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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-QSB
(Mark One)
     
þ   Quarterly Report Under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2007.
     
o   Transition Report Under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the transition period from                      to                     .
Commission file number : 0-25679
BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
(Exact Name of small business issuer in its charter)
     
Kansas   48-1187574
     
(State of incorporation)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
     
8500 College Blvd., Overland Park, KS 66210    
     
(Address of principal executive offices)    
Issuer’s telephone number                     (913) 661-0123
Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period the Registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
Yes þ No o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yes o No o
State the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common equity, as of the latest practicable date.
Common Stock, $.01 Par Value — 3,085,817 shares as of July 19, 2007
Transitional Small Business Disclosure Format (check one): Yes o No þ
 
 

 

 


 

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INDEX TO FORM 10-QSB
         
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 Exhibit 3.3
 Exhibit 3.4
 Exhibit 3.7
 Exhibit 31.1
 Exhibit 31.2
 Exhibit 32.1
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PART I
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
                 
    (Unaudited)        
    June 30,     December 31,  
Assets   2007     2006  
 
           
Investments:
               
Securities available-for-sale, at fair value:
               
Fixed maturities (amortized cost, $17,023,155 in 2007 and $12,532,067 in 2006)
  $ 16,384,834     $ 12,298,780  
Equity securities (cost of $241,600 in 2007 and $258,400 in 2006)
    239,617       283,060  
Investments in real estate
    274,564       274,564  
Policy loans
    181,032       166,026  
Mortgage loans on real estate
    1,898,628       1,937,281  
Other investments
    3,460,975       3,067,369  
 
           
Total investments
    22,439,650       18,027,080  
 
               
Cash and cash equivalents
    4,804,645       3,542,928  
Accrued investment income
    294,770       233,858  
Accounts receivable
    134,326       281,894  
Reinsurance receivables
    180,509       112,145  
Deferred policy acquisition costs (net of accumulated amortization of $4,808,605 in 2007 and $4,449,936 in 2006)
    5,340,116       5,209,693  
Property and equipment (net of accumulated depreciation of $1,006,888 in 2007 and $945,228 in 2006)
    2,578,902       2,627,586  
Other assets
    1,013,031       1,221,559  
 
           
Total assets
  $ 36,785,949     $ 31,256,743  
 
           
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BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (continued)
                 
    (Unaudited)        
    June 30,     December 31,  
Liabilities and Shareholders' Equity   2007     2006  
 
           
Policy and contract liabilities:
               
Future annuity benefits
  $ 16,857,235     $ 13,658,174  
Future policy benefits
    6,590,741       6,109,055  
Liability for policy claims
    97,561       211,932  
Policyholder premium deposits
    80,642       104,038  
Deposits on pending policy applications
    16,031       27,788  
Reinsurance premiums payable
    49,538       54,732  
Amounts held under reinsurance
          18,321  
 
           
Total policy and contract liabilities
    23,691,748       20,184,040  
 
               
Commissions, salaries, wages and benefits payable
    279,906       49,661  
Other liabilities
    427,522       257,085  
Federal income taxes payable
    662,631        
Deferred federal income taxes payable
    422,044       508,380  
 
           
Total liabilities
    25,483,851       20,999,166  
 
               
Shareholders’ equity:
               
Common stock, $.01 par value, 25,000,000 shares authorized; 3,214,486 issued and 3,085,817 outstanding in 2007; and 2,666,666 issued and outstanding in 2006
    32,145       26,667  
Additional paid in capital
    14,919,456       14,530,631  
Accumulated deficit
    (2,401,248 )     (4,132,804 )
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
    (512,258 )     (166,917 )
Less: Treasury stock held at cost (128,669 shares in 2007 and 0 shares in 2006)
    (735,997 )      
 
           
Total shareholders’ equity
    11,302,098       10,257,577  
 
           
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity
  $ 36,785,949     $ 31,256,743  
 
           
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BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
                                 
    (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  
    Three months ended     Six months ended  
    June 30,     June 30,     June 30,     June 30,  
    2007     2006     2007     2006  
Revenues:
                               
Gross premium income
  $ 968,183     $ 972,407     $ 2,187,358     $ 2,236,373  
Reinsurance premiums assumed
    6,471       6,471       9,058       8,637  
Reinsurance premiums ceded
    (125,493 )     (150,520 )     (274,191 )     (312,873 )
 
                       
Net premium income
    849,161       828,358       1,922,225       1,932,137  
Net investment income
    353,180       267,710       675,811       533,676  
Net realized investment gain (loss)
    80,640       (68,293 )     80,594       (70,017 )
Rental income
    59,596       59,057       119,192       118,114  
Consulting fees and other income
    3,989,951       1,054       4,245,158       1,305  
 
                       
Total revenue
    5,332,528       1,087,886       7,042,980       2,515,215  
 
                       
 
                               
Benefits and expenses:
                               
Increase in policy reserves
    152,060       185,348       481,686       435,325  
Policyholder surrender values
    59,040       76,556       145,746       147,921  
Interest credited on annuities and premium deposits
    193,109       142,943       365,853       269,247  
Death claims
    103,745       162,467       417,282       295,031  
Commissions
    245,021       175,299       498,435       425,620  
Policy acquisition costs deferred
    (238,346 )     (162,257 )     (489,092 )     (437,251 )
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs
    194,810       209,827       358,669       365,743  
Salaries, wages, and employee benefits
    879,573       218,176       1,228,510       489,009  
Miscellaneous taxes
    28,703       32,223       58,344       59,351  
Other operating costs and expenses
    1,012,676       230,231       1,357,876       589,323  
 
                       
Total benefits and expenses
    2,630,391       1,270,813       4,423,309       2,639,319  
 
                       
 
                               
Income (Loss) before income tax expense
    2,702,137       (182,927 )     2,619,671       (124,104 )
 
                       
 
                               
Income tax expense
    888,115             888,115        
 
                       
 
                               
Net Income (Loss)
  $ 1,814,022     $ (182,927 )   $ 1,731,556     $ (124,104 )
 
                       
 
                               
Net Income (Loss) per common share — basic and diluted
  $ 0.58     $ (0.13 )   $ 0.57     $ (0.09 )
 
                       
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BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
                                 
    (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  
    Three months ended     Six months ended  
    June 30,     June 30,     June 30,     June 30,  
    2007     2006     2007     2006  
 
                               
Net income (loss)
  $ 1,814,022     $ (182,927 )   $ 1,731,556     $ (124,104 )
 
                       
Unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale securities:
                               
Unrealized holding loss during the period
    (371,432 )     (285,437 )     (351,083 )     (589,804 )
Less: Reclassification for gains (loss) included in net income
    80,640       (68,293 )     80,594       (70,017 )
Tax benefit
    90,415       40,334       86,336       103,197  
 
                       
 
                               
Other comprehensive loss
    (361,657 )     (176,810 )     (345,341 )     (416,590 )
 
                       
 
                               
Comprehensive income (loss)
  $ 1,452,365     $ (359,737 )   $ 1,386,215     $ (540,694 )
 
                       
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BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
                 
    (Unaudited)  
    Six months ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2007     2006  
Operating activities:
               
Net income (loss)
  $ 1,731,556     $ (124,104 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:
               
Interest credited on annuities and premium deposits
    365,853       269,247  
Net realized investment (gain) loss
    (80,594 )     70,017  
Provision for depreciation
    62,278       66,117  
Amortization of premium and accretion of discount on fixed maturity and short-term investments
    (104,114 )     (42,505 )
Acquisition costs capitalized
    (489,092 )     (437,251 )
Amortization of deferred acquisition costs
    358,669       365,743  
(Increase) decrease in assets:
               
Accrued investment income
    (60,912 )     24,476  
Accounts receivable
    147,568       68,263  
Reinsurance receivables
    (68,364 )     (34,050 )
Policy loans
    (15,006 )     (38,437 )
Other assets
    208,528       (97,813 )
Increase (decrease) in liabilities:
               
Future policy benefits
    481,686       435,325  
Liability for policy claims
    (114,371 )     (12,979 )
Deposits on pending policy applications
    (11,757 )     7,120  
Reinsurance premiums payable
    (5,194 )     (41,137 )
Amounts held under reinsurance
    (18,321 )     (123,650 )
Commissions, salaries, wages and benefits payable
    230,245       (70,244 )
Income tax payable
    662,631        
Other liabilities
    170,434       56,523  
 
           
Net cash provided by operating activities
  $ 3,451,723     $ 340,661  
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BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (continued)
                 
    (Unaudited)  
    Six months ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2007     2006  
Investing activities:
               
Purchase of available-for-sale fixed maturities
  $ (4,536,733 )   $ (664,852 )
Sale of available-for-sale fixed maturities
          2,258,015  
Maturity of available-for-sale fixed maturities
    23,958       471,000  
Sale of available-for-sale equities
    97,440       222,699  
Additions to property and equipment
    (13,594 )     (7,755 )
Purchase of other investments
    (592,400 )     (1,329,068 )
Maturity of other investments
    324,552       203,687  
Payments received on mortgage loans
    38,653       27,429  
 
           
Net cash used in investing activities
    (4,658,124 )     1,181,155  
 
               
Financing activities:
               
Payments on notes payable
          (2,272,986 )
Deposits on annuity contracts
    3,307,397       1,929,687  
Surrenders on annuity contracts
    (472,299 )     (337,060 )
Policyholder premium deposits
    2,431        
Withdrawals on policyholder premium deposits
    (27,717 )     (14,109 )
Purchase of treasury stock
    (735,997 )      
Proceeds from redemption of warrant
    394,303        
 
           
Net cash provided by financing activities
    2,468,118       (694,468 )
 
           
 
               
Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
    1,261,717       827,348  
 
               
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period
    3,542,928       249,109  
 
           
 
               
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period
  $ 4,804,645     $ 1,076,457  
 
           
 
               
Supplemental disclosure of cash activities:
               
Interest paid
  $     $ 62,295  
 
           
 
               
Income taxes paid
  $     $  
 
           
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BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
1. Basis of Presentation
The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements of Brooke Capital Corporation (“BCAP” formerly First American Capital Corporation) and its Subsidiaries (collectively the “Company”) for the three month and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 and 2006 are unaudited. However, in the opinion of the Company, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been reflected therein.
Certain financial information which is normally included in financial statements prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, but which is not required for interim reporting purposes, has been omitted. The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s annual report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006. The results of operations for the interim periods are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the full year.
Significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in the consolidated financial statements.
A complete summary of significant accounting policies is included in the notes to the audited consolidated financial statements included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2006.
2. Net Income (Loss) Per Common Share
Basic net income (loss) per common share is calculated by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Diluted net income (loss) is calculated by including the weighted average effect of dilutive warrants outstanding during the periods. The weighted average number of shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants assumes that the applicable proceeds from such exercises are used to acquire treasury shares at the average price of common stock during the periods. Basic and diluted net income (loss) per share for the three month and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, were determined as follows (adjusted for the 1-for-3 reverse stock split approved by the Company’s shareholders on January 31, 2007 and effective as of April 13, 2007):
                                 
    Three months ended     Six months ended  
    June 30,     June 30,     June 30,     June 30,  
    2007     2006     2007     2006  
Numerator:
                               
Net income (loss)
  $ 1,814,022     $ (182,926 )   $ 1,731,556     $ (124,104 )
 
                       
 
                               
Denominator:
                               
Average common shares outstanding (after the effect of 1-for-3 reverse stock split) used for basic and diluted earnings per share
    3,101,568       1,419,019       3,063,890       1,419,019  
 
                       
 
                               
Earnings (loss) per share — basic and diluted
  $ 0.58     $ (0.13 )   $ 0.57     $ (0.09 )
 
                       
On April 2, 2007, the Company concluded a modified “Dutch auction” tender offer for shares of its common stock. The Company accepted for purchase 379,248 (126,416 post 1-for-3 reverse stock split) shares of its common stock at a price of $1.60 ($4.80 post split) per share for an aggregate price paid to shareholders of approximately $607,000. In connection with the execution of the reverse stock split, the Company purchased an additional 2,253 shares of common stock in accordance with its commitment to purchase for cash, any fractional shares that resulted from the reverse stock split. As of July 19, 2007, the Company had 3,085,817 shares of common stock outstanding.

 

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3. Federal Income Taxes
Current taxes are provided based on estimates of the projected effective annual tax rate. Deferred taxes reflect the net effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. The Company has elected to file a consolidated federal income tax return with its subsidiaries, First Life America Corporation (“FLAC”) and Brooke Capital Advisors, Inc., (“BCA”) for 2007 and 2006. FLAC is taxed as a life insurance company under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and had to file a separate tax return for its initial five years of existence, which covers the period from November 1998 through December 31, 2002.
4. Reinsurance
Effective September 29, 2005, the Company and Wilton Reassurance Company (“Wilton Re”), of Wilton, CT, executed a binding letter of intent whereby both parties agreed that the Company would cede the simplified issue version of its Golden Eagle Whole Life (Final Expense) product to Wilton Re on a 50/50 quota share original term coinsurance basis. The letter of intent was executed on a retroactive basis to cover all applicable business issued by the Company subsequent to January 1, 2005. Wilton Re has agreed to provide various commission and expense allowances to the Company in exchange for the Company ceding 50% of the applicable premiums to Wilton Re as they are collected. As of June 24, 2006, Wilton Re terminated the reinsurance treaty, for new business issued after the termination date.
5. Other Regulatory Matters
The Company believes that it is currently in material compliance with all state, federal and foreign regulations to which the Company is subject and the Company is unaware of any pending or threatened investigation, action or proceeding by any state federal or foreign regulatory agency involving the Company that would have a material adverse effect on the Company’s operations.
FLAC is licensed to transact life and annuity business in the states of Kansas, Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Kentucky, Nebraska and Ohio. In the fourth quarter 2005, Ohio suspended FLAC’s license because its statutory capital and surplus fell below the minimum amount of $2,500,000 as of September 30, 2005. This shortfall was corrected as of December 31, 2005 and Ohio reinstated FLAC’s license in 2006. FLAC operated under a Confidential Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which restricted its ability to write new business in Ohio until May 3, 2007, when FLAC was released from its MOU with the Ohio Department of Insurance. FLAC is now working to re-establish relationships with agents in that market.

