**Exhibit 3.1**

 

**BYLAWS**

**OF**

**SAFECO CORPORATION**

 

(As last amended effective February 2, 2005) 

 

**ARTICLE I**

 

**STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS**

 

1. ANNUAL MEETING. (a) The annual meeting of the stockholders of the corporation for the election of Directors to succeed those whose terms expire, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly comebefore the meeting, shall be held at 11:00 o’clock in the morning on the first Wednesday in May or, if such day is a legal holiday, then on the following business day or on such other day as may be designated by the Chairman of the Board ofDirectors, the President, or the Board of Directors (“Board of Directors”). The meeting shall be held at the principal executive office of the corporation or at such other place as may be designated in the notice of the meeting.

 

(b) For business to be properly brought before the annualmeeting in accordance with these Bylaws, business must be (i) specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, (ii) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by or at thedirection of the Board of Directors or (iii) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a stockholder. In addition to any other applicable requirements, for business to be properly brought before the annual meeting by a stockholder, thestockholder must file a written notice of intention to bring such business (“Business Notice”) with the Secretary of the corporation not less than 90 days before the date specified in Section 1(a) of this Article I, or if the meeting isnot held within 14 days of the date specified in Section 1(a) of this Article I, then 90 days before the date of the meeting. The Business Notice shall state the name, address, telephone number and class and number of shares of capital stock ownedby the stockholder who intends to bring such business before the meeting; and, as to each matter the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, thereasons for conducting such business at the annual meeting and any material interest of the stockholder in such business. 

 

(c) No business shall be conducted at the annual meeting except in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 1; provided, however, thatnothing in this Section 1 shall be deemed to preclude discussion by any stockholder of any business properly brought before the annual meeting. The presiding officer of an annual meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine that business was notproperly brought before the meeting in accordance with the foregoing procedure and, if the presiding officer should so determine, the presiding officer shall so declare to the meeting and any such business not properly brought before the meetingshall not be transacted. 

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2. SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the stockholders may be called only by the Board of Directors. Such specialmeetings may be for any purpose or purposes, which shall be described in the notice of such special meeting, and shall be at the date, time and place prescribed in the notice of the meeting. 

 

3. NOTICE OF MEETING. (a) Written notice of each annual and special stockholders’meeting shall be given to all stockholders of record entitled to notice of such meeting no fewer than 10 nor more than 60 days before the meeting date, except that notice of a stockholders’ meeting to act on an amendment to the articles ofincorporation, a plan of merger or share exchange, a proposed sale of assets other than in the regular course of business or the dissolution of the corporation shall be given no fewer than 20 nor more than 60 days before the meeting date. If suchwritten notice is placed in the United States mail, postage prepaid, and correctly addressed to the stockholder’s address shown in the corporation’s current record of stockholders, then the notice is effective when mailed. 

 

(b) Notice of any stockholders’ meeting may be waived in writing by anystockholder at any time, either before or after the meeting. In addition, notice of the date, time, place and purpose of the meeting shall be deemed waived by any stockholder who attends a stockholders” meeting in person or by proxy, unless thestockholder at the beginning of the meeting objects to holding the meeting or transacting business at the meeting. 

 

4. ORGANIZATION OF MEETING - QUORUM. A stockholders’ meeting, duly called, can be organized for the transaction of business whenever a quorum is present. Thepresence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the votes entitled to be cast at the meeting shall constitute a quorum. Once a share is represented for any purpose at a meeting, other than solely to object to holding the meeting ortransacting business at the meeting, it is deemed present for quorum purposes for the remainder of the meeting and for any adjournment of that meeting unless a new record date is or must be set for that adjourned meeting. 

 

5. ADJOURNED MEETINGS. Unless a new record date is or must be set for an adjourned meeting,an adjournment or adjournments of any stockholders’ meeting may be taken to the date, time and place announced by the presiding officer at the meeting, without new notice being given; but any meeting at which directors are to be elected shallbe adjourned only from day to day until such directors are elected. 

 

6. VOTINGAT MEETINGS. Each holder of common stock shall be entitled to one vote for each share of common stock then of record in the holder’s name on the books of the corporation. Each holder of a share of capital stock other than common stock shallhave the right to vote on those matters prescribed by the Board of Directors in establishing the preferences, limitations and relative rights for that class of capital stock. Every stockholder shall have the right to vote either in person or byproxy. All voting at stockholders’ meetings shall be viva voce, unless any qualified voter shall demand a vote by ballot. In the case of voting by ballot, each ballot shall state the name of the stockholder voting, the number of shares owned bythe stockholder, and, in addition, if such vote be cast by proxy it shall also state the name of the proxy. 

