Form 8-K/A date of report 11-06-19 true 0001296445 0001296445 2019-11-06 2019-11-06

 



UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 8-K/A

(Amendment No. 1)

 


 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 6, 2019 (November 6, 2019)

Ormat Technologies, Inc.

 


  

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Delaware

001-32347

No. 88-0326081

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

6140 Plumas Street, Reno, Nevada

 

89519-6075

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

(775) 356-9029

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

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):

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
   
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
   

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act:

 

Title of each class

Trading Symbol(s)

Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Shares

ORA

NYSE

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging growth company ☐

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13 (a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 



 

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Amendment No. 1 to Form 8-K (“Amendment No. 1”) amends the Current Report on Form 8-K of Ormat Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 6, 2019 (the “Initial Form 8-K”), which described, among other things, the results of the Company’s Special Meeting of Stockholders held on November 6, 2019, including the approval by stockholders of the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Fifth Amended and Restated By-laws declassifying the board of directors. This Amendment No. 1 amends and supplements the Initial Form 8-K solely to file with the SEC the correct version of the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation reflecting the Company’s current registered agent in the State of Delaware, which the Company had appointed before its board of directors approved the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. The correct version of the Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and a marked copy to show changes against the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation are attached hereto as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, and incorporated by reference herein. No other amendments to the Initial Form 8-K are being made by this Amendment No. 1.

 

Item 5.02.         Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

At the Special Meeting of Stockholders (the “Special Meeting”) of the Company held on November 6, 2019, the stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) and Fourth Amended and Restated By-laws (the “By-laws”) to declassify the board of directors (the “Board of Directors”). As part of these amendments, the Board of Directors was declassified effective immediately from three classes of directors, who serve three-year terms, to a single class of directors serving annual terms, with all directors to be elected at each annual meeting of the stockholders starting at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Stockholders. Immediately following the Special Meeting, to facilitate the declassification, each director resigned from such director’s term within a class on the Board of Directors and was immediately reappointed to the Board of Directors for a term ending at the 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

 

Item 5.03.         Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

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As described in Item 5.02 (incorporated herein by reference to the extent applicable) at the Company’s Special Meeting, the Company’s stockholders approved amendments to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws, which became effective upon the filing of a Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. Effective immediately following the Special Meeting, the By-laws were also amended to rectify an inadvertent drafting error in one section of the By-laws not properly updated in 2013, when the Board of Directors implemented a majority voting standard for uncontested director elections. The correction, which was not submitted to a stockholder vote at the Special Meeting, reflects that directors are elected by a majority of the votes cast at annual meetings of stockholders, except for contested elections, in which case a plurality standard applies. The Company had otherwise correctly memorialized the standard throughout the By-laws in 2013.

 

This summary of the amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete copies of the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Fifth Amended and Restated By-laws, which are attached as Exhibits 3.1 and 3.3 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, respectively, and incorporated by reference herein. Additionally, copies of the Company’s Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Fifth Amended and Restated By-laws, marked to show changes, are attached as Exhibits 3.2 and 3.4 hereto, respectively (additions are underlined and deletions are struck through).

 

Item 5.07.         Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

 

A total of 44,275,991 shares were present or represented by proxy at the Special Meeting. The results of the votes are shown below.

 

Proposal 1: Approval of an Amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws to Declassify its Board of Directors

 

The affirmative vote of 75% of the outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote was required to approve the Proposal 1, the amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws to declassify the Board of Directors, from three classes of directors who serve three-year terms, to a single class of directors serving annual terms, and for all directors to be elected at each annual meeting of the stockholders starting at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Stockholders. The stockholders approved and adopted the amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws to declassify the Board of Directors by the requisite super-majority.

 

 

Votes For

 

Votes Against

 

Votes Abstained

 

Broker Non-

Votes

 

44,246,418

  17,975   11,598   6,716,109

 

 

 

 

Proposal 2: Adjournment of the Special Meeting if Necessary or Advisable to Solicit Additional Proxies

 

The stockholders approved the adjournment of the Special Meeting from time to time, if necessary or advisable (as determined by the Company), to solicit additional proxies in the event there are not sufficient votes at the time of the Special Meeting to approve Proposal 1, with the results of the voting shown below. Although the vote was taken, no adjournment was made because there were sufficient votes at the time of the Special Meeting to approve Proposal 1.

 

 

Votes For

 

Votes Against

 

Votes Abstained

 

Broker Non-

Votes

 

42,013,580

  2,250,959   11,452   6,716,109

 

 

Item 9.01.     Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

 

(d)      Exhibits.

 

3.1

Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Ormat Technologies, Inc.

3.2

Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Ormat Technologies, Inc. (Marked)

3.3

Fifth Amended and Restated By-laws of Ormat Technologies, Inc.

3.4

Fifth Amended and Restated By-laws of Ormat Technologies, Inc. (Marked)

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

By:

/s/ Isaac Angel

Name:    Isaac Angel

  Title:      Chief Executive Officer  

 

Date: November 12, 2019

Exhibit 3.1

 

 

FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

FIRST:        The name of the Corporation is Ormat Technologies, Inc.

 

SECOND:   The Corporation's registered office in the State of Delaware is located at 614 N. Dupont Highway, Suite 210, in the City of Dover, 19901, County of Kent.  The name of its registered agent at such address is TRAC - The Registered Agent Company.

 

THIRD:       The nature of the business, or objects or purposes to be transacted, promoted or carried on, are: To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

FOURTH:   The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is Two Hundred Five Million (205,000,000), of which (i) Two Hundred Million (200,000,000) shares of par value of $.001 each are to be of a class designated Common Stock (the "Common Stock") and (ii) Five Million (5,000,000) shares of par value of $.001 are to be of a class designated Preferred Stock (the "Preferred Stock").

 

Simultaneously with the effective date of the filing of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (the "Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation"), (i) each share of common stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Corporation issued and outstanding or authorized and unissued immediately prior to the effective date of the filing of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "Old Common Stock") was automatically reclassified and continued (the "Reverse Stock Split"), without any action on the part of the holder thereof, as one over one point three two five four four four (1/1.325444) of one share of Common Stock, equivalent to zero point seven five four four six four one six (0.75446416) share of Common Stock; (ii) the remaining par value of Forty Nine Thousand One Hundred and Seven and 17/100 Dollars ($49,107.17) was classified as excess capital; (iii) each certificate outstanding and previously representing shares of Old Common Stock were, until surrendered and exchanged, for all corporate purposes, deemed to constitute and represent the number of whole shares of Common Stock of the Corporation into which the outstanding shares of Old Common Stock previously represented by such certificate were converted by virtue of the Reverse Stock Split.

 

Effective immediately upon the consummation of the Reverse Stock Split, the authorized number of shares of Common Stock was increased, from One Hundred Fifty Million Eight Hundred Ninety Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight (150,892,828) shares to Two Hundred Million (200,000,000) shares.

 

In this Article Fourth, any reference to a section or paragraph, without further attribution, within a provision relating to a particular class of stock is intended to refer solely to the specified section or paragraph of the provisions relating to the same class of stock.

 

COMMON STOCK

 

The Common Stock shall have the following voting powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof:

 

   1.                  Dividends.  Whenever the full dividends upon any outstanding Preferred Stock for all past dividend periods shall have been paid and the full dividends thereon for the then current respective dividend periods shall have been paid, or declared and a sum sufficient for the respective payments thereof set apart, the holders of shares of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends and distributions in equal amounts per share, payable in cash or otherwise, as may be declared thereon by the Board of Directors from time to time out of assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefor.

 

 

 

 

       2.                  Rights on Liquidation.  In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after the payment or setting apart for payment to the holders of any outstanding Preferred Stock of the full preferential amounts to which such holders are entitled as herein provided or referred to, all of the remaining assets of the Corporation shall belong to and be distributable in equal amounts per share to the holders of the Common Stock.  For purposes of this paragraph 2, a consolidation or merger of the Corporation with any other corporation, or the sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all its assets shall not constitute or be deemed a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation.

 

   3.                  Voting.  Except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Delaware or by this Article Fourth, each share of Common Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote.

 

PREFERRED STOCK

 

The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series.  The Board of Directors is hereby authorized to provide for the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock in series and, by filing a certificate pursuant to the applicable law of the State of Delaware (hereinafter referred to as a "Preferred Stock Designation"), to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series, and to fix the designation, powers, preferences and rights of the shares of each such series and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof. The authority of the Board of Directors with respect to each series shall include, but not be limited to, determination of the following:

 

   (a)                 the designation of the series, which may be by distinguishing number, letter or title;

 

   (b)                the number of shares of the series, which number the Board of Directors may thereafter (except where otherwise provided in the Preferred Stock Designation) increase or decrease (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding);

 

   (c)                 whether dividends, if any, shall be cumulative or noncumulative and the dividend rate of the series;

 

   (d)                the dates at which dividends, if any, shall be payable;

 

   (e)                 the redemption rights and price or prices, if any, for shares of the series;

 

   (f)                 the terms and amount of any sinking fund provided for the purchase or redemption of shares of the series;

 

   (g)                the amounts payable on shares of the series in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Corporation;

 

   (h)                whether the shares of the series shall be convertible into shares of any other class or series, or any other security, of the Corporation or any other corporation, and, if so, the specification of such other class or series or such other security, the conversion price or prices or rate or rates, any adjustments thereof, the date or dates as of which such shares shall be convertible and all other terms and conditions upon which such conversion may be made;

 

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   (i)                  restrictions on the issuance of shares of the same series or of any other class or series; and

 

   (j)                   the voting rights, if any, of the holders of shares of the series.

 

Except as may be provided in this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or in a Preferred Stock Designation, the Common Stock shall have the exclusive right to vote for the election of directors and for all other purposes, and holders of Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to receive notice of any meeting of stockholders at which they are not entitled to vote.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the holders of Preferred Stock that shall have the right to vote for the election of directors as provided herein, in any other Preferred Stock Designation, or by law shall vote together with the holders of shares of Common Stock and any other capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally, as a single class, on all matters relating to the election of directors. The number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding Common Stock, without a vote of the holders of the Preferred Stock, or of any series thereof, unless a vote of any such holders is required pursuant to any Preferred Stock Designation.

 

The Corporation shall be entitled to treat the person in whose name any share of its stock is registered as the owner thereof for all purposes and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such share on the part of any other person, whether or not the Corporation shall have notice thereof, except as expressly provided by applicable law.

 

SERIES A JUNIOR PARTICIPATING PREFERRED STOCK

 

1.                 Designation and Amount. A series of Preferred Stock of par value $.001 per share is hereby created and shall be designated as "Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock" (the "Series A Preferred Stock") and the number of shares constituting the Series A Preferred Stock shall be Five Hundred Thousand (500,000). Such number of shares may be increased or decreased by resolution of the Board of Directors; provided, that no decrease shall reduce the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock to a number less than the number of shares then outstanding plus the number of shares reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding options, rights or warrants or upon the conversion of any outstanding securities issued by the Corporation convertible into Series A Preferred Stock.

 

2.                  Dividends and Distributions.

 

2.1.               Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of Common Stock and of any other junior stock of the Corporation, shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the second Monday of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a "Quarterly Dividend Payment Date"), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (a) $1 or (b) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the amount to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

 

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2.2.               The Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph 2.1 immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock); provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.

 

2.3.               Dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue from the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall not bear interest.  Dividends paid on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding.  The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.

 

3.                   Voting Rights. The holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have the following voting rights:

 

3.1.               Subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 100 votes on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation.  In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the number of votes per share to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such number by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

 

3.2.               Except as otherwise provided herein, in any other Preferred Stock Designation creating a series of Preferred Stock or any similar stock, or by law, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock and the holders of shares of Common Stock and any other capital stock of the Corporation having general voting rights shall vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders of the Corporation.

 

3.3.               Except as set forth herein, or as otherwise provided by law, holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall have no special voting rights and their consent shall not be required (except to the extent they are entitled to vote with holders of Common Stock as set forth herein) for taking any corporate action.

 

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4.                   Certain Restrictions.

 

4.1.               Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph 2 are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Corporation shall not:

 

(a)                 declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on any shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock;

 

(b)                declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except dividends paid ratably on the Series A Preferred Stock and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled;

 

(c)                 redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such junior stock in exchange for shares of any stock of the Corporation ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock; or

 

(d)                 redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Series A Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity with the Series A Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of such shares upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective series and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or classes.

 

4.2.                The Corporation shall not permit any subsidiary of the Corporation to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the Corporation unless the Corporation could, under subparagraph (c) of paragraph 4.1, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner.

 

5.                    Reacquired Shares. Any shares of Series A Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and cancelled promptly after the acquisition thereof. All such shares shall upon their cancellation become authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock and may be reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Stock subject to the conditions and restrictions on issuance set forth herein or in any other Preferred Stock Designation creating a series of Preferred Stock or any similar stock or as otherwise required by law.

 

6.                    Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, no distribution shall be made (i) to the holders of shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have received $100 per share, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether or not declared, to the date of such payment, provided that the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive an aggregate amount per share, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, equal to 100 times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to holders of shares of Common Stock, or (ii) to the holders of shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except distributions made ratably on the Series A Preferred Stock and all such parity stock in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are entitled upon such liquidation, dissolution or winding up.  In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the aggregate amount to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under the proviso in clause (i) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

 

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   7.                   Consolidation, Merger, etc. In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination or other transaction in which the shares of Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then in any such case each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed into an amount per share, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, equal to 100 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each share of Common Stock is changed or exchanged. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or change of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

 

   8.                   No Redemption.  The shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.

 

   9.                   Rank.  The Series A Preferred Stock shall rank, with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets, junior to all series of any other class of the Corporation's Preferred Stock.

 

   10.                 Amendment.  The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation shall not be amended in any manner which would materially alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of the Series A Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely without the affirmative vote of the holders of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class.

 

FIFTH:         The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

 

SIXTH:        The private property of the stockholders of the Corporation shall not be subject to the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.

 

SEVENTH:    Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, the number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time exclusively by the Board of Directors pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the whole Board.  A director need not be a stockholder.  The election of directors of the Corporation need not be by ballot unless the By-Laws so require.

 

Beginning with the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2020, the directors, including those who may be elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock or any other series or class of stock as provided herein or in any Preferred Stock Designation, shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring the next annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation and until such director’s successor is duly elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. At each annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, directors shall be elected by a majority of all votes cast for each of the director nominees at such meeting, except for contested elections (i.e., elections in which there are a greater number of candidates than there are seats to be filled), in which case the directors shall be elected by a plurality vote of all votes cast for the election of directors at such meeting.

 

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Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock or any other series or class of stock, as provided herein or in any Preferred Stock Designation, to elect additional directors under specific circumstances, at a meeting of stockholders called expressly for that purpose, one or more members of the Board of Directors (including the entire Board) may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote on the election of directors.

