Section 10. The secretary shall attend all meetings of the board of directors and all meetings of the shareholders 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 perform like duties for the standing committees when required. He shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the shareholders and special meetings of the board of directors, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors, the Chairman of the Board or the president, under whose several 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 11. The assistant secretary, or if there shall be more than one, the assistant secretaries in the order determined by the board of directors, shall, in the absence or disability of the secretary, 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.
Section 12. The treasurer shall have 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 13. 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 Chairman of the Board, 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 14. If required by the board of directors, he shall give the corporation a bond 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 15. The assistant treasurer, or, if there shall be more than one, the assistant treasurers in the order determined by the board of directors, shall, in the absence or disability of the treasurer, 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 VIII
INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND OTHER PERSONS
Section 1. Mandatory Indemnification of Directors and Officers
The corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, indemnify its directors and officers who were or are a party or are threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (whether or not such action, suit or proceeding arises or arose by or in the right of the corporation or other entity) by reason of the fact that such director or officer is or was a director or officer of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee, general partner, agent or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (including service with respect to employee benefit plans), against expenses (including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees and costs), judgments, fines (including excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit plan) and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such director or officer in accordance with such action, suit or proceeding, except as otherwise provided in Section 3 of Article VIII hereof. Persons who were directors or officers of the corporation prior to the date this Article VIII is approved by shareholders of the corporation, but who do not hold such office on or after such date, shall not be covered by this Section 1 of Article VIII. A director or officer of the corporation entitled to indemnification under this Section 1 of Article VIII is hereafter called a “person covered by Section 1 hereof.”
EXPENSES
Section 2. Expenses incurred by a person covered by Section 1 hereof in defending a threatened, pending or completed civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding 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 person to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation, except as otherwise provided in Section 3 of Article VIII.
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EXCEPTIONS
Section 3. No indemnification under Section 1 of Article VIII or advancement or reimbursement of expenses under Section 2 of Article VIII shall be provided to a person covered by Section 1 hereof (a) with respect to expenses or the payment of profits arising from the purchase or sale of securities of the corporation in violation of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; (b) if a judgment or other final adjudication adverse to such director or officer establishes that his acts or omissions (i) were in breach of his duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders, (ii) were not in good faith or involved a knowing violation of law, or (iii) resulted in the receipt by such director or officer of an improper personal benefit; (c) for expenses or liabilities of any type whatsoever (including, but not limited to, judgments, fines, and amounts paid in settlement) which have been paid to, or for the benefit of, such person by an insurance carrier under a policy of liability insurance the premiums for which are paid by the corporation or an individual or entity other than such director or officer; and (d) for amounts paid in settlement of any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding without the written consent of the corporation, which written consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Board of Directors of the corporation is hereby authorized, at any time by resolution, to add to the above list of exceptions from the right of indemnification under Section 1 of Article VIII or advancement or reimbursement of expenses under Section 2 of Article VIII, but any such additional exception shall not apply with respect to any act or omission which has occurred prior to the date that the Board of Directors in fact adopts such resolution. Any such additional exception may, at any time after its adoption, be amended, supplemented, waived, or terminated by further resolution of the Board of Directors of the corporation.
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CONTINUATION OF RIGHTS
Section 4. The indemnification and advancement or reimbursement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article VIII shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer of the corporation, and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such person.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 5. (a) The term “to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law”, as used in this Article VIII, shall mean the maximum extent permitted by public policy, common law or statute. Any person covered by Section 1 hereof may, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, elect to have the right to indemnification or to advancement or reimbursement of expenses, interpreted, at such person’s option, (i) on the basis of the applicable law on the date this Article VIII was approved by shareholders, or (ii) on the basis of the applicable law in effect at the time of the occurrence of the act or omission or acts or omissions giving rise to the action, suit or proceeding, or (iii) on the basis of the applicable law in effect at the time indemnification is sought.
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(b) The right of a person covered by Section 1 hereof to be indemnified or to receive an advancement or reimbursement of expenses pursuant to Section 2 of Article VIII (i) may also be enforced as a contract right pursuant to which the person entitled thereto may bring suit as if the provisions hereof were set forth in a separate written contract between the corporation and such person, (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, is intended to be retroactive and shall be available with respect to acts or omissions occurring prior to the adoption hereof, and (iii) shall continue to exist after the rescission or restrictive modification (as determined by such person) of this Article VIII with respect to acts or omissions occurring before such rescission or restrictive modification is adopted.
(c) If a request for indemnification or for the advancement or reimbursement of expenses pursuant hereto is not paid in full by the corporation within thirty days after a written claim has been received by the corporation together with all supporting information reasonably requested by the corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim (plus interest at the prime rate announced from time to time by the corporation’s primary banker) and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled also to be paid the expenses (including, but not limited to, attorney’s fees and costs) of prosecuting such claim. Neither the failure of the corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel or its shareholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of or the advancement or reimbursement of expenses to the claimant is proper in the circumstances, nor an actual determination by the corporation (including its Board of Directors, independent legal counsel or its shareholders) that the claimant is not entitled to indemnification or to the reimbursement or advancement of expenses, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant is not so entitled.
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(d) The indemnification and advancement or reimbursement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article VIII shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement or reimbursement of expenses may be entitled under the Certificate of Incorporation or any by-law, agreement, vote of shareholders or directors or otherwise, both as to action in such director’s or officer’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding that office.
