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EXHIBIT 3.2

UNICO AMERICAN CORPORATION

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BYLAWS

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(as amended and restated on

April 1, 2009)



ARTICLE I

OFFICES

    Section 1.  The principal office shall be in the City of Reno, County of Washoe, State of Nevada.
 
    Section 2.  The Corporation may also have offi­ces at such other places both within and without the State of Nevada as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine or the business of the Corporation may require
 
ARTICLE II

MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

    Section 1.  All annual meetings of the stockholders shall be held at 23251 Mulholland Drive, Woodland Hills, Cali­fornia, unless another location is so designated by the Board of Directors. Special meetings of the stockholders may be held at such time and place within or without the State of Nevada as shall be stated in the notice of the meeting, or in a du1y executed waiver of notice thereof.

    Section 2.  Annual meetings of the stockholders are not required and stockholder meetings will be held as are deemed necessary and in accordance with Section 3 hereafter.

    Section 3.  Special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute or by the Articles of Incorporation, may be called by the President and shall be called by the President or Secretary at the request in writing of a majority of the Board of Directors, or at the request in writing of stockholders owning at least two-thirds in amount of the entire capital stock of the Corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote.  Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting.

    Section 4.  Notices of meetings shall be in writing and signed by the President or a vice president, or the Secretary, or an assistant secretary, or by such other person or persons as the directors shall designate. Such notice shall state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called and the time when, and the place, which may be within or without this state, where it is to be held. A copy of such notice shall be either delivered personally to or shall be mailed, postage prepaid, to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before such meeting.  If mailed, it shall be directed to a stockholder at his address as it appears upon the records of the Corporation and upon such mailing of any such notice, the service thereof shall be complete, and the time of the notice shall begin to run from the date upon which such notice is deposited in the mail for transmission to such stockholder.  Personal delivery of any such notice to any officer of a corporation or association, or to any member of a partnership shall constitute delivery of such notice to such corporation, association or partnership.  In the event of the transfer of stock after delivery or mailing of the notice of and prior to the holding of the meeting it shall not be necessary to deliver or mail notice of the meeting to the transferee.

    Section 5.  Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.

    Section 6. The holders of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereof, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transac­tion of business except as otherwise provided by statute or by the Articles of Incorporation.  If, however, such quorum shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, the stockholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented.  At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified.

    Section 7.  When a quorum is present or repre­sented at any meeting, the vote of the holders of a majority of the stock having voting power present in person or repre­sented by proxy shall decide any question brought before such meeting, unless the question is one upon which by express provision of the Nevada General Corporation Law, these Bylaws or of the Articles of Incorporation, a different vote is required in which case such express provision shall govern and control the decision of such question.

    Section 8.  Except as hereinafter provided, every stockholder of record of the Corporation shall be entitled at each meeting of stockholders to one vote for each share of stock standing in his name on the books of the Corporation.

    Section 9.  At any meeting of the stockholders, any stockholder may be represented and vote by a proxy or proxies appointed by an instrument in writing. In the event that any such instrument in writing shall designate two or more persons to act as proxies, a majority of such persons present at the meeting, or, if only one shall be present, then that one shall have and may exercise all of the powers conferred by such written instrument upon all of the persons so designated unless the instrument shall otherwise provide. No such proxy shall be valid after the expiration of six (6) months from the date of its execution, unless coupled with an interest, or unless the person executing it specifies therein the length of time for which it is to continue in force, which in no case shall exceed seven (7) years from the date of its execution.  Subject to the above, any proxy duly executed is not revoked and continues in full force and effect until an instrument revoking it or a duly executed proxy hearing a later date is filed with the Secretary of the Corporation.

    Section 10.  Any action, except election of directors, which may be taken by the vote of the stockholders at a meeting, may be taken without a meeting if authorized by the written consent of stockholders holding at least two-thirds of the voting power, unless the provisions of the statutes, these Bylaws, or of the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation require a greater proportion of voting power to authorize such action in which case such greater proportion of written consents shall be required.


ARTICLE III
 
  DIRECTORS
    Section 1. The Corporation shall have not less than three (3) but not more than eleven (11) directors, until changed by amendment of the Articles of Incorporation or by an amendment to this Bylaw duly adopted by stockholders entitled to exercise a majority of the voting power of the Corporation.  The exact number of directors within the three (3) to eleven (11) range shall be fixed and may, from time to time, be changed by resolution of the Board of Directors.

    Section 2.  Vacancies, including those caused by an increase in the number of directors, may be filled by a majority of the remaining directors though less than a quorum.  When one or more directors shall give notice of his or their resignation to the board, effective at a future date, the board shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies to take effect when such resignation or resigna­tions shall become effective, each director so appointed to hold office during the remainder of the term of office of the resignating director or directors.

    Section 3.  The business of the Corporation shall be managed by its Board of Directors which may exer­cise all such powers of the Corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute or by the Articles of Incorporation or by these Bylaws directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.

    Section 4.  The Board of Directors of the Corporation may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or without the State of Nevada.