 

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6. Financial Information Relating to Industry Segments
The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries have been classified into three operating segments as follows: life and annuity insurance operations (conducted by FLAC and by BCAP pursuant to a shared Services Agreement); brokerage operations conducted by BCA and corporate operations. All sales of life insurance by FLAC are to unaffiliated customers. Financial information related to these three segments of the Company’s business is presented below as of the dates and for the periods indicated:
                                 
    (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  
    Three months ended     Six months ended  
    June 30,     June 30,     June 30,     June 30,  
    2007     2006     2007     2006  
Revenues:
                               
Life and annuity insurance operations
  $ 1,260,520     $ 1,067,962     $ 2,708,441     $ 2,433,356  
Brokerage operations
    3,989,925       1,055       4,245,132       1,270  
Corporate
    82,083       18,869       89,407       80,589  
 
                       
Total
  $ 5,332,528     $ 1,087,886     $ 7,042,980     $ 2,515,215  
 
                       
 
                               
Income (loss) before income taxes:
                               
Life and annuity insurance operations
  $ 215,733     $ (67,691 )   $ 223,124     $ 176,776  
Brokerage operations
    2,853,315       (1,480 )     2,932,440       (6,426 )
Corporate
    (366,911 )     (113,756 )     (535,893 )     (294,454 )
 
                       
Total
  $ 2,702,137     $ (182,927 )   $ 2,619,671     $ (124,104 )
 
                       
 
                               
Depreciation and amortization expense:
                               
Life and annuity insurance operations
  $ 212,447     $ 221,793     $ 393,553     $ 377,709  
Brokerage operations
    48       146       97       292  
Corporate
    11,128       18,580       27,297       53,859  
 
                       
Total
  $ 223,623     $ 240,519     $ 420,947     $ 431,860  
 
                       
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2007     2006  
Assets:
               
Life and annuity insurance operations
  $ 31,305,082     $ 28,570,332  
Brokerage operations
    4,499,222       1,198,212  
Corporate
    981,645       1,488,199  
 
           
Total
  $ 36,785,949     $ 31,256,743  
 
           

 

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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
This report on Form 10-QSB for the quarter and six month period ended June 30, 2007 includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is subject to the safe harbor created by that act. Among other things, these statements relate to the Company’s financial condition, results of operations and business. These forward-looking statements are generally identified by the words or phrases “would be,” “will allow,” “expect to,” “intend to,” “will continue,” “is anticipated,” “estimate,” “plan,” “may,” “believe,” “implement,” “build,” “project” or similar expressions and references to strategies or plans.
While the Company provides forward-looking statements to assist in the understanding of the Company’s anticipated future financial performance, the Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date that the Company makes them. Forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Although the Company believes that the assumptions underlying its forward-looking statements are reasonable, any of the assumptions could prove to be inaccurate. Actual results may differ materially from those contained in or implied by these forward-looking statements for a variety of reasons. These risks and uncertainties are discussed in more detail in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in this section of this report and include, but are not limited to: the uncertainty that plans relating to the Company’s acquisition of a federal savings bank will be successfully implemented, the uncertainty as to the effect of the potential transaction on the earnings and operations of the Company; the uncertainty that the Company will achieve short-term and long-term profitability and growth goals, uncertainties associated with market acceptance of and demand for the products and services of the Company or its subsidiaries, the impact of competitive products and pricing, the dependence on third-party suppliers and their pricing, the availability of capital and funding sources, the exposure to market risks, uncertainties associated with the development of technology, changes in the law and in economic, political and regulatory environments, the impact of inflation and general economic conditions on the Company’s liquidity and capital resources, changes in management, the dependence on intellectual property rights, the effectiveness of internal controls, and risks and factors described from time to time in reports and registration statements filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. When considering forward-looking statements, you should keep these factors in mind as well as the other cautionary statements in this report. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement. The Company is not obligated to update forward-looking statements.
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The accounting policies below have been identified as critical to the understanding of the results of operations and financial position. The application of these critical accounting policies in preparing the financial statements requires management to use significant judgments and estimates concerning future results or other developments, including the likelihood, timing or amount of one or more future transactions. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. On an ongoing basis, estimates, assumptions and judgments are evaluated based on historical experience and various other information believed to be reasonable under the circumstances.
Consulting Fees. Brooke Capital Advisors, Inc. (“BCA”) uses its industry contacts and expertise in insurance brokerage to broker loans for, and consult with, managing general agencies and managing general agencies that own insurance companies, specializing in hard-to-place insurance sales, captive insurance agencies and funeral homes. BCA receives consulting fees for these activities. The fees associated with this service are recognized upon loan closing as all of the consulting services related to the transaction have been provided by BCA at or prior to closing.
BCA will also use its expertise in the hard-to-place and niche insurance industry to preserve collateral and monitor insurance agency borrowers on behalf of lenders. Fees are received for this collateral preservation activity. An initial fee is received and recognized upon loan closing. Ongoing fees are received monthly from these activities and are recognized as services are provided.

 

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Investments. The Company classifies all of its fixed maturity and equity investments as available-for-sale. Available-for-sale fixed maturities are carried at fair value with unrealized gains and losses, net of applicable taxes, reported in other comprehensive income. Equity securities are carried at fair value with unrealized gains and losses, net of applicable taxes, reported in other comprehensive income. Mortgage loans on real estate are carried at cost less principal payments. Other investments are carried at amortized cost. Discounts originating at the time of purchase, net of capitalized acquisition costs, are amortized using the level yield method on an individual basis over the remaining contractual term of the investment. Policy loans are carried at unpaid balances. Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments with maturities of three months or less at the date of purchase and are carried at cost, which approximates fair value. Realized gains and losses on sales of investments are recognized in operations on the specific identification basis. Interest earned on investments is included in net investment income.
Deferred Policy Acquisition Costs. Commissions and other costs of acquiring life insurance, which vary with, and are primarily related to, the production of new business have been deferred to the extent recoverable from future policy revenues and gross profits. The acquisition costs are being amortized over the premium paying period of the related policies using assumptions consistent with those used in computing policy reserves.
Future Policy Benefits. Traditional life insurance policy benefit liabilities are computed on a net level premium method using assumptions with respect to current yield, mortality, withdrawal rates, and other assumptions deemed appropriate by the Company.
Future Annuity Benefits. Annuity contract liabilities are computed using the retrospective deposit method and consist of policy account balances before deduction of surrender charges, which accrue to the benefit of policyholders. Premiums received on annuity contracts are recognized as an increase in a liability rather than premium income. Interest credited on annuity contracts is recognized as an expense.
Premiums. Premiums for traditional life insurance products are reported as revenue when due. Traditional insurance products include whole life and term life. Deposits relate to deferred annuity products. The cash flows from deposits are credited to policyholder account balances. Deposits are not recorded as revenue.
Income Taxes. Deferred income taxes are recorded on the differences between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and the amounts at which they are reported in the consolidated financial statements. Recorded amounts are adjusted to reflect changes in income tax rates and other tax law provisions as they become enacted.
Reinsurance. Reinsurance is one of the tools that the Company uses to accomplish its business objectives. A variety of reinsurance vehicles is currently in use. Reinsurance supports a multitude of corporate objectives including managing statutory capital, reducing volatility and reducing surplus strain. At the customer level it increases the Company’s capacity, provides access to additional underwriting expertise, and generally makes it possible for the Company to offer products at competitive levels that the Company could not otherwise bring to market without reinsurance support.

 

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Results of Operations and Financial Condition
The Company’s consolidated results of operations improved as a result of the Company’s expansion of its loan brokerage activities beginning in the fourth quarter of 2006 pursuant to a brokerage agreement with a Brooke Corporation (“Brooke”) subsidiary. Brooke owns a majority of the Company’s common stock. That activity and other significant aspects of the Company’s operations during the first half of 2007 are discussed below. The following table shows revenues and expenses (in thousands, except percentages) for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 and 2006, along with selected percentage changes from period to period.
                                                 
                    2007                     2007  
    Three months ended     % increase     Six months ended     % increase  
    June 30,     June 30,     (decrease)     June 30,     June 30,     (decrease)  
    2007     2006     over 2006     2007     2006     over 2006  
Revenues:
                                               
Gross premium income
  $ 968     $ 973             $ 2,187     $ 2,236          
Reinsurance premiums assumed
    6       6               9       9          
Reinsurance premiums ceded
    (125 )     (151 )             (274 )     (313 )        
 
                                       
Net premium income
    849       828       3 %     1,922       1,932       -1 %
Net investment income
    353       268       32 %     676       534       27 %
Net realized investment gain (loss)
    81       (68 )             81       (70 )        
Rental income
    60       59               119       118          
Consulting fees and other income
    3,989       1               4,245       1          
 
                                       
Total revenue
    5,332       1,088       390 %     7,043       2,515       180 %
 
                                       
 
                                               
Benefits and expenses:
                                               
Increase in policy reserves
    152       185       -18 %     482       435       11 %
Policyholder surrender values
    59       77       -23 %     146       148       -1 %
Interest credited on annuities and premium deposits
    193       143       35 %     366       269       36 %
Death claims
    104       162       -36 %     417       295       41 %
Commissions
    245       175       40 %     498       426       17 %
Policy acquisition costs deferred
    (238 )     (162 )     47 %     (489 )     (437 )     12 %
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs
    195       210       -7 %     359       366       -2 %
Salaries, wages, and employee benefits
    880       218       303 %     1,229       489       151 %
Miscellaneous taxes
    29       32       -11 %     58       59       -2 %
Other operating costs and expenses
    1,011       231       337 %     1,357       589       130 %
 
                                       
Total benefits and expenses
    2,630       1,271       107 %     4,423       2,639       68 %
 
                                       
 
                                               
Income (Loss) before income tax expense
    2,702       (183 )             2,620       (124 )        
 
                                       
 
                                               
Income tax expense
    888                     888                
 
                                       
 
                                               
Net Income (Loss)
  $ 1,814     $ (183 )           $ 1,732     $ (124 )        
 
                                       
Loan Brokerage Operations
The Company reported higher levels of revenue during the second quarter of 2007 compared to the second quarter of 2006 as a result of its ability to broker loans to managing general insurance agencies through its subsidiary, BCA. During this period, BCA generated almost $3,700,000 in loan and other related fees. These amounts, along with other loan brokerage consulting related fees totaled $3,990,000 for the second quarter of 2007 and $4,245,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2007. No similar fees were reported during the first six months of 2006. Income before taxes from the loan brokerage subsidiary was about $2,853,000 and $2,932,000 during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007.

 

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Significant expenses related to the loan brokerage activity for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 included salaries, wages and employee benefits of about $514,000 and $649,000, respectively. Incentive compensation related to second quarter loan closings is the primary reason for the increase in commissions and payroll related amounts payable at June 30, 2007. Other significant expenses during the three months ended June 30, 2007 included loan brokerage expenses of about $125,000 and shared services expenses of $435,000 paid to Brooke Corporation.
Life and Annuity Operations
The following table provides information concerning net premium income, in thousands, reported by the Company’s life insurance subsidiary, FLAC, during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 and 2006:
                                                 
                    2007                     2007  
    Three months ended     % increase     Six months ended     % increase  
    June 30,     June 30,     (decrease)     June 30,     June 30,     (decrease)  
    2007     2006     over 2006     2007     2006     over 2006  
First year
                                               
Life insurance premiums
  $ 117     $ 180             $ 238     $ 417          
Reinsurance premiums ceded
    (3 )     (79 )             (20 )     (181 )        
 
                                       
Net first year premium income
    114       101       12 %     218       236       -8 %
 
                                               
Renewal
                                               
Life insurance premiums
    850       789               1,945       1,809          
Reinsurance premiums ceded
    (122 )     (71 )             (254 )     (132 )        
 
                                       
Net renewal year premium income
    728       718       1 %     1,691       1,677       1 %
 
                                               
Single premium
    1       3               4       10          
Reinsurance premiums assumed
    6       6               9       9          
 
                                       
 
                                               
Net premium income
  $ 849     $ 828       3 %   $ 1,922     $ 1,932       -1 %
 
                                       
Net premium income levels for the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 were similar to those reported in the comparable prior year periods. Gross first year premium income in 2007 continues to trail the levels reported during 2006 primarily due to FLAC’s inability to write new business in the state of Ohio during those periods and capital restrictions that limited it’s ability to promote other new business. FLAC was released from its Memorandum of Understanding with the Ohio Department of Insurance on May 3, 2007 and is now working to re-establish relationships with agents in that market. The significant decline in first year reinsurance premiums ceded is due to the termination of the reinsurance treaty with Wilson Re for the life insurance company’s Final Expense product for policies issued after June 24, 2006.
Net renewal year premium income increased slightly during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 as compared to the prior year periods. Renewal premiums reflect the premium collected in the current year for those policies that have surpassed their first policy anniversary. Renewal premiums will continue to increase unless premiums lost from surrenders, lapses, settlement options or application of the non-forfeiture options, exceed prior year’s first year premium. The increases in reinsurance premiums ceded are due to policies ceded to Wilton Re from January 1, 2005 to June 24, 2006 surpassing their first year policy anniversary.
Increased policy reserve expense for the six months ended 2007 as compared to the same period in 2006 reflect the higher levels of expense recorded during the first quarter of 2007. Life insurance reserves are actuarially determined based on such factors as insured age, life expectancy, mortality and interest assumptions. As more life insurance is written and existing policies reach additional durations, policy reserve requirements will continue to increase.

 

