Exhibit 10.35
OPERATING
AGREEMENT
OF CHARLIE BROWN AIR II,
LLC
THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED LIMITED
LIABILITY COMPANY AGREEMENT is entered into as of the 26th day of June,
2008, by and among those persons who have executed this Agreement,
and whose names and addresses are set forth in Schedule I, as
Members.
NOW, THERFORE, the parties agree as
follows:
ARTICLE 1
THE COMPANY
1.1 Formation .
The Company was formed as a limited
liability company pursuant to the Delaware Limited Liability
Company Law (the “Law”).
1.2 Certificate of
Formation . A
Certificate of Formation under the Law (the
“Certificate”) was filed in the office of the Delaware
Secretary of State on June 30, 2008. The Company will execute
further documents (including amendments to the Certificate) and
take further action as is appropriate to comply with all
requirements of law for the formation and operation of a limited
liability company in the State of Delaware and all other counties
and states where the Company may elect to do business.
1.3 Name .
The name of the Company is Charlie
Brown Air II, LLC, but the business of the Company may be conducted
under any other name designated by the Members.
1.4 Character of Business
. The sole and exclusive
business of the Company is to acquire, own, and otherwise deal with
the assets of the Company. The Company may engage in any activities
that are reasonable, necessary or appropriate in connection with
the assets to promote the interests of the Company or enhance the
value of its property.
1.5 Principal Place of
Business . The
principal place of business of the Company is 1965 Waddle Road,
State College, Pennsylvania 16803, State College, Pennsylvania, or
at another location as may be selected by the Members. The Company
may maintain other offices or agents as the Members deem
advisable.
1.6 Registered Agent and
Office . The
registered office of the Company is 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington,
Delaware. The Corporation Trust Company is the registered agent of
the Company for service of process. At any time the Members may
change the location of the Company’s registered office or
registered agent as they may determine.
1.7 Fiscal Year
. The fiscal year of the
Company is the calendar year.
ARTICLE 2
DEFINITIONS
The following defined terms used in
this Agreement have the respective meanings specified
below.
2.1 Adjusted Book Value
. “Adjusted Book
Value” with respect to any Company property means the
adjusted basis of such property for federal income tax purposes
unless such property has been contributed to the Company in which
event it shall mean the fair market value of such property at the
date of contribution minus all Depreciation taken with respect to
such property.
2.2 Bruce .
“Bruce” means Bruce
Heim.
2.3 Capital Account
. “Capital
Account” means the account to be maintained by the Company
for each Member in accordance with the following
provisions:
(a) a Member’s Capital Account
will be increased by the Member’s Capital Contributions, the
amount of any Company liabilities assumed by the Member (or that
are secured by Company property distributed to the Member), the
Member’s share of Profit and any item in the nature of income
or gain specially allocated to the Member pursuant to the
provisions of Article V; and
(b) a Member’s Capital Account
will be decreased by the amount of money and the fair market value
of any Company property distributed to the Member, the amount of
any liabilities of the Member assumed by the Company (or that are
secured by property contributed by the Member to the Company), the
Member’s share of Loss and any item in the nature of expenses
or losses specially allocated to the Member pursuant to the
provisions of Article V.
2.4 Capital Contribution
. “Capital
Contribution” means the fair market value of any contribution
by a Member to the capital of the Company in cash or property. Such
property does not include the value of any promissory note for
which the contributing Member also is the maker. If such promissory
note is contributed, such Member’s capital account will be
increased in accordance with Treasury Regulation
Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(d)(2).
2.5 Cause .
“Cause” shall mean fraud
or willful misconduct in the performance of the Manager’s
duties or willful breach of the provisions of this
Agreement.
2.6 Code .
“Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the corresponding
provisions of any successor statute.
2.7 Company .
“Company” means Charlie
Brown Air II, LLC.
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2.8 Depreciation
. “Depreciation” means, for each
Fiscal Year or other period, an amount equal to the depreciation,
amortization, or other cost recovery deduction allowable with
respect to an asset for such year or other period, except that if
the fair market value of property contributed to the Company
differs from its adjusted basis for federal income tax purposes at
the date of contribution, Depreciation shall be an amount which
bears the same ratio to such beginning fair market value as the
federal income tax depreciation, amortization, or other cost
recovery deduction for such year or other periods bears to such
beginning adjusted tax basis.
2.9 Economic Interest
. “Economic
Interest” means a Person’s right to share in the
Profits and Losses of, and the right to receive distributions and
allocations from, the Company.
2.10 Economic Interest
Percentage . “Economic Interest Percentage”
means, as to a Member, the percentage interest in profits and
losses set forth after the Member’s name on Schedule
I , as amended from time to time, including, without
limitation, to reflect changes in Economic Interest Percentage upon
additional Capital Contributions and as to a Member who is not a
Member, the Economic Interest Percentage of an unadmitted assign of
a Member.
