Exhibit 3.36
FORTY-FIFTEEN PAPIN REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
B Y - L A W S
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ARTICLE I
OFFICES
Section 1. The registered office shall be located in St.Louis, Missouri.
Section 2. The corporation may also have offices at such other places
both within and without the State of Missouri as the board of directors may from
time to time determine or the business of the corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
ANNUAL MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. All meetings of shareholders for the election of directors
shall be held in St. Louis, State of Missouri, at such place as may be fixed
from time to time by the board of directors.
Section 2. Annual meetings of shareholders, commencing with the year
1999, shall be held in the last week of June at 10:00 A.M., at which they shall
elect by a plurality vote a
board of directors, and transact such other business as may properly be brought
before the meeting.
Section 3. Written or printed notice of the annual meeting stating
the place, day and hour of the meeting shall be delivered not less than ten
nor more than seventy days before the date of the meeting, either personally
or by mail, by or at the direction of the president, or the secretary, or the
officer or persons calling the meeting, to each shareholder of record
entitled to vote at such meeting.
ARTICLE III
SPECIAL MEETINGS OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Special meetings of shareholders for any purpose other than
the election of directors may be held at such time and place within or without
the State of Missouri as shall be stated in the notice of the meeting or in a
duly executed waiver of notice thereof.
Section 2. Special meetings of the shareholders, for any purpose or
purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute or by the articles of
incorporation, may be called by the board of directors or by such other person
or persons as may be provided in the articles of incorporation.
Section 3. Written or printed notice of a special meeting stating the
place, day and hour of the meeting and the purpose or purposes for which the
meeting is called, shall be delivered not less than ten nor more than seventy
days before the date of the meeting, either personally or by mail, by or at the
direction of the president, or the secretary, or the officer
or persons calling the meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote
at such meeting.
Section 4. The business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders
shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
ARTICLE IV
QUORUM AND VOTING OF STOCK
Section 1. The holders of a majority of the shares of stock issued and
outstanding and entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, shall
constitute a quorum at all meetings of the shareholders for the transaction of
business except as otherwise provided by statute or by the articles of
incorporation. If, however, such quorum shall not be present or represented at
any meeting of the shareholders, the shareholders present in person or
represented by proxy shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time,
without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be
present or represented. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be
present or represented any business may be transacted which might have been
transacted at the meeting as originally notified.
Section 2. If a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of a majority of
the shares of stock represented at the meeting shall be the act of the
shareholders unless the vote of a greater number of shares of stock is required
by law or the articles of incorporation.
Section 3. Each outstanding share of stock, having voting power, shall
be entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of
shareholders. A shareholder may vote either in person or by proxy executed in
writing by the shareholder or by his duly authorized attorney-in-fact.
Unless otherwise provided by the articles of incorporation, each
shareholder in electing directors shall have the right to cast as many votes in
the aggregate as shall equal the number of votes held by him in the corporation
multiplied by the number of directors to be elected at the election, and each
shareholder may cast the whole number of votes, either in person or by proxy,
for one candidate, or distribute them among two or more candidates.
Section 4. Any action required to be taken at a meeting of the
shareholders may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting
forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all of the shareholders entitled
to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
ARTICLE V
DIRECTORS
Section 1. The number of directors shall be 3. Directors need not be
residents of the State of Missouri nor shareholders of the corporation. The
directors, other than the first board of directors, shall be elected at the
annual meeting of the shareholders, and each director elected shall serve until
the next succeeding annual meeting and until his successor shall have been
elected and qualified. The first board of directors shall hold office until the
first annual meeting of shareholders.
Section 2. Unless otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation or
these bylaws, any vacancy occurring in the board of directors and any newly
created directorship resulting from any increase in the number of directors to
constitute the board of directors may be filled by a majority of the directors
then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director,
until the next election of directors by the shareholders.
Section 3. The business affairs of the corporation shall be managed by
its board of directors which may exercise all such powers of the corporation and
do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the articles of
incorporation or by these bylaws directed or required to be exercised or done by
the shareholders.
Section 4. The directors may keep the books of the corporation, except
such as are required by law to be kept within the state, outside of the State of
Missouri, at such place or places as the directors may from time to time
determine.
