ARTICLE IV
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL STOCK
SECTION 1. Number of Authorized Shares. The Corporation shall be authorized to issue two classes of shares of stock to be designated, respectively, “Common Stock” and “Preferred Stock.” The total number of shares which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is Three Hundred Sixty-Three million (363,000,000), of which Three Hundred Sixty million (360,000,000) shares shall be common stock having a par value of $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), and Three million (3,000,000) shares shall be preferred stock having a par value of $0.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”). Of the authorized shares of Preferred Stock, Two Hundred Forty Thousand (240,000) shares shall be designated Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock (hereinafter referred to as the “Series A Preferred Stock”).
SECTION 2. Common Stock. The Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) may authorize the issuance of shares of Common Stock from time to time. Shares of Common Stock that are redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation may be reissued except as otherwise provided by law.
SECTION 3. Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors may authorize the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock from time to time in one or more series. Shares of Preferred Stock that are redeemed, purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation may be reissued except as otherwise provided by law. The Board of Directors is hereby authorized to fix or alter the designations, powers and preferences, and relative, participating, optional or other rights, if any, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, including without limitation, dividend rights, (and whether dividends are cumulative), conversion rights, if any, voting rights (including the number of votes, if any, per share, as well as the number of members, if any, of the Board of Directors or the percentage of members, if any, of the Board of Directors each class or series of Preferred Stock may be entitled to elect), rights and terms of redemption (including sinking fund provisions, if any), redemption price and liquidation preferences of any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock, and the number of shares constituting any such series and the designation thereof, and to increase (but not above the total number of authorized shares of the class) or decrease (but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any such series subsequent to the issuance of shares of such series.
The relative rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions granted to the Series A. Preferred Stock are as follows:
A. Dividends and Distributions.
(i) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the 15th day of January, April, July and October and in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or
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