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Exhibit 3.2
BYLAWS
OF
CENTRA FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC.
ARTICLE I. OFFICES
The principal offices of the Corporation shall be located in the City of Morgantown, County of
Monongalia, State of West Virginia. The Corporation may have such other offices, either within or
without the State of West Virginia, as the Board of Directors may designate or as the business of
the Corporation may require from time to time.
ARTICLE II. SHAREHOLDERS
Section 1. Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of the shareholders shall be
held on the second Thursday in the month of May in each year, at the hour of 2:00 P.M., local time,
or at such other time on such other day as shall be fixed by the Board of Directors. If the day
fixed for the annual meeting shall be a legal holiday in the State of the principal office of the
Corporation, such meeting shall be held on the next succeeding business day. At an annual meeting
of the shareholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought
before the meeting. To be properly brought before an annual meeting business must be (a) specified
in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of
Directors, (b) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the Board of
Directors, or (c) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a shareholder. For business to
be properly brought before an annual meeting by a shareholder, the shareholder must have given
timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation. To be timely, a
shareholders notice must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices
of the Corporation, not less than forty days prior to the meeting; provided, however, that in the
event that less than fifty days notice or prior public disclosure of the date of the meeting is
given or made to shareholders, notice by the shareholder to be timely must be so received not later
than the close of business on the 8th day following the day on which such notice of the date of the
annual meeting was mailed or such public disclosure was made. A shareholders notice to the
Secretary shall set forth as to each matter the shareholder proposes to bring before the annual
meeting (a) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting and
the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting, (b) the name and address, as they
appear on the Corporations books, of the shareholder proposing such business, (c) the class and
number of shares of the Corporation which are beneficially owned by the shareholder, and (d) any
material interest of the shareholder in such business. Notwithstanding anything in the Bylaws to
the contrary, no business shall be conducted at an annual meeting except in accordance with the
procedures set forth in this Section 1. The Chairman of an annual
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meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine and declare to the meeting that business was
not properly brought before the meeting and in accordance with the provisions of this Section 1,
and if he should so determine, he shall so declare to the meeting and any such business not
properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted.
Section 2. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the shareholders, for any
purpose or purposes, may be called by the Chairman of the Board, if any, President, Secretary, or
by the Board of Directors, and shall be called by the President at the request of the holders of
not less than one-tenth of all outstanding shares of the Corporation entitled to vote at the
meeting.
Section 3. Place of Meeting. The Board of Directors may designate any place,
either within or without the State of West Virginia, as the place of meeting for any annual meeting
or for any special meeting called by the Board of Directors. If no designation is made, or if a
special meeting be otherwise called, the place of meeting shall be the principal office of the
Corporation.
Section 4. Notice of Meeting. Written notice stating the place, day and hour
of the meeting and, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be delivered not
less than ten nor more than fifty days before the date of the meeting, either personally or by
mail, by or at the direction of the Chairman of the Board, President, Secretary or the officer of
other persons calling the meeting, to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting.
If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail,
addressed to the shareholder at his address as it appears on the stock transfer books of the
Corporation, with postage thereon prepaid.
Section 5. Closing of Transfer Books or Fixing of Record Date. For the
purpose of determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of shareholders
or any adjournment thereof, or shareholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend, or in
order to make a determination of shareholders for any other proper purpose, the Board of Directors
of the Corporation may provide that the stock transfer books shall be closed for a stated period
but not to exceed, in any case, fifty days. If the stock transfer books shall be closed for the
purpose of determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders,
such books shall be closed for at least ten days immediately preceding such meeting. In lieu of
closing the stock transfer books, the Board of Directors may fix in advance a date as the record
date for any such determination of shareholders, such date in any case to be not more than fifty
days and, in case of a meeting of shareholders, not less than ten days prior to the date on which
the particular action, requiring such determination of shareholders, is to be taken. If the stock
transfer books are not closed and no record date is fixed for the determination of shareholders
entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders, or shareholders entitled to receive
payment of a dividend, the date on which notice of the meeting is mailed or the date on which the
resolution of the Board of Directors declaring such dividend is adopted, as the case may be, shall
be the record date for such determination of shareholders. When a determination of shareholders
entitled to vote at
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any meeting of shareholders has been made as provided in this section, such determination
shall apply to any adjournment thereof.
