Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)
May 30, 2017
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ENCISION INC.
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Colorado
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001-11789
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84-1162056
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(State or other jurisdiction
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(Commission
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(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.) |
6797 Winchester Circle, Boulder, Colorado
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80301
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(Address of principal executive offices)
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(Zip Code)
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Registrant's telephone number, including area code
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(303) 444-2600
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(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
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[_] Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
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[_] Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
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[_] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
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[_] Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
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Exhibit No.
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Description
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3.1
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First Amended and Restated Bylaws of Encision Inc.
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3.2
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Marked Comparison of First Amended and Restated Bylaws of Encision Inc.
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ENCISION INC. | |||
Date: May 31, 2017
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By:
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/s/ Mala M. Ray | |
Mala M. Ray
Controller
Principal Accounting Officer
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Exhibit No.
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Description
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3.1
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First Amended and Restated Bylaws of Encision Inc.
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3.2
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Marked Comparison of First Amended and Restated Bylaws of Encision Inc.
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(a) |
Special meetings of shareholders, for any purpose or purposes unless otherwise prescribed by statute, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, may be called at any time by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or the President and shall be called by the Secretary upon one or more written demands (which shall state the purpose or purposes therefor) signed and dated by the holders of shares representing at least ten percent of all votes entitled to be cast on any issue proposed to be considered at the meeting (the "
Special Meeting Percentage
"). Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purpose or purposes stated in the notice of such meeting.
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(b) |
Any shareholder seeking to request a special meeting shall request that the Board of Directors fix a record date to determine the shareholders entitled to request a special meeting (the "
Request Record Date
") by sending written notice to the Secretary of the Company (the "
Record Date Request Notice
") by registered mail. Any shareholder may make a Record Date Request Notice, provided that such shareholder's Record Date Request Notice provides the information required under Section 3(b) below. Upon receiving a Record Date Request Notice, the Board of Directors may set a Request Record Date, which shall not precede, and shall not be more than 60 days after the close of business on, the date on which the resolution fixing the Request Record Date is adopted by the Board of Directors. If the Board of Directors, within 28 days after the date on which a valid Record Date Request Notice is received by the Secretary of the Company, fails to adopt a resolution fixing the Request Record Date, the Request Record Date shall be the close of business on the 28th day after the date a valid Record Date Request Notice is received by the Secretary (or, if such 28th day is not a business day, the first business day thereafter).
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(c) |
In order for a shareholder to request a special meeting, one or more written requests for a special meeting signed by shareholders as of the Request Record Date entitled to cast not less than the Special Meeting Percentage (the "
Special Meeting Request
") shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Company. The Special Meeting Request shall (i) set forth the purpose of the meeting (which shall be limited to the matters set forth in the Record Date Request Notice received by the Secretary), and the matters proposed to be acted on at the meeting (which shall be limited to the matters set forth in the Record Date Request Notice received by the Secretary), (ii) bear the date of signature of each such shareholder signing the Special Meeting Request, (iii) set forth the name and address as they appear in the Company's books of each shareholder signing such request, (iv) comply with the requirements set forth in Section 3(b) below as to each shareholder signing such request, and (v) be received by the Secretary of the Company by registered mail or personal delivery within 30 days after the Request Record Date. Within ten days after receiving a Special Meeting Request, the Board of Directors shall determine whether such shareholder has satisfied the requirements for calling a special meeting of shareholders, and the Secretary shall notify the requesting shareholder of such finding.
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(d) |
The Secretary shall inform the requesting shareholder of the reasonably estimated cost of preparing and mailing or delivering the notice of the meeting (including the Company's proxy materials). The Secretary shall not be required to call a special meeting upon shareholder request and such meeting shall not be held unless, in addition to the information otherwise required by this Section 2, the Secretary receives payment of such reasonably estimated cost prior to the preparation and mailing or delivery of such notice of the meeting. In the event that each matter proposed by the requesting shareholders to be acted on at such meeting is approved or, in the case of a nominee for election to the Board of Directors, is elected by the shareholders, the Company shall refund to the requesting shareholder the amount of such reasonably estimated cost.
