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Exhibit 3.2
UNITRIN, INC.
AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS
November 3, 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. | OFFICES | 1 | ||
ARTICLE II. | MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS | 1 | ||
ARTICLE III. | DIRECTORS | 6 | ||
ARTICLE IV. | NOTICES | 9 | ||
ARTICLE V. | OFFICERS | 9 | ||
ARTICLE VI. | STOCK | 11 | ||
ARTICLE VII. | GENERAL PROVISIONS | 13 | ||
ARTICLE VIII. | DIRECTORS LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION | 14 | ||
ARTICLE IX. | AMENDMENTS | 17 |
UNITRIN, INC.
AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS
ARTICLE I. - OFFICES
Section 1. The registered office shall be in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware.
Section 2. The corporation may also have offices at such other places both within and without the State of Delaware as the board of directors may from time to time determine or the business of the corporation may require.
ARTICLE II. - MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS
Section 1. Any meeting of stockholders for any purpose may be held at such time and place, within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be stated in the notice of the meeting or in a duly executed waiver of notice thereof.
Section 2. The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held on such date as may be fixed by resolution of the board of directors at least ten days prior to the date so fixed, for the purpose of electing directors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the corporation must be effected at a duly constituted annual or special meeting of stockholders.
Section 3. Written notice of the annual meeting shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote thereat not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting, except as otherwise provided herein or as required from time to time by the Delaware General Corporation Law or the corporations certificate of incorporation. All informalities or irregularities in any notice of meeting, or in the areas of credentials, proxies, quorums, voting, and similar matters, will be deemed waived if no objection is made at the meeting.
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Section 4. Special meetings of stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute or by the corporations certificate of incorporation, may be called only by the Chairman of the Board or by the board of directors pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of directors then in office.
Section 5. Written notice of a special meeting of stockholders, stating the time, place and object thereof, shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote thereat, not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date fixed for the meeting, except as otherwise provided herein or as required from time to time by the Delaware General Corporation Law or the corporations certificate of incorporation. All informalities or irregularities in any notice of meeting, or in the areas of credentials, proxies, quorums, voting, and similar matters, will be deemed waived if no objection is made at the meeting.
Section 6. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
Section 7. The officer or agent who has charge of the stock ledger or transfer records of the corporation shall prepare and make available, at least ten days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least 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, and the list shall be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and subject to the inspection of any stockholder who may be present.
Section 8. The holders of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business except as otherwise provided by statute or by the certificate of incorporation. The Chairman of the meeting or a majority of the shares so represented may adjourn the meeting from time to time, whether or not there is a quorum. No notice of the time and place of the adjourned meeting need be given except as required by law. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified. 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.
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Section 9. (a) At a meeting at which a quorum is present, any matter to be decided by the stockholders other than an election of directors shall be decided by the majority of the votes cast with respect to such matter (with abstentions and broker non-votes not counted as a vote cast either for or against such matter), unless the matter is one for which a different vote is required by express provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law or of the certificate of incorporation, in which case such express provision shall govern.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in Section 9(c) below, in an election of directors at a meeting at which a quorum is present, a nominee for director shall be elected to the board of directors if the votes cast for such nominees election exceed the votes cast against such nominees election (with abstentions and broker non-votes not counted as a vote cast either for or against such nominees election). An incumbent director who is not elected at such a meeting shall tender his or her resignation to the board of directors. In such case, the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee shall consider the matter of the resignation and make a recommendation to the board of directors on whether to accept or reject the resignation within 45 days after the date of certification of the election results by the inspector of elections. The board of directors shall then consider such recommendation and all other factors it deems relevant and shall make a decision on the matter within 90 days after the date of such certification, and the corporation shall publically disclose the board of directors decision. The director whose resignation was tendered shall not participate in the recommendation by the committee or the decision of the board of directors.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9(b) above, directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes cast at any meeting at which a quorum is present and for which (i) the Secretary of the corporation has received one or more stockholder notices nominating at least one person for election to the board of directors in compliance with the advance notice requirements for stockholder nominations for director set forth in Article II, Section 14(b) of these Bylaws, and (ii) such nomination or nominations have not been withdrawn, so that, on the tenth (10th) day before the corporation first mails its notice for such meeting to the stockholders, the number of nominees for director is greater than the number of directors to be elected. An election by plurality vote means that the nominees receiving the greatest number of votes cast shall be elected.
