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Section4.ShareholdersofRecordandFixingofRecordDate.Forthepurposeofdeterminingshareholdersentitledto
notice of or to vote at any meeting of shareholders or any adjournment, recess or postponement thereof, or entitled to receive a
distributionbytheCompany(otherthanadistributioninvolvingapurchaseorredemptionbytheCompanyofanyofitsownshares)
or a share dividend, or in order to make a determination of shareholders for any other proper purpose (other than determining
shareholders entitled to consent to action by shareholders proposed to be taken without a meeting ofshareholders), the Board of
Directorsmayprovidethatthesharetransferrecordsshallbeclosedforastatedperiodofnotmorethan60days,andinthecaseofa
meetingofshareholdersnotlessthantendays,immediatelyprecedingthemeeting,oritmayfixinadvancearecorddateforany
suchdeterminationofshareholders,suchdatetobenotmorethan60days,andinthecaseofameetingofshareholdersnotlessthan
tendays,priorto thedateonwhichtheparticularaction requiringsuchdeterminationof shareholdersistobe taken.Iftheshare
transferrecordsarenotclosedandnorecorddateisfixedforthedeterminationofshareholdersentitledtonoticeofortovoteata
meeting of shareholders, or shareholders entitled to receive a distribution (other than a distribution involving a purchase or
redemptionbytheCompanyofanyofitsownshares)orasharedividend,thedateonwhichnoticeofthemeetingismailedorthe
dateonwhichtheresolutionoftheBoardofDirectorsdeclaringsuchdistributionorsharedividendisadopted,asthecasemaybe,
shallbetherecorddateforsuchdeterminationofshareholders.Whenadeterminationofshareholdersentitledtovoteatanymeeting
of shareholders has been made as herein provided, such determination shall apply to any adjournment, recess or postponement
thereof except where the determination has been made through the closing of the share transfer records and the stated period of
closinghasexpired.
ARTICLEII
MEETINGSOFSHAREHOLDERS
Section1.PlaceofMeetings.AllmeetingsofshareholdersshallbeheldattheregisteredofficeoftheCompany,inthe
CityofHouston,Texas,oratsuchotherplacewithinorwithouttheStateofTexasasmaybedesignatedbytheBoardofDirectors
orofficercallingthemeeting.
Section2.AnnualMeeting.Theannualmeetingoftheshareholdersshallbeheldonsuchdateandatsuchtimeasshallbe
designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or as may otherwise be stated in the notice of the meeting. Failure to
designate a time for the annual meeting or to hold the annual meeting at the designated time shall not work a winding up or
terminationoftheCompany.
Section 3. Special Meetings . Special meetings of the shareholders may be called by the Chairman of the Board of
Directors(the“ChairmanoftheBoard”),theChiefExecutiveOfficer,thePresident,theSecretaryortheBoardofDirectors.Special
meetingsof shareholdersshall becalled bythePresident orthe Secretaryon therequest inproper writtenform oftheholdersof
sharesofcapitalstock oftheCompanyconstituting atleastthe percentageofoutstanding sharesofcapitalstock oftheCompany
entitledtovoteatsuchmeetingthattheArticlesofIncorporation(asSection4 ofthisArticleIIdefines thatterm)specifyasthe
minimumpercentagenecessarytocallaspecialmeetingoftheshareholders(orintheabsenceofsuchspecification,theminimum
percentagenecessarytocallaspecialmeetingthattheTexas
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