UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549
 
FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):  January 30, 2024
 
Commission File Number 000-22496

RADIUS RECYCLING, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
Oregon
93-0341923
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
   
299 SW Clay Street, Suite 400, Portland, Oregon
97201
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)

(503) 224-9900
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
 
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
 
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
 
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class
 
Trading Symbol(s)
 
Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A Common Stock, $1.00 par value
 
RDUS
 
NASDAQ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the  registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐




Item 5.02
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Appointment of Interim Chief Accounting Officer

On January 30, 2024, the Board of Directors of Radius Recycling, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Stefano R. Gaggini, the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, to also serve as the Company’s interim Chief Accounting Officer, effective January 31, 2024, while the Company conducts a search for a permanent replacement for the Company’s prior Chief Accounting Officer.

Mr. Gaggini, 52, has been the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since September 2022. Prior to that, he served as the Company’s Vice President, Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer from September 2018 until August 2022 and as the Company’s Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer from December 2013 until September 2018. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Gaggini was a senior manager at KPMG LLP, where he served in various auditing roles from 1998 until 2013 in the Portland, Oregon and Zurich, Switzerland offices.

The selection of Mr. Gaggini to serve as the Company’s interim Chief Accounting Officer in addition to his current roles was not pursuant to any arrangement or understanding with respect to any other person. There are no family relationships between Mr. Gaggini and any director or executive officer of the Company, and there are no transactions between Mr. Gaggini and the Company that would be required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.  

Radius Recycling, Inc. 2024 Omnibus Incentive Plan

The Company held its 2024 annual meeting of shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on January 30, 2024 at which the Company’s shareholders approved the Radius Recycling, Inc. 2024 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “Omnibus Plan”). The Omnibus Plan authorizes the Compensation and Human Resources Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company to grant to directors, officers, employees, consultants and advisors of the Company and its affiliates incentive compensation, including incentive compensation measured by reference to the value of shares of the Company’s common stock. The material terms of the Omnibus Plan are described in the Company’s proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 15, 2023 (the “Proxy Statement”) under the heading “Proposal Five — Approval of the Radius Recycling, Inc. 2024 Omnibus Incentive Plan”, which description is incorporated herein by reference. The descriptions of the Omnibus Plan contained herein and in the Proxy Statement do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Omnibus Plan, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 5.03
Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s shareholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation to change the corporate name of the Company from Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. to Radius Recycling, Inc. (the “Name Change”). On January 30, 2024, the Company effectuated the Name Change by filing articles of amendment of the Articles of Incorporation with the Oregon Secretary of State. The Company also amended and restated its Bylaws on the same day to reflect the Name Change. Copies of the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws are filed as Exhibit 3.1 and Exhibit 3.2, respectively, hereto and are incorporated by reference herein. The only change to the Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws is the change of the Company’s corporate name from Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. to Radius Recycling, Inc. in each document.

Item 5.07
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

At the Annual Meeting, all proposals passed and each of the Company’s director nominees were elected. For more information on the following proposals submitted to shareholders, please see the Proxy Statement. Below are the final voting results.



Proposal No. 1 - Election of Directors

The Company’s shareholders elected Glenda J. Minor and Michael W. Sutherlin as Class III directors with terms expiring at the 2027 annual meeting of shareholders. The number of votes cast for or withheld and the broker non-votes were as follows:

Name
 
For
 
Withheld
 
Broker Non-Votes
Glenda J. Minor
 
22,194,351
 
1,117,604
 
1,381,609
Michael W. Sutherlin
 
21,441,164
 
1,870,791
 
1,381,609

Proposal No. 2 - Advisory Resolution on Executive Compensation

The Company’s shareholders voted, on an advisory basis, on the Company’s executive compensation as disclosed in the Proxy Statement, as follows:

For
 
Against
 
Abstain
 
Broker Non-Votes
21,653,740
 
1,465,670
 
192,545
 
1,381,609

Proposal No. 3 – Advisory Resolution on the Frequency of Future Shareholder Advisory Votes on Executive Compensation

The Company’s shareholders approved, on an advisory basis, the frequency of future shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation, as follows:

One Year
 
Two Years
 
Three Years
 
Abstain
 
Broker Non-Votes
19,887,060
 
29,425
 
3,368,354

27,116  
1,381,609

In light of the voting results on the frequency described above, and consistent with the Company’s recommendation, the Company’s Board of Directors determined that it currently intends to include an advisory, non-binding vote to approve the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers every year until the next required vote on the frequency of shareholder votes on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers.  The Company is required to hold votes on frequency every six years.

Proposal No. 4 - Ratification of the Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Company’s shareholders ratified the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, as follows:

For
 
Against
 
Abstain
 
Broker Non-Votes
23,278,133
 
1,383,281

32,150   -

Proposal No. 5 – Approval of the Radius Recycling, Inc. 2024 Omnibus Incentive Plan

The Company’s shareholders approved the Omnibus Incentive Plan, as follows:

For
 
Against
 
Abstain
 
Broker Non-Votes
11,641,813
 
11,272,374
 
397,768
 
1,381,609

Proposal No. 6 – Approval of an Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation to Change the Corporate Name to Radius Recycling, Inc.

The Company’s shareholders approved an amendment to the Articles of Incorporation to change the corporate name of the Company from Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. to Radius Recycling, Inc., as follows:

For
 
Against
 
Abstain
 
Broker Non-Votes
24,285,143
 
336,629
 
71,792
 
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Item 9.01
Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d)
Exhibits
 
 
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The cover page of this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted in Inline XBRL.





SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 
RADIUS RECYCLING, INC.
 
(Registrant)
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dated: February 2, 2024
By:
/s/ James Matthew Vaughn 
 
 
Name: James Matthew Vaughn
 
 
Title: Senior Vice President, General Counsel,
Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary

Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
RADIUS RECYCLING, INC.

ARTICLE I
The name of the Corporation is Radius Recycling, Inc.
ARTICLE II
A.   The Corporation is authorized to issue shares of three classes of stock:  25,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock, $1.00 par value (“Class B Common Stock”), 75,000,000 shares of Class A Common Stock, $1.00 par value (“Class A Common Stock”), and 20,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, $1.00 par value (“Preferred Stock”).
B.   The holders of shares of Class B Common Stock and Class A Common Stock shall have the following rights:
(1)   Voting.
(a)   The holders of shares of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to ten votes per share and the holders of shares of Class A Common Stock shall be entitled to one vote per share on all matters requiring a vote of shareholders of the Corporation.
(b)   If the number of outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock is less than 20 percent of the sum of the number of outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and Class A Common Stock, the holders of shares of Class B Common Stock and Class A Common Stock shall vote together as a class and be entitled to one vote per share on all matters submitted to the shareholders of the Corporation.
(c)   Neither the Class A Common Stock nor the Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to vote separately as a class on a merger of the Corporation.
(2)   Dividends and Distributions.  The amount of any dividend or distribution of cash, stock of the Corporation (other than Class B Common Stock or Class A Common Stock) or of other property of the Corporation to be paid per share of Class B Common Stock shall equal the amount of such dividend or distribution to be paid per share of Class A Common Stock, and the amount of any such dividend or distribution to be paid per share of Class A Common Stock shall equal the amount of such dividend or distribution to be paid per share of Class B Common Stock.  The Corporation may not pay a dividend or make a distribution of Class B Common Stock, or any security exercisable for or convertible into Class B Common Stock (“Class B Common Stock Equivalents”), on or to shares of any class of the Corporation’s capital stock other than Class B Common Stock, and the Corporation may not pay a dividend or make a distribution of Class A Common Stock, or any security exercisable for or convertible into Class A Common Stock (“Class A Common Stock Equivalents”), on or to shares of any class of the Corporation’s capital stock other than Class A Common Stock.  If the Corporation shall pay a dividend or make a distribution of Class A Common Stock or Class A Common Stock Equivalents, the Corporation shall simultaneously pay a dividend or make a distribution of Class B Common Stock or corresponding Class B Common Stock Equivalents, and the number of shares of Class B Common Stock issued or covered by Class B Common Stock Equivalents issued on each share of Class B Common Stock pursuant to such dividend or distribution shall equal the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issued or covered by Class A Common Stock Equivalents issued on each share of Class A Common Stock pursuant to such dividend or distribution.  If the Corporation shall pay a dividend or make a distribution of Class B Common Stock or Class B Common Stock Equivalents, the Corporation shall simultaneously pay a dividend or make a distribution of Class A Common Stock or corresponding Class A Common Stock Equivalents, and the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issued or covered by Class A Common Stock Equivalents issued on each share of Class A Common Stock pursuant to the dividend or distribution shall equal the number of shares of Class B Common Stock issued or covered by Class B Common Stock Equivalents issued on each share of Class B Common Stock pursuant to the dividend or distribution.  The limitations on the dividends and distributions set forth in this Section B(2) of Article II shall apply at any time during which shares of both Class B Common Stock and Class A Common Stock are outstanding.  Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing to contrary, nothing in this Section 2 shall prohibit or render invalid that certain Rights Agreement, dated as of March 21, 2006, by and between the Corporation and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as the same may be amended, extended or renewed from time to time, or any similar shareholders rights plan.