Section 6. Voting Record. The officer or agent having charge of the stock
transfer books for shares of the Corporation shall make a complete record of the shareholders
entitled to vote at each meeting of shareholders or any adjournment thereof, arranged in
alphabetical order, with the address of and the number of shares held by each. Such record shall
be produced and kept open at the time and place of the meeting and shall be subject to the
inspection of any shareholder during the whole time of the meeting for the purposes thereof.
Section 7. Quorum. A majority of the outstanding shares of the Corporation
entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of
shareholders. If less than a majority of the outstanding shares are represented at a meeting, a
majority of the shares so represented may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further
notice. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented, any business
may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed. The
shareholders present at a duly organized meeting may continue to transact business until
adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough shareholders to leave less than a quorum.
Section 8. Proxies. At all meetings of shareholders, a shareholder may vote
in person or by proxy executed in writing by the shareholder or by his duly authorized
attorney-in-fact. Such proxy shall be filed with the Secretary of the Corporation before or at the
time of the meeting. No proxy shall be valid after eleven months from the date of its execution,
unless otherwise provided in the proxy.
Section 9. Voting of Shares. Subject to the provisions of Section 12 of this
Article II, each outstanding share entitled to vote shall be entitled to one vote upon each matter
submitted to a vote at a meeting of shareholders.
Section 10. Voting of Shares by Certain Holders. Shares standing in the name
of another corporation may be voted by such officer, agent or proxy as the bylaws of such
corporation may prescribe, or, in the absence of such provision, as the Board of Directors of such
other corporation may determine.
Shares held by an administrator, executor, guardian, committee, curator, or conservator may be
voted by him, either in person or by proxy, without a transfer of such shares into his name.
Shares standing in the name of a trustee may be voted by him, either in person or by proxy, but no
trustee shall be entitled to vote shares held by him without a transfer of such shares into his
name.
Shares standing in the name of a receiver may be voted by such receiver, and shares held by or
under the control of a receiver may be voted by such receiver without the transfer thereof into his
name if authority to do so be contained in an appropriate order of the court by which such receiver
was appointed.
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A shareholder whose shares are pledged shall be entitled to vote such shares until the shares
have been transferred into the name of the pledgee, and thereafter the pledgee shall be entitled to
vote the shares so transferred.
Neither treasury shares of its own stock held by the Corporation nor shares held by another
corporation if a majority of the shares entitled to vote for the election of directors of such
other corporation are held by the Corporation, shall be voted at any meeting or counted in
determining the total number of outstanding shares at any given time for purposes of any meeting.
Section 11. Informal Action by Shareholders. Any action required or
permitted to be taken at a meeting of the shareholders may be taken without a meeting if a consent
in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all of the shareholders entitled
to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
Section 12. Cumulative Voting. At each election for directors every
shareholder entitled to vote at such election shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy,
the number of shares owned by him for as many persons as there are directors to be elected and for
whose election he has a right to vote, or to cumulate his votes by giving one candidate as many
votes as the number of such directors multiplied by the number of his shares shall equal, or by
distributing such votes on the same principle among any number of such candidates.
Section 13. Nominations for Election to the Board of Directors. The
nominations for election to the Board of Directors other than those made by or on behalf of the
existing management of the Corporation, shall be made by a shareholder in writing delivered or
mailed to the President not less than fourteen days nor more than fifty days prior to the meeting
called for the election of directors; provided, however, that if less than twenty-one days notice
of the meeting is given to shareholders, the nominations shall be mailed or delivered to the
President not later than the close of business on the seventh day following the day on which the
notice of meeting was mailed. The notice of nomination shall include: (a) name and address of
proposed nominee(s); (b) principal occupation of nominee(s); (c) total shares to be voted for each
nominee; (d) name and address of notifying shareholder; and (e) number of shares owned by notifying
shareholder. Nominations not made in accordance with these requirements may be disregarded by the
Chairman of the meeting and in such case the votes cast for each such nominee shall likewise be
disregarded.
