Number, Classification and Election of Directors Sample Clauses

Number, Classification and Election of Directors. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed under the direction of the Board of Directors. The number of directors of the Corporation is five, which number may be increased or decreased only by the Board of Directors pursuant to the Bylaws of the Corporation (the “Bylaws”), but shall never be less than the minimum number required by the Maryland General Corporation Law (the “MGCL”). The directors (other than any director elected solely by holders of shares of one or more classes or series of stock of the Corporation established pursuant to Section 6.4 hereof) shall be classified into three classes, Class I, Class II and Class III. Directors in Class II shall serve for a term ending at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2020, directors in Class III shall serve for a term ending at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2021 and directors in Class I shall serve for a term ending at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2022 and, in each such case, until their successors are duly elected and qualify or until their earlier death, resignation or removal. The number of directors in each class shall be as nearly equal in number as possible, as determined by the Board of Directors. At each annual meeting of the stockholders, the successors to the class of directors whose term expires at such meeting shall be elected to serve for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders held in the third year following the year of their election and until their successors are duly elected and qualify. The names of the directors who shall serve until their successors are duly elected and qualify are:1 Name Class Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx. I Xxxx X. Xxxxxx XX Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx XX Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx III Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx III The Corporation elects, at such time as it becomes eligible to make the election provided for under Section 3-804(c) of the MGCL, that, subject to any requirements of the 1940 Act applicable to the Corporation and except as may be provided by the Board of Directors in setting the terms of any class or series of Preferred Stock (as defined herein), any and all vacancies on the Board of Directors may be filled only by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining directors in office, even if the remaining directors do not constitute a quorum, and any director elected to fill a vacancy shall serve for the remainder of the full term of the class in which such vacancy occurred and until a successor ...
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Number, Classification and Election of Directors. (a) The Board of Directors shall consist of not less than three (3) members, the exact number of which shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors. The directors, other than those who may be elected by the holders of any series of Preferred Stock, shall be classified, with respect to the time for which they severally hold office, into three (3) classes, as nearly equal in number as possible, designated Class I, Class II and Class III. The directors in Class I shall serve for an initial term expiring at the Corporation’s first Annual Meeting held after the Charter Amendment Effective Time (as defined in the Certificate of Incorporation), the directors in Class II shall serve for an initial term expiring at the Corporation’s second Annual Meeting held after the Charter Amendment Effective Time, and the directors in Class III shall serve for an initial term expiring at the Corporation’s third Annual Meeting held after the Charter Amendment Effective Time, with each director in a class to hold office until his successor is elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal. At the Corporation’s third Annual Meeting held after the Charter Amendment Effective Time and at each subsequent Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Corporation, the directors (or successors) of the class of directors whose term expires at that meeting shall be elected to hold office for a term expiring at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held in the third year following the year of their election, with each director in a class to hold office until his successor is elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal.
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Related to Number, Classification and Election of Directors

  • Selection and Nomination of Directors While this Plan is in effect, the selection and nomination of persons to be Directors of the Fund who are not "interested persons" of the Fund ("Disinterested Directors") shall be committed to the discretion of the incumbent Disinterested Directors. Nothing herein shall prevent the incumbent Disinterested Directors from soliciting the views or the involvement of others in such selection or nominations as long as the final decision on any such selection and nomination is approved by a majority of the incumbent Disinterested Directors.

  • Election of Directors Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.

  • Designation of Directors The designees to the Company’s board of directors described above (each a “Designee”) shall be selected as follows:

  • Nomination of Directors Except as otherwise fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation relating to the authorization of the Board of Directors to provide by resolution for the issuance of Preferred Stock and to determine the rights of the holders of such Preferred Stock to elect directors, nominations for the election of directors may be made by the Board of Directors, by a committee appointed by the board of directors, or by any stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for herein. However, any stockholder entitled to vote in the election of directors as provided herein may nominate one or more persons for election as directors at a meeting only if written notice of such stockholder's intent to make such nomination or nominations has been delivered to or mailed and received by the secretary of the corporation not later than, (a) with respect to an election to be held at an annual meeting of stockholders, 120 calendar days in advance of the first anniversary of the date the corporation's proxy statement was released to security holders in connection with the preceding year's annual meeting; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is changed by more than thirty (30) days from such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be received not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the earlier of the day on which notice of the date of the meeting was mailed or public disclosure was made, and (b) with respect to an election to be held at a special meeting of stockholders for the election of directors, not earlier than the close of business on the 90th day prior to such special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 60th day prior to such special meeting or the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public disclosure is first made of the date of the special meeting and the nominees proposed by the board of directors to be elected at such a meeting. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected by the Board of Directors of the corporation is increased and there is no public disclosure by the corporation naming the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors at least seventy (70) days prior to the first anniversary of the date of the preceding year's annual meeting, a

  • Election of Director The holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Class A-1 Preferred Stock shall have the right voting as a class to elect one member of the Company’s board of directors (the “Preferred Director”), including to fill a vacancy as to the Preferred Director. Any Preferred Director may be removed, with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the then outstanding shares of Class A-1 Preferred Stock.

  • Compensation of Directors Directors on the Board shall not be entitled to receive a fee for the director’s services as a director on the Board.

  • Election and Removal of Directors Upon election by the Member, each Director shall hold office until his or her death, disability, resignation or removal at any time at the pleasure of the Member. If a vacancy occurs on the Board, the Member shall, as soon as practicable after the occurrence of such vacancy, elect a successor so that the Board remains fully constituted at all times.

  • Election of Board of Directors (a) The holders of Preferred Stock, voting as a single class, shall be entitled to elect three (3) members of the Board at each meeting or pursuant to each consent of the Corporation’s stockholders for the election of directors, and to remove from office such directors and to fill any vacancy caused by the resignation, death or removal of such directors.

  • Number, Election and Tenure The initial Trustees shall be the persons initially signing this Declaration of Trust. The number of Trustees shall be the number of persons so signing until changed by the Trustees, and the Trustees may fix the number of Trustees from time to time; provided that the number of Trustees shall at all times be at least one (1). Each Trustee shall serve during the continued lifetime of the Trust until the next meeting of Shareholders called for the purpose of electing Trustees and until the election and qualification of his or her successor or, if sooner, until he or she dies, declines to serve, resigns, retires, is removed, is incapacitated or is otherwise unable or unwilling to serve as herein provided. Shareholders shall not be entitled to elect Trustees except as required by the 1940 Act. To the extent required by the 1940 Act, the Shareholders shall elect the Trustees on such dates as the Trustees may fix from time to time. Any Trustee may resign at any time by an instrument signed by him and delivered to any officer of the Trust or to a meeting of the Trustees. Such resignation shall be effective upon receipt unless specified to be effective at some other time. Except to the extent expressly provided in a written agreement with the Trust, no Trustee resigning and no Trustee removed shall have any right to any compensation for any period following the effective date of his or her resignation or removal, or any right to damages on account of such removal. The Shareholders may elect Trustees at any meeting of Shareholders called by the Trustees for that purpose. In the event that after the proxy material has been printed for a meeting of Shareholders at which Trustees are to be elected any one or more nominees named in such proxy material dies or become incapacitated or is otherwise unable or unwilling to serve, the authorized number of Trustees shall be automatically reduced by the number of such nominees, unless the Board of Trustees prior to the meeting shall otherwise determine. Any Trustee may be removed by action of a majority of the Trustees with or without cause. Any Trustee may be removed with or without cause at any meeting of Shareholders by a vote of two-thirds of the total combined net asset value of all Shares of the Trust issued and outstanding. A meeting of Shareholders for the purpose of electing or removing one or more Trustees shall be called as provided in the By-Laws.

  • Resignation of Directors A director may resign at any time by delivering written notice to the Board, its Chairman (as hereinafter defined), if any, or the Company. A resignation shall be effective when the notice is delivered unless the notice specifies a later effective date.

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