Section 5. The board of directors, by the affirmative vote of a majority
of the directors then in office, and irrespective of any personal interest of
any of its members, shall have authority to establish reasonable compensation of
all directors for services to the corporation as directors, officers or
otherwise.
ARTICLE VI
MEETINGS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 1. Meetings of the board of directors, regular or special, may
be held either within or without the State of Missouri.
Section 2. The first meeting of each newly elected board of directors
shall be held at such time and place as shall be fixed by the vote of the
shareholders at the annual meeting and no notice of such meeting shall be
necessary to the newly elected directors in order legally to constitute the
meeting, provided a quorum shall be present, or it may convene at such place and
time as shall be fixed by the consent in writing of all the directors.
Section 3. Regular meetings of the board of directors may be held upon
such notice, or without notice, and at such time and at such place as shall from
time to time be determined by the board.
Section 4. Special meetings of the board of directors may be called by
the president on 10 days' notice to each director, either personally or by mail
or by facsimile telecommunication; special meetings shall be called by the
president or secretary in like manner and on like notice on the written request
of two directors.
Section 5. Attendance of a director at any meeting shall constitute a
waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a director attends for the
express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the
meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be
transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the board
of directors need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such
meeting.
Section 6. A majority of the full board of directors shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business unless a greater number is required by
statute or by the articles of incorporation. The act of a majority of the
directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act
of the board of directors, unless the act of a greater number is required by
statute or by the articles of incorporation. 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.
Section 7. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of
the directors, or of the executive committee or any other committee of the
directors, may be taken without a meeting, if a consent in writing, setting
forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all of the members of the board or
of the committee entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 8. Unless otherwise restricted by the articles of incorporation
or these bylaws, members of the board of directors, or any committee designated
by the board of directors, may participate in a meeting of the board of
directors or committee by means of conference telephone or similar
communications equipment whereby all persons participating in the meeting can
hear each other, and participation in a meeting in this manner shall constitute
presence in person at the meeting.
ARTICLE VII
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Section 1. The board of directors, by resolution adopted by a majority
of the number of directors fixed by the bylaws or otherwise, may designate two
or more directors to constitute an executive committee, which committee, to the
extent provided in such resolution, shall have and exercise all of the authority
of the board of directors in the
management of the corporation, except as otherwise required by law. Vacancies in
the membership of the committee shall be filled by the board of directors at a
regular or special meeting of the board of directors. The executive committee
shall keep regular minutes of its proceedings and report the same to the board
when required.
ARTICLE VIII
NOTICES
Section 1. Whenever, under the provisions of the statutes or of the
articles of incorporation or of these bylaws, notice is required to be given to
any director or shareholder, it shall not be construed to mean personal notice,
but such notice may be given in writing, by mail, addressed to such director or
shareholder, at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation,
with postage thereon prepaid, and such notice shall be deemed to be given at the
time when the same shall be deposited in the United States mail. Notice to
directors may also be given by facsimile telecommunication.
Section 2. Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given under
the provisions of the statutes or under the provisions of the articles of
incorporation or these bylaws, a waiver thereof in writing signed by the person
or persons entitled to such notice, whether before or after the time stated
therein, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice.
ARTICLE IX
OFFICERS
Section 1. The officers of the corporation shall be chosen by the board
of directors and shall be a president, a vice-president, a secretary and a
treasurer. The board of directors may also choose additional vice-presidents,
and one or more assistant secretaries and assistant treasurers.
Section 2. The board of directors at its first meeting after each annual
meeting of shareholders shall choose a president, one or more vice-presidents, a
secretary and a treasurer, none of whom need be a member of the board.
Section 3. The board of directors may appoint such other officers and
agents as it shall deem necessary, who shall hold their offices for such terms
and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined
from time to time by the board of directors.
Section 4. The salaries of all officers and agents of the corporation
shall be fixed by the board of directors.
Section 5. The officers of the corporation shall hold office until their
successors are chosen and qualify. Any officer elected or appointed by the board
of directors may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of a majority of
the board of directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the corporation
shall be filled by the board of directors.
THE PRESIDENT
Section 6. The president shall be the chief executive officer of the
corporation, shall preside at all meetings of the shareholders and the board of
directors, shall have general and active management of the business of the
corporation and shall see that all orders and resolutions of the board of
directors are carried into effect.
