Voting Procedures. Subject to the cost allocation procedures set forth in Section 3 hereof, LIFE COMPANY will distribute all proxy material furnished by AVIF to Participants to whom pass-through voting privileges are required to be extended and will solicit voting instructions from Participants. LIFE COMPANY will vote Shares in accordance with timely instructions received from Participants. LIFE COMPANY will vote Shares that are (a) not attributable to Participants to whom pass-through voting privileges are extended, or (b) attributable to Participants, but for which no timely instructions have been received, in the same proportion as Shares for which said instructions have been received from Participants, so long as and to the extent that the SEC continues to interpret the 1940 Act to require pass through voting privileges for Participants. Neither LIFE COMPANY nor any of its affiliates will in any way recommend action in connection with or oppose or interfere with the solicitation of proxies for the Shares held for such Participants. LIFE COMPANY reserves the right to vote shares held in any Account in its own right, to the extent permitted by law. LIFE COMPANY shall be responsible for assuring that each of its Accounts holding Shares calculates voting privileges in a manner consistent with that of other Participating Insurance Companies or in the manner required by the Mixed and Shared Funding exemptive order obtained by AVIF. AVIF will notify LIFE COMPANY of any changes of interpretations or amendments to Mixed and Shared Funding exemptive order it has obtained. AVIF will comply with all provisions of the 1940 Act requiring voting by shareholders, and in particular, AVIF either will provide for annual meetings (except insofar as the SEC may interpret Section 16 of the 1940 Act not to require such meetings) or will comply with Section 16(c) of the 1940 Act (although AVIF is not one of the trusts described in Section 16(c) of that Act) as well as with Sections 16(a) and, if and when applicable, 16(b). Further, AVIF will act in accordance with the SEC's interpretation of the requirements of Section 16
(a) with respect to periodic elections of directors and with whatever rules the SEC may promulgate with respect thereto.
Voting Procedures. With respect to any matters submitted to Certificateholders for a vote, the Certificate Administrator shall administer such vote through the Depository with respect to Global Certificates and directly with registered Holders by mail with respect to Definitive Certificates. In each case, such vote shall be administered in accordance with the following procedures, unless different procedures are otherwise described herein with respect to a specific vote:
(a) Any matter submitted to Certificateholders for a vote shall be announced in a notice prepared by the Certificate Administrator. Such notice shall include the record date determined by the Certificate Administrator for purposes of the vote and a voting deadline which, unless otherwise specifically contemplated herein for any particular matter, shall be no less than thirty (30) days and no later than sixty (60) days after the date such notice is distributed. The notice and related ballot shall be sent to Holders of Global Certificates through the Depository and by mail to the registered Holders of Definitive Certificates. In addition, the notice and related ballot shall be posted to the Certificate Administrator’s Website. Notices delivered in this manner shall be considered delivered to all Holders regardless of whether any Holder actually receives the notice and ballot.
(b) In connection with any vote administered pursuant to this Agreement, voting Holders shall be required to certify their holdings in the manner set forth on the ballot, unless a specific manner is otherwise provided herein. Holders may only vote in accordance with their Voting Rights. Voting Rights with respect to any outstanding Class of Certificates shall be calculated by the Certificate Administrator in accordance with the definition of Voting Rights as of the record date for the vote. Only Classes with an outstanding Certificate Balance or Notional Amount, as applicable, greater than zero as of the record date of the vote shall be permitted to vote. Once a Holder has cast its vote, the vote may be changed or retracted on or before the vote deadline. Any changes or retractions shall be communicated by the Certificateholder to the Certificate Administrator in writing on a ballot. After the vote deadline has passed, votes may not be changed or retracted by any Holder unless the Holder wishing to change or retract its vote holds a sufficient portion of the Voting Rights such that the Holder, by its vote alone, could approve or deny the ...
Voting Procedures. (i) As soon as practicable after the accrual of any right of the holders of Preferred Shares to elect additional trustees as described in Section 11.5(b) above, the Trust shall call a special meeting of such holders and instruct the Auction Agent and any other registrar for Preferred Shares to mail a notice of such special meeting to such holders, such meeting to be held not less than 10 nor more than 20 days after the date of mailing of such notice. If the Trust fails to send such notice to the Auction Agent and any other applicable registrar, or if the Trust does not call such a special meeting, it may be called by any such holder on like notice. The record date for determining the holders entitled to notice of and to vote at such special meeting shall be the close of business on the fifth Business Day preceding the day on which such notice is mailed. At any such special meeting and at each meeting held during a Voting Period, such holders, voting together as a class (to the exclusion of the holders of all other securities and classes of shares of beneficial interest of the Trust), shall be entitled to elect the number of directors prescribed in Section 11.5(b) above. At any such meeting or adjournment thereof in the absence of a quorum, a majority of such holders present in person or by proxy shall have the power to adjourn the meeting without notice, other than by an announcement at the meeting, to a date not more than 120 days after the original record date.
(ii) Except as otherwise required by applicable law, for purposes of determining any rights of the Holders to vote on any matter or the number of shares required to constitute a quorum, whether such right is created by these Bylaws, by the other provisions of the Declaration of Trust, by statute or otherwise, a share of APS which is not Outstanding shall not be counted.
(iii) The terms of office of all persons who are trustees of the Trust at the time of a special meeting of Holders and holders of other Preferred Shares to elect trustees shall continue, notwithstanding the election at such meeting by the Holders and such other holders of the number of trustees that they are entitled to elect, and the persons so elected by the Holders and such other holders, together with the two incumbent trustees elected by the Holders and such other holders of Preferred Shares and the remaining incumbent trustees elected by the holders of the Common Shares and Preferred Shares, shall constitute the duly elected ...
