Nevada Code § 78.355

Stockholders proxies
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1. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a
meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent to corporate action in
writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for
such stockholder by proxy. If any stockholder designates two or more persons to
act as proxies, a majority of those persons present at the meeting or a
majority of those persons granting consent or exercising a right of dissent in
writing, or, if only one is present or consenting or dissenting in writing,
then that one has and may exercise all of the powers conferred by the
stockholder upon all of the persons so designated unless the stockholder
provides otherwise. The proxy may be limited to action on designated matters.
2. Without limiting the manner in which a
stockholder may authorize another person or persons to act for him or her as
proxy pursuant to subsection 1, a stockholder may sign a writing authorizing
another person or persons to act for him or her as proxy.
3. Any copy, communication by electronic
transmission or other reliable reproduction of the writing created pursuant to
subsection 2 may be substituted for the original writing for any purpose for
which the original writing could be used, if the copy, communication by
electronic transmission or other reproduction is a complete reproduction of the
entire original writing.
4. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 5, no such proxy is valid after the expiration of 6 months from the
date of its creation unless the stockholder specifies in it the length of time
for which it is to continue in force, which may not exceed 7 years from the
date of its creation. Subject to these restrictions, any proxy properly created
is not revoked and continues in full force and effect until:
(a) Another instrument or transmission revoking
it or a properly created proxy bearing a later date is filed with or
transmitted to the secretary of the corporation or another person or persons
appointed by the corporation to count the votes of stockholders and determine
the validity of proxies and ballots; or
(b) In the case of a meeting of stockholders, the
stockholder revokes the proxy by attending the meeting and voting the
stockholders shares in person, in which case, any vote cast by the person or
persons designated by the stockholder to act as a proxy or proxies must be
disregarded by the corporation when the votes are counted.
5. A proxy shall be deemed irrevocable if
the written authorization states that the proxy is irrevocable, but is
irrevocable only for as long as it is coupled with an interest sufficient in
law to support an irrevocable power, including, without limitation, the
appointment as proxy of a pledgee, a person who purchased or agreed to purchase
the shares, a creditor of the corporation who extended it credit under terms
requiring the appointment, an employee of the corporation whose employment
contract requires the appointment or a party to a voting agreement created
pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 78.365 .
Unless otherwise provided in the proxy, a proxy made irrevocable pursuant to
this subsection is revoked when the interest with which it is coupled is
extinguished, but the corporation may honor the proxy until notice of the
extinguishment of the proxy is received by the corporation. A transferee for
value of shares subject to an irrevocable proxy may revoke the proxy if the
transferee did not know of its existence when the transferee acquired the
shares and the existence of the irrevocable appointment was not noted
conspicuously on the certificate representing the shares or on the information
statement for shares without certificates.
6. If any stockholder subject to a
properly created irrevocable proxy attends any meeting of the stockholders or
attempts to grant a consent or exercise a right of dissent for which the
authorization grants authority to act on the stockholders behalf at the
meeting, or in granting a consent or exercising a right of dissent, as applicable,
to a proxy or proxies, unless expressly otherwise provided in the written
authorization or electronic record:
(a) Only the proxy or proxies may have and
exercise all the powers of the stockholder at the meeting or in granting a
consent or exercising a right of dissent, as applicable; and
(b) Only a vote, consent or dissent, as
applicable, of the proxy or proxies may be regarded as valid by the
corporation.

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