Exhibit 3.2
FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS OF
CAPSTONE GREEN ENERGY CORPORATION
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FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS
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CAPSTONE GREEN ENERGY CORPORATION
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An affidavit of the mailing, electronic transmission or other means of giving any notice of any stockholders’ meeting shall be executed by the secretary, assistant secretary or any transfer agent of the corporation giving such notice, and shall be filed and maintained in the minute book of the corporation.
When any meeting of stockholders, either annual or special, is adjourned to another time or place, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time and place thereof, and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxy holders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting are announced at a meeting at which
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the adjournment is taken, unless a new record date for the adjourned meeting is fixed, or unless the adjournment is for more than thirty (30) days from the date set for the original meeting. Notice of any such adjourned meeting, if required, shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting in accordance with the provisions of Sections 4 and 5 of this Article II. At any adjourned meeting the corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting.
At a stockholders’ meeting involving the election of directors, no stockholder shall be entitled to cumulate (i.e., cast for any one or more candidates a number of votes greater than the number of the stockholders shares). The candidates receiving the highest number of votes, up to the number of directors to be elected, shall be elected.
Attendance of a person at a meeting shall also constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person objects, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened, and except that attendance at a meeting is not a waiver of any right to object to the consideration of matters not included in the notice of the meeting if such objection is expressly made at the meeting.
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in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than sixty (60) days nor less than ten (10) days prior to the date of any such meeting, and in such case only stockholders of record on the date so fixed are entitled to notice and to vote, notwithstanding any transfer of any shares on the books of the corporation after the record date fixed as aforesaid, except as otherwise provided in the Delaware General Corporation Law.
If the board of directors does not so fix a record date, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the business day next preceding the day on which notice is given or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the business day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held.
The chairman of the meeting shall fix and announce at the meeting the date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a meeting.
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To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice (whether given pursuant to this paragraph (A)(2) or paragraph (B) of this Section 14) to the secretary must:
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The corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as an independent director of the corporation or that could be material to a reasonable stockholder’s understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.
Further, a stockholder of record providing notice of a nomination of director(s) or other business proposed to be brought before a meeting shall further update and supplement such notice, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this bylaw shall be true and correct as of the record date for the meeting and as of the date that is ten (10) business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to, or mailed and received by, the secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not later than five (5) business days after the record date for the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of the record date), and not later than five (5) business days prior to the date of the meeting, if practicable (or, if not practicable, on the first practicable date prior to) any adjournment or postponement thereof (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of ten (10) business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof).
For purposes of this bylaw, a person shall be deemed to be “acting in concert” with another person if such person knowingly acts (whether or not pursuant to an express agreement) in concert with, or towards a common goal relating to the corporation in parallel with, such other person where at least one of the following factors suggests that such persons intend to act in concert or in parallel: exchanging information (whether publicly or privately), attending meetings, conducting discussions or making or soliciting invitations to act in concert or in parallel; provided, that a person shall not be deemed to be acting in concert with any other person solely as a result of the solicitation of proxies after the filing of an effective Schedule 14A under Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act. A person acting in concert with another person shall be deemed to be acting in concert with any third party who is also acting in concert with such other person.
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A vacancy or vacancies in the board of directors shall be deemed to exist in the case of the death, retirement, resignation or removal of any director, or if the board of directors by resolution declares vacant the office of a director who has been declared of unsound mind by an order of court or convicted of a felony, or if the authorized number of directors be increased, or if the stockholders fail at any meeting of stockholders at which any director or directors are elected, to elect the full authorized number of directors to be voted for at that meeting.
Any director may resign or voluntarily retire upon giving notice in writing or by electronic transmission to the chairman of the board, the president, the secretary or the board of directors. Such retirement or resignation shall be effective upon the giving of the notice, unless the notice specifies a later time for its effectiveness. If such retirement or resignation is effective at a future time, the board of directors may elect a successor to take office when the retirement or resignation becomes effective.
No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director prior to the expiration of his term of office.
