ARTICLE VI
Directors
Section 1.Authority and Duties. Subject to the limitation of the Articles of Incorporation and of pertinent restrictions of the Business Corporation Act of this State, the Board of Directors shall have entire charge of the corporate powers, the business and affairs of the Corporation, as follows:
(a) To conduct, manage, and control the affairs and business of the Corporation and to make such rules and regulations therefor not inconsistent with law and theseBy-laws as they may deem best; and
(b) To appoint an executive committee and any other committees which may seem to them advisable and to delegate to the executive committee, or any such other committee, subject to the control of the Board of Directors, any of the powers and authority of the Board, except the power to declare dividends and to adopt, amend, or repeal theseBy-laws; provided, however, that any such executive committee shall be composed of two or more directors and shall act only in the interval between meetings of the Board and shall be subject at all times to the control and direction of the Board; and
(c) To elect and remove at pleasure all the officers, agents, and employees of the Corporation, prescribe such duties for them as may not be inconsistent with law and theseBy-laws, fix the terms of their offices and their compensation; and, in their discretion, require from them security for faithful service; and
(d) To fix, from time to time, the office of the Corporation, and to designate from time to time any place or places where meetings of the shareholders and/or directors of this Corporation shall or may be held; to adopt, name, and use a corporate seal, to prescribe the forms of certificates of stock, and to alter the form of such seal and such certificates, from time to time, as in their judgment may seem best; and
(e) Subject to the power of the shareholders to adopt, amend, or repeal theseBy-laws, directors may adopt, amend, or repeal theseBy-laws, other than aBy-law or amendment thereof, changing the authorized number, qualifications, classifications, or term of office of directors; and
(f) The Board of Directors may fix a time in the future, not exceeding thirty (30) days preceding the date of any meeting of shareholders and not exceeding thirty (30) days preceding the date fixed for the payment of any dividend or distribution or for the allotment of rights or when any change or conversion or exchange of shares shall go into effect, as a record date for the determination of the shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at any such meeting, or entitled to receive any such dividend or distribution, or any such allotment of rights, or to exercise the rights in respect to any such change, conversion, or exchange of shares; and, in such case, only shareholders of record on the date so fixed shall be entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting, or to receive such dividend,