Exhibit 3.14
BYLAWS
OF
CROSSTEX ENERGY FINANCE CORPORATION
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
     SECTION 1. Registered Office. The registered office of Crosstex Energy Finance Corporation (the “Corporation”) in the State of Delaware shall be The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, or such other office as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors in the manner provided by law.
     SECTION 2. Other Offices. The principal place of business of the Corporation may be located outside the State of Delaware. The Corporation may also have offices at such other places both within and without the State of Delaware as the Board of Directors may determine from time to time or as the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS
     SECTION 1. Place of Meetings. All meetings of stockholders of the Corporation shall be held at such place, either within or without the State of Delaware, as shall be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors.
     SECTION 2. Annual Meeting. An annual meeting of stockholders shall be held for the election of directors on such date in each year and at such time as shall be designated by the Board of Directors. At such annual meeting the stockholders shall elect by a majority vote a Board of Directors, and transact such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting. A failure to hold the annual meeting at the designated time or to elect a sufficient number of directors to conduct the business of the Corporation shall not affect otherwise valid corporate acts or work a forfeiture or dissolution of the Corporation, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by law. If the annual meeting for election of directors is not held on the date designated therefor, the directors shall cause the meeting to be held as soon thereafter as is convenient. Written notice of the annual meeting stating the place, date and hour of the

 


 

meeting shall be given not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting. If mailed, notice is given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at such stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation.
     SECTION 3. Special Meeting. Unless otherwise prescribed by law or by the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), a special meeting of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, may be called by either (i) the President, (ii) any Vice President, (iii) the Secretary, or (iv) any Assistant Secretary, and shall be called by any such officer at the request in writing of a majority of the Board of Directors. Any such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting. Written notice of a special meeting stating the place, date and hour of the meeting and the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called shall be given not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting. If mailed, notice is given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at such stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation.
     SECTION 4. Quorum and Adjournment. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the presence, in person or represented by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the voting power of the shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote on any matter shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of considering such matter at a meeting of the stockholders. If a meeting of stockholders cannot be organized because a quorum has not attended, the stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have the power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken of the time and place of the adjourned meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented. When a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time and place thereof are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented, the Corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.
     SECTION 5. Conduct of Meetings of Stockholders. At each meeting of the stockholders, the President, or, in the President’s absence, a chairman chosen by a majority vote of the stockholders present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereat, shall preside and act as chairman of the meeting. The Secretary or, in the Secretary’s absence, an Assistant Secretary, or, in the absence of the Secretary and all Assistant Secretaries, a person whom the chairman of such meeting shall appoint, shall act as secretary of such meeting and keep the minutes thereof. The Board of Directors may adopt such rules and regulations as it determines are reasonably

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necessary or appropriate in connection with the organization and conduct of any meeting of the stockholders.
     SECTION 6. Vote Required. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the 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. Directors of the Corporation shall be elected by a majority of the votes of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors.
     SECTION 7. Proxies. 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, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. A duly executed proxy shall be irrevocable if it states that it is irrevocable and if, and only as long as, it is coupled with an interest sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power. A proxy may be made irrevocable regardless of whether the interest with which it is coupled is an interest in the stock itself or an interest in the Corporation generally.
     SECTION 8. Stockholder List. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the Corporation shall prepare and make, 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 each stockholder 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. The list shall also be produced and kept open at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present. In lieu of making and producing such list, the Corporation may make the information therein available by any other means permitted by law.
     SECTION 9. Stock Ledger. The stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the stock ledger, the list required by Section 8 of this Article or the books of the Corporation, or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.
     SECTION 10. Action by Written Consent. Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, or any action which may be taken at any

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annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, 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 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 shall 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 books in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded. Delivery made to the Corporation’s registered office shall be by hand or by certified 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, within sixty days of the earliest dated consent delivered in the manner required by this Section 10 to the Corporation, written consents signed by a sufficient number of holders to take action are 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. Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent shall be given to those stockholders who have not consented in writing.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
     SECTION 1. Board of Directors. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors. The number of directors that shall constitute the whole Board of Directors of the Corporation shall be fixed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the members at any time constituting the Board of Directors, and such number may be increased or decreased from time to time; provided, however, that no such decrease shall have the effect of shortening the term of any incumbent director. Except as provided in Section 2 of this Article III, directors shall be elected by a majority of the votes cast at the annual meetings of stockholders, and each director so elected shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until such director’s successor is duly elected and qualified or until the earliest of such director’s death, resignation or removal. Directors need not be stockholders.
     SECTION 2. Vacancies and Newly Created Directorships. Vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors elected by all of the stockholders having the right to vote as a single class may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director. Whenever the holders of any class or classes of stock or