Section 14. Rules of Conduct at the Annual Meeting. The chairman of the
annual meeting of shareholders shall have the right and authority to prescribe such rules,
regulations and procedures and to do all such acts and things as are necessary or desirable for the
proper conduct of the meeting, including, without limitation: maintenance of order; safety;
limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments on the affairs of the Corporation; ruling
motions or comments out of order as in poor taste, unworkable, moot, repetitious of another
proposal on the agenda, or otherwise; restrictions on entry to the meeting after the
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time prescribed for the commencement thereof; and the opening and closing of the voting polls.
ARTICLE III. BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 1. General Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall
be managed by its Board of Directors.
Section 2. Number, Election and Terms; Nominations. Except as otherwise
fixed by or pursuant to the provisions of Article VI of the Articles of Incorporation relating to
the rights of the holders of any class or series of stock having a preference over the Common Stock
as to dividends or upon liquidation to elect additional directors under specified circumstances,
the number of the directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time by resolution of
the Board of Directors but shall not be less than six nor more than thirty. The directors, other
than those who may be elected by the holders of any class or series of stock having a preference
over the Common Stock as to dividends or upon liquidation, shall be classified, with respect to the
time for which they severally hold office, into three classes, as nearly equal in number as
possible, as determined by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, one class to be originally
elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2000, another class
to be originally elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of shareholders to be held in
2001, and another class to be originally elected for a term expiring at the annual meeting of
shareholders to be held in 2002, with each class to hold office until its successor is elected and
qualified. At each annual meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation, the successors of the
class of directors whose term expires at that meeting shall be elected to hold office for a term
expiring at the annual meeting of shareholders held in the third year following the year of their
election. Nominations for the election of directors shall be given in the manner provided in
Article II, Section 13, of these bylaws. Directors need not be residents of the State of West
Virginia, but shall hold not less than five hundred shares of the capital stock of the Corporation
in order to be eligible to serve as a director of the Corporation. After he or she attains the age
of 72 years, each director may serve only until the next annual meeting or other meeting in which
directors are elected; provided, however, that members of the Board of Directors of
the Corporation who were directors of Centra Bank, Inc., as of the opening of Centra Bank, Inc.,
may serve until they attain the age of 79 years, and thereafter may serve only until the next
annual meeting or other meeting in which directors are elected..
Section 3. Regular Meetings. A regular meeting of the Board of Directors
shall be held without notice other than this bylaw, immediately after, and at the same place as,
the annual meeting of shareholders. The Board of Directors may provide, by resolution, the time
and place, either within or without the State of West Virginia, for the holding of additional
regular meetings without other notice than such resolution.
Section 4. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may
be called by or at the request of the Chairman of the Board, if any, the President or the majority
of the directors. The person or persons authorized to call special meetings of the Board of
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Directors may fix any place, either within or without the State of West Virginia, as the place
for holding any special meeting of the Board of Directors called by them.
Section 5. Notice. Notice of any special meeting shall be given at least
three days previously thereto by written notice delivered personally or mailed to each director at
his business address, or by telegram. If mailed at least five days prior to the date of meeting,
such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail, so addressed,
with postage thereon prepaid. If notice be given by telegram, such notice shall be deemed to be
delivered when the telegram is delivered to the telegraph company. Any director may waive notice
of any meeting. The attendance of a director at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of
such meeting, except where a director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the
transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the
business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the Board of
Directors need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting, except as otherwise
provided by statute.
Section 6. Quorum. A majority of the number of directors fixed by Section 2
of this Article III shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the
Board of Directors, but if less than such majority is present at the meeting a majority of the
directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.
Section 7. Manner of Acting. The act of the majority of the directors
present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors.
Section 8. Action Without a Meeting. Any action required or permitted to be
taken by the Board of Directors at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if a consent in
writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all the directors.
Section 9. Newly Created Directorships and Vacancies. Except as otherwise
provided for or fixed by or pursuant to the provisions of Article VI of the Articles of
Incorporation relating to the rights of the holders of any class or series of stock having a
preference over the Common Stock as to dividends or upon liquidation to elect directors under
specified circumstances, newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of
directors and any vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation,
disqualification, removal or other cause shall be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of
the remaining Directors then in office, even though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors.
