- From The Restated and Amended Articles of Incorporation of St. Joe Corporation
Article VII - Call of Special Shareholder Meetings
From The Amended and Restated By-Laws of The St. Joe Company Article II - Shareholders Article III - Directors
RESTATED AND AMENDED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE ST. JOE COMPANY Excerpt
ARTICLE VII CALL OF SPECIAL SHAREHOLDER MEETINGS
Special meetings of shareholders may be called at any time for any purpose by the holders of thirty percent (30%) of the Corporation's issued and outstanding shares.
AMENDED AND RESTATED BY-LAWS OF THE ST. JOE COMPANY Excerpt
ARTICLE II - SHAREHOLDERS
- Annual Meeting.
- The Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company shall be held each year in May. The Board of Directors shall designate the time and place of each Annual Meeting.
- The only business that may be brought before the Annual Meeting is (i) business described in the Notice of Annual Meeting;(ii) other business that the Board brings before the meeting; and (iii) business that an eligible Shareholder brings before the meeting in compliance with this Section.
- A Shareholder may bring business before an Annual Meeting only if the Shareholder (i) gives the notice required by this Section; and (ii) is a Shareholder of recorded both on the date the notice is given and on the record date for determining Shareholders entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting at which the Shareholder intends to bring the business before the Shareholders.
- An eligible Shareholder may bring business before an Annual Meeting only if the Shareholder gives notice of intent to bring the business before the meeting to the Secretary. The notice must be (i) in writing; (ii) delivered or mailed to the Secretary at the principal executive office of the Company; (iii) timely; and (iv) in proper form.
- A notice of intent is timely if it is actually received at the Secretary's office not less than 120 days nor more than 150 days before the anniversary of the date of the Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement for the immediately preceding year. If an Annual Meeting is called for a date that is more than 30 days before or after the anniversary date of the previous Annual Meeting, the notice of intent must be received not more than 10 business days after (i) the date of the Company's Notice of the Annual Meeting; or (ii) the date the Company publicly discloses the date of that Annual Meeting, whichever is first.
- A notice of intent is in proper form only if it state, with respect to each item of business that the Shareholder proposes to bring before the meeting:
- the Shareholder's name and address of record;
- the number of shares of the Company's stock the Shareholder owns beneficial and of record as of the date of the notice; and
- all other information relating to the Shareholder that the Company would be required to disclose pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated under it.
- The Chairman may declare any item of business a Shareholder seeks to bring before an Annual Meeting out of order if the Shareholder has not complied with the provisions of this Section, or applicable law.
- Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Shareholders may be called at any time by resolution of the Board of Directors. Special meetings shall be called for any purpose upon written request by holders of record of at least 30% of the Company's issued and outstanding stock both on the date the Special Meeting is requested and on the record date for determining Shareholders entitled to vote at a Special Meeting. Special Meetings may be held at any place in or out of the State of Florida. The only business that may be conducted at a Special Meeting of Shareholders is business described in the notice of the meeting.
- Notice of Meeting. Notice of Shareholders' meetings of the Company shall be in writing and signed by the Chairman, the President or a Senior Vice President or a Vice President or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company. Such notice shall state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called; and the time and place where it is to be held. A copy of such notice shall be served upon or mailed to each Shareholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before such meeting. If mailed, it shall be directed to the Shareholder at his or her address as it appears upon the records of the Company. Notice duly served upon or mailed to a Shareholder in accordance with the provisions of this by-law shall be deemed sufficient, and in the event of the transfer of his or her stock after such service and prior to the holding of the meeting, it shall not be necessary to serve notice of the meeting upon the transferee. Any meeting of Shareholders may be held either within or without the State of Florida. Any Shareholder may waive notice of any meeting either before, at or after the meeting.
- Quorum. A quorum at any meeting of the Shareholders shall consist of a majority of the stock of the Company represented in person or by proxy, and a majority of such quorum shall decide any question that may properly come before the meeting.
- Action Without a Meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Shareholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice, and without a vote if the action is taken by the holders of a majority of the Company's issued and outstanding stock or such other percentage as may be required by applicable law. In order to be effective, the action must be evidenced by one or more written consents describing the action taken, dated and signed by approving shareholders having the requisite number of votes, and delivered to the Secretary of the Company's principal office in Florida. No written consent shall be effective to take corporate action unless, within sixty (60) days of the date of the earliest dated consent delivered in the manner required by this section, written consents signed by the number of holders required to take action are delivered to the Company. Any written consent may be revoked before the date that the Company receives the required number of consents to authorize the proposed action. Within ten (10) days after obtaining authorization by written consent, notice must be given to those Shareholders who have not consented in writing or who are not entitled to vote on the action. The notice shall fairly summarize the material features of the authorized action.
ARTICLE III - DIRECTORS
- General Powers; Number. The business and property of the Company shall be managed under the direction of a board of not less than nine nor more than fifteen Directors, the number to be determined by the Board of Directors of the Company. The Board of Directors shall have full control over the affairs of the Company and shall be authorized to exercise all of its corporate powers unless otherwise provided in these by-laws. The Directors shall be elected at the Annual Meeting of the Shareholders by a plurality of the votes cast at such election, for the term of one year, and shall serve until the election and acceptance of their duly qualified successors.
- Vacancies. Vacancies in the Board of Directors shall be filled by majority vote of the remaining Directors. A majority of the full Board between Annual Meetings may increase the number of Directors and elect Directors to the Board. Any additional service by a Director elected in this manner shall be subject to election at the next annual meeting of Shareholders.
- Chairman of the Board. A Chairman of the Board of Directors shall be selected, who shall be considered an officer of the Company.
- Regular Meeting. A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held immediately upon adjournment of the Annual Meeting of the Shareholders each year at the place where the Annual Meeting of the Shareholders is held that year.
- Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be held in or out of the State of Florida, and can be called at any time or place by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or by any three members of the Board. Notice of the meeting, stating a place, date, and hour, shall be given to each Director by mail not less than three days before the date of the meeting. Alternatively, notice may be given personally to each Director or by telephone, telegram, facsimile, telecopy, fax, or similar means of communication not less than twenty-four hours before the date of the meeting. Emergency meetings may be convened on such shorter notice as the Chairman or Board members calling the meeting deem necessary and appropriate under the circumstances. A special meeting may be held at any time or place without notice by unanimous written consent of all Directors or the presence of all Directors at such meeting.
- Committees of the Board. The Board of Directors, by resolution adopted by a majority of the full Board, may establish from among its members one or more committees. As allowed by general law and as provided in the resolution establishing the committee, each committee shall have and may exercise the powers and authority delegated to it by the Board of Directors to manage the business affairs of the Company.
Each committee must have three or more members who will serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. The Board, by resolution, may also designate one or more Directors as alternate members of any committee.
The Board of Directors shall prescribe the manner in which committee proceedings shall be conducted. Unless the Board otherwise provides, regular and special meetings and other actions of any committee shall be governed by the provisions of these by-laws applicable to meetings and actions of the Board of Directors. Each committee shall keep minutes of meetings, copies of which shall be furnished to all Directors. Each committee shall report all actions to the Board of Directors.
- Quorum. A quorum at any meeting shall consist of a majority of the Board. A majority of such quorum shall decide any questions that may come before the meeting. If at any meeting less than a quorum is present, the Directors present, or a majority of them, may adjourn the meeting to another time and/or place.
- Indemnification of Directors and Officers. The Company shall indemnify and reimburse and advance expenses for any Director and officer, and for any Director and officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise serving at the request of the Company, whether or not then in office, and his or her executor, administrator and heirs, and many indemnify and reimburse and advance expenses to employees and agents of the Company, against all reasonable expenses actually and necessarily incurred, including but not limited to, judgments, costs and counsel fees in connection with the defense of any litigation, civil or administrative action, suit or proceeding, to which he or she may have been made a party because he or she is or was a Director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or he or she was serving at the request of the Company as a Director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.
- Meetings by Means of Conference Telephone Call or Similar Communications Equipment. Meetings of the Board of Directors or committees of the Board may be held by means of a telephone conference call or similar communications equipment if all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same time. Participation by such means constitutes presence by such person at a meeting.
- Nomination of Directors.
- A person is eligible to be elected to the Board of Directors only if the person is nominated as provided in this Section.
- A person may be nominated at any Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or at any Special Meeting of Shareholders called for the purpose of electing directors.
- A person may only be nominated (i) by the Board of Directors; or (ii) by a Shareholder (A) who has given the notice required by this Section' and (B) who is a shareholder of record both on the date the notice is given and on the record date for determining Shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting at which the Shareholder will make the nomination.
- A Shareholder may make a nomination only if the Shareholder gives notice of intent to make a nomination to the Secretary. The notice must be (i) in writing; (ii) delivered or mailed to the Secretary at the principal executive office of the Company; (iii) timely; and (iv) in proper form.
- A notice of intent is timely only if it is actually received at the Secretary's office within the applicable time specified below:
- It the Shareholder intends to make a nomination at an Annual Meeting of Shareholders; the notice of intent must be received not less than 90 days before the anniversary of the date of the Notice of the Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement for the immediately preceding year. If an Annual Meeting is called for a date that is more than 30 days before or after the anniversary date of the previous Annual Meeting; the notice of intent must be received not more than 10 business days after (A) the date of the Notice of the Annual Meeting, or (B) the date the Company publicly discloses the date of that Annual Meeting, whichever is first.
- If the Shareholder intends to make a nomination at a Special Meeting of Shareholders called for the purpose of electing directors, the notice of intent must be received not more than 10 days after the date on which the Company mails notice of the Special Meeting to Shareholders or the date the Company publicly disclosed the date of the Special Meeting of Shareholders, whichever is first.
- A notice of intent is in proper form only if it
- states as to the Shareholder giving the notice:
- the Shareholder's name and address of record;
- the number of share the Company's stock the Shareholder owns beneficially and of record as of the date of the notice;
- a description of all arrangements or understandings between the Shareholder and each proposed nominee and with any other person or persons (including their names) under which the Shareholder is acting in making the nomination;
- a representation that the Shareholder intends to appear in person at the meeting to nominate the persons named in the notice; and
- all other information relating to the Shareholder that the Company would be required to disclosed in a proxy statement or other filing required in soliciting proxies for election of directors under Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated under it; and
- states as to each person whom the Shareholder proposes to nominate for election as a director:
- the person's name, age, business address and residence address;
- the person's principal occupation or employment;
- the number of shares of the Company's stock the person owns beneficially and of record on the date of the notice; and
- all other information about the person that the Company would be required to disclose in a proxy statement or other filing in soliciting proxies for election of directors under Section 14 of the Exchange Act; and the rules and regulations promulgated under it.
- A nomination is not valid unless it is made in accordance with the foregoing procedures.
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