(3)   Liquidation.  On dissolution and liquidation of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after paying or setting aside for the holders of all shares of Preferred Stock then outstanding the full preferential amounts to which they are entitled pursuant to any amendment to these Restated Articles of Incorporation authorizing the issuance of such Preferred Stock, the net assets of the Corporation remaining shall be divided among the holders of shares of Class B Common Stock and Class A Common Stock in such a manner that the amount of such net assets distributed per share of Class B Common Stock to the holders of shares of Class B Common Stock shall equal the amount of such assets distributed per share of Class A Common Stock to the holders of shares of Class A Common Stock.
(4)   Conversion.  A holder of shares of Class B Common Stock shall have the right at any time to convert, at the option of and without cost to the shareholder, each share of Class B Common Stock into one share of Class A Common Stock.  The holder shall exercise this right by the surrender of the certificate representing each share of Class B Common Stock to be converted to Class A Common Stock to the Corporation at its principal office or to such agent as the Board of Directors may designate.  Written notice of the holder’s election to convert the shares and, if requested by the Corporation, an instrument of transfer satisfactory to the Corporation duly executed by the holder or the holder’s duly authorized attorney shall accompany the surrendered certificate.  As promptly as practicable after the holder’s surrender of the certificate for conversion as provided above, the Corporation shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the holder of shares represented by the surrendered certificate or certificates, a new certificate or certificates representing the number of shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon such conversion issued in the name of the holder, or such other name or names as the holder may direct, and, if a surrendered certificate includes shares of Class B Common Stock not being converted, a certificate or certificates representing the number of shares of Class B Common Stock not being converted.  Such conversion shall be deemed to have been made immediately prior to the close of business on the date of the surrender of the certificate or certificates representing shares of Class B Common Stock unless the transfer books of the Corporation are closed on such date in which case such conversion shall be deemed to have been made immediately prior to the close of business on the first day thereafter on which the transfer books are open.  At that time, all rights of such holder arising from ownership of the converted shares of Class B Common Stock shall cease, and the person or persons in whose name or names the certificate or certificates of Class A Common Stock are to be issued shall be treated for all purposes as having become the record holder or holders of such shares of Class A Common Stock.
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The Corporation shall at all times reserve and keep available, solely for the purpose of issuance upon conversion of outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock such number of authorized but unissued shares of Class A Common Stock as will be sufficient to permit the conversion of all outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock.
If any share of Class A Common Stock requires registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such share of Class A Common Stock may be issued upon conversion, the Corporation will endeavor to cause such share to be duly registered or approved, as the case may be.  The Corporation will endeavor to list shares of Class A Common Stock required to be delivered upon conversion prior to such delivery upon any national securities exchange or national market system on which the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock may be listed at the time of such delivery.
(5)   Restriction on Issuance of Class B Common Stock.  The Corporation may not issue any shares of Class B Common Stock after the date of filing of these Restated Articles of Incorporation other than (i) in the form of a distribution or distributions pursuant to a stock dividend or division or split-up of the shares of Class B Common Stock and only then in respect of the issued shares of Class B Common Stock and (ii) pursuant to the terms of that certain Rights Agreement, dated as of March 21, 2006, by and between the Corporation and Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as the same may be amended, extended or renewed from time to time, or any similar shareholders rights plan.
(6)   Restriction on Transfer of Class B Common Stock.  No holder of Class B Common Stock may sell, assign, pledge, or in any manner transfer any shares of Class B Common Stock, or any right or interest in any shares of Class B Common Stock, whether voluntarily or by operation of law, or by gift, bequest or otherwise, except for a transfer to Manuel Schnitzer, Mildred Schnitzer, Gilbert Schnitzer, or Leonard Schnitzer, any spouse, descendant or spouse of a descendant of any of them, any conservator or personal representative of the estate of any of the foregoing Schnitzer family members, any trust of which beneficiaries who are entitled to substantially all of the beneficial interest are Schnitzer family members described above or organizations described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any corporation which has no shareholders other than one or more of the foregoing Schnitzer family members.  For purposes of determining descendants, an adopted child shall be treated as if he or she were a natural child.  Any sale or transfer, or purported sale or transfer, of Class B Common Stock, or any right or interest in Class B Common Stock, to any person or entity other than those specified in this section shall be null and void.  The certificates representing shares of Class B Common Stock shall bear the following legend:
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“The shares represented by this certificate may not be sold, pledged or transferred in any other manner, including by gift, bequest or operation of law, to any person other than certain Schnitzer family members and related parties as specified in the 2006 Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation.”
The provisions of this subsection (6) may not be amended, altered, changed or repealed in any respect, nor may any provision be adopted which is inconsistent with this subsection (6), unless the action is approved by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock and a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock, each voting separately as a class.
C.   The Board of Directors is authorized, subject to limitations prescribed by the Oregon Business Corporation Act and by the provisions of this Article II, to provide for the issuance of shares of Preferred Stock in series, establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each series, and determine the designations, relative rights, preferences and limitations of the shares of each series.  The authority of the Board of Directors with respect to each series includes determination of the following:
(1)   The number of shares in and the distinguishing designation of that series;
(2)   Whether shares of that series shall have full, special, conditional, limited or no voting rights, except to the extent otherwise provided by the Oregon Business Corporation Act and Section B of this Article II;
(3)   Whether shares of that series shall be convertible and the terms and conditions of the conversion, including provision for adjustment of the conversion rate in circumstances determined by the Board of Directors;
(4)   Whether or not shares of that series shall be redeemable and the terms and conditions of redemption, including the date or dates upon or after which they shall be redeemable and the amount per share payable in case of redemption, which amount may vary under different conditions or at different redemption dates;
(5)   The dividend rate, if any, on shares of that series, the manner of calculating any dividends and the preferences of any dividends;
(6)   The rights of shares of that series in the event of voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation and the rights of priority of that series relative to the Class B Common Stock, the Class A Common Stock and any other series of Preferred Stock on the distribution of assets on dissolution; and
(7)   Any other relative rights, preferences and limitations of that series that are permitted by law to vary.
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D.   The Board of Directors has created a series of Preferred Stock of the Corporation designated as “Series A Participating Preferred Stock”, par value $1.00 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), with the number of shares constituting such series being 100,000 shares, and the voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of the shares of such series, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, being as follows:
(1)   Dividends and Distributions.
(A)   Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders of any shares of any series of stock ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock, in preference to the holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock and of any other junior stock, shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for the purpose, quarterly dividends payable in cash on the first day of January, April, July, and October in each year (each such date being referred to herein as a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock, in an amount per share (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (a) $1.00 or (b) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends, and one thousand (1,000) times the aggregate per share amount (payable in kind) of all non-cash dividends or other distributions, other than a dividend or distribution payable in shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock (by reclassification or otherwise), declared on the Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of any share or fraction of a share of Series A Preferred Stock.  Dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock shall be paid out of funds legally available for such purpose.  In the event the Company shall at any time after March 21, 2006 (the “Rights Declaration Date”), (i) declare any dividend on Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock payable in shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the outstanding Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, or (iii) combine the outstanding Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the amounts to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying each such amount by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(B)   The Company shall declare a dividend or distribution on the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (A) of this Section immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock (other than a dividend or distribution payable in shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock); provided that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been declared on the Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $1.00 per share on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date; and provided further, that nothing contained in this paragraph (B) shall be construed so as to conflict with any provision relating to the declaration of dividends contained in the Certificate.