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**ARTICLE II**

 

**BOARD OF DIRECTORS**

 

1. NUMBER AND QUALIFICATION. The business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed under the direction of a Board of Directors. The number of directors shall beset from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors and the directors need not be stockholders of the corporation. 

 

2. ELECTION - TERM OF OFFICE. The directors shall be divided into three classes, designated Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3. Each class shall consist, as nearly as may bepossible, of one-third of the total number of Directors constituting the entire Board of Directors. At each annual meeting of stockholders successors to the class of Directors whose term expires at that annual meeting shall be elected for athree-year term. If the number of Directors is changed, any increase or decrease shall be apportioned among the classes so as to maintain the number of Directors in each class as nearly equal as possible, but in no case will a decrease in the numberof Directors shorten the term of any incumbent director. A director shall hold office until the annual meeting for the year in which the director’s term expires and until the director’s successor shall be elected and shall qualify,subject, however, to prior death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office. In the event of a failure to hold an election of Directors at any annual stockholders’ meeting, election of Directors may be held at a specialmeeting of the stockholders called for that purpose; provided, that notice thereof be given all stockholders entitled to vote at such meeting at least 30 days prior to the date set for such special meeting. 

 

3. VACANCIES. Any vacancy on the Board of Directors shall be filled by the Board of Directorsor, if the directors in office constitute fewer than a quorum of the Board of Directors, then by the affirmative vote of the majority of all directors in office. 

 

4. NOMINATIONS OF DIRECTORS. (a) The Board of Directors or at its direction a committee of the Board of Directors shall nominate individualsfor election as directors at the annual meeting of stockholders and at any special meeting of stockholders called for the purpose of electing directors. Nominations may also be made by any stockholder entitled to vote for the election of Directorsat such meeting who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 4. 

 

(b) A nomination for election as director, other than nominations made by or at the direction of the Board of Directors, may be made only if a written notice of intention to nominate (“Nomination Notice”)has been received by the secretary to the Board of Directors not less than 90 days before the date specified in Section 1(a) of Article I above, or if the meeting is not held within 14 days of the date specified in Section 1(a) of Article I above,then 90 days before the 

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date of the meeting. The Nomination Notice shall state the name, address, telephone number and class and number of shares of capital stock owned by thestockholder who intends to make a nomination; the name, age, address and telephone number of each nominee; a description of each nominee’s business experience for the past five years; a statement whether the nominee has ever been prosecuted forany crime or been a party to any proceeding in which it was alleged the nominee or any affiliate of the nominee violated any law or regulation and, if so, a complete description of such prosecution or proceeding; and any other information relatingto each nominee that is required to be disclosed in solicitations for proxies for election of Directors pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish suchadditional information as may reasonably be required to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee. In order to be considered valid the Nomination Notice must be accompanied by the written consent of each nominee to be nominated and astatement of each nominee’s intention to serve as a director if elected. 

 

(c) No person shall be eligible for election as a director unless nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 4. The presiding officer at the stockholders’ meeting shall, if the factswarrant, determine and declare to the meeting that a nomination was not made in accordance with the foregoing procedure and, if the presiding officer should so determine, the presiding officer shall so declare to the meeting and the defectivenomination shall be disregarded. 

 

5. ANNUAL MEETING. The first meeting of eachnewly elected Board of Directors shall be known as the annual meeting thereof. 

 

6. REGULAR MEETINGS. Regular meetings of the Board of Directors shall be held quarterly, on the first Wednesday in February, May, August and November of each year, at such time and place as designated in the notice of the meeting.

 

7. SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be held atany place at any time when called by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or the President, or when called by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary on request of three directors, or when called by any director during a national emergency of thekind that would make emergency bylaws operative for domestic insurers under the provisions of Sections 48.07.160 through 48.07.200 of the Revised Code of Washington. 

 

8. NOTICE OF MEETINGS. (a) Notice of the time and place of meetings of the Board of Directors and of meetings of committees of the Board ofDirectors shall be given by the secretary to the Board of Directors, or by the person calling the meeting, in writing or orally at least two days prior to the day upon which the meeting is to be held. Notice may be given by mail, private carrier,personal delivery, telegraph or teletype, telephone, electronic transmission or by wire or wireless equipment which transmits a facsimile of the notice. 