 

Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, and unless the Board of Directors otherwise determines, newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors or any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal from office or other cause may be filled only by a majority vote of the directors then serving on the Board, though less than a quorum. Directors so chosen shall hold office for a term expiring at the next annual meeting of stockholders and until such director's successor shall have been duly elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. No decrease in the number of authorized directors constituting the whole Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

No director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. No repeal or modification of this paragraph, directly or by adoption of an inconsistent provision of this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, by the stockholders of the Corporation shall be effective with respect to any cause of action, suit, claim or other matter that, but for this paragraph, would accrue or arise prior to such repeal or modification.

 

EIGHTH:     Unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, no holder of stock of the Corporation shall, as such holder, have any right to purchase or subscribe for any stock of any class which the Corporation may issue or sell, whether or not exchangeable for any stock of the Corporation of any class or classes and whether out of unissued shares authorized by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation as originally filed or by any amendment thereof or out of shares of stock of the Corporation acquired by it after the issue thereof.

 

NINTH:        Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof, or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs.  If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.

 

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TENTH:

 

   1.                   Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation.  From time to time any of the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation may be amended, altered or repealed, and other provisions authorized by the statutes of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be added or inserted in the manner at the time prescribed by said statutes, and all rights at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the Corporation by its Certificate of Incorporation are granted, subject to this reservation. Notwithstanding the foregoing and any other provision herein (and notwithstanding the fact that a lesser percentage or separate class vote may be specified herein, in the By-Laws of the Corporation or by law), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend or repeal, or adopt any provisions inconsistent with, the second paragraph of Article Seventh hereof.

 

   2.                  By-Laws. The Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, alter, amend and repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation, in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware or of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, subject to the power of the holders of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally to alter or repeal the By-Laws made by the Board of Directors.

 

ELEVENTH:

 

1.                   Written Consent in Lieu of Meeting. Any action which could be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall (a) be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted and (b) be delivered to the corporation by delivery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the records of proceedings of meetings of stockholders.

 

2.                   Special Meeting of Stockholders. A special meeting of the stockholders for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise provided by law, may be called by the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Board or the holders of not less than a majority of all the outstanding shares of the corporation entitled to vote at the meeting may call special meetings of the stockholders for any purpose or, at any time that Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee owns at least 20% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock, by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee. For purposes of this Section 2 of Article Eleventh, "OIL Transferee" shall mean a transferee of Ormat Industries Ltd. or any other OIL Transferee that receives at least 20% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock that pursuant to an instrument of transfer or related agreement has been granted rights under this Section 2 of Article Eleventh by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee.

 

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In witness whereof, this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been executed by a duly authorized officer of this Corporation on this 6th day of November, 2019.

 

 

/s/ Hezi Kattan

 

 

Hezi Kattan

 

 

General Counsel and Chief

Compliance Officer

 

 

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Exhibit 3.2

 

 

THIRDFOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

 

OF

 

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

FIRST:        The name of the Corporation is Ormat Technologies, Inc.

 

SECOND:   The Corporation's registered office in the State of Delaware is located at 3500 South 614 N. Dupont Highway, Suite 210, in the City of Dover, 19901, County of Kent.  The name and address of its registered agent at such address is TRAC – The Registered Agent CompanyHIQ Corporate Services, Inc., 3500 South Dupont Highway, Dover, Delaware 19901.

 

THIRD:       The nature of the business, or objects or purposes to be transacted, promoted or carried on, are: To engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

FOURTH:   The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is Two Hundred Five Million (205,000,000), of which (i) Two Hundred Million (200,000,000) shares of par value of $.001 each are to be of a class designated Common Stock (the “Common Stock”) and (ii) Five Million (5,000,000) shares of par value of $.001 are to be of a class designated Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”).

 

Simultaneously with the effective date of the filing of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (the “Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation”), (i) each share of common stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Corporation issued and outstanding or authorized and unissued immediately prior to the effective date of the filing of the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Old Common Stock”) was automatically reclassified and continued (the “Reverse Stock Split”), without any action on the part of the holder thereof, as one over one point three two five four four four (1/1.325444) of one share of Common Stock, equivalent to zero point seven five four four six four one six (0.75446416) share of Common Stock; (ii) the remaining par value of Forty Nine Thousand One Hundred and Seven and 17/100 Dollars ($49,107.17) was classified as excess capital; (iii) each certificate outstanding and previously representing shares of Old Common Stock were, until surrendered and exchanged, for all corporate purposes, deemed to constitute and represent the number of whole shares of Common Stock of the Corporation into which the outstanding shares of Old Common Stock previously represented by such certificate were converted by virtue of the Reverse Stock Split.

 

Effective immediately upon the consummation of the Reverse Stock Split, the authorized number of shares of Common Stock was increased, from One Hundred Fifty Million Eight Hundred Ninety Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Eight (150,892,828) shares to Two Hundred Million (200,000,000) shares.

 

In this Article Fourth, any reference to a section or paragraph, without further attribution, within a provision relating to a particular class of stock is intended to refer solely to the specified section or paragraph of the provisions relating to the same class of stock.

  

 

 

 

COMMON STOCK

 

The Common Stock shall have the following voting powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof:

 

1.                Dividends.  Whenever the full dividends upon any outstanding Preferred Stock for all past dividend periods shall have been paid and the full dividends thereon for the then current respective dividend periods shall have been paid, or declared and a sum sufficient for the respective payments thereof set apart, the holders of shares of the Common Stock shall be entitled to receive such dividends and distributions in equal amounts per share, payable in cash or otherwise, as may be declared thereon by the Board of Directors from time to time out of assets or funds of the Corporation legally available therefor.

 

2.              Rights on Liquidation.  In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after the payment or setting apart for payment to the holders of any outstanding Preferred Stock of the full preferential amounts to which such holders are entitled as herein provided or referred to, all of the remaining assets of the Corporation shall belong to and be distributable in equal amounts per share to the holders of the Common Stock.  For purposes of this paragraph 2, a consolidation or merger of the Corporation with any other corporation, or the sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all its assets shall not constitute or be deemed a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation.

 

3.                  Voting.  Except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Delaware or by this Article Fourth, each share of Common Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote.

 

PREFERRED STOCK

 

The Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series.  The Board of Directors is hereby authorized to provide for the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock in series and, by filing a certificate pursuant to the applicable law of the State of Delaware (hereinafter referred to as a “Preferred Stock Designation”), to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series, and to fix the designation, powers, preferences and rights of the shares of each such series and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof. The authority of the Board of Directors with respect to each series shall include, but not be limited to, determination of the following:

 

(a)                 the designation of the series, which may be by distinguishing number, letter or title;

 

(b)                the number of shares of the series, which number the Board of Directors may thereafter (except where otherwise provided in the Preferred Stock Designation) increase or decrease (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding);

 

(c)                 whether dividends, if any, shall be cumulative or noncumulative and the dividend rate of the series;

 

(d)                the dates at which dividends, if any, shall be payable;

 

(e)                 the redemption rights and price or prices, if any, for shares of the series;

 

(f)                 the terms and amount of any sinking fund provided for the purchase or redemption of shares of the series;

 

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(g)                the amounts payable on shares of the series in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Corporation;

 

(h)                whether the shares of the series shall be convertible into shares of any other class or series, or any other security, of the Corporation or any other corporation, and, if so, the specification of such other class or series or such other security, the conversion price or prices or rate or rates, any adjustments thereof, the date or dates as of which such shares shall be convertible and all other terms and conditions upon which such conversion may be made;

 

(i)                  restrictions on the issuance of shares of the same series or of any other class or series; and

 

(j)                  the voting rights, if any, of the holders of shares of the series.

 

Except as may be provided in this ThirdFourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation or in a Preferred Stock Designation, the Common Stock shall have the exclusive right to vote for the election of directors and for all other purposes, and holders of Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to receive notice of any meeting of stockholders at which they are not entitled to vote.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the holders of Preferred Stock that shall have the right to vote for the election of directors as provided herein, in any other Preferred Stock Designation, or by law shall vote together with the holders of shares of Common Stock and any other capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally, as a single class, on all matters relating to the election of directors. The number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock may be increased or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding Common Stock, without a vote of the holders of the Preferred Stock, or of any series thereof, unless a vote of any such holders is required pursuant to any Preferred Stock Designation.

 

The Corporation shall be entitled to treat the person in whose name any share of its stock is registered as the owner thereof for all purposes and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such share on the part of any other person, whether or not the Corporation shall have notice thereof, except as expressly provided by applicable law.

 

SERIES A JUNIOR PARTICIPATING PREFERRED STOCK

 

1.                  Designation and Amount. A series of Preferred Stock of par value $.001 per share is hereby created and shall be designated as “Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock” (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) and the number of shares constituting the Series A Preferred Stock shall be Five Hundred Thousand (500,000). Such number of shares may be increased or decreased by resolution of the Board of Directors; provided, that no decrease shall reduce the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock to a number less than the number of shares then outstanding plus the number of shares reserved for issuance upon the exercise of outstanding options, rights or warrants or upon the conversion of any outstanding securities issued by the Corporation convertible into Series A Preferred Stock.

 

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2.                   Dividends and Distributions.

 

2.1.               Subject to the rights of the holders of any shares of any series of Preferred Stock (or any similar stock) ranking prior and superior to the Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of Common Stock and of any other junior stock of the Corporation, shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the second Monday of March, June, September and December in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (a) $1 or (b) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, 100 times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and 100 times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions, other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the amount to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

 

2.2.               The Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph 2.1 immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Common Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock); provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.

 

2.3.               Dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares, unless the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue from the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall not bear interest.  Dividends paid on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding.  The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof.

 

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3.                  Voting Rights. The holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have the following voting rights:

 

3.1.               Subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 100 votes on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders of the Corporation.  In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the number of votes per share to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such number by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

 

3.2.               Except as otherwise provided herein, in any other Preferred Stock Designation creating a series of Preferred Stock or any similar stock, or by law, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock and the holders of shares of Common Stock and any other capital stock of the Corporation having general voting rights shall vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders of the Corporation.

 

3.3.               Except as set forth herein, or as otherwise provided by law, holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall have no special voting rights and their consent shall not be required (except to the extent they are entitled to vote with holders of Common Stock as set forth herein) for taking any corporate action.

 

4.                  Certain Restrictions.

 

4.1.               Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph 2 are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Corporation shall not:

 

(a)                 declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on any shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock;

 

(b)                declare or pay dividends, or make any other distributions, on any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except dividends paid ratably on the Series A Preferred Stock and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled;

 

(c)                 redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock, provided that the Corporation may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such junior stock in exchange for shares of any stock of the Corporation ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock; or

 

(d)                 redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Series A Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity with the Series A Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of such shares upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective series and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or classes.

 

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4.2.                The Corporation shall not permit any subsidiary of the Corporation to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the Corporation unless the Corporation could, under subparagraph (c) of paragraph 4.1, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner.

 

5.                   Reacquired Shares. Any shares of Series A Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the Corporation in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and cancelled promptly after the acquisition thereof. All such shares shall upon their cancellation become authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock and may be reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Stock subject to the conditions and restrictions on issuance set forth herein or in any other Preferred Stock Designation creating a series of Preferred Stock or any similar stock or as otherwise required by law.

 

6.                   Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up. Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, no distribution shall be made (i) to the holders of shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have received $100 per share, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether or not declared, to the date of such payment, provided that the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive an aggregate amount per share, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, equal to 100 times the aggregate amount to be distributed per share to holders of shares of Common Stock, or (ii) to the holders of shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except distributions made ratably on the Series A Preferred Stock and all such parity stock in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are entitled upon such liquidation, dissolution or winding up.  In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the aggregate amount to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under the proviso in clause (i) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

 

7.                   Consolidation, Merger, etc. In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination or other transaction in which the shares of Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then in any such case each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed into an amount per share, subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, equal to 100 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each share of Common Stock is changed or exchanged. In the event the Corporation shall at any time declare or pay any dividend on the Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, or effect a subdivision or combination or consolidation of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise than by payment of a dividend in shares of Common Stock) into a greater or lesser number of shares of Common Stock, then in each such case the amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or change of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.

 

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8.                   No Redemption.  The shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.

 

9.                   Rank.  The Series A Preferred Stock shall rank, with respect to the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets, junior to all series of any other class of the Corporation's Preferred Stock.

 

10.                 Amendment.  The Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation shall not be amended in any manner which would materially alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of the Series A Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely without the affirmative vote of the holders of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class.

 

FIFTH:         The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.

 

SIXTH:        The private property of the stockholders of the Corporation shall not be subject to the payment of corporate debts to any extent whatever.

 

SEVENTH: Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect additional directors under specified circumstances, the number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time exclusively by the Board of Directors pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the whole Board.  A director need not be a stockholder.  The election of directors of the Corporation need not be by ballot unless the By-Laws so require.

 

The Beginning with the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2020, the directors, including those who may be elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock or any other series or class of stock as provided herein or in any Preferred Stock Designation shall be divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as possible. One class of directors shall be initially, shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the next annual meeting of the stockholders to be held in 2005, another class shall be initially elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2006, and another class shall be initially elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2007. Members of each class shall hold office until their successors areof the Corporation and until such director’s successor is duly elected and qualified, except for any director who dies, resigns or is removed or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. At each annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, the successors of the class of directors whose term expires at that meeting shall bedirectors shall be elected by a majority of all votes cast for each of the director nominees at such meeting, except for contested elections (i.e., elections in which there are a greater number of candidates than there are seats to be filled), in which case the directors shall be elected by a plurality vote of all votes cast for the election of directors at such meeting, to hold office for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders held in the third year following the year of their election.

 

Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock or any other series or class of stock, as provided herein or in any Preferred Stock Designation, to elect additional directors under specific circumstances, at a meeting of stockholders called expressly for that purpose, one or more members of the Board of Directors (including the entire Board) may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote on the election of directors.

 

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Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, and unless the Board of Directors otherwise determines, newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors or any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal from office or other cause may be filled only by a majority vote of the directors then serving on the Board, though less than a quorum. and directorsDirectors so chosen shall hold office for a term expiring at the next annual meeting of stockholders at which the term of office of the class to which they have been elected expires and until such director's successor shall have been duly elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. No decrease in the number of authorized directors constituting the whole Board of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

No director of the Corporation shall be liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director's duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. No repeal or modification of this paragraph, directly or by adoption of an inconsistent provision of this ThirdFourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, by the stockholders of the Corporation shall be effective with respect to any cause of action, suit, claim or other matter that, but for this paragraph, would accrue or arise prior to such repeal or modification.

