INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT, made effective as of the 25th day of September, 1996
between National Propane Corporation, a Delaware Corporation (the "Company") and
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (the "Indemnitee").
WHEREAS, it is essential to the Company and its stockholders to
attract and retain qualified and capable directors, officers, employees,
trustees, agents and fiduciaries; and
WHEREAS, it has been the policy of the Company to indemnify its
directors and officers so as to provide them with the maximum possible
protection permitted by law; and
WHEREAS, in recognition of Indemnitee's need for protection against
personal liability in order to induce Indemnitee to serve or continue to serve
the Company in an effective manner, and, in the case of directors and officers,
to supplement or replace the Company's directors' and officers' liability
insurance coverage, and in part to provide Indemnitee with specific contractual
assurance that the protection promised by the Company's corporate charter and/or
corporate by-laws or regulations or the partnership agreements of partnerships
for which the Company serves or has served as general partner (together, the
Company's "Governing Documents") will be available to Indemnitee (regardless of,
among other things, any amendment to or revocation of Governing Documents or any
change in the composition of the Company's Board of Directors or any acquisition
transaction relating to the Company), the Company, with the prior approval of
the Company's stockholders, wishes to provide the Indemnitee with the benefits
contemplated by this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, as a result of the provision of such benefits Indemnitee has
agreed to serve or to continue to serve the Company;
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto do hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions. The following terms, as used herein, shall have the
following respective meanings:
(a) An Affiliate of a specified Person is a Person who directly,
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by,
or is under common control with, the Person specified. The term Associate used
to indicate a relationship with any Person shall mean (i) any corporation or
organization (other than the Company or a Subsidiary) of which such Person is an
officer or partner or is, directly, or indirectly, the Beneficial Owner of ten
(10) percent or more of any class of Equity Securities, (ii) any trust or other
estate in which such Person has a substantial beneficial interest or as to which
such Person serves as trustee or in a similar fiduciary capacity (other than an
Employee Plan Trustee), (iii) any Relative of such Person, or (iv) any officer
or director of any corporation controlling or controlled by such Person.
(b) Beneficial Ownership shall be determined, and a Person shall
be the Beneficial Owner of all securities which such Person is deemed to own
beneficially, pursuant to Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules and Regulations under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (or any successor rule or
statutory provision), or, if said Rule 13d-3 shall be rescinded and there shall
be no successor rule or statutory provision thereto, pursuant to said Rule 13d-3
as in effect on January 1, 1994; provided, however, that a Person shall, in any
event, also be deemed to be the Beneficial Owner of any Voting Shares: (A) of
which such Person or any of its Affiliates or Associates is, directly or
indirectly, the Beneficial Owner, or (B) of which such Person or any of its
Affiliates or Associates has (i) the right to acquire (whether such right is
exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time), pursuant to any
agreement, arrangement or understanding or upon the exercise of conversion
rights' exchange rights, warrants, or options, or otherwise, or (ii) sole or
shared voting or investment power with respect
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thereto pursuant to any agreement, arrangement, understanding, relationship or
otherwise (but shall not be deemed to be the Beneficial Owner of any Voting
Shares solely by reason of a revocable proxy granted for a particular meeting of
stockholders, pursuant to a public solicitation of proxies for such meeting,
with respect to shares of which neither such Person nor any such Affiliate or
Associate is otherwise deemed the Beneficial Owner), or (C) of which any other
Person is, directly or indirectly, the Beneficial Owner if such first mentioned
Person or any of its Affiliates or Associates acts with such other Person as a
partnership, syndicate or other group pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or
understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting or disposing of any
shares of capital stock of the Company; and provided further, however, that (i)
no director or officer of the Company, nor any Associate or Affiliate of any
such director or officer, shall, solely by reason of any or all of such
directors and officers acting in their capacities as such, be deemed for any
purposes hereof, to be the Beneficial Owner of any Voting Shares of which any
other such director or officer (or any Associate or Affiliate thereof) is the
Beneficial Owner and (ii) no trustee of an employee stock ownership or similar
plan of the Company or any Subsidiary ("Employee Plan Trustee") or any Associate
or Affiliate of any such Trustee, shall, solely by reason of being an Employee
Plan Trustee or Associate or Affiliate of an Employee Plan Trustee, be deemed
for any purposes hereof to be the Beneficial Owner of any Voting Shares held by
or under any such plan.