Voting Procedures. Subject to the cost allocation procedures set forth in Section 3 hereof, Insurer will distribute all proxy material furnished by the Fund to Participants and will vote Fund shares in accordance with instructions received from Participants. Insurer will vote Fund shares that are (a) not attributable to Participants or (b) attributable to Participants, but for which no instructions have been received, in the same proportion as Fund shares for which said instructions have been received from Participants. Insurer agrees that it will disregard Participant voting instructions only to the extent it would be permitted to do so pursuant to Rule 6e-3 (T)(b)(15)(iii) under the 1940 Act if the Contracts were variable life insurance policies subject to that rule. Other participating life insurance companies utilizing the Fund will be responsible for calculating voting privileges in a manner consistent with that of Insurer, as prescribed by this Section 11.
Voting Procedures. Subject to the cost allocation procedures set forth in Section 3 hereof, Prudential will distribute all proxy material furnished by AVIF to Participants to whom pass-through voting privileges are required to be extended and will solicit voting instructions from Participants. Prudential will vote Shares in accordance with timely instructions received from Participants. Prudential will vote Shares that are (a) not attributable to Participants to whom pass-through voting privileges are extended, or (b) attributable to Participants, but for which no timely instructions have been received, in the same proportion as Shares for which said instructions have been received from Participants, so long as and to the extent that the SEC continues to interpret the 1940 Act to require pass through voting privileges for Participants. Neither Prudential nor any of its affiliates will in any way recommend action in connection with or oppose or interfere with the solicitation of proxies for the Shares held for such Participants. Prudential reserves the right to vote shares held in any Account in its own right, to the extent permitted by law. Prudential shall be responsible for assuring that each of its Accounts holding Shares calculates voting privileges in a manner consistent with that of other Participating Insurance Companies or in the manner required by any Mixed and Shared Funding exemptive order that AVIF may obtain in the future. AVIF will notify Prudential of any changes of interpretations or amendments to any Mixed and Shared Funding exemptive order it obtains in the future.
Voting Procedures. Subject to the cost allocation procedures set forth in Section 3 hereof, Insurer will distribute all proxy material furnished by the Fund to Participants (unless exempt therefrom) and will vote Fund shares in accordance with instructions received from Participants. Unless exempt therefrom, and for each Separate Account, Insurer will vote Fund shares that are (a) not attributable to Participants or (b) attributable to Participants, but for which no instructions have been received, in the same proportion as Fund shares for which said instructions have been received from Participants. Insurer agrees that it will disregard Participant voting instructions only to the extent it would be permitted to do so pursuant to Rule 6e-3 (T)(b)(15)(iii) under the 1940 Act if the Contracts were variable life insurance policies subject to that rule. Other participating life insurance companies utilizing the Fund will be responsible for calculating voting privileges in a manner consistent with that of Insurer, as prescribed by this Section 11.
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Voting Procedures. Subject to the cost allocation procedures set forth in Section 3 hereof, LIFE COMPANY will distribute all proxy material furnished by the Fund to Participants to whom pass-through voting privileges are required to be extended and will solicit voting instructions from Participants. LIFE COMPANY will vote Shares in accordance with timely instructions received from Participants. LIFE COMPANY will vote Shares that are (a) not attributable to Participants to whom pass-through voting privileges are extended, or (b) attributable to Participants, but for which no timely instructions have been received, in the same proportion as Shares for which said instructions have been received from Participants, so long as and to the extent that the SEC continues to interpret the 1940 Act to require pass through voting privileges for Participants. Neither LIFE COMPANY nor any of its affiliates will in any way recommend action in connection with or oppose or interfere with the solicitation of proxies for the Shares held for such Participants. LIFE COMPANY reserves the right to vote shares held in any Account in its own right, to the extent permitted by law. LIFE COMPANY shall be responsible for assuring that each of its Accounts holding Shares calculates voting privileges in the manner required by the Order obtained by the Fund. The Fund will notify LIFE COMPANY of any amendments to the Order it has obtained.
Voting Procedures. If, in connection with any stockholder meeting or consent solicitation, Investor or the Investor Parties are required under the terms of this Agreement to vote in proportion to the Unaffiliated Stockholders, then the parties shall cooperate to determine appropriate procedures and mechanics to facilitate such proportionate voting.
Voting Procedures. The following voting procedures shall be used by department, College, and university committees that consider renewal of probationary appointments:
(i) each member of a committee, including the chair, shall have one vote. Members may vote on a particular candidate only if they have taken part in the committee's deliberations on that candidate;
(ii) a quorum shall be two-thirds of the members of a committee taken to the nearest integer. Employees on leave or excluded because of conflict of interest shall not be counted in order to determine the size of a committee nor to determine if a meeting has a quorum. However, an employee on leave who is a member of a committee may, if present, participate and vote in the meetings of the committee.
(iii) the decision on renewal of a probationary appointment shall be by simple majority of the vote of those voting. The vote of any member abstaining shall not be counted in support of either the affirmative or negative view. A tie vote means that the motion is lost. The vote shall be taken in response to the question: "Shall renewal be recommended?";
(iv) any member of a committee who is of the immediate family of a candidate shall be disqualified from attending the deliberations of the committee concerning the case and from voting on the question;
(v) each committee shall have the right to rule a member ineligible to vote or to require the member's withdrawal from the deliberations of the committee if it considers a serious conflict of interest to exist;
(vi) employees shall withdraw as members of College or University Review Committees when these committees receive or review the recommendations of Department or College Committees of which they have been members.
