Section 9.02. Distributions of Shares of the Corporation. The Board of Directors of the Corporation may, from time to time, distribute pro rata to holders of any class or classes of its issued shares, treasury shares and authorized but unissued shares, but
(1) If distribution is made, in the Corporation’s authorized but unissued shares having a par value, there shall be transferred to stated capital at the time of such distribution an amount of surplus at least equal to the aggregate par value of the shares so issued;
(2) If a distribution is made in the Corporation’s authorized but unissued shares without par value, the Board of Directors may fix a stated value for the shares so issued, and there shall be transferred to stated capital, at the time of such distribution, an amount of surplus equal to the aggregate stated value, if any, so fixed;
(3) The amount per share so transferred to stated capital, or the fact that there was no such transfer, shall be disclosed to the shareholders receiving such distribution concurrently with the distribution thereof;
(4) No distribution of shares of any class shall be made to holders of shares of any other class unless the Articles so provide or such distribution is authorized by the affirmative vote or written consent of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of the class in which the distribution is to be made.
In lieu of issuing fractional shares in any such distribution, the Corporation may pay in cash the fair value thereof, as determined by the Board of Directors, to shareholders entitled thereto.
Section 9.03. Reserves. There may be set aside out of any funds of the Corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the Directors, from time to time, in their absolute discretion determine as a reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the Corporation, or for the purchase of additional property, or for such other purpose as the Board of Directors shall think conducive to the interests of the Corporation. The Board of Directors may abolish or modify any such reserve.
ARTICLE X
Miscellaneous
Section 10.01. Contracts.
(a) General Rule. Except as otherwise provided in the Business Corporation Law in the case of transactions that require action by the shareholders, the Board of Directors may authorize any officer or agent to enter into any contract or to execute or deliver any instrument on behalf of the Corporation, and such authority may be general or confined to specific instances.
(b) Statutory Form of Execution of Instruments. Any note, mortgage, evidence of indebtedness, contract or other document, or any assignment or endorsement thereof, executed or entered into between the Corporation and any other person, when signed by one or more officers or agents having actual or apparent authority to sign it, or by the CEO, the President, the COO, the CFO, or an Executive Vice President, and by the Secretary, an assistant Secretary, Treasurer or an assistant Treasurer of the Corporation, shall be held to have been properly executed for and in behalf of the Corporation, without prejudice to the rights of the Corporation against any person who shall have executed the instrument in excess of his or her actual authority.
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