Any director elected in accordance with the preceding sentence to fill a vacancy resulting from the
death, resignation, disqualification, removal or other cause shall hold office for the remainder of
the full term of the class of directors in which the vacancy occurred and until such directors
successor shall have been elected and qualified, and any director elected in accordance with the
preceding sentence by reason of an increase in the number of directors shall hold office only until
the next election of directors by shareholders and until his successor shall have been elected and
qualified. No decrease in the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall
shorten the term of any incumbent director.
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Section 10. Compensation. By resolution of the Board of Directors, each
director may be paid his expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors,
or committee thereof, and may be compensated as a director. No such compensation shall preclude
any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation
therefor.
Section 11. Presumption of Assent. A director of the Corporation who is
present at a meeting of the Board of Directors at which action on any corporate matter is taken
shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his dissent shall be entered in the
minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent to such action with the person
acting as the Secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent
by registered mail to the Secretary of the Corporation immediately after the adjournment of the
meeting. Such right to dissent shall not apply to a director who voted in favor of such action.
Section 12. Committees.
(a) Appointment. The Board of Directors may establish an Executive Committee and
such other standing or special committees of the board as it may deem advisable, each of which
shall consist of two or more members of the Board of Directors. The designation of a committee and
the delegation thereto of authority shall not operate to relieve the Board of Directors, or any
member thereof, of any responsibility imposed by law. Once established, the powers of the
Executive Committee may be limited only by the vote of a three-fourths majority of the full Board
of Directors.
(b) Authority. The Executive Committee, when the Board of Directors is not in
session shall have and may exercise all of the authority of the Board of Directors except to the
extent, if any, that such authority shall be limited by the resolution appointing the Executive
Committee and except also that the Executive Committee shall not have the authority of the Board of
Directors in reference to amending the Articles of Incorporation, adopting a plan of merger or
consolidation, recommending to the shareholders the sale, lease or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the property and assets of the Corporation otherwise than in the usual and
regular course of its business, recommending to the shareholders a voluntary dissolution of the
Corporation or a revocation thereof, or amending the bylaws of the Corporation. The authority of
other committees of the board shall be set forth in the resolutions, as amended from time to time,
establishing the same.
(c) Tenure and Qualifications. Committees of the board shall consist only of
members of the Board of Directors. Each member of the Executive Committee shall hold office until
his or her successor is designated as a member of the Executive Committee and is elected or
appointed and qualified. The tenure of members of other committees of the board shall be set forth
in the resolutions, as amended from time to time, establishing the same.
(d) Meetings. Regular meetings of the committees of the board may be held
without notice at such times and places as each committee may fix from time to time by resolution.
Special meetings of any committee may be called by any member thereof upon
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not less than one days notice stating the place, date and hour of the meeting, which notice
may be written or oral, and if mailed at least five days prior to the date of the meeting, shall be
deemed to be delivered when deposited in the United States mail addressed to the member of the
committee at his business address. Any member of a committee may waive notice of any meeting and
no notice of any meeting need be given to any member thereof who attends in person. The notice of
a meeting of a committee need not state the business proposed to be transacted at the meeting.
(e) Quorum. A majority of the members of a committee shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business at any meeting thereof, and action of the committee must be authorized
by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members present at a meeting at which a quorum is
present.
(f) Action Without a Meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken by a
committee at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the
action so taken, shall be signed by all of the members of the committee.
(g) Vacancies. Any vacancy in a committee may be filled by a resolution adopted by a
majority of the full Board of Directors.
(h) Resignations and Removal. Any member of a committee may be removed at any
time with or without cause by resolution adopted by a majority of the full Board of Directors,
except that, for the Executive Committee, the vote of a three-fourths majority of the full Board of
Directors shall be required. Any member of a committee may resign from the committee at any time
by giving written notice to the President or Secretary of the Corporation, and unless otherwise
specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.
(i) Procedure. A committee shall elect a presiding officer from its members and
may fix its own rules of procedure which shall not be inconsistent with these bylaws. It shall
keep regular minutes of its proceedings and report the same to the Board of Directors for its
information at the meeting thereof held next after the proceedings shall have been taken.