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Notice of the time and place of special meetings shall be delivered personally or by telephone to each director, sent by facsimile, first class mail or telegram, charges prepaid, addressed to each director at his or her address as it is shown upon the records of the corporation, or sent by electronic mail addressed to each director at his or her electronic mail address as it is shown upon the records of the corporation. In case such notice is mailed, it shall be deposited in the United States mail at least four (4) days prior to the time of the holding of the meeting. In case such notice is delivered personally, by telephone, facsimile, telegram or electronic mail, it shall be delivered personally, or by telephone, by facsimile, to the telegraph company or by electronic mail at least twenty four (24) hours prior to the time of the holding of the meeting. Any oral notice given personally or by telephone may be communicated to either the director or to a person at the office of the director who the person giving the notice has reason to believe will promptly communicate it to the director. The notice need not specify the purpose of the meeting nor the place if the meeting is to be held at the principal executive office of the corporation.
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without meetings), with such changes in the context of those bylaws as are necessary to substitute the committee and its members for the board of directors and its members, except that the time of regular meetings of committees may be determined by resolution of the board of directors as well as the committee, special meetings of committees may also be called by resolution of the board of directors, and notice of special meetings of committees shall also be given to all alternate members, who shall have the right to attend all meetings of the committee. The board of directors may adopt rules for the government of any committee not inconsistent with the provisions of these bylaws.
Any officer may resign at any time by giving written notice to the corporation. Any such resignation shall take effect at the date of the receipt of such notice or at any later time specified therein; and, unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.
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properly required of him by the board of directors. Except where by law the signature of the president is required, the chairman of the board shall possess the same power as the president to sign all certificates, contracts, and other instruments of the corporation which may be authorized by the board of directors. He shall make reports to the board of directors and the stockholders, and shall perform all such other duties as are properly required of him by the board of directors. He shall see that all orders and resolutions of the board of directors and of any committee thereof are carried into effect.
The secretary shall keep, or cause to be kept, at the principal executive office or at the office of the corporation’s transfer agent or registrar, as determined by resolution of the board of directors, a stock register, or a duplicate register, showing the names of all stockholders and their addresses, the number and classes of shares held by each, the number and date of certificates issued for the same, and the number and date of cancellation of every certificate surrendered for cancellation.
The secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and of the board of directors required by the bylaws or by law to be given and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or by the bylaws.
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The chief financial officer shall deposit all monies and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the corporation with such depositories as may be designated by the board of directors. The chief financial officer shall disburse the funds of the corporation as may be ordered by the board of directors, shall render to the chairman of the board and directors, whenever they request it, an account of all of his transactions as chief financial officer and of the financial condition of the corporation, and shall have other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the board of directors or the bylaws.
For the purposes of this Article VI, references to “the corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors or officers so that any person who is or was a director or officer of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article VI
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with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.
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 an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the corporation” shall include service as a director or officer of the corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director or officer with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner he 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” as referred to in this section.
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. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing or by electronic transmission without a meeting, the board of directors may fix a record date which 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.
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officer, employee or stockholder (including a beneficial owner of stock) of the corporation arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or the certificate of incorporation or by-laws (as either may be amended from time to time), or (iv) any action asserting a claim against the corporation or any current or former director, officer, employee or stockholder (including a beneficial owner of stock) of the corporation governed by the internal affairs doctrine (or, if the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware does not have jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Delaware).
However, the inadvertent failure to treat such inability as a revocation shall not invalidate any meeting or other action.
Any notice given pursuant to the preceding paragraph shall be deemed given:
An affidavit of the secretary or an assistant secretary or of the transfer agent or other agent of the Company that the notice has been given by a form of electronic transmission shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.
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a record that may be retained, retrieved, and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process.
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CERTIFICATE OF SECRETARY
I, the undersigned, do hereby certify:
(a)That I am the duly elected and acting Secretary of Capstone Green Energy Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”); and
(b)That the foregoing Fifth Amended and Restated Bylaws constitute the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Corporation, as duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, effective as of April 22, 2021.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name as of this 22nd day of April, 2021.
/s/ Colby Petersen
Colby Petersen,
Secretary