number of shares outstanding and the
voting power of each, the shares represented at the meeting, the existence of a
quorum and the validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes, ballots
or consents, hear and determine all challenges and questions arising in
connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes, ballots or
consents, determine the result and do such acts as are proper to conduct the
election or vote with fairness to all stockholders. On request of the person
presiding at the meeting or any stockholder, the inspector or inspectors, if
any, shall make a report in writing of any challenge, question or matter
determined by him or them and execute a certificate of any fact found by him or
them.
VOTING. Each share of stock shall entitle the holder thereof
to one vote, except in the election of directors, at which each said vote may be
cast for as many persons as there are directors to be elected.
Except for election of directors, a majority of the votes cast at a meeting of
stockholders, duly called and at which a quorum is present, shall be sufficient
to take or authorize action upon any matter which may come before a meeting,
unless more than a majority of votes cast is required by the corporation's
Articles of Incorporation. A plurality of all the votes cast at a meeting at
which a quorum is present shall be sufficient to elect a director.
6. INFORMAL ACTION. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a
meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing,
setting forth such action, is signed by all the stockholders entitled to vote on
the subject matter thereof and any other stockholders entitled to notice of a
meeting of stockholders (but not to vote thereat) have waived in writing any
rights which they may have to dissent from such action and such consent and
waiver are filed with the records of the corporation.
ARTICLE II
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
1. FUNCTIONS AND DEFINITION. The business and affairs of the
corporation shall be managed under the direction of a Board of Directors. The
use of the phrase "entire board" herein refers to the total number of directors
which the corporation would have if there were no vacancies.
2. QUALIFICATIONS AND NUMBER. Each director shall be a natural person
of full age. A director need not be a stockholder, a citizen of the United
States or a resident of the State of Maryland. The initial Board of Directors
shall consist of one person. Thereafter, the number of directors constituting
the entire board shall never be less than three or the number of stockholders,
whichever is less. At any regular meeting or at any special meeting called for
that purpose, a majority of the entire Board of Directors may increase or
decrease the number of directors, provided that the number thereof shall never
be less than three or the number of stockholders, whichever is less, nor more
than twelve and further provided that the tenure of office of a director shall
not be affected by any decrease in the number of directors.
3. ELECTION AND TERM. The first Board of Directors shall
consist of the director named in the Articles of Incorporation and shall hold
office until the first meeting of stockholders or until his or her successor has
been elected and qualified. Thereafter, directors who are elected at a meeting
of stockholders, and directors who are elected in the interim to fill vacancies
and newly created directorships, shall hold office until their successors have
been elected and qualified. Newly created directorships and any vacancies in the
Board of Directors, other than vacancies resulting from the removal of directors
by the stockholders, may be filled by the Board of Directors, subject to the
provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Newly created
directorships filled by the Board of Directors shall be by action of a majority
of the entire Board of Directors then in office. All vacancies to be filled by
the Board of Directors may be filled by a majority of the remaining members of
the Board of Directors, although such majority is less than a quorum thereof.
4. MEETINGS.
TIME. Meetings shall be held at such time as the Board of
Directors shall fix, except that the first meeting of a newly elected Board of
Directors shall be held as soon after its election as the directors conveniently
may assemble.
PLACE. Meetings shall be held at such place within or without
the State of Maryland as shall be fixed by the Board.
CALL. No call shall be required for regular meetings for
which the time and place have been fixed. Special meetings may be called by or
at the direction of the President or of a majority of the directors in office.
NOTICE OR ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER. Whenever any notice
of the time, place or purpose of any meeting of directors or any committee
thereof is required to be given under the provisions of the General Corporation
Law or of these by-laws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the director or
committee member entitled to such notice and filed with the records of the
meeting, whether before or after the holding thereof, or actual attendance at
the meeting shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice to such
director or such committee member.
QUORUM AND ACTION. A majority of the entire Board of Directors
shall constitute a quorum except when a vacancy or vacancies prevents such
majority, whereupon a majority of the directors in office shall constitute a
quorum, provided such majority shall constitute at least one-third of the entire
Board and, in no event, less than two directors. A majority of the directors
present, whether or not a quorum is present, may adjourn a meeting to another
time and place. Except as otherwise specifically provided by the Articles of
Incorporation, the General Corporation Law or these by-laws, the action of a
majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present
shall be the action of the Board of Directors.
CHAIRMAN OF THE MEETING. The Chairman of the Board, if any and if
present and acting, or the President or any other director chosen by the Board,
shall preside at all meetings.
5. REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS. Any or all of the directors may be
removed for cause or without cause by the stockholders, who may elect a
successor or successors to fill any resulting vacancy or vacancies for the
unexpired term of the removed director or directors.
6. COMMITTEES. The Board of Directors may appoint from among its
members an Executive Committee and other committees composed of one or more
directors and may delegate to such committee or committees, in the intervals
between meetings of the Board of Directors, any or all of the powers of the
Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the
corporation to the extent permitted by law. In the absence of any member of any
such committee, the members thereof present at any meeting, whether or not they
constitute a quorum, may appoint a member of the Board of Directors to act in
the place of such absent member.
7. INFORMAL ACTION. 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 a written consent to such action is signed by all members
of the Board of Directors or any such committee, as the case may be, and such
written consent is filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board or any
such committee.
Members of the Board of Directors or any committee designated
thereby may participate in a meeting of such Board or committee by means of a
conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all
persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same time.
Participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at a meeting.
ARTICLE III
OFFICERS
The corporation may have a Chairman of the Board and shall have a
President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, who shall be elected by the Board of
Directors, and may have such other officers, assistant officers and agents as
the Board of Directors shall authorize from time to time. Any two or more
offices, except those of President and Vice President, may be held by the same
person, but no person shall execute, acknowledge or verify any instrument in
more than one capacity, if such instrument is required by law to be executed,
acknowledged or verified by two or more officers.
Any officer or agent may be removed by the Board of Directors
whenever, in its judgment, the best interests of the corporation will be served
thereby.
ARTICLE IV
PRINCIPAL OFFICE - RESIDENT AGENT - STOCK LEDGER
The address of the principal office of the corporation in the State
of Maryland prescribed by the General Corporation Law is 300 East Lombard
Street, c/o The Corporation Trust Incorporated, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. The
name and address of the resident agent in the State of Maryland prescribed by
the General Corporation Law are: The Corporation Trust Incorporated, 300 East
Lombard Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202.
The corporation shall maintain, at its principal office in the State
of Maryland prescribed by the General Corporation Law or at the business office
or an agency of the corporation, an original or duplicate stock ledger
containing the names and addresses of all stockholders and the number of shares
of each class held by each stockholder. Such stock ledger may be in written form
or any other form capable of being converted into written form within a
reasonable time for visual inspection.
ARTICLE V
CORPORATE SEAL
The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the
corporation and shall be in such form and contain such other words and/or
figures as the Board of Directors shall determine or the law require.
ARTICLE VI
FISCAL YEAR
The fiscal year of the corporation or any series thereof shall be
fixed, and shall be subject to change, by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE VII
CONTROL OVER BY-LAWS
The power to make, alter, amend and repeal the by-laws is vested
exclusively in the Board of Directors of the corporation.
ARTICLE VIII
INDEMNIFICATION
1. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS. The corporation shall
indemnify its directors to the fullest extent that indemnification of directors
is permitted by the law. The corporation shall indemnify its officers to the
same extent as its directors and to such further extent as is consistent with
law. The corporation shall indemnify its directors and officers who while
serving as directors or officers also serve at the request of the corporation as
a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, agent or fiduciary of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, other enterprise or employee
benefit plan to the same extent as its directors and, in the case of officers,
to such further extent as is consistent with law. The indemnification and other
rights provided by this Article shall continue as to a person who has ceased to
be a director or officer and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors
and administrators of such a person. This Article shall not protect any such
person against any liability to the corporation or any stockholder thereof to
which such person would otherwise be subject by reason of willful misfeasance,
bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the
conduct of his office ("disabling conduct").
2. ADVANCES. Any current or former director or officer of the
corporation seeking indemnification within the scope of this Article shall be
entitled to advances from the corporation for payment of the reasonable expenses
incurred by him in connection with the matter as to which he is seeking
indemnification in the manner and to the fullest extent permissible under the
General Corporation Law. The person seeking indemnification shall provide to the
corporation a written affirmation of his good faith belief that the standard of
conduct necessary for indemnification by the corporation has been met and a
written undertaking to repay any such advance if it should ultimately be
determined that the standard of conduct has not been met. In addition, at least
one of the following additional conditions shall be met: (a) the person seeking
indemnification shall provide a security in form and amount acceptable to the
corporation for his or her undertaking; (b) the corporation is insured against
losses arising by reason of the advance; or (c) a majority of a quorum of
directors of the corporation who are neither "interested persons" as defined in
Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, nor parties
to the proceeding ("disinterested non-party directors"), or independent legal
counsel, in a written opinion, shall have determined, based on a review of facts
readily available to the corporation at the time the advance is proposed to be
made, that there is reason to believe that the person seeking indemnification
will ultimately be found to be entitled to indemnification.
3. PROCEDURE. At the request of any person claiming indemnification
under this Article, the Board of Directors shall determine, or cause to be
determined, in a manner consistent with the General Corporation Law, whether the
standards required by this Article have been met. Indemnification shall be made
only following: (a) a final decision on the merits by a court or other body
before whom the proceeding was brought that the person to be indemnified was not
liable by reason of disabling conduct or (b) in the absence of such a decision,
a reasonable determination, based upon a review of the facts, that the person to
be indemnified was not liable by reason of disabling conduct by (i) the vote of
a majority of a quorum of disinterested non-party directors or (ii) an
independent legal counsel in a written opinion.
4. INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS. Employees and agents who
are not officers or directors of the corporation may be indemnified, and
reasonable expenses may be advanced to such employees or agents, as may be
provided by action of the Board of Directors or by contract, subject to any
limitations imposed by the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
5. OTHER RIGHTS. The Board of Directors may make further
provision consistent with law for indemnification and advance of expenses to
directors, officers, employees and agents by resolution, agreement or otherwise.
The indemnification provided by this Article shall not be deemed exclusive of
any other right, with respect to indemnification or otherwise, to which those
seeking indemnification may be entitled under any insurance or other agreement
or resolution of stockholders or disinterested non-party directors or otherwise.
6. AMENDMENTS. References in this Article are to the General
Corporation Law and to the Investment Company Act of 1940 as from time to time
amended. No amendment of the by-laws shall affect any right of any person under
this Article based on any event, omission or proceeding prior to the amendment.
Dated: August 8, 1991
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Amended: December 31, 1999
