any other manner permitted by law), but no transfer shall affect the right of the Corporation to pay any dividend upon the stock to the holder of record thereof, or to treat the holder of record as the holder in fact thereof for all purposes, and no transfer shall be valid, except between the parties thereto, until such transfer shall have been made upon the books of the Corporation.
SECTION 4. Lost Certificates.
The Board of Directors may provide for the issuance of new certificates of stock or uncertificated shares to replace certificates of stock lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed, or alleged to be lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed, upon such terms and in accordance with such procedures as the Board of Directors shall deem proper and prescribe.
ARTICLE VII
Miscellaneous
SECTION 1. Fiscal Year.
The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be the calendar year.
SECTION 2. Signing of Negotiable Instruments.
All bills, notes, checks, or other instruments for the payment of money shall be signed or countersigned by such officer or officers and in such manner as from time to time may be prescribed by resolution (whether general or special) of the Board of Directors.
SECTION 3. Indemnification.
3.1 Right to Indemnification.
Each person who was or is made a party to or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved or threatened to be involved (including, without limitation, as a witness) in any actual or threatened action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative (hereinafter a “Proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or, while serving as a director or officer of the Corporation, is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, or agent of another corporation or a partnership, joint venture, trust,non-profit entity or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan (hereinafter an “Indemnitee”), whether the basis of such Proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as such a director or officer or in any other capacity while serving as such a director or officer, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, or by other applicable law as then in effect, against all expense, liability, and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, taxes or penalties, and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred or suffered by such Indemnitee in connection therewith, and such indemnification shall continue as to an Indemnitee who has ceased to be a director or officer and shall inure to the benefit of the Indemnitee’s heirs, executors, administrators and legal representatives; provided, however, that except as provided in Article VII, Section 3.2 with respect to Proceedings seeking to enforce rights to indemnification hereunder, the Corporation shall indemnify any such Indemnitee in connection with a Proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such Indemnitee only if the commencement of such Proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized in the specific case by the Board of Directors. The right to indemnification conferred in this Section 3.1 shall be a contract right and shall include the right, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such Proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an “Advancement of Expenses”); provided, however, that an Advancement of Expenses shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking (hereinafter an “Undertaking”), by or on behalf of such Indemnitee, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Section 3.1 or otherwise.
3.2 Right of Indemnitee to Bring Suit.
If a claim under Article VII, Section 3.1 for indemnification (following the final disposition of such Proceeding) is not paid in full by the Corporation within sixty (60) days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, except in the case of a claim for an Advancement of Expenses, in which case the applicable period shall be twenty
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