EXHIBIT
10.5
INDEMNITY
POLICY
Effective December 29, 2006, Hydrogen Power,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) has
adopted the following Indemnity Policy (the “Policy”)
with respect to its existing and future members of its Board of
Directors (collectively, the “Directors”).
W I T N E S S E T
H:
WHEREAS, the Company does not have in place
director and officer insurance with respect to its Directors;
and
WHEREAS, in an effort to induce qualified
persons to serve on Company’s Board of Directors (the
“Board”), and in consideration of the services provided
or to be provided by the Directors to the Company, the Company
believes it in the best interests to adopt the following Policy to
provide the Directors the indemnification rights set forth
herein:
1.
Indemnification
. Subject to the limitations set
forth herein and in Section 5 hereof, the Company hereby agrees to
indemnify the Directors as follows:
The Company shall, with respect to any
Proceeding (as hereinafter defined) associated with a Director
acting in his or her official capacity, indemnify the Director to
the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, including without
limitation Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law
(“DGCL”), and the Certificate of Incorporation of the
Company in effect on the date hereof or as such law or Certificate
of Incorporation may from time to time be amended (but, in the case
of any such amendment, only to the extent such amendment permits
the Company to provide broader indemnification rights than the law
or Certificate of Incorporation permitted the Company to provide
before such amendment). The right to indemnification conferred
herein and in the Certificate of Incorporation shall be presumed to
have been relied upon by each of the Directors in serving or
continuing to serve the Company and shall be enforceable as a
contract right. Without in any way diminishing the scope of the
indemnification provided by this Section 1, the Company will
indemnify each Director to the full extent permitted by law for
anything done or not done by such Director in such capacity against
Expenses (as hereinafter defined) and Liabilities (as hereinafter
defined) actually and reasonably incurred by the Director or on his
or behalf in connection with the investigation, defense, settlement
or appeal of such Proceeding. In addition to, and not as a
limitation of, the foregoing, the rights of indemnification of the
Directors provided herein shall include those rights set forth in
Section 7 below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall
be required to indemnify each Director in connection with a
Proceeding commenced by such Director (other than a Proceeding
commenced by such Director to enforce such Director’s rights
under this Policy) only if the commencement of such Proceeding was
authorized by the Board. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, the Company shall have no obligation to indemnify
the Directors to the extent such indemnification would not be
permitted under Section 145 of the DGCL.
2.
Presumptions and Effect of
Certain Proceedings .
Upon making a request for indemnification, a Director shall be
presumed to be entitled to indemnification under this Policy and
the Company shall have the burden of proof to overcome that
presumption in reaching any contrary determination. The termination
of any Proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, arbitration award
or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent
shall not affect this presumption or, except as determined by a
judgment or other final adjudication adverse to a Director,
establish a presumption with regard to any factual matter relevant
to determining such Director’s rights to indemnification
hereunder. If the person or persons so empowered to make a
determination pursuant to Section 3 hereof shall have failed to
make the requested determination within sixty (60) days after any
judgment, order, settlement, dismissal, arbitration award,
conviction, acceptance of a plea of nolo contendere or its
equivalent, or other disposition or partial disposition of any
Proceeding or any other event that could enable the Company to
determine the Director’s entitlement to indemnification, the
requisite determination that Director is entitled to
indemnification shall be deemed to have been made.
3.
Procedure for Determination of
Entitlement to Indemnification .
(a) Whenever a Director believes that he or she is
entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Policy, such Director
shall submit a written request for indemnification to the Company.
Any request for indemnification shall include sufficient
documentation or information reasonably available to such Director
for the determination of entitlement to indemnification. In any
event, the Director shall submit his or her claim for
indemnification within a reasonable time, not to exceed one hundred
eighty (180) days after any judgment, order, settlement, dismissal,
arbitration award, conviction, acceptance of a plea of nolo
contendere or its equivalent, or final termination, whichever is
the later date for which Indemnitee requests
indemnification.
(b) Independent Legal Counsel (as hereinafter
defined) shall determine whether such Director is entitled to
indemnification. Determination of such Director’s entitlement
to indemnification shall be made not later than ninety (90) days
after the Company’s receipt of written request for such
indemnification, provided that any request for indemnification for
Liabilities, other than amounts paid in settlement, shall have been
made after a determination thereof in a Proceeding.
4.
Expense Advance
. Notwithstanding anything in this
Policy to the contrary, if requested by a Director in writing, the
Company shall advance (within two (2) business days of such written
request) any and all Expenses incurred by such Director (an
“Advance”). In the event a determination pursuant to
Section 3 hereof is subsequently made that a Director is not
entitled to indemnification after an Advance is made, the Company
shall be entitled to be reimbursed by such Director for all such
amounts theretofore paid; subject to such Director’s rights
hereunder, including without limitation pursuant to Section 7(a),
to obtain a final adjudication of the Company’s
indemnification obligations
|