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(C)   Dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative on outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issue of such shares of Series A Preferred Stock, unless the date of issue of such shares is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such shares shall begin to accrue from the date of issue of such shares, or unless the date of issue is a Quarterly Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date.  Accrued but unpaid dividends shall not bear interest.  Dividends paid on the shares of Series A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the total amount of such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such shares shall be allocated pro rata on a share-by-share basis among all such shares at the time outstanding.  The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination of holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be no more than 30 days before the date fixed for the payment thereof.
(2)   Voting Rights.  The holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have the following voting rights:
(A)   Subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall entitle the holder thereof to 1,000 votes on all matters submitted to a vote of the shareholders of the Company.  In the event the Company shall at any time following the Rights Declaration Date (i) declare any dividend on Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock payable in shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock or (iii) combine the outstanding Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the number of votes per share to which holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such number by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of votes entitled to be cast by the holders of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event and the denominator of which is the number of votes entitled to be cast by the holders of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(B)   Except as otherwise provided herein or by law, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock and the holders of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall vote together as one class on all matters submitted to a vote of shareholders of the Company.
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(C)   (i) If at any time dividends on any Series A Preferred Stock shall be in arrears in an amount equal to six (6) quarterly dividends thereon, the occurrence of such contingency shall mark the beginning of a period (herein called a “default period”) which shall extend until such time when all accrued and unpaid dividends for all previous quarterly dividend periods and for the current quarterly dividend period on all shares of Series A Preferred Stock then outstanding shall have been declared and paid or set apart for payment.  During each default period, all holders of Preferred Stock (including holders of the Series A Preferred Stock) with dividends in arrears in an amount equal to six (6) quarterly dividends thereon, voting as a class, irrespective of series, shall have the right to elect two (2) directors.
(ii)   During any default period, such voting right of the holders of Series A Preferred Stock may be exercised initially at a special meeting called pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this subsection (2)(C) or at any annual meeting of shareholders, and thereafter at annual meetings of shareholders, provided that neither such voting right nor the right of the holders of any other series of Series A Preferred Stock, if any, to increase, in certain cases, the authorized number of directors shall be exercised unless the holders of ten percent (10%) in number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding shall be present in person or by proxy.  The absence of a quorum of the holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall not affect the exercise by the holders of Series A Preferred Stock of such voting right.  At any meeting at which the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall exercise such voting right initially during an existing default period, they shall have the right, voting as a class, to elect directors to fill such vacancies, if any, in the Board of Directors as may then exist up to two (2) directors or, if such right is exercised at an annual meeting, to elect two (2) directors.  If the number which may be so elected at any special meeting does not amount to the required number, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall have the right to make such increase in the number of directors as shall be necessary to permit the election by them of the required number.  After the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall have exercised their right to elect directors in any default period and during the continuance of such period, the number of directors shall not be increased or decreased except by vote of the holders of Series A Preferred Stock as herein provided or pursuant to the rights of any equity securities ranking senior to or pari passu with the Series A Preferred Stock.
(iii)   Unless the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall, during an existing default period, have previously exercised their right to elect directors, the Board of Directors may order, or any shareholder or shareholders owning in the aggregate not less than ten percent (10%) of the total number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding, irrespective of series, may request, the calling of a special meeting of the holders of Series A Preferred Stock, which meeting shall thereupon be called by the President, a Vice President or the Secretary of the Corporation.  Notice of such meeting and of any annual meeting at which holders of Series A Preferred Stock are entitled  to vote pursuant to this Paragraph (C)(iii) shall be given to each holder of record of Series A Preferred Stock by mailing a copy of such notice to him at his last address as the same appears on the books of the Corporation.  Such meeting shall be called for a time not earlier than 20 days and not later than 60 days after such order or request or, in default of the calling of such meeting within 60 days after such order or request, such meeting may be called on similar notice by any shareholder or shareholders owning in the aggregate not less than ten percent (10%) of the total number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this Paragraph (C)(iii), no such special meeting shall be called during the period within 60 days immediately preceding the date fixed for the next annual meeting of the shareholders.
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(iv)   In any default period, the holders of Class A Common Stock, Class B Common Stock and other classes of stock of the Corporation if applicable, shall continue to be entitled to elect the whole number of directors until the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall have exercised their right to elect two (2) directors voting as a class, after the exercise of which right (x) the directors so elected by the holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall continue in office until their successors shall have been elected by such holders or until the expiration of the default period, and (y) any vacancy in the Board of Directors may (except as provided in Paragraph (C)(ii) of this subsection (2)) be filled by vote of a majority of the remaining directors theretofore elected by the holders of the class of stock which elected the director whose office shall have become vacant.  References in this Paragraph (C) to directors elected by the holders of a particular class of stock shall include directors elected by such directors to fill vacancies as provided in clause (y) of the foregoing sentence.
(v)   Immediately upon the expiration of a default period, (x) the right of the holders of Series A Preferred Stock as a class to elect directors shall cease, (y) the term of any directors elected by the holders of Series A Preferred Stock as a class shall terminate, and (z) the number of directors shall be such number as may be provided for in the certificate of incorporation or by-laws irrespective of any increase made pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph (C)(ii) of this subsection (2) (such number being subject, however, to change thereafter in any manner provided by law or in the certificate of incorporation or by-laws).  Any vacancies in the Board of Directors effected by the provisions of clauses (y) and (z) in the preceding sentence may be filled by a majority of the remaining directors.
(D)   Except as set forth herein, holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall have no special voting rights and their consent shall not be required (except to the extent they are entitled to vote with holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock as set forth herein) for taking any corporate action.
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(3)   Certain Restrictions.
(A)   Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on the Series A Preferred Stock as provided in Section D(1) of this Article II are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on shares of Series A Preferred Stock outstanding shall have been paid in full, the Company shall not:
(i)   declare or pay dividends on, make any other distributions on, or redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution, or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock;
(ii)   declare or pay dividends on or make any other distributions on any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution, or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except dividends paid ratably on the Series A Preferred Stock and all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of all such shares are then entitled;