2.11 Fiscal Year
. “Fiscal
Year” means the calendar year.
2.12 Impasse .
“Impasse” means the
failure of all Members to consent to or approve any major decision
after such action or consent has been proposed by any Member as a
major decision. An Impasse shall be considered to have occurred if
the Members cannot agree with respect to a major decision within
ten (10) days after such action has been proposed by any
Member as a major decision.
2.13 Member .
“Member” means each
Person who or which executes a counterpart of this Agreement as a
Member and each Person who or which becomes a Member of the
Company.
2.14 Membership Interest
. “Membership
Interest” means a Member’s aggregate rights in the
Company, including, without limitation, the Company’s
(i) Economic Interest and (ii) Voting
Interest.
2.15 Person .
“Person” means any
person, corporation, governmental authority, limited liability
company, partnership, trust, unincorporated association or other
entity.
2.16 Profits and Losses
. “Profits”
and “Losses” means, for any fiscal period, an amount
equal to the Company’s taxable income or loss for the year or
period, determined in accordance with Code Section 703(a) (for
this purpose, all items of income, gain, loss, or deduction
required to be stated separately pursuant to Code
Section 703(a)(1) shall be included in taxable income or
loss), with the following adjustments:
(a) Any income of the Company that
is exempt from federal income tax and not otherwise taken into
account in computing Profits and Losses will be added to taxable
income or loss;
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(b) Any expenditures of the Company
described in Code Section 705(a)(2)(B) or treated as Code
Section 705(a)(2)(B) expenditures pursuant to Treasury
Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(i), and not otherwise
taken into account in computing Profits and Losses will be
subtracted from taxable income or loss;
(c) Gain or loss resulting from any
taxable disposition of Company property shall be computed by
reference to the Adjusted Book Value of the property disposed of,
notwithstanding the fact that the Adjusted Book Value differs from
the adjusted basis of the property for federal income tax purposes;
and
(d) In lieu of the depreciation,
amortization, or cost recovery deductions allowable in computing
taxable income or loss, there shall be taken into account the
Depreciation for such Fiscal Year or other period.
2.17 Rex .
“Rex” shall mean Rex
Energy Operating Corp.
2.18 SHG .
“SHG” shall mean Shaner
Hotel Group Limited Partnership.
2.19 Transfer .
“Transfer” means, when
used as a noun, any gift, sale, hypothecation, pledge, assignment,
attachment, or other transfer, and, when used as a verb, give,
sell, hypothecate, pledge, assign, or otherwise
transfer.
2.20 Treasury Regulations
. “Treasury
Regulations” means all proposed, temporary and final Treasury
Regulations promulgated under the Code as in effect from time to
time.
2.21 Voting Interest
. “Voting
Interest” means a Member’s right to vote in matters
coming before the Company and to participate in the management of
the Company.
2.22 Voting Interest
Percentage . “Voting Interest Percentage” means,
with respect to a particular Member, that Member’s percentage
of the total aggregate Voting Interests in the Company, as set
forth after the Member’s name on Schedule I, as amended from
time to time.
ARTICLE 3
CAPITAL
CONTRIBUTIONS
3.1 Capital Contributions
. Each Member will make
an initial cash Capital Contribution to the Company in an amount
set forth on Schedule I.
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3.2 Additional Contributions
and Withdrawals . Except as set forth in Section 3.1, no
Member will be required to make any Capital
Contributions.
3.3 Negative Capital
Accounts . A Member
with a negative balance in his or her Capital Account at no time
during the term of the Company or upon dissolution and liquidation
of it, has any obligation to the Company or the other Members to
restore that negative balance, except (i) as may be required
by law, or (ii) in respect of any negative balance resulting
from a withdrawal of capital or dissolution in contravention of
this Agreement.
3.4 Withdrawal or Reduction of
Capital Contributions . A Member may not receive from the Company any
portion of a Capital Contribution until all indebtedness,
liabilities of the Company, except any indebtedness, liabilities
and obligations to Members on account of their Capital
Contributions, has been paid or there remains property of the
Company, in the sole discretion of a Member, sufficient to pay
them.
ARTICLE 4
COSTS AND EXPENSES
4.1 Operating Costs
. The Company will pay or
cause to be paid all costs and expenses of the Company incurred by
the Company in pursuing and conducting, or otherwise related to,
the business of the Company.
4.2 Reimbursement the
Members . The Company
will reimburse the Members for any reasonable out-of-pocket costs
and expenses incurred by them in pursuing and conducting, or
otherwise related to, the business of the Company.