 

EIGHTH:     Unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, no holder of stock of the Corporation shall, as such holder, have any right to purchase or subscribe for any stock of any class which the Corporation may issue or sell, whether or not exchangeable for any stock of the Corporation of any class or classes and whether out of unissued shares authorized by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation as originally filed or by any amendment thereof or out of shares of stock of the Corporation acquired by it after the issue thereof.

 

NINTH:        Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this Corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this Corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof, or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs.  If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.

 

TENTH:

 

1.                   Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation.  From time to time any of the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation may be amended, altered or repealed, and other provisions authorized by the statutes of the State of Delaware at the time in force may be added or inserted in the manner at the time prescribed by said statutes, and all rights at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the Corporation by its Certificate of Incorporation are granted, subject to this reservation. Notwithstanding the foregoing and any other provision herein (and notwithstanding the fact that a lesser percentage or separate class vote may be specified herein, in the By-Laws of the Corporation or by law), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend or repeal, or adopt any provisions inconsistent with, the second paragraph of Article Seventh hereof.

 

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2.                  By-Laws. The Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, alter, amend and repeal the By-Laws of the Corporation, in any manner not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Delaware or of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, subject to the power of the holders of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally to alter or repeal the By-Laws made by the Board of Directors.

 

ELEVENTH:

 

1.                   Written Consent in Lieu of Meeting. Any action which could be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall (a) be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted and (b) be delivered to the corporation by delivery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the records of proceedings of meetings of stockholders.

 

2.                   Special Meeting of Stockholders. A special meeting of the stockholders for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise provided by law, may be called by the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Board or the holders of not less than a majority of all the outstanding shares of the corporation entitled to vote at the meeting may call special meetings of the stockholders for any purpose or, at any time that Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee owns at least 20% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock, by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee. For purposes of this Section 2 of Article Eleventh, “OIL Transferee” shall mean a transferee of Ormat Industries Ltd. or any other OIL Transferee that receives at least 20% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock that pursuant to an instrument of transfer or related agreement has been granted rights under this Section 2 of Article Eleventh by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee.

 

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in witness whereof, this Fourth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been executed by a duly authorized officer of this Corporation on this 6th day of November, 2019.

 

 

/s/ Hezi Kattan

 

 

Hezi Kattan

 

 

General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer

 

 

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Exhibit 3.3

 

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

BY-LAWS

 

OF

 

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

Adopted on November 6, 2019

Amendments are listed on page i

 

 

 

  

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

AMENDMENTS

 

 

SECTION

 

 

EFFECT OF AMENDMENT

 

DATE OF

AMENDMENT

2.15

 

Requires additional information in advance notice provisions.

 

February 24, 2009

3.2

 

Directors shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast at annual meetings of stockholders, except for contested elections, in which case a plurality standard shall apply.

 

January 26, 2013

   

All Directors shall be elected at each annual meeting of the stockholders, and there shall be no classification of Directors.

 

November 6, 2019

3.15.1

 

The Audit Committee of the Board shall approve any related party transactions above the SEC/NYSE threshold

 

January 26, 2013

3.17

 

Lead Independent Director

 

January 26, 2013

4.1

 

The Chairman of the Board shall not also be the Chief Executive Officer of the corporation.

 

January 26, 2013

  

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CONTENTS

 

SECTION 1.

OFFICES

1

SECTION 2.

STOCKHOLDERS

1

2.1

ANNUAL MEETING

1

2.2

SPECIAL MEETINGS

1

2.3

PLACE OF MEETING

1

2.4

NOTICE OF MEETING

1

2.5

WAIVER OF NOTICE

2

 

2.5.1   WAIVER IN WRITING

2

 

2.5.2   WAIVER BY ATTENDANCE

2

2.6

FIXING OF RECORD DATE FOR DETERMINING STOCKHOLDERS

2

 

2.6.1   MEETINGS

2

 

2.6.2   CONSENT TO CORPORATE ACTION WITHOUT A MEETING

2

 

2.6.3   DIVIDENDS, DISTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER RIGHTS

3

2.7

VOTING LIST

3

2.8

QUORUM

3

2.9

MANNER OF ACTING

3

2.10

PROXIES

3

 

2.10.1   APPOINTMENT

3

 

2.10.2   DELIVERY TO CORPORATION; DURATION

4

2.11

VOTING OF SHARES

4

2.12

VOTING FOR DIRECTORS

4

2.13

ACTION BY STOCKHOLDERS WITHOUT A MEETING

4

2.14

ORGANIZATION

5

2.15

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER BUSINESS AND NOMINATIONS

5

 

2.15.1   ANNUAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

5

 

2.15.2   SPECIAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

6

 

2.15.3   GENERAL

7

 

2.15.4   SUBMISSION OF QUESTIONNAIRE, REPRESENTATION AND AGREEMENT

7

2.16

BUSINESS AND ORDER OF BUSINESS

8

SECTION 3.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

8

3.1

GENERAL POWERS

8

3.2

NUMBER AND TENURE

8

 

 

 

 

3.3

ANNUAL AND REGULAR MEETINGS

8

3.4

SPECIAL MEETINGS

8

3.5

MEETINGS BY TELEPHONE

8

3.6

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETINGS

9

 

3.6.1   PERSONAL DELIVERY

9

 

3.6.2   DELIVERY BY MAIL

9

 

3.6.3   DELIVERY BY PRIVATE CARRIER

9

 

3.6.4   FACSIMILE NOTICE

9

 

3.6.5   DELIVERY BY TELEGRAPH

9

 

3.6.6   ORAL NOTICE

9

3.7

WAIVER OF NOTICE

9

 

3.7.1   IN WRITING

9

 

3.7.2   BY ATTENDANCE

10

3.8

QUORUM

10

3.9

MANNER OF ACTING

10

3.10

PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT

10

3.11

ACTION BY BOARD OR COMMITTEES WITHOUT A MEETING

10

3.12

RESIGNATION

10

3.13

REMOVAL

10

3.14

VACANCIES

10

3.15

COMMITTEES

11

 

3.15.1   CREATION AND AUTHORITY OF COMMITTEES

11

 

3.15.2   MINUTES OF MEETINGS

11

 

3.15.3   QUORUM AND MANNER OF ACTING

11

 

3.15.4   RESIGNATION

11

 

3.15.5   REMOVAL

11

3.16

COMPENSATION

12

3.17

LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR

12

SECTION 4.

OFFICERS

13

4.1

NUMBER

13

4.2

ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE

13

4.3

RESIGNATION

13

 

 

 

 

4.4

REMOVAL

13

4.5

VACANCIES

13

4.6

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

13

4.7

PRESIDENT

13

4.8

VICE PRESIDENT

14

4.9

SECRETARY

14

4.10

TREASURER

14

4.11

SALARIES

14

SECTION 5.

CONTRACTS, BUSINESS, LOANS, CHECKS AND DEPOSITS

14

5.1

CONTRACTS

14

5.2

BUSINESS

14

5.3

LOANS TO THE CORPORATION

15

5.4

CHECKS, DRAFTS, ETC.

15

5.5

DEPOSITS

15

SECTION 6.

CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES AND THEIR TRANSFER

15

6.1

ISSUANCE OF SHARES

15

6.2

CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES

15

6.3

STOCK RECORDS

15

6.4

RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER

15

6.5

TRANSFER OF SHARES

16

6.6

LOST OR DESTROYED CERTIFICATES

16

SECTION 7.

BOOKS AND RECORDS

16

SECTION 8.

ACCOUNTING YEAR

16

SECTION 9.

SEAL

16

SECTION 10.

INDEMNIFICATION

16

10.1

RIGHT TO INDEMNIFICATION

16

10.2

RIGHT OF INDEMNITEE TO BRING SUIT

17

10.3

NONEXCLUSIVITY OF RIGHTS

17

10.4

INSURANCE, CONTRACTS AND FUNDING

17

10.5

INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS OF THE CORPORATION

17

10.6

PERSONS SERVING OTHER ENTITIES

18

SECTION 11.

AMENDMENTS OR REPEAL

18

 

 

 

 

FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

BY-LAWS

 

OF

 

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

SECTION 1.

OFFICES

 

The principal office of the corporation shall be located at its principal place of business or such other place as the Board of Directors (the "Board") may designate.  The corporation may have such other offices, either within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board may designate or as the business of the corporation may require from time to time.

 

SECTION 2.

STOCKHOLDERS

 

  

2.1

ANNUAL MEETING

 

The annual meeting of the stockholders shall be scheduled upon the preparation of the financial statements of the prior fiscal year at the principal office of the corporation or such other place designated by the Board for the purpose of electing Directors and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.  If the day fixed for the annual meeting is a legal holiday at the place of the meeting, the meeting shall be held on the next succeeding business day.  If the annual meeting is not held on the date designated therefor, the Board shall cause the meeting to be held as soon thereafter as may be convenient.

 

  

2.2

SPECIAL MEETINGS

 

A special meeting of the stockholders for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise provided by law, may be called by the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Board or the holders of not less than a majority of all the outstanding shares of the corporation entitled to vote at the meeting may call special meetings of the stockholders for any purpose or, at any time that Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee owns at least 20% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock, by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee.  For purposes of this subsection 2.2 hereof, "OIL Transferee" shall mean a transferee of Ormat Industries Ltd. or any other OIL Transferee that receives at least 20% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock that pursuant to an instrument of transfer or related agreement has been granted rights under subsection 2.2 hereof by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee.

  

  

2.3

PLACE OF MEETING

 

All meetings shall be held at the principal office of the corporation or at such other place within or without the State of Delaware designated by the Board, by any persons entitled to call a meeting hereunder or in a waiver of notice signed by all of the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting.

 

  

2.4

NOTICE OF MEETING

 

The Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary, the Board, or stockholders calling an annual or special meeting of stockholders as provided for herein, shall cause to be delivered to each stockholder entitled to notice of or to vote at the meeting either personally or by mail, not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the meeting, written notice stating the place, day and hour of the meeting and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.  At any time, upon written request of the holders of not less than the number of outstanding shares of the corporation specified in subsection 2.2 hereof and entitled to vote at the meeting, it shall be the duty of the Secretary to give notice of a special meeting of stockholders to be held on such date and at such place and hour as the Secretary may fix, not less than ten nor more than sixty days after receipt of said request, and if the Secretary shall neglect or refuse to issue such notice, the person making the request may do so and may fix the date for such meeting.  If such notice is mailed, it shall be deemed delivered when deposited in the official government mail properly addressed to the stockholder at such stockholder's address as it appears on the stock transfer books of the corporation with postage prepaid.  If the notice is telegraphed, it shall be deemed delivered when the content of the telegram is delivered to the telegraph company.  Notice given in any other manner shall be deemed delivered when dispatched to the stockholder's address, telephone number or other number appearing on the stock transfer records of the corporation.

 

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2.5

WAIVER OF NOTICE

 

  

2.5.1

WAIVER IN WRITING

 

Whenever any notice is required to be given to any stockholder under the provisions of these By-laws, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "Certificate of Incorporation") or the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as now or hereafter amended (the "DGCL"), 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.

   

  

2.5.2

WAIVER BY ATTENDANCE

 

The attendance of a stockholder at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when a stockholder attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

  

2.6

FIXING OF RECORD DATE FOR DETERMINING STOCKHOLDERS

 

  

2.6.1

MEETINGS

 

For the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date shall not be more than sixty (or the maximum number permitted by applicable law) nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting.  If no record date is fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held.  A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

 

  

2.6.2

CONSENT TO CORPORATE ACTION WITHOUT A MEETING

 

For the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which date shall not be more than ten (or the maximum number permitted by applicable law) days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board.  If no record date has been fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board is required by Chapter 1 of the DGCL, shall be the first date on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the corporation by delivery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded.  Delivery made to a corporation's registered office shall be by hand or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested.  If no record date has been fixed by the Board and prior action by the Board is required by Chapter 1 of the DGCL, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution taking such prior action.

   

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2.6.3

DIVIDENDS, DISTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER RIGHTS

 

For the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall be not more than sixty (or the maximum number permitted by applicable law) days prior to such action.  If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

  

2.7

VOTING LIST

 

At least ten days before each meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting, or any adjournment thereof, shall be made, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of and number of shares held by each stockholder.  This list shall be open to examination by any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of ten days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held.  This list shall also be produced and kept at such meeting for inspection by any stockholder who is present.

 

  

2.8

QUORUM

 

A majority of the outstanding shares of the corporation entitled to vote, present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of the stockholders; provided, that where a separate vote by a class or classes is required, a majority of the outstanding shares of such class or classes, present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting, shall constitute a quorum entitled to take action with respect to that vote on that matter.  If less than a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote are represented at a meeting, a majority of the shares so represented may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.  If a quorum is present or represented at a reconvened meeting following such an adjournment, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called.  The stockholders present at a duly organized meeting may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to leave less than a quorum.

   

  

2.9

MANNER OF ACTING

 

In all matters other than the election of Directors, if a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of the majority of the outstanding shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall be the act of the stockholders, unless the vote of a greater number is required by these By-laws, the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL.  Where a separate vote by a class or classes is required, if a quorum of such class or classes is present, the affirmative vote of the majority of outstanding shares of such class or classes present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting shall be the act of such class or classes.  Directors shall be elected by a majority of all votes cast for each of the Director nominees at such meeting. except for contested elections (i.e., elections in which there are a greater number of candidates than there are seats to be filled), in which case the Directors shall be elected by a plurality vote of all votes cast for the election of Directors at such meeting.

 

  

2.10

PROXIES

 

  

2.10.1

APPOINTMENT

 

Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent to corporate action in writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy.  Such authorization may be accomplished by (a) the stockholder or such stockholder's authorized officer, director, employee or agent executing a writing or causing his or her signature to be affixed to such writing by any reasonable means, including facsimile signature or (b) by transmitting or authorizing the transmission of a telegram, cablegram or other means of electronic transmission to the intended holder of the proxy or to a proxy solicitation firm, proxy support service or similar agent duly authorized by the intended proxy holder to receive such transmission; provided, that any such telegram, cablegram or other electronic transmission must either set forth or be accompanied by information from which it can be determined that the telegram, cablegram or other electronic transmission was authorized by the stockholder.  Any copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reliable reproduction of the writing or transmission by which a stockholder has authorized another person to act as proxy for such stockholder may be substituted or used in lieu of the original writing or transmission for any and all purposes for which the original writing or transmission could be used; provided, that such copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing or transmission.

  

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2.10.2

DELIVERY TO CORPORATION; DURATION

 

A proxy shall be filed with the Secretary before or at the time of the meeting or the delivery to the corporation of the consent to corporate action in writing.  A proxy shall become invalid three years after the date of its execution unless otherwise provided in the proxy.  A proxy with respect to a specified meeting shall entitle the holder thereof to vote at any reconvened meeting following adjournment of such meeting but shall not be valid after the final adjournment thereof.