(iii)   redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration shares of any stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution, or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, provided that the Company may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such parity stock in exchange for shares of any stock of the Company ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon dissolution, liquidation or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock; or
(iv)   purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of Series A Preferred Stock, or any shares of stock ranking on a parity (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution, or winding up) with the Series A Preferred Stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of such shares upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective series and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and equitable treatment among the respective series or classes.
(B)   The Company shall not permit any subsidiary of the Company to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the Company unless the Company could, under paragraph (A) of Section D(3) of this Article II, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner.
(4)   Redemption.  The Series A Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable.
(5)   Reacquired Shares.  Any shares of Series A Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and canceled promptly after the acquisition thereof.  All such shares shall upon their cancellation become authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock and may be reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Stock to be created by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors, subject to the conditions and restrictions on issuance set forth herein.
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(6) Liquidation, Dissolution, or Winding Up.
(A) Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Company, no distribution shall be made to the holders of shares of stock ranking junior (either as to dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution, or winding up) to the Series A Preferred Stock unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall have received $1,000 per share, plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether or not declared, to the date of such payment (the “Series A Liquidation Preference”).  Following the payment of the full amount of the Series A Liquidation Preference, no additional distributions shall be made to the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock unless, prior thereto, the holders of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock shall have received an amount per share (the “Common Adjustment”) equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the Series A Liquidation Preference by (ii) 1,000 (as appropriately adjusted as set forth in subparagraph C below to reflect such events as stock splits, stock dividends and recapitalizations with respect to the Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock) (such number in clause (ii) being the “Adjustment Number”).  Following the payment of the full amount of the Series A Liquidation Preference and the Common Adjustment in respect of all outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, respectively, holders of Series A Preferred Stock, holders of shares of Class A Common Stock and holders of shares of Class B Common Stock shall receive their ratable and proportionate share of the remaining assets to be distributed in the ratio of the Adjustment Number to one with respect to such Preferred Stock, Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock, on a per share basis, respectively.
(B)   In the event, however, that there are not sufficient assets available to permit payment in full of the Series A Liquidation Preference and the liquidation preferences of all other series of preference stock, if any, which rank on a parity with the Series A Preferred Stock, then all such available assets shall be distributed ratably to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock and the holders of such parity stock in proportion to their respective liquidation preferences.  In the event that, after payment in full of the Series A Liquidation Preference, there are not sufficient assets available to permit payment in full of the Common Adjustment, then any such remaining assets shall be distributed ratably to the holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock.
(C)   In the event the Company shall at any time after the Rights Declaration Date, (i) declare any dividend on Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock payable in shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the outstanding Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, or (iii) combine the outstanding Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the Adjustment Number in effect immediately prior to such event shall be adjusted by multiplying such Adjustment Number by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
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(7)   Consolidation, Merger, etc.  In case the Company shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination, or other transaction in which the shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock are exchanged for or changed into other stock or securities, cash, and/or any other property, then in any such case the shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged or changed in an amount per share (subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth) equal to 1,000 times the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash, and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each share of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock is changed or exchanged.  In the event the Company shall at any time after the Rights Declaration Date: (i) declare or pay any dividend on Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock payable in shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock, or (iii) combine the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock or Class B Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the amount set forth in the preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or change of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event.
(8)   Ranking.  The Series A Preferred Stock shall rank junior to all other series of the Company’s Preferred Stock as to the payment of dividends and distribution of assets, unless the term of any such series shall provide otherwise.
(9)   Fractional Shares.  The Company may issue fractions and certificates representing fractions of a share of Series A Preferred Stock in integral multiples of 1/1000th of a share of Series A Preferred Stock (or in lieu thereof, at the election of the Board of Directors of the Company at the time of the first issue of any shares of Series A Preferred Stock, and evidence such fractions by depositary receipts, pursuant to an appropriate agreement between the Company and a depositary selected by it, provided that such agreement shall provide that the holders of such depositary receipts shall have all rights, privileges and preferences to which they would be entitled as beneficial owners of shares of Series A Preferred Stock in the event that fractional shares of Series A Preferred Stock are issued) which shall entitle the holders thereof, in the proportion which such fraction bears to a full share, to all the rights provided herein for holders of full shares of Series A Preferred Stock.
(10)   Amendment.  At any time when any shares of Series A Preferred Stock are outstanding, the designation of terms of Series A Preferred Stock set forth in these Restated Articles of Incorporation shall not be amended in any manner that would materially alter or change the powers, preferences, or special rights of the Series A Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely, without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority or more of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class.
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ARTICLE III
Holders of Class B Common Stock, Class A Common Stock and Preferred Stock of the Corporation shall have no preemptive rights to purchase stock of the Corporation or securities convertible into or carrying a right to subscribe for or acquire stock of the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV
A.   No director of the Corporation may be removed without cause.  No amendment of the bylaws of the Corporation shall have the effect of shortening the term of any incumbent director.
B.   Both the Board of Directors and the shareholders shall have the power to alter, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.  Any repeal or change of the bylaws by the shareholders shall require the affirmative vote of not less than 80 percent of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter.
C.   The provisions set forth in this Article may not be amended, altered, changed or repealed in any respect, nor may any provision be adopted which is inconsistent with this Article unless such action is approved by the affirmative vote of not less than 80 percent of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter.
ARTICLE V
    A.   Classified Board.  The directors shall be divided into three classes designated as Class I, Class II and Class III, respectively.  One class will stand for election at each annual meeting of shareholders, with each class standing for election every third year.  At the first annual meeting of shareholders following the filing of these Restated Articles of Incorporation, the term of office of the Class I directors shall expire and Class I directors shall be elected for a term ending at the third annual meeting succeeding such first annual meeting.  At the second annual meeting of shareholders following the filing of these Restated Articles of Incorporation, the term of office of the Class II directors shall expire and Class II directors shall be elected for a term ending at the third annual meeting succeeding such second annual meeting.  At the third annual meeting of shareholders following the filing of these Restated Articles of Incorporation, the term of office of the Class III directors shall expire and Class III directors shall be elected for a term ending at the third annual meeting succeeding such third annual meeting.  At each succeeding annual meeting of shareholders, directors shall be elected for a term ending at the third annual meeting succeeding such annual meeting to succeed the directors of the class whose terms expire at such annual meeting.  If the number of directors is increased or decreased, such change will be apportioned among the classes so that, after the change, the classes will remain as nearly equal in number as possible.  The number of directors whose terms expire in any one year shall be less than one half of the total number of directors.  The directors of the Corporation first elected to classes are eleven (11) in number and their names and classes are:

