Powers of the Board The Board shall have the power to do any and all acts necessary, convenient or incidental to or for the furtherance of the purposes described herein, including all powers, statutory or otherwise. Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Board shall have the authority, on behalf of the Company, to do all things necessary or appropriate for the accomplishment of the purposes of the Company. Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Board shall have full power to act for and to bind the Company to the extent provided by Delaware law.
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.
Powers of the Advisor Subject to the express limitations set forth in this Agreement and the continuing and exclusive authority of the Board over the management of the Company, the power to direct the management, operation and policies of the Company, including making, financing and disposing of investments, shall be vested in the Advisor, which shall have the power by itself and shall be authorized and empowered on behalf and in the name of the Company to carry out any and all of the objectives and purposes of the Company and to perform all acts and enter into and perform all contracts and other undertakings that it may in its sole discretion deem necessary, advisable or incidental thereto to perform its obligations under this Agreement.
Powers of the Member Pursuant to Section 00-00-000 of the Act, the Member is authorized:
(a) to make all decisions regarding the Company’s operations and legal affairs, including but not limited to:
i. the sale, development, lease, or other disposition of the Company's assets;
ii. the purchase or acquisition of other assets;
iii. the management of all or any part of the Company's assets;
iv. the borrowing of money and granting of security interests in the Company's assets;
v. the pre-payment, refinancing, or extension of any loan affecting the Company's assets;
vi. the compromise or release of any of the Company's claims or debts; and
vii. the employment of persons, firms, or corporations for the operation and management of the Company's business; and
(b) to execute and deliver:
i. all contracts, conveyances, assignments, leases, sub-leases, franchise agreements, licensing agreements, management contracts, and maintenance contracts covering or affecting the Company's assets;
ii. all checks, drafts, and other orders for the payment of the Company's funds;
iii. all promissory notes, loans, security agreements and other similar documents; and
iv. all other instruments of any kind relating to the Company's business and affairs.
Powers of the Trustee 3.1.1 Except as set forth in this State Trust Agreement, the Trustee shall have the power to perform those acts necessary and desirable to accomplish the purposes of the State Mitigation Trust, which shall be exercised in an efficient and expeditious manner in furtherance of and in a manner consistent with the purposes of this State Trust Agreement and the Consent Decree. Subject to the limitations on liability set forth in subparagraph 3.5.2, the Trustee shall act in accordance with the current professional standards of care and with the diligence, skill, and care expected for the administration of such a Trust. The Trustee shall have only such duties, rights, powers, and privileges expressly set forth in the Consent Decree, this State Trust Agreement, and as otherwise provided by the Delaware Act. No implied duties (including fiduciary duties) shall be read into this State Trust against Wilmington Trust, N.A., acting as the Trustee.
3.1.2 Upon the Trust Effective Date, the powers of the Trustee shall include the following:
3.1.2.1 To receive, manage, invest, reinvest, supervise, and protect the Trust Assets as provided in Paragraph 3.2 of this State Trust Agreement or to engage a professional investment manager (“Investment Manager”) to receive, manage, invest, reinvest, supervise, and protect the Trust Assets as provided in Paragraph 3.2 for the benefit of the Beneficiaries. The Trustee appoints Wilmington Trust, N.A. as the Investment Manager for the State Mitigation Trust pursuant to an Investment Management Agreement entered into on the Trust Effective Date to manage the Trust Assets in accordance with Paragraph 3.2;
3.1.2.2 To establish and maintain a public-facing website onto which it will post all materials as required hereunder;
3.1.2.3 To establish and maintain a secure method of internet-based communications for the use of the Trustee and the Beneficiaries;
3.1.2.4 To hold title to property in the name of the Trustee in its capacity as such;
3.1.2.5 To incur, and pay from the Trust Administration Cost Subaccount, any and all customary and commercially reasonable charges and expenses upon or connected with the administration of this State Mitigation Trust in the discharge of its obligations hereunder, including 98% of Start-up Costs and 98% of Shared State and Indian Tribe Administration Costs;
3.1.2.6 To engage and compensate professionals to assist the Trustee in accordance with this State Trust Agreement, including, but not limited to, legal, environmental, investment, accounting, tax, website, and third-party auditing professionals, or internet service providers, or insurance providers. Such third-party auditing professionals may be used by the Trustee to audit and/or review expenditures to verify that they comport with the requirements and limitations on use of Trust Funds, as set forth herein. The Trustee may initiate such an audit and/or review on its own initiative or in response to credible reports or suggestions that such review or audit is appropriate. The Trustee shall have an annual independent audit prepared and posted on the website. In its sole discretion, the United States may waive the requirement of an annual audit starting in year ten or at an earlier time in order to preserve Trust Funds;
