SECTION 2.4 Stated Meetings.
The Board of Directors may provide for stated meetings of the Board.
SECTION 2.5 Special Meetings.
Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called from time to time by any four directors, by the Chairman, the Lead Director (if applicable), or by the Chief Executive Officer.
SECTION 2.6 Business of Meetings.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in these Bylaws, any and all business may be transacted at any meeting of the Board of Directors; provided, that if so stated in the notice of meeting, the business transacted at a special meeting shall be limited to the purpose or purposes specified in the notice.
SECTION 2.7 Time and Place of Meetings.
Subject to the provisions of Section 2.3, each meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held on such date, at such hour and in such place as fixed by the Board or in the notice or waivers of notice of the meeting or, in the case of an adjourned meeting, as announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken.
SECTION 2.8 Notice of Meetings.
No notice need be given of any organizational or stated meeting of the Board of Directors for which the Board has fixed the date, hour and place. Notice of the date, hour and place of all other organizational and stated meetings, and of all special meetings, shall be given to each director personally, by telephone, by mail or by electronic transmission. If given by mail, the notice shall be sent to the director at his or her residence or usual place of business as the same appears on the books of the Corporation not later than four days before the meeting. If given by electronic transmission, the notice shall be sent to the director not later than at any time during the day before the meeting. If given personally or by telephone, the notice shall be given not later than at any time during the day before the meeting.
SECTION 2.9 Waiver of Notice.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, notice of any meeting of the Board of Directors need not be given to any director who shall have waived in writing notice of the meeting, either before or after the meeting, or who shall attend such meeting, unless such director attends for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.
SECTION 2.10 Attendance by Telephone or Other Means of Communication.
Directors may participate in meetings of the Board of Directors by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all directors participating in the meeting can hear one another, and such participation shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.
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