Section 2. Replacement Certificates. The Corporation may issue a new certificate of stock in place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Board may require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or such person’s legal representative, to make an affidavit of that fact and to give the Corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify the Corporation against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of the certificate or the issuance of such new certificate.
Section 3. Transfers of Shares. Transfers of shares shall be registered on the books of the Corporation maintained for that purpose after due presentation of the stock certificates therefor, appropriately endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer.
Section 4. Record Date. For the purpose of determining the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, or for the purpose of determining stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or the allotment of any rights, or for the purpose of any other action, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date shall not be more than sixty (60) or less than ten (10) days before the date of any such meeting, shall not be more than ten (10) days after the date on which the Board fixes a record date for any such consent in writing, and shall not be more than sixty (60) days prior to any other action.
ARTICLE VI
Indemnification
Section 1. Indemnification. Unless otherwise determined by the stockholders, the Corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the General Corporation Law (including, without limitation, Section 145 thereof) or other provisions of the laws of Delaware relating to indemnification of directors and officers, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time, indemnify any and all such persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under the General Corporation Law or such other provisions of law.
Section 2. Statutory Indemnification. Without limiting the generality of Section 1 of this Article VI, to the fullest extent permitted, and subject to the conditions imposed, by law, and pursuant to Section 145 of the General Corporation Law unless otherwise determined by the stockholders:
(a) the Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a Director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a Director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful; and
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