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The Company’s experience with death claims improved significantly during the second quarter of 2007 as those expenses were 36% below the levels reported during the same period in the prior year. However, death claims expense for the six month period ended June 30, 2007 was 41% higher than the same period in 2006 reflecting a higher level of claims filed during the first quarter of 2007 as compared to the same time period in 2006. As a result of recent payouts on death claims and a decline in the number of claims filed, the Company’s reported liability for policy claims is about $98,000 at June 30, 2007 as compared to $212,000 at December 31, 2006.
Commission expense increased 40% and 17% during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 as compared to the prior year periods. Commission expense is based on a percentage of premiums and is determined in the product design. Additionally, higher percentage commissions are paid for first year business than renewal year. The significant increase in this expense during the second quarter of 2007 is due to the termination of the reinsurance treaty with Wilton Re resulting in a significant reduction in first year commission allowance.
Policy acquisition costs deferred increased 47% during the second quarter of 2007 as compared to the same period in the prior year. These acquisition costs result from the capitalization of costs related to the sales of life insurance and include commissions on first year business, medical exam and inspection report fees, and salaries of employees directly involved in the marketing, underwriting and policy issuance functions. Management performs quarterly reviews of the recoverability of deferred acquisition costs based on current trends as to persistency, mortality and interest. These trends are compared to the assumptions used in the establishment of the original asset in order to assess the need for impairment. Based on the results of the aforementioned procedures performed by management, no impairments have been recorded against the balance of deferred acquisition costs.
Interest credited on annuities and premium deposits increased 35% and 36% during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 as compared to the prior year periods. A similar increase was noted during the first quarter of 2007 and reflects the increases in annuity fund balances due to deposits of about $3,307,000 less surrenders of about $472,000 during the six month period ended June 30, 2007. Both interest credited on annuities and premium deposits have increased as a result of the increase in the number of policies inforce. Increases in the Company’s annuity and policy benefit liabilities are largely related to increased sales of the Company’s various annuity and life insurance products. Reserves for future policy benefits are actuarially determined based on such factors as insured age, life expectancy, mortality and interest assumptions.
The Company’s available-for-sale fixed maturity securities increased to about $16,385,000 as a result of its ability to invest funds generated from the sale of annuity and other insurance products and other sources. Purchases of available-for-sale fixed maturity securities, net of maturities were about $4,513,000. Net investment income was 32% and 27% higher during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 as compared to the prior year periods primarily as a result of this growth in the portfolio. During the second quarter of 2007, the market value of the Company’s available-for-sale fixed maturity and equity securities declined by about $371,000, due primarily to changes in interest rates. As a result, the Company’s other comprehensive income was reduced by about $362,000 for the three month period ended June 30, 2007. Similar declines were reported for the six month period ended June 30, 2007.
Corporate and other activities
On March 30, 2007, the Company’s application to acquire a 100% interest in Brooke Savings Bank was filed with the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS).
During April 2007, the Company completed a tender offer, buying back 379,248 shares (126,416 post split) of its stock for a price of $1.60 per share ($4.80 post split). Also in April, the Company completed a 1-for-3 reverse stock split buying back 2,253 shares of common stock resulting from the split. Direct costs associated with the purchase of these shares have been included as a part of the overall cost of acquiring this Treasury stock.
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Consulting, legal, filing and other fees related to the applications filed with the OTS and AMEX and the recently completed reverse stock split totaling about $201,000 have been charged to expense during the three months ended June 30, 2007. These costs, along with the loan brokerage and shared services expenses incurred during the second quarter by BCA (described above) represent substantially all of the significant increases noted in the Company’s consolidated other operating costs and expenses during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 as compared to the same periods in the prior year.
The Company’s Chief Executive and Chief Financial Officers assumed their current positions on March 1, 2007. Their compensation related expenses, along with those previously discussed for BCA, represent substantially all of the significant increases noted in the Company’s consolidated salaries, wages, and employee benefits expense during the three and six month periods ended June 30, 2007 as compared to the same periods in the prior year.
During the second quarter of 2007, the Company received $97,000 as a payout on its original investment in the stock of an unaffiliated insurance holding company. The resulting gain of $81,000 has been reported as income during the period.
The Company recorded a consolidated income tax provision of $888,000 during the second quarter of 2007. In recording this provision, the Company has recognized the benefit associated with utilization of available net operating loss carry-forward amounts, subject to limitations under the tax code. The Company’s deferred income tax asset and valuation allowance related to the benefit associated with remaining net operating loss carry-forward amounts have been reduced accordingly. Federal and state income taxes payable have been reduced for income taxes receivable related to amounts withheld by taxing authorities on certain lottery cash flow contracts held by the Company.
The Company’s other assets included receivables from an affiliate of about $953,000 and $1,196,000 at June 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively. Other liabilities included payables to affiliates of about $229,000 at June 30, 2007. The Company’s cash balances are sometimes commingled with the balances of Brooke and its other subsidiaries for cash management purposes. As mentioned above, the Company recorded $435,000 in expense during the second quarter of 2007 in connection with a shared services agreement between BCA and Brooke.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
During 2007, the Company maintained liquid assets sufficient to meet operating demands, while continuing to utilize excess liquidity to make various investments. At June 30, 2007, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents and other liquid assets, in thousands, included the following (as compared to December 31, 2006):
                                 
    Brooke Capital     Brooke Capital     First Life America        
    Corporation     Advisors     Corporation     Consolidated  
Cash and Cash Equivalents
  $ 885     $ 3,546     $ 374     $ 4,805  
Securities available-for-sale
                16,624       16,624  
 
                       
June 30, 2007
  $ 885     $ 3,546     $ 16,998     $ 21,429  
 
                       
 
                               
December 31, 2006
  $ 1,978     $ 1     $ 14,129     $ 16,108  
 
                       
During the first six months of 2007, the Company’s net cash provided by operations was approximately $3,452,000 as compared to $341,000 during the first six months of 2006. FLAC generally receives adequate cash flow from premium collections and investment income to meet the obligations of its insurance operations. Insurance policy liabilities are primarily long-term and generally are paid from future cash flows. Cash collected from deposits on annuity contracts and policyholder premium deposits are recorded as cash flows from financing activities.
Existing cash balances at the parent company level combined with expected cash flows from its brokerage subsidiary, income tax sharing arrangements and administrative services reimbursements from FLAC are believed by management to be sufficient to fund the parent’s normal operations and pay its corporate expenses, income taxes and dividends.

 

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The nature of the Company’s brokerage subsidiary’s operations is such that it is not expected to require any capital contributions in 2007. Instead, if BCA is successful in implementing its marketing plans, it will likely be a source of cash to BCAP. If the Company’s life insurance subsidiary, FLAC, is successful in implementing its marketing plans and its premiums increase significantly as a result, then FLAC may require additional capital contributions in 2007 from the parent company. In this event, capital contributions are not expected to exceed $1,000,000 and any such required contributions are expected to be funded internally.
As previously noted, the Company has filed an application with the AMEX for an original listing on that exchange. Management believes that such a listing will improve the Company’s prospects for selling additional equity securities, acquiring a business by merger or issuing debt. If another suitable bank, life insurance or brokerage acquisition opportunity arises, the Company may require additional capital. In this event, the required capital for an acquisition is expected to be funded from the sale of common or preferred equity to public or private investors.
The Company is currently awaiting notice from the OTS regarding their review of its application to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Brooke Savings Bank in exchange for 2,015,968 shares of the Company’s common stock (value estimated of approximately $10,100,000). Although the transaction, if consummated, will not affect the parent company’s cash balances, it will increase the Company’s total equity capital. If Brooke Savings Bank is acquired and it is successful in implementing its business plan, the Bank may require additional capital contributions from BCAP. In this event, additional capital requirements are not expected to exceed $10,000,000 and are expected to be funded from the sale of the Company’s common or preferred stock to public or private investors.
The Company may also receive additional capital contributions from Brooke during the next three years resulting from an agreement by Brooke to contribute up to an additional $6,000,000 to the Company’s capital if the Company’s brokerage subsidiary does not achieve $6,000,000 in pre tax income over an approximate three year period ending September 30, 2009, in accordance with an agreed upon schedule.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
On July 14, 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Financial Interpretation No. 48 (FIN 48), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes,” an Interpretation of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” FIN 48 prescribes guidance to address inconsistencies among entities with the measurement and recognition in accounting for income tax positions for financial statement purposes. Specifically, FIN 48 addresses the timing of the recognition of income tax benefits. FIN 48 requires the financial statement recognition of an income tax benefit when the company determines that it is more-likely-than-not that the tax position will be ultimately sustained. FIN 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006, which, for the Company, is fiscal year 2007. The Company does not anticipate a material effect on its consolidated financial statements as a result of the issuance of FIN 48.
In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements,” which provides enhanced guidance for using fair value measurements in financial reporting. While the standard does not expand the use of fair value in any new circumstance, it has applicability to several current accounting standards that require or permit entities to measure assets and liabilities at fair value. This standard defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in GAAP and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. Application of this standard is required for the Company beginning in 2008. Management is currently assessing what impact, if any, the application of this standard could have on the Company’s reported results of operations and financial position.
In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159, “The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities.” This Statement permits entities to choose to measure many financial instruments and certain other items at fair value. This statement is effective for an entity’s first fiscal year that begins after November 15, 2007, which, for the Company, is fiscal year 2008. Management is currently assessing what impact, if any, the application of this standard could have on the Company’s reported results of operations and financial position.

 

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Related Party Transactions
On March 2, 2005, the Company entered into a Stock Repurchase Agreement with Brooke under which the Company repurchased 450,500 shares of Company common stock from Brooke. Brooke had previously acquired the shares from a third party for a total purchase price of $772,255. The privately negotiated transaction involved approximately 9.7 % of Company common stock then outstanding. The shares were purchased at a price of $1.71 per share for a total purchase price of $770,355. The Company paid the purchase price using $200,000 of its working capital and financed the remaining amount with a loan from Brooke Credit Corporation, an affiliate of Brooke, at a fixed rate of 8% over a ten-year period. The repurchase agreement also granted Brooke warrants to purchase up to 150,000 shares of Company common stock at prices ranging from $1.71 to $5.00 per share. These warrants were cancelled as part of the 2006 Stock Purchase Agreement (as later defined).
The mortgage note on the commercial property and office building that the Company owned was financed by Vision Bank of Topeka, Kansas. Gary Yager, a former Director of the Company, is the President and CEO of Vision Bank. As of December 31, 2006 the mortgage note was paid in full. Management believes that the terms obtained from Vision Bank at the time of financing were no less favorable to the Company than those available from an independent lender. The Boards of Directors of the Company and FLAC and the Kansas Insurance Department (“KID”) authorized the parent company to sell its office building and related real estate to FLAC. The proceeds were used in part to repay the notes to Vision Bank and Brooke described above. Closing of this transaction occurred May 1, 2006.
On October 5, 2006, Mr. Van Engelen, a then officer and director of the Company, was awarded a warrant to purchase up to 50,000 shares of Company common stock at an exercise price of $1.72 per share (16,666 shares at an exercise price of $5.16 per share after the 1-for-3 reverse stock split effective April 13, 2007). The warrant was awarded to Mr. Van Engelen in exchange for his services in successfully negotiating and closing the transactions contemplated by the 2006 Stock Purchase Agreement. Mr. Van Engelen entered into an employment agreement with the Company effective December 8, 2006 to serve as President and CEO of FLAC.
On October 5, 2006, Thomas Fogt, a then director of the Company, was awarded a warrant to purchase up to 100,000 shares of Company common stock at an exercise price of $1.72 per share (33,333 shares at an exercise price of $5.16 per share after the 1-for-3 reverse stock split). Mr. Fogt was awarded the warrant in exchange for his services in successfully negotiating and closing the transactions proposed by the 2006 Stock Purchase Agreement.
The Company entered into a Stock Purchase and Sale Agreement dated October 6, 2006 (the “2006 Stock Purchase Agreement”) with Brooke that provided for a series of transactions that resulted in the acquisition by Brooke of a majority of BCAP’s outstanding common stock. As more fully discussed in “Description of Business — Recent Developments” and “Market for Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters — Sales of Unregistered Securities” sections of the Company’s Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, Brooke had or has a direct and/or indirect material interest in the 2006 Stock Purchase Agreement. Brooke also has an indirect interest in the Company’s proposed acquisition of Brooke Savings Bank. As a result of his relationship with Brooke, Robert D. Orr, a Company director and the Company’s Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, has an indirect material interest in these transactions.
With respect to the Company’s proposed acquisition of Brooke Savings Bank from Brooke Brokerage Corporation (“BBC”), the Company agreed to exchange 6,047,904 shares of its common stock (2,015,968 shares after the effects of the reverse stock split) with a value of approximately $10.1 million, for all of the stock of Brooke Savings Bank. The agreed upon purchase price of approximately $10.1 million equals the price paid by BBC to acquire Brooke Savings Bank on January 8, 2007. For the purpose of the proposed transaction, the shares of Company common stock have been valued at $1.67 per share. This valuation equals the approximate price per share paid by Brooke for its 55% ownership interest in the Company in the change of control transactions that occurred in December 2006 and January 2007. Based on the number of Company shares of common stock currently outstanding, and taking into account the results of the tender offer for shares of the Company’s common stock concluded on April 2, 2007, the proposed transaction would result in an increase in Brooke’s combined direct and indirect ownership of the Company from 55% to approximately 74%. The proposed transaction, after adjustments, would also reduce Brooke’s indirect ownership of Brooke Savings Bank from 100% to approximately 74%.
BCA entered into a services agreement with Brooke on March 21, 2007 that, in addition to other benefits to BCA, provided for the transfer of certain additional loan brokerage activities that were not a part of the original transfer of loan brokerage activities provided for in the 2006 Stock Purchase Agreement between the Company and Brooke. This services agreement provides for monthly fees totaling $145,000, beginning in April 2007 and continuing until December 2007.

 

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Included in the Company’s other assets are certain receivables from an affiliate of about $953,000 and $1,196,000 at June 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, respectively. These amounts represent fees earned by BCA in connection with its ongoing collateral preservation and loan brokerage activities. Other liabilities at June 30, 2007 included payables to affiliates of about $229,000 of which $145,000 represented the amount due for one month’s shared services fee. The Company’s cash balances are sometimes commingled with the balances of Brooke and its other subsidiaries for cash management purposes.
The Company has employed Robert D. Orr, as CEO of the Company and William R. Morton Jr., as CFO of the Company. These individuals are also employed by Brooke or its other subsidiaries. The Company reimburses Brooke and certain of its affiliates for the payroll related costs of these and other employees.
Impact of Inflation and General Economic Conditions
The Company’s liquidity and capital resources are subject to inflation and general market conditions. The Company is primarily invested in fixed maturity securities. A majority of these assets are debt securities and are considered fixed income investments. In addition, the Company has investments in mortgage loans. Both of these investments are exposed to three primary sources of investment risk: credit, interest rate and liquidity. In addition, the Company’s investments are subject, in varying degrees, to market risk that can affect their return and their fair market value.
Interest rate risk arises from the price sensitivity of investments to changes in interest rates. Coupon and/or dividend income represent the greatest portion of an investment’s total return for most fixed income instruments in stable interest rate environments. The changes in the fair market values of such investments are inversely related to changes in market interest rates. As interest rates fall, the coupon and dividend streams of existing fixed rate investments become more valuable and the market values rise. As interest rates rise, the opposite effect occurs.
The Company’s mortgage loan investments are also particularly sensitive to interest rate changes. As long-term rates fall, borrowers become more likely to refinance their mortgages causing a prepayment of outstanding mortgage principal that requires reinvestment at lower rates. As interest rates rise, policyholders may become more likely to surrender policies or to borrow against cash values, often to meet sudden needs in an inflationary environment or to invest in higher yielding opportunities elsewhere. This risk of disintermediation may force the Company to liquidate part of its portfolio at a time when the fair market values of fixed income investments are falling.
A majority of the Company’s investments are exposed to varying degrees of credit risk. Credit risk is the risk that the value of the investment may decline due to the deterioration of the financial strength of the issuer and that the timely or ultimate payment of principal or interest may occur. The Company mitigates credit risk by diversifying the investment portfolio across a broad range of issuers, investment sectors and security types and by timing the amount of investments in any particular entity.