(c) Change in Control shall be deemed to have occurred if (A) any
Person (other than (i) the Company or any Subsidiary, (ii) any pension, profit
sharing, employee stock ownership or other employee benefit plan of the Company
or any Subsidiary or any trustee of or fiduciary with respect to any such plan
when acting in such capacity, or (iii) DWG Acquisition Group, L.P. ("DWG
Acquisition"), ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ("▇▇▇▇▇"), ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. May ("May") or
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any Affiliate or Associate of DWG Acquisition or of ▇▇▇▇▇ or May) who is or
becomes, after the date of this Agreement, the Beneficial Owner of 20% or more
of the total voting power of the Voting Shares, (B) during any period of two
consecutive years, individuals who at the beginning of such period constitute
the Board of Directors of the Company and any new director whose election or
appointment by the Board of Directors or nomination or recommendation for
election by the Company's stockholders was approved by a vote of at least
two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were directors
at the beginning of the period or whose election or nomination for election was
previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority thereof,
(C) the stockholders of the Company approve a merger or consolidation of the
Company with any other corporation, other than a merger or consolidation which
would result in the Voting Shares of the Company outstanding immediately prior
thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being
converted into Voting Shares of the surviving entity) at least 80% of the total
voting power represented by the Voting Shares of the Company or such surviving
entity outstanding, or the stockholders of the Company approve a plan of
complete liquidation of the Company or an agreement for the sale or disposition
by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company's assets, or (D) a
change in control of a nature that would be required to be reported in response
to Item 6(e) of Schedule 14A of Regulation 14 promulgated under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as in effect on January 1, 1994.
(d) Claim means any threatened, pending or completed action,
suit, arbitration or proceeding, or any inquiry or investigation, whether
brought by or in the right of the Company or otherwise, that Indemnitee in good
faith believes might lead to the institution of any such action, suit,
arbitration or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative,
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investigative or other, or any appeal therefrom.
(e) D&O Insurance means any valid directors' and officers'
liability insurance policy maintained by the Company for the benefit of the
Indemnitee, if any.
(f) Determination means a determination, and Determined means a
matter which has been determined based on the facts known at the time, by: (i) a
majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors, or (ii) if such a quorum
is not obtainable, or even if obtainable, if a quorum of disinterested directors
so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or, in the event
there has been a Change in Control, by the Special Independent Counsel (in a
written opinion) selected by Indemnitee as set forth in Section 6, or (iii) a
majority of the disinterested stockholders of the Company, or (iv) a final
adjudication by a court of competent jurisdiction.
(g) Equity Security shall have the meaning given to such term
under Rule 3a11-1 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as in effect on January 1, 1994.
(h) Excluded Claim means any payment for Losses or Expenses in
connection with any Claim: (i) based upon or attributable to Indemnitee gaining
in fact any personal profit or advantage to which Indemnitee is not entitled; or
(ii) for the return by Indemnitee of any remuneration paid to Indemnitee without
the previous approval of the stockholders of the Company which is illegal; or
(iii) for an accounting of profits in fact made from the purchase or sale by
Indemnitee of securities of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as in effect on January 1, 1994, or
similar provisions of any state law; or (iv) resulting from Indemnitee's
knowingly fraudulent, dishonest or willful misconduct; or (v) the payment of
which by the Company under this
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Agreement is not permitted by applicable law.
(i) Expenses means any reasonable expenses incurred by Indemnitee
as a result of a Claim or Claims made against Indemnitee for Indemnifiable
Events including, without limitation, attorneys' fees and all other costs,
expenses and obligations paid or incurred in connection with investigating,
defending, being a witness in or participating in (including on appeal), or
preparing to defend, be a witness in or participate in any Claim relating to any
Indemnifiable Event.
(j) Fines means any fine, penalty or, with respect to an employee
benefit plan, any excise tax or penalty assessed with respect thereto.