(j) Amendment. Notwithstanding any other provision of these Bylaws, the
provisions of Subsections 12(a), 12(c), 12(h) and this Subsection 12(j) may only be amended by the
vote of a three-fourths majority of the full Board of Directors.
Section 13. Removal. Subject to the rights of any class or series of
stock having a preference over the Common Stock as to dividends or upon liquidation to elect
directors under the specified circumstances, any director may be removed from office, with or
without cause and only by the affirmative vote of the holders of eighty percent of the full Board
of Directors or of combined voting power of the then outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote
generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class.
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Section 14. Participation in Meetings by Means of Conference Telephone or Similar
Instrument. Any or all directors may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or in
a meeting of a committee of the Board of Directors by means of a conference telephone or any
similar electronic communications equipment by which all persons participating in the meeting can
hear each other.
Section 15. Evaluation of Business Combinations. The Board of Directors of
the Corporation, when evaluating any offer of another party to (a) make a tender or exchange offer
for any equity security of the Corporation, (b) merge or consolidate the Corporation with such
party or an affiliate thereof, or (c) purchase or otherwise acquire all or substantially all of the
properties and assets of the Corporation, shall, in connection with the exercise of its judgment in
determining what is in the best interests of the Corporation, give due consideration to all
relevant factors, including, without limitation, the social and economic effects on the employees,
customers and other constituents of the Corporation and its subsidiaries and on the communities in
which the Corporation and its subsidiaries are located.
ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS
Section 1. Number. The officers of the Corporation shall be a President, one
or more Vice Presidents (the number thereof to be determined by the Board of Directors), a
Secretary, and a Treasurer, each of whom shall be elected by the Board of Directors. A Chairman of
the Board of Directors and such other officers and assistant officers as may be deemed necessary
may be elected or appointed by the Board of Directors. Any two or more offices may be held by the
same person, except the offices of President and Secretary. The President and the Chairman of the
Board, if any, shall be elected from the membership of the Board of Directors.
Section 2. Election and Term of Office. The officers of the Corporation to
be elected by the Board of Directors shall be elected annually by the Board of Directors at the
first meeting of the Board of Directors held after each annual meeting of the shareholders. If the
election of officers shall not be held at such meeting, such election shall be held as soon
thereafter as conveniently may be. Each officer shall hold office until his successor shall have
been duly elected and shall have qualified or until his death or until he shall resign or shall
have been removed in the manner hereinafter provided.
Section 3. Removal. Any officer or agent may be removed by the Board of
Directors whenever in its judgment the best interests of the Corporation will be served thereby,
but such removal shall be without prejudice to the contract rights, if any, of the person so
removed. Election or appointment of an officer or agent shall not of itself create contract rights.
Section 4. Vacancies. A vacancy in any office because of death, resignation,
removal, disqualification or otherwise, may be filled by the Board of Directors for the unexpired
portion of the term.
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Section 5. Chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors may appoint one of
its members to be Chairman of the Board. If so appointed, he shall preside at all meetings of the
Board of Directors and at all meetings of the shareholders and shall have and exercise such further
powers and duties as may from time to time be conferred upon, or assigned to, him by the Board of
Directors.
Section 6. Vice Chairman of the Board. The Board of Directors may appoint
one of its members to be Vice Chairman of the Board. In addition to any specific powers conferred
upon him by these Bylaws, the Vice Chairman of the Board shall have and exercise such further
powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred upon, or assigned to, him by the Board of
Directors or the Chairman of the Board.
Section 7. President. The Board of Directors shall appoint a President. He
shall have and exercise such powers and duties as may from time to time be conferred upon, or
assigned to, him by the Board of Directors. If the office of the Chairman of the Board be vacant,
or if the Chairman of the Board be absent or unable to attend, the President (or if the President
be so absent or unable to attend, the Vice Chairman of the Board, or in the event of the absence or
inability to attend of the Vice Chairman of the Board, an Executive Vice President) shall preside
at all meetings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors.
