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规则
1995年。
Ball公司
(截至2024年10月23日)
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除了其他适用要求外,股东提名必须以适当的书面形式及时通知公司秘书。
要及时,股东的通知必须交付给或邮寄并收到公司主要执行办公室,距前一次年度股东大会纪念日不少于九十(90)天,不超过一百二十(120)天; 在每种情况下,该B类股东和/或该B类股东的家庭成员需独立控制在此类帐户、计划或信托中持有的B类普通股实时;, 公司对于以下情况,不应承担责任:根据第10(b)部分书面信息可靠地提供。在年度股东大会的召开日期不在其周年日期前后三十(30)天之内时,为了及时,股东的通知必须在收到关于年度股东大会日期公告或披露的第一天起的十(10)天内经营结束前收到,无论哪个首先发生。在任何情况下,年度股东大会延期公告不会重新开始股东通知的时间段,如上所述。
为了符合书面形式,股东对秘书提出提名公司董事候选人的通知,对于股东提名的每个人以及提出通知的股东和任何股东关联人(如下所定义)必须详细列明:(i) 该人的姓名、年龄、商务地址、居住地址和记录地址,(ii) 该人的主要职业或就业情况,(iii) 该人受益或记载拥有的公司股份的类别或系列和数量,(iv) 关于该人的任何信息应当被披露在代理声明中,或者与根据1934年证券交易法修正案第14条规定的董事选举代理征求有关的其他提交要求文件中的信息,以及该法案下制定的规则和法规,(v) 未经记载持有的股份的被提名人持有者及数量,(vi) 是否以及达成了多大程度进入或代表该人或该公司进入了任何对冲或其他交易或一系列交易的任何协议、排列或谅解(包括任何衍生品或开空头寸、利既益、期权或借出或借入的股份),其效果或意图是减轻损失、管理风险或受益于股价变化,或为了增加或减少与该公司的任何股份有关的该人的选票权的权力点,(vii) 就股东提出通知知情范围内,支持被提名人在董事选举中或重新选举中的任何其他股东的姓名和地址,(viii)
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所有安排或谅解,根据其中的提名由股东提名,并提名人与通知召开人之间和任何股东关联人之间的任何关系,(ix) 股东打算在会议上亲自出席或通过代理提名提名在其通知中提名的人,(x) 如果根据交易所法案和其根据规则和规例制定的规则需要根据13d-1(a)号或根据规则13d-2(a)号修订进行提交则需要披露的所有信息,股东或任何股东关联人,(xi) 股东打算根据交易所法令下制定的规则14a-19发起对公司董事提名的代理投票的声明。 根据此段所需的任何信息必须由在会议记录日后不迟于十(10)天提交通知的股东进行补充。 此类通知必须附有每位提名人同意被提名为提名人并如当选将担任董事的书面同意。 公司可能要求任何提名人提交公司可能合理要求的其他信息,以确定该提名人有资格担任公司独立董事,或者对公司独立性或缺乏独立性的合理股东理解可能具有重要性的信息。
此外,在不限制本章D的其他规定和要求的情况下,除非法律另有要求,如果任何股东(i)根据交易所法规规则14a-19(b)作出通知,并且(ii)随后未遵守交易所法规规则14a-19(a)(2)和14a-19(a)(3)的要求,那么公司应当不计算为此类股东提名所征集的任何代理或投票。 在公司要求的情况下,如果股东根据交易所法规规则14a-19(b)作出通知,则该股东应在适用会议之前不迟于五个工作日递交给公司合理证明证明它已符合交易所法规规则14a-19(a)(3)的要求。
除非根据本D款规定的程序提名(包括根据上述段落要求提供的信息),否则任何人都不得被选举为公司的董事。 如果主席判断提名未按照前述程序进行,主席应向会议宣布提名有缺陷,并该有缺陷的提名将被忽略。
尽管本D款第三段的任何规定与之相反,但如果公司董事会要选举的董事人数增加,并且公司在前一年年度会议一百(100)天之前未公开披露所有董事候选人的名字或指定增加董事会规模的情况,那么根据本章程所要求的股东通知也将被视为及时,但仅限于任何由此增加而创建的新职位的候选人,如果该通知在公司的主要行政办公室交至秘书,交付日期不得迟于公司首次公开披露该情况之日十日(10)后的营业结束时。
Exhibit 3(ii)
In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a shareholder, such shareholder must have given timely notice thereof in proper written form to the Secretary of the corporation.
To be timely, a shareholder’s notice to the Secretary must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the corporation not less than ninety (90) days nor more than one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of shareholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting is called for a date that is not within thirty (30) days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the shareholder in order to be timely must be so received not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such notice of the date of the annual meeting was mailed or such public disclosure of the date of the annual meeting was made, whichever first occurs. In no event shall the public disclosure of an adjournment of an annual meeting commence a new time period for the giving of a shareholder’s notice as described above.