 

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ITEM 3. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Company maintains controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports that the Company files or submits under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer conducted an evaluation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based upon the evaluation of those controls and procedures, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective in alerting management on a timely basis, of material information required to be disclosed in the Company’s reports as set forth in this section.
In connection with its review of the financial statements filed with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2005, the Company’s independent public accounting firm advised management that it had noted certain matters that it considered to be a “material weakness”. A material weakness is a significant deficiency, or a combination of significant deficiencies, in the Company’s internal financial procedures or controls, that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the Company’s financial statements will not be prevented or detected. The auditors noted that due to the resignation of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company effective March 31, 2006, the Company did not then have adequate review procedures in place to ensure the development of timely, complete and accurate financial statements and related footnotes.
Since March 31, 2006, the Company has taken significant steps to remediate this material weakness, including enhancing the knowledge and skills of the existing staff, hiring outside consultants and independent contractors to assist the staff in handling financial statement matters, and engaging as a full-time consultant an individual who had previously served as the Company’s controller and who during that tenure was primarily responsible for preparing both the Company’s statutory and GAAP financial statements. On March 1, 2007, the Board of Directors elected Mr. Morton as the new Chief Financial Officer replacing John Van Engelen, the President and Chief Executive Officer of FLAC, who served in an interim capacity as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company from January 31, 2007 to March 1, 2007.
With these remediation steps remaining in place and the addition of the functional financial support provided by Brooke pursuant to the Brooke Servicing Agreement referred to above, management believes that the material weakness has been remediated and that the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of the date of this report is effective at a reasonable assurance level and has been for a period of time prior hereto. In connection with its review of the financial statements filed with the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-KSB, for the year ended December 31, 2006, the Company’s independent public accounting firm has advised management that it has not identified any matters that it considered to represent material weaknesses.
Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. There were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting for the quarter ended June 30, 2007. We have undertaken remediation efforts, as discussed above. These staffing additions and training efforts are in response to the material weaknesses identified.

 

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PART II
OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
As reported on Item 2 of the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-QSB for the period ended March 31, 2007, the Company concluded a modified “Dutch auction” tender offer for shares of its common stock on April 2, 2007. The Company accepted for purchase 379,248 shares of its $0.01 par value common stock at a price of $1.60 per share for an aggregate price paid to shareholders of approximately $607,000. Upon completion of the offer, the Company had 9,264,212 shares of common stock outstanding. As noted previously, effective as of the close of business on April 13, 2007, the Company completed a 1-for-3 reverse stock split. Upon completion of the reverse stock split, the Company had 3,085,817 shares of common stock outstanding (after the purchase of fractional shares representing the equivalent of 2,253 shares).
The following table provides information about the repurchases made by the Company as a result of the tender offer.
                 
                (d)
            (c)   Maximum number
            Total number of   (or approximate
            shares purchased as   dollar value) of
    (a)   (b)   part of publicly   shares that may yet
    Total number of   Average price paid   announced plans or   be purchased under
Period (1)   shares purchased   per share   programs   the plans or programs
March 2 — April 2, 2007
  379,248
(126,416 post split)
  $1.60
($4.80 post split)
  379,248
(126,416 post split)
  0
(1)  
Shareholders were given notice of the tender offer on March 2, 2007, pursuant to the “Offer to Purchase” filed by the Company on Schedule TO on the same date. The tender offer expired on April 2, 2007.
The following table provides information about the repurchases made by the Company as a result of its commitment to purchase for cash any fractional shares that resulted from the reverse stock split.
                 
                (d)
            (c)   Maximum number
            Total number of   (or approximate
            shares purchased as   dollar value) of
    (a)   (b)   part of publicly   shares that may yet
    Total number of   Average price paid   announced plans or   be purchased under
Date (1)   shares purchased   per share   programs   the plans or programs
April 13, 2007   2,253   $5.16   2,253   0
(1)  
Shareholders were given notice of the reverse stock split on December 22, 2006 pursuant to the Company’s filing of an Information Statement related thereto. The reverse stock split was effective April 13, 2007.

 

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ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
The Company’s annual meeting of shareholders was held on June 7, 2007. At the meeting, five directors, constituting the entire Board of Directors, were elected to hold office until the annual meeting of shareholders in 2008 or until their respective successors are elected and qualified, the shareholders approved the proposal to adopt the First American Capital Corporation 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, the shareholders approved the amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation changing the name of the Company from First American Capital Corporation to Brooke Capital Corporation, and the shareholders approved the proposal to ratify the appointment by the Board of Directors of Summers, Spencer and Callison, CPAs, Chartered, as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2007. Final tabulations of the vote at the annual meeting of shareholders was as follows:
Election of Directors:
                 
    FOR   WITHHOLD AUTHORITY
Robert D. Orr
    2,141,792       14,973  
Keith E. Bouchey
    2,140,991       15,774  
Paul E. Burke, Jr.
    2,139,393       17,372  
Richard E. Gill
    2,140,458       16,307  
Michael S. Hess
    2,140,727       16,038  
Approval of First American Capital Corporation 2007 Equity Incentive Plan:
         
FOR
  AGAINST   ABSTAIN
         
2,111,492   19,581   15,244
Approval of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation Changing the Name of the Company:
         
FOR   AGAINST   ABSTAIN
         
2,135,405   11,237   10,123
Ratification of Appointment of Independent Auditor:
         
FOR   AGAINST   ABSTAIN
         
2,144,057   4,117   8,591

 

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ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
a)  
Index to Exhibits
     
Exhibit No.   Description
 
   
3.1
  Articles of Incorporation of First American Capital Corporation (Incorporated by reference from Exhibit 2.1 to the Registrant’s amended Form 10-SB filed August 13, 1999)
 
   
3.2
  Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Incorporation of First American Capital Corporation adopted January 31, 2007 (incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s 8-K filed on February 2, 2007).
 
   
3.3
  Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Incorporation of First American Capital Corporation adopted June 7, 2007 (*).
 
   
3.4
  Copy of the Articles of Incorporation of First American Capital Corporation, as amended by the Certificate of Amendment adopted January 31, 2007 and the Certificate of Amendment adopted June 7, 2007 (*).
 
   
3.5
  Bylaws of First American Capital Corporation, as amended (Incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant’s Form 8-K filed April 11, 2005)
 
   
3.6
  Amendment to Amended and Restated Bylaws dated April 7, 2007 adopted on June 7, 2007 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s 8-K dated June 7, 2007).
 
   
3.7
  Copy of Amended and Restated Bylaws of First American Capital Corporation, as amended by the Board of Directors on June 7, 2007 (*).
 
   
4
  Certificate of Designations, Preferences and Relative, Participating, Optional and Other Special Rights of Preferred Stock and Qualifications, Limitations, and Restrictions Thereof of 6% Non-Cumulative, Convertible and Callable Preferred Stock (Incorporated by reference from Exhibit 3 to the Registrant’s amended Form 10-SB filed August 13, 1999)
 
   
31.1
  Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. (*)
 
   
31.2
  Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. (*)
 
   
32.1
  Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 (*)
 
   
32.2
  Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 (*)
 
   
 
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
         
     
Date: July 27, 2007  By:   /s/ ROBERT D. ORR    
    Robert D. Orr   
    President and Chief Executive Officer   
 
         
     
Date: July 27, 2007  By:   /s/ WILLIAM R. MORTON, JR.    
    William R. Morton, Jr.   
    Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer   
 

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX
     
Exhibit No.   Description
 
   
3.3
  Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Incorporation of First American Capital Corporation adopted June 7, 2007 (*).
 
   
3.4
  Copy of the Articles of Incorporation of First American Capital Corporation, as amended by the Certificate of Amendment adopted January 31, 2007 and the Certificate of Amendment adopted June 7, 2007 (*).
 
   
3.7
  Copy of Amended and Restated Bylaws of First American Capital Corporation, as amended by the Board of Directors on June 7, 2007 (*).
 
   
31.1
  Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. (*)
 
   
31.2
  Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. (*)
 
   
32.1
  Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 (*)
 
   
32.2
  Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 (*)
 
   
 
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EX-3.3 2 c70836exv3w3.htm EXHIBIT 3.3 Filed by Bowne Pure Compliance
 

Exhibit 3.3
DOMESTIC FOR PROFIT CORPORATION
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
1.   Name of the corporation: First American Capital Corporation, a Kansas corporation
 
2.   The Articles of Incorporation are amended as follows:
Paragraph I is hereby amended to read as follows:
The name of the corporation (the “Corporation”) is:
Brooke Capital Corporation
The amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 17-6602.
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Kansas that the foregoing is true and correct.
Executed on the 7th day of June, 2007.
     
MICHAEL SELL
   
 
Michael Sell
   

 

EX-3.4 3 c70836exv3w4.htm EXHIBIT 3.4 Filed by Bowne Pure Compliance
 

Exhibit 3.4
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF
BROOKE CAPITAL CORPORATION
(Underlined text shows amendments made by
Certificate of Amendment adopted January 31, 2007 and
Certificate of Amendment adopted June 7, 2007)
The undersigned, a natural person, for the purpose of incorporating a corporation under the Kansas General Corporation Code, as amended and supplemented, hereby adopts the following Articles of Incorporation:
I — NAME
The name of the corporation (the “Corporation”) is Brooke Capital Corporation.
II — REGISTERED OFFICE AND REGISTERED AGENT
The address, including street, number, city, and county, of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Kansas is 7500 College Boulevard, Suite 750, Overland Park, County of Johnson. The name of the Corporation’s resident agent at such address is PW&S Agent Services of Kansas, Inc.
III — NATURE OF BUSINESS
The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted by the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the Kansas General Corporation Code, including, without limitation, to form, own and manage life insurance companies and a venture capital company.
In addition to the powers and privileges conferred upon the Corporation by law and those incidental thereto, the Corporation shall possess and may exercise all the powers and privileges which are necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business or purposes of the Corporation.
IV — CAPITAL STOCK
(a) The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is Twenty Six Million Five Hundred Fifty Thousand (26,550,000), of which (i) 25,000,000 shares shall be denominated as voting “Common Stock” with a par value of $.01 per share, and (ii) 1,550,000 shares shall be denominated as “Preferred Stock” with a par value of $5.00 per share.
(b) The Board of Directors is authorized to provide by resolution or resolutions for the issuance of shares of stock of any class or of any series of any class at any time and from time to time and by filing a certificate of designations in the manner prescribed under the laws of the State of Kansas, to fix (and, if no shares of stock have been issued or a class or a series of stock, amend) the voting powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, if any, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof which are not fixed by these Articles of incorporation. Unless otherwise provided in any such

 

 


 

resolution or resolutions, the number of shares of stock of any such series to which such resolution or resolutions apply may be increased (but not above the total number of authorized shares of the class or series) or decreased (but not below the number of shares thereof then outstanding) by filing a certificate of designations in the manner prescribed under the laws of the State of Kansas.
(c) No holder of any of the shares of stock of the Corporation of any class shall be entitled, as a matter or right, to subscribe for, purchase, or otherwise acquire any shares of stock of the Corporation of any class which the Corporation proposes to issue or any rights or options which the Corporation proposes to grant for the purchase of shares of stock of the Corporation of any class or for the purchase of any bonds, notes, debentures, securities or obligations of the Corporation which are convertible into or exchangeable for, or which carry any rights to subscribe for, purchase, or otherwise acquire shares of stock of the Corporation of any class, and any and all of such shares, bonds, notes, debentures, securities or obligations of the Corporation, whether now or hereafter authorized or created, may be issued, or may be reissued or transferred if the same have been re-acquired and have treasury status, and any and all of such rights and options may be granted by the Board of Directors, to such persons and other entities, and for such lawful consideration, and on such terms, as the Board of Directors, in its discretion, may determine, without first offering the same, or any part thereof, to any said holder of stock.
(d) No outstanding share of any class of stock which is denied voting power under the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, or by resolution or resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors pursuant to subsection (b) of this Article IV, shall entitle the holder thereof to the right to vote at any meeting of stockholders except as the provisions of K.S.A. 17-6602(c)(2) shall otherwise require; provided, however, that no share of any such class which is otherwise denied voting power shall entitle the holder thereof to vote upon the increase or decrease in the number of authorized shares of said class.
V — INCORPORATOR
The name and the mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:
     
Name
  Address
 
   
Paula L. Simmons
  700 W. 47th Street,
 
  Suite 1000 
 
  Kansas City, Missouri 64112 
VI — EXISTENCE
The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
VII — COMPROMISE WITH CREDITORS
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competent jurisdiction within the State of Kansas, on the application in a summary way of this Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of K.S.A. 17-6901, and amendments thereto, or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for this Corporation under the provisions of K.S.A. 17-6808, and amendments thereto, may order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the court directs. If a majority in number representing in value of the creditors or class of creditors, or of the stockholders or class of stockholders of this Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of this Corporation as consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, shall be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of this Corporation, as the case may be, and also on this Corporation.
VIII — BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(a) The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The number of directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the Bylaws. The phrase “whole Board” and the phrase “total number of directors” shall each mean the total number of directors which the Corporation would have if there were no vacancies.
(b) Voting for directors shall be by written ballot.
(c) At all elections of directors of the Corporation and for the purposes of all other matters upon which stockholders are entitled to vote, each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as shall equal the number of shares of stock held by that stockholder. No cumulative voting shall be permitted.
(d) The names and mailing addresses of the persons who are to serve as the first Board of Directors until the first annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are elected and qualify are:
     
Name
  Address
Rick D. Meyer
  2285 Executive Drive,
 
  Suite 308
 
  Lexington, Kentucky 40505
 
   
Chris J. Haas
  2285 Executive Drive,
 
  Suite 308
 
  Lexington, Kentucky 40505
 
   
Michael N. Fink
  2285 Executive Drive,
 
  Suite 308
 
  Lexington, Kentucky 40505

 

 


 

IX — BYLAWS
(i) by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon (or, if applicable, such larger percentage of the outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote thereon as may be specified in the Bylaws), or (ii) by a majority of the full Board of Directors. Any change so made by the stockholders may thereafter be further changed by a majority of the full Board of Directors; provided, however, that the power of the Board of Directors to amend or repeal the Bylaws, or to adopt new Bylaws, (A) may be denied as to any Bylaws or portion thereof by the stockholders if, at the time of enactment, the stockholders shall so expressly provide, and (B) shall not divest the stockholders of their power, nor limit their power, to amend or repeal the Bylaws, or to adopt new Bylaws.
X — INDEMNIFICATION AND LIABILITY LIMITATION
(a) The Corporation shall indemnify and protect any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or any person who serves at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, to the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the State of Kansas.
(b) The stockholders of the Corporation shall not be personally liable for the payment or performance of the debts or other obligations of the Corporation.
(c) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Article X, to the fullest extent permitted or authorized by the laws of the State of Kansas, including, without limitation, the provisions of subsection (b)(8) of K.S.A. 17-6002 as now in effect and as it may from time to time hereafter be amended, no director of the Corporation shall be personally liable to the Corporation or to its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director. Any repeal or modification of the limitation of liability provided by the immediately preceding sentence shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing hereunder with respect to any act or omission occurring prior to or at the time of such repeal or modification.
XI — STOCKHOLDERS OF RECORD
Except as may be otherwise provided by statute, the Corporation shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any shares of the Corporation as the owner of such shares and of all rights derived from such shares for all purposes, and the Corporation shall not be obligated to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such shares on the part of any other person, including, but without limiting the generality of the term “person,” a purchaser, pledgee, assignee or transferee of such shares, unless and until such person becomes the registered holder of such shares. The foregoing shall apply whether or not the Corporation shall have either actual or constructive notice of the claim by or the interest of such person.
XII — BOOKS AND RECORDS
The books and records of the Corporation may be kept (subject to any provision contained in the statutes of the State of Kansas) outside the State of Kansas at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the Bylaws of the Corporation.

