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BY-LAWS
of
INGERSOLL-RAND COMPANY
As amended through January 1, 1996
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BY-LAWS
of
INGERSOLL-RAND COMPANY
ARTICLE I.
STOCKHOLDERS' MEETINGS
Section 1. Annual Meeting: The annual meeting of the
Stockholders of the Company shall be held on the fourth Thursday
of April, in each year, or such other date as the Board of
Directors may determine, at such hour and at such place within or
without the State of New Jersey as may be fixed by the Board of
Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting, for the
election of Directors of the Company and for the transaction of
such other business as may come before it in accordance with the
provisions of these By-Laws.
At any such annual meeting of Stockholders, only such business
shall be conducted as shall have been brought before the meeting
(a) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, or (b) by
any Stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting who complies
with the procedures set forth in this Section 1. Any Stockholder
entitled to vote at such meeting may propose business to be
included in the agenda of such meeting only if written notice of
such Stockholder's intent is given to the Secretary of the
Company, either by personal delivery or by United States mail,
postage prepaid, not later than 90 days in advance of the
anniversary of the immediately preceding annual meeting or if the
date of the annual meeting of Stockholders occurs more than 30
days before or 60 days after the anniversary of such immediately
preceding annual meeting, not later than the close of business on
the seventh day following the date on which notice of such
meeting is given to Stockholders. A Stockholder's notice to the
Secretary shall set forth in writing as to each matter such
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Stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting (a) a
brief description of the business desired to be brought before
the annual meeting and the reasons for conducting such business
at the annual meeting, (b) the name and address, as they
appear on the Company's books, of the Stockholder proposing such
business, (c) the class and number of shares of the Company which
are beneficially owned by the Stockholder and (d) any material
interest of the Stockholder in such business. Notwithstanding
anything in these By-Laws to the contrary, no business shall be
conducted at an annual meeting except in accordance with the
procedures set forth in this Section 1. The officer of the
Company or other person presiding at the annual meeting shall, if
the facts so warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that
business was not properly brought before the meeting in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 1, and, if such
officer or other person should so determine, he or she shall so
declare to the meeting and any such business not properly brought
before the meeting shall not be transacted.
Section 2. Special Meetings: Special meetings of the
Stockholders may be held at the principal office of the Company
in the State of New Jersey or at such other place within or
without said State as may from time to time be designated by the
Board of Directors and stated in the notice of the meeting,
whenever called in writing by the Chairman of the Board, the
Vice-Chairman or the President or by vote of a majority of the
Board of Directors. At any special meeting of the Stockholders,
only such business shall be conducted as shall have been brought
before the meeting by or at the direction of the Board of
Directors and such business shall be confined to the object or
objects stated in the notice thereof.
Section 3. Quorum: Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate
of Incorporation of this Company or by statute, the presence in
person or by proxy of the holders of record of the shares
entitled to cast a majority of the votes at any meeting of the
Stockholders shall constitute a quorum at such meeting. Whenever
the holders of any class or series of shares are entitled to vote
separately on a specified item of business, the presence in
person or by proxy of the holders of record of the shares of such
class or series entitled to cast a majority of the votes thereon
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of such specified
item of business.
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If the holders of the amount of stock necessary to constitute a
quorum shall fail to attend in person or by proxy at the time and
place fixed by these By-Laws for an annual meeting, or as fixed
by notice, as above provided for a special meeting, a majority in
interest of the Stockholders present, in person or by proxy, may
adjourn from time to time without notice other than announcement
at the meeting until the holders of the amount of stock requisite
to constitute a quorum shall attend. At any such adjourned
meeting at which a quorum shall be present, any business may be
transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as
originally notified.
Section 4. Organization: The Chairman of the Board shall call
meetings of the Stockholders to order and shall act as Chairman
of such meetings. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board,
the Vice-Chairman or the President, or in his absence an
Executive Vice President shall preside: and in the absence of
any of the foregoing officers, the Stockholders present, or
the Board of Directors, may appoint any Stockholder to act as
Chairman of any meeting.
The Secretary of the Company shall act as Secretary of all
meetings of the Stockholders. In the absence of the Secretary at
any meeting of the Stockholders, the presiding officer may
appoint any person to act as Secretary of the Meeting.
