Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal
Year
Effective June 12, 2009, the Board of Directors of the American Oil & Gas, Inc.
(the "Company") amended and restated the Bylaws of the Company (the "Bylaws").
Pursuant to Section 78.120(2) of the Nevada Revised Statutes and Section 10.1 of
the Company's Bylaws, the Bylaws may be amended from time to time by the
affirmative vote of a majority of the Company's Board of Directors. As further
discussed below, the changes to the Bylaws were made in order to: (i) change the
quorum requirement; (ii) revise the shareholder inspection provision;
(iii) revise how meetings of shareholders are conducted; (iv) create new advance
notice provisions regarding shareholder proposals and nominees for director; and
(v) to make other clerical revisions. Attached hereto, and incorporated herein
by reference, as Exhibit 3.1 are the Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company.
Quorum Requirement
The Board of Directors determined that a substantial percentage of the
outstanding shares of the Company are held in street name, resulting in the
Company having difficulty in past shareholder meetings to obtain a majority of
voting shares to constitute a quorum, resulting in adjournment of the meeting.
The Bylaws have been amended to provide that one-third of the outstanding shares
of the corporation entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy,
constitutes a quorum at a meeting of shareholders.
Shareholder Inspection of Records
This provision was amended to provide shareholders with the rights set forth
under the Nevada Revised Statutes.
Order of Business at a Shareholder Meeting
The provision was amended to provide that the Company's President (or another
person designated by the Board of Directors) shall preside over all meetings of
the shareholders. The President shall also conduct the meeting in accordance
with the corporation's Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and the notice of the
meeting, and may establish rules for conducting the business of the meeting.
Advance Notice
The Bylaws now contain provisions relating to the proper advance notice a
shareholder must provide to the Company in connection with a shareholder
proposal or a shareholder's nominee for director at an annual meeting of
shareholders. These additional provisions are for the purpose of establishing an
orderly procedure for shareholder action in order to give the Company and the
other shareholders adequate time to evaluate proposals.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Exhibit 3.1 Amended and Restated Bylaws