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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): January 28, 1998
ON ASSIGNMENT, INC.
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(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
Delaware 0-20540 95-4023433
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(State or Other Jurisdiction (Commission (IRS Employer
of Incorporation) File Number) Identification No.)
26651 West Agoura Road, Calabasas, California 91302
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Company's telephone number, including area code: (818) 878-7900
Not applicable
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(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
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ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS
On January 28, 1998, the Board of Directors of On Assignment,
Inc. (the "Company") adopted and approved an amendment to Article II Section 5
of the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company. Following such amendment, the
Company's bylaws allow holders of at least fifty percent (50%) of the Company's
outstanding shares to call a special stockholders meeting, whereas the Company's
previous bylaws permitted holders of ten percent (10%) of the Company's
outstanding shares to call a special stockholders meeting.
ITEM 7. EXHIBITS.
Exhibit
Number Description
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3.1 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by
the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
ON ASSIGNMENT, INC.
Date: February 4, 1998 By: /s/ Ronald W. Rudolph
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Name: Ronald W. Rudolph
Title: Sr. Vice President, Finance
& Operations Support,
and Chief Financial Officer
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
Number Description
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3.1 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company.
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AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS
OF
ON ASSIGNMENT, INC.
(a Delaware corporation)
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
Section 1. The registered office shall be in the City of Dover, County
of Kent, State of Delaware.
Section 2. The corporation may also have offices at such other places
both within and without the State of Delaware as the Board of Directors may from
time to time determine or the business of the corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS
Section 1. All meetings of the stockholders for the election of
directors shall be held in the City of Canoga Park, State of California, at such
place as may be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors, or at such
other place either within or without the State of Delaware as shall be
designated from time to time by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice
of the meeting. Meetings of stockholders for any other purpose may be held at
such time and place, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be stated
in the notice of the meeting or in a duly executed waiver of notice thereof.
Section 2. Annual meetings of stockholders, commencing with the year
1992, shall be held at such date and time as shall be designated from time to
time by the Board of Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting, at which
they shall elect by a plurality vote a board of directors, and transact such
other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 3. Written notice of the annual meeting stating the place, date
and hour of the meeting shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote at
such meeting not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the
date of the meeting.
Section 4. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the
corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten days before every meeting of
stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the
meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each
stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder.
Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose
germane to the
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meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten
days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the
meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the
meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held.
The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting
during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is
present.
Section 5. Special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or
purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute or by the certificate of
incorporation, may be called by the president or the Chairman of the Board only
at the request in writing of a majority of the Board of Directors, or at the
request in writing of stockholders owning at least fifty percent (50%) of the
voting power of the entire voting stock of the corporation issued and
outstanding. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed
meeting.
Section 6. Written notice of a special meeting stating the place, date
and hour of the meeting and the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is
called, shall be given not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days
before the date of the meeting, to each stockholder entitled to vote at such
meeting.
Section 7. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders
shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 8. The holders of fifty percent (50%) of the stock issued and
outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by
proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the
transaction of business except as otherwise provided by statute or by the
certificate of incorporation. If, however, such quorum shall not be present or
represented at any meeting of the stockholders, the stockholders entitled to
vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have power to
adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at
the meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented. At such adjourned
meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented any business may be
transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally
notified. If the adjournment is for more than thirty days, or if after the
adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of
the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to
vote at the meeting.
Section 9. When a quorum is present at any meeting, the vote of the
holders of a majority of the stock having voting power present in person or
represented by proxy shall decide any question brought before such meeting,
unless the question is one upon which by express provision of the statutes or of
the certificate of incorporation, a different vote is required, in which case
such express provision shall govern and control the decision of such question.
Section 10. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of
incorporation each stockholder shall at every meeting of the stockholders be
entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for each share of the capital stock
having voting power held by such stockholder, but no proxy shall be voted on
after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period.
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Section 11. Nominations for election to the Board of Directors must be
made by the Board of Directors or by any stockholder of any outstanding class of
capital stock of the corporation entitled to vote for the election of directors.
