Liability of General Partner Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the liability of the General Partner arising from the conduct of the business affairs or operations of the Partnership or from the debts of the Partnership is unrestricted.
Actions Permitted without Express Authority The Custodian may in its discretion, without express authority from the applicable Fund on behalf of each applicable Portfolio:
1) Make payments to itself or others for minor expenses of handling securities or other similar items relating to its duties under this Agreement; provided that all such payments shall be accounted for to the Fund on behalf of the Portfolio;
2) Surrender securities in temporary form for securities in definitive form;
3) Endorse for collection, in the name of the Portfolio, checks, drafts and other negotiable instruments; and
4) In general, attend to all non-discretionary details in connection with the sale, exchange, substitution, purchase, transfer and other dealings with the securities and property of the Portfolio except as otherwise directed by the applicable Board.
Admission of the Corporate Taxpayer into a Consolidated Group; Transfers of Corporate Assets (a) If the Corporate Taxpayer is or becomes a member of an affiliated or consolidated group of corporations that files a consolidated income tax return pursuant to Sections 1501 et seq. of the Code or any corresponding provisions of state or local law, then: (i) the provisions of this Agreement shall be applied with respect to the group as a whole; and (ii) Tax Benefit Payments, Early Termination Payments and other applicable items hereunder shall be computed with reference to the consolidated taxable income of the group as a whole.
(b) If any entity that is obligated to make a Tax Benefit Payment or Early Termination Payment hereunder transfers one or more assets to a corporation (or a Person classified as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) with which such entity does not file a consolidated tax return pursuant to Section 1501 of the Code, such entity, for purposes of calculating the amount of any Tax Benefit Payment or Early Termination Payment (e.g., calculating the gross income of the entity and determining the Realized Tax Benefit of such entity) due hereunder, shall be treated as having disposed of such asset in a fully taxable transaction on the date of such contribution. The consideration deemed to be received by such entity shall be equal to the fair market value of the contributed asset. For purposes of this Section 7.11, a transfer of a partnership interest shall be treated as a transfer of the transferring partner’s share of each of the assets and liabilities of that partnership.
Removal of General Partner (a) Upon the occurrence of an Event of Bankruptcy as to, or the dissolution of, the General Partner, the General Partner shall be deemed to be removed automatically; provided, however, that if the General Partner is on the date of such occurrence a partnership, the withdrawal, death, dissolution, Event of Bankruptcy as to or removal of a partner in such partnership shall be deemed not to be a dissolution of the General Partner if the business of the General Partner is continued by the remaining partner or partners. The Limited Partners may not remove the General Partner, with or without cause.
(b) If the General Partner has been removed pursuant to this Section 7.04 and the Partnership is continued pursuant to Section 7.03, the General Partner shall promptly transfer and assign its General Partnership Interest in the Partnership to the substitute General Partner approved by a Majority in Interest in accordance with Section 7.03(b) and otherwise be admitted to the Partnership in accordance with Section 7.02. At the time of assignment, the removed General Partner shall be entitled to receive from the substitute General Partner the fair market value of the General Partnership Interest of such removed General Partner as reduced by any damages caused to the Partnership by such General Partner. Such fair market value shall be determined by an appraiser mutually agreed upon by the General Partner and a Majority in Interest (excluding the General Partner and any Subsidiary of the General Partner) within ten days following the removal of the General Partner. In the event that the parties are unable to agree upon an appraiser, the removed General Partner and a Majority in Interest (excluding the General Partner and any Subsidiary of the General Partner) each shall select an appraiser. Each such appraiser shall complete an appraisal of the fair market value of the removed General Partner’s General Partnership Interest within 30 days of the General Partner’s removal, and the fair market value of the removed General Partner’s General Partnership Interest shall be the average of the two appraisals; provided, however, that if the higher appraisal exceeds the lower appraisal by more than 20% of the amount of the lower appraisal, the two appraisers, no later than 40 days after the removal of the General Partner, shall select a third appraiser who shall complete an appraisal of the fair market value of the removed General Partner’s General Partnership Interest no later than 60 days after the removal of the General Partner. In such case, the fair market value of the removed General Partner’s General Partnership Interest shall be the average of the two appraisals closest in value.
(c) The General Partnership Interest of a removed General Partner, during the time after default until transfer under Section 7.04(b), shall be converted to that of a special Limited Partner; provided, however, such removed General Partner shall not have any rights to participate in the management and affairs of the Partnership, and shall not be entitled to any portion of the income, expense, profit, gain or loss allocations or cash distributions allocable or payable, as the case may be, to the Limited Partners. Instead, such removed General Partner shall receive and be entitled only to retain distributions or allocations of such items that it would have been entitled to receive in its capacity as General Partner, until the transfer is effective pursuant to Section 7.04(b).
(d) All Partners shall have given and hereby do give such consents, shall take such actions and shall execute such documents as shall be legally necessary and sufficient to effect all the foregoing provisions of this Section 7.04.
Capitalization of Parent As of February 28, 1998, Parent's authorized capital stock consisted of (i) 40,000,000 shares of common stock, $1.25 par value per share of which (a) 23,607,047 shares were issued and outstanding, (b) 1,166,100 shares were issued and held in treasury (which does not include the shares reserved for issuance as set forth in clause (i)(c) below) and (c) 1,622,935 shares were reserved for issuance upon the exercise or conversion of options, warrants or convertible securities granted or issuable by Parent, and (ii) 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $.05 par value per share ("Parent Preferred Stock"), none of which are outstanding or designated except as provided in the next sentence. As of the date hereof, 400,000 shares are designated Preferred Stock, Cumulative Junior Participating Series C ("Parent Series C Preferred Stock") and are reserved for issuance in accordance with the Rights Agreement dated as of March 4, 1991, by and between Parent and Chas▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇reholder Services, L.L.C., as Rights Agent ("Parent Rights Agreement"), pursuant to which Parent has issued rights ("Parent Rights") to purchase shares of Parent Series C Preferred Stock. Each outstanding share of Parent capital stock is, and all shares of Common Stock to be issued in connection with the Merger will be, duly authorized and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and no outstanding share of Parent capital stock has been, and no shares of Common Stock to be issued in connection with the Merger will be issued in violation of any preemptive or similar rights. As of the date hereof, other than as set forth in the Parent SEC Documents, pursuant to the Parent Rights Agreement or in Section 3.3 to the Parent Disclosure Schedule, there are no outstanding subscriptions, options, warrants, puts, calls, agreements, understandings, claims or other commitments or rights of any type relating to the issuance, sale or transfer by Parent or any of its subsidiaries of any securities of Parent, nor are there outstanding any securities which are convertible into or exchangeable for any shares of capital stock of Parent, and Parent has no obligation of any kind to issue any additional securities or to pay for securities of Parent or any predecessor. Parent has no outstanding bonds, debentures, notes or other similar obligations the holders of which have the right to vote generally with holders of Parent Common Stock.