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This excerpt taken from the WEN 8-K filed Mar 12, 2009.
Board of Directors” means, with respect to any Person, (i) in the case of any corporation, the board of directors of such Person, (ii) in the case of any limited liability company, the board of managers of such Person, (iii) in the case of any partnership, the Board of Directors of the general partner of such Person and (iv) in any other case, the functional equivalent of the foregoing.

This excerpt taken from the WEN 8-K filed Sep 29, 2008.

BOARD OF 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.

SECTION 2. Qualification of Director. Each director shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age. Directors need not be stockholders of the Corporation.

SECTION 3. Number of Directors. The Board of Directors shall consist of not fewer than seven (7) nor more than fifteen (15) individuals, the exact number to be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of directors then in office.

SECTION 4. Election and Term of Office. The members of the Board of Directors shall be elected by the stockholders at the annual meeting of stockholders and each director shall hold office until the annual meeting of stockholders next succeeding his or her election and until his or her successor is elected and qualified, or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal.

SECTION 5. Vacancies. Any vacancy in the Board of Directors caused by death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal or any other cause (including an increase in the number of directors) may be filled solely by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, whether or not such majority constitutes less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director. Any new director elected to fill a vacancy on the Board of Directors will serve for the remainder of the full term of the director for which the vacancy occurred. No decrease in the size of the Board of Directors shall have the effect of shortening the term of any incumbent director.

SECTION 6. Resignation of Directors. Any director may resign at any time. Such resignation shall be made in writing or by electronic transmission and shall take effect at the time specified therein, and if no time be specified, shall take effect at the time of its receipt by the Chairman, the Vice Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer or the Secretary of the Corporation. The acceptance of a resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective, but no resignation shall discharge any accrued obligation or duty of a director.

SECTION 7. Removal of Directors. A duly elected director of the Corporation may be removed from such position, with or without cause, only by the affirmative vote of the holders of two-thirds (2/3) of the voting power of the outstanding capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote in the election of directors, voting as a single class.

 


 

SECTION 8. Quorum of Directors. Except as otherwise required by law or by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these By-Laws, (i) a majority of the directors in office at the time of a duly assembled meeting shall constitute a quorum and be sufficient for the transaction of business, and (ii) any act of a majority of the directors present at a meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board of Directors.

SECTION 9. Place of Meeting. Subject to the provisions of Section 10 of this Article III, the Board of Directors may hold any meeting at such place or places within or without the State of Delaware as it may determine.

SECTION 10. Organizational Meeting. After each annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation, the Board of Directors shall meet immediately at the place where such meeting of stockholders was held for the purpose of organization, election of Executive Officers (as defined in Section 1 of Article V), and the transaction of other business.

SECTION 11. Regular Meetings. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held at such times and at such places within or without the State of Delaware as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine.

SECTION 12. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the Chairman, the Vice Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, or any two directors, and any such meeting shall be held at such time and at such place within or without the State of Delaware as shall be specified in the notice of meeting.

SECTION 13. Notice of Meetings. Subject to the provisions of Section 10 of this Article III, notice of the place, day and hour of every meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director by mailing written notice at least two (2) days before the meeting to his or her last known address or by delivering such notice either by personal delivery, by telegraph, by telephone or by any other lawful means (including electronic transmission) to each director at least twenty-four (24) hours before the meeting.

SECTION 14. Organization. The Chairman or, in the absence of the Chairman, the Vice Chairman, or in the absence of both the Chairman and Vice Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, shall call meetings of the Board of Directors to order and shall act as the chairman thereof. In the absence of the Chairman, the Vice Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer, a majority of the directors present may elect as chairman of the meeting any director present. The Secretary of the Corporation or, in the absence of such officer, an Assistant Secretary in attendance or, in the absence of the Secretary and an Assistant Secretary, an individual appointed by the chairman of the meeting shall act as a secretary of the meeting and keep a record of the proceedings of the meeting.

 


 

SECTION 15. Order of Business. Unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors the order of business and rules of order at any meeting of the Board of Directors shall be determined by the chairman of the meeting.

SECTION 16. Adjournment. Any meeting of the Board of Directors may be adjourned from time to time by a majority of the directors present, whether or not they shall constitute a quorum, and no notice shall be required of any adjourned meeting beyond the announcement of such adjournment at the meeting.

SECTION 17. Action by Board of Directors Without a Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the Board or the committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and the writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions are filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.

SECTION 18. Action by Conference Telephone. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-Laws, members of the Board of Directors or of any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors or of such committee, as the case may be, by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting in such manner shall constitute presence in person at such a meeting.

SECTION 19. Compensation. Each director, in consideration of his or her serving as such, shall be entitled to receive from the Corporation such compensation as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine, together with reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred by him or her in attending meetings of the Board of Directors. Each director who shall serve as a member of any committee of the Board of Directors, in consideration of his or her serving as such, shall be entitled to such additional compensation as the Board of Directors shall from time to time determine, together with reimbursement for reasonable expenses incurred by him or her in attending meetings of such committee. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.

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