 

  

2.11

VOTING OF SHARES

 

Each outstanding share entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter of an issue submitted to a meeting of stockholders shall be entitled to one vote upon each such issue.

 

  

2.12

VOTING FOR DIRECTORS

 

Each stockholder entitled to vote at an election of Directors may vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares owned by such stockholder for as many persons as there are Directors to be elected and for whose election such stockholder has a right to vote.

 

  

2.13

ACTION BY STOCKHOLDERS WITHOUT A MEETING

 

Any action which could be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall (a) be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted and (b) be delivered to the corporation by delivery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the records of proceedings of meetings of stockholders.  Delivery made to the corporation's registered office shall be by hand or by certified mail or registered mail, return receipt requested.  Every written consent shall bear the date of signature of each stockholder who signs the consent and no written consent shall be effective to take the corporate action referred to therein unless written consents signed by all stockholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof are delivered to the corporation, in the manner required by this Section, within sixty (or the maximum number permitted by applicable law) days of the earliest dated consent delivered to the corporation in the manner required by this Section.  The validity of any consent executed by a proxy for a stockholder pursuant to a telegram, cablegram or other means of electronic transmission transmitted to such proxy holder by or upon the authorization of the stockholder shall be determined by or at the direction of the Secretary.  A written record of the information upon which the person making such determination relied shall be made and kept in the records of the proceedings of the stockholders.  Any such consent shall be inserted in the minute book as if it were the minutes of a meeting of the stockholders.

 

  

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2.14

ORGANIZATION

 

At every meeting of the stockholders the Chairman of the Board, or in the absence of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, or in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer, a Director or an officer of the corporation designated by the Board, shall act as Chairman of the meeting.  The Secretary, or, in the Secretary's absence, an Assistant Secretary, shall act as Secretary at all meetings of the stockholders.  In the absence from any such meeting of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, the Chairman may appoint any person to act as Secretary of the meeting.

 

  

2.15

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER BUSINESS AND NOMINATIONS

 

  

2.15.1

ANNUAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

 

Nominations of persons for election to the Board of the corporation and the proposal of business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders (a) pursuant to the corporation's notice of meeting,  (b) by or at the direction of the Board or (c) by any stockholder of the corporation who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section and at the time of the annual meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section.  Clause (c) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations or submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act") and included in the corporation's notice of meeting) before an annual meeting of stockholders.

  

For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of the prior paragraph hereof, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the corporation and such other business must otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action.  To be timely, a stockholder's notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation 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 stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if the first public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is less than 100 days prior to the date of such annual meeting, the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the corporation.  In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder's notice as described above.  Such stockholder's notice shall set forth (1) as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a Director (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of Directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person's written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a Director if elected), (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination and any beneficial owner on whose behalf the nomination is made, if any, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the "registrant" for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and (iii) a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by subsection 2.15.4 hereof; (2) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made; and (3) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the corporation's books, and of such beneficial owner, if any, (ii) the class or series and number of shares of the corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, (iii) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the corporation, whether or not such instrument or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the corporation or otherwise (a "Derivative Instrument") directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder and any other direct or indirect  opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the corporation, (iv) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder has a right to vote any shares of any security of the corporation, (v) any short interest in any security of the corporation (for purposes of these By-laws a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security), (vi) any rights to dividends on the shares of the corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the corporation, (vii) any proportionate interest in shares of the corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (viii) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including without limitation any such interests held by members of such stockholder's immediate family sharing the same household (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than 10 days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date), (ix) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of Directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and (x) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a Director or Directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, (A) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (B) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder.

  

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Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of the prior paragraph hereof to the contrary, in the event that the number of Directors to be elected to the Board of the corporation is increased and there is no public announcement by the corporation naming all of the nominees for Director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least 100 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year's annual meeting, a stockholder's notice required by this Section 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 corporation not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the corporation.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee owns a majority of the then outstanding Common Stock, notice by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee shall be timely and complete if delivered in writing or orally at least five days prior to the date the corporation mails its proxy statement in connection with such meeting of stockholders.

 

  

2.15.2

SPECIAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

 

Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the corporation's notice of meeting.  Nominations of persons for election to the Board may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which Directors are to be elected pursuant to the corporation's notice of meeting (a) by or at the direction of the Board or (b) provided that the Board has determined that Directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any stockholder of the corporation who is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section and at the time of the special meeting, who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section.  In the event the corporation calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more Directors to the Board, any such stockholder who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be) for election to such position (s) as specified in the corporation's notice of meeting, if the stockholder's notice required by subsection 2.15.2 hereof shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to such special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to such special meeting or, if the first public announcement of the date of such special meeting is less than 100 days prior to the date of such special meeting, 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 to be elected at such meeting.  In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of a special meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder's notice as described above.

 

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2.15.3

GENERAL

 

Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section shall be eligible to serve as Directors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section.  Any person nominated for election as Director by the Board or any committee designated by the Board shall, upon the request of the Board or such committee, furnish to the Secretary of the corporation all such information pertaining to such person that is required to be set forth in a stockholder's notice of nomination.  Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-laws, the Chairman 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 and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with this Section, to declare that such defective proposal or nomination shall be disregarded.

  

For purposes of this Section, "public announcement" shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, a stockholder 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; provided, however, that any references in these By-laws to the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder are not intended to and shall not limit the requirements applicable to nominations or proposals as to any other business to be considered pursuant to subsection 2.15.1 or subsection 2.15.2 hereof.  Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to affect any rights (i) of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the corporation's proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or (ii) of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect Directors under specified circumstances to the extent provided for under law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-laws.

 

  

2.15.4

SUBMISSION OF QUESTIONNAIRE, REPRESENTATION AND AGREEMENT

 

To be eligible to be a nominee for election or reelection as a Director of the corporation, upon request by the Secretary, a person must deliver (in accordance with the time periods prescribed for delivery of notice under subsection 2.15.1 hereof) to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation a written questionnaire with respect to the background and qualification of such person and the background of any other person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made (which questionnaire shall be provided by the Secretary upon written request) and a written representation and agreement (in the form provided by the Secretary upon written request) that such person (1) is not and will not become a party to (i) any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and has not given any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such person, if elected as a Director of the corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a "Voting Commitment") that has not been disclosed to the corporation or (ii) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such person's ability to comply, if elected as a Director of the corporation, with such person's fiduciary duties under applicable law, (2) is not and will not become a party to any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement or indemnification in connection with service or action as a Director that has not been disclosed therein, and (3) in such person's individual capacity and on behalf of any person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made, would be in compliance, if elected as a Director of the corporation, and will comply with all applicable publicly disclosed corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality and stock ownership and trading policies and guidelines of the corporation.  The corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as an independent Director of the corporation or that could be material to a reasonable stockholder's understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.

 

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2.16

BUSINESS AND ORDER OF BUSINESS

 

At each meeting of the stockholders such business may be transacted as may properly be brought before such meeting, except as otherwise provided by law or in these By-laws.  The order of business at all meetings of the stockholders shall be as determined by the Chairman of the meeting, unless otherwise determined by a majority in interest of the stockholders present in person or by proxy at such meeting and entitled to vote thereat.

 

SECTION 3.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

  

3.1

GENERAL POWERS

 

The business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed by the Board.

 

  

3.2

NUMBER AND TENURE

 

The Board shall be composed of not less than five nor more than fifteen Directors, the specific number to be set by resolution of the Board.  The number of Directors may be changed from time to time by amendment to these By-laws, but no decrease in the number of Directors shall have the effect of shortening the term of any incumbent Director.  Directors need not be stockholders of the corporation or residents of the State of Delaware.

  

Beginning with the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2020, the Directors, including those who may be elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock or any other series or class of stock as provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or in any Preferred Stock Designation (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation), shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the next annual meeting of the stockholders and until such Director’s successor is elected and qualified or until such Director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. At each annual meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation, Directors shall be elected by a majority of all votes cast for each of the Director nominees at such meeting, except for contested elections (i.e., elections in which there are a greater number of candidates than there are seats to be filled), in which case the Directors shall be elected by a plurality vote of all votes cast for the election of Directors at such meeting.

 

  

3.3

ANNUAL AND REGULAR MEETINGS

 

An annual Board meeting shall be held without notice immediately after and at the same place as the annual meeting of stockholders.  By resolution, the Board or any committee designated by the Board may specify the time and place either within or without the State of Delaware for holding regular meetings thereof without other notice than such resolution.

 

  

3.4

SPECIAL MEETINGS

 

Special meetings of the Board or any committee appointed by the Board may be called by or at the request of the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary or, in the case of special Board meetings, any one Director and, in the case of any special meeting of any committee appointed by the Board, by the Chairman thereof.  The person or persons authorized to call special meetings may fix any place either within or without the State of Delaware as the place for holding any special meeting called by them.

 

  

3.5

MEETINGS BY TELEPHONE

 

Members of the Board or any committee designated by the Board may participate in a meeting of such Board or committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at a meeting.

 

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3.6

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETINGS

 

Notice of a special Board or committee meeting stating the place, day and hour of the meeting shall be given to a Director in writing or orally by telephone or in person.  Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any special meeting need be specified in the notice of such meeting.

 

  

3.6.1

PERSONAL DELIVERY

 

If notice is given by personal delivery, the notice shall be effective if delivered to a Director at least two days before the meeting.

 

  

3.6.2

DELIVERY BY MAIL

 

If notice is delivered by mail, the notice shall be deemed effective if deposited in the official government mail properly addressed to a Director at his or her address shown on the records of the corporation with postage prepaid at least five days before the meeting.

 

  

3.6.3

DELIVERY BY PRIVATE CARRIER

 

If notice is given by private carrier, the notice shall be deemed effective when dispatched to a Director at his or her address shown on the records of the corporation at least three days before the meeting.

 

  

3.6.4

FACSIMILE NOTICE

 

If notice is delivered by wire or wireless equipment which transmits a facsimile of the notice, the notice shall be deemed effective when dispatched at least two days before the meeting to a Director at his or her telephone number or other number appearing on the records of the corporation.

 

  

3.6.5

DELIVERY BY TELEGRAPH

 

If notice is delivered by telegraph, the notice shall be deemed effective if the content thereof is delivered to the telegraph company at least two days before the meeting for delivery to a Director at his or her address shown on the records of the corporation.

 

  

  

3.6.6

ORAL NOTICE

 

If notice is delivered orally, by telephone or in person, the notice shall be deemed effective if personally given to the Director at least two days before the meeting.

 

  

3.7

WAIVER OF NOTICE

 

  

3.7.1

IN WRITING

 

Whenever any notice is required to be given to any Director under the provisions of these By-laws, the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, 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.  Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the Board or any committee appointed by the Board need be specified in the waiver of notice of such meeting.

 

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3.7.2

BY ATTENDANCE

 

The attendance of a Director at a Board or committee meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when a Director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

  

3.8

QUORUM

 

A majority of the total number of Directors fixed by or in the manner provided in these By-laws or, if vacancies exist on the Board, a majority of the total number of Directors then serving on the Board (such number may be not less than one-third of the total number of Directors fixed by or in the manner provided in these By-laws) shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any Board meeting.  If less than a majority are present at a meeting, a majority of the Directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.

 

  

3.9

MANNER OF ACTING

 

The act of the majority of the Directors present at a Board or committee meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board or committee, unless the vote of a greater number is required by these By-laws, the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL.

  

  

3.10

PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT

 

A Director of the corporation present at a Board or committee meeting at which action on any corporate matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his or her dissent is entered in the minutes of the meeting, or unless such Director files a written dissent to such action with the person acting as the secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof, or forwards such dissent by registered mail to the Secretary of the corporation immediately after the adjournment of the meeting.  A Director who voted in favor of such action may not dissent.

 

  

3.11

ACTION BY BOARD OR COMMITTEES WITHOUT A MEETING

 

Any action which could be taken at a meeting of the Board or of any committee appointed by the Board may be taken without a meeting if a written consent setting forth the action so taken is signed by each of the Directors or by each committee member.  Any such written consent shall be inserted in the minute book as if it were the minutes of a Board or a committee meeting.

 

  

3.12

RESIGNATION

 

Any Director may resign at any time by delivering written notice to the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary or the Board, or to the registered office of the corporation.  Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or if the time is not specified, upon delivery thereof and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

 

  

3.13

REMOVAL

 

At a meeting of stockholders called expressly for that purpose, one or more members of the Board (including the entire Board) may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote on the election of Directors.  If the Certificate of Incorporation provides for cumulative voting in the election of Directors, then if less than the entire Board is to be removed, no Director may be removed without cause if the votes cast against his or her removal would be sufficient to elect such Director if then cumulatively voted at an election of the entire Board.

 

  

3.14

VACANCIES

 

Any vacancy occurring on the Board may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining Directors though less than a quorum of the Board.  A Director elected to fill a vacancy shall be elected for the unexpired term of his or her predecessor in office.  Any directorship to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of Directors may be filled by the Board.

  

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3.15

COMMITTEES

 

  

3.15.1

CREATION AND AUTHORITY OF COMMITTEES

 

The Board may, by resolution passed by a majority of the number of Directors fixed by or in the manner provided in these By-laws, appoint standing or temporary committees, each committee to consist of one or more Directors of the corporation.  The Board may designate one or more Directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee.  In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.  Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board establishing such committee or as otherwise provided in these By-laws, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to (a) amending the Certificate of Incorporation (except that a committee may, to the extent authorized in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of shares of stock adopted by the Board as provided in Section 151(a) of the DGCL, fix the designations, preferences or rights of such shares to the extent permitted under Section 141 of the DGCL), (b) adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation under Section 251 or 252 of the DGCL,  (c) recommending to the stockholders the sale, lease or exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the corporation,  (d) recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the corporation or a revocation of a dissolution, or (e) amending these By-laws; and, unless expressly provided by resolution of the Board, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend, to authorize the issuance of stock or to adopt a certificate of ownership and merger pursuant to Section 253 of the DGCL.  The Audit Committee of the Board shall approve any related party transactions above the SEC/NYSE threshold.

 

  

3.15.2

MINUTES OF MEETINGS

 

All committees so appointed shall keep regular minutes of their meetings and shall cause them to be recorded in books kept for that purpose.

  

  

3.15.3

QUORUM AND MANNER OF ACTING

 

A majority of the number of Directors composing any committee of the Board, as established and fixed by resolution of the Board, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of such committee but, if less than a majority are present at a meeting, a majority of such Directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.  The act of a majority of the members of a committee present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of such committee.

 

  

3.15.4

RESIGNATION

 

Any member of any committee may resign at any time by delivering written notice thereof to the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary, the Board or the Chairman of such committee.  Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or if the time is not specified, upon delivery thereof and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

 

  

3.15.5

REMOVAL

 

The Board may remove from office any member of any committee elected or appointed by it, but only by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the number of Directors fixed by or in the manner provided in these By-laws.

