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To the fullest extent now or hereinafter permitted by law, each person who was or is made a party to or is
otherwise 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 they are or were or have agreed to become a Director or Officer of the Company or that, being or having been such a Director or Officer of the Company, they are or were serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, partner,
manager, trustee, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust 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 a Director of Officer or as such a director, officer, partner, manager, trustee, employee or agent or in any other capacity while
serving as a Director or Officer or as such a director, officer, partner, manager, trustee, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Company to the full extent permitted by the Act, as the same exists or may hereafter be
amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Company to provide broader indemnification rights than permitted prior thereto), or by other applicable law as then in effect, against all expense,
liability and loss (including attorneys fees, judgments, fines and ERISA excise 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, Officer, or such a director, officer, partner, manager, trustee, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the indemnitees heirs, executors and administrators;
provided, however, that except as provided in Bye-law 53.3 hereof with respect to proceedings seeking to enforce rights to indemnification, the Company shall indemnify any such indemnitee in connection
with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such indemnitee only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or ratified by the Board. The right to indemnification conferred in this Bye-law 53.1
shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the Company the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition (hereinafter an advancement of expenses); provided,
however, that if the Act requires an advancement of expenses incurred by an indemnitee in their capacity as a Director or Officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such indemnitee, including, without limitation,
service to an employee benefit plan) shall be made only upon delivery to the Company 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 by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal that such indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified for such expenses under this Bye-law 53.1 or otherwise.
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