Stockholder or any Stockholder Nominees to the Company or its stockholders is not, when provided, or thereafter ceases to be, true, correct and complete in all material respects (including omitting a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading), such Eligible Stockholder or Stockholder Nominee, as the case may be, shall promptly notify the Secretary and provide the information that is required to make such information or communication true, correct, complete and not misleading; it being understood that providing any such notification shall not be deemed to cure any defect or limit the Company’s right to omit a Stockholder Nominee from its proxy materials as provided in this Section 1.10.
(d) Proxy Access Procedures.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 1.10, the Company may omit from its proxy materials any Stockholder Nominee, and such nomination shall be disregarded and no vote on such Stockholder Nominee shall occur, notwithstanding that proxies with respect to such vote may have been received by the Company, if:
(A) the Eligible Stockholder or Stockholder Nominee breaches any of its agreements, representations or warranties set forth in the Stockholder Notice or otherwise submitted pursuant to this Section 1.10, any of the information in the Stockholder Notice or otherwise submitted pursuant to this Section 1.10 was not, when provided, true, correct and complete, or the Eligible Stockholder or applicable Stockholder Nominee otherwise fails to comply with its obligations pursuant to theseBy-Laws, including, but not limited to, its obligations under this Section 1.10,
(B) the Stockholder Nominee (1) is not independent under NYSE listing standards, any applicable rules of the SEC or the Company’s Corporate Governance Guidelines; (2) does not qualify as independent under the audit committee independence requirements set forth in the rules of the NYSE, as a“non-employee director” under Exchange Act Rule16b-3 (or any successor provision), or as an “outside director” for the purposes of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (or any successor provision); (3) is or has been, within the past three years, an officer or director of a competitor, as defined in Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, as amended; (4) is or has been, within the past three years, an officer, director or employee of the Eligible Stockholder nominating such person; (5) is a named subject of a pending criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses) or has been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations and other minor offenses) within the past ten years; or (6) is subject to any order of the type specified in Rule 506(d) of Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
(C) the Company has received a notice (whether or not subsequently withdrawn) that a stockholder intends to nominate any candidate for election to the Board pursuant to the advance notice requirements for stockholder nominees for director in Section 1.9(a), or
(D) the election of the Stockholder Nominee to the Board would cause the Company to violate its Articles of Incorporation, theseBy-Laws, or any applicable law, rule, regulation or listing standard.
(ii) An Eligible Stockholder submitting more than one Stockholder Nominee for inclusion in the Company’s proxy materials pursuant to this Section 1.10 shall rank such Stockholder Nominees based on the order that the Eligible Stockholder desires such Stockholder Nominees to be selected for inclusion in the Company’s proxy materials, and include such assigned rank in its Stockholder Notice submitted to the Company. If the number of Stockholder Nominees submitted by all Eligible Stockholders pursuant to this Section 1.10 for a particular Annual Meeting exceeds the
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