 
Name
Class
 
Robert S. Ball
III
 
John D. Carter
III
 
Jill Schnitzer Edelson
II
 
William A. Furman
I
 
Judith A. Johansen
II
 
William D. Larsson
I
 
Scott Lewis
I
 
Kenneth M. Novack
III
 
Mark L. Palmquist
II
 
Jean S. Reynolds
III
 
Ralph R. Shaw
II


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If the number of directors is increased or decreased, such change will be apportioned among the classes so that, after the change, the classes will remain as nearly equal in number as possible.  A decrease in the number of directors will not have the effect of shortening the term of any incumbent director.  The number of directors whose terms expire in any one year shall be less than one half of the total number of directors.  Except as set forth in Section B of this Article V with respect to vacancies and newly-created directorships, at each annual meeting, the shareholders will elect directors by a plurality of the votes cast by the shares entitled to vote in the election.  The directors of the Corporation shall not be required to be elected by written ballots.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article V, each director shall serve until his successor is duly elected and qualified or until his death, resignation or removal.
B.   Vacancies.  Any vacancy occurring on the Board of Directors, including a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number of directors or the removal of any directors, may be filled only by the Board of Directors, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors, or by a sole remaining director.  The shareholders of the Corporation may not fill vacancies on the Board of Directors, including vacancies resulting from an increase in the number of directors or the removal of any directors.  A director elected to fill a vacancy becomes a member of the same class as his predecessor and shall be elected for the unexpired term of his or her predecessor in office or, in the event of an increase in the number of directors, for a term of office continuing until the next election of directors of such class by the shareholders; provided, that the Board of Directors may designate the vacant directorship as a directorship of another class in order more nearly to achieve equality in the number of directors among the classes.  A vacancy that will occur at a specific later date by reason of a resignation effective at such later date or otherwise may be filled before the vacancy occurs, but the new director may not take office until the vacancy occurs.
C.   The provisions set forth in this Article may not be amended, altered, changed or repealed in any respect, nor may any provision be adopted which is inconsistent with this Article, unless such action is approved by the affirmative vote of not less than 80 percent of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter.
ARTICLE VI
A.   Special meetings of the shareholders, for any purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute, may be called by the Chairman of the Board, President, Secretary or the Board of Directors and shall be called by the Chairman of the Board, President, Secretary or the Board of Directors upon the written demand, describing the purposes for which the meeting is to be held, signed, dated and delivered to the Secretary in accordance with the bylaws of the Corporation, of the holders of not less than 25% of all the votes entitled to be cast on any issue proposed to be considered at the meeting or, if higher, the highest percentage permitted by Oregon law.
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B.   The provisions set forth in this Article may not be amended, altered, changed or repealed in any respect, nor may any provision be adopted which is inconsistent with this Article, unless such action is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of not less than 80 percent of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter.
ARTICLE VII
The Corporation shall indemnify to the fullest extent not prohibited by law any current or former director or officer of the Corporation who is made, or threatened to be made, a party to an action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other (including an action, suit or proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or a fiduciary within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to any employee benefit plan of the Corporation, or serves or served at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent, or as a fiduciary of an employee benefit plan, of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.  The Corporation shall pay all expenses incurred by any such person in defending such a proceeding in advance of its final disposition at the written request of such person if the person furnishes the Corporation (a) a written statement of a good faith belief that he or she is entitled to indemnification and (b) a written undertaking to repay such advance if it is ultimately determined by a court that such person is not entitled to be indemnified.  No amendment to these Restated Articles of Incorporation that limits the Corporation’s obligation to indemnify directors and officers of the Corporation shall have any effect on such obligation for any act or omission which occurs prior to the later of the effective date of the amendment or the date notice of the amendment is given to the officer or director.  This Article shall not be deemed exclusive of any other provisions for indemnification or advancement of expenses of directors, officers, employees, agents and fiduciaries included in any statute, bylaw, agreement, general or specific action of the Board of Directors, vote of shareholders or other document or arrangement.
ARTICLE VIII
No director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for conduct as a director; provided that this Article shall not eliminate the liability of a director for any act or omission for which such elimination of liability is not permitted under the Oregon Business Corporation Act.  No amendment to the Oregon Business Corporation Act that further limits the acts or omissions for which elimination of liability is permitted shall affect the liability of a director for any act or omission which occurs prior to the effective date of the amendment.
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Exhibit 3.2

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS
OF
RADIUS RECYCLING, INC.


ARTICLE I
SHAREHOLDERS MEETINGS AND VOTING
1.1   Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the shareholders for the election of directors shall be held during the month of January of each year, unless a different date or time is fixed by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Radius Recycling, Inc. (the “Corporation”) and stated in the notice of the meeting.  Subject to the provisions of Section 1.3 of this Article I, any other business properly brought before the meeting may be transacted at the annual meeting of shareholders.  The failure to hold an annual meeting on the date stated herein shall not affect the validity of any corporate action.
1.2   Special Meetings.
A special meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation may be called only by the Chairman of the Board, President, Secretary or the Board of Directors and shall be called by the Chairman of the Board, President, Secretary or the Board of Directors upon the written demand of the holders of not less than 100% of all the votes entitled to be cast on any issue proposed to be considered at the meeting (which is the highest percentage of shareholders permitted by Oregon law and therefore is the percentage of shareholders required to demand a special meeting under the terms of Article VI.B of the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation).  Any shareholder seeking to call a special meeting of shareholders by written demand shall deliver a notice thereof in proper written form to the Secretary.  To be in proper written form, such notice shall comply with the requirements of paragraph (2) of Section 1.3 of this Article I.  The Board of Directors shall promptly, but in all events within ten (10) days after the date on which such notice is received, adopt a resolution fixing the record date for determining shareholders entitled to demand a special meeting in accordance with paragraph (3) of Section 1.7 of this Article I.
1.3   Business to be conducted at a Meeting of the Shareholders.
(1)   Only such business shall be conducted and proposals considered at a special meeting as shall have been specified in the notice of the special meeting (or any supplement thereto) required by Section 1.5 of this Article I.  Only such business shall be conducted and proposals considered at an annual meeting as shall have been properly brought before the meeting.  To be properly brought before an annual meeting, business or proposals (including the nomination or election of directors) must be (a) specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, (b) brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (c) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a shareholder of the Corporation who (x) is a shareholder of record of the Corporation at the time the notice provided for in this paragraph (1) is delivered to the Secretary and (y) is entitled to vote at the meeting.  For any business or proposals (including the nomination or election of directors) to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a shareholder (even in a circumstance where the election of directors has been brought before the meeting in accordance with clause (a) or (b) of the preceding sentence), the shareholder must have given timely notice thereof in proper written form to the Secretary.  To be timely, such shareholder’s notice must be delivered to, or mailed and received at, the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the ninetieth (90th) day nor earlier than the close of business on the one hundred twentieth (120th) day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (provided, however, that, if the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty (30) days before or more than seventy (70) days after such anniversary date, notice by the shareholder must be so delivered not earlier than the one hundred twentieth (120th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the Corporation).  In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a shareholder’s notice as described above.