Section 5. Voting: At each meeting of the Stockholders, every
Stockholder shall be entitled to vote in person or by proxy
appointed by instrument in writing subscribed by such Stockholder
or by his duly authorized attorney and delivered to the
inspectors at the meeting. The votes for Directors and, upon
demand of any Stockholder, the votes upon any question before the
meeting shall be by ballot.
Section 6. Inspectors: At each annual stated meeting of the
Stockholders for the election of Directors, the presiding officer
of such meeting shall appoint two persons to act as inspectors,
who shall be sworn to perform their duties in accordance with the
laws of the State of New Jersey, and who shall return a formal
certificate.
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Section 7. Nominations of Directors: Nominations for the
election of Directors may be made by the Board of Directors or
any Stockholder entitled to vote for the election of Directors.
Any Stockholder entitled to vote for the election of Directors at
a meeting or to express a consent in writing without a meeting
may nominate a person or persons for election as a Director only
if written notice of such Stockholder's intent to make such
nomination is given to the Secretary of the Company, either by
personal delivery or United States mail, postage prepaid, not
later than (a) with respect to an election to be held at an
annual meeting of Stockholders, 90 days in advance of the
anniversary of the immediately preceding annual meeting or if the
date of the annual meeting of Stockholders occurs more than 30
days before or 60 days after the anniversary of such immediately
preceding annual meeting, not later than the close of business on
the seventh day following the date on which notice of such
meeting is given to Stockholders and (b) in the case of any
Stockholder who wishes to nominate a person or persons for
election as a Director pursuant to consents in writing by
Stockholders without a meeting (to the extent election by such
consents is permitted under applicable law and the Company's
Certificate of Incorporation), 60 days in advance of the date on
which materials soliciting such consents are first mailed to
Stockholders or, if no such materials are required to be mailed
under applicable law, 60 days in advance of the date on which the
first such consent in writing is executed. Each such notice
shall set forth the name and address of the Stockholder who
intends to make the nomination and of the person or persons to be
nominated for election as a Director, a representation that the
Stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the Company
entitled to vote at such meeting or to express such consent in
writing and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the
meeting to nominate the person or persons specified in the notice
or to execute such a consent in writing to elect such person or
persons as a Director, a description of all arrangements or
understandings between the Stockholder and each nominee and any
other person or persons (naming such person or persons) pursuant
to which the nomination or nominations for election as a Director
are to be made by the Stockholder, such other information
regarding each nominee proposed by such Stockholder as would have
been required to be included in a proxy statement filed pursuant
to the proxy rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission if
such nominee had been nominated, or was intended to be nominated,
for election as a Director by the Board of Directors, and the
consent of each nominee to serve as a Director of the Company if
so elected. The Board of Directors may refuse to acknowledge the
nomination of any person not made in compliance with the
foregoing procedures.
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ARTICLE II.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 1. Number and Election: The business and property of the
Company shall be managed by a Board of ten Directors. The number
of Directors may be altered from time to time by the alteration
of these By-Laws, provided that, as required by the Restated
Certificate of Incorporation, the Board shall never consist of
less than eight members.
As provided in the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the
Board of Directors shall be divided into three classes, two
consisting of three Directors each and the remaining consisting
of four Directors. At each annual election, the successors to
the Directors of the class whose terms shall expire in that year
shall be elected to hold office for a term of three years, so
that the term of office of one class of Directors shall expire in
each year. Each Director shall serve for the term for which such
Director shall have been elected and until such Director's
successor shall have been duly elected.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1, if
and as long as the Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides
for the election of additional Directors by class or classes of
stock, such additional Directors shall be elected in the manner
and for the term provided in the Restated Certificate of
Incorporation.
Section 2. Vacancies: Subject to any requirements of the
Certificate of Incorporation with respect to the filling of
vacancies among additional Directors elected by a class or
classes of stock, if the office of any Director becomes vacant,
the remaining Directors may, by a majority vote, elect a
successor who shall hold office until the next succeeding annual
meeting of the Stockholders and until his successor shall have
been elected and qualified.
Section 3. Place of Meetings: The Directors may hold their
meetings and may have an office and keep the books of the Company
(except as otherwise may be provided for by law) in such place or
places in the State of New Jersey or outside of the State of New
Jersey as the Board from time to time may determine.
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Section 4. Regular Meetings: Regular meetings of the Board of
Directors shall be held at such times and intervals as the Board
may from time to time determine. It shall be the duty of the
Secretary to send a notice to each of the Directors at his
address as it appears on the books of the Company at least two
(2) days before the holding of each regular meeting, but a
failure of the Secretary to send such notice shall not invalidate
any proceedings of the said Board.
