ARTICLE VII
INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
Each person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, partner, venturer, proprietor, trustee, employee, agent or similar functionary of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust or other enterprise or employee benefit plan (including the heirs, executors, administrators or estate of such person) shall be indemnified by the Corporation to the fullest extent that a corporation is required or permitted to grant indemnification to such person under the Delaware General Corporation Law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended. Reasonable expenses incurred by a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation who was, is or is threatened to be made a named defendant or respondent in a proceeding shall be paid or reimbursed by the Corporation, in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding, to the maximum extent permitted under Delaware law, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended. The right to indemnification under this Article shall be a contract right. In the event of the death of any person having a right of indemnification under this Article, such right will inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors, administrators and personal representatives. The rights under this Article will not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereinafter acquire under any statute, bylaw, resolution of shareholders of directors, agreement or otherwise.
ARTICLE VIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 1. Checks. All checks or demands for money and notes of the Corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate
Section 2. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporations shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors.
Section 3. Telephone and Similar Meetings. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the shareholders, members of the Board of Directors or members of any committee of the Board of Directors may participate in and hold a meeting of such shareholders, the Board of Directors or committee, as the case may be, by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in such a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting, except where a person participates in the meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the ground that the meeting is not lawfully called or convened.
Section 4. Distributions and Share Dividends. Subject to statute and any provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, distributions in the form of cash or property or share dividends may be declared by the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting.
Section 5. Amendment of Bylaws. Unless otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these bylaws, these bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed, or new bylaws may be adopted, by the shareholders or the Board of Directors, subject to the shareholders providing in amending, repealing or adopting a particular bylaw that it may not be amended or repealed by the Board of Directors.
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