(2)   To be in proper written form, a shareholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth (a) if a shareholder is nominating an individual for election as a director, as to each person whom the shareholder proposes to nominate for election as a director, (i) the name, age, business and residence address of such person, (ii) the principal occupation or employment of such person, (iii) the class and number of shares of the Corporation that are owned beneficially and of record by such person and (iv) any other information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (including without limitation such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected); (b) as to each matter other than nomination or election of directors that the shareholder proposes to bring before the meeting, (i) a brief description of the business or proposal proposed to be brought before the meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment) and the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and (ii) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such shareholder and beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf such business is brought or proposal made, on the one hand, and any other person or persons (including their names) on the other hand, in connection with the proposal of such business by such shareholder; and (c) as to the shareholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (i) the name and address, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, of the shareholder of record proposing such business and the name and address of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, (ii)(A) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are owned beneficially and of record by the record shareholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, (B) any option, warrant, convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class of capital stock of the Corporation or otherwise (a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially or of record by such shareholder and beneficial owner and any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation, (C) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such shareholder and beneficial owner has a right to vote any shares of any security of the Corporation, (D) any short interest in any security of the Corporation (for purposes of this Section 1.3 a person shall be deemed to have a short interest in a security if such person directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the value of the subject security), (E) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such shareholder that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation, (F) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such shareholder is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner and (G) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such shareholder is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, as of the date of such notice, including without limitation any such interests held by members of such shareholder’s immediate family sharing the same household (which information shall be supplemented by such shareholder and beneficial owner, if any, not later than 10 days after the record date for the meeting to disclose such ownership as of the record date), (iii) any material interest of the record shareholder, or the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, in such business or proposal, (iv) a representation that the shareholder is a holder of record of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such business or nomination, (v) a representation as to whether or not the record shareholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group that intends (x) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the Corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee and/or (y) to solicit proxies from shareholders in support of such proposal or nomination, and (vi) any other information relating to such shareholder and beneficial owner that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitation of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it may reasonably require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the Corporation including a questionnaire with respect to the background and qualification of such person to serve as a director and such person’s independence.  Notwithstanding anything in this Section 1.3 to the contrary, if the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors at an annual meeting is increased and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming the nominees for the additional directorships at least ten (10) days prior to the last day that notice can be delivered by a shareholder pursuant to Section 1.3(1) above in order to be timely, a shareholder’s notice required by this Section 1.3 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for the additional directorships, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.  The foregoing notice requirements shall be deemed satisfied in the case of any annual meeting by a shareholder if the shareholder has notified the Corporation of his or her intention to present a proposal at an annual meeting in compliance with Rule 14a-8 (or any successor thereof) promulgated under the Exchange Act and in accordance with Rule 14a-8 such shareholder’s proposal has been included in a proxy statement that has been prepared by the Corporation to solicit proxies for such annual meeting.
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(3)   Only persons who are nominated by shareholders in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1.3 or by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any committees thereof shall be eligible for election as directors by the shareholders.  The procedures set forth in this Section 1.3 for nomination for the election of directors by shareholders are in addition to, and not in limitation of, any procedures now in effect or hereafter adopted by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.3, if the shareholder (or a qualified representative of the shareholder) proposing a nominee for director or business to be conducted at a meeting does not appear at the meeting of shareholders of the Corporation to present such nomination or business, such nomination shall be disregarded and such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the Corporation.
(4)   Notwithstanding anything in these Bylaws to the contrary, no business shall be conducted at any meeting of shareholders or proposals considered except in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1.3.  The Board of Directors or the meeting chairperson shall, if the facts warrant, determine that a nomination was not made in accordance with the procedures prescribed by these Bylaws, and, if it is so determined, the defective nomination shall be disregarded.  The Board of Directors or the meeting chairperson shall, if the facts warrant, determine (a) that a proposal or business does not constitute proper business to be transacted at the meeting, or (b) that a proposal or business was not properly brought before the meeting in accordance with the provisions of this Section 1.3, and, if it is so determined, any such proposal or business shall not be transacted.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.3, a shareholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to matters set forth in this Section 1.3.  Nothing in this Section 1.3 shall affect any rights of shareholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.
1.4   Place of Meetings.
Meetings of the shareholders shall be held at any place in or out of Oregon designated by the Board of Directors.  If a meeting place is not designated by the Board of Directors, the meeting shall be held at the Corporation’s principal office.
1.5   Notice of Meetings.
Written or printed notice stating the date, time and place of the meeting and, in the case of a special meeting or a meeting for which special notice is required by law, the purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be delivered by the Corporation, in accordance with ORS 60.034 or any successor provision, to each shareholder entitled to vote at the meeting and, if required by law, to any other shareholders entitled to receive notice, not less than 10 nor more than 60 days before the meeting date, by or at the direction of the President, Secretary, or Assistant Secretary, or the officer or persons calling the meeting.
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1.6   Waiver of Notice.
A shareholder may at any time waive any notice required by law, these Bylaws or the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation.  The waiver shall be in writing, be signed by the shareholder entitled to the notice and be delivered to the Corporation for inclusion in the minutes for filing with the corporate records.  A shareholder’s attendance at a meeting waives objection to (i) lack of notice or defective notice of the meeting, unless the shareholder at the beginning of the meeting objects to holding the meeting or transacting business at the meeting, and (ii) consideration of a particular matter at the meeting that is not within the purposes described in the meeting notice, unless the shareholder objects to considering the matter when it is presented.
1.7   Fixing of Record Date
(1)   In order that the Corporation may determine the shareholders entitled to notice of any meeting of shareholders or to vote or to take any other 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 by the Board of Directors, and which record date shall not be more than seventy (70) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting or action requiring a determination of shareholders.  If not otherwise fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders shall be at 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 shareholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting unless the board of directors fixes a new record date, which it must do if the meeting is adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting.
(2)   In order that the Corporation may determine the shareholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the shareholders 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 not be more than seventy (70) days prior to such action.  If not otherwise fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining shareholders 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.
(3)   In order that the Corporation may determine the shareholders entitled to demand a meeting of shareholders, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date on which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which date shall not be more than ten (10) days after the date on which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors.  If not otherwise fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining shareholders entitled to demand a special meeting shall be at the close of business on the day the first shareholder signs such demand.
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1.8   Shareholders’ List for Meeting.
After a record date for a meeting is fixed, the Corporation shall prepare an alphabetical list of all shareholders entitled to notice of the shareholders’ meeting.  The list shall be arranged by voting group and within each voting group by class or series of shares and show the address of and number of shares held by each shareholder.  The shareholders’ list shall be available for inspection by any shareholder, upon proper demand as may be required by law, beginning two business days after notice of the meeting is given and continuing through the meeting, at the Corporation’s principal office or at a place identified in the meeting notice in the city where the meeting will be held.  The Corporation shall make the shareholders’ list available at the meeting, and any shareholder or the shareholder’s agent or attorney shall be entitled to inspect the list at any time during the meeting or any adjournment. Refusal or failure to prepare or make available the shareholders’ list does not affect the validity of action taken at the meeting.
1.9   Quorum; Adjournment.
(1)   Shares entitled to vote as a separate voting group may take action on a matter at a meeting only if a quorum of those shares exists with respect to that matter.  A majority of the votes entitled to be cast on the matter by the voting group constitutes a quorum of that voting group for action on that matter.
(2)   Only the chairperson of the meeting of shareholders, whether or not a quorum shall be present in person or represented, may adjourn the meeting from time to time to a different time and place without further notice to any shareholder of any adjournment.  At an adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present, any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the meeting originally held.
(3)   Once a share is represented for any purpose at a meeting, it shall be present for quorum purposes for the remainder of the meeting and for any adjournment of that meeting unless a new record date is or must be set for the adjourned meeting. A new record date must be set if the meeting is adjourned to a date more than 120 days after the date fixed for the original meeting.
1.10  Voting Requirements; Action Without Meeting.
(1)   If a quorum exists, action on a matter, other than the election of directors, by a voting group is approved if the votes cast within the voting group favoring the action exceed the votes cast opposing the action, unless a greater number of affirmative votes is required by law or the Articles of Incorporation.  Unless otherwise provided in the Articles of Incorporation, directors are elected by a plurality of the votes cast by the shares entitled to vote in the election at a meeting at which a quorum is present.
(2)   Action required or permitted by law to be taken at a shareholders’ meeting may be taken without a meeting if the action is taken by all the shareholders entitled to vote on the action.  The action must be evidenced by one or more written consents describing the action taken, signed by all the shareholders entitled to vote on the action and delivered to the Secretary for inclusion in the minutes for filing with the corporate records.  Shareholders’ action taken by written consent is effective when the last shareholder signs the consent, unless the consent specifies an earlier or later effective date.
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1.11  Proxies.
A shareholder may vote shares in person or by proxy.  A shareholder may appoint a proxy by signing an appointment form either personally or by the shareholder’s attorney-in-fact. An appointment of a proxy is effective when received by the Secretary or other officer of the Corporation authorized to tabulate votes. An appointment is valid for 11 months unless a different period is provided in the appointment form. An appointment is revocable by the shareholder unless the appointment form conspicuously states that it is irrevocable and the appointment is coupled with an interest that has not been extinguished.
1.12  Meeting Chairperson.
At each meeting of shareholders, a chairperson shall preside.  The chairperson of such meeting shall be the Chairman of the Board or, in his or her absence, shall be the President or, in his or her absence, shall be any such person as shall be appointed by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE II