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In the case of any special meeting called by the Secretary upon the request of shareholders (a "
Shareholder-Requested Meeting
"), such meeting shall be held at such place, date and time as may be designated by the Board of Directors; provided, however, that the date of any Shareholder-Requested Meeting shall be not more than 70 days after the record date for such meeting set by the Board of Directors (the "
Meeting Record Date
"); and provided further that if the Board of Directors fails to designate, within ten days after the date that a valid Special Meeting Request is actually received by the secretary (the "
Delivery Date
"), a date and time for a Shareholder-Requested Meeting, then such meeting shall be held at 10:00 a.m., local time, on the 70th day after the Meeting Record Date or, if such 70th day is not a Business Day (as defined below), on the first preceding Business Day; and provided further that in the event that the Board of Directors fails to designate a place for a Shareholder-Requested Meeting within ten days after the Delivery Date, then such meeting shall be held at the principal executive offices of the Company. In fixing a date for a Shareholder-Requested Meeting, the Board of Directors may consider such factors as it deems relevant, including, without limitation, the nature of the matters to be considered, the facts and circumstances surrounding any request for the meeting and any plan of the Board of Directors to call an annual meeting or a special meeting. In the case of any Shareholder-Requested Meeting, if the Board of Directors fails to fix a Meeting Record Date that is a date within 30 days after the Delivery Date, then the close of business on the 30th day after the Delivery Date shall be the Meeting Record Date. The Board of Directors may revoke the notice for any Shareholder-Requested Meeting in the event that the requesting shareholders fail to comply with the provisions of this Section 2.
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Any requesting shareholder may revoke a request for a special meeting by written revocation delivered to the Secretary of the Company at any time prior to the giving of notice of the special meeting.
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(a) |
Nominations of persons for election to the board of directors of the Company and the proposal of business to be considered by the shareholders may be made at an annual meeting of shareholders (i) pursuant to the Company's notice of meeting, (ii) by or at the direction of the board of directors, or (iii) by any shareholder of the Company who was a shareholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 3, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 3.
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For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a shareholder pursuant to Clause (iii) of Section 3(a) above, the shareholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Company and such other business must otherwise be a proper matter for shareholder action. To be timely, a shareholder's notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year's annual meeting;
provided
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however
, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 days before or more than 60 days after such anniversary date, notice by the shareholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to the date of such annual meeting or the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the Company. Except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, in no event shall any adjournment, postponement or recess of an annual meeting or the public announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a shareholder's notice as described above. Such shareholder's notice must set forth:
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Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of Section 3(b) above to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the board of directors of the Company is increased and there is no public announcement by the Company naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased board of directors at least 70 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year's annual meeting, a shareholder's notice required by this Section 3 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Company.
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Nominations of persons for election to the board of directors may be made at a special meeting of shareholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Company's notice of meeting (1) by or at the direction of the board of directors or (2) provided that the board of directors has determined that directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any shareholder of the Company who is a shareholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 3 and is a shareholder of record at the time of the special meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures and other requirements set forth in this Section 3. In the event the Company calls a special meeting of shareholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the board of directors, any such shareholder may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be), for election to such position(s) as specified in the Company's notice of meeting, if the shareholder's notice required by Section 3(b) above shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the date of such special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to the date of such special meeting or the 10th day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the board of directors to be elected at such meeting. Except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, in no event shall any adjournment, postponement or recess of a special meeting or the public announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a shareholder's notice as described above.
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Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3 shall be eligible to serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of shareholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the chair of the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3 and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with this Section 3, to declare that such defective nomination or proposal shall be disregarded. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3, if the shareholder (or a qualified representative of the shareholder) does not appear at the annual or special meeting of shareholders of the Company to present a nomination or proposal, such nomination or proposed business shall be disregarded, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Company.
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For purposes of this Bylaw, (i) "
public announcement
" shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or other national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; and (ii)
"Shareholder Associated Person"
of any shareholder shall mean (w) any person acting in concert, directly or indirectly, with such shareholder, (x) the beneficial owner or beneficial owners of capital stock of the Company, if different, on whose behalf the notice of business to be brought before an annual meeting or a request for a special meeting of shareholders is being made, (y) any affiliate or associate (each within the meaning of Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act) of such shareholder or any such beneficial owner, and (z) any other person or entity with whom such shareholder or any such beneficial owner (or any of their respective affiliates and associates) is acting in concert.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3, a shareholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 3. Nothing in this Section 3 shall be deemed to affect any rights (i) of shareholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Company's proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or (ii) of the holders of any class or series of preferred stock to elect directors under specified circumstances.