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(b) A director may waive notice of any meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee of theBoard of Directors in writing before or after the date and time of the meeting and such waiver shall be deemed the equivalent of giving notice of the meeting. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or specialmeeting of the Board of Directors or any committee of the Board of Directors need be specified in the waiver of notice of such meeting. 

 

(c) A director’s attendance at or participation in a Board of Directors or committee meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting,unless the director at the beginning of the meeting, or promptly upon the director’s arrival at the meeting, objects to holding the meeting or transacting business at the meeting and does not thereafter vote for or assent to action taken at themeeting. 

 

9. QUORUM. A majority of the total number of Directors fixed by or inthe manner provided in these Bylaws or, if vacancies exist on the Board of Directors, a majority of the total number of Directors then serving on the Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any Board ofDirectors’ meeting; provided, however, that a quorum may not be less than one-third of the total number of Directors fixed by or in the manner provided by these Bylaws. When a quorum is present, a majority of the directors in attendance at ameeting shall be sufficient to transact business and to adjourn the meeting from time-to-time without further notice. 

 

10. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. The Directors shall appoint one member of the Board of Directors to serve as Chairman of the Board of Directors. The Chairman ofthe Board of Directors shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and Directors and shall have such other duties and responsibilities as the Board of Directors may assign from time-to-time. 

 

**ARTICLE III**

 

**EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE**

 

1. MEMBERSHIP. The Executive Committee shall consist of no fewer than three members and shallinclude (i) the lead director of the Board of Directors, (ii) the chairs of each of the Audit, Compensation, Finance and Nominating/Governance Committees, and (iii) any other director of the corporation appointed by the Board of Directors. The leaddirector shall be the chair of the Executive Committee, unless the Board of Directors designates some other member of the Executive Committee as chair. 

 

2. POWERS AND DUTIES. Other than those powers specifically denied to a committee of a Board of Directors under Washington law, the Executive Committee may exercise allthe powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business of the corporation when the Board of Directors is not in session. All such actions of the Executive Committee shall be 

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reported to the Board of Directors at its meeting next succeeding such action and shall be subject to revision or alteration by the Board of Directors;provided, that no rights of third parties shall be affected by any such revision or alteration. 

 

3. RULES OF PROCEDURE. The Executive Committee shall fix its own rules of procedure and shall meet where and as provided by such rules or by resolution of the Board of Directors. Special meetings of the ExecutiveCommittee may be called at any time by the chair of the Executive Committee or any two members. At all meetings of the Executive Committee, the presence of a majority of the members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and the affirmative voteof a majority of the quorum shall be necessary and sufficient to transact business. 

 

**ARTICLE IV**

 

**FINANCECOMMITTEE**

 

1. MEMBERSHIP. The Finance Committee shall consist of no fewerthan five members appointed by the Board of Directors, one of whom shall be designated as its chair by the Board of Directors. Each member of the Finance Committee shall continue as a member at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. 

 

2. CHARTER. The Finance Committee shall be governed under a Finance Committee Charter, whichshall be adopted by the Board of Directors. 

 

3. RULES OF PROCEDURE. The FinanceCommittee shall, consistent with its Charter, fix its own rules of procedure and shall meet where and as provided by its Charter, its rules or the Board of Directors. Special meetings of the Committee may be called at any time by the chair of theFinance Committee or by any two members. At all meetings, the presence of a majority of the members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum shall be necessary and sufficient to transactbusiness. 

 

**ARTICLE V**

 

**AUDIT COMMITTEE**

 

1. MEMBERSHIP. The Audit Committee shall consist of no fewer than three members who meet thequalifications described in the Audit Committee Charter and who are appointed by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall designate one member of the Audit Committee as its chair. Each member of the Audit Committee shall continue as amember at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. 

 

2. CHARTER. The AuditCommittee shall be governed under an Audit Committee Charter which shall be adopted by the Board of Directors. 

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3. RULES OF PROCEDURE. The Audit Committee shall, consistent with its Charter, fix its own rules of procedure andmeet where and as provided by its Charter, its rules of procedure or the Board of Directors. Special meetings of the Audit Committee may be called at any time by the chair of the Audit Committee or by any two members. At all meetings the presence ofa majority of the members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum shall be necessary and sufficient to transact business. 