 

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3.16

COMPENSATION

 

By Board resolution, Directors and committee members may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each Board or committee meeting, or a fixed sum for attendance at each Board or committee meeting, or a stated salary as Director or a committee member, or a combination of the foregoing.  No such payment shall preclude any Director or committee member from serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.

 

 

3.17

LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR

  

When the Chairman of the Board is also the CEO of the corporation, the Board shall appoint a Lead Independent Director pursuant to the procedure detailed below.

 

The Lead Independent Director of the Board shall be elected annually via secret ballot by a majority vote of the independent Directors who cast ballots.

 

The Lead Independent Director shall be responsible for coordinating the activities of the independent Directors.  In addition to the duties of all Board members (which shall not be limited or diminished by the Lead Independent Director’s role), the specific responsibilities of the Lead Independent Director are to work together with the Chairman of the Board to:

 

(a)           determine an appropriate schedule of Board meetings, seeking to ensure that the independent Directors can perform their duties responsibly while not interfering with the flow of the corporation's operations;

 

(b)           prepare agendas for the Board and committee meetings;

 

(c)           assess the quality, quantity and timeliness of the flow of information from the corporation’s management that is necessary for the independent Directors to effectively and responsibly perform their duties, and although the corporation’s management is responsible for the preparation of materials for the Board, the Lead Independent Director may specifically request the inclusion of certain material;

 

(d)           ensure that the Compensation Committee oversees compliance with and implementation of the corporation’s policies and procedures for evaluating and undertaking senior executive officer and incentive-based compensation, including stock options;

 

(e)           coordinate, develop the agenda for, and moderate executive sessions of the Board’s independent Directors, and act as principal liaison between the independent Directors and the Chairman of the Board and/or CEO on sensitive issues;

 

(f)           evaluate, along with the members of the Compensation Committee, the CEO’s performance and meet with the CEO to discuss the Compensation Committee’s evaluation; and

 

(g)           recommend the membership of the various Board committees, as well as selection of the committee chairs.

 

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SECTION 4.

OFFICERS

 

  

4.1

NUMBER

 

The officers of the corporation shall be a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, each of whom shall be elected by the Board.  One or more Vice Presidents and such other officers and assistant officers, including a Chairman of the Board, may be elected or appointed by the Board, such officers and assistant officers to hold office for such period, have such authority and perform such duties as are provided in these By-laws or as may be provided by resolution of the Board.  Any officer may be assigned by the Board any additional title that the Board deems appropriate.  The Board may delegate to any officer or agent the power to appoint any such subordinate officers or agents and to prescribe their respective terms of office, authority and duties.  Any two or more offices may be held by the same person; provided, however, that the Chairman of the Board may not also hold the office of Chief Executive Officer, unless the Board also appoints a Lead Independent Director as detailed in subsection 3.17.

  

  

4.2

ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE

 

The officers of the corporation shall be elected annually by the Board at the Board meeting held after the annual meeting of the stockholders.  If the election of officers is not held at such meeting, such election shall be held as soon thereafter as a Board meeting conveniently may be held.  Unless an officer dies, resigns or is removed from office, he or she shall hold office until the next annual meeting of the Board or until his or her successor is elected.

 

  

4.3

RESIGNATION

 

Any officer may resign at any time by delivering written notice to the Chairman of the Board, the President, a Vice President, the Secretary or the Board.  Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or if the time is not specified, upon delivery thereof and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

 

  

4.4

REMOVAL

 

Any officer or agent elected or appointed by the Board may be removed by the Board whenever in its judgment the best interests of the corporation would be served thereby, but such removal shall be without prejudice to the contract rights, if any, of the person so removed.

 

  

4.5

VACANCIES

 

A vacancy in any office because of death, resignation, removal, disqualification, creation of a new office or any other cause may be filled by the Board for the unexpired portion of the term, or for a new term established by the Board.

 

  

4.6

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

 

If elected, the Chairman of the Board shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to him or her by the Board from time to time and shall preside over meetings of the Board and stockholders unless another officer is appointed or designated by the Board as Chairman of such meeting.

  

  

4.7

PRESIDENT

 

The President shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation unless some other officer is so designated by the Board, shall preside over meetings of the Board and stockholders in the absence of a Chairman of the Board and, subject to the Board's control, shall supervise and control all of the assets, business and affairs of the corporation.  The President may sign certificates for shares of the corporation, deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments, except when the signing and execution thereof have been expressly delegated by the Board or by these By-laws to some other officer or agent of the corporation or are required by law to be otherwise signed or executed by some other officer or in some other manner.  In general, the President shall perform all duties incident to the office of President and such other duties as are prescribed by the Board from time to time.

 

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4.8

VICE PRESIDENT

 

In the event of the death of the President or his or her inability to act, the Vice President (or if there is more than one Vice President, the Vice President who was designated by the Board as the successor to the President, or if no Vice President is so designated, the Vice President first elected to such office) shall perform the duties of the President, except as may be limited by resolution of the Board, with all the powers of and subject to all the restrictions upon the President.  Any Vice President may sign with the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary certificates for shares of the corporation.  Vice Presidents shall have, to the extent authorized by the President or the Board, the same powers as the President to sign deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments.  Vice Presidents shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to them by the President or by the Board.

 

  

4.9

SECRETARY

 

The Secretary shall be responsible for preparation of minutes of meetings of the Board and stockholders, maintenance of the corporation's records and stock registers, and authentication of the corporation's records and shall in general perform all duties incident to the office of Secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board.  In the absence of the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary may perform the duties of the Secretary.

  

  

4.10

TREASURER

 

If required by the Board, the Treasurer shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of his or her duties in such amount and with such surety or sureties as the Board shall determine.  The Treasurer shall have charge and custody of and be responsible for all funds and securities of the corporation; receive and give receipts for moneys due and payable to the corporation from any source whatsoever, and deposit all such moneys in the name of the corporation in banks, trust companies or other depositories selected in accordance with the provisions of these By-laws; sign certificates for shares of the corporation; and in general perform all of the duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board.  In the absence of the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer may perform the duties of the Treasurer.

 

  

4.11

SALARIES

 

The salaries of the officers shall be fixed from time to time by the Board or by any person or persons to whom the Board has delegated such authority.  No officer shall be prevented from receiving such salary by reason of the fact that he or she is also a Director of the corporation.

 

SECTION 5.

CONTRACTS, BUSINESS, LOANS, CHECKS AND DEPOSITS

 

  

5.1

CONTRACTS

 

The Board may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the corporation.  Such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.

 

  

5.2

BUSINESS

 

The corporation shall not sell, transfer or terminate its business relating to the manufacturing and sale of energy-related equipment and services acquired from Ormat Industries Ltd. (the "OSL Business") nor transfer out of the State of Israel any of the operations, plant or personnel related to the OSL Business which are located or conducted in the State of Israel, other than temporary assignments of personnel in the ordinary course of business, without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the corporation entitled to vote generally, voting together as a single class.

 

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5.3

LOANS TO THE CORPORATION

 

No loans shall be contracted on behalf of the corporation and no evidences of indebtedness shall be issued in its name unless authorized by a resolution of the Board.  Such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.

  

  

5.4

CHECKS, DRAFTS, ETC.

 

All checks, drafts or other orders for the payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued in the name of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers, or agent or agents, of the corporation and in such manner as is from time to time determined by resolution of the Board.

 

  

5.5

DEPOSITS

 

All funds of the corporation not otherwise employed shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Board may select.

 

SECTION 6.

CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES AND THEIR TRANSFER

 

  

6.1

ISSUANCE OF SHARES

 

No shares of the corporation shall be issued unless authorized by the Board, which authorization shall include the maximum number of shares to be issued and the consideration to be received for each share.

 

  

6.2

CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES

 

Certificates representing shares of the corporation shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board or a Vice Chairman of the Board, if any, or the President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, any of whose signatures may be a facsimile.  The Board may in its discretion appoint responsible banks or trust companies from time to time to act as transfer agents and registrars of the stock of the corporation; and, when such appointments shall have been made, no stock certificate shall be valid until countersigned by one of such transfer agents and registered by one of such registrars.  In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if such person was such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.  All certificates shall include on their face written notice of any restrictions which may be imposed on the transferability of such shares and shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified.

  

  

6.3

STOCK RECORDS

 

The stock transfer books shall be kept at the registered office or principal place of business of the corporation or at the office of the corporation's transfer agent or registrar.  The name and address of each person to whom certificates for shares are issued, together with the class and number of shares represented by each such certificate and the date of issue thereof, shall be entered on the stock transfer books of the corporation.  The person in whose name shares stand on the books of the corporation shall be deemed by the corporation to be the owner thereof for all purposes.

 

  

6.4

RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER

 

Except to the extent that the corporation has obtained an opinion of counsel acceptable to the corporation that transfer restrictions are not required under applicable securities laws, or has otherwise satisfied itself that such transfer restrictions are not required, all certificates representing shares of the corporation shall bear a legend on the face of the certificate, or on the reverse of the certificate if a reference to the legend is contained on the face, which reads substantially as follows:

 

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"The securities evidenced by this certificate have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or any applicable state law, and no interest therein may be sold, distributed, assigned, offered, pledged or otherwise transferred unless (a) there is an effective registration statement under such Act and applicable state securities laws covering any such transaction involving said securities or (b) this corporation receives an opinion of legal counsel for the holder of these securities (concurred in by legal counsel for this corporation) stating that such transaction is exempt from registration or this corporation otherwise satisfies itself that such transaction is exempt from registration.  Neither the offering of the securities nor any offering materials have been reviewed by any administrator under the Securities Act of 1933 or any applicable state law."

 

  

6.5

TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

The transfer of shares of the corporation shall be made only on the stock transfer books of the corporation pursuant to authorization or document of transfer made by the holder of record thereof or by his or her legal representative, who shall furnish proper evidence of authority to transfer, or by his or her attorney-in-fact authorized by power of attorney duly executed and filed with the Secretary of the corporation.  All certificates surrendered to the corporation for transfer shall be cancelled and no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificates for a like number of shares shall have been surrendered and cancelled.

  

  

6.6

LOST OR DESTROYED CERTIFICATES

 

In the case of a lost, destroyed or mutilated certificate, a new certificate may be issued therefor upon such terms and indemnity to the corporation as the Board may prescribe.

 

SECTION 7.

BOOKS AND RECORDS

 

The corporation shall keep correct and complete books and records of account, stock transfer books, minutes of the proceedings of its stockholders and Board and such other records as may be necessary or advisable.

 

SECTION 8.

ACCOUNTING YEAR

 

The accounting year of the corporation shall be the calendar year; provided that if a different accounting year is at any time selected for purposes of federal income taxes, the accounting year shall be the year so selected.

 

SECTION 9.

SEAL

 

The seal of the corporation, if any, shall consist of the name of the corporation, the state of its incorporation and the year of its incorporation.

 

SECTION 10.

INDEMNIFICATION

 

  

10.1

RIGHT TO INDEMNIFICATION

 

Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved (including, without limitation, as a witness) in any actual or threatened action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a "proceeding"), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a Director, officer or employee or agent of the corporation or that, being or having been such a Director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, he or she is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a Director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter an "indemnitee"), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as such a Director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as such a Director, officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the corporation to the full extent permitted by the DGCL, 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 corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than permitted prior thereto), or by other applicable law as then in effect, against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a Director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee's heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that except as provided in subsection 10.2 hereof with respect to proceedings seeking to enforce rights to indemnification, the corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or ratified by the Board.  The right to indemnification conferred in subsection 10.1 hereof shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an "advancement of expenses"); provided, however, that if the DGCL requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a Director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to the corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an "undertaking"), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this subsection 10.1 or otherwise.

 

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10.2

RIGHT OF INDEMNITEE TO BRING SUIT

 

If a claim under subsection 10.1 hereof is not paid in full by the corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim.  If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit.  The indemnitee shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification under this Section upon submission of a written claim (and, in an action brought to enforce a claim for an advancement of expenses, where the required undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the corporation), and thereafter the corporation shall have the burden of proof to overcome the presumption that the indemnitee is not so entitled.  Neither the failure of the corporation (including its Board, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances nor an actual determination by the corporation (including its Board, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification shall be a defense to the suit or create a presumption that the indemnitee is not so entitled.

 

  

10.3

NONEXCLUSIVITY OF RIGHTS

 

The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this Section shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested Directors, provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws of the corporation or of Ormat Industries Ltd., or of any of the affiliates or subsidiaries of this corporation or otherwise.  Notwithstanding any amendment to or repeal of this Section, any indemnitee shall be entitled to indemnification in accordance with the provisions hereof with respect to any acts or omissions of such indemnitee occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

 

  

10.4

INSURANCE, CONTRACTS AND FUNDING

 

The corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any Director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL.  The corporation, without further stockholder approval, may enter into contracts with any Director, officer, employee or agent in furtherance of the provisions of this Section and may create a trust fund, grant a security interest or use other means (including, without limitation, a letter of credit) to ensure the payment of such amounts as may be necessary to effect indemnification as provided in this Section.

 

  

10.5

INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS OF THE CORPORATION

 

The corporation may, by action of the Board, grant rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses to employees or agents or groups of employees or agents of the corporation with the same scope and effect as the provisions of this Section with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of Directors and officers of the corporation; provided, however, that an undertaking shall be made by an employee or agent only if required by the Board.

 

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10.6

PERSONS SERVING OTHER ENTITIES

 

Any person who is or was a Director, officer or employee of the corporation who is or was serving (a) as a Director or officer of another corporation of which a majority of the shares entitled to vote in the election of its Directors is held by the corporation or (b) in an executive or management capacity in a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise of which the corporation or a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporation is a general partner or has a majority ownership shall be deemed to be so serving at the request of the corporation and entitled to indemnification and advancement of expenses under subsection 10.1 hereof.

 

SECTION 11.

AMENDMENTS OR REPEAL

 

These By-laws may be amended or repealed and new By-laws may be adopted by the Board.  The stockholders may also amend and repeal these By-laws or adopt new By-laws.  All By-laws made by the Board may be amended or repealed by the stockholders.  Notwithstanding the foregoing and any other provisions of these By-laws or the Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation (and notwithstanding the fact that a lesser percentage or separate class vote may be specified by law, these By-laws or the Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the corporation entitled to vote generally, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend or repeal, or adopt any provisions inconsistent with, Section 3.2 and Section 5.2 hereof.  Notwithstanding any amendment to Section 10 hereof or repeal of these By-laws, or of any amendment or repeal of any of the procedures that may be established by the Board pursuant to Section 10 hereof, any indemnitee shall be entitled to indemnification in accordance with the provisions hereof and thereof with respect to any acts or omissions of such indemnitee occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

 

The foregoing By-laws, as amended and restated, were adopted by the Board of Directors on November 6, 2019.

