Officers of the Company (a) The Manager may appoint a President, a General Manager, one or more Vice Presidents, a Secretary and such other officers of the Company (including, without limitation, Station Managers) as the Manager may designate. Officers of the Company shall exercise such powers and duties as provided or delegated in this Operating Agreement, including, without limitation, the power and authority to act for and on behalf of the Company and to bind the Company in the normal or ordinary course of its business, as such business has been conducted prior to the formation of the Company and proposed to be conducted by the Manager. Each officer shall hold office until his or her death, disability, resignation or removal or, if a term is specified, until a successor to such office is appointed upon the expiration of his or her term.
(b) The President shall have general supervision, direction and control of the Company and shall perform all duties incidental to his or her office. The President shall be responsible for the administration and operation of the Company’s business and general supervision of its policies and affairs, subject to the direction of the Manager.
(c) In the absence or disability of the President, the Vice President or General Manager, if any, as selected by the Manager, shall perform all of the duties of the President and, when so acting, shall have such other powers and perform such other powers and duties as may be prescribed from time to time by the Manager.
(d) The Secretary shall record or cause to be recorded, and shall keep or cause to be kept, at the Company’s principal place of business (although copies may be kept at the principal place of business of the Member) and such other place as the Manager may order, a book of minutes of actions taken at all meetings of the Manager and of the Member, with the time and place of holding, the notice thereof given, the names of those present at Manager and Member meetings and the proceedings thereof. The Secretary shall keep, or cause to be kept, at the Company’s principal place of business (although copies may be kept at the principal place of business of the Member)
(i) a current list of the Manager, including the full name and business or residence address of each such Manager, (ii) a copy of the Certificate of Formation, and all amendments thereto, (iii) copies of the Company’s federal, state and local income tax or information returns and reports, if any, for the six most recent taxable years, (iv) a copy of this Operating Agreement and any amendments thereto, (v) copies of the financial statements of the Company, if any, for the six most recent Fiscal Years, (vi) a register setting forth the full name and business address of the Member, the outstanding Membership Interests of the Company held by the Member, a copy of the Certificate of Interest evidencing the Membership Interests of the Company held by the Member and any pledge of such Membership Interests, and (vii) the books and records of the Company as they relate to the internal affairs of the Company for at least the current and past four Fiscal Years.
(e) The officers of the Company and other parties performing services on behalf of the Company shall be entitled to compensation based on the reasonable value of their services, subject to the discretion and approval of the Manager.
Powers of the Company The Company shall have the power and authority to take any and all actions necessary, appropriate or advisable to or for the furtherance of the purposes set forth in Section 2.05.
Successors of the Company The rights and obligations of the Company under this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and shall be binding upon, the successors and assigns of the Company, including any Successor Company. This Agreement shall be assignable by the Company in the event of a merger or similar transaction in which the Company is not the surviving entity, or a sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets.
Certificates of the Company The Company shall furnish to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, prior to each proposed release of Collateral pursuant to any Collateral Agreements, (i) all documents required by TIA §314(d) and (ii) an Opinion of Counsel, which may be rendered by internal counsel to the Company, to the effect that such accompanying documents constitute all documents required by TIA §314(d). The Trustee may, to the extent permitted by Sections 8.01 and 8.02 hereof, accept as conclusive evidence of compliance with the foregoing provisions the appropriate statements contained in such documents and such Opinion of Counsel.
Agreements of the Company The Company agrees with you:
(a) To advise you promptly and, if requested by you, to confirm such advice in writing, (i) of any request by the Commission for amendments to the Registration Statement or amendments or supplements to the Prospectus or for additional information, (ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of the suspension of qualification of the Shares for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation of any proceeding for such purposes, (iii) when any amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective, (iv) if the Company is required to file a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement after the effectiveness of this Agreement, when the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement has become effective and (v) of the happening of any event during the period referred to in Section 5(d) below which makes any statement of a material fact made in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus untrue or which requires any additions to or changes in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein not misleading. If at any time the Commission shall issue any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to obtain the withdrawal or lifting of such order at the earliest possible time.
(b) To furnish to you five photocopies of signed copies of the Registration Statement as first filed with the Commission and of each amendment to it, including all exhibits, and to furnish to you and each Underwriter designated by you such number of conformed copies of the Registration Statement as so filed and of each amendment to it, without exhibits, as you may reasonably request.
(c) To prepare the Prospectus, the form and substance of which shall be satisfactory to you, and to file the Prospectus in such form with the Commission within the applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the Act; during the period specified in Section 5(d) below, not to file any further amendment to the Registration Statement and not to make any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus of which you shall not previously have been advised or to which you shall reasonably object after being so advised; provided, that the Company shall have the right to make such further amendments as are required by law to be made and shall forthwith notify you of any such amendment; and, during such period, to prepare and file with the Commission, promptly upon your reasonable request, any amendment to the Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to the Prospectus which may be necessary or advisable in connection with the distribution of the Shares by you, and to use its reasonable best efforts to cause any such amendment to the Registration Statement to become promptly effective.
(d) Prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the first business day after the date of this Agreement and from time to time thereafter for such period as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or a dealer, to furnish in New York City to each Underwriter and any dealer as many copies of the Prospectus (and of any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus) as such Underwriter or dealer may reasonably request.
