at the time such person is elected or appointed to such position, and no repeal or modification of this
Article V or any such law shall affect any such vested rights or obligations of any current or former
director or officer with respect to any state of facts or proceeding regardless of when occurring.
Section 8Merger or Consolidation. For purposes of this Article V, references to "the
corporation" shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including
any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had
continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or
agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent
corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer,
employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand
in the same position under this Article V with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he or she
would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.
Section 9Exculpation. The directors of the corporation and each of their respective affiliates
shall, to the fullest extent permitted by Section 102(b)(7) of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, be exculpated from any liability to the corporation or its stockholders arising out of the
operation of the corporation or any actions in their capacity as directors of the corporation.
ARTICLE VI
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK
Section 1Form. The shares of stock of the corporation shall be represented by certificates;
provided that the board of directors may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all
classes or series of the corporation's stock shall be uncertificated shares. Any such resolution shall not
apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the corporation.
Notwithstanding the adoption of such a resolution by the board of directors, every holder of stock
represented by certificates shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the
corporation by the chief executive officer, the president or vice president, and by the treasurer, an
assistant treasurer, the secretary, an assistant secretary or any two (2) authorized officers of the
corporation representing the number of shares registered in certificate form; provided, however, that,
where any such certificate is signed (a) by a transfer agent or an assistant transfer agent, or (b) by a
transfer clerk acting on behalf of the corporation and a registrar, if the board of directors shall by
resolution so authorize, the signature of such chief executive officer, president, vice president, treasurer,
secretary, assistant treasurer, assistant secretary or any two (2) authorized officers may be facsimiles
thereof. In case any officer or officers of the corporation who shall have signed, or whose facsimile
signature or signatures shall have been used on, any such certificate shall cease to be such officer or
officers, whether by reason of death, resignation or otherwise, before such certificate shall have been
delivered by the corporation, such certificate may nevertheless be adopted by the corporation and be
issued and delivered as though the person or persons who signed such certificate, or whose facsimile
signature or signatures shall have been affixed thereto, had not ceased to be such officer or officers.
Section 2Lost Certificates. The board of directors may direct a new certificate or certificates
to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates previously issued by the corporation alleged to have
been lost, stolen, or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the
certificate of stock to be lost, stolen, or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or
certificates, the board of directors may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance
thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen, or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his or her legal
representative, to give the corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify the corporation against any claim