ARTICLE 5
ALLOCATIONS AND
DISTRIBUTIONS
5.1 Allocations
.
(a) Allocation of Profits and
Losses . Except as provided in subparagraphs (b) and
(c) of this Section, all Profits and Losses for each Fiscal
Year will be allocated to Members in accordance with their
respective Economic Interest Percentages.
(b) Special Allocations . All
capitalized terms used in this Section not otherwise defined in
this Agreement have the meaning set forth in the Treasury
Regulations promulgated pursuant to Code Section 704. The
following special allocations will be made in the following
order:
(i) Property Contributions .
In accordance with Code Section 704(c) and the Treasury
Regulations thereunder, income, gain, loss and deduction with
respect to any property contributed to the capital of the Company
solely for tax purposes, will be allocated among the Members so as
to take account of any variation between the adjusted basis of that
property to the Company for federal income tax purposes and its
initial fair market value. Any elections or decisions relating to
these allocations will be made by the Tax Matters Partner in any
manner that reasonably reflects the purpose and intention of this
Agreement.
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(ii) Minimum Gain Chargeback
. Except as otherwise provided in Treasury Regulation
Section 1.704-2(f), notwithstanding any other provision of
this Section 5.1, if there is a net decrease in Partnership
Minimum Gain during any Adjustment Period, each Member will be
specially allocated items of Company income and gain for the period
(and, if necessary, subsequent periods) in an amount equal to that
Member’s share of the net decrease in Partnership Minimum
Gain, determined in accordance with Treasury Regulation
Section 1.704-2(g). Allocations pursuant to the previous
sentence will be made in proportion to the respective amounts
required to be allocated to each Member. The items to be so
allocated will be determined in accordance with Treasury Regulation
Section 1.704-2(f)(6) and 1.704-2(j)(2). This subsection is
intended to comply with the minimum gain chargeback requirement in
Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(f) and may be interpreted
consistently with it.
(iii) Partner Minimum Gain
Chargeback . Except as otherwise provided in Treasury
Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(4), notwithstanding any other
provision of this Section, if there is a net decrease in Partner
Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain attributable to a Partner Nonrecourse
Debt during any period, each Member who has a share of the Partner
Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain attributable to the Partner
Nonrecourse Debt, determined in accordance with Treasury Regulation
Section 1.704-2(i)(5), will be specially allocated items of
Company income and gain for the Adjustment Period (and, if
necessary, subsequent Adjustment Periods) in an amount equal to
that Member’s share of the net decrease in Partner
Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain attributable to the Partner
Nonrecourse Debt, determined in accordance with Treasury Regulation
Section 1.704-2(i)(4). Allocations pursuant to the previous
sentence will be made in proportion to the respective amounts
required to be allocated to each Member pursuant thereto. The items
to be so allocated will be determined in accordance with Treasury
Regulation Sections 1.704-2(i)(4) and 1.704-2(j)(2). This
subsection is intended to comply with the minimum gain chargeback
requirement in Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(4) and
must be interpreted consistently with it.
(iv) Qualified Income Offset
. If any Member unexpectedly receives any adjustments, allocations,
or distributions described in Treasury
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Regulation
Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5) or (6), items of
Company income and gain will be specially allocated to each such
Member in an amount and manner sufficient to eliminate, to the
extent required by the Treasury Regulations, the Capital Account
deficit of that Member as quickly as possible, provided that an
allocation pursuant to this subsection will be made only if and to
the extent that Member would have a Capital Account deficit
requiring elimination pursuant to the Treasury Regulations after
all other allocations provided for in this Section 5.1 have
been tentatively made as if this subsection were not in the
Agreement.
(v) Nonrecourse Deductions .
Nonrecourse Deductions for any period will be specially allocated
among the Members in proportion to their Economic
Interests.
(vi) Partner Nonrecourse
Deductions . Any Partner Nonrecourse Deductions for any period
will be specially allocated to the Member who bears the economic
risk of loss with respect to the Partner Nonrecourse Debt to which
the Partner Nonrecourse Deductions are attributable in accordance
with Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-2(i)(1).
(vii) Section 754
Adjustments . To the extent an adjustment to the adjusted tax
basis of any Company asset pursuant to Code Section 734(b) or
Code Section 743(b) is required, pursuant to Treasury
Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(m)(2) or Treasury
Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(m)(4), to be taken into
account in determining Capital Accounts as the result of a
distribution to an Member in complete liquidation of his or her
interests, the amount of the adjustment to Capital Accounts will be
treated as an item of gain (if the adjustment increases the basis
of the asset) or loss (if the adjustment decreases that basis) and
that gain or loss will be specially allocated to the Members in
accordance with their Economic Interests in the event that Treasury
Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(m)(2) applies, or to the
Member to whom the distribution was made if Treasury Regulation
Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(m)(4) applies.
