Control (including the terms controlling,
controlled by or under common control with) means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by Contract or otherwise.
Effect means any effect, change, event, circumstance, state of fact,
occurrence or development.
Effective Date means the date on which the initial Registration Statement required
by Section 2(a) of the Registration Rights Agreement is first declared effective by the Commission.
Employee
Plan means any employee benefit plan as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA and any other pension, retirement, deferred compensation, excess benefit, profit-sharing, bonus, incentive, equity or equity-based, phantom
equity, employment, consulting, severance, change-of-control, retention, health, life, disability, group insurance, paid time off, holiday, welfare and fringe benefit
plan, program, agreement, Contract, or arrangement (whether written or unwritten, qualified or nonqualified, funded or unfunded, subject or not subject to ERISA and including any that have been frozen) that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
(i) sponsors, maintains, administers, or contributes to, (ii) provides benefits under or through, (iii) has any obligation to contribute to or provide benefits under or through, (iv) with respect to which have any liability, or
(v) utilizes to provide benefits to or otherwise cover any current or former employee, officer, director or other service provider of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or their spouses, dependents, or beneficiaries).
Encumbrance means any lien, pledge, hypothecation, charge, mortgage, security interest, lease, exclusive license,
option, easement, reservation, servitude, adverse title, claim, infringement, interference, option, right of first refusal, preemptive right, community property interest or restriction or encumbrance of any nature (including any restriction on the
voting of any security, any restriction on the transfer of any security or other asset, any restriction on the receipt of any income derived from any asset, any restriction on the use of any asset and any restriction on the possession, exercise or
transfer of any other attribute of ownership of any asset).
Environmental Laws has the meaning set forth in
Section 3.1(cc).
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any successor statute, and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles and practices in effect
from time to time within the United States applied consistently throughout the period involved.
Governmental
Authority means any: (a) nation, state, commonwealth, province, territory, county, municipality, district or other jurisdiction of any nature, (b) federal, state, local, municipal, foreign, supra-national or other government,
(c) governmental or quasi-governmental authority of any nature (including any governmental division, department, agency, commission, bureau, instrumentality, official, ministry, fund, foundation, center, organization, unit, body or entity and
any court or other tribunal, and any taxing authority) or (d) self-regulatory organization (including Nasdaq).
Hazardous
Materials means any pollutant, chemical, substance and any toxic, infectious, carcinogenic, reactive, corrosive, ignitable or flammable chemical, or chemical compound, or hazardous substance, material or waste, whether solid, liquid or
gas, that is subject to regulation, control or remediation under any Environmental Law, including without limitation, crude oil or any fraction thereof, and petroleum products or by-products.
Initial Certificate of Designation has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.
Intellectual Property has the meaning set forth in Section 3.1(o).
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