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Certain provisions of this Section 3 above require a shareholder notice of proposed shareholder business or proposed shareholder nominations to be delivered not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year's annual meeting. With respect to the Company's 2017 annual meeting only, however, any such shareholder notice of proposed shareholder business or proposed shareholder nominations will be considered timely if such notice is delivered to the Company by the close of business on June 30, 2017.
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Special meetings of shareholders, for any purpose or purposes unless otherwise prescribed by statute, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, may be called at any time by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or the President and shall be called by the Secretary upon one or more written demands (which shall state the purpose or purposes therefor) signed and dated by the holders of shares representing at least ten percent of all votes entitled to be cast on any issue proposed to be considered at the meeting (the "
Special Meeting Percentage
"). Business transacted at any special meeting of shareholders shall be limited to the purpose or purposes stated in the notice of such meeting.
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Any shareholder seeking to request a special meeting shall request that the Board of Directors fix a record date to determine the shareholders entitled to request a special meeting (the "
Request Record Date
") by sending written notice to the Secretary of the Company (the "
Record Date Request Notice
") by registered mail. Any shareholder may make a Record Date Request Notice, provided that such shareholder's Record Date Request Notice provides the information required under Section 3(b) below. Upon receiving a Record Date Request Notice, the Board of Directors may set a Request Record Date, which shall not precede, and shall not be more than 60 days after the close of business on, the date on which the resolution fixing the Request Record Date is adopted by the Board of Directors. If the Board of Directors, within 28 days after the date on which a valid Record Date Request Notice is received by the Secretary of the Company, fails to adopt a resolution fixing the Request Record Date, the Request Record Date shall be the close of business on the 28th day after the date a valid Record Date Request Notice is received by the Secretary (or, if such 28th day is not a business day, the first business day thereafter).
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In order for a shareholder to request a special meeting, one or more written requests for a special meeting signed by shareholders as of the Request Record Date entitled to cast not less than the Special Meeting Percentage (the "
Special Meeting Request
") shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Company. The Special Meeting Request shall (i) set forth the purpose of the meeting (which shall be limited to the matters set forth in the Record Date Request Notice received by the Secretary), and the matters proposed to be acted on at the meeting (which shall be limited to the matters set forth in the Record Date Request Notice received by the Secretary), (ii) bear the date of signature of each such shareholder signing the Special Meeting Request, (iii) set forth the name and address as they appear in the Company's books of each shareholder signing such request, (iv) comply with the requirements set forth in Section 3(b) below as to each shareholder signing such request, and (v) be received by the Secretary of the Company by registered mail or personal delivery within 30 days after the Request Record Date. Within ten days after receiving a Special Meeting Request, the Board of Directors shall determine whether such shareholder has satisfied the requirements for calling a special meeting of shareholders, and the Secretary shall notify the requesting shareholder of such finding.
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The Secretary shall inform the requesting shareholder of the reasonably estimated cost of preparing and mailing or delivering the notice of the meeting (including the Company's proxy materials). The Secretary shall not be required to call a special meeting upon shareholder request and such meeting shall not be held unless, in addition to the information otherwise required by this Section 2, the Secretary receives payment of such reasonably estimated cost prior to the preparation and mailing or delivery of such notice of the meeting. In the event that each matter proposed by the requesting shareholders to be acted on at such meeting is approved or, in the case of a nominee for election to the Board of Directors, is elected by the shareholders, the Company shall refund to the requesting shareholder the amount of such reasonably estimated cost.
