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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950170-23-002882
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	S-8
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		4
FILED AS OF DATE:		20230215
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20230215
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20230215

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Woodward, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000108312
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRICAL INDUSTRIAL APPARATUS [3620]
		IRS NUMBER:				361984010
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0930

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		S-8
		SEC ACT:		1933 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	333-269800
		FILM NUMBER:		23635196

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1081 WOODWARD WAY
		CITY:			FORT COLLINS
		STATE:			CO
		ZIP:			80524
		BUSINESS PHONE:		970-482-5811

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1081 WOODWARD WAY
		CITY:			FORT COLLINS
		STATE:			CO
		ZIP:			80524

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	WOODWARD GOVERNOR CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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  <p style="text-indent:0.0%;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0.0pt;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">The documents containing the information specified in this Part I will be delivered to the participants in the Amended and Restated Woodward, Inc. 2017 Omnibus Incentive Plan covered by this registration statement as required by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#x201c;Securities Act&#x201d;). In accordance with the introductory note to Part I of Form S-8, such documents are not required to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the &#x201c;Commission&#x201d;) either as part of this registration statement or as prospectuses or prospectus supplements pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act. These documents and the documents incorporated by reference in this registration statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Form S-8, taken together, constitute a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.</font><font style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;"> </font></p>
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  <p style="text-indent:0.0%;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0.0pt;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Woodward, Inc. (the &#x201c;</font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;font-style:italic;min-width:fit-content;">Registrant</font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">&#x201d;) hereby incorporates by reference into this registration statement the following documents previously filed with the Commission:</font><font style="color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;"> </font></p>
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  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(2)</font><div style="display:inline;"><a href="https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000108312/000095017023001777/wwd-20221231.htm"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,255,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">The Registrant&#x2019;s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended December 31, 2022, filed with the Commission on February 3, 2023;</font></a></div></div>
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  <p style="text-indent:0.0%;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0.0pt;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">The Company is incorporated in the State of Delaware. Under Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the &#x201c;DGCL&#x201d;), a Delaware corporation has the power, under specified circumstances, to indemnify its directors, officers, employees and agents in connection with actions, suits or proceedings brought against them by a third party or in the right of the corporation, by reason of the fact that they were or are such directors, officers, employees or agents, against expenses and liabilities incurred in any such action, suit or proceedings so long as they acted in good faith and in a manner that they reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of such corporation, and with respect to any criminal action if they had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful.</font></p>
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  <p style="text-indent:0.0%;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0.0pt;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws requires the Company to indemnify its directors and officers in the following manner:</font></p>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(1)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Subject to paragraph (3) below, the Company must indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Company) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the Company&#x2019;s request as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against costs, charges (including attorneys&#x2019; fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the Company&#x2019;s best interests, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, will not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the Company&#x2019;s best interests, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(2)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Subject to paragraph (3) below, the Company must indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in the Company&#x2019;s favor by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the Company&#x2019;s request as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against costs, charges, expenses, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her (including attorneys&#x2019; fees) in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the Company&#x2019;s best interests; except that no indemnification may be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person is adjudged to be liable for gross negligence or misconduct in the performance of his or her duty to the Company unless and only to the extent that the Delaware Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought determines upon application that, despite the adjudication of such liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such costs which the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court deems proper.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(3)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Any indemnification under Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws (unless ordered by a court) may be made by the Company only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director or officer is proper in the circumstances because such director or officer has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in paragraphs (1) or (2) above, as the case may be. Such determination must be made with respect to a person who is a director or officer at the time of such determination: (i) by a majority vote of the directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum; (ii) by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum; (iii) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion; or (iv) by the stockholders. To the extent, however, that a present or former director or officer of the Company has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding described above, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he or she must be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys&#x2019; fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection therewith, without the necessity of authorization in the specific case.