(viii) Compensation Income .
If any Member is determined to recognize compensation income upon
his or her receipt of an Economic Interest, that Member will be
allocated all corresponding items of Company deduction.
(c) Compliance with Treasury
Regulations . The provisions of this Agreement, as amended,
relating to the maintenance of Capital Accounts are intended to
comply with Treasury Regulation Section 1.704-1(b), and must
be interpreted and applied in a manner consistent with those
Treasury Regulations. If the Tax Matters Partner determines that it
is prudent to modify the manner in which the Capital Accounts, or
any debits or credits thereto, are computed to comply with those
Treasury Regulations, the Tax Matters Partner may make such
modification, if it is not likely to have a material effect on the
amounts distributable to any Member upon the dissolution of the
Company.
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(d) Allocation to Transferred
Interests . Profits, gains, losses, deductions and credits
allocated to an Economic Interest assigned or reissued during a
Fiscal Year of the Company will be allocated to the Person who was
the holder of such Economic Interest during the Fiscal Year, in
proportion to the number of days that each holder was recognized as
the owner of the Economic Interest during such Fiscal Year or in
any other proportion permitted by the Code and selected by the
Members, without regard to results of Company operations during the
period in which each holder was recognized as the owner of the
Economic Interest during the Fiscal Year, and without regard to the
date, amount or recipient of any distributions which may have been
made with respect to that Economic Interest.
5.2 Distributions
.
(a) Cash Distributions . From
time to time (but at least once each calendar quarter) the Members
will determine in their reasonable judgment to what extent (if any)
the Company’s cash on hand exceeds its current and
anticipated needs, including, without limitation, for operating
expenses, debt service, and a reasonable contingency reserve. If an
excess exists, the Members will cause the Company to distribute to
the Members, in accordance with their Economic Interest
Percentages, an amount in cash equal to that excess.
(b) Allocation of
Distributions . Distributions to Members will be allocated
among such Members in accordance with their respective Economic
Interest Percentages as of the date of the distribution, without
regard to the length of time the Member has held the Economic
Interest.
(c) Distribution Upon
Liquidation . All distributions by the Company upon its final
liquidation and dissolution will be made to the Members, pro rata
in accordance with the balance in the Members’ Capital
Accounts, after adjustment to reflect all Profits and Losses
(including unrealized appreciation and depreciation allocable in
accordance with Section 5.3) for the Fiscal Year in which the
liquidation occurs.
5.3 Distributions in Kind
. If the Members
determine that a portion of the Company’s assets should be
distributed in kind to the Members, an independent appraisal of the
fair market value of each of those assets shall be obtained as of a
date reasonably close to the date of the distribution. Any
unrealized appreciation or depreciation with respect to the asset
will be allocated among the Members in proportion with each
Member’s Economic Interest in the Company (assuming that the
property is sold for the appraised value) and distribution of any
of those assets in kind to a Member will be considered a
distribution of an amount equal to the assets’ appraised fair
market value for purposes of determining the Capital Account of the
distributee.
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5.4 Credit .
For all income tax purposes,
credits of the Company claimed for a Fiscal Year will be allocated
among the Members in the same manner as Losses are allocated among
the Members pursuant to Section 5.1(a).
5.5 Offset .
The Company may offset all amounts
owing to the Company by a Member against any distribution to be
made to the Member.
5.6 Limitation Upon
Distributions . No
distribution will be declared and paid unless, after the
distribution is made, the assets of the Company are in excess of
all liabilities of the Company.
ARTICLE 6
MANAGEMENT
6.1 Management
. The powers of the
Company will be exercised by or under the authority of, and the
business and affairs of the Company will be managed under, the
direction of three Managers. If any Manger dies, are judicially
declared incompetent, resign or are removed and a successor is not
appointed for this Manager pursuant to this Agreement, then the
Company shall be dissolved. Any Person, other than a Member,
dealing with the Company, may rely on the authority of the Managers
in taking any action in the name of the Company without inquiry
into the provisions of, or compliance with, this Agreement,
regardless of whether that action is actually taken in accordance
with the provisions of this Agreement. The Members agree that the
initial Managers shall be a Person appointed by SHG, a Person
appointed by Rex and a person appointed by Bruce, and they shall
serve in that capacity until removed and their successors have been
appointed and have qualified. However, and in any event, no Member
may propose, appoint, select, or vote for a Manager who is not also
a United States citizen.
6.2 Powers of the Managers
.
(a) The Managers, by a Majority Vote
of the Manager’s Voting Interest Percentages (which shall be
equal to the Voting Interest Percentage of the Member that
appointe