Nominations, other than those made by the Board of Directors of the corporation,
must be preceded by notification in writing in fact received by the Secretary of
the corporation not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days
prior to any meeting of stockholders called for the election of directors. Such
notification shall contain the written consent of each proposed nominee to serve
as a director if so elected and the following information as to each proposed
nominee and as to each person, acting alone or in conjunction with one or more
other persons as a partnership, limited partnership, syndicate or other group,
who participates or is expected to participate in making such nomination or in
organizing, directing or financing such nomination or solicitation of proxies to
vote for the nominee:
(a) the name, age, residence, address, and business address of
each proposed nominee and of each such person;
(b) the principal occupation or employment, the name, type of
business and address of the corporation or other organization in which such
employment is carried on of each proposed nominee and of each such person;
(c) the amount of stock of the corporation owned beneficially,
either directly or indirectly, by each proposed nominee and each such person;
and
(d) a description of any arrangement or understanding of each
proposed nominee and of each such person with each other or any other person
regarding future employment or any future transaction to which the corporation
will or may be a party.
The presiding officer of the meeting shall have the authority to
determine and declare to the meeting that a nomination not preceded by
notification made in accordance with the foregoing procedure shall be
disregarded.
Section 12. At any meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall
be conducted as shall have been brought before the meeting (a) pursuant to the
corporation's notice of meeting, (b) by or at the direction of the Board of
Directors or (c) by any stockholder of the corporation who is a stockholder of
record at the time of giving of the notice provided for in this Bylaw, who shall
be entitled to vote at such meeting and who complies with the notice procedures
set forth in this Bylaw.
For business to be properly brought before any meeting by a stockholder
pursuant to clause (c) of this Section 12, the stockholder must have given
timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the corporation. To be
timely, a stockholder's notice must be delivered to or mailed and received at
the principal executive offices of the corporation not less than thirty (30)
days nor more than sixty (60) days prior to the date of the meeting. A
stockholder's notice to the Secretary shall set forth as to each matter the
stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting (a) a brief description of the
business desired to be brought before the meeting and the reasons for conducting
such business at the meeting, (b) the name and address, as they appear on the
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corporation's books, of the stockholder proposing such business, and the name
and address of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is
made, (c) the class and number of shares of the corporation which are owned
beneficially and of record by such stockholder of record and by the beneficial
owner, if any, on whose behalf of the proposal is made and (d) any material
interest of such stockholder of record and the beneficial owner, if any, on
whose behalf the proposal is made in such business.
Notwithstanding anything in these Bylaws to the contrary, no business
shall be conducted at a meeting except in accordance with the procedures set
forth in this Section 12. The presiding officer of the meeting shall, if the
facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that business was not
properly brought before the meeting and in accordance with the procedures
prescribed by this Section 12, and if he should so determine, he shall so
declare to the meeting and any such business not properly brought before the
meeting shall not be transacted. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of
this Section 12, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules
and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Section
12.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 1. The authorized number of directors of the corporation shall
be not less than a minimum of four (4) nor more than a maximum of seven (7). The
exact number of directors shall be set within these limits from time to time (a)
by approval of the Board of Directors, or (b) by the affirmative vote of at
least sixty-six and two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the shares represented and
voting at a duly held meeting at which a quorum is present (which shares voting
affirmatively also constitute at least a majority of the required quorum).(1)
Any amendment of these bylaws changing the maximum or minimum number of
directors may be adopted only as provided in the corporation's certificate of
incorporation.
No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall remove any
director prior to the expiration of such director's term of office.
Section 2. The directors shall be elected at each annual meeting of
stockholders to hold office for the term specified in the Certificate of
Incorporation. Each director, including a director elected or appointed to fill
a vacancy, shall hold office either until the expiration of the term for which
elected or appointed and until a successor has been elected and qualified, or
until his death, resignation or removal. Directors need not be stockholders of
the corporation.