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(4)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">For purposes of any determination under paragraph (3) above, a person is deemed to have acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the Company&#x2019;s best interests, or, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, to have had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful, if such person&#x2019;s action is based on the records or books of account of the Company or another enterprise, or on information supplied to him or her by the officers of the Company or another enterprise in the course of their duties, or on the advice of legal counsel for the Company or another enterprise or on information or records given or reports made to the Company or another enterprise by an independent certified public accountant or by an appraiser or other expert selected with reasonable care by the Company or another enterprise. The term &#x201c;another enterprise&#x201d; as used in this paragraph (4) means any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise of which such person is or was serving at the Company&#x2019;s request as a director, officer, employee or agent. The provisions of this paragraph (4) are not exclusive nor do they limit in any way the circumstances in which a person may be deemed to have met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in paragraphs (1) or (2) above, as the case may be.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(5)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Notwithstanding any contrary determination in the specific case under paragraph (3) above, and notwithstanding the absence of any determination thereunder, any present or former director or officer may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Delaware for indemnification to the extent otherwise permissible under paragraphs (1) and (2) above. The basis of such indemnification by a court shall be a determination by such court that </font></div></div>
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  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;visibility:hidden;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;"></font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">indemnification of the director or officer is proper in the circumstances because such director or officer has met the applicable standards of conduct set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) above, as the case may be. Neither a contrary determination in the specific case under paragraph (3) above nor the absence of any determination thereunder shall be a defense to such application or create a presumption that the director or officer seeking indemnification has not met any applicable standard of conduct. Notice of any application for indemnification pursuant to this paragraph (5) must be given to the Company promptly upon the filing of such application. If successful, in whole or in part, the director or officer seeking indemnification will also be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such application.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(6)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Expenses (including attorneys&#x2019; fees) incurred by a director or officer in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding must be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it is ultimately determined that such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company as authorized in Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws. Such expenses (including attorneys&#x2019; fees) incurred by former directors and officers or other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Company deems appropriate.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(7)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by or granted pursuant to Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws and described herein are not exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, contract, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or pursuant to the direction (howsoever embodied) of any court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, it being the Company&#x2019;s policy that, except as set forth in paragraph (11) below, indemnification of the persons specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) above must be made to the fullest extent permitted by law. The provisions of Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws do not preclude the indemnification of any person who is not specified in paragraphs (1) or (2) above but whom the Company has the power or obligation to indemnify under the provisions of the DGCL, or otherwise.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(8)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">The Company may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or is or was serving at the Company&#x2019;s request as a director, officer, employee, fiduciary or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person&#x2019;s status as such, whether or not the Company would have the power or the obligation to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(9)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">For purposes of Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws, references to &#x201c;we,&#x201d; &#x201c;us,&#x201d; &#x201c;Woodward&#x201d; or the &#x201c;Company&#x201d; include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors and officers, so that any person who is or was a director or officer of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, will stand in the same position under the provisions of Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he or she would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued. For purposes of Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws, references to &#x201c;fines&#x201d; include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to &#x201c;serving at our request&#x201d; include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan will be deemed to have acted in a manner &#x201c;not opposed to the best interests of Woodward&#x201d; as referred to in Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(10)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws will, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company and inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.</font></div></div>
  <div style="margin-left:4.528%;text-indent:0.0%;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:4.537%;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">(11)</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">Notwithstanding anything contained in Article IX of the Company&#x2019;s bylaws to the contrary, except for proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification (which are governed by paragraph (5) above), the Company is not obligated to indemnify any present or former director or officer in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person unless such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or consented to by the Company&#x2019;s board of directors.</font></div></div>
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    <td style="background-color:rgba(204,238,255,1);word-break:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;padding-left:0.08in;vertical-align:top;padding-right:0.08in;text-align:center;"><p style="text-indent:0.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0.0pt;text-align:right;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">$5,700.65</font></p></td>
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    <td style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);word-break:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;padding-left:0.08in;vertical-align:top;padding-right:0.08in;text-align:center;"><p style="text-indent:0.0pt;font-size:10.0pt;margin-top:0.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0.0pt;text-align:right;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;, sans-serif;min-width:fit-content;">$51,730,000</font></p></td>
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