 

 

/s/ Hezi Kattan

  

 

  

 

Hezi Kattan

General Counsel and Chief

Compliance Officer

 

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Exhibit 3.4

 

 

 

FOURTHFIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

BY-LAWS

 

OF

 

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

Adopted on October 21November 6, 20042019

Amendments are listed on page i

  

 

 

  

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

AMENDMENTS

 

 

SECTION

 

 

EFFECT OF AMENDMENT

 

DATE OF

AMENDMENT

2.15

 

Requires additional information in advance notice provisions.

 

February 24, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

3.2

 

Directors shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast at annual meetings of stockholders, except for contested elections, in which case a plurality standard shall apply.

 

January 26, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All Directors shall be elected at each annual meeting of the stockholders, and there shall be no classification of Directors.

 

November 6, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

3.15.1

 

The Audit Committee of the Board shall approve any related party transactions above the SEC/NYSE threshold

 

January 26, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

3.17

 

Lead Independent Director

 

January 26, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

4.1

 

The Chairman of the Board shall not also be the Chief Executive Officer of the corporation.

 

January 26, 2013

  

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CONTENTS

 

SECTION 1.

OFFICES

1

SECTION 2.

STOCKHOLDERS

1

2.1

ANNUAL MEETING

1

2.2

SPECIAL MEETINGS

1

2.3

PLACE OF MEETING

1

2.4

NOTICE OF MEETING

1

2.5

WAIVER OF NOTICE

2

 

2.5.1   WAIVER IN WRITING

2

 

2.5.2   WAIVER BY ATTENDANCE

2

2.6

FIXING OF RECORD DATE FOR DETERMINING STOCKHOLDERS

2

 

2.6.1   MEETINGS

2

 

2.6.2   CONSENT TO CORPORATE ACTION WITHOUT A MEETING

2

 

2.6.3   DIVIDENDS, DISTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER RIGHTS

3

2.7

VOTING LIST

3

2.8

QUORUM

3

2.9

MANNER OF ACTING

3

2.10

PROXIES

4

 

2.10.1   APPOINTMENT

4

 

2.10.2   DELIVERY TO CORPORATION; DURATION

4

2.11

VOTING OF SHARES

4

2.12

VOTING FOR DIRECTORS

4

2.13

ACTION BY STOCKHOLDERS WITHOUT A MEETING

5

2.14

ORGANIZATION

5

2.15

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER BUSINESS AND NOMINATIONS

5

 

2.15.1   ANNUAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

5

 

2.15.2   SPECIAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

7

 

2.15.3   GENERAL

7

 

2.15.4   SUBMISSION OF QUESTIONNAIRE, REPRESENTATION AND AGREEMENT

8

2.16

BUSINESS AND ORDER OF BUSINESS

8

SECTION 3.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

8

3.1

GENERAL POWERS

8

3.2

NUMBER AND TENURE

9

 

 

 

 

3.3

ANNUAL AND REGULAR MEETINGS

9

3.4

SPECIAL MEETINGS

9

3.5

MEETINGS BY TELEPHONE

9

3.6

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETINGS

10

 

3.6.1   PERSONAL DELIVERY

10

 

3.6.2   DELIVERY BY MAIL

10

 

3.6.3   DELIVERY BY PRIVATE CARRIER

10

 

3.6.4   FACSIMILE NOTICE

10

 

3.6.5   DELIVERY BY TELEGRAPH

10

 

3.6.6   ORAL NOTICE

10

3.7

WAIVER OF NOTICE

10

 

3.7.1   IN WRITING

10

 

3.7.2   BY ATTENDANCE

10

3.8

QUORUM

11

3.9

MANNER OF ACTING

11

3.10

PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT

11

3.11

ACTION BY BOARD OR COMMITTEES WITHOUT A MEETING

11

3.12

RESIGNATION

11

3.13

REMOVAL

11

3.14

VACANCIES

12

3.15

COMMITTEES

12

 

3.15.1   CREATION AND AUTHORITY OF COMMITTEES

12

 

3.15.2   MINUTES OF MEETINGS

12

 

3.15.3   QUORUM AND MANNER OF ACTING

12

 

3.15.4   RESIGNATION

12

 

3.15.5   REMOVAL

13

3.16

COMPENSATION

13

3.17

LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR

13

SECTION 4.

OFFICERS

14

4.1

NUMBER

14

4.2

ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE

14

4.3

RESIGNATION

14

 

 

 

 

4.4

REMOVAL

14

4.5

VACANCIES

14

4.6

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

14

4.7

PRESIDENT

15

4.8

VICE PRESIDENT

15

4.9

SECRETARY

15

4.10

TREASURER

15

4.11

SALARIES

15

SECTION 5.

CONTRACTS, BUSINESS, LOANS, CHECKS AND DEPOSITS

15

5.1

CONTRACTS

15

5.2

BUSINESS

16

5.3

LOANS TO THE CORPORATION

16

5.4

CHECKS, DRAFTS, ETC.

16

5.5

DEPOSITS

16

SECTION 6.

CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES AND THEIR TRANSFER

16

6.1

ISSUANCE OF SHARES

16

6.2

CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES

16

6.3

STOCK RECORDS

17

6.4

RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER

17

6.5

TRANSFER OF SHARES

17

6.6

LOST OR DESTROYED CERTIFICATES

17

SECTION 7.

BOOKS AND RECORDS

17

SECTION 8.

ACCOUNTING YEAR

17

SECTION 9.

SEAL

18

SECTION 10.

INDEMNIFICATION

18

10.1

RIGHT TO INDEMNIFICATION

18

10.2

RIGHT OF INDEMNITEE TO BRING SUIT

18

10.3

NONEXCLUSIVITY OF RIGHTS

19

10.4

INSURANCE, CONTRACTS AND FUNDING

19

10.5

INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS OF THE CORPORATION

19

10.6

PERSONS SERVING OTHER ENTITIES

19

SECTION 11.

AMENDMENTS OR REPEAL

19

  

 

 

 

FOURTHFIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED

 

BY-LAWS

 

OF

 

ORMAT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

SECTION 1.

OFFICES

 

The principal office of the corporation shall be located at its principal place of business or such other place as the Board of Directors (the “Board”) may designate.  The corporation may have such other offices, either within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board may designate or as the business of the corporation may require from time to time.

 

SECTION 2.

STOCKHOLDERS

 

 

2.1

ANNUAL MEETING

 

The annual meeting of the stockholders shall be scheduled upon the preparation of the financial statements of the prior fiscal year at the principal office of the corporation or such other place designated by the Board for the purpose of electing Directors and transacting such other business as may properly come before the meeting.  If the day fixed for the annual meeting is a legal holiday at the place of the meeting, the meeting shall be held on the next succeeding business day.  If the annual meeting is not held on the date designated therefor, the Board shall cause the meeting to be held as soon thereafter as may be convenient.

 

 

2.2

SPECIAL MEETINGS

 

A special meeting of the stockholders for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise provided by law, may be called by the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Board or the holders of not less than a majority of all the outstanding shares of the corporation entitled to vote at the meeting may call special meetings of the stockholders for any purpose or, at any time that Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee owns at least 20% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock, by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee.  For purposes of this subsection 2.2 hereof, “OIL Transferee” shall mean a transferee of Ormat Industries Ltd. or any other OIL Transferee that receives at least 20% of the then outstanding shares of Common Stock that pursuant to an instrument of transfer or related agreement has been granted rights under subsection 2.2 hereof by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee.

  

 

2.3

PLACE OF MEETING

 

All meetings shall be held at the principal office of the corporation or at such other place within or without the State of Delaware designated by the Board, by any persons entitled to call a meeting hereunder or in a waiver of notice signed by all of the stockholders entitled to notice of the meeting.

 

 

2.4

NOTICE OF MEETING

 

The Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary, the Board, or stockholders calling an annual or special meeting of stockholders as provided for herein, shall cause to be delivered to each stockholder entitled to notice of or to vote at the meeting either personally or by mail, not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the meeting, written notice stating the place, day and hour of the meeting and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.  At any time, upon written request of the holders of not less than the number of outstanding shares of the corporation specified in subsection 2.2 hereof and entitled to vote at the meeting, it shall be the duty of the Secretary to give notice of a special meeting of stockholders to be held on such date and at such place and hour as the Secretary may fix, not less than ten nor more than sixty days after receipt of said request, and if the Secretary shall neglect or refuse to issue such notice, the person making the request may do so and may fix the date for such meeting.  If such notice is mailed, it shall be deemed delivered when deposited in the official government mail properly addressed to the stockholder at such stockholder's address as it appears on the stock transfer books of the corporation with postage prepaid.  If the notice is telegraphed, it shall be deemed delivered when the content of the telegram is delivered to the telegraph company.  Notice given in any other manner shall be deemed delivered when dispatched to the stockholder's address, telephone number or other number appearing on the stock transfer records of the corporation.

 

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2.5

WAIVER OF NOTICE

 

 

2.5.1

WAIVER IN WRITING

 

Whenever any notice is required to be given to any stockholder under the provisions of these By-laws, the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) or the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as now or hereafter amended (the “DGCL”), 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.

   

 

2.5.2

WAIVER BY ATTENDANCE

 

The attendance of a stockholder at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when a stockholder attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

 

2.6

FIXING OF RECORD DATE FOR DETERMINING STOCKHOLDERS

 

 

2.6.1

MEETINGS

 

For the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date shall not be more than sixty (or the maximum number permitted by applicable law) nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting.  If no record date is fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held.  A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

 

 

2.6.2

CONSENT TO CORPORATE ACTION WITHOUT A MEETING

 

For the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which date shall not be more than ten (or the maximum number permitted by applicable law) days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board.  If no record date has been fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board is required by Chapter 1 of the DGCL, shall be the first date on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the corporation by delivery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded.  Delivery made to a corporation's registered office shall be by hand or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested.  If no record date has been fixed by the Board and prior action by the Board is required by Chapter 1 of the DGCL, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution taking such prior action.

 

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2.6.3

DIVIDENDS, DISTRIBUTIONS AND OTHER RIGHTS

 

For the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall be not more than sixty (or the maximum number permitted by applicable law) days prior to such action.  If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

 

2.7

VOTING LIST

 

At least ten days before each meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting, or any adjournment thereof, shall be made, arranged in alphabetical order, with the address of and number of shares held by each stockholder.  This list shall be open to examination by any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of ten days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held.  This list shall also be produced and kept at such meeting for inspection by any stockholder who is present.

 

 

2.8

QUORUM

 

A majority of the outstanding shares of the corporation entitled to vote, present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of the stockholders; provided, that where a separate vote by a class or classes is required, a majority of the outstanding shares of such class or classes, present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting, shall constitute a quorum entitled to take action with respect to that vote on that matter.  If less than a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote are represented at a meeting, a majority of the shares so represented may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.  If a quorum is present or represented at a reconvened meeting following such an adjournment, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called.  The stockholders present at a duly organized meeting may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to leave less than a quorum.

   

 

2.9

MANNER OF ACTING

 

In all matters other than the election of Directors, if a quorum is present, the affirmative vote of the majority of the outstanding shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall be the act of the stockholders, unless the vote of a greater number is required by these By-laws, the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL.  Where a separate vote by a class or classes is required, if a quorum of such class or classes is present, the affirmative vote of the majority of outstanding shares of such class or classes present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting shall be the act of such class or classes.  Directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of themajority of all votes cast for each of the Director nominees at such meeting. except for contested elections (i.e., elections in which there are a greater number of candidates than there are seats to be filled), in which case the Directors shall be elected by a plurality vote of all votes cast for the election of Directors at such meeting.

 

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2.10

PROXIES

 

 

2.10.1

APPOINTMENT

 

Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent to corporate action in writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy.  Such authorization may be accomplished by (a) the stockholder or such stockholder's authorized officer, director, employee or agent executing a writing or causing his or her signature to be affixed to such writing by any reasonable means, including facsimile signature or (b) by transmitting or authorizing the transmission of a telegram, cablegram or other means of electronic transmission to the intended holder of the proxy or to a proxy solicitation firm, proxy support service or similar agent duly authorized by the intended proxy holder to receive such transmission; provided, that any such telegram, cablegram or other electronic transmission must either set forth or be accompanied by information from which it can be determined that the telegram, cablegram or other electronic transmission was authorized by the stockholder.  Any copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reliable reproduction of the writing or transmission by which a stockholder has authorized another person to act as proxy for such stockholder may be substituted or used in lieu of the original writing or transmission for any and all purposes for which the original writing or transmission could be used; provided, that such copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing or transmission.

  

 

2.10.2

DELIVERY TO CORPORATION; DURATION

 

A proxy shall be filed with the Secretary before or at the time of the meeting or the delivery to the corporation of the consent to corporate action in writing.  A proxy shall become invalid three years after the date of its execution unless otherwise provided in the proxy.  A proxy with respect to a specified meeting shall entitle the holder thereof to vote at any reconvened meeting following adjournment of such meeting but shall not be valid after the final adjournment thereof.

 

 

2.11

VOTING OF SHARES

 

Each outstanding share entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter of an issue submitted to a meeting of stockholders shall be entitled to one vote upon each such issue.

 

 

2.12

VOTING FOR DIRECTORS

 

Each stockholder entitled to vote at an election of Directors may vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares owned by such stockholder for as many persons as there are Directors to be elected and for whose election such stockholder has a right to vote.

 

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2.13

ACTION BY STOCKHOLDERS WITHOUT A MEETING

 

Any action which could be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall (a) be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted and (b) be delivered to the corporation by delivery to its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the records of proceedings of meetings of stockholders.  Delivery made to the corporation's registered office shall be by hand or by certified mail or registered mail, return receipt requested.  Every written consent shall bear the date of signature of each stockholder who signs the consent and no written consent shall be effective to take the corporate action referred to therein unless written consents signed by all stockholders entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof are delivered to the corporation, in the manner required by this Section, within sixty (or the maximum number permitted by applicable law) days of the earliest dated consent delivered to the corporation in the manner required by this Section.  The validity of any consent executed by a proxy for a stockholder pursuant to a telegram, cablegram or other means of electronic transmission transmitted to such proxy holder by or upon the authorization of the stockholder shall be determined by or at the direction of the Secretary.  A written record of the information upon which the person making such determination relied shall be made and kept in the records of the proceedings of the stockholders.  Any such consent shall be inserted in the minute book as if it were the minutes of a meeting of the stockholders.

  

 

2.14

ORGANIZATION

 

At every meeting of the stockholders the Chairman of the Board, or in the absence of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, or in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer, a Ddirector or an officer of the corporation designated by the Board, shall act as Chairman of the meeting.  The Secretary, or, in the Secretary's absence, an Assistant Secretary, shall act as Secretary at all meetings of the stockholders.  In the absence from any such meeting of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, the Chairman may appoint any person to act as Secretary of the meeting.