Section 3. Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of
incorporation, any vacancies and new created directorships resulting from any
increase in the authorized number of directors may be filled by a majority of
the directors then in office, though less than a
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(1) Set at five (5) by resolution of the Board of Directors dated
October 13, 1993.
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quorum, or by a sole remaining director, and the directors so chosen shall
hold office until the next annual election at which the term of the class
to which he has been elected expires and until their successors are duly elected
and shall qualify, unless sooner displaced. If there are no directors in office,
then an election of directors may be held in the manner provided by statute.
Section 4. The business of the corporation shall be managed by or under
the direction of its board of directors which may exercise all such powers of
the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or
by the certificate of incorporation or by these bylaws directed or required to
be exercised or done by the stockholders.
MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 5. The Board of Directors of the corporation may hold meetings,
both regular and special, either within or without the State of Delaware.
Section 6. The first meeting of each newly elected Board of Directors
shall be held at such time and place as shall be fixed by the vote of the
stockholders at the annual meeting and no notice of such meeting shall be
necessary to the newly elected directors in order legally to constitute the
meeting, provided a quorum shall be present. In the event of the failure of the
stockholders to fix the time or place of such first meeting of the newly elected
Board of Directors, or in the event such meeting is not held at the time and
place so fixed by the stockholders, the meeting may be held at such time and
place as shall be specified in a notice given as hereinafter provided for
special meetings of the Board of Directors, or as shall be specified in a
written waiver signed by all of the directors.
Section 7. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held
without notice at such time and at such place as shall from time to time be
determined by the board.
Section 8. Special meetings of the board may be called by the president
on two (2) days' notice to each director by mail or forty-eight (48) hours
notice to each director either personally or by telegram; special meetings shall
be called by the president or secretary in like manner and on like notice on the
written request of two directors unless the board consists of only one director,
in which case special meetings shall be called by the president or secretary in
like manner and on like notice on the written request of the sole director.
Section 9. At all meetings of the board a majority of the directors
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a
majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum
shall be the act of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise
specifically provided by statute or by the certificate of incorporation. If a
quorum shall not be present at any meeting of the Board of Directors, the
directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without
notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present.
Section 10. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of
incorporation of these bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at
any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken
without a meeting, if all members of the
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board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and the
writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the board
or committee.
Section 11. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of
incorporation or these bylaws, members of the Board of Directors, or any
committee designated by the Board of Directors, may participate in a meeting of
the Board of Directors, or any committee, by means of conference telephone or
similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in
the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting shall
constitute presence in person at the meeting.
COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS
Section 12. The Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a
majority of the whole board, designate one or more committees, each committee to
consist of one or more of the directors of the corporation. The board may
designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may
replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee.
In the absence of disqualification of a member of a committee, the
member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from
voting, whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint
another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of
any such absent or disqualified member.
Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the
Board of Directors, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of
the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the
corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all
papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or
authority in reference to amending the certificate of incorporation, adopting an
agreement of merger or consolidation, recommending to the stockholders the sale,
lease or exchange of all or substantially all of the corporation's property and
assets, recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the corporation or a
revocation of a dissolution, or amending the bylaws of the corporation; and,
unless the resolution or the certificate of incorporation expressly so provide,
no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to
authorize the issuance of stock. Such committee or committees shall have such
name or names as may be determined from time to time by resolution adopted by
the Board of Directors.
Section 13. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings
and report the same to the Board of Directors when required.
COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS
Section 14. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of
incorporation or these bylaws, the Board of Directors shall have the authority
to fix the compensation of directors. The directors may be paid their expenses,
if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors and may be paid
a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors or a stated
salary as director. No such payment shall preclude any director from
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serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation
therefor. Members of special or standing committees may be allowed like
compensation for attending committee meetings.
ARTICLE IV
NOTICES
Section 1. Whenever, under the provisions of the statutes or of the
certificate of incorporation or of these bylaws, notice is required to be given
to any director or stockholder, it shall not be construed to mean personal
notice, but such notice may be given in writing, by mail, addressed to such
director or stockholder, at his address as it appears on the records of the
corporation, with postage thereon prepaid, and such notice shall be deemed to be
given at the time when the same shall be deposited in the United States mail.