 

**ARTICLE VI**

 

**NOMINATING/GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE**

 

1. MEMBERSHIP. The Nominating Committee shall consist of no fewer than three members who meet the qualifications described in the Nominating/Governance Committee Charterand who are appointed by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shall designate one member of the Nominating/Governance Committee as its chair. Each member of the Nominating/Governance Committee shall continue as a member at the pleasure ofthe Board of Directors. 

 

2. CHARTER. The Nominating/Governance Committee shallbe governed under a Nominating/Governance Committee Charter which shall be adopted by the Board of Directors. 

 

3. RULES OF PROCEDURE. The Nominating/Governance Committee shall, consistent with its Charter, fix its own rules of procedure and shall meet where and as provided by its Charter, its rules or by resolution of theBoard of Directors. Special meetings of the Nominating/Governance Committee may be called at any time by the chair of the Nominating/Governance Committee or by any two members. At all meetings, the presence of a majority of the members shall benecessary to constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum shall be necessary and sufficient to transact business. 

 

**ARTICLE VII**

 

**COMPENSATION COMMITTEE**

 

1. MEMBERSHIP. The Compensation Committee shall consist of no fewer than three members who meet the qualifications described in the Compensation Committee Charter and who are appointed by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors shalldesignate one member of the Compensation Committee as its chair. Each member of the Compensation Committee shall continue as a member at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. 

 

2. CHARTER. The Compensation Committee shall be governed under a Compensation Committee Charter which shall be adopted by the Board ofDirectors. 

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3. RULES OF PROCEDURE. The Compensation Committee shall, consistent with its charter, fix its own rules of procedureand shall meet where and as provided by its Charter, its rules or by resolution of the Board of Directors. Special meetings of the Compensation Committee may be called at any time by the chair of the Compensation Committee or by any two members. Atall meetings, the presence of a majority of the members shall be necessary to constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of a majority of the quorum shall be necessary and sufficient to transact business. 

 

**ARTICLE VIII**

 

**OTHER COMMITTEES**

 

The Board of Directors shall have authority to establish by resolution such other committeesas the Board of Directors may from time to time deem necessary or advisable. The membership, duties and authority of such committees shall be as the Board of Directors may from time to time establish. 

 

**ARTICLE IX**

 

**OFFICERS**

 

1. OFFICERS ENUMERATED - APPOINTMENT. The officers of the corporation shall be a President, one or more Vice Presidents, one or moreAssistant Vice Presidents, a Secretary, one or more Assistant Secretaries, a Treasurer, and one or more Assistant Treasurers, all of whom shall be appointed by the Board of Directors at the annual meeting thereof, to hold office for the term of oneyear and until their successors are appointed and qualified. 

 

2.QUALIFICATIONS. None of the officers of the corporation need be a director. Any two or more corporate offices may be combined in one person. 

 

3. PRESIDENT. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation and shall have general charge, supervision and control over the business and affairsof the corporation and of its subsidiaries, subject to the ultimate authority of the Board of Directors. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors the President shall act in the place of the Chairman of the Board of Directors with theauthority to exercise all of the Chairman’s powers and perform the Chairman’s duties. 

 

4. VICE PRESIDENTS. In the absence or disability of the President, one of the Vice Presidents, in the order determined by seniority of responsibility and then order of their appointment, shall act as President untilsuch time as the Board of Directors acts to appoint an individual to the office of President. One or more of the vice presidents may be designated by the Board of Directors as executive vice president, senior vice president or such other title asthe Board of Directors deems appropriate for the position and duties. 

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6. SECRETARY. The Secretary shall be the custodian of the records, books of account, and seal of the corporation,and, in general, shall perform all duties usually incident to the office of Secretary, and make such reports and perform such other duties as may from time to time be requested of or assigned by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee or thechief executive officer of the corporation. 

 

7. ASSISTANT SECRETARIES. TheAssistant Secretaries shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Secretary of the corporation, the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, or the chief executive officer of the corporation. 

 

8. TREASURER. The Treasurer shall have charge and custody of and be responsible for all fundsand securities of the corporation. The Treasurer shall deposit all such funds in the name of the corporation in such depositories or invest them in such investments as may be designated or approved by the Finance Committee or the Board of Directors,and shall authorize disbursement of the funds of the corporation in payment of just demands against the corporation, or as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, or the Finance Committee on securing proper vouchers forsuch disbursements. The Treasurer shall render to the Board of Directors from time to time as may be required an account of all transactions as Treasurer, and shall perform such other duties as may from time to time be assigned by the Board ofDirectors, the Executive Committee, the Finance Committee, or the chief executive officer of the corporation. 

