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.
STATUS OF CONTRACTOR 20 CONTRACTOR is, and shall at all times be deemed to be, an independent contractor and shall be 21 wholly responsible for the manner in which it performs the services required of it by the terms of this 22 Agreement. CONTRACTOR is entirely responsible for compensating staff, subcontractors, and 23 consultants employed by CONTRACTOR. This Agreement shall not be construed as creating the 24 relationship of employer and employee, or principal and agent, between COUNTY and CONTRACTOR 25 or any of CONTRACTOR’s employees, agents, consultants, or subcontractors. CONTRACTOR 26 assumes exclusively the responsibility for the acts of its employees, agents, consultants, or 27 subcontractors as they relate to the services to be provided during the course and scope of their 28 employment. CONTRACTOR, its agents, employees, consultants, or subcontractors, shall not be 29 entitled to any rights or privileges of COUNTY employees and shall not be considered in any manner to 30 be COUNTY employees. 31
Status of Securities The shares of Voting Common Stock and shares of Convertible Preferred Stock (upon filing of the related Preferred Stock Certificates of Designation with the Georgia Secretary) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action. When issued and sold against receipt of the consideration therefor as provided in this Agreement, such shares of Voting Common Stock and Convertible Preferred Stock will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, will not subject the holders thereof to personal liability and will not be subject to preemptive rights of any other stockholder of the Company. The shares of Non-Voting Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of the Series G Convertible Preferred Stock will, upon receipt of the approval by the Company’s stockholders of the Stockholder Proposals and filing of the related Series G Preferred Stock Certificate of Designation with the Georgia Secretary, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and when so issued upon such conversion or exercise will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, will not subject the holders thereof to personal liability and will not be subject to preemptive rights of any other stockholder of the Company. The shares of Voting Common Stock issuable upon the conversion of each of the Series F Convertible Preferred Stock and Purchaser Non-Voting Shares will, upon receipt of the approval by the Company’s stockholders of the Stockholder Proposals and filing of the related Preferred Stock Certificates of Designation to the Articles of Incorporation with the Georgia Secretary, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and when so issued upon such conversion or exercise will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, will not subject the holders thereof to personal liability and will not be subject to preemptive rights of any other stockholder of the Company. When issued in accordance with Section 4.7(j), the Indemnity Shares will be duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, will not subject the holders thereof to personal liability and will not be subject to preemptive rights of any other stockholder of the Company.
Status of Stock The Director understands that at the time of the execution of this Agreement the sale of the Restricted Shares has not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities law and that the Company does not currently intend to effect any such registration. The Director agrees that the Restricted Shares and the Earned Shares when issued under this Agreement are being acquired for investment without a view to distribution, within the meaning of the Securities Act, and shall not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged or hypothecated in the absence of (a) an effective registration statement for the sale of such shares under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or (b) if requested by the Company, the delivery by the Director to the Company of a written opinion of legal counsel, who shall be satisfactory to the Company, addressed to the Company and satisfactory in form and substance to the Company’s counsel, to the effect that an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws is available. The Director also agrees that the Restricted Shares and Earned 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. In addition, the Director agrees that (a) the certificates, if any, representing the Restricted Shares and Earned 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, (b) the Company may refuse to register the transfer of the Restricted Shares or Earned 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 (c) the Company may give related instructions to its transfer agent, if any, to stop registration of the transfer of the Restricted Shares.
Status of IOM Nothing in or relating to the Agreement shall be deemed a waiver, express or implied, of any of the privileges and immunities of the International Organization for Migration as an intergovernmental organization.