(k) Indemnifiable Event means any event or occurrence, occurring
prior to or after the date of this Agreement, related to the fact that
Indemnitee is or was a director, officer, employee, trustee, agent or fiduciary
of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a
director, officer, employee, trustee, agent or fiduciary of another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, employee benefit plan, trust or other enterprise, or
by reason of anything done or not done by Indemnitee, including, but not limited
to, any breach of duty, neglect, error, misstatement, misleading statement,
omission, or other act done or wrongfully attempted by Indemnitee, or any of the
foregoing alleged by any claimant, in any such capacity.
(l) Losses means any amounts or sums which Indemnitee is legally
obligated to pay as a result of a Claim or Claims made against Indemnitee for
Indemnifiable Events including, without limitation, damages, judgments and sums
or amounts paid in settlement of a Claim or Claims, and Fines.
(m) Person means any individual, partnership, corporation,
business
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trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture,
governmental authority or other entity of whatever nature.
(n) Potential Change in Control shall be deemed to have occurred
if (A) the Company enters into an agreement, the consummation of which would
result in the occurrence of a Change in Control; (B) any Person (including the
Company) publicly announces an intention to take or to consider taking actions
which if consummated would constitute a Change in Control; (C) any Person (other
than (i) the Company or any Subsidiary, (ii) any pension, profit sharing,
employee stock ownership or other employee benefit plan of the Company or any
Subsidiary or any trustee of or fiduciary with respect to any such plan when
acting in such capacity, or (iii) DWG Acquisition, ▇▇▇▇▇, May, or any Affiliate
or Associate of DWG Acquisition or of ▇▇▇▇▇ or May) who is or becomes the
Beneficial Owner of 9.5% or more of the total voting power of the Voting Shares,
increases his Beneficial Ownership of such voting power by 5% or more over the
percentage so owned by such Person on the date hereof; or (D) the Board of
Directors adopts a resolution to the effect that, for purposes of this
Agreement, a Potential Change in Control has occurred.
(o) Relative means a Person's spouse, parents, children,
siblings, mothers- and fathers-in-law, sons- and daughters-in-law, and brothers-
and sisters-in-law.
(p) Reviewing Party means any appropriate person or body
consisting of a member or members of the Company's Board of Directors or any
other person or body appointed by the Board (including the Special Independent
Counsel referred to in Section 6) who is not a party to the particular Claim for
which Indemnitee is seeking indemnification.
(q) Subsidiary means any corporation of which a majority of any
class of Equity Security is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company.
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(r) Trust means the trust established pursuant to Section 7
hereof.
(s) Voting Shares means any issued and outstanding shares of
capital stock of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of
directors.
2. Basic Indemnification Agreement. In consideration of, and as an
inducement to, the Indemnitee rendering valuable services to the Company, the
Company agrees that in the event Indemnitee is or becomes a party to or witness
or other participant in, or is threatened to be made a party to or witness or
other participant in, a Claim by reason of (or arising in part out of) an
Indemnifiable Event, the Company will indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent
authorized by law, against any and all Expenses and Losses (including all
interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in connection with or in
respect of such Expenses and Losses) of such Claim, whether or not such Claim
proceeds to judgment or is settled or otherwise is brought to a final
disposition, subject in each case, to the further provisions of this Agreement.
3. Limitations on Indemnification. Notwithstanding the provisions
of Section 2, Indemnitee shall not be indemnified and held harmless from any
Losses or Expenses (a) which have been Determined, as provided herein, to
constitute an Excluded Claim; (b) to the extent Indemnitee is indemnified by the
Company and has actually received payment pursuant to the Company's Governing
Documents, D&O Insurance, or otherwise; or (c) other than pursuant to the last
sentence of Section 4(d) or Section 14, in connection with any Claim initiated
by Indemnitee, unless the Company has joined in or the Board of Directors has
authorized such Claim.
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4. Indemnification Procedures.
(a) Promptly after receipt by Indemnitee of notice of any Claim,
Indemnitee shall, if indemnification with respect thereto may be sought from the
Company under this Agreement, notify the Company of the commencement thereof and
Indemnitee agrees further not to make any admission or effect any settlement
with respect to such Claim without the consent of the Company, except any Claim
with respect to which the Indemnitee has undertaken the defense in accordance
with the second to last sentence of Section 4(d).