 

9. ASSISTANT TREASURERS. The Assistant Treasurers shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the Treasurer, the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, or the chief executive officer of thecorporation. 

 

10. OTHER OFFICERS AND AGENTS. The Board of Directors may appointsuch other officers and agents as it shall deem necessary to exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board of Directors. 

 

11. REMOVAL. Any officer of the corporation may be removed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the whole Board of Directors; suchremoval, however, shall be without prejudice to the contract rights of the person so removed. ****

 

**ARTICLE X**

 

**CORPORATION PROXIES**

 

Unless otherwise ordered by the Board ofDirectors, any and all shares of stock owned or held by the corporation in any other corporation shall be represented and voted at any meeting of the stockholders of such other corporation by any one of the following officers of the corporation inthe following order who may attend such meeting; *i.e.*, the President, a Vice President, or the 

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Treasurer, and such representation by any one of the officers above named shall be deemed and considered a representation in person by the corporation atsuch meeting. Any one of the officers above named may execute a proxy appointing any other person as attorney and proxy to represent the corporation at such stockholders’ meeting and to vote all stock of such corporation owned or held by thecorporation with all power and authority in the premises that any of the officers above named would possess if personally present. The Board of Directors by resolution may from time to time confer like powers upon any other person or persons.

 

**ARTICLE XI**

 

**STOCK**

 

1. CERTIFICATES OF STOCK. Certificates of stock of the corporation shall be issued in such form in accordance with the corporation law ofthe State of Washington as may be approved by the Board of Directors, and may be signed by the chief executive officer or any Vice President, and by the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary. 

 

2. TRANSFERS. Shares of stock may be transferred by delivery of the certificates thereforaccompanied either by an assignment in writing on the back of the certificate or by a written power of attorney to sell, assign and transfer the same by the record holder of the certificate. No transfer shall be valid except as between the partiesthereto until such transfer shall have been made on the books of the corporation. Except as specifically provided in these Bylaws, no shares of stock shall be transferred on the books of the corporation until the outstanding certificate therefor hasbeen surrendered to the corporation. 

 

3. STOCKHOLDERS OF RECORD. Thecorporation shall be entitled to treat the holder of record on the books of the corporation of any share or shares of stock as the holder in fact thereof for all purposes, including the payment of dividends on such stock and the right to vote suchstock. 

 

4. LOSS OR DESTRUCTION OF CERTIFICATES. In the case of loss ordestruction of any certificate of stock, another may be issued in its place upon proof of such loss or destruction, and upon the giving of a satisfactory bond or indemnity to the corporation. A new certificate may be issued without requiring anybond when in the judgment of the Treasurer it is proper to do so. 

 

5. The Boardof Directors shall have the power and authority to make all such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer, conversion and registration of certificates for shares of the stock of the corporation not inconsistentwith these Bylaws, the Articles of Incorporation, or the laws of the State of Washington. 

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**ARTICLE XII**

 

**INDEMNIFICATION**

 

1. DIRECTORS. (a) Each person who was or is a party to any proceeding (whether brought by or in the right of the corporation or otherwise) by reason of the fact that heor she is or was a director of the corporation, or, while a director of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation,partnership, joint venture, trust, other enterprise, or employee benefit plan (an “Indemnitee”), whether the basis of a proceeding is an alleged action in an official capacity as such a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, oragent or in any other capacity while serving as such a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee, or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the corporation against all judgments, penalties, fines, settlements, and reasonable expensesactually incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such proceeding. Except as provided in paragraph (d) of this Section 1 with respect to proceedings seeking to enforce rights to indemnification, the corporation shall indemnify any Indemniteeonly if the proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or ratified by the Board of Directors. 

 

(b) No indemnification shall be provided to any Indemnitee for acts or omissions of the Indemnitee finally adjudged to be intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, for conduct of the Indemnitee finallyadjudged to be in violation of Section 23B.08.310 of the Washington Business Corporation Act, for any transaction with respect to which it was finally adjudged that such Indemnitee personally received a benefit in money, property or services towhich the Indemnitee was not legally entitled or if the corporation is otherwise prohibited by applicable law from paying such indemnification, except that if Section 23B.08.560 or any successor provision is hereafter amended, the restrictions onindemnification set forth in this paragraph (b) shall be as set forth in such amended statutory provision. 