    Section 5.  Any director may be removed from office by the vote or written consent of stockholders representing not less than two-thirds of the voting power of the capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote.

    Section 6.  The first meeting of each newly elected Board of Directors shall be held at such time and place as shall be fixed by the vote of the stockholders at the annual meeting and no notice of such meeting shall be necessary to the newly elected directors in order legally to constitute the meeting, provided a quorum shall be present.  In the event of the failure of the stockholders to fix the time or place of such first meeting of the newly elected Board of Directors, or in the event such meeting is not held at the time and place so fixed by the stockholders, the meeting may be held at such time and place as shall be spe­cified in a notice given hereinafter provided for special meetings of the Board of Directors, or as shall be specified in a written waiver signed by all of the directors.
 
    Section 7.  Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held without notice at such time and place as shall from time to time be determined by the board.
 
    Section 8.  Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the President or Secretary on the written request of two directors. Written notice of special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least ten (10) days before the date of the meeting.
 
    Section 9.  A majority of the Board of Directors, at a meeting duly assembled, shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute or by the Articles of Incorporation.  Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of the direc­tors may be taken without a meeting if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all of the directors entitled to vote with respect to the subject matter thereof.
 
    Section 10. The Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole board, desig­nate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation, which, to the extent provided in the resolution, shall have and may exercise the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may have power to authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it. Such committee or committees shall have such name or names as may be deter­mined from time to time by resolution adopted by the Board of Directors.

    Section 11.  The committees shall keep regular minutes of their proceedings and report the same to the board when required.

    Section 12.  The directors may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors and may be paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board of Directors or a stated salary as director. No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefore. Members of special or standing committees may be allowed like compensation for attending committee meetings.

 
ARTICLE IV

NOTICES
 
    Section 1.  Notices to directors and stockholders shall be in writing and delivered personally or mailed to the directors or stockholders at their addresses appearing on the books of the Corporation.  Notice by mail shall be deemed to be given at the time when the same shall be mailed.  Notice to directors may also be given by telegram.

    Section 2.  Whenever all parties entitled to vote at any meeting, whether of directors or stockholders, consent, either by a writing on the records of the meeting or filed with the Secretary, or by presence at such meeting and oral consent entered on the minutes, or by taking part in the deliberations at such meeting without objection, the doings of such meeting shall be as valid as if had at a meeting regularly called and noticed, and at such meeting any business may be transacted which is not excepted from the written consent or to the consideration of which no objection for want of notice is made at the time, and if any meeting be irregular for want of notice or of such consent, provided a quorum was present at such meeting, the proceedings of said meeting may be ratified and approved and rendered likewise valid and irregularity or defect therein waived by a writing signed by all parties having the right to vote at such meeting, and such consent or approval of stockholders may be by proxy or attorney, but all such proxies and powers of attorney must be in writing.

    Section 3.  Whenever any notice whatever is required to be given under the provisions of the statutes, of the Articles of Incorporation or of these Bylaws, a waiver thereof in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to said notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto.


ARTICLE V

OFFICERS

    Section 1.  The officers of the Corporation shall be a President & Chief Executive Officer, a Treasurer & Chief Financial Officer, a Vice-President, and a Secretary.  The Corporation may also have, at the discretion of the Board of Directors, a Chairman of the Board, one or more Vice-Presidents and a General Counsel.  Any person may hold two or more offices.

    Section 2.  The Board of Directors at its first meeting after each annual meeting of stockholders shall choose a President, a Vice President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, none of whom need be a member of the board.

    Section 3.  The Board of Directors may appoint additional vice presidents, and assistant secretaries and assistant treasurers and such other officers and agents as it shall deem necessary who shall hold their offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the board.
 
    Section 4.  The salaries of all officers and agents of the Corporation shall be fixed by the Board of Directors.

    Section 5.  The officers of the Corporation shall hold office until their successors are chosen and qualify.  Any officer elected or appointed by the Board of Directors may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Directors.  Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Corporation by death, resignation, removal or otherwise shall be filled by the Board of Directors.

    Section 6.  The President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation, shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board of Directors, shall have general and active management of the business of the Corporation, and shall see that all orders and resolu­tions of the Board of Directors are carried into effect.

    Section 7.  In the absence or disability of the President, the Executive Vice President and then the vice presidents in order of their rank as fixed by the Board of Directors, or if not ranked, the Vice President designated by the Board of Directors, shall perform all of 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.  The Executive Vice President and the vice presidents shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as from time to time may be prescribed for them by the Board of Directors or the Bylaws.

    Section 8.  The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board of Directors and all meetings of the stockholders and record all the proceedings of the meetings of the Corporation and of the Board of Directors in a book to be kept for that purpose and shall perform like duties for the standing committees when required.  He shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meeting of the stockholders and special meeting of the Board of Directors, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or President, under whose supervision he shall be.  He shall keep in a safe custody the seal of the Corporation and, when authorized by be Board of Directors, affix the same to any instrument requiring it and, when so affixed, it shall be attested by his signature or by the signature of the treasurer or an assistant secretary.