Section 10. Each stockholder shall at every meeting of the stockholders be entitled to one vote in person or by proxy for each share of the capital stock having voting power held by such stockholder, but no proxy shall be voted on after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period.
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Section 11. Prior to any meeting of stockholders, the board of directors shall designate one or more inspectors of elections or votes to be taken at the annual meeting or any other meeting of the stockholders, or any adjournment thereof. The inspector or inspectors may be, in the discretion of the board of directors, officers, employees or agents of the corporation, or independent individuals, corporations, partnerships, or other forms of organization, or any combination thereof.
Section 12. Each stockholders meeting will be called to order and thereafter chaired by the Chairman of the Board if there then is one; or if not, or if the Chairman of the Board is absent or so requests, then by the Chief Executive Officer or the President. If all of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer and the President are unavailable, then the meeting will be called to order and chaired by such other officer of the corporation or such stockholder as may be appointed by the board of directors. The Secretary (or in his absence an Assistant Secretary) of the corporation will act as Secretary of each stockholders meeting. If neither the Secretary nor an Assistant Secretary is in attendance, the Chairman of the meeting may appoint any person (whether a stockholder or not) to act as Secretary thereat. After calling the meeting to order, the Chairman thereof may require the registration of all stockholders attending to vote in person, and the filing of all proxies with the election inspector or inspectors, if one or more has been appointed (or, if not, with the Secretary of the meeting). After the announced time for such filing of proxies has ended, no further proxies or changes, substitutions or revocations of proxies will be accepted. The Chairman of the meeting will, among other things, have absolute authority to determine the order of business to be conducted at such meeting and to establish rules for, and appoint personnel to assist in, preserving the orderly conduct of the business of the meeting (including any informal, or question and answer, portions thereof). Any informational or other informal session of stockholders conducted under the auspices of the corporation after the conclusion of, or otherwise in conjunction with, any formal business meeting of the stockholders will be chaired by the same person who chairs the formal meeting, and the foregoing authority on his or her part will extend to the conduct of such informal session.
Section 13. The board of directors may submit any contract or act for approval or ratification at any duly constituted meeting of the stockholders, the notice of which either includes mention of the proposed submittal or is waived as provided by law. If any contract or act so submitted is approved or ratified by a majority of the votes cast thereon at such meeting, the same will be valid and as binding upon the corporation as it would be if approved and ratified by each and every stockholder of the corporation.
Section 14. (a) Nominations of persons for selection to the board of directors of the corporation and the proposal of business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders (i) pursuant to the corporations notice of meeting, (ii) by or at the direction of the board of directors or (iii) by any stockholder of
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the corporation who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of the notice provided for in this Article II, Section 14, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complied with the notice procedures set forth in this Article II, Section 14.
(b) For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (iii) of paragraph (a) of this Article II, Section 14, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the corporation. To be timely, a stockholders notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not less than sixty days nor more than ninety days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding years annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty days or delayed by more than sixty days from such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the ninetieth day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the sixtieth day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Such stockholders notice shall set forth (i) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act) (including such persons written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected); (ii) 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 financial or other interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made; and (iii) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (1) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the corporations books, and of such beneficial owner and (2) the class and number of shares of the corporation which are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner.
(c) Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of paragraph (b) of this Article II, Section 14 to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the board of directors of the corporation is increased and there is no public announcement naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased board of directors made by the corporation at least seventy days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding years annual meeting, a stockholders notice required by this Article II, Section 14 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 tenth day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the corporation.
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(d) Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws shall be eligible to serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at an annual meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws. The presiding officer 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 in accordance with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance with these Bylaws, to declare that such defective proposed business or nomination shall be disregarded.
(e) For purposes of these Bylaws, public announcement shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or a 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.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article II, Section 14, 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 Article II, Section 14. Nothing in this Bylaw shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the corporations proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.