 

 


 

XIII — AMENDMENTS
From time to time any of the provisions of these Articles of Incorporation may be amended, altered, changed or repealed, and other provisions authorized by the Kansas General Corporation Code at the time in force may be added or inserted in the manner and at the time prescribed by the Kansas General Corporation Code, and all rights at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the Corporation by these Articles of Incorporation are granted subject to the provisions of this Article.
Any person, upon becoming the owner or holder of any shares of stock or other securities issued by the Corporation, does thereby consent and agree that (i) all rights, powers, privileges, obligations or restrictions pertaining to such person or such shares or securities in any way may be altered, amended, restricted, enlarged or repealed by legislative enactments of the State of Kansas or of the United States hereinafter adopted which have reference to or affect corporations, such shares, securities, or persons and (ii) the Corporation reserves the right to transact any business of the Corporation, to alter, amend or repeal these Articles of Incorporation, or to do any other acts or things as authorized, permitted or allowed by such legislative enactments.
IN WINESS WHEREOF, these Articles of Incorporation have been executed this 8th day of July, 1996.
Paula L. Simmons, Incorporator
STATE OF MISSOURI   )
                                                  ) ss.
COUNTY OF JACKSON )
This instrument was acknowledged, signed and sworn to before me on                     , 1996, by Paula L. Simmons.
Notary Public
My Commission Expires:
[SEAL]
(*Cancelled and underlined text shows the changes to the full text of the Articles of Incorporation as amended.)

 

 

EX-3.7 4 c70836exv3w7.htm EXHIBIT 3.7 Filed by Bowne Pure Compliance
 

Exhibit 3.7
AMENDED AND RESTATED
BYLAWS
OF
FIRST AMERICAN CAPITAL CORPORATION,
a Kansas corporation
(Adopted as of April 7, 2005)
(Underlined text shows changes made by amendments adopted on June 7, 2007)
 
Amended and Restated Bylaws of the
First American Capital Corporation
 
4/7/2005

 

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AMENDED AND RESTATED
BYLAWS
OF
FIRST AMERICAN CAPITAL CORPORATION
ARTICLE I
OFFICES
Section 1.1 Registered Office; Registered Agent. The location of the registered office and the name of the resident agent of First American Capital Corporation, a Kansas corporation (the “Corporation”) in the State of Kansas shall be as stated in the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, as the same may be amended or restated from time to time (the “Articles of Incorporation”), or as shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”) and on file in the appropriate public offices of the State of Kansas as provided by law.
Section 1.2 Additional Offices. The Corporation may, in addition to its registered office in the State of Kansas, have such other offices and places of business, both within and outside the State of Kansas, as the Board may from time to time determine or as the business and affairs of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II
STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS
Section 2.1 Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held at such place and time and on such date as shall be determined by the Board and stated in the notice of the meeting, provided that the Board may in its sole discretion determine that the meeting shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication pursuant to Section 9.5(a). At each annual meeting, the stockholders shall elect directors of the Corporation and may transact any other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.
Section 2.2 Special Meetings. Except as otherwise required by applicable law or provided in the Articles of Incorporation, special meetings of stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, may be called only by the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Board pursuant to a resolution adopted by a majority of the Whole Board (as defined below). Special meetings of stockholders shall be held at such place and time and on such date as shall be determined by the Board and stated in the Corporation’s notice of the meeting, provided that the Board may in its sole discretion determine that the meeting shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication pursuant to Section 9.5(a). “Whole Board” shall mean the total number of directors the Corporation would have if there were no vacancies.
Section 2.3 Action Without a Meeting. Unless otherwise provided in the Articles of Incorporation, any action required to be taken or any action which may be taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by all the holders of outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote thereon. Any such writing or writings shall be filed with the minutes of proceedings of the stockholders.
 
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Section 2.4 Notices. Notice of each stockholders meeting stating the place, if any, date, and time of the meeting, and the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting, shall be given in the manner permitted by Section 9.3 to each stockholder entitled to vote thereat by the Corporation not less than 10 nor more than 60 days before the date of the meeting. If said notice is for a stockholders meeting other than an annual meeting, it shall in addition state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, and the business transacted at such meeting shall be limited to the matters so stated in the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) unless the transaction of other business is consented to by the holders of all the outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote thereon. The “call” and the “notice” of any such meeting shall be deemed synonymous. Any meeting of stockholders as to which notice has been given may be postponed, and any special meeting of stockholders as to which notice has been given may be cancelled, by the Board upon public announcement (as defined in Section 2.8(c)) given before the date previously scheduled for such meeting.
Section 2.5 Quorum. Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the presence, in person or by proxy, at a stockholders meeting of the holders of shares of outstanding capital stock of the Corporation representing at least one-third (33.3%) of the voting power of all outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation entitled to vote at such meeting shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at such meeting, except that when specified business is to be voted on by a class or series of stock voting as a class, the holders of shares representing a majority of the voting power of the outstanding shares of such class or series shall constitute a quorum of such class or series for the transaction of such business. If a quorum shall not be present or represented by proxy at any meeting of the stockholders, the chairman of the meeting may adjourn the meeting from time to time in the manner provided in Section 2.7 until a quorum shall attend. The stockholders present at a duly convened meeting may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to leave less than a quorum. Shares of its own stock belonging to the Corporation shall neither be entitled to vote nor be counted for quorum purposes; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not limit the right of the Corporation to vote shares held by it in a fiduciary capacity. (a) If authorized by the Board in its sole discretion, and subject to such guidelines and procedures as the Board may adopt, stockholders and proxyholders not physically present at a meeting of stockholders may, by means of remote communication: (x) Participate in a meeting of stockholders; and (y) be deemed present in person and vote at a meeting of stockholders whether such meeting is to be held at a designated place or solely by means of remote communication.
Section 2.6 Voting of Shares.
(a) Voting Lists. The Secretary shall prepare, or shall cause the officer or agent who has charge of the stock ledger of the Corporation to prepare, at least 10 days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders of record entitled to vote thereat arranged in alphabetical order and showing the address and the number of shares
 
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registered in the name of each stockholder. Nothing contained in this Section 2.6(a) shall require the Corporation to include electronic mail addresses or other electronic contact information on such list. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours for a period of at least 10 days prior to the meeting: (i) on a reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of the meeting, or (ii) during ordinary business hours, at the principal place of business of the Corporation. In the event that the Corporation determines to make the list available on an electronic network, the Corporation may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to stockholders of the Corporation. If the meeting is to be held at a place, then the list shall be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present. If a meeting of stockholders is to be held solely by means of remote communication as permitted by Section 9.5(a), the list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder during the whole time of the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network, and the information required to access such list shall be provided with the notice of meeting. The stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the list required by this Section 2.6(a) or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders. Only stockholders whose names are registered in the stock ledger shall be entitled to be treated by the Corporation as the holders and owners in fact of the shares standing in their respective names, and the Corporation shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such shares on the part of any other person, whether or not the Corporation shall have express or other notice thereof, except as expressly provided by the laws of the State of Kansas.
(b) Manner of Voting. At any stockholders meeting, every stockholder entitled t o vote may vote in person or by proxy. If authorized by the Board, the voting by stockholders or proxyholders at any meeting conducted by remote communication may be effected by a ballot submitted by electronic transmission (as defined in Section 9.3), provided that any such electronic transmission must either set forth or be submitted with information from which the Corporation can determine that the electronic transmission was authorized by the stockholder or proxyholder. The Board, in its discretion, or the chairman of the meeting of stockholders, in such person’s discretion, may require that any votes cast at such meeting shall be cast by written ballot. (i) Directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the stockholders present in person or by proxy at a meeting at which a Quorum is present and entitled to vote on the election of directors. Voting for directors shall be by written ballot. No cumulative voting shall be permitted in the election of directors.
(c) Proxies. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent to corporate action in writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. Proxies need not be filed with the Secretary of the Corporation until the meeting is called to order, but shall be filed with the Secretary before being voted. Without limiting the manner in which a stockholder may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy, either of the following shall constitute a valid means by which a stockholder may grant such authority.
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(ii) A stockholder may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy by transmitting or authorizing the transmission of an electronic transmission to the person who will be the holder of the proxy or to a proxy solicitation firm, proxy support service organization or like agent duly authorized by the person who will be the holder of the proxy to receive such transmission, provided that any such electronic transmission must either set forth or be submitted with information from which it can be determined that the electronic transmission was authorized by the stockholder.
Any copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reliable reproduction of the writing or transmission authorizing another person or persons to act as proxy for a stockholder may be substituted or used in lieu of the original writing or transmission for any and all purposes for which the original writing or transmission could be used; provided that such copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing or transmission.
(d) Voting Rights of Fiduciaries and Pledgors. Persons holding stock in a fiduciary capacity shall be entitled to vote the shares so held. Persons whose stock is pledged shall be entitled to vote, unless in the transfer by the pledgor on the books of the Corporation the pledgor has expressly empowered the pledgee to vote thereon, in which case only the pledgee, or the pledgee’s proxy may represent such stock and vote thereon.
(e) Voting Rights of Joint Owners of Stock. If shares or other securities having voting power stand of record in the names of two or more persons, or if two or more persons have the same fiduciary relationship respecting the same shares, unless the Secretary is given written notice to the contrary and is furnished with a copy of the instrument or order appointing them or creating the relationship wherein it is so provided, or as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Kansas, their acts with respect to voting shall have the following effect: (i) if only one votes, the act binds all; (ii) if more than one vote, the act of the majority so voting binds all; (iii) if more than one vote, but the vote is evenly split on any particular matter, each faction may vote the securities in question proportionally. If the instrument so filed shows that any such tenancy is held in unequal interests, a majority or even-split for the purpose of this subsection shall be a majority or even-split in interest rather than in number.
(f) Required Vote. Subject to the rights of the holders of one or more series of preferred stock of the Corporation (“Preferred Stock”), voting separately by class or series, to elect directors pursuant to the terms of one or more series of Preferred Stock, the election of directors shall be determined by a plurality of the votes cast by the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote thereon. All other matters shall be determined by the vote of a majority of the votes cast by the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote thereon, unless the matter is one upon which, by applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation, these Bylaws or applicable stock exchange rules, a different vote is required, in which case such provision shall govern and control the decision of such matter. Where a separate vote by a class or classes of shares or series is required, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of such class or classes or series, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum entitled to take action with respect to that vote on that matter and the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of shares of such class or classes or series who are present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting shall be the act of such class or classes or series.
 
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(g) Inspectors of Election. The Board may appoint one or more persons as inspectors of election, who may be employees of the Corporation or otherwise serve the Corporation in other capacities, to act at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof and to make a written report thereof. The Board may appoint one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. I f no inspectors of election or alternates are appointed by the Board, the chairman of the meeting shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Each inspector, before discharging his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspectors shall ascertain and report the number of outstanding shares and the voting power of each; determine the number of shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and the validity of proxies and ballots; count all votes and ballots and report the results; determine and retain for a reasonable period a record of the disposition of any challenges made to any determination by the inspectors; and certify their determination of the number of shares represented at the meeting and their count of all votes and ballots. No person who is a candidate for an office at an election may serve as an inspector at such election. Each report of an inspector shall be in writing and signed by the inspector or by a majority of them if there is more than one inspector acting at such meeting. If there is more than one inspector, the report of a majority shall be the report of the inspectors.
Section 2.7 Adjournments. Any meeting of stockholders, annual or special, may be adjourned by the chairman of the meeting, from time to time, whether or not there is a quorum, to reconvene at the same or some other place. Notice need not be given of any such adjourned meeting if the date, time, place, if any, thereof, and the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting the stockholders, or the holders of any class or series of stock entitled to vote separately as a class, as the case may be, may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than 30 days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.
Section 2.8 Advance Notice for Business.
(a) Annual Meetings of Stockholders. No business may be transacted at an annual meeting of stockholders, other than business that is either (i) specified in the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board, (ii) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by or at the direction of the Board or (iii) otherwise properly brought before the annual meeting by any stockholder of the Corporation (x) who is a stockholder of record on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 2.8(a) and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at such annual meeting and (y) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.8(a). Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.8(a) to the contrary, only persons nominated for election as a director at an annual meeting pursuant to Section 3.4 will be considered for election at such meeting.
(i) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business (other than nominations) to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder, such stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation and such business must otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action. Subject to Section 2.8(a)(iii), a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary with respect to such business, to be timely, must be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the opening of
 
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business on the 120th day before the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting is called for a date that is not within 45 days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so received not earlier than the opening of business on the 120th day before the meeting and not later than the later of (x) the close of business on the 90th day before the meeting or (y) the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the annual meeting is first made by the Corporation. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment of an annual meeting commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described in this Section 2.8(a).
(ii) To be in proper written form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary with respect to any business (other than nominations) must set forth as to each such matter such stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting (A) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and in the event such business includes a proposal to amend these Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment) and the reasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting, (B) the name and record address of such stockholder and the name and address of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, (C) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation that are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and by the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, (D) a description of all arrangements or understandings between such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder, (E) any material interest of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made in such business, (F) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear i n person or b y proxy at the annual meeting t o b ring such business before the meeting, and (G) a statement verifying that for a period of not less than one year prior to the date such a proposal is made, such stockholder has continuously held at least $2,000 in market value of shares of capital stock of the Corporation, or in the alternative 1% of total outstanding shares of the capital stock of the Corporation, and that such shares have been continuously owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder during such period. In the event a proposal is not properly brought before the Corporation, the Secretary shall provide the stockholder with written notice of any deficiencies within 14 days of receipt of such proposal, and shall provide such stockholder with no more than 14 days within which to cure all deficiencies in such proposal.
(iii) The foregoing notice requirements of this Section 2.8(a) shall be deemed satisfied by a stockholder as to any proposal (other than nominations) if the stockholder has notified the Corporation of such stockholder’s intention to present such proposal at an annual meeting in compliance with Rule 14a-8 (or any successor thereof) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange A ct”), and such stockholder has complied with the requirements of such Rule for inclusion of such proposal in a proxy statement prepared by the Corporation to solicit proxies for such annual meeting. No business shall be conducted at the annual meeting of stockholders except business brought before the annual meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.8(a), provided, however, that once business has been properly brought before the annual meeting in accordance with such procedures, nothing in this Section 2.8(a) shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any stockholder of any such business. If the Board or the chairman of the annual meeting determines that any stockholder proposal was not made in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.8(a) or that the information provided in a stockholder’s notice does not satisfy the information requirements of this Section 2.8(a), such proposal shall not be presented for action at the annual meeting, subject, however, to stockholder notice and cure rights expressly provided under Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.8(a), if the stockholder (or a qualified representative of the stockholder) does not appear at the annual meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to present the proposed business, such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such matter may have been received by the Corporation.
 