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series thereof are entitled to elect one or more directors by the Certificate of Incorporation, vacancies and newly created directorships of such class or classes or series may be filled by a majority of the directors elected by such class or classes or series thereof then in office, or by a sole remaining director so elected. If at any time, by reason of death, resignation, removal or other cause, there are no directors in office, then an election of directors may be held in the manner provided by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “General Corporation Law”). When one or more directors shall resign from the Board, effective at a future date, a majority of the directors then in office, including those who have so resigned, shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, the vote thereon to take effect when such resignation or resignations shall become effective, and each director so chosen shall hold office as provided in this Section 2 in the filling of other vacancies.
     SECTION 3. Removal. Any director or the entire Board of Directors of the Corporation may be removed, with or without cause, by the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote at the election of directors; provided, however, that whenever the holders of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation are entitled to elect one or more directors by the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, the provisions of this Section 3 shall apply, in respect of the removal without cause of a director or directors so elected, to the vote of the holders of the outstanding shares of such class or series of capital stock and not to the vote of the outstanding shares as a whole.
     SECTION 4. Resignation. Any director of the Corporation may resign at any time by giving written notice of resignation to the President or the Secretary. Such resignation shall take effect at the date of receipt of such notice by the President or the Secretary, or at any later time specified therein. Unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.
     SECTION 5. Compensation of Directors. The directors shall receive such compensation for their services as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine. No director shall be prevented from receiving compensation for services as a director by reason of the fact that such director is also an officer of the Corporation. All directors shall be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses of attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors. Members of any committee of directors may be allowed like compensation and reimbursement for expenses for serving as members of any such committee and for attending committee meetings.
     SECTION 6. Place of Meetings. The Board of Directors of the Corporation may hold its meetings, both regular and special, either within or without the State of Delaware.

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     SECTION 7. Regular Meetings. Promptly after each annual election of directors, the Board of Directors shall meet for the purpose of the election of officers and the transaction of other business. The Board of Directors may also hold other regular meetings at such time or times and at such place or places as shall be designated by the Board of Directors from time to time. Notice of regular meetings of the Board of Directors need not be given.
     SECTION 8. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the President or by a majority of the Board of Directors. Notice shall be sent to the last known address of each director, by mail, telegram, cable or telex, at least two days before the meeting, or oral notice may be substituted for such written notice if received not later than the day preceding such meeting. Special meetings shall be called by the President or by the Secretary in like manner and on like notice at the written request of a majority of directors, and the place and time of such special meeting shall be as designated in the notice of such meetings.
     SECTION 9. Quorum. Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, at all meetings of the Board of Directors a majority of the total number of directors in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the vote 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. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting of the Board of Directors, the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present.
     SECTION 10. Conduct of Meetings of Board of Directors. At each meeting of the Board of Directors, the President or, in the President’s absence, a director chosen by a majority of the directors present, shall act as chairman of the meeting. The Secretary or, in the Secretary’s absence, a person whom the chairman of such meeting shall appoint, shall act as secretary of such meeting and keep the minutes thereof.
     SECTION 11. Meetings by Telephone Conference. Members of the Board of Directors of the Corporation may participate in a meeting of such Board of Directors 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, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this Section 11 shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.
     SECTION 12. Action by Written Consent. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing setting forth the action so taken, and the writing

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or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee.
     SECTION 13. Committees of Directors. The Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board of Directors, designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. The Board of Directors 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 director or directors constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Each committee, to the extent expressly provided in the resolution establishing such committee, shall have and may exercise all of the authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and property of the Corporation except to the extent expressly restricted by law, the Certificate of Incorporation, or these Bylaws. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board of Directors when required.
ARTICLE IV
OFFICERS
     SECTION 1. General. The officers of the Corporation shall consist of a President, a Secretary and such other officers, including assistant officers, as may be deemed necessary by the Board of Directors. Any number of offices may be held by the same person, unless the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws otherwise provide. The Board of Directors at its first meeting held after each annual meeting of stockholders shall elect the officers of the Corporation who shall hold their offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may delegate to the President, any Vice President, the Secretary and the Treasurer the power to appoint or remove any subordinate officers, agents or employees. Each officer of the Corporation shall hold office until a successor is elected and qualified or until the earliest of such officer’s death, resignation or removal.
     SECTION 2. Removal. Any officer may be removed, either with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office at a meeting called for that purpose, or, except in the case of any officer elected by the Board of Directors, by any officer upon whom the powers of removal may be conferred by the Board of Directors.