To be in proper written form, a shareholder’s notice to the Secretary must set forth as to each matter such shareholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and as to the shareholder giving the notice and any Shareholder Associated Person, (i) the name and record address of such person, (ii) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the corporation which are owned beneficially or of record by such person, (iii) the nominee holder for, and number of, shares owned beneficially but not of record by such person, (iv) whether and the extent to which any hedging or other transaction or series of transactions has been entered into by or on behalf of, or any other agreement, arrangement or understanding (including any derivative or short positions, profit interests, options or borrowed or loaned shares) has been made, the effect or intent of which is to mitigate loss to or manage risk or benefit of share price changes for, or to increase or decrease the voting power of, such person with respect to any share of stock of the corporation, (v) to the extent known by the shareholder giving the notice, the name and address of any other shareholder supporting the proposal of business on the date of such shareholder’s notice, (vi) a description of all arrangements or understandings between or among such persons in connection with the proposal of such business by such shareholder and any material interest in such business and (vii) a representation that the shareholder giving the notice intends to appear in person or by proxy at the annual meeting to bring such business before the meeting. Any information required pursuant to this paragraph shall be supplemented by the shareholder giving the notice not later than ten (10) days after the record date for the meeting as of the record date.
Exhibit 3(ii)
No business shall be conducted at the annual meeting of shareholders except business brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section E (including the provision of the information required pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph); provided, however, that, once business has been properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section E shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any shareholder of any such business. If the Chairman of an annual meeting determines that business was not properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedures, the Chairman shall declare to the meeting that the business was not properly brought before the meeting and such business shall not be transacted.
For purposes of Article Two of these Bylaws:
“Public disclosure” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
“Shareholder Associated Person” of any shareholder shall mean (i) any person acting in concert, directly or indirectly, with such shareholder and (ii) any person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such shareholder or any Shareholder Associated Person.
Any shareholder directly or indirectly soliciting proxies from other shareholders must use a proxy card color other than white, which color shall be reserved for the exclusive use for solicitation by the board of directors of the corporation.
In an uncontested election of directors of the corporation, any nominee who receives a greater number of votes “withheld” from his or her election than votes “for” his or her election will, within ten (10) days following the certification of the shareholder vote, tender his or her written resignation to the chairman of the board for consideration by the Nominating/Corporate
Exhibit 3(ii)
Governance Committee (the “Committee”). As used in this Section C, an “uncontested election of directors of the corporation” is an election in which the only nominees are persons nominated by the board of directors of the corporation.
The Committee will consider such tendered resignation and, within sixty (60) days following the certification of the shareholder vote, will make a recommendation to the board of directors concerning the acceptance or rejection of such resignation. In determining its recommendation to the board, the Committee will consider all factors deemed relevant by the members of the Committee.
The Committee also will consider a range of possible alternatives concerning the director’s tendered resignation as the members of the Committee deem appropriate, including, without limitation, acceptance of the resignation, rejection of the resignation or rejection of the resignation coupled with a commitment to seek to address and cure the underlying reasons reasonably believed by the Committee to have substantially resulted in the “withheld” votes.
The board of directors of the corporation will take formal action on the Committee’s recommendation no later than ninety-five (95) days following the certification of the shareholder vote. In considering the Committee’s recommendation, the board will consider the information, factors and alternatives considered by the Committee and such additional information, factors and alternatives as the board deems relevant.
Following the board’s decision on the Committee’s recommendation, the corporation, within four (4) business days after such decision is made, will publicly disclose, in a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the board’s decision, together with an explanation of the process by which the decision was made and, if applicable, the board’s reason or reasons for its decision.
No director who, in accordance with this Section C, is required to tender his or her resignation, shall participate in the Committee’s deliberations or recommendation, or in the board’s deliberations or determination, with respect to accepting or rejecting his or her resignation as a director. If a majority of the members of the Committee received a greater number of votes “withheld” from their election than votes “for” their election, then the independent directors then serving on the board of directors who received a greater number of votes “for” their election than votes “withheld” from their election, and the directors, if any, who were not standing for election, will appoint an ad hoc board committee from among themselves (the “Ad Hoc Committee”), consisting of such number of directors as they may determine to be appropriate, solely for the purpose of considering and making a recommendation to the board with respect to the tendered resignations. The Ad Hoc Committee shall serve in place of the Committee and perform the Committee’s duties for purposes of this Section C. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Ad Hoc Committee would have been created but fewer than three directors would be eligible to serve on it, the entire board of directors (other than the director whose resignation is being considered) will make the determination to accept or reject the tendered resignation without any recommendation from the Committee and without the creation of an Ad Hoc Committee.
Exhibit 3(ii)
This director resignation policy set forth in this Section C, as it may from time to time be amended, will be summarized or included in the corporation’s proxy statement for each meeting of shareholders (annual or special) at which directors are to be elected.
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The chief executive officer shall have the power to sign and execute all certificates, deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts, and other instruments of the corporation as authorized by the board of directors, except in cases where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly designated by the board of directors or by these bylaws to some other officer or agent of the corporation.
Exhibit 3(ii)
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As used in this Article, the term:
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The corporate seal of the corporation shall be a round, metal disc with the words “Ball Corporation” around the outer margin thereof, and the words “Corporate Seal,” in the center thereof, so mounted that it may be used to impress words in raised letters upon paper.
These bylaws may be altered, added to, amended, or repealed by the board of directors of the corporation at any regular or special meeting thereof or by the majority of the outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.
Exhibit 3(ii)