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2.1   Duties of Board of Directors.
All corporate powers of the Corporation shall be exercised by or under the authority of its Board of Directors; the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed under the direction of its Board of Directors.
2.2   Number, Term and Qualification.
The number of directors of the Corporation shall be at least three and no more than thirteen.  Within this range, the number of directors shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors.  No reduction in the number of directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.  Despite the expiration of a director’s term, the director shall continue to serve until the director’s successor is elected and qualified or the number of directors is decreased.  Directors need not be residents of Oregon or shareholders of the Corporation.
2.3   Classified Board.
The directors shall be divided into three classes designated as Class I, Class II and Class III, respectively.  One class will stand for election at each annual meeting of shareholders, with each class standing for election every third year.  If the number of directors is increased or decreased, such change will be apportioned among the classes so that, after the change, the classes will remain as nearly equal in number as possible.  The number of directors whose terms expire in any one year shall be less than one half of the total number of directors.
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2.4   Regular Meetings.
A regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held without notice other than this Bylaw immediately after, and at the same place as, the annual meeting of shareholders.  The Board of Directors may provide by resolution the time and place for the holding of additional regular meetings in or out of Oregon without other notice than the resolution.
2.5   Special Meetings.
Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by or at the request of the Chairman of the Board, the President or any two directors.  The person or persons authorized to call special meetings of the Board of Directors may fix any place in or out of Oregon as the place for holding any special meeting of the Board of Directors called by them.
2.6   Notice.
Notice of the date, time and place of any special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given at least one day prior to the meeting by notice communicated in person, by telephone, facsimile, e-mail, telegraph, teletype, other form of wire or wireless communication, mail or private carrier.  If written, notice shall be effective at the earliest of (a) when received, (b) five days after its deposit in the United States mail, as evidenced by the postmark, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed, or (c) on the date shown on the return receipt, if sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested and the receipt is signed by or on behalf of the addressee. Notice by all other means shall be deemed effective when received by or on behalf of the director.  Notice of any regular or special meeting need not describe the purposes of the meeting unless required by law or the Articles of Incorporation.
2.7   Waiver of Notice.
A director may at any time waive any notice required by law, these Bylaws or the Articles of Incorporation.  Except as set forth below, the waiver must be in writing, be signed by the director entitled to the notice, specify the meeting for which notice is waived and be filed with the minutes or corporate records.  A director’s attendance at or participation in a meeting waives any required notice to the director of the meeting unless the director at the beginning of the meeting, or promptly upon the director’s arrival, objects to holding the meeting or transacting business at the meeting and does not thereafter vote for or assent to action taken at the meeting.
2.8   Quorum.
A majority of the number of directors fixed in accordance with Section 2.2 of these Bylaws shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board of Directors.  If less than a quorum is present at a meeting, a majority of the directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice.
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2.9   Manner of Acting.
The act 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, unless a different number is provided by law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws.
2.10  Meeting by Telephone Conference; Action Without Meeting.
(1)   Directors may participate in a regular or special meeting by, or conduct the meeting through, use of any means of communications by which all directors participating may simultaneously hear each other during the meeting. Participation in a meeting by this means shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.
(2)   Any action that is required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of the Board of Directors may be taken without a meeting if one or more written consents describing the action taken are signed by all of the directors entitled to vote on the matter and included in the minutes or filed with the corporate records reflecting the action taken.  The action shall be effective when the last director signs the consent, unless the consent specifies an earlier or later effective date.
2.11  Vacancies.
Unless the Articles of Incorporation provide otherwise, any vacancy occurring on the Board of Directors, including a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number of directors, may be filled by the shareholders, the Board of Directors, the remaining directors if less than a quorum (by the affirmative vote of a majority thereof) or by a sole remaining director.  A vacancy that will occur at a specified later date, by reason of a resignation or otherwise, may be filled before the vacancy occurs, but the new director may not take office until the vacancy occurs.
2.12  Compensation.
By resolution of the Board of Directors, the directors may be paid reasonable compensation for services as directors and their expenses of attending meetings of the Board of Directors.  No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation for such service.
2.13  Presumption of Assent.
A director who is present at a meeting of the Board of Directors or a committee of the Board of Directors shall be deemed to have assented to the action taken at the meeting unless (a) the director’s dissent or abstention from the action is entered in the minutes of the meeting, (b) the director delivers a written notice of dissent or abstention to the action to the presiding officer of the meeting before any adjournment or to the Corporation immediately after the adjournment of the meeting or (c) the director objects at the beginning of the meeting or promptly upon the director’s arrival to the holding of the meeting or transacting business at the meeting.  The right to dissent or abstain is not available to a director who voted in favor of the action.
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2.14  Resignation.
Any director may resign by delivering written notice to the Board of Directors, its chairperson or the Corporation.  Unless the notice specifies a later effective date, a resignation notice shall be effective upon the earlier of (a) receipt, (b) five days after its deposit in the United States mails, if mailed postpaid and correctly addressed, or (c) on the date shown on the return receipt, if sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and the receipt is signed by addressee.  Once delivered, a resignation notice is irrevocable unless revocation is permitted by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE III


COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD
3.1   Committees.
The Board of Directors may create one or more committees and appoint members of the Board of Directors to serve on them.  Each committee shall have two or more members.  The creation of a committee and appointment of members to it must be approved by a majority of all directors in office when the action is taken.  Subject to any limitation imposed by the Board of Directors or by law, each committee may exercise all the authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the Corporation.  A committee may not take any action that a committee is prohibited from taking by the Oregon Business Corporation Act, including ORS 60.354 or any successor provision.
3.2   Changes of Size and Function.
Subject to the provisions of law, the Board of Directors shall have the power at any time to change the number of committee members, fill committee vacancies, change any committee members and change the functions and terminate the existence of a committee.
3.3   Conduct of Meetings.
Each committee shall conduct its meetings in accordance with the applicable provisions of these Bylaws relating to meetings and action without meetings of the Board of Directors.  Each committee shall adopt any further rules regarding its conduct, keep minutes and other records and appoint subcommittees and assistants as it deems appropriate.
3.4   Compensation.
By resolution of the Board of Directors, committee members may be paid reasonable compensation for services on committees and their expenses of attending committee meetings.
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ARTICLE IV


OFFICERS
4.1   Appointment.
The Board of Directors at its first meeting following its election each year shall appoint a President and a Secretary.  At this meeting, or at any other time, the Board of Directors may appoint one of its members as Chairman of the Board and one or more Vice Presidents and a Treasurer.  The Board of Directors also may appoint any other officers, assistant officers and agents it deems necessary or appropriate.  Any two or more offices may be held by the same person.
4.2   Compensation.
The Corporation may pay its officers reasonable compensation for their services, and no officer shall be prevented from receiving such salary by reason of the fact that he is also a director of the Corporation.
4.3   Term.
The term of office of all officers commences upon their appointment and continues until the first annual meeting of the Board of Directors following their appointment and thereafter until their successors are appointed or until their resignation or removal.  Any vacancy in an office of the Corporation may be filled by the Board of Directors.
4.4   Removal.
Any officer or agent appointed by the Board of Directors may be removed by the Board of Directors at any time with or without cause, but such removal shall not prejudice the contract rights of the person so removed.
4.5   Chairman of the Board.
The Chairman of the Board, if that office is filled, shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and shall perform any duties and responsibilities prescribed from time to time by the Board of Directors, including but not limited to powers and duties similar to those of the President.
4.6   President.
Unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, the President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and, subject to the control of the Board of Directors, shall in general supervise and control all of the business and affairs of the Corporation.  The President shall preside at all meetings of the shareholders and at all meetings of the Board of Directors when the Chairman of the Board of Directors is not present.  The President may sign, with the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary, certificates for shares of the Corporation.  The President may also sign, with the Secretary or any other officer of the Corporation authorized by the Board of Directors to sign with the President, any deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts, or other instruments which the Board of Directors has authorized to be executed, except in cases where the Board of Directors or these Bylaws shall expressly delegate the signing and execution of such a document to some other officer or agent of the Corporation or where signing or execution other than by the President as described above shall be required by law.  In general, the President shall perform all duties incident to the office of President, and such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors from time to time.
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4.7   Vice Presidents.
In the absence of the President or in the event of his death, inability or refusal to act, the Vice President (or in the event there be more than one Vice President, the Vice Presidents in the order designated at the time or their election, or in the absence of any designation, then in the order of their election) shall perform the duties of the president, and when so acting, shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the President.  Any Vice President may sign, with the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, certificates for shares of the Corporation, and shall perform such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to the Vice President by the President or by the Board of Directors.  The Board of Directors or the President may confer a special title upon a Vice President.
4.8   Secretary.
The Secretary shall (a) have the responsibility for preparing minutes of the shareholders’ and of the Board of Directors’ meetings in one or more books provided for that purpose; (b) see that all notices are duly given in accordance with the provision of these Bylaws or as required by law; (c) be custodian of the corporate records and have the responsibility for authenticating records of the Corporation; (d) be the custodian of the seal of the Corporation and see that the seal of the Corporation is affixed to all documents the execution of which on behalf of the Corporation under its seal is duly authorized; (e) sign with the President, or Vice President, certificates for shares of the Corporation; and (f) in general perform all duties incident to the office of Secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to the Secretary by the President or by the Board of Directors.
4.9   Treasurer.
If required by the Board of Directors, the Treasurer shall give a bond for the faithful discharge of the Treasurer’s duties, in such sum and with such security or securities as the Board of Directors shall determine.  The Treasurer shall (a) have charge and custody of and be responsible for all funds and securities of the Corporation, (b) receive and give receipts for moneys due and payable to the Corporation from any source whatsoever and (c) deposit all such moneys in the name of the Corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositaries as shall be selected in accordance with the provisions of Article VII of these Bylaws. In general, the Treasurer shall perform all of the duties incident to the office of Treasurer and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to the Treasurer by the President or by the Board of Directors.
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ARTICLE V