3.1.2.7 To engage and compensate professionals to assist the Trustee in requesting a Private Letter Ruling from the IRS: (1) that the State Mitigation Trust will be treated as a Qualified Settlement Fund under 26 C.F.R. § 1.468B-1; (2) that all investment income earned on the Trust Assets will be excludible from gross income under Section 115 of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 115; and (3) on any federal tax matter that the Tax Professionals reasonably believe is necessary to support the rulings in (1) and
Powers of the Trustees Without limiting the provisions of Section 5.1, the Trustees shall have power and authority:
5.3.1. To operate as, and to carry on the business of, an investment company, and exercise all the powers necessary and appropriate to the conduct of such operations;
5.3.2. To invest and reinvest cash and cash items, to hold cash uninvested, and to subscribe for, invest in, reinvest in, purchase or otherwise acquire, own, hold, pledge, sell, assign, transfer, exchange, distribute, write options on, lend or otherwise deal in or dispose of contracts for the future acquisition or delivery of all types of securities, futures contracts and options thereon, and forward currency contracts of every nature and kind, including, without limitation, all types of bonds, debentures, stocks, preferred stocks, negotiable or non-negotiable instruments, obligations, evidences of indebtedness, certificates of deposit or indebtedness, commercial paper, repurchase agreements, bankers’ acceptances, and other securities of any kind, issued, created, guaranteed, or sponsored by any and all Persons, including, without limitation, states, territories, and possessions of the United States and the District of Columbia and any political subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, any foreign government or any political subdivision of the U.S. Government or any foreign government, or any international instrumentality or organization, or by any bank or savings institution, or by any corporation or organization organized under the laws of the United States or of any state, territory, or possession thereof, or by any corporation or organization organized under any foreign law, or in “when issued” contracts for any such securities, futures contracts and options thereon, and forward currency contracts, to change the investments of the assets of the Trust; and to exercise any and all rights, powers, and privileges of ownership or interest in respect of any and all such investments of every kind and description, including, without limitation, the right to consent and otherwise act with respect thereto, with power to designate one or more Persons, to exercise any of said rights, powers, and privileges in respect of any of said instruments;
5.3.3. To sell, exchange, lend, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate, lease, or write options with respect to or otherwise deal in any property rights relating to any or all of the assets of the Trust or any Series;
5.3.4. To vote or give assent, or exercise any rights of ownership, with respect to stock or other securities or property; and to execute and deliver proxies or powers of attorney to such person or persons as the Trustees shall deem proper, granting to such person or persons such power and discretion with relation to securities or property as the Trustees shall deem proper;
5.3.5. To exercise powers and right of subscription or otherwise which in any manner arise out of ownership of securities;
5.3.6. To hold any security or property in a form not indicating that it is Trust Property, whether in bearer, book entry, unregistered or other negotiable form, or in its own name or in the name of a custodian or subcustodian or a nominee or nominees or otherwise or to authorize the custodian or a subcustodian or a nominee or nominees to deposit the same in a securities depository, subject in each case to the applicable provisions of the 1940 Act;
5.3.7. To consent to, or participate in, any plan for the reorganization, consolidation or merger of any corporation or issuer of any security which is held in the Trust; to consent to any contract, lease, mortgage, purchase or sale of property by such corporation or issuer; and to pay calls or subscriptions with respect to any security held in the Trust;
5.3.8. To join with other security holders in acting through a committee, depositary, voting trustee or otherwise, and in that connection to deposit any security with, or transfer any security to, any such committee, depositary or trustee, and to delegate to them such power and authority with relation to any security (whether or not so deposited or transferred) as the Trustees shall deem proper, and to agree to pay, and to pay, such portion of the expenses and compensation of such committee, depositary or trustee as the Trustees shall deem proper;
5.3.9. To litigate, compromise, arbitrate, settle or otherwise adjust claims in favor of or against the Trust or a Series, or any matter in controversy, including but not limited to claims for taxes;