Notice to directors may also be given by telegram.
Section 2. Whenever any notice is required to be given under the
provisions of the statutes or of the certificate of incorporation or of these
bylaws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to
said notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed
equivalent thereto. The written waiver need not specify the business to be
transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the
stockholders, directors, or members of a committee of directors. Attendance of a
person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except
when the person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting at the
beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting
is not lawfully called or convened.
ARTICLE V
OFFICERS
Section 1. The officers of the corporation shall be chosen by the Board
of Directors and shall be a president, treasurer and a secretary. The Board of
Directors may elect from among its members a Chairman of the Board and a Vice
Chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors may also choose one or more
vice-presidents, assistant secretaries and assistant treasurers. Any number of
offices may be held by the same person, unless the certificate of incorporation
or these bylaws otherwise provide.
Section 2. The Board of Directors at its first meeting after each annual
meeting of stockholders shall choose a president, a treasurer, and a secretary
and may choose vice presidents.
Section 3. The Board of Directors may appoint such other officers and
agents as it shall deem necessary 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.
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Section 4. The salaries of all officers and agents of the corporation
shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.
Section 5. The officers of the corporation shall hold office until their
successors are chosen and qualify. Any officer elected or appointed by the Board
of Directors may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of a majority of
the Board of Directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation
shall be filled by the Board of Directors.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Section 6. The Chairman of the Board, if any, shall preside at all
meetings of the Board of Directors and of the stockholders at which he shall be
present. He shall have and may exercise such powers as are, from time to time,
assigned to him by the Board and as may be provided by law.
Section 7. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board, the Vice
Chairman of the Board, if any, shall preside at all meetings of the Board of
Directors and of the stockholders at which he shall be present. He shall have
and may exercise such powers as are, from time to time, assigned to him by the
Board and as may be provided by law.
THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENTS
Section 8. The president shall be the chief executive officer of the
corporation; and in the absence of the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board
he shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board of Directors;
he shall have general and active management of the business of the corporation
and shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board of Directors are
carried into effect.
Section 9. 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.
Section 10. In the absence of the president or in the event of his
inability or refusal to act, the vice-president, if any, (or in the event there
be more than one vice-president, the vice-presidents in the order designated by
the directors, or in the absence of any designation, then in the order of their
election) shall perform the duties of the president, and when so acting, shall
have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the
president. The vice-presidents shall perform such other duties and have such
other powers as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe.
THE SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY
Section 11. The secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board of
Directors and all meetings of the stockholders and record all the proceedings of
the meetings of the corporation and of the Board of Directors in a book to be
kept for that purpose and shall
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perform like duties for the standing committees when required. He shall give,
or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and
special meetings of the Board of Directors, and shall perform such other duties
as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or president, under whose
supervision he shall be. He shall have custody of the corporate seal of the
corporation and he, or an assistant secretary, shall have authority to affix the
same to any instrument requiring it and when so affixed, it may be attested by
his signature or by the signature of such assistant secretary. The Board of
Directors may give general authority to any other officer to affix the seal of
the corporation and to attest the affixing by his signature.
Section 12. The assistant secretary, or if there be more than one, the
assistant secretaries in the order determined by the Board of Directors (or if
there be no such determination, then in the order of their election) shall, in
the absence of the secretary or in the event of his inability or refusal to act,
perform the duties and exercise the powers of the secretary and shall perform
such other duties and have such other powers as the board of directors may from
time to time prescribe.
THE TREASURER AND ASSISTANT TREASURERS
Section 13. The treasurer shall have the custody of the corporate funds
and securities and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and
disbursements in books belonging to the corporation and shall deposit all moneys
and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the corporation in
such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors.
Section 14. 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 meetings, or when the Board of Directors so requires, an account of
all his transactions as treasurer and of the financial condition of the
corporation.
