EXECUTIVE & FINANCE
CommITTEE CHARTER
I. Purpose
The purpose of the Executive and Finance Committee (the "Committee")
of the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Scientific
Games Corporation (the "Company") is to support the Board
in the performance of its duties and responsibilities between regularly
scheduled Board meetings, and to implement the policy decisions
of the Board.
II. Membership and Organization
The Committee shall be comprised of three or more members as set
by the Board from time to time. The Board will appoint the members
of the Committee as needed to fill any vacancy, upon the recommendation
of the Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
of the Board. Unless removed by the Board, each member may serve
for as long as he or she is a Director. The Committee will have
a Chairman, who may be any member of the Committee that the Board
shall from time to time select. The Chairman may resign the chair
without resigning from the Committee. Unless otherwise provided
in the By-Laws of the Company, a quorum of the Committee will consist
of a majority of the members, whether or not the Chairman of the
Committee shall be present.
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The Committee will meet as often as it determines is necessary
or desirable. The Committee may from time to time decide to act
by unanimous written consent in lieu of a meeting.
The Chairman of the Committee will (a) in consultation with the
Company's Secretary, set the time and place of Committee meetings
and notify members of meetings, (b) preside at Committee meetings
and (c) in consultation with the other members of the Committee
and the Company's Secretary, set the agenda of items to be addressed
at each upcoming Committee meeting. Each member of the Committee
may suggest the inclusion of items on such agenda, and may raise
at any Committee meeting appropriate and relevant business subjects
that are not on the agenda for that meeting. The Chairman of the
Committee, with support as necessary or appropriate from the Company's
Secretary, will endeavor to ensure, to the extent feasible, that
the agenda for each upcoming meeting of the Committee is circulated
to each member of the Committee in advance of the meeting.
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III. Duties and Responsibilities
The Committee will have the following duties and principal responsibilities:
General Duties and Responsibilities
The Committee will, to the extent permitted by applicable law,
the Company's Certificate of Incorporation, the Company's By-Laws,
the charter of any other standing committee that the Board shall
establish and the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "DGCL"),
have all the powers of the Board in the management of the Company's
business and affairs, and may authorize the seal of the Company
to be affixed to all papers that may require it, including, without
limitation, unless otherwise specified by a resolution or resolutions
of the Board, the power and authority (a) to declare a dividend,
(b) to authorize the issuance of stock of the Company, (c) to adopt
a certificate of ownership and merger pursuant to Section 253 of
the DGCL and (d) to make any and all interim decisions concerning
acquisition bids, potential financing opportunities and significant
organizational changes prior to the final determination on such
matters by the Board, except that in no event shall the Committee
have the power to do any of the following:
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- Approve any transaction with an affiliate of the Company.
- Appoint anyone to fill a vacancy on the Board.
- Adopt, amend or repeal any By-Law of the Company.
- Amend or repeal any resolution of the Board or any committee
of the Board that, by its terms or the terms of any applicable
law, rule, regulation or listing standard of The Nasdaq Stock
Market, Inc. or governance document of the Company, is not so
amendable or repealable.
- Submit to the Company's shareholders any action requiring shareholder
approval unless the Board shall have previously authorized such
submission.
- Adopt a plan of merger or consolidation or agree to the sale,
lease, exchange or other disposition of all or substantially
all of the Company's assets, unless the Board or the Company's
shareholders shall have previously authorized such action.
- Approve or rescind the Company's voluntary dissolution.
- Amend this Charter or the charter of any other standing committee
of the Board.
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Miscellaneous Duties and Responsibilities
- To endeavor to evaluate at least annually whether any change
to this Charter is necessary or appropriate.
- To report orally or in writing to the Board concerning each
meeting of the Committee in such detail as it deems necessary
or appropriate.
- To delegate to appropriate Company officers execution of certain
actions as may be appropriate from time to time.
- To perform any other activity consistent with this Charter
and the Company's By-Laws or as required under the rules and
regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission or the
rules, regulations or listing standards of The Nasdaq Stock Market,
Inc., as in effect from time to time.
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