5.3.10. To enter into joint ventures, general or limited partnerships and any other combinations or associations;
5.3.11. To borrow funds or other property in the name of the Trust or Series exclusively for Trust purposes;
5.3.12. To endorse or guarantee the payment of any notes or other obligations of any Person; to make contracts of guaranty or suretyship, or otherwise assume liability for payment thereof;
5.3.13. Subject to ARTICLE IX, to purchase and pay for entirely out of Trust Property such insurance as the Trustees may deem necessary, desirable or appropriate for the conduct of the business, including, without limitation, insurance policies insuring the assets of the Trust or payment of distributions and principal on its Series investments, and insurance policies insuring the Shareholders, Trustees, officers, employees, agents, Investment Adviser, Principal Underwriters, or independent contractors of the Trust, individually against all claims and liabilities of every nature arising by reason of holding Shares, holding, being or having held any such office or position, or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted by any such Person as Trustee, officer, employee, agent, Investment Adviser, Principal Underwriter, or independent contractor, including any action taken or omitted that may be determined to constitute negligence;
5.3.14. Subject to the provisions of Section 3804 of the Delaware Act, to allocate assets, liabilities and expenses of the Trust to a particular Series or to apportion the same between or among two or more Series, provided that any liabilities or expenses incurred by a particular Series shall be payable solely out of the assets of that Series;
5.3.15. To adopt, establish and carry out pension, profit-sharing, share bonus, share purchase, savings, thrift and other retirement, incentive and benefit plans, trusts and provisions, including the purchasing of life insurance and annuity contracts as a means of providing such retirement and other benefits, for any or all of the Trustees, officers, employees and agents of the Trust;
5.3.16. To adopt, amend and repeal By-Laws not inconsistent with this Declaration of Trust providing for the regulation and management of the affairs of the Trust;
5.3.17. To elect and remove such officers and appoint and terminate such agents as they consider appropriate;
5.3.18. To appoint from their own and establish and terminate one or more committees consisting of two or more Trustees and such persons as may be designated by the Board of Trustees who may exercise the powers and authority of the Board of Trustees to the extent that the Trustees determine and to adopt a committee charter providing for such responsibilities;
5.3.19. To employ one or more custodians of the assets of the Trust and may authorize such custodians to employ subcustodians and to deposit all or any part of such assets in a system or systems for the central handling of securities or with a Federal Reserve Bank;
5.3.20. To retain one or more transfer agents or shareholder servicing agents;
5.3.21. To provide for the issuance and distribution of Shares by the Trust directly or through one or more Principal Underwriters or otherwise;
5.3.22. To set record dates for the determination of Shareholders with respect to various matters; declare and pay dividends and distributions to Shareholders of each Series from the assets of such Series;
5.3.23. To establish from time to time separate and distinct Series with separately defined investment objectives and policies and distinct investment purposes in accordance with ARTICLE III hereof;
5.3.24. To interpret the investment policies, practices or limitations of any Series;
5.3.25. To establish, from time to time, a minimum investment for Shareholders in the Trust or in one or more Series, or to require the redemption of the Shares of any Shareholder whose investment is less than such minimum upon giving notice to such Shareholder or in accordance with Section 8.4;
5.3.26. To delegate such authority as they consider desirable to any officer of the Trust, to any committee of the Trustees and to any agent or employee of the Trust or to any such custodian, transfer or servicing agents, Investment Adviser or Principal Underwriter; and
5.3.27. In general to carry on any other business in connection with or incidental to any of the foregoing powers, to do everything necessary, suitable or proper for the accomplishment of any purpose or the attainment of any object or the furtherance of any power set forth herein, either alone or in association with others, and to do every other act or thing incidental or appurtenant to or arising from the businesses, purposes, objects or powers set forth above. The Trust shall not be limited to investing in obligations maturing before the possible termination of the Trust or one or more of its Series and the Trust shall not be required to diversify each individual Series of the Trust. The Trust shall not in any way be bound or limited by any present or future law or custom in regard to investment by fiduciaries. The Trust shall not be required to obtain any court order to deal with any assets of the Trust or take any other action hereunder.
Powers of Members The Members shall have the power to exercise any and all rights or powers granted to the Members pursuant to the express terms of this Agreement. Except as expressly provided herein, the Members shall have no power to bind the Company and no authority to act on behalf of the Company.