(b) If, at the time of the receipt of such notice, the Company
has D&O Insurance in effect, the Company shall give prompt notice of the
commencement of Claim to the insurers in accordance with the procedures set
forth in the respective policies. The Company shall thereafter take all
necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of
Indemnitee, all Losses and Expenses payable as a result of such Claim.
(c) To the extent the Company does not, at the time of the Claim
have applicable D&O Insurance, or if a Determination is made that any Expenses
arising out of such Claim will not be payable under the D&O Insurance then in
effect, the Company shall be obligated to pay the Expenses of any Claim in
advance of the final disposition thereof and the Company, if appropriate, shall
be entitled to assume the defense of such Claim, with counsel satisfactory to
Indemnitee, upon the delivery to Indemnitee of written notice of its election so
to do. After delivery of such notice, the Company will not be liable to
Indemnitee under this Agreement for any legal or other Expenses subsequently
incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such defense other than reasonable
Expenses of investigation; provided that Indemnitee shall have the right to
employ its counsel in such Claim but the fees and expenses of such counsel
incurred after delivery of notice from the Company of its assumption of such
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defense shall be at the Indemnitee's expense; provided further that if: (i) the
employment of counsel by Indemnitee has been previously authorized by the
Company; (ii) Indemnitee shall have reasonably concluded that there may be a
conflict of interest between the Company and Indemnitee in the conduct of any
such defense; or (iii) the Company shall not, in fact, have employed counsel to
assume the defense of such action, the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel
shall be at the expense of the Company.
(d) All payments on account of the Company's indemnification
obligations under this Agreement shall be made within sixty (60) days of
Indemnitee's written request therefor unless a Determination is made that the
Claims giving rise to Indemnitee's request are Excluded Claims or otherwise not
payable under this Agreement, provided that all payments on account of the
Company's obligation to pay Expenses under Section 4(c) of this Agreement prior
to the final disposition of any Claim shall be made within 20 days of
Indemnitee's written request therefor and such obligation shall not be subject
to any such Determination but shall be subject to Section 4(e) of this
Agreement. In the event the Company takes the position that the Indemnitee is
not entitled to indemnification in connection with the proposed settlement of
any Claim, the Indemnitee shall have the right at its own expense to undertake
defense of any such Claim, insofar as such proceeding involves Claims against
the Indemnitee, by written notice given to the Company within 10 days after the
Company has notified the Indemnitee in writing of its contention that the
Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification. If it is subsequently determined
in connection with such proceeding that the Indemnifiable Events are not
Excluded Claims and that the Indemnitee, therefore, is entitled to be
indemnified under the provisions of Section 2 hereof, the Company shall promptly
indemnify the Indemnitee.
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(e) Indemnitee hereby expressly undertakes and agrees to
reimburse the Company for all Losses and Expenses paid by the Company in
connection with any Claim against Indemnitee in the event and only to the extent
that a Determination shall have been made by a court of competent jurisdiction
in a decision from which there is no further right to appeal that Indemnitee is
not entitled to be indemnified by the Company for such Losses and Expenses
because the Claim is an Excluded Claim or because Indemnitee is otherwise not
entitled to payment under this Agreement.
5. Settlement. The Company shall have no obligation to indemnify
Indemnitee under this Agreement for any amounts paid in settlement of any Claim
effected without the Company's prior written consent. The Company shall not
settle any Claim in which it takes the position that Indemnitee is not entitled
to indemnification in connection with such settlement without the consent of the
Indemnitee, nor shall the Company settle any Claim in any manner which would
impose any Fine or any obligation on Indemnitee, without Indemnitee's written
consent. Neither the Company nor Indemnitee shall unreasonably withhold their
consent to any proposed settlement.
6. Change in Control; Extraordinary Transactions. The Company and
Indemnitee agree that if there is a Change in Control of the Company (other than
a Change in Control which has been approved by a majority of the Company's Board
of Directors who were directors immediately prior to such Change in Control)
then all Determinations thereafter with respect to the rights of Indemnitee to
be paid Losses and Expenses under this Agreement shall be made only by a special
independent counsel (the "Special Independent Counsel") selected by Indemnitee
and approved by the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld)
or by a court of competent
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jurisdiction. The Company shall pay the reasonable fees of such Special
Independent Counsel and shall indemnify such Special Independent Counsel against
any and all reasonable expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees), claims,
liabilities and damages arising out of or relating to this Agreement or its
engagement pursuant hereto.
