meeting of the committee. Any such committee, to the extent provided in said resolution or resolutions and except as otherwise provided by statute, 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; provided, however, that in the absence or disqualification of any member of such committee or committees, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not the member or members 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. 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.
2. The committees shall keep regular minutes of their proceedings and report the same to the board when required.
IV. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD
1. The first meeting of each newly elected board shall be held at the place and on the date, within or without the State of Delaware, of the annual meeting at which such board was elected, and no notice shall be necessary to the newly elected directors in order legally to constitute the meeting provided a quorum shall be present, or they may meet at such place, date and hour as shall be fixed by the consent in writing of all the directors.
2. Regular meetings of the board may be held without notice at such place, date and hour, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall from time to time be determined by the board.
3. Special meetings of the board may be called by the president, any vice president, the secretary or by any member of the board of directors on twenty-four hours’ notice to each director, either personally or by mail or by electronic transmission, and shall be held at such place, date and hour, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be stated in the notice.
4. At all meetings of the board one-third, but not less than two, of the directors then in office shall be necessary and sufficient to 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 or by these by-laws. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting 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.
5. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the board of directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if all members of the board or committee, as the case may be, consent in writing, or by electronic transmission and the writing or writings or electronic transmission are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the board or committee in accordance with applicable law.
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