Effective Date. The Effective Date shall be the date when the last one of the Buyer or Seller executes this Agreement.

Effective Date. The effective date of this Agreement (the "Effective Date") shall be the date on which # a Potential Change of Control occurs, # the Company’s shareholders approve a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company, # a Change of Control occurs pursuant to [Section 2(a)(1) or (2)])] below, or # a definitive agreement is signed by the Company which provides for a transaction that, if approved by shareholders or consummated, as applicable, would result in a Change of Control pursuant to [Section 2(a)(3) or (4)])] below; provided, however, that any of the foregoing which may have occurred prior to the date hereof shall be disregarded. Anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, if, prior to the Effective Date, the Executive's employment with the Company or its Affiliated Companies was terminated by the Company or its Affiliated Companies, or both, as applicable, other than for Cause or Disability (each as defined below) or by the Executive for Good Reason (as defined below) and the Executive can reasonably demonstrate that such termination (or the event constituting Good Reason) took place # at the request or direction of a third party who took action that caused a Potential Change of Control or # in contemplation of an event that would give rise to an Effective Date, an Effective Date will be deemed to have occurred (“Deemed Effective Date”) immediately prior to the Date of Termination (as defined in [Section 6(e)] below), provided that a Change of Control occurs within a six-month period following such Date of Termination. As used in this Agreement, the term "Affiliated Companies" shall include any corporation or other entity controlled by, controlling or under common control with the Company and the term “Subsidiary” shall mean # any corporation or other entity (other than the Company) with respect to which the Company owns, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock or other ownership interests or # any other related entity which may be designated by the Board as a Subsidiary, provided such entity could be considered a subsidiary according to generally accepted accounting principles.

Effective Date. This Plan has been approved by the Board, but it will only become effective (the “Effective Date”) on the date after it is approved by the affirmative vote of the Company’s shareholders at the 2022 Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof.

Effective Date. This Plan was established effective January 1, 1983, and previously amended and restated as of January 1, 1987, January 1, 1998, and August 1, 2003. The Plan was further amended as of March 1, 2005. The Plan was amended and restated effective as of December 24, 2005, and conformed to include amendments through January 1, 2007. The Plan was amended and restated effective as of January 1, 2009, and conformed to include amendments through March 31, 2011. The Plan was amended and restated effective as of December 31, 2012, and conformed to include amendments through that date. The Plan was amended and restated effective as of January 1, 2014, and conformed to include amendments through that date. The Plan was amended and restated January 1, 2017, and is hereby amended and restated effective as of October 1, 2021.

The Plan shall be effective as of January 1, 2020.

Effective Date. Employee understands that this Agreement shall be null and void if not executed by Employee within twenty-one (21) days. Employee has seven (7) days after Employee signs this Agreement to revoke it. This Agreement will become effective on the eighth (8th) day after Employee signed this Agreement, so long as it has been signed by the parties and has not been revoked by Employee before that date (the “Effective Date”).

Effective Date. The purchase and sale of the Securities shall take place on the Effective Date. On the Effective Date, the Company shall register the Securities in the Purchaser’s name on the books of the Company, against delivery to the Company of the original Note for conversion and cancellation, whereupon the Company shall issue to the Purchaser a new note for the balance of the remaining principal amount of the Note.

Effective Date. The Effective Date shall have occurred.

Effective Date. The effective date of this Grant is the date indicated in Paragraph 1 hereof, being the date of the execution hereof by the Company.

Effective Date. The Plan was originally effective upon its adoption by the Board of Directors of the Company on December 21, 2010 and was approved by stockholders at the Company’s 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Stockholders approved a prior amendment and restatement of the Plan at the Company’s 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders; the Compensation Committee of the Board and the Board have determined that stockholder approval of the amendment and restatement of the Plan as of March 21, 2017 is not required under Section 17 of the Plan.