Section 15. If required by the Board of Directors, he shall give the
corporation a bond (which shall be renewed every six years) in such sum and with
such surety or sureties as shall be satisfactory to the Board of Directors for
the faithful performance of the duties of his office and for the restoration to
the corporation, in case of his death, resignation, retirement or removal from
office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever
kind in his possession or under his control belonging to the corporation.
Section 16. The assistant treasurer, or if there shall be more than one,
the assistant treasurers in the order determined by the Board of Directors (or
if there be no such determination, then in the order of their election) shall,
in the absence of the treasurer or in the event of his inability or refusal to
act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the treasurer and shall
perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board of Directors
may from time to time prescribe.
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ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATE OF STOCK
Section 1. Every holder of stock in the corporation shall be entitled to
have a certificate, signed by, or in the name of the corporation by, the
chairman or vice-chairman of the Board of Directors, or the president or a
vice-president and the treasurer or an assistant treasurer, or the secretary or
an assistant secretary of the corporation, certifying the number of shares owned
by him in the corporation.
Certificates may be issued for partly paid shares and in such case upon
the face or back of the certificates issued to represent any such partly paid
shares, the total amount of the consideration to be paid therefor, and the
amount paid thereon shall be specified.
If the corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of
stock or more than one series of any class, the powers, designations,
preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of
each class of stock or series thereof and the qualification, limitations or
restrictions of such preferences and/or rights shall be set forth in full or
summarized on the face or back of the certificate which the corporation shall
issue to represent such class or series of stock, provided that, except as
otherwise provided in section 202 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, in
lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face or back
of the certificate which the corporation shall issue to represent such class or
series of stock, a statement that the corporation will furnish without charge to
each stockholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and
relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock
or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such
preferences and/or rights.
Section 2. Any of or all the signatures on the certificate may be
facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or
whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased
to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is
issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he were
such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.
LOST CERTIFICATES
Section 3. The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or
certificates to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates
theretofore issued by the corporation alleged to have been lost, stolen or
destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming
the certificate of stock to be lost, stolen or destroyed. When authorizing such
issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its
discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the
owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his
legal representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require
and/or to give the corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity
against any claim that may be made against the corporation with respect to the
certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.
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TRANSFER OF STOCK
Section 4. Upon surrender to the corporation or the transfer agent of
the corporation of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by
proper evidence of succession, assignation or authority to transfer, it shall be
the duty of the corporation to issue a new certificate to the person entitled
thereto, cancel the old certificate and record the transaction upon its books.
FIXING RECORD DATE
Section 5. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders
entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholder or any
adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other
distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in
respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any
other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix, in advance, a record date,
which shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the
date of such meeting, nor more than sixty (60) days prior to any other action. A
determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a
meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided,
however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned
meeting.
REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS
Section 6. The corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive
right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive
dividends, and to vote as such owner, and to hold liable for calls and
assessments a person registered on its books as the owner of shares and shall
not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such
share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have
express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of
Delaware.
ARTICLE VII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Dividends upon the capital stock of the corporation, subject
to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation, if any, may be declared
by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting, pursuant to law.
Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the capital stock,
subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation.
Section 2. Before payment of any dividend, there may be set aside out of
any funds of the corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the
directors from time to time, in their absolute discretion, think proper as a
reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for
repairing or maintaining any property of the corporation, or for
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such other purposes as the directors shall think conducive to the interest
of the corporation, and the directors may modify or abolish any such
reserve in the manner in which it was created.
CHECKS
Section 3. 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 may from time to time designate.
FISCAL YEAR
Section 4. The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed by
resolution of the Board of Directors.
SEAL
Section 5. The Board of Directors may adopt a corporate seal having
inscribed thereon the name of the corporation, the year of its organization and
the words "Corporate Seal, Delaware". The seal may be used by causing it or a
facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or reproduced or otherwise.