Section 8. The Vice Presidents. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board
and President or in the event of their death, inability or refusal to act, the Vice President (or
in the event there be more than one Vice President, the Vice Presidents in the order designated at
the time of their election, or in the absence of any designation, then in the order of their
election) shall perform the duties of the Chairman of the Board and President, and when so acting,
shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the Chairman of the Board
and President. Any Vice President may sign, with the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary,
certificates for shares of the Corporation; and shall perform such other duties as from time to
time may be assigned to him by the principal executive officer of the Corporation, the bylaws or
the Board of Directors.
Section 9. Chief Executive Officer. The Board of Directors shall select a
Chief Executive Officer, who shall also be either the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman of
the Board, the President, or an Executive Vice President. The Chief Executive Officer shall be
charged with the carrying out of the policies adopted or approved by the Board of Directors. In
addition to any specific powers conferred on him by these Bylaws, the Chief Executive Officer shall
have supervision over, and exercise general powers concerning, all the operations and business of
the Corporation. He shall have and exercise such further powers and duties as may from time to
time be conferred upon, or assigned to him by the Board of Directors.
Section 10. The Secretary. The Secretary shall: (a) keep the minutes of the
proceedings of the shareholders and of the Board of Directors in one or more books provided for
that purpose; (b) see that all notices are duly given in accordance with the provisions of
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these
bylaws or as required by law; (c) be custodian of the corporate records and of the seal of the
Corporation and see that the seal of the Corporation is affixed to all documents the execution of
which on behalf of the Corporation under its seal is duly authorized; (d) keep a register of the
post office address of each shareholder which shall be furnished to the Secretary by such
shareholder; (e) sign with the President, or a Vice President, certificates for shares of the
Corporation, the issuance of which shall have been authorized by resolution of the Board of
Directors; (f) have general charge of the stock transfer books of the Corporation; and (g) 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 by the principal executive officer of the Corporation, the bylaws or
by the Board of Directors.
Section 11. The Treasurer. The Treasurer shall: (a) have charge and custody
of and be responsible for all funds and securities of the Corporation; (b) 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 such banks, trust companies or other depositories as
shall be selected in accordance with the provisions of Article V of these bylaws; and (c) 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 by the principal executive officer of the Corporation, the
bylaws or by the Board of Directors. If required by the Board of Directors, the Treasurer shall
give a bond for the faithful discharge of his duties in such sum and with such surety or sureties
as the Board of Directors shall determine.
Section 12. Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers. The Assistant
Secretaries, when authorized by the Board of Directors, may sign with the President or a Vice
President certificates for shares of the Corporation the issuance of which shall have been
authorized by a resolution of the Board of Directors. The Assistant Treasurers shall respectively,
if required by the Board of Directors, give bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties in
such sums and with such sureties as the Board of Directors shall determine. The Assistant
Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers, in general, shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to
them by the Secretary or the Treasurer, respectively, or by the principal executive officer of the
Corporation, the bylaws or by the Board of Directors.
Section 13. Officers Salaries. The salaries of the officers shall be fixed
from time to time by the Board of Directors and no officer shall be prevented from receiving such
salary by reason of the fact that he is also a director of the Corporation.
ARTICLE V. CONTRACTS, LOANS, CHECKS AND DEPOSITS
Section 1. Contracts. The Board of Directors may authorize any officer or
officers, agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the
name of and on behalf of the Corporation, and such authority may be general or confined to specific
instances.
Section 2. Loans. 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
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Board of Directors. Such authority may be general or confined to specific instances. The
Board of Directors may encumber and mortgage real estate and pledge, encumber and mortgage stocks,
bonds and other securities and other personal property of all types, tangible and intangible, and
convey any such property in trust to secure the payment of corporate obligations.
Section 3. Checks, Drafts, Etc. All checks, drafts and 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, agent or agents of the Corporation and in such manner
as shall from time to time be determined by resolution of the Board of Directors.
Section 4. 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 of Directors may select.
