Status of Consultant The Consultant shall be deemed to be an independent contractor and, except as expressly provided or authorized in the Agreement, shall have no authority to act for on behalf of or represent the Company. This Agreement does not create a partnership or joint venture.
Status of Parties The other party is not acting as a fiduciary for or an adviser to it in respect of that Transaction.
Status of Stock The Employee agrees that the Restricted Shares issued under this Agreement will not be sold or otherwise disposed of in any manner which would constitute a violation of any applicable federal or state securities laws. The Employee also agrees that (i) the certificates representing the Restricted Shares may bear such legend or legends as the Committee deems appropriate in order to reflect the Forfeiture Restrictions and to assure compliance with applicable securities laws, (ii) the Company may refuse to register the transfer of the Restricted Shares on the stock transfer records of the Company if such proposed transfer would constitute a violation of the Forfeiture Restrictions or, in the opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company, of any applicable securities law, and (iii) the Company may give related instructions to its transfer agent, if any, to stop registration of the transfer of the Restricted Shares.
Status of Seller The Seller is not an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Seller is not subject to regulation as a “holding company”, an “affiliate” of a “holding company”, or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company”, within the meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.
Tax Status of Option This Option is intended to have the tax status designated in the Grant Notice.
Status of Plans Corporation has never maintained and does not now maintain or contribute to any Employee Benefit Plan subject to ERISA which is not in substantial compliance with ERISA, or which has incurred any accumulated funding deficiency within the meaning of either Section 412 or 418B of ERISA, or which has applied for or obtained a waiver from the Internal Revenue Service of any minimum funding requirement under Section 412 of the Code or which is subject to Title IV of ERISA. Corporation has not incurred any liability to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation ("PBGC") in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan covering any employees of that Corporation or ceased operations at any facility or withdrawn from any such Plan in a manner which could subject it to liability under Section 4062(f), 4063 or 4064 of ERISA, and knows of no facts or circumstances which might give rise to any liability of Corporation to the PBGC under Title IV of ERISA which could reasonably be anticipated to result in any claims being made against the Surviving Corporation by the PBGC. Corporation has not incurred any withdrawal liability (including any contingent or secondary withdrawal liability) within the meaning of Sections 4201 and 4202 of ERISA, to any Employee Benefit Plan which is a Multiemployer Plan (as defined in Section 4001 of ERISA), and no event has occurred, and there exists no condition or set of circumstances, which represent a material risk of the occurrence of any withdrawal from or the partition, termination, reorganization or insolvency of any Multiemployer Plan which would result in any liability to a Multiemployer Plan.
Status of Buyer Buyer is an “accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501 promulgated under the Securities Act.
Status of Contracts Except as set forth in SCHEDULE 5.21, each of the leases, contracts and other agreements listed in SCHEDULES 5.11, 5.14, 5.15, 5.18 and 5.20 (collectively, the "Seller Agreements") constitutes a valid and binding obligation of each Seller that is a party thereto and, to the Sellers' knowledge, each other party thereto and is in full force and effect and (except as set forth in SCHEDULE 5.3 and except for those Seller Agreements which by their terms will expire prior to the Closing Date or are otherwise terminated prior to the Closing Date in accordance with the provisions hereof) may be transferred to Buyer pursuant to this Agreement and will continue in full force and effect thereafter, in each case without breaching the terms thereof or resulting in the forfeiture or impairment of any rights thereunder and without the consent, approval or act of, or the making of any filing with, any other party. Each Seller has fulfilled and performed its respective obligations under each of the Seller Agreements to which it is a party, and no Seller is in, or alleged to be in, breach or default under any of the Seller Agreements to which such Seller is a party, nor is there or is there alleged to be any basis for termination of, any of the Seller Agreements and, to the Sellers' knowledge, no other party to any of the Seller Agreements has breached or defaulted thereunder, and, to the Sellers' knowledge, no event has occurred and no condition or state of facts exists which, with the passage of time or the giving of notice or both, would constitute such a default or breach by such Seller or by any such other party. No Seller is currently renegotiating any of the Seller Agreements or paying liquidated damages in lieu of performance thereunder. Complete and correct copies of each of the Seller Agreements have heretofore been delivered to Buyer by Sellers.
Status of Shares Shares shall be deemed to be personal property giving Shareholders only the rights provided in this instrument. Every Shareholder by virtue of having become a Shareholder shall be held to have expressly assented and agreed to be bound by the terms hereof. The death of a Shareholder during the continuance of the Trust or any Series or Class thereof shall not operate to dissolve or terminate the Trust or any Series or Class nor entitle the representative of any deceased Shareholder to an accounting or to take any action in court or elsewhere against the Trust or the Trustees, but shall entitle such representative only to the rights of said decedent under this Trust Instrument. Ownership of Shares shall not entitle the Shareholder to any title in or to the whole or any part of the Trust Property or to any right to call for a partition or division of the same or for an accounting, nor shall the ownership of Shares constitute the Shareholders partners.
STATUS OF SUB-ADVISER Sub-Adviser is and will continue to be registered under the Advisers Act. The Services of Sub-Adviser to Company for each Fund are not to be deemed exclusive, and Sub-Adviser is free to render similar services to others so long as its Services to the Fund are not impaired thereby. Sub-Adviser is and will continue to be an independent contractor and, unless otherwise expressly provided or authorized, has no authority to act for or represent Company in any way or otherwise act as agent of Company.