The Company covenants and agrees that, in the event of a Change in
Control of the sort set forth in clause (C) of Section 1(c), the Company will
use its best efforts (a) to have the obligations of the Company under this
Agreement including, but not limited to those under Section 7, expressly assumed
by the surviving, purchasing or succeeding entity, or (b) otherwise to
adequately provide for the satisfaction of the Company's obligations under this
Agreement, in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Indemnitee.
7. Establishment of Trust. In the event of a Potential Change in
Control the Company shall, upon written request by Indemnitee, create a trust
(the "Trust") for the benefit of the Indemnitee and from time to time upon
written request of Indemnitee shall fund the Trust in an amount sufficient to
satisfy any and all Losses and Expenses which are actually paid or which
Indemnitee reasonably determines from time to time may be payable by the Company
under this Agreement. The amount or amounts to be deposited in the Trust
pursuant to the foregoing funding obligation shall be determined by the
Reviewing Party, in any case in which the Special Independent Counsel is
involved. The terms of the Trust shall provide that upon a Change in Control:
(i) the Trust shall not be revoked or the principal thereof invaded without the
written consent of the Indemnitee; (ii) the trustee of the Trust shall advance,
within twenty days of a request by the Indemnitee, any and all Expenses to the
Indemnitee (and the Indemnitee hereby agrees to reimburse the Trust under the
circumstances under which the Indemnitee would be required to reimburse the
Company under Section 4(e) of this Agreement); (iii) the Company
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shall continue to fund the Trust from time to time in accordance with the
funding obligations set forth above; (iv) the trustee of the Trust shall
promptly pay to the Indemnitee all Losses and Expenses for which the Indemnitee
shall be entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Agreement; and (v) all
unexpended funds in the Trust shall revert to the Company upon a final
determination by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final decision from
which there is no further right of appeal that the Indemnitee has been fully
indemnified under the terms of this Agreement. The Trustee of the Trust shall be
chosen by the Indemnitee.
8. No Presumption. For purposes of this Agreement, the
termination of any Claim by judgment, order, settlement (whether with or without
court approval) or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere, or its
equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that Indemnitee did not
meet any particular standard of conduct or have any particular belief or that a
court has determined that indemnification is not permitted by applicable law.
9. Nonexclusivity, Etc. The rights of the Indemnitee hereunder shall
be in addition to any other rights Indemnitee may have under the Company's
Governing Documents or under the laws, as in effect from time to time, of the
Company's state of incorporation (such laws being the "Applicable State Laws"),
any vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to
action in the Indemnitee's official capacity and as to action in any other
capacity by holding such office, and shall continue after the Indemnitee ceases
to serve the Company as a director, officer, employee, agent or fiduciary, for
so long as the Indemnitee shall be subject to any Claim by reason of (or arising
in part out of) an Indemnifiable Event. To the extent that a change in the
Applicable State Laws (whether by statute or judicial decision or by
reincorporation of the Company in a different jurisdiction) permits greater
indemnification by
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agreement than would be afforded currently under the Company's Governing
Documents and this Agreement, it is the intent of the parties hereto that
Indemnitee shall enjoy by this Agreement the greater benefits so afforded by
such change.
10. Liability Insurance. To the extent the Company maintains D&O
Insurance, Indemnitee, if an officer or director of the Company, shall be
covered by such policy or policies, in accordance with its or their terms, to
the maximum extent of the coverage available for any director or officer of the
Company.
11. Subrogation. In the event of payment under this Agreement, the
Company shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights
of recovery of Indemnitee, who shall execute all papers required and shall do
everything that may be necessary to secure such rights, including the execution
of such documents necessary to enable the Company effectively to bring suit to
enforce such rights.