ARTICLE VI. CERTIFICATES FOR SHARES AND THEIR TRANSFER
Section 1. Certificates for Shares. Certificates representing shares of the
Corporation shall be in such form as shall be determined by the Board of Directors. Such
certificates shall be signed by the President or a Vice President and by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary and sealed with the Corporate Seal or a facsimile thereof. The signatures of
such officers upon a certificate may be facsimiles if the certificate is manually signed on behalf
of a transfer agent or a registrar, other than the Corporation itself or one of its employees.
Each certificate for shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified. The name and
address of the person to whom the shares represented thereby are issued, with the number of shares
and date of issue, shall be entered on the stock transfer books of the Corporation. All
certificates surrendered to the Corporation for transfer shall be canceled and no new certificate
shall be issued until the former certificate for a like number of shares shall have been
surrendered and canceled, except that in case of a lost, destroyed or mutilated certificate a new
one may be issued therefor upon such terms and indemnity to the Corporation as the Board of
Directors may prescribe.
Section 2. Transfer of Shares. Transfer of shares of the Corporation shall
be made only on the stock transfer books of the Corporation by the holder of record thereof or by
his legal representative, who shall furnish proper evidence of authority to transfer, or by his
attorney thereunto authorized by power of attorney duly executed and filed with the Secretary of
the Corporation, and on surrender for cancellation of the certificate for such shares. 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.
Section 3. Lost Certificates. Any person claiming a certificate of shares to
be lost or destroyed shall make an affidavit or affirmation of that fact, and if requested do so by
the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation shall advertise such fact in such manner as the
Chief Executive Officer may require, and shall give the Corporation a bond of indemnity in such sum
as the Chief Executive Officer may direct, but not less than double the value of
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shares represented
by such certificate, in form satisfactory to the Chief Executive Officer and with or without
sureties as the Chief Executive Officer may prescribe; whereupon the President and the Secretary
may cause to be issued a new certificate of the same tenor and for the same number of shares as the
one alleged to have been lost or destroyed, but always subject to the approval of the Chief
Executive Officer.
Section 4. Stock Transfer Books. The stock transfer books of the Corporation
shall be kept in the principal office of the Corporation and shares shall be transferred under such
regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE VII. FISCAL YEAR
The fiscal year of the Corporation may be fixed and may be changed from time to time by
resolution of the Board of Directors. Until the Board of Directors has acted to fix such fiscal
year, the fiscal year of the Corporation shall begin on the first day of January and end on the
thirty-first day of December in each year.
ARTICLE VIII. DIVIDENDS
The Board of Directors may, from time to time, declare and the Corporation may pay dividends
on its outstanding shares in the manner and upon the terms and conditions provided by law and its
Articles of Incorporation.
ARTICLE IX. CORPORATE SEAL
The Board of Directors shall provide a corporate seal which shall be circular in form and
shall have inscribed thereon the name of the Corporation and the state of incorporation and the
words Corporate Seal.
ARTICLE X. WAIVER OF NOTICE
Whenever any notice is required to be given to any shareholder or director of the Corporation
under the provisions of these bylaws or under the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation or by
law, a waiver thereof in writing signed by the person or persons entitled to such notice, whether
before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to the giving of such notice.
ARTICLE XI. AMENDMENTS
Subject to the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, these Bylaws may be altered,
amended or repealed at any regular meeting of the Board of Directors (or at any special meeting
thereof duly called for that purpose) provided that in the notice of such meeting notice of such
purpose shall be given. Subject to the laws of the State of West Virginia, the Articles of
Incorporation and these Bylaws, the Board of Directors may by majority vote of those present at any
meeting at which a quorum is present amend these
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Bylaws, or enact such other bylaws as in their
judgment may be advisable for the regulation of the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation;
provided, however, that, without the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all members of the Board,
the Board may not amend the Bylaws to (i) change the principal office of the Corporation,
(ii) change the number of directors, (iii) change the number of directors on the Executive
Committee, or (iv) make a substantial change in the duties of the Chairman of the Board and the
President.
ARTICLE XII. MISCELLANEOUS
Section 1. Voting Shares of Other Corporations. Unless otherwise ordered by
the Board of Directors, shares in other corporations held by this Corporation may be voted by the
Chairman of the Board or the President of this Corporation.
Section 2. Gender. Whenever these Bylaws refer to the masculine, the
reference shall include the feminine and vice versa.
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