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In the case of any special meeting called by the Secretary upon the request of shareholders (a "
Shareholder-Requested Meeting
"), such meeting shall be held at such place, date and time as may be designated by the Board of Directors; provided, however, that the date of any Shareholder-Requested Meeting shall be not more than 70 days after the record date for such meeting set by the Board of Directors (the "
Meeting Record Date
"); and provided further that if the Board of Directors fails to designate, within ten days after the date that a valid Special Meeting Request is actually received by the secretary (the "
Delivery Date
"), a date and time for a Shareholder-Requested Meeting, then such meeting shall be held at 10:00 a.m., local time, on the 70th day after the Meeting Record Date or, if such 70th day is not a Business Day (as defined below), on the first preceding Business Day; and provided further that in the event that the Board of Directors fails to designate a place for a Shareholder-Requested Meeting within ten days after the Delivery Date, then such meeting shall be held at the principal executive offices of the Company. In fixing a date for a Shareholder-Requested Meeting, the Board of Directors may consider such factors as it deems relevant, including, without limitation, the nature of the matters to be considered, the facts and circumstances surrounding any request for the meeting and any plan of the Board of Directors to call an annual meeting or a special meeting. In the case of any Shareholder-Requested Meeting, if the Board of Directors fails to fix a Meeting Record Date that is a date within 30 days after the Delivery Date, then the close of business on the 30th day after the Delivery Date shall be the Meeting Record Date. The Board of Directors may revoke the notice for any Shareholder-Requested Meeting in the event that the requesting shareholders fail to comply with the provisions of this Section 2.
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Any requesting shareholder may revoke a request for a special meeting by written revocation delivered to the Secretary of the Company at any time prior to the giving of notice of the special meeting.
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Nominations of persons for election to the board of directors of the Company and the proposal of business to be considered by the shareholders may be made at an annual meeting of shareholders (i) pursuant to the Company's notice of meeting, (ii) by or at the direction of the board of directors, or (iii) by any shareholder of the Company who was a shareholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 3, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 3.
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For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a shareholder pursuant to Clause (iii) of Section 3(a) above, the shareholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Company and such other business must otherwise be a proper matter for shareholder action. To be timely, a shareholder's notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year's annual meeting;
provided
,
however
, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is more than 30 days before or more than 60 days after such anniversary date, notice by the shareholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to the date of such annual meeting or the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the Company. Except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, in no event shall any adjournment, postponement or recess of an annual meeting or the public announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a shareholder's notice as described above. Such shareholder's notice must set forth:
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Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of Section 3(b) above to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the board of directors of the Company is increased and there is no public announcement by the Company naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased board of directors at least 70 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year's annual meeting, a shareholder's notice required by this Section 3 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Company.
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Nominations of persons for election to the board of directors may be made at a special meeting of shareholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Company's notice of meeting (1) by or at the direction of the board of directors or (2) provided that the board of directors has determined that directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any shareholder of the Company who is a shareholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 3 and is a shareholder of record at the time of the special meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures and other requirements set forth in this Section 3. In the event the Company calls a special meeting of shareholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the board of directors, any such shareholder may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be), for election to such position(s) as specified in the Company's notice of meeting, if the shareholder's notice required by Section 3(b) above shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the date of such special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to the date of such special meeting or the 10th day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the board of directors to be elected at such meeting. Except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, in no event shall any adjournment, postponement or recess of a special meeting or the public announcement thereof commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a shareholder's notice as described above.
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Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3 shall be eligible to serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of shareholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the chair of the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3 and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with this Section 3, to declare that such defective nomination or proposal shall be disregarded. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3, if the shareholder (or a qualified representative of the shareholder) does not appear at the annual or special meeting of shareholders of the Company to present a nomination or proposal, such nomination or proposed business shall be disregarded, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Company.
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For purposes of this Bylaw, (i) "
public announcement
" shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or other national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; and (ii)
"Shareholder Associated Person"
of any shareholder shall mean (w) any person acting in concert, directly or indirectly, with such shareholder, (x) the beneficial owner or beneficial owners of capital stock of the Company, if different, on whose behalf the notice of business to be brought before an annual meeting or a request for a special meeting of shareholders is being made, (y) any affiliate or associate (each within the meaning of Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act) of such shareholder or any such beneficial owner, and (z) any other person or entity with whom such shareholder or any such beneficial owner (or any of their respective affiliates and associates) is acting in concert.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3, a shareholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 3. Nothing in this Section 3 shall be deemed to affect any rights (i) of shareholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Company's proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or (ii) of the holders of any class or series of preferred stock to elect directors under specified circumstances.
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(h) |
Certain provisions of this Section 3 above require a shareholder notice of proposed shareholder business or proposed shareholder nominations to be delivered not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year's annual meeting. With respect to the Company's 2017 annual meeting only, however, any such shareholder notice of proposed shareholder business or proposed shareholder nominations will be considered timely if such notice is delivered to the Company by the close of business on June 30, 2017.
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