POWERS OF MANAGERS Pursuant to Section 10A-5A-4.07 of the Law, the Managers are authorized:
(a) to make all decisions regarding the Company’s operations and legal affairs, including but not limited to:
i. the sale, development, lease, or other disposition of the Company's assets;
ii. the purchase or acquisition of other assets;
iii. the management of all or any part of the Company's assets;
iv. the borrowing of money and granting of security interests in the Company's assets;
v. the pre-payment, refinancing, or extension of any loan affecting the Company's assets;
vi. the compromise or release of any of the Company's claims or debts; and
vii. the employment of persons, firms, or corporations for the operation and management of the Company's business; and
(b) to execute and deliver:
i. all contracts, conveyances, assignments, leases, sub-leases, franchise agreements, licensing agreements, management contracts, and maintenance contracts covering or affecting the Company's assets;
ii. all checks, drafts, and other orders for the payment of the Company's funds;
iii. all promissory notes, loans, security agreements and other similar documents; and
iv. all other instruments of any kind relating to the Company's business and affairs.
Powers of Board The directors may, at any time, with respect to a committee appointed under Articles 19.1 or 19.2:
(1) revoke or alter the authority given to the committee, or override a decision made by the committee, except as to acts done before such revocation, alteration or overriding;
(2) terminate the appointment of, or change the membership of, the committee; and
(3) fill vacancies in the committee.
Powers of Trustee Subject to Sections 3 and 4, the Trustee shall have full power and authority with respect to any and all moneys, securities and other property at any time received or held in the Trust Fund to do all such acts, take all such proceedings and exercise all such rights and privileges, whether herein specifically referred to or not, as could be done, taken or exercised by the absolute owner thereof, including, without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following:
(a) To collect and receive the income of the Trust Fund and to invest and reinvest the Trust Fund in investments of any kind;
(b) To pay the expenses of the Trust (excluding any taxes payable by the Corporation under Section 2(b)) out of the Trust Fund, including the fees and reasonable expenses of the Independent Administrator and including reasonable compensation for its services as Trustee (if and to the extent that the Corporation does not pay such expenses and compensation);
(c) To employ suitable agents and counsel, and pay their reasonable expenses and compensation out of the Trust Fund (if and to the extent that the Corporation does not pay such expenses and compensation);
(d) To sell, convey, exchange or otherwise dispose of any property at any time held in trust hereunder;
(e) To hold uninvested any cash contributions to the Trust Fund and to create reserves of cash or other assets of the Trust Fund in the banking department of any affiliate of the Trustee, without liability for interest thereon, for the payment of expenses, or for distributions pursuant to the Plans, or for any other purpose in connection with the Plans, notwithstanding the affiliate’s receipt of “float” from such uninvested cash;
(f) To deposit any moneys at any time held in the Trust Fund in any savings bank, in the savings department of any bank or in a banking affiliate of the Trustee;
(g) To invest assets of the Trust Fund in any mutual funds advised by the Trustee or any of its affiliates or for which an affiliate of the Trustee acts as a custodian or other service provider and to receive management fees from such mutual funds for services performed for such funds;
(h) To have, respecting bonds, shares of corporate stock and other securities, all the rights, powers and privileges of an owner, including holding securities in the name of the Trustee or in the name of a nominee securities depository with or without disclosure of the Trust, voting any corporate stock either in person or by proxy, with or without power of substitution, making payment of calls, assessments or other sums deemed by the Trustee expedient for the protection of the Trust Fund, exchanging securities, selling or exercising stock subscriptions or conversion rights, participating in foreclosures, reorganizations, consolidations, mergers, liquidations, pooling agreements, voting trusts, and assenting to corporate sales, leases and encumbrances. The Trustee may provide to the Corporation (or, after a Change of Control, to the Independent Administrator) the proxy of any security when in the Trustee’s judgment the Trustee or one of its affiliates may have a conflict of interest;
(i) To enter into any contracts with, or purchase any annuities from, any insurance company or insurance companies for the purpose of providing for distributions under the Plans; and
(j) To settle, compromise or submit to arbitration any claims, debts or damages due or owing to or from the Trust or the Trust Fund; to commence or defend legal proceedings for or against the Trust; and to represent the Trust in all proceedings in any court of law or equity or before any other body or tribunal.
