ARTICLE I
Name
The name of the corporation is 1-800 CONTACTS, INC. (hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation").
ARTICLE II
Registered Office
The address of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 1013 Centre Road, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle 19805. The name of the registered agent of the Corporation at that address is Corporation Service Company.
ARTICLE III
Purpose
The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "Delaware General Corporation Law").
ARTICLE IV
Capital Stoc
Part A. General. The maximum number of shares of capital stock that the Corporation is authorized to have outstanding at any one time is 21,000,000 shares, consisting of: (i) 1,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $ 0.01 per share (the "Preferred Stock") and (ii) 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value$0.01 per share (the "Common Stock").
Part B. Preferred Stock. Authority is hereby expressly vested in the Board of Directors of the Corporation, subject to the provisions of this ARTICLE IV and to the limitations prescribed by law, to authorize the issuance from time to time of one or more series of Preferred Stock. The authority of the Board of Directors with respect to each series shall include, but not be limited to, the determination or fixing of the following by resolution or resolutions adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the total number of the Directors then in office:
(1) The designation of such series;
(2) The dividend rate of such series, the conditions and dates upon which such dividends shall be payable, the relation which such dividends shall bear to the dividends payable on any other class or classes or series of the Corporation's capital stock and whether such dividends shall be cumulative or non-cumulative;
(3) Whether the shares of such series shall be subject to redemption for cash, property or rights, including securities of any other corporation, by the Corporation or upon the happening of a specified event and, if made subject to any such redemption, the times or events, prices, rates, adjustments and other terms and conditions of such redemptions;
(4) The terms and amount of any sinking fund provided for the purchase or redemption of the shares of such series;
(5) Whether or not the shares of such series shall be convertible into, or exchangeable for, at the option of either the holder or the Corporation or upon the happening of a specified event, shares of any other class or classes or of any other series of the same class of the Corporation's capital stock and, if provision be made for conversion or exchange, the times or events, prices, rates, adjustments and other terms and conditions of such conversions or exchanges;
(6) The restrictions, if any, on the issue or reissue of any additional Preferred Stock;
(7) The rights of the holders of the shares of such series upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation; and
(8) The provisions as to voting, optional and/or other special rights and preferences, if any, including, without limitation, the right to elect one or more Directors.
Part C. Common Stock. Except as otherwise provided by the Delaware General Corporation Law or this Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "Restated Certificate"), the holders of Common Stock (i) subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock, shall share rat ably in all dividends payable in cash, stock or otherwise and other distributions, whether in respect of liquidation or dissolution (voluntary or involuntary) or otherwise and (ii) are subject to all the powers, rights, privileges, preferences and priorities of any series of Preferred Stock as provided herein or in any resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors pursuant to authority expressly vested in it by the provisions of Part B of this ARTICLE IV.
(1) The Common Stock shall not be convertible into, or exchangeable for, shares of any other class or classes or of any other series of the same class of the Corporation's capital stock.
(2) No holder of Common Stock shall have any preemptive, subscription, redemption, conversion or sinking fund rights with respect to the Common Stock, or to any obligations convertible (directly or indirectly) into stock of the Corporation whether now or hereafter authorized.
(3) Except as otherwise provided by the Delaware General Corporation Law, or the Restated Certificate and subject to the rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock, all of the voting power of the stockholders of the Corporation shall be vested in the holders of the Common Stock, and each holder of Common Stock shall have one vote for each share held by such holder on all matters voted upon by the stockholders of the Corporation.
ARTICLE V
Existence
The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
ARTICLE VI
By-laws
In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Board of Directors of the Corporation is expressly authorized to make, alter, amend, change, add to or repeal the By-laws of the Corporation by the affirmative vote of a majority of the total number of Directors then in office. Any alteration or repeal of the By-laws of the Corporation by the stockholders of the Corporation shall require the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote on such alteration or repeal, subject to ARTICLE IX hereof and ARTICLE VII of the Corporation's By-laws.
ARTICLE VII
Stockholders and Directors
Part A. Stockholder Action. Election of Directors need not be by written ballot unless the By-laws of the Corporation so provide. Subject to any rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock, from and after the date on which the Common Stock of the Corporation is registered pursuant to the Exchange Act, (i) any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at an annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation and may not be effected in lieu thereof by any consent in writing by such stockholders, (ii) special meetings of stockholders of the Corporation may be called only by either the Board of Directors pursuant to a resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of the majority of the total number of Directors then in office or by the chief executive officer of the Corporation and (iii) advance notice of stockholder nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation and of business to be brought before any annual meeting of the stockholders by the stockholders of the Corporation shall be given in the manner provided in the By-laws of the Corporation.
Part B. Number of Directors and Term of Office. Subject to any rights of holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect additional Directors under specified circumstances, the number of Directors which shall constitute the Board of Directors of the Corporation shall be fixed from time to time in the manner set forth in the By-laws of the Corporation. The Directors of the Corporation shall be divided into three classes:
Class I, Class II and Class III. Membership in each class shall be as nearly equal in number as possible. The term of office of the initial Class I Directors shall expire at the annual election of Directors by the stockholders of the Corporation in 1999, the term of office of the initial Class II Directors shall expire at the annual election of Directors by the stockholders of the Corporation in 2000 and the term of office of the initial Class III Directors shall expire at the annual election of Directors by the stockholders of the Corporation in 2001, or thereafter when their respective successors in each case are elected by the stockholders and qualified, subject however, to prior death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office for cause. At each succeeding annual election of Directors by the stockholders of the Corporation beginning in 1999, the Directors chosen to succeed those whose terms then expire shall be identified as being of the same class as the Directors they succeed and shall be elected for a term expiring at the third succeeding annual election of Directors by the stockholders of the Corporation, or thereafter when their respective successors in each case are elected by the stockholders and qualified. If the number of Directors is changed, any increase or decrease shall be apportioned among the classes so as to maintain the number of Directors in each class as nearly equal as possible, and any additional Director of any class elected to fill a vacancy resulting from an increase in such class shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of that class, but in no case shall a decrease in the number of Directors shorten the term of any incumbent Director.
Removal and Resignation. No Director may be removed from office without cause and without the affirmative vote of the holders of a4majority of the voting power of the then outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote generally in the election of Directors voting together as a single class; provided, however, that if the holders of any class or series of capital stock are entitled by the provisions of this Restated Certificate (it being understood that any references to this Restated Certificate shall include any duly authorized certificate of designation) to......
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