EX-3.2 3 bylaws.htm AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS OF CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORPORATION bylaws.htm
Exhibit 3.2
TEXT OF AMENDMENTS TO THE BYLAWS OF
CHESAPEAKE UTILITIES CORPORATION

     As of December 12, 2007 Article VI of the Bylaws of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation was adopted, amended and restated by the Board of Directors in its entirety to be and read as follows:
 

ARTICLE VI

STOCK CERTIFICATES, TRANSFERS AND RECORD DATE

6.1           Certificates of Stock; Uncertificated Shares.  Shares of capital stock of the Corporation may be certificated or uncertificated, as provided under the Delaware General Corporation Law.  The certificates of stock of the Corporation shall be numbered and  registered in the stock ledger and transfer books of the Corporation as they are issued.  The stock certificates of the Corporation shall be signed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President and the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and shall bear the corporate seal, which may be a facsimile, engraved or printed.  Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be facsimiles, engraved or printed.  In the event that any officer, transfer agent, or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon any share certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent, or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued with the same effect as if such person were such officer, transfer agent, or registrar at the date of issue.  Stock certificates of the Corporation shall be in such form as provided by statute and approved by the Board of Directors.  The stock record books and the blank stock certificates books shall be kept by the Secretary or by any agency designated by the Board of Directors for that purpose.

6.2           Registration of Transfer.  Upon surrender to the Corporation or the transfer agent of the Corporation of a certificate for shares, if such shares are certificated, duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the Corporation to issue a new certificate or to register the issuance of uncertificated shares to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate and record the transaction upon its books.  Upon the receipt of proper transfer instructions from the registered owner of uncertificated shares, such uncertificated shares shall be cancelled, issuance of new equivalent uncertificated shares or certificated shares shall be recorded upon the books of the Corporation.  The Board of Directors shall have authority to make such rules and regulations not inconsistent with law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, as it deems expedient concerning the issuance, transfer and registration of certificates for shares and the shares represented thereby and of uncertificated shares.

6.3           Record Date for Stockholders.  For the purpose of determining the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any annual or special meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or for the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or the allotment of any rights, or 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 Directors may fix, in advance, a date as the record date for any such determination of stockholders.  Such date shall not be more than sixty days nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty days prior to any other action.  If no record date is fixed, the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held; the record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.  When a determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders has been made as provided in this paragraph, such determination shall apply to any adjournment thereof; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

6.4            Registered Stockholders.  The Corporation shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share or shares of stock as the holder in fact thereof and, accordingly, shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by law.

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