INDEMNIFICATION
The Corporation shall indemnify, to the fullest extent not prohibited by law, any current or former director or officer of the Corporation who is made, or threatened to be made, a party to an action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other (including an action, suit or proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or a fiduciary within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 with respect to any employee benefit plan of the Corporation, or serves or served at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent, or as a fiduciary of an employee benefit plan, of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.  The Corporation shall pay all expenses incurred by any such person defending such proceeding in advance of its final disposition at the written request of such person if the person furnishes the Corporation (a) a written statement of a good faith belief that he or she is entitled to indemnification and (b) a written undertaking to repay such advance if it is ultimately determined by a court that such person is not entitled to be indemnified.  No amendment to these Bylaws that limits the Corporation’s obligation to indemnify directors and officers of the Corporation shall have any effect on such obligation for any act or omission which occurs prior to the later of the effective date of the amendment or the date notice of the amendment is given to the officer or director.  This Article shall not be deemed exclusive of any other provisions for indemnification or advancement of expenses of directors, officers, employees, agents and fiduciaries that may be included in the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation or any statute, agreement, general or specific action of the Board of Directors, vote of shareholders or other document or arrangement.
ARTICLE VI


ISSUANCE OF SHARES
6.1   Adequacy of Consideration.
Before the Corporation issues shares, the Board of Directors shall determine that the consideration received or to be received for the shares to be issued is adequate.  The authorization by the Board of Directors of the issuance of shares for stated consideration shall evidence a determination by the Board of Directors that such consideration is adequate.
6.2   Certificates for Shares.
(1)   Certificates representing shares of the Corporation shall be in any form determined by the Board of Directors consistent with the requirements of the Oregon Business Corporation Act and these Bylaws.  The certificates shall be signed, either manually or in facsimile, by the President or a Vice President and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary and may be sealed with the seal of the Corporation, if any, or a facsimile thereof.  All certificates for shares shall be consecutively numbered or otherwise identified.
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(2)   Every certificate for shares of stock that are subject to any restriction on transfer or registration of transfer pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws, securities laws, shareholders’ agreements or any agreement to which the Corporation is a party shall have conspicuously noted on the face or back of the certificate either the full text of the restriction or a statement of the existence of the restriction and that the Corporation retains a copy of the full text. Every certificate issued when the Corporation is authorized to issue more than one class or series within a class of shares shall set forth on its face or back either (a) a summary of the designations, relative rights, preferences and limitations of the shares of each class and the variations in rights, preferences and limitations for each series authorized to be issued and the authority of the Board of Directors to determine variations for future series or (b) a statement of the existence of those designations, relative rights, preferences and limitations and a statement that the Corporation will furnish a copy thereof to the holder of the certificate upon written request and without charge.
(3)   The name and address of the person to whom the shares represented by the certificates are issued, with the number of shares and the date of issue, shall be entered on the stock transfer books of the Corporation.  All certificates surrendered to the Corporation for transfer shall be canceled.  The Corporation shall not issue a new certificate for previously issued shares until the former certificate or certificates for those shares are surrendered and canceled; except that in case of a lost, destroyed or mutilated certificate, a new certificate may be issued on terms the Board of Directors prescribes.
(4)   Notwithstanding anything in this Section 6.2, the Corporation may issue shares of its capital stock without such shares being represented by certificates to the extent permitted by the Oregon Business Corporation Act.
6.3   Transfer of Shares.
Transfer of shares of the Corporation shall be made only on the stock transfer books of the Corporation by the holder of record of the shares or by the holder’s legal representative, who shall furnish proper evidence of authority to transfer, or by the holder’s attorney with regard to the shares authorized by a duly executed power of attorney filed with the Secretary or the transfer agent of the Corporation, and on surrender for cancellation for such shares.  The Corporation shall deem the person in whose name shares stand on the books of the Corporation to be the owner of those shares for all purposes.
6.4   Transfer Agent and Registrar.
The Board of Directors may from time to time appoint one or more transfer agents and one or more registrars for the shares of the Corporation, with powers and duties determined by the Board of Directors.
6.5   Officer Ceasing to Act.
If the person who signed a share certificate, either manually or in facsimile, no longer holds office when the certificate is issued, the certificate is nevertheless valid.
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ARTICLE VII


CONTRACTS, LOANS, CHECKS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS
7.1   Contracts.
Except as otherwise provided by law, the Board of Directors may authorize any officers or agents to execute and deliver any contract or other instrument in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation, and this authority may be general or confined to specific instances.
7.2   Loans.
The Corporation shall not borrow money and no evidence of indebtedness shall be issued in its name unless authorized by the Board of Directors.  This authority may be general or confined to specific instances.
7.3   Checks, Drafts, Etc.
All checks, drafts or other orders for the payment of money and notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued in the name of the Corporation shall be signed by the officers or agents of the Corporation and in the manner designated by the Board of Directors.
7.4   Deposits.
All funds of the Corporation not otherwise employed shall be deposited to the credit of the Corporation in those banks, trust companies or other depositaries as the Board of Directors or officers of the Corporation designated by the Board of Directors select or be invested as authorized by the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE VIII


MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
8.1   Fiscal Year.
The business of the Corporation shall be conducted on a fiscal year basis beginning with the first day of September and ending on the last day of August of each year.
8.2   Dividends.
The Board of Directors may from time to time declare, and the Corporation may pay, dividends on its outstanding shares, in the manner and upon the terms and conditions provided by law.
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8.3   Seal.
The Board of Directors shall provide a corporate seal which shall be circular in form and shall have inscribed thereon the name of the Corporation and the words “Corporate Seal, Oregon.”
8.4   Severability.
A determination that any provision of these Bylaws is for any reason inapplicable, invalid, illegal or otherwise ineffective shall not affect or invalidate any other provision of these Bylaws.
8.5   Amendments.
Except as restricted by the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, these Bylaws may be amended or repealed and new Bylaws may be adopted by the Board of Directors or the shareholders of the Corporation.
8.6   Oregon Control Share Act.
The provisions of the Oregon Control Share Act (ORS Sections 60.801-60.816) shall not be applicable to acquisitions of voting shares of the Corporation.
8.7   Exclusive Forum.
Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director or officer or other employee of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s shareholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any director or officer or other employee of the Corporation arising pursuant to any provision of the Oregon Business Corporation Act or the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws (as either may be amended from time to time), or (iv) any action asserting a claim against the Corporation or any director or officer or other employee of the Corporation governed by the internal affairs doctrine shall be a state court located within the State of Oregon (or, if no state court located within the State of Oregon has jurisdiction, the federal district court for the District of Oregon).

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