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Kentucky · Snapshot 09/05/2026

KRS 271B.8-510: Authority to indemnify.

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    (1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, a corporation may indemnify an

    individual made a party to a proceeding because he is or was a director against

    liability incurred in the proceeding if:

    (a) He conducted himself in good faith; and

    (b) He honestly believed:

    1. In the case of conduct in his official capacity with the corporation, that

    his conduct was in its best interests; and

    2. In all other cases, that his conduct was at least not opposed to its best

    interests; and

    (c) In the case of any criminal proceeding, he had no reasonable cause to believe

    his conduct was unlawful.

    (2) A director's conduct with respect to an employee benefit plan for a purpose he

    reasonably believed to be in the interests of the participants in and beneficiaries of

    the plan shall be conduct that satisfies the requirement of subsection (1)(b)2. of this

    section.

    (3) The termination of a proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon

    a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent shall not be, of itself, det erminative that

    the director did not meet the standard of conduct described in this section.

    (4) A corporation may not indemnify a director under this section:

    (a) In connection with a proceeding by or in the right of the corporation in which

    the director was adjudged liable to the corporation; or

    (b) In connection with any other proceeding charging improper personal benefit to

    him, whether or not involving action in his official capacity, in which he was

    adjudged liable on the basis that personal benefit w as improperly received by

    him.

    (5) Indemnification permitted under this section in connection with a proceeding by or

    in the right of the corporation shall be limited to reasonable expenses incurred in

    connection with the proceeding.

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