Improper Practices. (i) With respect to improper practices:
(A) none of the Company, the Subsidiaries nor any of their employees or agents have made any unlawful contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for, any federal, state, provincial or foreign office, or failed to disclose fully any contribution in violation of any law, or made any payment to any foreign, Canadian, provincial or governmental officer or official, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties, other than payments required or permitted by applicable laws, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(B) no relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or, to the Company's knowledge, any Subsidiary or any affiliate of any of them, on the one hand, and the directors, officers and shareholders of the Company or, to the Company's knowledge, any Subsidiary, on the other hand, that is required by the Securities Act or Canadian Securities Laws to be described in the Registration Statement or included or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectuses, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectuses that is not so described;
(C) no relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or any Subsidiary or any affiliate of them, on the one hand, and the directors, officers, or shareholders of the Company or, to the Company's knowledge, any Subsidiary, on the other hand, that is required by the rules of FINRA (or Canadian equivalent thereof) to be described in the Registration Statement or included or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectuses, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectuses that is not so described;
(D) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is indebted or under any obligation to any of its respective directors, officers or shareholders, on any account whatsoever, other than for (i) payment of salary, directors' fees, bonus and other employment or consulting compensation, (ii) reimbursement for expenses duly incurred in connection with the business of the Company, and (iii) for other standard employee benefits made generally available to all employees; and
(E) none of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and the businesses now run by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and none of the directors, officers, supervisors, managers, agents, employees or other persons associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries h...
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Improper Practices. The Proposer shall not offer any gratuities, favors, or anything of monetary value to any official or employee of the XxXxxxxxx Place | SMG, XxXxxxxxx Place | SMG’s appointed evaluation committee, the City of Chicago, CCTB, State of Illinois, or any other organization that may have a clear interest in the outcome of the selection process, for the purposes of influencing the outcome of the RFP response selection process. The Proposer shall not collude in any manner or engage in any practices with any other Proposer(s), which may restrict or eliminate competition or otherwise restrain trade. Violation of this instruction will cause the Proposer(s) submittal(s) to be rejected by XxXxxxxxx Place | SMG. The prohibition is not intended to preclude joint ventures or subcontracts.
Improper Practices. In the event that the Service Dealer becomes aware of any improper practices concerning the ABUS Vitess™ Restricted Keying Systems, for example, unauthorized manufacture or supply or components, the Service Dealer undertakes to informs ABUS USA promptly of full details, so that ABUS USA can take whatever action it believes may be necessary to protect the ABUS Vitess™ Restricted Keying System and the interests of its owners.
Improper Practices. Improper practice is defined as a scientifically unsound or technically unjustified omission, manipulation or alteration of procedures or data that bypasses the required quality control (QC) parameters, making the results appear acceptable. Some examples of improper practices are: $ Deletion of noncompliant data $ Adding surrogates or matrix spikes after sample extraction or digestion $ Using a previous initial calibration $ Improper peak integrations (e.g., peak shaving) $ Fabrication or falsification of records $ Improper alteration of instrument conditions $ Spiking more than required to improve recoveries $ Forging another person’s name or initials $ Disabling audit trails $ Time traveling $ Performing multiple calibration runs and picking the best one $ Discarding points in a method detection limit (MDL) study without statistical justification or evidence of a known error $ Improper Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS) tuning $ Over-dilution of samples or misrepresentation of reporting limits $ Unwarranted manipulation of computer software $ Overwriting files
Improper Practices. 1) Fabrication of data or other information
2) Misrepresentation of QC sample results
3) Improper date/time setting or recording
4) Improper peak integration
5) Improper GC/MS tuning
6) Improper calibration and verification
7) Data file substitution or modification
8) Unwarranted sample dilution
9) Improper alteration of analytical conditions
10) Unwarranted manipulation of computer software
11) Concealment of a known problem malfunction issues Any of these items shall have a corrective action issued, with a root cause investigation.
Improper Practices. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has, nor has any officer, employee, agent or representative of the Companies, directly or indirectly offered, paid, promised to pay or authorised the payment of any money, benefit or other thing of value to any person who is an official, officer, agent, employee or representative of any government, government authority or agency, existing or prospective customer, any holder or candidate for political office or to any other person in the knowledge that any such payment or provision would be offered, given or promised directly or indirectly to any such official, officer, agent, employee or representative, in each case as an inducement or reward for doing or forbearing to do or for having done or forborne to do anything
Improper Practices. (i) With respect to improper practices:
(A) none of the Corporation, the Subsidiaries nor any of their employees or agents have made any unlawful contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for, any federal, state, provincial or foreign office, or failed to disclose fully any contribution in violation of any law, or made any payment to any foreign, Canadian, provincial or governmental officer or official, or other person charged with similar public or quasi-public duties, other than payments required or permitted by Applicable Laws, in a manner that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(B) neither the Corporation nor any of its Subsidiaries is indebted or under any obligation to any of its respective directors, officers or shareholders, on any account whatsoever, other than for (i) payment of salary, directors' fees, bonus and other employment or consulting compensation, (ii) reimbursement for expenses duly incurred in connection with the business of the Corporation, and (iii) for other standard employee benefits made generally available to all employees; and
(C) none of the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries and the businesses now run by the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries, and none of the directors, officers, supervisors, managers, agents, employees or other persons associated with or acting on behalf of the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries has, to their knowledge (i) made or authorized any contribution, payment or gift of funds, property or anything else of value to any official, employee or agent of any Governmental Authority, agency or instrumentality in the United States of America or any other jurisdiction, (ii) used any corporate funds, or made any direct or indirect unlawful payment from corporate funds, to any foreign or domestic government official or employee or for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Canada), including making any contribution to any candidate for public office, in either case, where either the payment or gift or the purpose of such contribution, payment or gift was or is prohibited under the foregoing or any other Applicable Law, rule or regulation of any locality; or (iv) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or othe...