(e) Nothing contained in this Article VIII shall be construed to limit the rights and powers the corporation possesses under Section 14A:3-5 of the New Jersey Business Corporation Act (as amended from time to time) or otherwise, including, but not limited to, the powers to purchase and maintain insurance, create funds to secure or insure its indemnification obligations, and any other rights or powers the corporation may otherwise have under applicable law.
(f) The provisions of this Article VIII may, at any time (and whether before or after there is any basis for a claim for indemnification or for the advancement or reimbursement of expenses pursuant thereto), be amended, supplemented, waived, or terminated, in whole or in part, with respect to any person covered by Section 1 hereof by a written agreement signed by the corporation and such person.
(g) The corporation shall have the right to appoint the attorney for a person covered by Section 1 hereof, provided such appointment is not unreasonable under the circumstances.
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OPTIONAL INDEMNIFICATION
Section 6. The corporation may, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, indemnify, and advance or reimburse expenses for, all persons (whether or not directors or officers) in all situations in which such indemnification, advancement or reimbursement of expenses is not made mandatory under Section 1 or Section 2 of Article VIII hereof, respectively.
PRIOR BY-LAWS
Section 7. Any by-law provisions which are amended, replaced or repealed by this Article VIII shall continue to apply to any breach of performance of duty or any failure of performance of duty by any director or officer to which this Article VIII, for any reason, does not apply.
ARTICLE IX
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. (a) The shares of the corporation shall be represented by certificates signed by the Chairman of the Board, the president or a vice-president and by the treasurer or an assistant treasurer, or the secretary or an assistant secretary of the corporation, and may be sealed with the seal of the corporation or a facsimile thereof.
(b) When the corporation is authorized to issue shares of more than one class there shall be set forth upon the face or back of the certificate, or the certificate shall have a statement that the corporation will furnish to any shareholder upon request and without charge, a full statement of the designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights of the shares of each class authorized to be issued and, if the corporation is authorized to issue any preferred or special class in series, the variations in the relative rights and preferences between the shares of each such series so far as the same have been fixed and determined and the authority of the board of directors to fix and determine the relative rights and preferences of subsequent series.
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Section 2. The signatures of the officers of the corporation upon a certificate may be facsimiles if the certificate is countersigned by a transfer agent, or registered by a registrar, other than the corporation itself or an employee of the corporation. In case any officer who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon such certificate shall have ceased to be such officer before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he were such officer at the date of its issue.
LOST CERTIFICATES
Section 3. The board of directors may direct a new certificate to be issued in place of any certificate theretofore issued by the corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate, the board of directors, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, may prescribe such terms and conditions as it deems expedient, and may require such bonds or indemnities as it deems adequate, to protect the corporation from any claim that may be made against it with respect to any such certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.
TRANSFER OF SHARES
Section 4. Upon surrender to the corporation or the transfer agent of the corporation of a certificate representing shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, a new certificate shall be issued to the person entitled thereto, and the old certificate cancelled and the transaction recorded upon the books of the corporation.
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RECORD DATES FOR DETERMINING SHAREHOLDERS
Section 5. For the purpose of determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of shareholders or any adjournment thereof or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or allotment of any right, or in order to make a determination of shareholders for any other proper purpose, the board shall choose in advance a date as the record date for such determination of shareholders. Any such record date shall in any case be not more than sixty days nor less than ten days prior to the date on which the particular action, requiring such determination of shareholders, is to be taken. If no record date is fixed, the record date for a shareholders’ meeting shall be the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if no notice is given, the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held; and the record date for determining shareholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the resolution of the board relating thereto is adopted. When a determination of shareholders’ meeting has been made as provided in this section, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof unless the board fixes a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
REGISTERED SHAREHOLDERS
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 such as 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 New Jersey.
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LIST OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 7. The officer or agent having charge of the transfer books for shares shall make and certify a complete list of the shareholders entitled to vote at a shareholders’ meeting, or adjournment thereof, arranged in alphabetical order within each class, series, or group of shareholders maintained by the corporation for convenience of reference, with the address of and the number of shares held by each shareholder, which list shall be produced and kept open at the time and place of the meeting and shall be subject to the inspection of any shareholder during the whole time of the meeting. Such list shall be prima facie evidence as to who are the shareholders entitled to examine such list or to vote at any meeting of the shareholders.
ARTICLE X
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation relating thereto, if any, dividends may be declared by the board of directors at any regular or special meeting pursuant to law. Dividends may be paid in cash, in its bonds, in its own shares or other property including the shares or bonds of other corporations subject to any provisions of law and of the certificate of incorporation.
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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 fund to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the corporation, or for such other purpose 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 a 52/53 week year ending on the last Saturday of September in each year, unless otherwise fixed by resolution of the board of directors.
SEAL
Section 5. The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the corporation, the year of its organization and the words “Corporate Seal, New Jersey.” The seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any manner reproduced.
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ARTICLE XI
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. These bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed or new bylaws be adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes entitled to be cast by the board of directors at any regular or special meeting of the board, subject to any provision in the certificate of incorporation reserving to the shareholders the power to adopt, amend, or repeal bylaws, but bylaws made by the board may be altered or repealed and new bylaws made by the shareholders. Any amendment to the bylaws of the corporation which is proposed by shareholders, and which has not previously received the approval of the board of directors, shall require for adoption the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% of the votes which all shareholders are entitled to cast thereon, in addition to any other approval which is required by law, the certificate of incorporation, these bylaws or otherwise. The shareholders may prescribe that any bylaw made by them shall not be altered or repealed by the board.
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