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This excerpt taken from the WEN 8-K filed Sep 29, 2008. CONTRACTS, CHECKS, DRAFTS, PROXIES SECTION 1. Execution of Contracts. The Board of Directors may authorize any Executive Officer or Other Officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the name or on behalf of the Corporation, and such authority may be general or confined to specific instances, and, unless so authorized by the Board of Directors, no Executive Officer or Other Officer, agent or employee except the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the President, or any Executive Vice President or Senior Vice President shall have any power or authority to bind the Corporation by any contract or to pledge its credit or to render it liable pecuniarily for any purpose or to any amount. SECTION 2. Loans. Except as otherwise provided in these By-Laws, no loan shall be contracted in the name or on behalf of the Corporation, and no evidence of indebtedness shall be issued, endorsed or accepted in its name, or on its behalf, unless authorized by the Board of Directors. Such authority may be general or confined to
specific instances. When so authorized, the Executive or Other Officer, agent or employee thereunto authorized may effect loans and advances at any time for the Corporation from any Person (including any bank, trust company or other institution) and for such loans and advances may make, execute and deliver promissory notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the Corporation, and, when authorized as aforesaid, as security for the payment of any and all loans and advances may make, execute and deliver promissory notes or other evidences of indebtedness and liabilities of the Corporation, may mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or transfer any real or personal property at any time owned or held by the Corporation, and to that end execute instruments of mortgage or pledge or otherwise transfer such property. SECTION 3. Checks, Drafts, etc. All checks, drafts, bills of exchange or other orders for the payment of money, obligations, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, bills of lading, warehouse receipts and insurance certificates of the Corporation, shall be signed or endorsed by the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the President, any Executive Vice President or such other Executive Officer or Other Officer, agent, attorney, or employee of the Corporation as shall from time to time be determined by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Operating Officer. SECTION 4. Proxies in Respect of Securities of Other Corporations. The Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the President, any Executive Vice President or Senior Vice President, and such other Executive Officers or Other Officers as are designated by the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Operating Officers are authorized to vote by casting a ballot in person or by voting by proxy on behalf of the Corporation the shares owned by the Corporation of the stock or other securities in any other Corporation at meetings of the holders of the stock or other securities of such other corporation, or to consent in writing, in the name of the Corporation as such holder, to any action by such other corporation. |
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