    Section 9.  The Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation and shall deposit all monies and other valuable effects in the names and to the credit of the Corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors.
 
    Section 10.   He shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board of Directors taking proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the President and the Board of Directors, at the regular meetings of the board, or when the Board of Directors so requires, an account of all his transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the Corporation.
 
    Section 11.  If required by the Board of Directors, he shall give the Corporation a bond in such sum and with such surety or sureties as shall be satisfactory to the Board of Directors for the faithful performance of the duties of his office and for the restoration to the Corporation, in case of his death, resignation, retirement or removal from office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in his possession or under his control belonging to the Corporation.
 
 
ARTICLE VI

CERTIFICATES OF STOCK
 
    Section 1.  Every stockholder shall be entitled to have a certificate, signed by the President or a vice president and the Treasurer or an assistant treasurer, or the Secretary or an assistant secretary of the Corporation, certifying the number of shares owned by him in the Corporation.  When the Corporation is authorized to issue shares of more than one class or more than one series of any class, there shall be set forth upon the face or back of the certificate, or the certificate shall have a statement that the Corporation will furnish to any stockholders upon request and without charge, a full or summary statement of the designations, preferences and relative, participating, option or other special rights of the various classes of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such rights, and, if the Corporation shall be authorized to issue only special stock, such certificate shall set forth in full or summarize the rights of the holders of such stock.

    Section 2.  Whenever any certificate is countersigned or otherwise authenticated by a transfer agent or transfer clerk, and by a registrar, then a facsimile of the signatures of the officers or agents of the Corporation may be printed or lithographed upon such certificate in lieu of the actual signatures.  In case any officer or officers who shall have signed; or whose facsimile signature or signa­tures shall have been used on, any such certificate or cer­tificates shall cease to be such officer or officers of the Corporation, whether because of death, resignation or otherwise, before such certificate or certificates shall have been delivered by the Corporation, such certificate or cer­tificates may nevertheless be adopted by the Corporation and be issued and delivered as though the person or persons who signed such certificate or certificates, or whose facsimile signature or signatures shall have been used thereon, had not ceased to be the officer or officers of such Corporation.

    Section 3.  The Board of Directors may direct a new certificate or certificates to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the Corporation alleged to have been lost or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost or destroyed.  When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his legal representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or give the Corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the Corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost or destroyed.

    Section 4.  Upon surrender to the Corporation or the transfer agent of the Corporation of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the Corporation to issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate and record the transaction upon its books.

    Section 5.  The directors may prescribe a period not exceeding sixty (60) days prior to any meeting of the stockholders during which no transfer of stock on the books of the Corporation may be made, or may fix a day not more than sixty (60) days prior to the holding of any such meeting as the day as of which stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting shall be determined; and only stockholders of record on such day shall be entitled to notice or to vote at such meeting.

    Section 6.  The Corporation shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends, and to vote as such owner, and to hold liable for calls and assessments a person registered on its books as the owner of shares, and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Nevada.

 
   ARTICLE VII
 
   GENERAL PROVISIONS

    Section 1.  Dividends upon the capital stock of the Corporation, subject to the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, if any, may be declared by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting, pursuant to law.  Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the capital stock, subject to the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation.

    Section 2.  Before payment of any dividend, there may be set aside out of any funds of the Corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the directors from time to time, in their absolute discretion, think proper as a reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the Corporation, or for such other purpose as the directors shall think conducive to the interest of the Corporation, and the directors may modify or abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.

    Section 3.  The Board of Directors may, in its discretion, determine the method and designate the signatory officer or officers, or other person or persons, to execute any corporate instrument or document, or to sign the corporate name without limitation, except where otherwise provided by law, and such execution or signature shall be binding upon the Corporation. Unless otherwise specifi­cally determined by the Board of Directors or otherwise re­quired by law, formal contracts of the Corporation, promis­sory notes, deeds of trust, mortgages and other evidences of indebtedness of the Corporation, and other corporate instru­ments or documents requiring the corporate seal, and certi­ficates of shares of stock owned by the Corporation, shall be executed, signed or endorsed by the Chairman of the Board (if there be such an officer appointed), or by the President or any vice president and by the Secretary, Treasurer, any assistant secretary or assistant treasurer.  All other instruments and documents requiring the corporate signature, but not requiring the corporate seal, may be executed as aforesaid or in such other manner as may be directed by the Board of Directors.

    Section 4.  All checks or demands for money and notes of the Corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.

    Section 5.  The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors.

    Section 6.  The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the Corporation, the year of its incorporation and the words “Corporate Seal, Nevada.”

 
ARTICLE VIII
 
AMENDMENTS

    Section 1.  These Bylaws may be altered or repealed at any regular meeting of the stockholders or, of the Board of Directors or at any special meeting of the stockholders or of the Board of Directors if notice of such alteration or repeal be contained in the notice of such special meeting.

    Section 2.  Any amendment of these Bylaws by the stockholders of the Corporation shall require the vote or written consent of stockholders holding at least two-thirds of the voting power of the capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote.