Texas Registrants
KB HOME Lone Star Inc. and KBSA, Inc. are incorporated under the laws of the State of Texas. Sections 8.101 and 8.102 of the Texas Business Organizations Code (“TBOC”) provide that an enterprise may indemnify any governing person (which term excludes officers), former governing person, or a delegate who was, is, or is threatened to be made a respondent in (i) a threatened, pending, or completed action or other proceeding (whether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative, or investigative), (ii) an appeal of such an action or proceeding, or (iii) an inquiry or investigation that could lead to such an action or proceeding against judgments and reasonable expenses actually incurred, which expenses include reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs, penalties, settlements, fines, and excises or similar taxes in connection with a proceeding, if that person (x) acted in good faith, (y) reasonably believed, in the case of conduct in that person’s official capacity, that the person’s conduct was in the enterprise’s best interests and, in any other case, that the person’s conduct was not opposed to the enterprise’s best interests, and (z) in the case of a criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person’s conduct was unlawful. With respect to any action in which a person has been found liable to the enterprise or found liable because the person improperly received a personal benefit, indemnification is limited to reasonable expenses actually incurred by that person in connection with the proceeding and will not include a judgment, penalty, fine, excise or similar tax. Indemnification may not be made in relation to a proceeding in which the person has been found liable for willful or intentional misconduct in the performance of the person’s duty to the enterprise, breach of the person’s duty of loyalty owed to the enterprise or an act or omission not committed in good faith that constitutes a breach of a duty owed by the person to the enterprise. A governing person, former governing person, or delegate is considered to have been found liable in relation to a claim, issue, or matter only if the liability is established by an order, including a judgment or decree of a court, and all appeals of the order are exhausted or foreclosed by law. Section 8.105 of the TBOC provides that an enterprise may indemnify a person who is not a governing person, including officers, agents or employees, and, in the case of officers, shall indemnify such officers to the same extent that indemnification is required for a governing person.
Sections 8.01 and 8.03 of the Bylaws of KB HOME Lone Star Inc. provide that KB HOME Lone Star Inc. shall indemnify any person who was, is, or is threatened to be made a named defendant or respondent in (i) any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit, or proceeding (whether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative, or investigative), (ii) any appeal in such an action, suit, or proceeding, or (iii) any inquiry or investigation that could lead to such an action, suit or proceeding because the person (x) is or was a director of the corporation or (y) while a director or officer of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, manager, partner, member, venturer, proprietor, trustee, employee, agent, or similar functionary of, or as a representative of the corporation at or to, another foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust, employee benefit plan, or other enterprise, to the fullest extent permitted by the TBOC or other applicable law, as may be amended from time to time, and to such further extent as is permitted by law. Section 8.01 of the Bylaws of KB HOME Lone Star Inc. provides that indemnification of a person who is or was an officer shall be made upon the same terms and conditions, in the same manner, and subject to the same limitations, as if such person were a director.
Article Nine of the Articles of Incorporation of KBSA, Inc. and Section 1 of Article 8 of the Bylaws of KBSA, Inc. each provides that KBSA, Inc. shall indemnify its directors and officers from and against all liabilities, costs and expenses incurred by them in such capacities and may purchase and maintain insurance coverage for and on behalf of such persons, in each case as and to the fullest extent permitted by the TBOC, as presently in effect or as may be amended. Section 2 of Article 8 of the Bylaws of KBSA, Inc. further provides that the indemnification right provided for in KBSA, Inc.’s Bylaws shall not be exclusive of any other rights to which any such director or officer may be entitled to under KBSA, Inc.’s Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws, or under any agreement or vote of shareholders, or as a matter of law or otherwise.
Arizona Registrants
KB HOME Phoenix Inc. and KB HOME Tucson Inc. are incorporated under the laws of the State of Arizona. Section 10-851(A) of the Arizona Revised Statutes (“ARS”) permits a corporation to indemnify a current or former director (which term includes an individual who, while a director of a corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another entity) made party to a proceeding against liability incurred in the proceeding if the director’s conduct was in good faith, the director reasonably believed, in the case of conduct in an official capacity, that the conduct was in the corporation’s best interest, and in all other cases, that the conduct was at least not opposed to the corporation’s best interest, and in the case of any criminal proceedings, the director had no reasonable cause to believe the conduct was unlawful. With respect to proceedings by or in the right of the corporation, indemnification is limited to reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the proceeding. Under ARS Section 10-855, the determination of whether a director has met the standard of conduct set forth in Section
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