Corporation, or serves as such with another corporation or with a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise at the request of the Corporation (each such person, an “Indemnitee”) against all Expenses (as defined below), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such Indemnitee in connection with any such action, suit or proceeding. For the purposes of this Section 12, the term “Expenses” shall include all reasonable fees, costs and expenses, including, without limitation, attorney’s fees, retainers, court costs, transcript costs, fees of experts, witness fees, travel expenses, duplicating costs, printing and binding costs, telephone charges, postage, delivery service fees, ERISA excise taxes or penalties assessed on Indemnitee with respect to an employee benefit plan, Federal, state, local or foreign taxes imposed as a result of the actual or deemed receipt of any payments under this Section 12, penalties and all other disbursements or expenses of the types customarily incurred in connection with defending, preparing to defend, or investigating an actual or threatened action, suit or proceeding (including Indemnitee’s counterclaims that directly respond to and negate the affirmative claim made against Indemnitee (“Permitted Counterclaims”)) in such action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, but shall exclude the costs of (1) any of Indemnitee’s counterclaims, other than Permitted Counterclaims, or (2) the fees and costs of enforcing a right to indemnification or advance payment or reimbursement under this Section 12. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in advance of final disposition, the Corporation may, but is not required to, pay for or reimburse the Expenses incurred by a person who may become eligible for indemnification under this Section 12 and Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.
(B) The indemnification provided by this Section 12 shall not be deemed exclusive of and shall be in addition to any other rights (whether created prior or subsequent to the adoption of these By-Laws) to which those indemnified may be entitled under any statute, rule of law, certificate of incorporation, by-law, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested Directors or otherwise, both as to action in their official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a Director, employee or agent of the Corporation and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
(C) By action of the Board of Directors notwithstanding any interest of the Directors in such action, the Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance in such amounts as the Board of Directors deems appropriate on behalf of any person who is or was a Director, officer, employee, agent or fiduciary of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, officer, employee, agent or fiduciary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Corporation shall have the power to indemnify him against such liability under the provisions of this Section 12.
Section 13. Execution of Instruments and Documents.
The Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Senior Executive Vice President, any Executive Vice President or any Senior Vice President is authorized, in his or her discretion, to do and perform any and all corporate and official acts in carrying on the business of the Corporation, including, but not limited to, the authority to make, execute, acknowledge, accept and deliver any and all deeds, mortgages, releases, bills of sale, assignments, transfers, leases (as lessor or lessee), powers of attorney or of substitution, servicing or sub-servicing agreements, vendor agreements, contracts, proxies to vote stock or any other instrument in writing that may be necessary in the purchase, sale, lease, assignment, transfer, discount, management or handling in any way of any property of any description held, controlled or used by the Corporation or to be held, controlled or used by the Corporation and including the authority from time to time to open bank accounts with the Corporation’s subsidiary bank or any other institution, to borrow money in such amounts for such lengths of time, at such rates of interest and upon such terms and conditions as any said officer may deem proper and to evidence the indebtedness thereby created by executing and
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