 

(c) The right to indemnification conferred under this Article XII shall include the right to be paid by the corporation the expenses incurred in defendingany proceeding in advance of its final disposition. An advancement of expenses shall be made upon delivery to the corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of an Indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it is ultimately determined byfinal judicial decision from which there is no right to appeal that such Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Article XII. 

 

(d) If a claim under this Section 1 is not paid in full by the corporation within 60 days after a written claim 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 Indemnitee may at any time thereafter bring suit against the corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim. If successfulin 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 Indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting or defendingsuch suit. An 

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Indemnitee shall be presumed to be entitled to indemnification under this Article XII upon submission of a written claim (and, in an action brought toenforce a claim for an advancement of expenses, where the required undertaking has been tendered to the corporation), and the corporation shall have the burden of proof to overcome the presumption that the Indemnitee is so entitled. 

 

2. OFFICERS. The corporation shall extend rights to indemnification and advancement ofexpenses in the same manner and to the same extent provided to directors under Section 1 of this Article to any person, not a director of the corporation, who is or was an officer of the corporation or is or was serving at the request of thecorporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, or agent of another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, other enterprise, or employee benefit plan. 

 

3. OTHER EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS. The corporation may, by action of the Board of Directors, grant rights to indemnification and advancement ofexpenses to employees and agents or any class or group of employees and agents of the corporation (i) with the same scope and effect as the provisions of this Article with respect to the indemnification and advancement of expenses of directors; (ii)pursuant to rights provided by the Washington Business Corporation Act; or (iii) as are otherwise consistent with law. 

 

4. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this Article XII, the terms “director,” “corporation,” “expenses,” “party” and“proceeding” have those meanings assigned to them in Section 23B.08.500 of the Washington Business Corporation Act. 

 

5. SERVICE AT THE REQUEST OF THE CORPORATION. Any person who, while a director, officer or employee of the corporation, is or was serving (a) as a director or officer ofanother corporation of which a majority of the shares entitled to vote is held by the corporation or (b) as a partner, trustee or otherwise in a management capacity in a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise of which the corporationor a wholly-owned subsidiary of the corporation is a general partner or has a majority ownership shall be deemed to be so serving at the request of the corporation. 

 

6. PROCEDURES EXCLUSIVE. Pursuant to Section 23B.08.560(2) or any successor provision of the Washington Business Corporation Act, theprocedures for indemnification and advancement of expenses set forth in this Article are in lieu of the procedures required by Section 23B.08.550 or any successor provision of the Washington Business Corporation Act. 

 

7. NOT EXCLUSIVE — CONTINUING. The indemnification provided by this Article shall not bedeemed exclusive of other rights to which the director, officer, employee or agent may be entitled as a matter of law or by contract, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent andshall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person. 

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8. INSURANCE. The corporation may maintain insurance at its expense to protect itself and any director, officer,partner, trustee, 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 personagainst such expense, liability or loss under the Washington Business Corporation Act. 

 

**ARTICLE XIII**

 

**SEAL**

 

The seal of this corporation shall consist of a flat-faced, circular diewhich shall include: “SAFECO CORPORATION,” “Corporate Seal, 1929” and the corporation’s logo design. 

 

**ARTICLE XIV**

 

**COPIES OF RESOLUTIONS**

 

Any person dealing with the corporation may rely upon a copy of any of the records of the proceedings, resolutions, or votes of the stockholders, the Board of Directors, and any committees of or established by the Board of Directors, whencertified by the chief executive officer, a Vice President, Secretary, or an Assistant Secretary. 

 

**ARTICLE XV**

 

**AMENDMENT OF BYLAWS**

 

1. BY THE STOCKHOLDERS. These Bylaws maybe amended, altered or repealed at any meeting of the stockholders, if notice of the proposed alteration or amendment is contained in the notice of the meeting. 

 

2. BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. These Bylaws may be amended, altered or repealed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board of Directors at any regular meetingof the Board of Directors, or at any special meeting if notice of the proposed alteration or amendment is contained in the notice of such special meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors shall not amend, alter or repeal any Bylaw insuch a manner as to affect in any way the qualification, classification, or term of office of the directors. Any action of the Board of Directors with respect to the amendment, alteration or repeal of these Bylaws is hereby made expressly subject tochange or repeal by the stockholders.