Common use of Invalid Provisions and Request for Reformation Clause in Contracts

Invalid Provisions and Request for Reformation. If any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, any provision relating to the activities covered by, or time period of, the non-competition covenants of Article II) is held to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable under present or future laws effective during the term hereof, such provision shall be fully severable; this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal, invalid, or unenforceable provision had never comprised a part hereof; and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect and shall not be affected by the illegal, invalid, or unenforceable provision or by its severance herefrom. Furthermore, in lieu of such illegal, invalid, or unenforceable provision, there shall be added automatically as a part of this Agreement a provision as similar in terms to such illegal, invalid, or unenforceable provision as may be possible that is legal, valid, and enforceable, and the Company hereby requests the court or any arbitrator to whom disputes relating to this Agreement are submitted to reform the otherwise unenforceable covenant in accordance with the preceding provision. [The remainder of this page is left intentionally blank.]