Section 5. Special Meetings: Special meetings of the Board of
Directors shall be held whenever called by the Chairman of the
Board or the Vice-Chairman or the President, or by one-third
(1/3) of the Directors for the time being in office.
The Secretary shall give notice of each special meeting by
mailing the same at least two (2) days before the meeting, or by
telegraphing the same at least one (1) day before the meeting to
each Director, but such notice may be waived by any Director. At
any meeting at which every Director shall be present, even
without notice, any business may be transacted.
Section 6. Quorum: Six (6) members of the Board of Directors,
but not less than one-third (1/3) of the entire Board, shall
constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; but if at
any meeting of the Board there be less than a quorum present,
those present may adjourn the meeting from time to time. At
meetings of the Board of Directors, business shall be transacted
in such order as from time to time the Board may determine.
Section 7. Director Emeritus: The Board of Directors may
appoint a person who has served with distinction and who has
retired from the Board upon reaching mandatory retirement as
provided herein to the position of Director Emeritus. A Director
Emeritus shall be invited to attend all meetings of the Board and
shall receive the same compensation as that paid to outside
Directors. While serving as a Director Emeritus, he shall not be
considered a retired director for pension benefit purposes;
however, any pension benefits to which he may be entitled will
commence upon his cessation of service as a Director Emeritus.
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He shall be appointed by the Board for a one-year term and may be
reappointed from time to time by action of the Board. While the
presence of a Director Emeritus at a Board meeting will not be
considered for quorum or voting purposes, nevertheless, his
advice and counsel on all matters to come before the Board is
invited.
ARTICLE III.
COMMITTEES
The Board of Directors may appoint from their number such
standing committees as they deem best and to the extent permitted
by statute may invest them with such of their own powers as they
may deem advisable, subject to such conditions as they may
prescribe.
ARTICLE IV.
OFFICERS
Section 1. Officers: The executive officers of the Company
shall include a Chairman of the Board of Directors, President,
Treasurer and Secretary and may also include one or more
Vice-Chairmen, Executive Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents,
Vice Presidents, and such other officers as the Board of
Directors shall deem necessary or otherwise appropriate to elect.
The Chief Executive Officer may hold the title of Chairman of the
Board, or President, or both titles.
The Board of Directors may appoint such other officers and
advisory boards as they shall deem necessary, who shall have such
authority and who shall perform such duties as from time to time
may be prescribed by the Board of Directors.
Any executive officer elected by the Board of Directors may be
removed at any time with or without cause by the affirmative vote
of two-thirds (2/3) of the entire Board of Directors.
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Any other appointed or elected officer, agent, employee or member
of an advisory board may be removed at any time with or without
cause by affirmative vote of the Directors or by the Committee or
superior officer upon whom such power of removal may be
conferred.
Section 2. Powers and Duties: The Chairman of the Board shall
preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and
Stockholders. Subject to designation by the Board of Directors
he shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and he
shall have responsibility for the active management of the
business of the Company. He may sign and execute contracts and
agreements authorized by the Board, delegate other officers to do
so and may, from time to time, require from other officers and
from employees of the Company opinions, reports or information
upon any matter specified by him or generally upon the interests
or affairs of the Company under the supervision of such officers
or employees respectively. He may appoint and remove assistant
officers and other employees and agents. He may exercise any
other powers conferred upon him by the Board of Directors.
Other officers shall have all the usual and customary powers and
shall perform all the usual and customary duties incident to
their respective offices and, in addition thereto and to any
duties specifically prescribed by any subsequent provisions of
these By-Laws, they shall respectively perform such other general
or special duties as may from time to time be assigned to them by
the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer.
The Board of Directors may appoint an officer to act as Chief
Financial Officer of the Company, who shall have responsibility
for the financial affairs of the Company. He will be responsible
for the preparation of the financial statements of the Company,
and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him
by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer. The
Board of Directors may appoint an officer to act as General
Counsel of the Company, who shall have responsibility for the
legal affairs of the Company. The Board of Directors may appoint
the Comptroller to be the principal accounting and financial
control officer of the Company.
Securities of other corporations or interests in other entities
held by the Company may be voted by the Chairman of the Board or
by any other person designated by the Board of Directors or Chief
Executive Officer.