(e) If during the period specified in Section 5(d), any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it becomes necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare and file with the Commission an appropriate amendment or supplement to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented, will not in the light of the circumstances when it is so delivered, be misleading, or so that the Prospectus will comply with applicable law, and to furnish to each Underwriter and to any dealer as many copies thereof as such Underwriter or dealer may reasonably request in writing.
(f) Prior to any public offering of the Shares, to cooperate with you and counsel for the Underwriters at the expense of the Sellers in connection with the registration or qualification of the Shares for offer and sale by the several Underwriters and by dealers under the state securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as you may request, to continue such registration or qualification in effect so long as required for distribution of the Shares and to file such consents to service of process or other documents as may be necessary in order to effect such registration or qualification; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required in connection therewith to register or qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to general consent to service of process or taxation other than as to matters and transactions relating to the Prospectus, the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the offering or sale of the Shares, in any jurisdiction in which it is not now so subject.
(g) To mail and make generally available to its stockholders as soon as practicable an earnings statement covering the twelve-month period ending December 31, 2000 that shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act, and to advise you in writing when such statement has been so made available.
(h) During the period of three years after the date of this Agreement, to furnish to you upon your written request copies of all reports or other communications furnished to the record holders of Common Stock or furnished to or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange on which any class of securities of the Company is listed and such other publicly available information concerning the Company and its subsidiaries as you may reasonably request.
(i) To use its best efforts to list for quotation the Shares on the Nasdaq National Market and to maintain the listing of the Shares on the Nasdaq National Market for a period of three years after the date of this Agreement.
(j) To use its reasonable best efforts to do and perform all things required or necessary to be done and performed under this Agreement by the Company prior to the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, and to satisfy all conditions precedent to the delivery of the Shares.
(k) If the Registration Statement at the time of the effectiveness of this Agreement does not cover all of the Shares, to file a Rule 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission registering the Shares not so covered in compliance with Rule 462(b) by 10:00 P.M., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement.
Expenses of the Company Except as expressly otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Company shall pay all its expenses, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it is specifically agreed that the following expenses of the Company shall be paid by the Company and shall not be paid by the Manager:
(a) the cost of borrowed money;
(b) taxes on income and taxes and assessments on real and personal property, if any, and all other taxes applicable to the Company;
(c) legal, auditing, accounting, underwriting, brokerage, listing, reporting, registration and other fees, and printing, engraving and other expenses and taxes incurred in connection with the issuance, distribution, transfer, trading, registration and listing of the Company’s securities on the Stock Exchange, including transfer agent’s, registrar’s and indenture trustee’s fees and charges;
(d) expenses of organizing, restructuring, reorganizing or liquidating the Company, or of revising, amending, converting or modifying the Company’s organizational documents;
(e) fees and travel and other expenses paid to Trustees and officers of the Company in their capacities as such (but not in their capacities as officers or employees of the Manager) and fees and travel and other expenses paid to advisors, contractors, mortgage servicers, consultants, and other agents and independent contractors employed by or on behalf of the Company;
(f) expenses directly connected with the investigation, acquisition, disposition or ownership of real estate interests or other property (including third party property diligence costs, appraisal reporting, the costs of foreclosure, insurance premiums, legal services, brokerage and sales commissions, maintenance, repair, improvement and local management of property), other than expenses with respect thereto of employees of the Manager, to the extent that such expenses are to be borne by the Manager pursuant to Section 15 above;
(g) all insurance costs incurred in connection with the Company (including officer and trustee liability insurance) or in connection with any officer and trustee indemnity agreement to which the Company is a party;
(h) expenses connected with payments of dividends or interest or contributions in cash or any other form made or caused to be made by the Trustees to holders of securities of the Company;
(i) all expenses connected with communications to holders of securities of the Company and other bookkeeping and clerical work necessary to maintaining relations with holders of securities, including the cost of any transfer agent, the cost of preparing, printing, posting, distributing and mailing certificates for securities and proxy solicitation materials and reports to holders of the Company’s securities;
(j) legal, accounting and auditing fees and expenses, other than those described in subsection (c) above;
(k) filing and recording fees for regulatory or governmental filings, approvals and notices to the extent not otherwise covered by any of the foregoing items of this Section 16;
(l) expenses relating to any office or office facilities maintained by the Company separate from the office of the Manager; and
(m) the costs and expenses of all equity award or compensation plans or arrangements established by the Company, including the value of awards made by the Company to the Manager or its employees, if any, and payment of any employment or withholding taxes in connection therewith.
Covenants of the Company and the Operating Partnership The Company and the Operating Partnership, jointly and severally, covenant with each Underwriter as follows:
Deliveries of the Company (a) Concurrently herewith, the Company is delivering to the Parent this Agreement executed by the Company.
(b) At or prior to the Closing, the Company shall deliver to the Parent a certificate from the Company, signed by its Secretary or Assistant Secretary certifying that the attached copies of the Company’s Charter Documents and resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company approving this Agreement and the Transactions, are all true, complete and correct and remain in full force and effect.
Employees of the Company During the Restricted Period and thereafter for as long as the Executive shall remain an employee of or consultant to the Company, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, hire or solicit any employee or independent sales agent of the Company away from the Company or encourage any such employee or agent to leave such employment.
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the "Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided. All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