INDEMNIFICATION
Section 6. The corporation shall, to the fullest extent authorized under
the laws of the State of Delaware, as those laws may be amended and supplemented
from time to time, indemnify each of its agents made, or threatened to be made,
a party to an action or proceeding, whether criminal, civil, administrative or
investigative, by reason of being an agent of the corporation or a predecessor
corporation or, at the corporation's request, a director or officer of another
corporation, provided, however, that the corporation shall indemnify any such
agent in connection with a proceeding initiated by such agent only if such
proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors of the corporation. The
indemnification provided for in this Section 6 shall: (i) not be deemed
exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be entitled under
any bylaw, agreement or vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or
otherwise, both as to action in their official capacities and as to action in
another capacity while holding such office, (ii) continue as to a person who has
ceased to be an agent, and (iii) inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors
and administrators of such a person. The corporation's obligation to provide
indemnification under this Section 6 shall be offset to the extent of any other
source of indemnification or any otherwise applicable insurance coverage under a
policy maintained by the corporation or any other person.
Expenses incurred by an agent of the corporation in defending a civil or
criminal action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that he is or was an
agent of the corporation (or was serving at the corporation's request as a
director or officer of another corporation) shall be paid by the corporation in
advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt
of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director to repay such amount if it
shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the
corporation as
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authorized by relevant sections of the General Corporation Law of Delaware.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the corporation shall not be required
to advance such expenses to an agent who is a party to an action, suit or
proceeding brought by the corporation and approved by a majority of the Board of
Directors of the corporation which alleges willful misappropriation of corporate
assets by such agent, disclosure of confidential information in violation of
such agent's fiduciary or contractual obligations to the corporation or any
other willful and deliberate breach in bad faith of such agent's duty to the
corporation or its stockholders.
The foregoing provisions of this Section 6 shall be deemed to be a
contract between the corporation and each agent who serves in such capacity at
any time while this bylaw is in effect, and any repeal or modification thereof
shall not affect any rights or obligations then existing with respect to any
state of facts then or theretofore existing or any action, suit or proceeding
theretofore or thereafter brought based in whole or in part upon any such state
of facts.
The Board of Directors in its discretion shall have power on behalf of
the corporation to indemnify any person, other than a director, made a party to
any action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that he, his testator or
intestate, is or was an officer or employee of the corporation.
To assure indemnification under this Section 6 of all directors,
officers and employees who are determined by the corporation or otherwise to be
or to have been "fiduciaries" of any employee benefit plan of the corporation
which may exist from time to time, Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of
Delaware shall, for the purposes of this Section 6, be interpreted as follows:
an "other enterprise" shall be deemed to include such an employee benefit plan,
including without limitation, any plan of the corporation which is governed by
the Act of Congress entitled "Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,"
as amended from time to time; the corporation shall be deemed to have requested
a person to serve an employee benefit plan where the performance by such person
of his duties to the corporation also imposes duties on, or otherwise involves
services by, such person to the plan or participants or beneficiaries of the
plan; excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan
pursuant to such Act of Congress shall be deemed "fines."
ARTICLE VIII
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. Except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of
Incorporation, these bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed or new bylaws
may be adopted by the stockholders or a majority of the Board of Directors, when
such power is conferred upon the Board of Directors by the certificate of
incorporation, at any regular meeting of the stockholders or of the Board of
Directors or at any special meeting of the stockholders or of the Board of
Directors if notice of such alteration, amendment, repeal or adoption of new
bylaws be contained in the notice of such special meeting. The provisions set
forth in Article II, Sections 6 through 12; Article III, Section 1 and 2 and
Article VIII may not be altered, amended or repealed unless such repeal or
amendment is approved the affirmative vote of the holders of sixty-six and
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two-thirds percent (66-2/3%) of the outstanding stock of the corporation
entitled to vote thereon or at least two-thirds of the "Continuing Directors."
Continuing Directors shall include (i) those Directors who were members of the
Board of Directors on the date of the merger of the corporation's California
predecessor with and into the corporation; and (ii) those Directors who were
nominated or appointed by a Board of Directors of which a majority of the
members were Continuing Directors.
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