Section 7. He shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts
requiring a seal, under the seal of the corporation, except where required or
permitted by law to be otherwise signed and executed and except where the
signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the board of
directors to some other officer or agent of the corporation.
THE VICE-PRESIDENTS
Section 8. The vice-president, or if there shall be more than one, the
vice-presidents in the order determined by the board of directors, shall, in the
absence or disability of the president, perform the duties and exercise the
powers of the president and shall perform such other duties and have such other
powers as the board of directors may from time to time prescribe.
THE SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT SECRETARIES
Section 9. 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 or
president, under whose 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 10. The assistant secretary, or if there 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.
THE TREASURER AND ASSISTANT TREASURERS
Section 11. The treasurer shall have the 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 12. 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 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 13. 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 14. 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.
ARTICLE X
CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES
Section 1. The shares of the corporation shall be represented by
certificates signed by the president or a vice-president and the secretary or an
assistant secretary or the treasurer or an assistant treasurer of the
corporation, and sealed with the seal of the corporation or a facsimile thereof.
Section 2. The signatures of the officers of the corporation upon a
certificate may be facsimiles. 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 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.
TRANSFERS 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.
CLOSING OF TRANSFER BOOKS
Section 5. The board of directors shall have power to close the transfer
books of the corporation for a period not exceeding seventy days preceding the
date of any meeting of shareholders or the date for payment of any dividend or
the date for the allotment of rights or the date when any change or conversion
or exchange of shares shall go into effect; provided, however, that in lieu of
closing the transfer books, the board of directors may fix in advance a date,
not exceeding seventy days preceding the date of any meeting of shareholders, or
the date for the payment of any dividend, or the date for the allotment of
rights, or the date 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 the meeting, and any adjournment thereof, or entitled to
receive payment of the dividend, or entitled to any such allotment of rights, or
entitled to exercise the rights in respect of the change, conversion or exchange
of shares, and in such case, only the shareholders who are shareholders of
record on the date of closing the transfer books or on the record date so fixed
shall be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the meeting, and any adjournment
thereof, or to receive payment of the dividend, or to receive the allotment of
rights, or to exercise the rights, as the case may be, notwithstanding any
transfer of any shares on the books of the corporation after the date of closing
of the transfer books or the record date fixed as aforesaid. If the board of
directors does not close the transfer books or set a record date for the
determination of the shareholders entitled to notice of, and to vote at, a
meeting of shareholders, only the shareholders who are shareholders of record at
the close of business on the twentieth day preceding the date of the meeting
shall be entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the meeting, and any adjournment
of the meeting; except that, if prior to the meeting, written waivers of notice
of the meeting are signed and delivered to the corporation by all of the
shareholders of record at the time the meeting is convened, only the
shareholders who are shareholders of record at the time the meeting is convened
shall be entitled to vote at the meeting, and any adjournment of the 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 as such 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
Missouri.
LIST OF SHAREHOLDERS
Section 7. The officer or agent having charge of the transfer books for
shares shall make, at least ten days before each meeting of shareholders, a
complete list of the shareholders entitled to vote at such meeting, arranged in
alphabetical order, with the address of each and the number of shares held by
each, which list, for a period of ten days prior to such meeting, shall be kept
on file at the registered office of the corporation and shall be subject to
inspection by any shareholder at any time during usual business hours. Such list
shall also 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. The original share ledger or transfer book, or a duplicate thereof,
shall be prima facie evidence as to who are the shareholders entitled to examine
such list or share ledger or transfer book or to vote at any meeting of the
shareholders.
ARTICLE XI
GENERAL PROVISIONS
DIVIDENDS
Section 1. Subject to the provisions of the articles 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 property or in shares of the capital stock, subject to any provisions of the
articles of incorporation.
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 end on the last
Saturday in April.
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,
Missouri". The seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be
impressed or affixed or in any manner reproduced.
ARTICLE XII
AMENDMENTS
Section 1. If provided by the articles of incorporation, these bylaws
may be altered, amended, or repealed or new bylaws may be adopted by the
affirmative vote of a majority of the board of directors at any regular or
special meeting of the board.