venture, trust or other enterprise wholly owned by the Corporation, shall be deemed to be serving as such director, officer, employee or agent at the request of the Corporation, unless the Board shall determine otherwise. In all instances where any person shall serve as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, joint venture, trust or other enterprise of which the Corporation is or was a stockholder or creditor, or in which it is or was otherwise interested, if it is not otherwise established that such person is or was serving as such director, officer, employee or agent at the request of the Corporation, the Board may determine whether such service is or was at the request of the Corporation, and it shall not be necessary to show any actual or prior request for such service.
Section 9. Spousal Indemnification. The spouse of a person entitled to indemnification under Section 1 hereof or who is granted indemnification under Section 2 hereof, shall be entitled to be so indemnified; provided, that the spouse was or is a party (other than a party plaintiff suing on his or her own behalf or in the right of the Corporation), or was or is threatened to be made a party, to any threatened, pending, or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative (including, but not limited to, an action by or in the right of the Corporation), solely by reason of the spousal relationship to the person who is entitled to indemnification under Section 1 hereof or who is granted indemnification under Section 2 hereof.
ARTICLE VIII
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 1. Dividends. Dividends upon the shares of the Corporation, subject to the provisions of the Articles, if any, may be declared by the Board at any regular or special meeting, pursuant to law. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the capital stock or other securities of the Corporation, in rights or warrants relating thereto, or in any other form authorized by law.
Section 2. Checks. All checks or demands for money and notes of the Corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the Board, or officers authorized by the Board, may, from time to time, designate.
Section 3. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall commence on October 1, and close on September 30.
Section 4. Seal. The Corporation’s seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the Corporation, the numeral “1890” being the year of the incorporation of the Corporation, and the words “Corporate Seal, Missouri”. The seal may be used by causing it, or a facsimile thereof, to be impressed, affixed, reproduced or otherwise.
Section 5. Closing of Transfer Books and Fixing of Record Dates. The Board shall have power to close the share transfer books of the Corporation for a period not exceeding seventy (70) days preceding the date of any meeting of shareholders, or the date for the payment of any dividend, or the date for the allotment of rights, or the date when any change, conversion or exchange of shares shall go into effect; provided, however, that, in lieu of closing the share transfer books as aforesaid, the Board may fix in advance a date, not exceeding seventy
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