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Section 3. Term: The executive officers elected by the Board of
Directors shall hold office for one year or until their
successors are elected and qualify. The Chairman, and any
Vice-Chairman, shall be elected by the Directors from among their
own number. One person may hold more than one office.
ARTICLE V.
BILLS, NOTES, AND CHECKS
All bills, notes, checks or other negotiable instruments of the
Company shall be made in the name of the Company and shall be
signed by two executive officers or by any two persons duly
authorized by the Board of Directors. No officers or agents of
the Company, either singly or together shall have power to make
any bill, note or check or other negotiable instrument in the
name of the Company to bind the Company thereby, except as in
this Article prescribed and provided.
No officer or agent of this Company shall have power to endorse
in the name, for or in behalf of the Company, any note, bill of
exchange, draft, check or other written instrument for the
payment of money, save only for purposes of the discount or the
collection of the said instrument, unless thereunto duly and
specially authorized by the vote of the Directors of this Company
entered on the minutes of said Board.
ARTICLE VI.
CAPITAL STOCK
Section 1. Certificates for Shares: The certificates for shares
of the capital stock of the Company shall be in such form not
inconsistent with the Certificate of Incorporation as shall be
prepared or be approved by the Board of Directors. The
certificates shall be signed by or bear thereon the facsimile
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signature of the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman, President, or an
Executive Vice President, or a Vice President, and also be signed
by or bear thereon the facsimile signature of the Treasurer or an
Assistant Treasurer. The certificates shall be consecutively
numbered. The name of the person owning the shares represented
thereby, with the number of such shares and the date of issue,
shall be entered in the Company's books.
Section 2. Transfers: Shares of the capital stock of the
Company shall be transferred only on the books of the Company by
the holder thereof in person or by his attorney, upon surrender
of the certificate or certificates properly endorsed. The Board
of Directors shall have power and authority to make all such
rules and regulations as it may deem expedient concerning the
issue, transfer and registration of certificates for shares of
the capital stock of the Company. The Board of Directors may
appoint Transfer Agents and Stock Registrars and may require all
stock certificates to bear the signatures of such a Transfer
Agent and of such a Registrar of Transfers, or any of them.
The stock transfer books may be closed for such period next
preceding any Stockholders' meeting, or the payment of dividends
as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine, and
during such period no stock shall be transferable.
The Board of Directors may also fix in advance a date not more
than 60 nor less than 10 days preceding the date of any meeting
of Stockholders, nor more than 60 days preceding the date for the
payment of any dividend on the Common Stock or any series of
Preference Stock, or the date for allotment of rights, or the
date when any change or conversion or exchange of capital stock
shall go into effect, as a record date for the determination of
the Stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at any such
meeting, or entitled to receive payment of any such dividend, or
any such allotment of rights, or to exercise the rights in
respect to any such change, conversion or exchange of capital
stock. In such cases only Stockholders of record on the date so
fixed shall be entitled to such notice of and vote at such
meeting, or to receive payment of such dividend, or allotment of
rights, or to exercise such rights, as the case may be, and
notwithstanding any transfer of any stock on the books of the
Company after any such record date fixed as aforesaid.
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Section 3. Lost Stock Certificates: In case any stock
certificate shall be lost, the Board of Directors may order a new
certificate to be issued in its place upon receiving such proof
of loss and such security therefor as may be satisfactory to it.
ARTICLE VII.
THE CORPORATE SEAL
The Corporate Seal of the Company shall consist of a circle
formed by the words "Ingersoll-Rand Company" and the letters "N.
J." with the words "Corporate Seal" and the figures "1905" in the
center.
The Seal shall be attested by the signature of the Secretary or
the Assistant Secretary or of the Treasurer or the Assistant
Treasurer.
When authorized by the Board of Directors, the Secretary shall
affix the Seal, or cause it to be affixed, to all documents
executed on behalf of the Company. The Board of Directors may
also specifically or generally authorize other persons to affix
the Seal.
ARTICLE VIII.
REACQUIRED SHARES
When shares of the Company are reacquired by the Company by
purchase, by redemption or by their conversion into other shares
of the Company, such shares shall be treated by the Company as
treasury shares, unless and to the extent the Board of Directors
determines at any time that any such shares shall be cancelled.
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ARTICLE IX.
INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND OTHERS
Section 1. Right to Indemnification: Each person who was or is
made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is
involved in any pending, threatened or completed civil, criminal,
administrative or arbitrative action, suit or proceeding, or any
appeal therein or any inquiry or investigation which could lead
to such action, suit or proceeding ("proceeding"), by reason of
his or her being or having been a Director or officer of the
Company or of any constituent corporation absorbed by the Company
in a consolidation or merger, or by reason of his or her being or
having been a Director, officer, trustee, employee or agent of
any other corporation (domestic or foreign) or of any
partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, employee
benefit plan or other enterprise (whether or not for profit),
serving as such at the request of the Company or of any such
constituent corporation, or the legal representative of any such
Director, officer, trustee, employee or agent, shall be
indemnified and held harmless by the Company to the fullest
extent permitted by the New Jersey Business Corporation Act, as
the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of
any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment
permits the Company to provide broader indemnification rights
than said Act permitted prior to such amendment), from and
against any and all reasonable costs, disbursements and
attorneys' fees, and any and all amounts paid or incurred in
satisfaction of settlements, judgments, fines and penalties,
incurred or suffered in connection with any such proceeding, and
such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased
to be a Director, officer, trustee, employee or agent and shall
inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors,
administrators and assigns; provided, however, that there shall
be no indemnification hereunder with respect to any settlement or
other nonadjudicated disposition of any proceeding unless the
Company has given its prior consent to such settlement or
disposition. The right to indemnification conferred in this
Section 1 shall be a contract right and shall include the right
to be paid by the Company the expenses incurred in connection
with any proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such
proceeding as authorized by the Board of Directors; provided,
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however, that, if the New Jersey Business Corporation Act so
requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a Director or
officer in his or her capacity as a Director or officer in
advance of the final disposition of a proceeding shall be made
only upon receipt by the Company of an undertaking, by or on
behalf of such Director or officer, to repay all amounts so
advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such Director
or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Section 1
or otherwise. The Company may, by action of its Board of
Directors, provide for indemnification and advancement of
expenses to employees and agents of the Company with the same
scope and effect as the foregoing indemnification of Directors
and officers.
Section 2. Right of Claimant to Bring Suit: If a claim under
Section 1 of this Article IX is not paid in full by the Company
within thirty days after a written request has been received by
the Company, the claimant may at any time thereafter apply to a
court for an award of indemnification by the Company for the
unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful on the merits or
otherwise in connection with any proceeding, or in the defense of
any claim, issue or matter therein, the claimant shall be
entitled also to be paid by the Company any and all expenses
incurred or suffered in connection with such proceeding. It
shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action
brought to enforce a claim for the advancement of expenses
incurred in connection with any proceeding where the required
undertaking, if any, has been tendered to the Company) that the
claimant has not met the standard of conduct which makes it
permissible under the New Jersey Business Corporation Act for the
Company to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the
burden of proving such defense shall be on the Company. Neither
the failure of the Company (including its Board of Directors,
independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a
determination prior to the commencement of such proceeding that
indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances
because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set
forth in the New Jersey Business Corporation Act, nor an actual
determination by the Company (including its Board of Directors,
independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the claimant
has not met such applicable standard of conduct, nor the
termination of any proceeding by judgment, order, settlement,
conviction or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent,
shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the
claimant has not met the applicable standard of conduct.
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Section 3. Non-Exclusivity of Rights: The right to
indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by or
granted pursuant to this Article IX shall not exclude or be
exclusive of any other rights, including the right to be
indemnified against any and all reasonable costs, disbursements
and attorneys' fees, and any and all amounts paid or incurred in
satisfaction of settlements, judgments, fines and penalties
incurred or suffered in proceedings by or in the right of the
Company, to which any person may be entitled under a certificate
of incorporation, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders, or
otherwise, provided that no indemnification shall be made to or
on behalf of any person if a judgment or other final adjudication
adverse to such person establishes that such person has
not met the applicable standard of conduct required to be met
under the New Jersey Business Corporation Act.
ARTICLE X.
AMENDMENTS
The Board of Directors may, by a majority vote of the entire
Board, make By-Laws and from time to time alter, amend or repeal
any By-Law, but any By-Law made by the Board of Directors may be
altered or repealed by the Stockholders at any annual or special
meeting. Notice of such proposed alteration, amendment or repeal
of any By-Law shall be included in the notice of the meeting of
the Directors or Stockholders.
ARTICLE XI.
AUDITORS
The Board of Directors may appoint a firm of certified public
accountants to audit the books and accounts of the Company for
the calendar year in which such appointment is made.
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