Section 8.12. Interpretation. The provisions of this Article are
intended to constitute Bylaws authorized by 15 Pa.C.S. § 1746.
Section 8.13. Changes in Pennsylvania Law. References in this Article to
Pennsylvania law or to any provision thereof shall be to such law (including
without limitation to the Directors Liability Act) as it existed on the date
this Article was adopted or as such law thereafter may be changed;
provided that (a) in the case of any change which expands the liability of
Directors (or expands the liability of officers) or limits the indemnification
rights or the rights to advancement of expenses which the Corporation may
provide, the rights to limited liability, to indemnification and to the
advancement of expenses provided in this Article shall continue as
theretofore to the extent permitted by law; and (b) if such change permits
the Corporation without the requirement of any further action by shareholders
or Directors to limit further the liability of Directors (or limit the
liability of Officers) or to provide broader indemnification rights or rights
to the advancement of expenses than the Corporation was permitted to provide
prior to such change, then liability thereupon shall be so limited and the rights
to indemnification and the advancement of expenses shall be so broadened to the
extent permitted by law.
ARTICLE IX
Dividends and Other Distributions to Shareholders
Section 9.01. Dividends. Subject to applicable law of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, and in accordance with the provisions thereof at the pertinent
applicable time, the Board of Directors of the Corporation may from time to
time declare, and the Corporation may pay, dividends on its outstanding shares
in cash or property other than its own shares, except when the Corporation is
insolvent, or when the payment thereof would render the Corporation insolvent,
or when the declaration or payment thereof would be contrary to any restriction
contained in the Articles.
In addition, no dividends shall be paid which would
reduce the remaining net assets of the Corporation below the aggregate
preferential amount payable in the event of voluntary liquidation to the
holders of shares having preferential rights to the assets of the Corporation
in the event of liquidation. The Board
of Directors may also, from time to time, distribute to the holders of the
Corporations outstanding shares having a cumulative preferential right to
receive dividends in discharge of their cumulative dividend rights, dividends
payable in cash out of the unrestricted capital surplus of the Corporation, if
at the time the Corporation has no earned surplus and is not insolvent and
would not thereby be rendered insolvent.
Each such distribution, when made, shall be identified as a payment of
cumulative dividends out of capital surplus.
Section 9.02. Distributions of Shares of the Corporation. The Board of
Directors of the Corporation may, from time to time, distribute pro rata to
holders of any class or classes of its issued shares, treasury shares and
authorized but unissued shares, but
(1) If distribution is made, in the Corporations authorized
but unissued shares having a par value, there shall be transferred to stated
capital at the time of such distribution an amount of surplus at least equal to
the aggregate par value of the shares so issued;
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(2) If a distribution is made in the Corporations authorized
but unissued shares without par value, the Board of Directors may fix a stated
value for the shares so issued, and there shall be transferred to stated
capital, at the time of such distribution, an amount of surplus equal to the
aggregate stated value, if any, so fixed;
(3) The amount per share so transferred to stated capital, or
the fact that there was no such transfer, shall be disclosed to the
shareholders receiving such distribution concurrently with the distribution
thereof;
(4) No distribution of shares of any class shall be made to
holders of shares of any other class unless the Articles so provide or such
distribution is authorized by the affirmative vote or written consent of the
holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the class in which the
distribution is to be made.
In lieu of issuing fractional shares in any such
distribution, the Corporation may pay in cash the fair value thereof, as
determined by the Board of Directors, to shareholders entitled thereto.
Section 9.03. Reserves. 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 determine as a reserve or reserves
to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or
maintaining any property of the Corporation, or for the purchase of additional
property, or for such other purpose as the Board of Directors shall think
conducive to the interests of the Corporation.
The Board of Directors may abolish or modify any such reserve.
ARTICLE X
Miscellaneous
Section 10.01. Checks. All checks, notes, bills of exchange or other
similar orders in writing shall be signed by such one or more officers or
employees of the Corporation as the Board of Directors may from time to time
designate.
Section 10.02. Contracts.
(a) General Rule. Except as otherwise provided in the Business
Corporation Law in the case of transactions that require action by the
shareholders, the Board of Directors may authorize any officer or agent to
enter into any contract or to execute or deliver any instrument on behalf of
the Corporation, and such authority may be general or confined to specific
instances.
(b) Statutory Form of Execution of Instruments. Any note, mortgage, evidence of indebtedness,
contract or other document, or any assignment or endorsement thereof, executed
or entered into between the Corporation and any other person, when signed by
one or more officers or agents having actual or apparent authority to sign it,
or by the CEO, the President, the COO, the CFO, or an Executive Vice President,
and by the Secretary, an assistant Secretary, Treasurer or an assistant
Treasurer of the Corporation, shall be held to have been
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