 

 

2.15

NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER BUSINESS AND NOMINATIONS

 

 

2.15.1

ANNUAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

 

Nominations of persons for election to the Board of the corporation and the proposal of business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders (a) pursuant to the corporation's notice of meeting,  (b) by or at the direction of the Board or (c) by any stockholder of the corporation who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section and at the time of the annual meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section.  Clause (c) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations or submit other business (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the corporation's notice of meeting) before an annual meeting of stockholders.

 

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For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of the prior paragraph hereof, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the corporation and such other business must otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action.  To be timely, a stockholder's notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation 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 stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to such annual meeting or, if the first public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is less than 100 days prior to the date of such annual meeting, the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the corporation.  In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder's notice as described above.  Such stockholder's notice shall set forth (1) as to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a Ddirector (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of Ddirectors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person's written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a Ddirector if elected), (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination and any beneficial owner on whose behalf the nomination is made, if any, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant, and (iii) a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by subsection 2.15.4 hereof; (2) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made; and (3) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the corporation's books, and of such beneficial owner, if any, (ii) the class or series and number of shares of the corporation which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, (iii) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the corporation, whether or not such instrument or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of capital stock of the corporation or otherwise (a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder and any other direct or indirect  opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the corporation, (iv) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder has a right to vote any shares of any security of the corporation, (v) any short interest in any security of the corporation (for purposes of these By-laws a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security), (vi) any rights to dividends on the shares of the corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the corporation, (vii) any proportionate interest in shares of the corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner, (viii) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including without limitation any such interests held by members of such stockholder's immediate family sharing the same household (which information shall be supplemented by such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than 10 days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date), (ix) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of Ddirectors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and (x) if the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a Ddirector or Ddirectors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, (A) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business and (B) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder.

  

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Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of the prior paragraph hereof to the contrary, in the event that the number of Ddirectors to be elected to the Board of the corporation is increased and there is no public announcement by the corporation naming all of the nominees for Ddirector or specifying the size of the increased Board at least 100 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year's annual meeting, a stockholder's notice required by this Section 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 corporation not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the corporation.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, at any time Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee owns a majority of the then outstanding Common Stock, notice by Ormat Industries Ltd. or any OIL Transferee shall be timely and complete if delivered in writing or orally at least five days prior to the date the corporation mails its proxy statement in connection with such meeting of stockholders.

 

 

2.15.2

SPECIAL MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

 

Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the corporation's notice of meeting.  Nominations of persons for election to the Board may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which Ddirectors are to be elected pursuant to the corporation's notice of meeting (a) by or at the direction of the Board or (b) provided that the Board has determined that Ddirectors shall be elected at such meeting, by any stockholder of the corporation who is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section and at the time of the special meeting, who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section.  In the event the corporation calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more Ddirectors to the Board, any such stockholder who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be) for election to such position (s) as specified in the corporation's notice of meeting, if the stockholder's notice required by subsection 2.15.2 hereof shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to such special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to such special meeting or, if the first public announcement of the date of such special meeting is less than 100 days prior to the date of such special meeting, 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 to be elected at such meeting.  In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of a special meeting or the announcement thereof commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder's notice as described above.

 

 

2.15.3

GENERAL

 

Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section shall be eligible to serve as Ddirectors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section.  Any person nominated for election as Ddirector by the Board or any committee designated by the Board shall, upon the request of the Board or such committee, furnish to the Secretary of the corporation all such information pertaining to such person that is required to be set forth in a stockholder's notice of nomination.  Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-laws, the Chairman 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 and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with this Section, to declare that such defective proposal or nomination shall be disregarded.

 

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For purposes of this Section, “public announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, a stockholder 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; provided, however, that any references in these By-laws to the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder are not intended to and shall not limit the requirements applicable to nominations or proposals as to any other business to be considered pursuant to subsection 2.15.1 or subsection 2.15.2 hereof.  Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to affect any rights (i) of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the corporation's proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or (ii) of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect Ddirectors under specified circumstances to the extent provided for under law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-laws.

 

 

2.15.4

SUBMISSION OF QUESTIONNAIRE, REPRESENTATION AND AGREEMENT

 

To be eligible to be a nominee for election or reelection as a Ddirector of the corporation, upon request by the Secretary, a person must deliver (in accordance with the time periods prescribed for delivery of notice under subsection 2.15.1 hereof) to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation a written questionnaire with respect to the background and qualification of such person and the background of any other person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made (which questionnaire shall be provided by the Secretary upon written request) and a written representation and agreement (in the form provided by the Secretary upon written request) that such person (1) is not and will not become a party to (i) any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and has not given any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such person, if elected as a Ddirector of the corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) that has not been disclosed to the corporation or (ii) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such person's ability to comply, if elected as a Ddirector of the corporation, with such person's fiduciary duties under applicable law, (2) is not and will not become a party to any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement or indemnification in connection with service or action as a Ddirector that has not been disclosed therein, and (3) in such person's individual capacity and on behalf of any person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made, would be in compliance, if elected as a Ddirector of the corporation, and will comply with all applicable publicly disclosed corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality and stock ownership and trading policies and guidelines of the corporation.  The corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as an independent Ddirector of the corporation or that could be material to a reasonable stockholder's understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.

  

 

2.16

BUSINESS AND ORDER OF BUSINESS

 

At each meeting of the stockholders such business may be transacted as may properly be brought before such meeting, except as otherwise provided by law or in these By-laws.  The order of business at all meetings of the stockholders shall be as determined by the Chairman of the meeting, unless otherwise determined by a majority in interest of the stockholders present in person or by proxy at such meeting and entitled to vote thereat.

 

SECTION 3.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

 

3.1

GENERAL POWERS

 

The business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed by the Board.

 

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3.2

NUMBER AND TENURE

 

The Board shall be composed of not less than five nor more than fifteen Directors, the specific number to be set by resolution of the Board.  The number of Directors may be changed from time to time by amendment to these By-laws, but no decrease in the number of Directors shall have the effect of shortening the term of any incumbent Director.  Directors need not be stockholders of the corporation or residents of the State of Delaware.

 

The Beginning with the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2020, the Directors, including those who may be elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock or any other series or class of stock as provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or in any Preferred Stock Designation (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation) shall be divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as possible. One class of Directors shall be initially, shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the next annual meeting of the stockholders to be held in 2005, another class shall be initially elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2006, and another class shall be initially elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2007. Unless a Director dies, resigns, or is removed, members of each class shall hold office until their successors are dulyand until such Director’s successor is elected and qualified or until such Director’s earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. At each annual meeting of the stockholders of the corporation, the successors of the class ofCorporation, Directors whose term expires at that meeting shall be elected by a majority of all votes cast for each of the Director nominees at such meeting, except for contested elections (i.e., elections in which there are a greater number of candidates than there are seats to be filled), in which case the Directors shall be elected by a plurality vote of all votes cast for the election of Directors at such meeting, to hold office for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders held in the third year following the year of their election.

  

 

3.3

ANNUAL AND REGULAR MEETINGS

 

An annual Board meeting shall be held without notice immediately after and at the same place as the annual meeting of stockholders.  By resolution, the Board or any committee designated by the Board may specify the time and place either within or without the State of Delaware for holding regular meetings thereof without other notice than such resolution.

 

 

3.4

SPECIAL MEETINGS

 

Special meetings of the Board or any committee appointed by the Board may be called by or at the request of the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary or, in the case of special Board meetings, any one Director and, in the case of any special meeting of any committee appointed by the Board, by the Chairman thereof.  The person or persons authorized to call special meetings may fix any place either within or without the State of Delaware as the place for holding any special meeting called by them.

 

 

3.5

MEETINGS BY TELEPHONE

 

Members of the Board or any committee designated by the Board may participate in a meeting of such Board or committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Participation by such means shall constitute presence in person at a meeting.

 

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3.6

NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETINGS

 

Notice of a special Board or committee meeting stating the place, day and hour of the meeting shall be given to a Director in writing or orally by telephone or in person.  Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any special meeting need be specified in the notice of such meeting.

 

 

3.6.1

PERSONAL DELIVERY

 

If notice is given by personal delivery, the notice shall be effective if delivered to a Director at least two days before the meeting.

 

 

3.6.2

DELIVERY BY MAIL

 

If notice is delivered by mail, the notice shall be deemed effective if deposited in the official government mail properly addressed to a Director at his or her address shown on the records of the corporation with postage prepaid at least five days before the meeting.

 

 

3.6.3

DELIVERY BY PRIVATE CARRIER

 

If notice is given by private carrier, the notice shall be deemed effective when dispatched to a Director at his or her address shown on the records of the corporation at least three days before the meeting.

 

 

3.6.4

FACSIMILE NOTICE

 

If notice is delivered by wire or wireless equipment which transmits a facsimile of the notice, the notice shall be deemed effective when dispatched at least two days before the meeting to a Director at his or her telephone number or other number appearing on the records of the corporation.

 

 

3.6.5

DELIVERY BY TELEGRAPH

 

If notice is delivered by telegraph, the notice shall be deemed effective if the content thereof is delivered to the telegraph company at least two days before the meeting for delivery to a Director at his or her address shown on the records of the corporation.

  

 

3.6.6

ORAL NOTICE

 

If notice is delivered orally, by telephone or in person, the notice shall be deemed effective if personally given to the Director at least two days before the meeting.

 

 

3.7

WAIVER OF NOTICE

 

 

3.7.1

IN WRITING

 

Whenever any notice is required to be given to any Director under the provisions of these By-laws, the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL, 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.  Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the Board or any committee appointed by the Board need be specified in the waiver of notice of such meeting.

 

 

3.7.2

BY ATTENDANCE

 

The attendance of a Director at a Board or committee meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when a Director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.

 

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3.8

QUORUM

 

A majority of the total number of Directors fixed by or in the manner provided in these By-laws or, if vacancies exist on the Board, a majority of the total number of Directors then serving on the Board (such number may be not less than one-third of the total number of Directors fixed by or in the manner provided in these By-laws) shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any Board meeting.  If less than a majority are present at a meeting, a majority of the Directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.

 

 

3.9

MANNER OF ACTING

 

The act of the majority of the Directors present at a Board or committee meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board or committee, unless the vote of a greater number is required by these By-laws, the Certificate of Incorporation or the DGCL.

  

 

3.10

PRESUMPTION OF ASSENT

 

A Director of the corporation present at a Board or committee meeting at which action on any corporate matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his or her dissent is entered in the minutes of the meeting, or unless such Director files a written dissent to such action with the person acting as the secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof, or forwards such dissent by registered mail to the Secretary of the corporation immediately after the adjournment of the meeting.  A Director who voted in favor of such action may not dissent.

 

 

3.11

ACTION BY BOARD OR COMMITTEES WITHOUT A MEETING

 

Any action which could be taken at a meeting of the Board or of any committee appointed by the Board may be taken without a meeting if a written consent setting forth the action so taken is signed by each of the Directors or by each committee member.  Any such written consent shall be inserted in the minute book as if it were the minutes of a Board or a committee meeting.

 

 

3.12

RESIGNATION

 

Any Director may resign at any time by delivering written notice to the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary or the Board, or to the registered office of the corporation.  Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or if the time is not specified, upon delivery thereof and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

 

 

3.13

REMOVAL

 

At a meeting of stockholders called expressly for that purpose, one or more members of the Board (including the entire Board) may be removed, with or without cause, by a vote of the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote on the election of Directors.  If the Certificate of Incorporation provides for cumulative voting in the election of Directors, then if less than the entire Board is to be removed, no Director may be removed without cause if the votes cast against his or her removal would be sufficient to elect such Director if then cumulatively voted at an election of the entire Board.

 

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3.14

VACANCIES

 

Any vacancy occurring on the Board may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining Directors though less than a quorum of the Board.  A Director elected to fill a vacancy shall be elected for the unexpired term of his or her predecessor in office.  Any directorship to be filled by reason of an increase in the number of Directors may be filled by the Board.

  

 

3.15

COMMITTEES

 

 

3.15.1

CREATION AND AUTHORITY OF COMMITTEES

 

The Board may, by resolution passed by a majority of the number of Directors fixed by or in the manner provided in these By-laws, appoint standing or temporary committees, each committee to consist of one or more Directors of the corporation.  The Board may designate one or more Directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee.  In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.  Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board establishing such committee or as otherwise provided in these By-laws, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to (a) amending the Certificate of Incorporation (except that a committee may, to the extent authorized in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issuance of shares of stock adopted by the Board as provided in Section 151(a) of the DGCL, fix the designations, preferences or rights of such shares to the extent permitted under Section 141 of the DGCL), (b) adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation under Section 251 or 252 of the DGCL,  (c) recommending to the stockholders the sale, lease or exchange or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property and assets of the corporation,  (d) recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the corporation or a revocation of a dissolution, or (e) amending these By-laws; and, unless expressly provided by resolution of the Board, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend, to authorize the issuance of stock or to adopt a certificate of ownership and merger pursuant to Section 253 of the DGCL.  The Audit Committee of the Board shall approve any related party transactions above the SEC/NYSE threshold.

 

 

3.15.2

MINUTES OF MEETINGS

 

All committees so appointed shall keep regular minutes of their meetings and shall cause them to be recorded in books kept for that purpose.

  

 

3.15.3

QUORUM AND MANNER OF ACTING

 

A majority of the number of Directors composing any committee of the Board, as established and fixed by resolution of the Board, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of such committee but, if less than a majority are present at a meeting, a majority of such Directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.  The act of a majority of the members of a committee present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of such committee.

 

 

3.15.4

RESIGNATION

 

Any member of any committee may resign at any time by delivering written notice thereof to the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary, the Board or the Chairman of such committee.  Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or if the time is not specified, upon delivery thereof and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

 

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3.15.5

REMOVAL

 

The Board may remove from office any member of any committee elected or appointed by it, but only by the affirmative vote of not less than a majority of the number of Directors fixed by or in the manner provided in these By-laws.

 

 

3.16

COMPENSATION

 

By Board resolution, Directors and committee members may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each Board or committee meeting, or a fixed sum for attendance at each Board or committee meeting, or a stated salary as Director or a committee member, or a combination of the foregoing.  No such payment shall preclude any Director or committee member from serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.

 

 

3.17

LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR

 

When the Chairman of the Board is also the CEO of the corporation, the Board shall appoint a Lead Independent Director pursuant to the procedure detailed below.

 

The Lead Independent Director of the Board shall be elected annually via secret ballot by a majority vote of the independent Directors who cast ballots.

