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4-33-854. Court-ordered indemnification.
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4-33-854. Court-ordered indemnification.
Unless limited by a corporation's articles of incorporation, a director of the corporation who is a party to a proceeding may apply for indemnification to the court conducting the proceeding or to another court of competent jurisdiction. On receipt of an application, the court after giving any notice the court considers necessary may order indemnification in the amount it considers proper if it determines:
(1) the director is entitled to mandatory indemnification under § 4-33-852, in which case the court shall also order the corporation to pay the director's reasonable expenses incurred to obtain court-ordered indemnification; or
(2) the director is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification in view of all the relevant circumstances, whether or not the director met the standard of conduct set forth in § 4-33-851(a) or was adjudged liable as described in § 4-33-851(d), but if the director was adjudged so liable indemnification is limited to reasonable expenses incurred.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 4-33-854
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4-33-854. Court-ordered indemnification.
Unless limited by a corporation's articles of incorporation, a director of the corporation who is a party to a proceeding may apply for indemnification to the court conducting the proceeding or to another court of competent jurisdiction. On receipt of an application, the court after giving any notice the court considers necessary may order indemnification in the amount it considers proper if it determines:
(1) the director is entitled to mandatory indemnification under § 4-33-852, in which case the court shall also order the corporation to pay the director's reasonable expenses incurred to obtain court-ordered indemnification; or
(2) the director is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification in view of all the relevant circumstances, whether or not the director met the standard of conduct set forth in § 4-33-851(a) or was adjudged liable as described in § 4-33-851(d), but if the director was adjudged so liable indemnification is limited to reasonable expenses incurred.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
4-33-851. Authority to indemnify.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, a corporation may indemnify an individual made a party to a proceeding because the individual is or was a director against liability incurred in the proceeding if the individual:
(1) conducted himself or herself in good faith; and
(2) reasonably believed:
(i) in the case of conduct in his or her official capacity with the corporation, that his or her conduct was in its best interests; and
(ii) in all other cases, that his or her conduct was at least not opposed to its best interests; and
(3) in the case of any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.
(b) A director's conduct with respect to an employee benefit plan for a purpose the director reasonably believed to be in the interests of the participants in and beneficiaries of the plan is conduct that satisfies the requirements of subsection (a)(2)(ii) of this section.
(c) The termination of a proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent is not, of itself, determinative that the director did not meet the standard of conduct described in this section.
(d) A corporation may not indemnify a director under this section:
(1) in connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation in which the director was adjudged liable to the corporation; or
(2) in connection with any other proceeding charging improper personal benefit to the director, whether or not involving action in his or her official capacity, in which the director was adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by the director.
(e) Indemnification permitted under this section in connection with a pro
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 4-33-851
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 4-33-851. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
4-33-852. Mandatory indemnification.
Unless limited by its articles of incorporation, a corporation shall indemnify a director who was wholly successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding to which the director was a party because he or she is or was a director of the corporation against reasonable expenses actually incurred by the director in connection with the proceeding.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 4-33-852
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 4-33-852. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.