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(iv) In addition to the provisions of this Section 2.8(a), a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth herein. Nothing in this Section 2.8(a) shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.
(b) Special Meetings of Stockholders. Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the corporation’s notice of meeting. Nominations of persons for election to the Board may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting only pursuant to Section 3.4.
(c) Public Announcement. For purposes of these Bylaws, “public announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
Section 2.9 Conduct of Meetings. The chairman of each annual and special meeting of stockholders shall be the Chairman of the Board or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer (if he or she shall be a director) or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act of the Chief Executive Officer or if the Chief Executive Officer is not a director, the President (if he or she shall be a director) or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the President or if the President is not a director, such other person as shall be appointed by the Board. The date and time of the opening and the closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at a meeting shall be announced at the meeting by the chairman of the meeting. The Board may adopt such rules and regulations for the conduct of the meeting of stockholders as it shall deem appropriate. Except to the extent inconsistent with these Bylaws or such rules and regulations as adopted by the Board, the chairman of any meeting of stockholders shall have the right and authority to convene and to adjourn the meeting, to prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and to do all such acts as, in the judgment of such chairman, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting. Such rules, regulations or procedures, whether adopted by the Board or prescribed by the chairman of the meeting, may include, without limitation, the following: (a) the establishment of an agenda or order of business for the meeting; (b) rules and procedures for maintaining order at the meeting and the safety of those present; (c) limitations on attendance at or participation in the meeting to stockholders of record of the Corporation, their duly authorized and constituted proxies or such other persons as the chairman of the meeting shall determine; (d) restrictions on entry to the meeting after the time fixed for the commencement thereof; and (e) limitations on the time allotted to questions or comments by participants. Unless and to the extent determined by the Board or the chairman of the meeting, meetings of stockholders shall not be required
 
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to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure. The secretary of each annual and special meeting of’ stockholders shall be the Secretary or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary so appointed to act by the chairman of the meeting. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary and all Assistant Secretaries, the chairman of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.
ARTICLE III
DIRECTORS
Section 3.1 Number; Qualification; Term. The number of directors to constitute the Board shall be no more than fifteen (15) and no less than three (3). The exact number of directors shall be fixed from time to time, within the limits specified, by resolution of the Board or the stockholders. Directors need not be stockholders. Each director shall hold office until a successor is elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier resignation or removal.
Section 3.2 Powers. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board, 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 required to be exercised or done by the stockholders. Directors need not be stockholders or residents of the State of Kansas.
Section 3.3 Acceptance of Director. Each director, upon election, shall qualify by accepting the office of director, and such director’s attendance at, or written approval of the minutes of, any meeting of the Board subsequent to the director’s election shall constitute acceptance of such office by such director; or the director may accept the office of director by executing a separate written acceptance, which shall be placed in the minute book.
Section 3.4 Advance Notice for Nomination of Directors.
(a) Only persons who are nominated in accordance with the following procedures shall be eligible for election as directors of the Corporation, except as may be otherwise provided by the terms of one or more series of Preferred Stock with respect to the rights of holders of one or more series of Preferred Stock to elect directors. Nominations of persons for election to the Board at any annual meeting of stockholders, or at any special meeting of stockholders called for the purpose of electing directors as set forth in the Corporation’s notice of such special meeting, may be made (i) by or at the direction of the Board or (ii) by any stockholder of the Corporation (x) who is a stockholder of record on the date of the giving of the notice provided for in this Section 3.4 and on the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting and (y) who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 3.4.
(b) In addition to any other applicable requirements, for a nomination to be made by a stockholder, such stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in proper written form to the Secretary of the Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation (i) in the case of an annual meeting, not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the opening of business on the 120th day before the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of stockholders; provided, however, that in the event that the annual meeting is called for a date that is not within 45 days before or after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so received not earlier than the opening of business on the 120th day before the meeting and not later than the
 
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later of (x) the close of business on the 90th day before the meeting or (y) the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the annual meeting was first made by the Corporation; and (ii) in the case of a special meeting of stockholders called for the purpose of electing directors, not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of the special meeting is first made by the Corporation. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment of an annual meeting or special meeting commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described in this Section 3.4.
(c) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (b) to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board at an annual meeting is greater than the number of directors whose terms expire on the date of the annual meeting and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for the additional directors to be elected or specifying the size of the increased Board before the close of business on the 90th day prior to the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting of stockholders, a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 3.4 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for the additional directorships created by such increase that are to be filled by election at such annual meeting, if it shall be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the date on which such public announcement was first made by the Corporation.
(d) To be in proper written form, a stockholder’s notice to the Secretary must set forth (i) as t o each person w horn the stockholder proposes t o nominate for e lection a s a director (A) the name, age, business address and residence address of the person, (B) the principal occupation or employment of the person, (C) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation that are owned beneficially or of record by the person and (D) any other information relating to the person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and (ii) as to the stockholder giving the notice (A) the name and record address of such stockholder and the name and address of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made, (B) the class or series and number of shares of capital stock of the Corporation that are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made, (C) a description of all arrangements or understandings relating to the nomination to be made by such stockholder among such stockholder, the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made, each proposed nominee and any other person or persons (including their names), (D) a representation that such stockholder intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to nominate the persons named in its notice and (E) any other information relating to such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Such notice must be accompanied by a written consent of each proposed nominee to being named as a nominee and to serve as a director if elected.
 
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(e) Except as otherwise provided by the terms of one or more series of Preferred Stock with respect to the rights of one or more series of Preferred Stock to nominate and elect directors, no person shall be eligible for election as a director of the Corporation unless nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3.4. If the Board or the chairman of the meeting of stockholders determines that any nomination was not made in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3.4, then such nomination shall not be considered at the meeting in question. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.4, if the stockholder (or a qualified representative of the stockholder) does not appear at the meeting of stockholders of the Corporation to present the nomination, such nomination shall be disregarded, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such nomination may have been received by the Corporation.
(f) In addition to the provisions of this Section 3.4, a stockholder shall also comply with all of the applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth herein. Nothing in this Section 3.4 shall be deemed to affect any rights of the holders of Preferred Stock to elect directors pursuant to the Articles of Incorporation.
(g) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (a) regarding nominations made by or at the direction of the Board to the contrary, unless specifically required by applicable law or a stock exchange upon which the Corporation is listed, in the event that over 50% of the voting power of the Corporation is held by an individual, group or another company, the directors meeting the independence standards imposed by applicable law or any stock exchange on which the Corporation is listed (“independent directors”) shall have neither the right nor obligation as directors to cast votes for the nomination of directors; such right and obligation shall rest solely with the duly authorized representative of the controlling individual, group or other company.
Section 3.5 Compensation. Unless otherwise restricted by the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the Board shall have the authority to fix the compensation of directors. The directors may be reimbursed their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board and may be paid either a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board or other compensation as director. No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor. Members of committees of the Board may be allowed like compensation and reimbursement of expenses for service on the committee.
Section 3.6 Vacancies; Newly Created Directorships. Unless otherwise provided in the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director, and the directors so chosen shall hold office until the next annual election of directors by the stockholders at which such director’s successor is duly elected and qualified, or until such director’s earlier resignation or removal. If, at any time, by reason of death, resignation or other cause, the Corporation should have no directors in office, then any officer or any stockholder or an executor, administrator, trustee or guardian of a stockholder, or other fiduciary entrusted with like responsibility for the person or estate of a stockholder, may call a special meeting of stockholders in accordance with the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, or as otherwise provided by law for such election. Nothwithstanding the foregoing, unless specifically required by applicable law or a stock exchange upon which the Corporation is listed, in the event that over 50% of the voting power of the Corporation is held by an individual, group or another company, the directors meeting the independence standards imposed by applicable law or any stock exchange on which the Corporation is listed (“independent directors”) shall have neither the right nor obligation as directors to cast votes for the nomination or election of directors; such right and obligation shall rest solely with the duly authorized representative of the controlling individual, group or other company.
 
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Section 3.7 Reliance on Records. A director, or a member of any committee designated by the Board, shall be fully protected in the performance of such director’s or committee member’s duties in relying in good faith upon the records of the Corporation and upon such information, opinions, reports or statements presented to the Corporation by any of the Corporation’s officers or employees, or committees of the Board, or by any other person as to matters such director or committee member reasonably believes are within such other person’s professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Corporation.
Section 3.8 Removal of Directors. The stockholders shall have the power, by a vote of the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote, to remove any director or directors from office with or without cause.
 
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ARTICLE IV
BOARD MEETINGS
Section 4.1 Annual Meetings. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Board may hold its meetings within or outside the State of Kansas. The Board shall meet as soon as practicable after the adjournment of each annual stockholders meeting at the place of the annual stockholders meeting unless the Board shall fix another time and place and give notice thereof in the manner required herein for special meetings of the Board provided a quorum is present. No notice to the directors shall be necessary to legally convene this meeting, except as provided in this Section 4.1.
Section 4.2 Regular Meetings. Regularly scheduled, periodic meetings of the Board may be held without notice at such times, dates and places as shall from time to time be determined by the Board. Any business may be transacted at a regular meeting.
Section 4.3 Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board (a) may be called by the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer or President and (b) shall be called by the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or Secretary on the written request of at least a majority of directors then in office, or the sole director, as the case may be, and shall be held at such time, date and place as may be determined by the person calling the meeting or, if called upon the request of directors or the sole director, as specified in such written request. Notice of each special meeting of the Board shall be given, as provided in Section 9.3, to each director (i) at least 24 hours before the meeting if such notice is oral notice given personally or by telephone or written notice given by hand delivery or by means of a form of electronic transmission and delivery; (ii) at least two days before the meeting if such notice is sent by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service; and (iii) at least five days before the meeting if such notice is sent through the United States mail. If the Secretary shall fail or refuse to give such notice, then the notice may be given by the officer who called the meeting or the directors who requested the meeting. Any and all business that may be transacted at a regular meeting of the Board may be transacted at a special meeting. Except as may be otherwise expressly provided by applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation, or these Bylaws, neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any special meeting need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting. A special meeting may be held at any time without notice if all the directors are present or if those not present waive notice of the meeting in accordance with Section 9.4.
Section 4.4 Quorum; Required Vote. A majority of the Whole Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board, and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting, a majority of the directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.
Section 4.5 Consent In Lieu of Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and
 
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the writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions (or paper reproductions thereof) are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.
Section 4.6 Organization. The chairman of each meeting of the Board shall be the Chairman of the Board or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer (if he or she shall be a director) or, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chief Executive Officer or if the Chief Executive Officer is not a director, the President (if he or she shall be a director) or in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the President or if the President is not a director, a chairman elected from the directors present. The Secretary shall act as secretary of all meetings of the Board. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary shall perform the duties of the Secretary at such meeting. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary and all Assistant Secretaries, the chairman of the meeting may appoint any person to act as secretary of the meeting.
ARTICLE V
COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS
Section 5.1 Establishment. The Board may designate by resolution passed by a majority of the Whole Board one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board when required. The Board shall have the power at any time to fill vacancies in, to change the membership of, or to dissolve any such committee.
Section 5.2 Available Powers. Any committee established pursuant to Section 5.1 hereof, to the extent permitted by applicable law and by resolution of the Board, shall have and may exercise all of the powers and authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs o f t he Corporation, and may authorize the seal o f t he Corporation t o b e affixed to all papers that may require it, but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to the following matters: (i) Approving or adopting, or recommending to the stockholders, any action or matter expressly required by law to be submitted to stockholders for approval; or (ii) adopting, amending or repealing any Bylaw of the Corporation.
Section 5.3 Alternate Members. The Board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of such committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member.
Section 5.4 Procedures. Unless the Board otherwise provides, the time, date, place, if any, and notice of meetings of a committee shall be determined by such committee. At meetings of a committee, a majority of the number of members of the committee (but not including any alternate member, unless such alternate member has replaced any absent or disqualified member at the time of, or in connection with, such meeting) shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The act of a majority of the members present at any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the
 
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committee, except as otherwise specifically provided by applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation, these Bylaws or the Board. If a quorum is not present at a meeting of a committee, the members present may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than an announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present. Unless the Board otherwise provides and except as provided in these Bylaws, each committee designated by the Board may make, alter, amend and repeal rules for the conduct of its business. In the absence of such rules each committee shall conduct its business in the same manner as the Board is authorized to conduct its business pursuant to Article III and Article IV of these Bylaws.
Section 5.5 Record Keeping. All committees so appointed shall, unless otherwise provided by the Board, keep regular minutes of the transactions at their meetings and shall cause them to be recorded in books kept for that purpose in the office of the Corporation and shall report the same to the Board at its next meeting. The Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation may act as Secretary of the committee if the committee or the Board so requests.
ARTICLE VI
OFFICERS
Section 6.1 Officers. The officers of the Corporation elected by the Board shall be a Chairman of the Board, a Chief Executive Officer, a President, a Treasurer, a Secretary and such other officers (including without limitation a Chief Financial Officer, Vice Presidents, Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers) as the Board from time to time may determine. Officers elected by the Board shall each have such powers and duties as generally pertain to their respective offices, subject to the specific provisions of this Article VI. Such officers shall also have such powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred by the Board. The Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer or President may also appoint such other officers (including without limitation one or more Vice Presidents and Controllers) as may be necessary or desirable for the conduct of the business of the Corporation. Such other officers shall have such powers and duties and shall hold their offices for such terms as may be provided in these Bylaws or as may be prescribed by the Board or, if such officer has been appointed by the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer or President, as may be prescribed by the appointing officer.
(a) Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board shall preside when present at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board. The Chairman of the Board shall advise and counsel the Chief Executive Officer and other officers and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be assigned to or required of the Chairman of the Board from time to time by the Board or these Bylaws.
(b) Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation, shall have general supervision of the affairs of the Corporation and general control of all of its business subject to the ultimate authority of the Board, and shall be responsible for the execution of the policies of the Board. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer (if he or she shall be a director) shall preside when present at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board.
 
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(c) President. The President shall be the chief operating officer of the Corporation and shall, subject to the authority of the Chief Executive Officer and the Board, have general management and control of the day-to-day business operations of the Corporation and shall consult with and report to the Chief Executive Officer. The President shall put into operation the business policies of the Corporation as determined by the Chief Executive Officer and the Board and as communicated to the President by the Chief Executive Officer and the Board. The President shall make recommendations to the Chief Executive Officer on all operational matters that would normally be reserved for the final executive responsibility of the Chief Executive Officer. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, the President (if he or she shall be a director) shall preside when present at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board.
(d) Vice Presidents. In the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the President, the Vice President (or in the event there be more than one Vice President, the Vice Presidents in the order designated by the Board) shall perform the duties and have the powers of the President. Any one or more of the Vice Presidents may be given an additional designation of rank or function.
(e) Secretary.
(i) The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the stockholders, the Board and (as required) committees of the Board and shall record the proceedings of such meetings in books to be kept for that purpose. The Secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and special meetings of the Board and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board, the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer or the President. The Secretary shall have custody of the corporate seal of the Corporation and the Secretary, or any Assistant Secretary, shall have authority to affix the same to any instrument requiring it, and when so affixed, it may be attested by his or her signature or by the signature of such Assistant Secretary. The Board may give general authority to any other officer to affix the seal of the Corporation and to attest the affixing thereof by his or her signature.
(ii) The Secretary shall keep, or cause to be kept, at the principal executive office of the Corporation or at the office of the Corporation’s transfer agent or registrar, if one has been appointed, a stock ledger, or duplicate stock ledger, showing the names of the stockholders and their addresses, the number and classes of shares held by each and, with respect to certificated shares, the number and date of certificates issued for the same and the number and date of certificates cancelled.
(f) Assistant Secretaries. The Assistant Secretary or, if there be more than one, the Assistant Secretaries in the order determined by the Board shall, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Secretary, perform the duties and have the powers of the Secretary.
(g) Treasurer. The Treasurer shall perform all duties commonly incident to that office including, without limitation:
(i) The Treasurer shall have responsibility for the safekeeping of the funds and securities of the Corporation, shall keep or cause to be kept full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation and shall keep or cause to be kept all other books of account and accounting records of the Corporation. The Treasurer shall deposit or cause to be deposited all moneys and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the Corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board or by any officer of the Corporation to whom such authority has been granted by the Board.
 