12. Partial Indemnity, Etc. If Indemnitee is entitled under any
provision of this Agreement to indemnification by the Company for some or a
portion of the Expenses and Losses of a Claim but not, however, for all of the
total amount thereof, the Company shall nevertheless indemnify Indemnitee for
the portion thereof to which Indemnitee is entitled. Moreover, notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement, to the extent that Indemnitee has been
successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any or all Claims relating
in whole or in part to any Indemnifiable Event or in defense of any issue or
matter therein, including dismissal without prejudice, Indemnitee shall be
indemnified against all Expenses incurred in connection therewith. In connection
with any Determination as to whether Indemnitee is entitled to be indemnified
hereunder the burden of proof shall be on the Company to establish that
Indemnitee is not so entitled.
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13. Liability of Company. The Indemnitee agrees that neither the
stockholders nor the directors nor any officer, employee, representative or
agent of the Company shall be personally liable for the satisfaction of the
Company's obligations under this Agreement and the Indemnitee shall look solely
to the assets of the Company for satisfaction of any claims hereunder.
14. Enforcement.
(a) Indemnitee's right to indemnification and other rights under
this Agreement shall be specifically enforceable by Indemnitee only in the state
or Federal courts of the State of New York or of the then current State of
incorporation of the Company and shall be enforceable notwithstanding any
adverse Determination by the Company's Board of Directors, independent legal
counsel, the Special Independent Counsel or the Company's stockholders and no
such Determination shall create a presumption that Indemnitee is not entitled to
be indemnified hereunder. In any such action the Company shall have the burden
of proving that indemnification is not required under this Agreement.
(b) In the event that any action is instituted by Indemnitee
under this Agreement, or to enforce or interpret any of the terms of this
Agreement, Indemnitee shall be entitled to be paid all court costs and
reasonable expenses, including reasonable counsel fees, incurred by Indemnitee
with respect to such action, unless the court determines that each of the
material assertions made by Indemnitee as a basis for such action were not made
in good faith or were frivolous.
15. Severability. In the event that any provision of this Agreement is
determined by a court to require the Company to do or to fail to do an act which
is in violation of applicable law, such provision (including any provision
within a single section, paragraph or
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sentence) shall be limited or modified in its application to the minimum extent
necessary to avoid a violation of law, and, as so limited or modified, such
provision and the balance of this Agreement shall be enforceable in accordance
with their terms to the fullest extent permitted by law.
16. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the state in which the Company is incorporated at
the time any claim for indemnification is made hereunder applicable to
agreements made and to be performed entirely within such state.
17. Consent to Jurisdiction. The Company and the Indemnitee each
hereby irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New
York and the State promulgating the Applicable State Laws at the time any claim
for indemnification hereunder is made for all purposes in connection with any
action or proceeding which arises out of or relates to this Agreement and agree
that any action instituted under this Agreement shall be brought only in the
state and Federal courts of the States indicated in this Section.
18. Notices. All notices, or other communications required or
permitted hereunder shall be sufficiently given for all purposes if in writing
and personally delivered, telegraphed, telexed, sent by facsimile transmission
or sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, with postage
prepaid addressed as follows, or to such other address as the parties shall have
given notice of pursuant hereto:
(a) If to the Company, to:
National Propane Corporation
c/o Triarc Companies, Inc.
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Attention: Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Telecopier No.: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
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(b) If to the Indemnitee, to:
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Triumph Capital Group, Inc.
Managing Director
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▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
19. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts, each
of which shall be an original and all of which, when taken together, shall
constitute one and the same instrument.
20. Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be (i) binding upon
all successors and assigns of the Company, including any direct or indirect
successor by purchase, merger, consolidation or otherwise to all or
substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company, and (ii) shall
be binding upon and inure to the benefit of any successors and assigns, heirs,
and personal or legal representatives of Indemnitee.
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21. Amendment; Waiver. No amendment, modification, termination or
cancellation of this Agreement shall be effective unless made in a writing
signed by each of the parties hereto. No waiver of any of the provisions of this
Agreement shall be deemed or shall constitute a waiver of any other provision
hereof (whether or not similar) nor shall such waiver constitute a continuing
waiver.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company and Indemnitee have executed this
Agreement effective as of the day and year first above written.
NATIONAL PROPANE CORPORATION
By: /s/ C. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: C. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Sr. Vice President--Administration
ATTEST:
[Corporate Seal]
By: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
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Title: Secretary
WITNESS:
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