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     SECTION 3. Resignation. Any officer of the Corporation may resign at any time by giving written notice of resignation to the Corporation. Such resignation shall take effect at the date of receipt of such notice by the Corporation, or at any later time specified therein. Unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.
     SECTION 4. Vacancies. A vacancy in any office resulting from death, resignation, removal or any other cause shall be filled for the unexpired portion of the term in the manner prescribed in these Bylaws for regular election or appointment to such office.
     SECTION 5. 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 a salary by reason of the fact that he is also a director of the Corporation.
     SECTION 6. President. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and shall in general supervise and control all of the business and affairs of the Corporation. He shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to him from time to time by the Board of Directors. He may execute certificates for shares of the Corporation, any deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments that the Board of Directors has authorized to be executed, except in cases where the execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board of Directors or by these Bylaws to some other officer or agent of the Corporation or shall be required by law to be otherwise signed and executed. In addition, the President shall perform, under the direction and subject to the control of the Board of Directors, all such other duties as are incident to the office of President and as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors from time to time.
     SECTION 7. Vice President. Each Vice President, if any, shall perform, under the direction and subject to the control of the Board of Directors and the President, the usual and customary duties incident to such office (but not any unusual or extraordinary duties or powers conferred by the Board of Directors upon the President) and such other duties as may be assigned to him from time to time by the Board of Directors or the President.
     SECTION 8. Secretary and Assistant Secretary. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to attend all meetings of the stockholders and Board of Directors and record correctly the proceedings held at such meetings in a book suitable for that purpose. It shall also be the duty of the Secretary to attest with the Secretary’s signature all stock certificates issued by the Corporation, to keep a stock ledger in which shall be correctly recorded all transactions pertaining to the capital stock of the Corporation and to attest with the Secretary’s signature all deeds, conveyances or other instruments requiring the seal of the Corporation. The Secretary shall have full power and authority on behalf of

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the Corporation to execute any stockholders’ consents and to attend and act and to vote in person or by proxy at any meetings of the stockholders of any corporation in which the Corporation may own stock, and at any such meetings shall possess and may exercise any and all the rights and powers incident to the ownership of such stock that as the owner thereof the Corporation might have possessed and exercised if present. The Secretary shall also perform, under the direction and subject to the control of the Board of Directors and the President, the usual and customary duties incident to such office and such other duties as may be assigned to him from time to time. The duties of the Secretary may also be performed by any Assistant Secretary.
     SECTION 9. Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have the care and custody of all the funds and securities of the Corporation that may come into his hands as Treasurer. He may endorse checks, drafts and other instruments for the payment of money for deposit or collection when necessary or proper and may deposit the same to the credit of the Corporation in such bank or banks or depositary as the Board of Directors may designate. In addition, he may endorse all commercial documents requiring endorsements for or on behalf of the Corporation and may sign all receipts and vouchers for the payments made to the Corporation. He shall enter regularly in the books to be kept by him for that purpose a full and accurate account of all monies received and paid by him on account of the Corporation and shall render an account of his transactions to the Board of Directors as often as the Board of Directors shall require. The Treasurer shall have full power and authority on behalf of the Corporation to execute any stockholders’ consents and to attend and act and to vote in person or by proxy at any meetings of stockholders of any corporation in which the Corporation may own stock, and at any such meetings shall possess and may exercise any and all of the rights and powers incident to the ownership of such stock that as the owner thereof the Corporation might have possessed and exercised if present. He shall when requested, pursuant to a vote of the Board of Directors, give a bond to the Corporation for the faithful performance of his duties, the expense of which bond shall be borne by the Corporation. The Treasurer shall also perform, under the direction and subject to the control of the Board of Directors and the President, the usual and customary duties incident to such office and such other duties as may be assigned to him from time to time. The duties of the Treasurer may also be performed by any Assistant Treasurer.
     SECTION 10. Delegation of Authority. In the case of any absence of any officer of the Corporation or for any other reason that the Board of Directors may deem sufficient, the Board of Directors may delegate some or all of the powers or duties of such officer to any other officer or to any director, employee, stockholder or agent for whatever period of time the Board of Directors determines is necessary or appropriate.

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ARTICLE V
STOCK AND STOCK CERTIFICATES
     SECTION 1. Stockholders Entitled to Certificates. Every holder of stock in the Corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate representing the number of shares owned by him signed by or in the name of the Corporation by the President or a Vice President and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation. Any and all of the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile. 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, such certificate may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if such officer, transfer agent or registrar continued to discharge said office or function at the date of issuance.
     SECTION 2. Lost, Stolen or Destroyed Stock Certificates. The Corporation may issue a new stock certificate in place of any certificate theretofore issued by it which is alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost, stolen or destroyed. When authorizing such issuance of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require that the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his legal representative, give the Corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that may be made against the Corporation on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate.
     SECTION 3. Transfers of Stock. Upon surrender to the Corporation or the transfer agent or agents of the Corporation of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, the Corporation shall issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the certificate surrendered to the Corporation and record the transaction upon its books.
     SECTION 4. Fixing Record Date.
     (a) Notice of Meeting; Vote. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board of Directors 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 of Directors, and which record date shall not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting. If no record date is fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at

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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 or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
     (b) Written Consent. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board of Directors 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 of Directors, and which date shall not be more than ten days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors. If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board of Directors is required by the General Corporation Law, 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 the 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 of Directors and prior action by the Board of Directors is required by the General Corporation Law, 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 of Directors adopts the resolution taking such prior action.
     (c) Dividend; Distribution; Allotment of Rights. In order that the Corporation may determine the 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 of Directors 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 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 of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.
     SECTION 5. Registered Stockholders. Except as otherwise required by law, the Corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of the person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends in respect of such shares and to vote as the owner thereof, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other

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claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof.
ARTICLE VI
INDEMNIFICATION
     SECTION 1. Indemnification and Advancement of Expenses.
     (a) Indemnification in the case of proceedings other than by or in the right of the corporation. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person’s conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that the person’s conduct was unlawful.
     (b) Indemnification in the case of proceedings by or in the right of the corporation. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court

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of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.
     (c) Indemnification for expenses. To the extent that a director or officer of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 1, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith.
     (d) Determination of entitlement to indemnification. Any indemnification under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 1 (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 1. Such determination shall be made (i) by the Board of Directors by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (ii) if such a quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable and a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (iii) by the stockholders.
     (e) Advancement of Expenses. Expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by a director or officer in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article VI. Such expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Board of Directors deems appropriate.
     SECTION 2. Indemnification and Advancement not Exclusive Right. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article VI shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any Bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.

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     SECTION 3. Insurance. The Corporation shall have power to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of this Article VI.
     SECTION 4. Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Article VI, references to “other enterprises” shall include employee benefit plans; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation that imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries. In addition, for purposes of this Article VI, a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation.”
     SECTION 5. Continuation. The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article VI shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such person.
ARTICLE VII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
     SECTION 1. Amendments. The Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed, in whole or in part, or new Bylaws may be adopted by the stockholders or by the Board of Directors; provided, however, that notice of such alteration, amendment, repeal or adoption of new Bylaws be contained in the notice of such meeting of stockholders or Board of Directors, as the case may be. All such amendments must be approved by either the holders of a majority of the outstanding capital stock entitled to vote thereon or by a majority of the entire Board of Directors then in office.
     SECTION 2. Waiver of Notice. Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the General Corporation Law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a written waiver, signed by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a

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person at a meeting of stockholders, in person or by proxy, or at a meeting of the Board of Directors or committee thereof shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends such 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. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders, directors, or members of a committee of directors need be specified in any written waiver of notice unless so required by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws.
     SECTION 3. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed by the Board of Directors; provided, that if such fiscal year is not fixed by the Board of Directors and the selection of the fiscal year is not expressly deferred by the Board of Directors, the fiscal year shall be the calendar year.
     SECTION 4. Books and Records. The Corporation shall keep correct and complete books and records of account, shall keep minutes of the proceedings of its stockholders and Board of Directors and shall keep at its registered office or principal place of business, or at the office of its transfer agent or registrar, a record of its stockholders, giving the names and addresses of all stockholders and the number and class of the shares held by each.

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