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(ii) The Treasurer shall disburse, or permit to be disbursed, the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered, or authorized generally, by the Board, and shall render to the chief executive officer of the Corporation and the Board, whenever they may require, an account of all such transactions as Treasurer, and of those under the Treasurer’s jurisdiction, and of the financial condition of the Corporation.
(iii) The Treasurer shall perform such other duties and shall have such other responsibility and authority as may be prescribed elsewhere in the Bylaws or from time to time by the Board.
(h) Assistant Treasurers. The Assistant Treasurer or, if there shall be more than one, the Assistant Treasurers in the order determined by the Board shall, in the absence (or inability or refusal to act) of the Treasurer, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Treasurer.
Section 6.2 Term of Office; Qualifications. The elected officers of the Corporation shall be elected annually by the Board at its first meeting held after each annual meeting of stockholders. All officers elected by the Board shall hold office until the next annual meeting of the Board and until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, or removal from office. In any event, each officer of the Corporation who is not reelected or reappointed at the annual election of officers by the Board next succeeding his or her election or appointment shall be deemed to have been removed by the Board, unless the Board provides otherwise at the time of such officer’s election or appointment. Any officer may be removed, with or without cause, at any time by the Board. Any officer appointed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or President may also be removed, with or without cause, by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or President, as the case may be, unless the Board otherwise provides. Any officer may resign at any time upon notice given in writing or by electronic transmission to the corporation. Any vacancy occurring in any elected office of the Corporation may be filled by the Board. Any vacancy occurring in any office appointed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or President may be filled by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or President, as the case may be, unless the Board then determines that such office shall thereupon be elected by the Board, in which case the Board shall elect such officer. An officer shall be deemed qualified when the officer enters upon the duties of the office to which the officer has been elected or appointed and furnishes any bond required by the Board; but the Board may also require a written acceptance and promise faithfully to discharge the duties of such office. A failure to elect the Corporation’s officers in accordance with these Bylaws shall not dissolve or otherwise affect the Corporation.
Section 6.3 Other Officers. The Board may delegate the power to appoint such other officers and agents, and may also remove such officers and agents or delegate the power to remove same, as it shall from time to time deem necessary or desirable. The Board may delegate similar authority with respect to the obtaining and retaining for the Corporation the services of attorneys, accountants and other professionals and experts. Each such agent shall serve at the pleasure of the Board or for such period as the Board may specify, and shall exercise such powers, have such titles, and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board or by an officer empowered by these Bylaws or the Board to make such determinations.
Section 6.4 Multiple Officeholders; Stockholder and Director Officers. Any number of offices may be held by the same person, unless the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws otherwise provide. Officers need not be members of the Board, stockholders or residents of the State of Kansas.
 
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ARTICLE VII
SHARE CERTIFICATES
Section 7.1 Entitlement to Certificates. The shares of the Corporation shall be represented by certificates, provided that the Board may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of its stock shall be uncertificated shares. Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the Corporation. Notwithstanding the adoption of such a resolution by the Board, every holder of stock represented by certificates and upon request every holder of uncertificated shares shall be entitled to have a certificate signed in accordance with Section 7.3 representing the number of shares registered in certificate form. The Corporation shall not have power to issue a certificate representing shares in bearer form.
Section 7.2 Multiple Classes of Stock. If the Corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, the Corporation shall (a) cause the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences or rights to be set forth in full or summarized on the face or back of any certificate which the Corporation issues to represent shares of such class or series of stock or (b) in the case of uncertificated shares, within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of such shares, send to the registered owner thereof a written notice containing the information required to be set forth on certificates as specified in clause (a) above; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided by applicable law, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face or back of such certificate or, in the case of uncertificated shares, on such written notice a statement that the Corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences or rights.
Section 7.3 Signatures. Each certificate representing capital stock of the Corporation shall be signed by or in the name of the Corporation by (a) the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President and (b) the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation. Any or all the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, such certificate may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if such person were such officer, transfer agent or registrar on the date of issue.
Section 7.4 Consideration and Payment for Shares.
(a) Subject to applicable law and the Articles of Incorporation, shares of stock may be issued for such consideration, having in the case of shares with par value a value not less than the par value thereof, and to such persons, as determined from time to time by the Board. The consideration may consist of any tangible or intangible property or benefit to the Corporation including cash, promissory notes, services performed, contracts for services to be performed or other securities.
 
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(b) Subject to applicable law and the Articles of Incorporation, shares may not be issued until the full amount of the consideration has been paid, unless upon the face or back of each certificate issued to represent any partly paid shares of capital stock or upon the books and records of the Corporation in the case of partly paid uncertificated shares, there shall have been set forth the total amount of the consideration to be paid therefor and the amount paid thereon up to and including the time said certificate representing certificated shares or said uncertificated shares are issued.
Section 7.5 Lost, Destroyed or Wrongfully Taken Certificates. If an owner of a certificate representing shares claims that such certificate has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Corporation shall issue a new certificate representing such shares or such shares in uncertificated form if the owner: (i) requests such a new certificate before the Corporation has notice that the certificate representing such shares has been acquired by a protected purchaser; (ii) if requested by the Corporation, delivers to the Corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that may be made against the Corporation on account of the alleged loss, wrongful taking or destruction of such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate or uncertificated shares; and (iii) satisfies other reasonable requirements imposed by the Corporation. If a certificate representing shares has been lost, apparently destroyed or wrongfully taken, and the owner fails to notify the Corporation of that fact within a reasonable time after the owner has notice of such loss, apparent destruction or wrongful taking and the Corporation registers a transfer of such shares before receiving notification, the owner shall be precluded from asserting against the Corporation any claim for registering such transfer or a claim to a new certificate representing such shares or such shares in uncertificated form.
Section 7.6 Transfer of Stock.
(a) If a certificate representing shares of the Corporation is presented to the Corporation with an endorsement requesting the registration of transfer of such shares or an instruction is presented to the Corporation requesting the registration of transfer of uncertificated shares, the Corporation shall register the transfer as requested if:
(i) in the case of certificated shares, the certificate representing such shares has been surrendered;
(ii) (A) with respect to certificated shares, the endorsement is made by the person specified by the certificate as entitled to such shares; (B) with respect to uncertificated shares, an instruction is made by the registered owner of such uncertificated shares; or (C) with respect to certificated shares or uncertificated shares, the endorsement or instruction is made by any other appropriate person or by an agent who has actual authority to act on behalf of the appropriate person;
(iii) the Corporation has received a guarantee of signature of the person signing such endorsement or instruction or such other reasonable assurance that the endorsement or instruction is genuine and authorized as the Corporation may request;
(iv) the transfer does not violate any restriction on transfer imposed by the Corporation that is enforceable in accordance with Section 7.8(a); and
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(b) Whenever any transfer of shares shall be made for collateral security and not absolutely, the Corporation shall so record such fact in the entry of transfer if, when the certificate for such shares is presented to the Corporation for transfer or, if such shares are uncertificated, when the instruction for registration of transfer thereof is presented to the Corporation, both the transferor and transferee request the Corporation to do so.
Section 7.7 Registered Stockholders. Before due presentment for registration of transfer of a certificate representing shares of the Corporation or of an instruction requesting registration of transfer of uncertificated shares, the Corporation may treat the registered owner as the person exclusively entitled to inspect for any proper purpose the stock ledger and the other books and records of the Corporation, vote such shares, receive dividends or notifications with respect t o such s hares and otherwise exercise all the rights and powers of the owner o f such shares, except that a person who is the beneficial owner of such shares (if held in a voting trust or by a nominee on behalf of such person) may, upon providing documentary evidence of beneficial ownership of such shares and satisfying such other conditions as are provided under applicable law, may also so inspect the books and records of the Corporation.
Section 7.8 Effect of the Corporation’s Restriction on Transfer.
(a) A written restriction on the transfer or registration of transfer of shares of the Corporation or on the amount of shares of the Corporation that may be owned by any person or group of persons, if permitted by the Kansas General Corporation Code (the “KGCC’) and noted conspicuously on the certificate representing such shares or, in the case of uncertificated shares, contained in a notice sent by the Corporation to the registered owner of such shares within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of such shares, may be enforced against the holder of such shares or any successor or transferee of the holder including an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary entrusted with like responsibility for the person or estate of the holder.
(b) A restriction imposed by the Corporation on the transfer or the registration of shares of the Corporation or on the amount of shares of the Corporation that may be owned by any person or group of persons, even if otherwise lawful, is ineffective against a person without actual knowledge of such restriction unless: (i) the shares are certificated and such restriction is noted conspicuously on the certificate; or (ii) the shares are uncertificated and such restriction was contained in a notice sent by the Corporation to the registered owner of such shares within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of such shares.
Section 7.9 Regulations. The Board shall have power and authority to make such additional rules and regulations, subject to any applicable requirement of law, as the Board may deem necessary and appropriate with respect to the issue, transfer or registration of transfer of shares of stock or certificates representing shares. The Board may appoint one or more transfer agents or registrars and may require for the validity thereof that certificates representing shares bear the signature of any transfer agent or registrar so appointed. Until and unless the Board appoints some other person, firm or corporation as its transfer agent (and upon the revocation of any such appointment, thereafter until a new appointment is similarly made), the Secretary of the Corporation shall be the transfer agent of the Corporation without the necessity of any formal action of the Board, and the Secretary, or any person designated by the Secretary, shall perform all of the duties of such transfer agent.
 
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ARTICLE VIII INDEMNIFICATION
Section 8.1 Right to Indemnification. Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation, by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter a “Covered Person”), whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent, or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by applicable law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, against all expense, liability and loss (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes and penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such Covered Person in connection with such proceeding; provided, however, that, except as provided in Section 8.4 with respect to proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification, the Corporation shall indemnify a Covered Person in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such Covered Person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board.
Section 8.2 Determination of Right to Indemnification. Prior to indemnifying a person pursuant to the provisions of this Article VIII, unless ordered by a court and except as otherwise provided by Section 8.3 of these Bylaws, the Corporation shall determine that such person has met the specified standard of conduct entitling such person to indemnification as set forth under this Article VIII. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination: (a) By a majority vote of the directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum; (b) by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum; (c) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion; or (d) by the stockholders, and such determination shall be final and binding upon the Corporation; provided, however, that in the event such determination is adverse to the person or persons to be indemnified hereunder, such person or persons shall have the right to maintain an action in any court of competent jurisdiction against the Corporation to determine whether or not such person has met the requisite standard of conduct and is entitled to such indemnification hereunder. If such court action is successful and the person or persons is determined to be entitled to such indemnification, such person or persons shall be reimbursed by the Corporation for all fees and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any such action (including, without limitation, the investigation, defense, settlement or appeal of such action).
Section 8.3 Right to Advancement of Expenses. In addition to the right to indemnification conferred in Section 8.1, a Covered Person shall also have the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees) reasonably incurred in defending, testifying, or otherwise participating in any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an “advancement of expenses"); provided, however, that, if the KGCC requires, an advancement of expenses incurred by a Covered Person in his or her capacity as a director or officer of the Corporation (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such Covered Person, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an “undertaking"), by or on behalf of such Covered Person, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal (hereinafter a “final adjudication") that such Covered Person is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Article VIII or otherwise.
 
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Section 8.4 Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit. If a claim under Section 8.1 or Section 8.3 is not paid in full by the Corporation within 60 days after a written claim therefor has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an advancement of expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be 20 days, the Covered Person may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If successful in whole or in part in any such suit, or in a suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Covered Person shall also be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting or defending such suit. In (a) any suit brought by the Covered Person to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder (but not in a suit brought by a Covered Person to enforce a right to an advancement of expenses) it shall be a defense that, and (b) any suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that, the Covered Person has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the KGCC. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such suit that indemnification of the Covered Person is proper in the circumstances because the Covered Person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the KGCC, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including a determination by its directors who are not parties to such action, a committee of such directors, independent legal counsel, or its stockholders) that the Covered Person has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall create a presumption that the Covered Person has not met the applicable standard of conduct or, in the case of such a suit brought by the Covered Person, shall be a defense to such suit. In any suit brought by the Covered Person to enforce a right to indemnification or to an advancement of expenses hereunder, or by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the burden of proving that the Covered Person is not entitled to be indemnified, or to such advancement of expenses, under this Article VIII or otherwise shall be on the Corporation.
Section 8.5 Non-Exclusivity of Rights. The rights provided to Covered Persons pursuant to this Article VIII shall not be exclusive of any other right which any Covered Person may have or hereafter acquire under applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation, these Bylaws, an agreement, a vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, both as to action in their official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding their respective offices, and shall not limit in any w ay any right which the Corporation may have to make additional indemnifications with respect to the same or different persons or classes of persons.
Section 8.6 Insurance. The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and/or any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the KGCC.
Section 8.7 Indemnification of Other Persons. This Article VIII shall not limit the right of the Corporation to the extent and in the manner authorized or permitted by law to indemnify and to advance expenses to persons other than Covered Persons. Without limiting the foregoing, the Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board, grant rights to indemnification and to the
 
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advancement of expenses to any employee or agent of the Corporation and to any other person who is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan, to the fullest extent of the provisions of this Article VIII with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of Covered Persons under this Article VIII.
Section 8.8 Amendments. Any repeal or amendment of this Article VIII by the Board or the stockholders of the Corporation or by changes in applicable law, or the adoption of any other provision of these Bylaws inconsistent with this Article VIII, will, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be prospective only (except to the extent such amendment or change in applicable law permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights to Covered Persons on a retroactive basis than permitted prior thereto), and will not in any way diminish or adversely affect any right or protection existing hereunder in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to such repeal or amendment or adoption of such inconsistent provision.
Section 8.9 Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Article VIII, (a) references to “other enterprise” shall include any employee benefit plan; (b) references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; (c) references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service that imposes duties on, or involves services by, a person with respect to any employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries; and (d) a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interest of the Corporation” for purposes of Article 63 of the KGCC as may be amended.
Section 8.10 Contract Rights. The rights provided to Covered Persons pursuant to this Article VIII shall be contract rights and such rights shall continue as to a Covered Person who has ceased to be a director, officer, agent or employee and shall inure to the benefit of the Covered Person’s heirs, executors and administrators.
Section 8.11 Severability. If any provision or provisions of this Article VIII shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever: (a) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Article VIII shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby; and (b) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Article VIII (including, without limitation, each such portion of this Article VIII containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested by the provision held invalid, illegal or unenforceable.
ARTICLE IX
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 9.1 Place of Meetings. If the place of any meeting of stockholders, the Board or committee of the Board for which notice is required under these Bylaws is not designated in the notice of such meeting, such meeting shall be held at the principal business office of the Corporation; provided, however, if the Board has, in its sole discretion, determined that a meeting shall not be held at any place, but instead shall be held by means of remote communication pursuant to Section 9.5 hereof, then such meeting shall not be held at any place.
 