 

The Lead Independent Director shall be responsible for coordinating the activities of the independent Directors.  In addition to the duties of all Board members (which shall not be limited or diminished by the Lead Independent Director’s role), the specific responsibilities of the Lead Independent Director are to work together with the Chairman of the Board to:

 

(a)           determine an appropriate schedule of Board meetings, seeking to ensure that the independent Directors can perform their duties responsibly while not interfering with the flow of the corporation's operations;

 

(b)           prepare agendas for the Board and committee meetings;

 

(c)           assess the quality, quantity and timeliness of the flow of information from the corporation’s management that is necessary for the independent Directors to effectively and responsibly perform their duties, and although the corporation’s management is responsible for the preparation of materials for the Board, the Lead Independent Director may specifically request the inclusion of certain material;

 

(d)           ensure that the Compensation Committee oversees compliance with and implementation of the corporation’s policies and procedures for evaluating and undertaking senior executive officer and incentive-based compensation, including stock options;

 

(e)           coordinate, develop the agenda for, and moderate executive sessions of the Board’s independent Directors, and act as principal liaison between the independent Directors and the Chairman of the Board and/or CEO on sensitive issues;

 

(f)           evaluate, along with the members of the Compensation Committee, the CEO’s performance and meet with the CEO to discuss the Compensation Committee’s evaluation; and

 

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(g)           recommend the membership of the various Board committees, as well as selection of the committee chairs.

 

SECTION 4.

OFFICERS

 

 

4.1

NUMBER

 

The officers of the corporation shall be a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, each of whom shall be elected by the Board.  One or more Vice Presidents and such other officers and assistant officers, including a Chairman of the Board, may be elected or appointed by the Board, such officers and assistant officers to hold office for such period, have such authority and perform such duties as are provided in these By-laws or as may be provided by resolution of the Board.  Any officer may be assigned by the Board any additional title that the Board deems appropriate.  The Board may delegate to any officer or agent the power to appoint any such subordinate officers or agents and to prescribe their respective terms of office, authority and duties.  Any two or more offices may be held by the same person; provided, however, that the Chairman of the Board may not also hold the office of Chief Executive Officer, unless the Board also appoints a Lead Independent Director as detailed in subsection 3.17.

  

 

4.2

ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE

 

The officers of the corporation shall be elected annually by the Board at the Board meeting held after the annual meeting of the stockholders.  If the election of officers is not held at such meeting, such election shall be held as soon thereafter as a Board meeting conveniently may be held.  Unless an officer dies, resigns or is removed from office, he or she shall hold office until the next annual meeting of the Board or until his or her successor is elected.

 

 

4.3

RESIGNATION

 

Any officer may resign at any time by delivering written notice to the Chairman of the Board, the President, a Vice President, the Secretary or the Board.  Any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or if the time is not specified, upon delivery thereof and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

 

 

4.4

REMOVAL

 

Any officer or agent elected or appointed by the Board may be removed by the Board whenever in its judgment the best interests of the corporation would be served thereby, but such removal shall be without prejudice to the contract rights, if any, of the person so removed.

 

 

4.5

VACANCIES

 

A vacancy in any office because of death, resignation, removal, disqualification, creation of a new office or any other cause may be filled by the Board for the unexpired portion of the term, or for a new term established by the Board.

 

 

4.6

CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

 

If elected, the Chairman of the Board shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to him or her by the Board from time to time and shall preside over meetings of the Board and stockholders unless another officer is appointed or designated by the Board as Chairman of such meeting.

 

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4.7

PRESIDENT

 

The President shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation unless some other officer is so designated by the Board, shall preside over meetings of the Board and stockholders in the absence of a Chairman of the Board and, subject to the Board's control, shall supervise and control all of the assets, business and affairs of the corporation.  The President may sign certificates for shares of the corporation, deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments, except when the signing and execution thereof have been expressly delegated by the Board or by these By-laws to some other officer or agent of the corporation or are required by law to be otherwise signed or executed by some other officer or in some other manner.  In general, the President shall perform all duties incident to the office of President and such other duties as are prescribed by the Board from time to time.

 

 

4.8

VICE PRESIDENT

 

In the event of the death of the President or his or her inability to act, the Vice President (or if there is more than one Vice President, the Vice President who was designated by the Board as the successor to the President, or if no Vice President is so designated, the Vice President first elected to such office) shall perform the duties of the President, except as may be limited by resolution of the Board, with all the powers of and subject to all the restrictions upon the President.  Any Vice President may sign with the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary certificates for shares of the corporation.  Vice Presidents shall have, to the extent authorized by the President or the Board, the same powers as the President to sign deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments.  Vice Presidents shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to them by the President or by the Board.

 

 

4.9

SECRETARY

 

The Secretary shall be responsible for preparation of minutes of meetings of the Board and stockholders, maintenance of the corporation's records and stock registers, and authentication of the corporation's records and shall in general perform all duties incident to the office of Secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board.  In the absence of the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary may perform the duties of the Secretary.

  

 

4.10

TREASURER

 

If required by the Board, the Treasurer shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of his or her duties in such amount and with such surety or sureties as the Board shall determine.  The Treasurer shall have charge and custody of and be responsible for all funds and securities of the corporation; receive and give receipts for moneys due and payable to the corporation from any source whatsoever, and deposit all such moneys in the name of the corporation in banks, trust companies or other depositories selected in accordance with the provisions of these By-laws; sign certificates for shares of the corporation; and in general perform all of the duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him or her by the President or by the Board.  In the absence of the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer may perform the duties of the Treasurer.

 

 

4.11

SALARIES

 

The salaries of the officers shall be fixed from time to time by the Board or by any person or persons to whom the Board has delegated such authority.  No officer shall be prevented from receiving such salary by reason of the fact that he or she is also a Director of the corporation.

 

SECTION 5.

CONTRACTS, BUSINESS, LOANS, CHECKS AND DEPOSITS

 

 

5.1

CONTRACTS

 

The Board may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the corporation.  Such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.

 

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5.2

BUSINESS

 

The corporation shall not sell, transfer or terminate its business relating to the manufacturing and sale of energy-related equipment and services acquired from Ormat Industries Ltd. (the “OSL Business”) nor transfer out of the State of Israel any of the operations, plant or personnel related to the OSL Business which are located or conducted in the State of Israel, other than temporary assignments of personnel in the ordinary course of business, without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the corporation entitled to vote generally, voting together as a single class.

 

 

5.3

LOANS TO THE CORPORATION

 

No loans shall be contracted on behalf of the corporation and no evidences of indebtedness shall be issued in its name unless authorized by a resolution of the Board.  Such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.

  

 

5.4

CHECKS, DRAFTS, ETC.

 

All checks, drafts or other orders for the payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued in the name of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers, or agent or agents, of the corporation and in such manner as is from time to time determined by resolution of the Board.

 

 

5.5

DEPOSITS

 

All funds of the corporation not otherwise employed shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Board may select.

 

SECTION 6.

CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES AND THEIR TRANSFER

 

 

6.1

ISSUANCE OF SHARES

 

No shares of the corporation shall be issued unless authorized by the Board, which authorization shall include the maximum number of shares to be issued and the consideration to be received for each share.

 

 

6.2

CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES

 

Certificates representing shares of the corporation shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board or a Vice Chairman of the Board, if any, or the President or a Vice President and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, any of whose signatures may be a facsimile.  The Board may in its discretion appoint responsible banks or trust companies from time to time to act as transfer agents and registrars of the stock of the corporation; and, when such appointments shall have been made, no stock certificate shall be valid until countersigned by one of such transfer agents and registered by one of such registrars.  In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if such person was such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.  All certificates shall include on their face written notice of any restrictions which may be imposed on the transferability of such shares and shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified.

 

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6.3

STOCK RECORDS

 

The stock transfer books shall be kept at the registered office or principal place of business of the corporation or at the office of the corporation's transfer agent or registrar.  The name and address of each person to whom certificates for shares are issued, together with the class and number of shares represented by each such certificate and the date of issue thereof, shall be entered on the stock transfer books of the corporation.  The person in whose name shares stand on the books of the corporation shall be deemed by the corporation to be the owner thereof for all purposes.

 

 

6.4

RESTRICTION ON TRANSFER

 

Except to the extent that the corporation has obtained an opinion of counsel acceptable to the corporation that transfer restrictions are not required under applicable securities laws, or has otherwise satisfied itself that such transfer restrictions are not required, all certificates representing shares of the corporation shall bear a legend on the face of the certificate, or on the reverse of the certificate if a reference to the legend is contained on the face, which reads substantially as follows:

 

“The securities evidenced by this certificate have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or any applicable state law, and no interest therein may be sold, distributed, assigned, offered, pledged or otherwise transferred unless (a) there is an effective registration statement under such Act and applicable state securities laws covering any such transaction involving said securities or (b) this corporation receives an opinion of legal counsel for the holder of these securities (concurred in by legal counsel for this corporation) stating that such transaction is exempt from registration or this corporation otherwise satisfies itself that such transaction is exempt from registration.  Neither the offering of the securities nor any offering materials have been reviewed by any administrator under the Securities Act of 1933 or any applicable state law.”

 

 

6.5

TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

The transfer of shares of the corporation shall be made only on the stock transfer books of the corporation pursuant to authorization or document of transfer made by the holder of record thereof or by his or her legal representative, who shall furnish proper evidence of authority to transfer, or by his or her attorney-in-fact authorized by power of attorney duly executed and filed with the Secretary of the corporation.  All certificates surrendered to the corporation for transfer shall be cancelled and no new certificate shall be issued until the former certificates for a like number of shares shall have been surrendered and cancelled.

  

 

6.6

LOST OR DESTROYED CERTIFICATES

 

In the case of a lost, destroyed or mutilated certificate, a new certificate may be issued therefor upon such terms and indemnity to the corporation as the Board may prescribe.

 

SECTION 7.

BOOKS AND RECORDS

 

The corporation shall keep correct and complete books and records of account, stock transfer books, minutes of the proceedings of its stockholders and Board and such other records as may be necessary or advisable.

 

SECTION 8.

ACCOUNTING YEAR

 

The accounting year of the corporation shall be the calendar year; provided that if a different accounting year is at any time selected for purposes of federal income taxes, the accounting year shall be the year so selected.

 

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SECTION 9.

SEAL

 

The seal of the corporation, if any, shall consist of the name of the corporation, the state of its incorporation and the year of its incorporation.

 

SECTION 10.

INDEMNIFICATION

 

 

10.1

RIGHT TO INDEMNIFICATION

 

Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved (including, without limitation, as a witness) in any actual or threatened action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a Director, officer or employee or agent of the corporation or that, being or having been such a Director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, he or she is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a Director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter an “indemnitee”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as such a Director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as such a Director, officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the corporation to the full extent permitted by the DGCL, 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 corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than permitted prior thereto), or by other applicable law as then in effect, against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such indemnitee in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to an indemnitee who has ceased to be a Director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitee's heirs, executors and administrators; provided, however, that except as provided in subsection 10.2 hereof with respect to proceedings seeking to enforce rights to indemnification, the corporation shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or ratified by the Board.  The right to indemnification conferred in subsection 10.1 hereof shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an “advancement of expenses”); provided, however, that if the DGCL requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in his or her capacity as a Director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to the corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an “undertaking”), by or on behalf of such indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this subsection 10.1 or otherwise.

 

  

 

10.2

RIGHT OF INDEMNITEE TO BRING SUIT

 

If a claim under subsection 10.1 hereof is not paid in full by the corporation within sixty days after a written claim has been received by the corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty days, the indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim.  If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit.  The indemnitee shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification under this Section upon submission of a written claim (and, in an action brought to enforce a claim for an advancement of expenses, where the required undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the corporation), and thereafter the corporation shall have the burden of proof to overcome the presumption that the indemnitee is not so entitled.  Neither the failure of the corporation (including its Board, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the indemnitee is proper in the circumstances nor an actual determination by the corporation (including its Board, independent legal counsel or its stockholders) that the indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification shall be a defense to the suit or create a presumption that the indemnitee is not so entitled.

 

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10.3

NONEXCLUSIVITY OF RIGHTS

 

The rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses conferred in this Section shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested Directors, provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws of the corporation or of Ormat Industries Ltd., or of any of the affiliates or subsidiaries of this corporation or otherwise.  Notwithstanding any amendment to or repeal of this Section, any indemnitee shall be entitled to indemnification in accordance with the provisions hereof with respect to any acts or omissions of such indemnitee occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

 

 

10.4

INSURANCE, CONTRACTS AND FUNDING

 

The corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any Director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the DGCL.  The corporation, without further stockholder approval, may enter into contracts with any Director, officer, employee or agent in furtherance of the provisions of this Section and may create a trust fund, grant a security interest or use other means (including, without limitation, a letter of credit) to ensure the payment of such amounts as may be necessary to effect indemnification as provided in this Section.

 

 

10.5

INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS OF THE CORPORATION

 

The corporation may, by action of the Board, grant rights to indemnification and advancement of expenses to employees or agents or groups of employees or agents of the corporation with the same scope and effect as the provisions of this Section with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of Directors and officers of the corporation; provided, however, that an undertaking shall be made by an employee or agent only if required by the Board.

 

 

10.6

PERSONS SERVING OTHER ENTITIES

 

Any person who is or was a Director, officer or employee of the corporation who is or was serving (a) as a Director or officer of another corporation of which a majority of the shares entitled to vote in the election of its Directors is held by the corporation or (b) in an executive or management capacity in a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise of which the corporation or a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporation is a general partner or has a majority ownership shall be deemed to be so serving at the request of the corporation and entitled to indemnification and advancement of expenses under subsection 10.1 hereof.

 

SECTION 11.

AMENDMENTS OR REPEAL

 

These By-laws may be amended or repealed and new By-laws may be adopted by the Board.  The stockholders may also amend and repeal these By-laws or adopt new By-laws.  All By-laws made by the Board may be amended or repealed by the stockholders.  Notwithstanding the foregoing and any other provisions of these By-laws or the Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation (and notwithstanding the fact that a lesser percentage or separate class vote may be specified by law, these By-laws or the Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation), the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the corporation entitled to vote generally, voting together as a single class, shall be required to amend or repeal, or adopt any provisions inconsistent with, Section 3.2 and Section 5.2 hereof.  Notwithstanding any amendment to Section 10 hereof or repeal of these By-laws, or of any amendment or repeal of any of the procedures that may be established by the Board pursuant to Section 10 hereof, any indemnitee shall be entitled to indemnification in accordance with the provisions hereof and thereof with respect to any acts or omissions of such indemnitee occurring prior to such amendment or repeal.

 

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The foregoing By-laws, as amended and restated, were adopted by the Board of Directors on November 6, 2019.

 

 

/s/ Hezi Kattan

  

 

  

 

Hezi Kattan

General Counsel and Chief

Compliance Officer

 

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