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Section 9.2 Fixing Record Dates.
(a) Stockholders’ Meetings. I n order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board may fix a record date, which shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date shall not be more than 60 nor less than 10 days before the date of such meeting. If no record date is fixed by the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the business day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the business day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
(b) Stockholders’ Action Without a Meeting. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board 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, which date shall not be more than ten days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which date shall be effective for no more than sixty days after such record date. If n o record d ate has been fixed b y the Board, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board is required by any statute, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, shall be the first date on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the Corporation by delivery to its registered office in the State of Kansas, its principal place of business, or an officer or agent of the Corporation having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded, and which date shall be effective for sixty days after such record date. Delivery made to the Corporation’s registered office shall be by hand or by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested. If no record date has been fixed by the Board and prior action by the Board is required by any statute, the Articles of Incorporation or any Bylaw, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution taking such prior action, and such date shall be effective for sixty days after such record date.
(c) Dividends and Other Distributions. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the stockholders 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 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 be not more than 60 days prior to such action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.
Section 9.3 Means of Giving Notice.
(a) Notice to Directors. Whenever under applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws notice is required to be given to any director, such notice shall be given either (i) in writing and sent by hand delivery, through the United States mail, or by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service for next day delivery, (ii) by means of facsimile telecommunication or other form of electronic transmission, or (iii) by oral notice given personally or by telephone. A notice to a director will
 
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be deemed given as follows: (i) if given by hand delivery, orally, or by telephone, when actually received by the director, (ii) if sent through the United States mail, when deposited in the United States mail, with postage and fees thereon prepaid, addressed to the director at the directors address appearing on the records of the Corporation, (iii) if sent for next day delivery by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service, when deposited with such service, with fees thereon prepaid, addressed to the director at the director’s address appearing on the records of the Corporation, (iv) if sent by facsimile telecommunication, when sent to the facsimile transmission number for such director appearing on the records of the Corporation, (v) if sent by electronic mail, when sent to the electronic mail address for such director appearing on the records of the Corporation, or (vi) if sent by any other form of electronic transmission, when sent to the address, location or number (as applicable) for such director appearing on the records of the Corporation.
(b) Notice to Stockholders. Whenever under applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws notice is required to be given to any stockholder, such notice may be given (i) in writing and sent either by hand delivery, through the United States mail, or by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service for next day delivery, or (ii) by means of a form of electronic transmission consented to by the stockholder, to the extent permitted by, and subject to the conditions set forth in the KGCC. A notice to a stockholder shall be deemed given as follows: (i) if given by hand delivery, when actually received by the stockholder, (ii) if sent through the United States mail, when deposited in the United States mail, with postage and fees thereon prepaid, addressed to the stockholder at the stockholder’s address appearing on the stock ledger of the Corporation, (iii) if sent for next day delivery by a nationally recognized overnight delivery service, when deposited with such service, with fees thereon prepaid, addressed to the stockholder at the stockholder’s address appearing on the stock ledger of the Corporation, and (iv) if given by a form of electronic transmission consented to by the stockholder to whom the notice is given and otherwise meeting the requirements set forth above, (A) if by facsimile transmission, when directed to a number at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice, (B) if by electronic mail, when directed to an electronic mail address at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice, (C) if by a posting on an electronic network together with separate notice to the stockholder of such specified posting, upon the later of (1) such posting and (2) the giving of such separate notice, and (D) if by any other form of electronic transmission, when directed to the stockholder. A stockholder m ay revoke such stockholder’s consent to receiving notice by means of electronic communication by giving written notice of such revocation to the Corporation. Any such consent shall be deemed revoked if (1) the Corporation is unable to deliver by electronic transmission two consecutive notices given by the Corporation in accordance with such consent and (2) such inability becomes known to the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or to the Corporation’s transfer agent, or other person responsible for the giving of notice; provided, however, the inadvertent failure to treat such inability as a revocation shall not invalidate any meeting or other action.
(c) Electronic Transmission. “Electronic transmission” means any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process, including but not limited to transmission by telex, facsimile telecommunication, electronic mail, telegram and cablegram.
Section 9.4 Waiver of Notice. Whenever any notice is required to be given under applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation, or these Bylaws, a written waiver of such notice, signed before or after the date of such meeting by the person or persons entitled to said notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by the person entitled to said notice, shall be deemed equivalent to such required notice. All such waivers shall be kept with the books of the Corporation. Attendance at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a person attends for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting was not lawfully called or convened.
 
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Section 9.5 Meeting Attendance via Remote Communication Equipment.
(a) Stockholder Meetings. If authorized by the Board in its sole discretion, and subject to such guidelines and procedures as the Board may adopt, stockholders and proxyholders not physically present at a meeting of stockholders may, by means of remote communication:
(i) participate in a meeting of stockholders; and
(ii) be deemed present in person and vote at a meeting of stockholders, whether such meeting is to be held at a designated place or solely by means of remote communication, provided that (A) the Corporation shall implement reasonable measures to verify that each person deemed present and permitted to vote at the meeting by means of remote communication is a stockholder or proxyholder, (B) the Corporation shall implement reasonable measures to provide such stockholders and proxyholders a reasonable opportunity to participate in the meeting and to vote on matters submitted to the stockholders, including an opportunity to read or hear the proceedings of the meeting substantially concurrently with such proceedings, and (C) if any stockholder or proxyholder votes or takes other action at the meeting by means of remote communication, a record of such votes or other action shall be maintained by the Corporation.
(b) Board Meetings. Unless otherwise restricted by applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation, or these Bylaws, members of the Board or any committee thereof may participate in a meeting of the Board or any committee thereof by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Such participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting, except where a person participates in the meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting was not lawfully called or convened.
 
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Section 9.6 Dividends. Subject t o the Articles o f Incorporation and the 1aws o f Kansas, the Board may declare and pay dividends upon the outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation at any meeting, which dividends may be paid in cash, in property or in shares of the Corporation’s capital stock, and may cause the Corporation to purchase or redeem any of its outstanding shares of stock. A director or a member of any committee designated by the Board shall be fully protected in relying in good faith upon the records of the Corporation and upon such information, opinions, reports or statements presented to the Corporation by any of its officers or employees, or committees of the Board, or any other person as to matters the director or committee member reasonably believes are within such other person’s professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care by or on behalf of the Corporation, as to the value and amount of the assets, liabilities or net profits, surplus or other funds from which dividends may properly be declared and paid, or with which the Corporation’s stock may properly be purchased or redeemed.
Section 9.7 Reserves. The Board may set apart out of the funds of the Corporation available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and may abolish any such reserve.
Section 9.8 Contracts and Negotiable Instruments. Except as otherwise provided by applicable law, the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any contract, bond, deed, lease, mortgage or other instrument may be executed and delivered in the name and on behalf of the Corporation by such officer or officers or other employee or employees of the Corporation as the Board may from time to time authorize. Such authority may be general or confined to specific instances as the Board may determine. When so charged, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or any Vice President may execute and deliver any contract, bond, deed, lease, mortgage or other instrument in the name and on behalf of the Corporation. Subject to any restrictions imposed by the Board, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, President or any Vice President may delegate powers to execute and deliver any contract, bond, deed, lease, mortgage or other instrument in the name and on behalf of the Corporation to other officers or employees of the Corporation under such person’s supervision and authority, it being understood, however, that any such delegation of power shall not relieve such officer of responsibility with respect to the exercise of such delegated power.
Section 9.9 Fiscal Year. The Board shall have power to fix and from time to time change the fiscal year of the Corporation. In the absence of action by the Board, the fiscal year of the Corporation shall end each year on the date which the Corporation treated as the close of its first fiscal year, until such time, if any, as the fiscal year shall be changed by the Board.
Section 9.10 Seal. The Corporation shall have a corporate seal inscribed within the name of the Corporation and the words “Corporate Seal — Kansas.” The corporate seal may be used by causing it, or a facsimile thereof; to be impressed or affixed or in any manner reproduced.
Section 9.11 Books and Records. The books, accounts and records of the Corporation, except as may be otherwise required by the laws of the State of Kansas, may be kept outside of the State of Kansas, at such place or places as the Board may from time to time determine. Except as otherwise provided b y law, the Board shall determine whether, to what extent, and the conditions upon which the books, accounts and records of the Corporation shall be open to the inspection of the stockholders of the Corporation. Any records maintained by a corporation in the regular course of its business, including its stock ledger, books of account and minute books, may be kept on, or by means of, or be in the form of any information storage device or method provided that the records so kept can be converted into clearly legible paper form within a reasonable time. Any corporation shall so convert
 
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any records so kept upon the request of any person entitled to inspect the same. When records are kept in such manner, a clearly legible paper form produced from or by the means of the information storage device or method shall be admissible in evidence and shall be accepted for all other purposes, to the same extent as an original paper record of the same information would have been, provided the paper form accurately portrays the record.
Section 9.12 Resignation. Any director, committee member or officer may resign by giving notice thereof in writing or by electronic transmission to the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or the Secretary. The resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or at the time of receipt of such notice if no time is specified or the specified time is earlier than the time of such receipt. Unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.
Section 9.13 Surety Bonds. Such officers, employees and agents of the Corporation (if any) as the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, President or the Board may direct, from time to time, shall be bonded for the faithful performance of their duties and for the restoration to the Corporation, in case of their death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in their possession or under their control belonging to the Corporation, in such amounts and by such surety companies as the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, President or the Board may determine. The premiums on such bonds shall be paid by the Corporation and the bonds so furnished shall be in the custody of the Secretary.
Section 9.14 Securities of Other Corporations. Powers of attorney, proxies, waivers of notice of meeting, consents in writing and other instruments relating to securities owned by the Corporation may be executed in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, President or any Vice President. Any such officer, may, in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation, take all such action as any such officer may deem advisable to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of security holders of any corporation in which the Corporation may own securities, or to consent in writing, in the name of the Corporation as such holder, to any action by such corporation, and at any such meeting or with respect to any such consent shall possess and may exercise any and all rights and power incident to the ownership of such securities and which, as the owner thereof, the Corporation might have exercised and possessed. The Board may from time to time confer like powers upon any other person or persons.
Section 9.15 Emergency Management Committee. If as a result of a catastrophe or other emergency condition a quorum of any committee of the Board having power to act in the premises cannot readily be convened and a quorum of the Board cannot readily be convened, then all the powers and duties of the Board shall automatically vest and continue, until a quorum of the Board can be convened, in the Emergency Management Committee, which shall consist of all readily available members of the Board and two of whose members shall constitute a quorum. The Emergency Management Committee shall call a meeting of the Board as soon as circumstances permit for the purpose of filling any vacancies on the Board and its committees and taking such other action as may be appropriate.
 
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Section 9.16 Independent Accountants. The Board shall appoint on an annual basis such firm of independent public accountants as it shall deem appropriate to examine the Company’s financial books and records on at least an annual basis. The appointment of said independent accountants shall, at the next succeeding annual meeting of stockholders be presented to the stockholders of the Company for ratification. Should the stockholders fail to ratify the appointment by the Board of said independent public accountants, the Board shall take the matter under consideration and the vote of the stockholders in that regard shall be deemed advisory in nature.
 
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CERTIFICATE
The undersigned Secretary of First American Capital Corporation, a Kansas corporation, hereby certifies that the foregoing Bylaws are the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Corporation duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
Dated: April 7, 2005
By: /s/ Harland E. Priddle
Name: Harland E. Priddle
Title: Secretary
 
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EX-31.1 5 c70836exv31w1.htm EXHIBIT 31.1 Filed by Bowne Pure Compliance
 

Exhibit 31.1
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certifications
I, Robert D. Orr, certify, that:
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of Brooke Capital Corporation;
2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;
4. The small business issuer’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the small business issuer and have:
a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;
b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report based on such evaluation; and
d. Disclosed in this quarterly report any change in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s most recent fiscal quarter (the small business issuer’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The small business issuer’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the small business issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of the small business issuer’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting.
         
     
Date: July 27, 2007  /s/ Robert D. Orr    
  Robert D. Orr,   
  President and Chief Executive Officer   
 

 

 

EX-31.2 6 c70836exv31w2.htm EXHIBIT 31.2 Filed by Bowne Pure Compliance
 

Exhibit 31.2
Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certifications
I, William R. Morton, Jr., certify, that:
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of Brooke Capital Corporation;
2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small business issuer as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;
4. The small business issuer’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the small business issuer and have:
a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the small business issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this quarterly report is being prepared;
b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the small business issuer’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this quarterly report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report based on such evaluation; and
d. Disclosed in this quarterly report any change in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the small business issuer’s most recent fiscal quarter (the small business issuer’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The small business issuer’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the small business issuer’s auditors and the audit committee of the small business issuer’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the small business issuer’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the small business issuer’s internal control over financial reporting.
         
     
Date: July 27, 2007  /s/ William R. Morton, Jr.    
  William R. Morton, Jr.   
  Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer   
 

 

 

EX-32.1 7 c70836exv32w1.htm EXHIBIT 32.1 Filed by Bowne Pure Compliance
 

Exhibit 32.1
Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted
pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
In connection with the Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB of Brooke Capital Corporation (the “Company”) for the period ended June 30, 2007 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Robert D. Orr, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:
1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and
2. The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Registrant.
         
     
Date: July 27, 2007  /s/ Robert D. Orr    
  Robert D. Orr,   
  President and Chief Executive Officer   
 

 

 

EX-32.2 8 c70836exv32w2.htm EXHIBIT 32.2 Filed by Bowne Pure Compliance
 

Exhibit 32.2
Certification pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted
pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
In connection with the Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB of Brooke Capital Corporation (the “Company”) for the period ended June 30, 2007 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, William R. Morton, Jr., Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, certify pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:
1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and
2. The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Registrant.
         
     
Date: July 27, 2007  /s/ William R. Morton, Jr.    
  William R. Morton, Jr.   
  Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer   
 

 

 

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