Standard Terms The ordinary net date (“Net Date”) shall be one hundred and fifty (150) days after the Payment Start Date. The “Payment Start Date” is the latest of the required date identified on this Order, the date of receipt of valid invoice by Buyer or the received date of the goods and/or services in Buyer’s receiving system. The received date of the goods and/or services in Buyer’s receiving system shall occur: (i) in the case where the goods are shipped directly to Buyer and/or services are performed directly for Buyer, with respect to such goods, within forty-eight (48) hours of Buyer’s physical receipt of the goods at its dock and with respect to such services, within forty-eight (48) hours of Supplier’s completion of the services; (ii) in the case of goods shipped directly to: (A) Buyer’s customer or a location designated by Buyer’s customer (“Material Shipped Direct” or “MSD”); or (B) a non-Buyer/non-customer location to be incorporated into MSD, within forty-eight (48) hours of Supplier presenting Buyer with a valid bill of lading confirming that the goods have been shipped from Supplier’s facility; and (iii) in the case where goods are shipped directly to or services are performed directly for a third party in accordance with this Order, with respect to such goods, within forty-eight (48) hours of Buyer’s receipt of written certification from the third party of its receipt of the goods and with respect to such services, within forty-eight (48) hours of Buyer’s receipt of written certification from the third party of Supplier’s completion of the services. Unless Buyer initiates payment on an early payment discount date as described in subsection (c) below, Buyer shall initiate payment on the Monthly Batch Payment Date or the Quarterly Batch Payment Date as described in subsection (b) below or on the Net Date.
Definitions; Conflicts References to a “Section” or the “recitals” are, unless otherwise specified, to a Section or the recitals of this Agreement. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Servicing Agreement. To the extent of any inconsistency between this Agreement and the Servicing Agreement, this Agreement shall control. Whenever used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the respective meanings set forth below unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
Notice and Conflicts Registry Operator shall be afforded a reasonable period of time following notice of the establishment of a Consensus Policy or Temporary Policy in which to comply with such policy or specification, taking into account any urgency involved. In the event of a conflict between Registry Services and Consensus Policies or any Temporary Policy, the Consensus Polices or Temporary Policy shall control, but only with respect to subject matter in conflict.
Resolution of Conflicts (a) In case the Stockholders' Agents shall so object in writing to any claim or claims by Acquiror made in any Officer's Certificate, Acquiror shall have thirty (30) days to respond in a written statement to the objection of the Stockholders' Agents. If after such thirty (30) day period there remains a dispute as to any claims, the Stockholders' Agents and Acquiror shall attempt in good faith for thirty (30) days to agree upon the rights of the respective parties with respect to each of such claims. If the Stockholders' Agents and Acquiror should so agree, a memorandum setting forth such agreement shall be prepared and signed by both parties and shall be furnished to the Escrow Agent. The Escrow Agent shall be entitled to rely on any such memorandum and shall distribute the Escrow Shares from the Escrow Fund in accordance with the terms of the memorandum.
(b) If no such agreement can be reached after good faith negotiation, either Acquiror or the Stockholders' Agents may, by written notice to the other, demand arbitration of the matter unless the amount of the damage or loss is at issue in pending litigation with a third party, in which event arbitration shall not be commenced until such amount is ascertained or both parties agree to arbitration; and in either such event the matter shall be settled by arbitration conducted by three arbitrators. Within fifteen (15) days after such written notice is sent, Acquiror (on the one hand) and the Stockholders' Agents (on the other hand) shall each select one arbitrator, and the two arbitrators so selected shall select a third arbitrator. The decision of the arbitrators as to the validity and amount of any claim in such Officer's Certificate shall be binding and conclusive upon the parties to this Agreement, and notwithstanding anything in Section 10.4, the Escrow Agent shall be entitled to act in accordance with such decision and make or withhold payments out of the Escrow Fund in accordance with such decision.
(c) Judgment upon any award rendered by the arbitrators may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. Any such arbitration shall be held in Santa ▇▇▇▇▇ or San Mateo County, California under the commercial rules then in effect of the American Arbitration Association. The non-prevailing party to an arbitration shall pay its own expenses, the fees of each arbitrator, the administrative fee of the American Arbitration Association, and the expenses, including, without limitation, the reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, incurred by the prevailing party to the arbitration.
MONITORING FOR MATERIAL IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICTS AVIF agrees that its Board of Directors will monitor for the existence of any material irreconcilable conflict between the interests of the Participants in all separate accounts of life insurance companies utilizing AVIF ("Participating Insurance Companies"), including each Account, and participants in all qualified retirement and pension plans investing in AVIF ("Participating Plans"). LIFE COMPANY agrees to inform the Board of Directors of AVIF of the existence of or any potential for any such material irreconcilable conflict of which it is aware. The concept of a "material irreconcilable conflict" is not defined by the 1940 Act or the rules thereunder, but the Parties recognize that such a conflict may arise for a variety of reasons, including, without limitation:
(a) an action by any state insurance or other regulatory authority;
(b) a change in applicable federal or state insurance, tax or securities laws or regulations, or a public ruling, private letter ruling, no-action or interpretative letter, or any similar action by insurance, tax or securities regulatory authorities;
(c) an administrative or judicial decision in any relevant proceeding;
(d) the manner in which the investments of any Fund are being managed;
(e) a difference in voting instructions given by variable annuity contract and variable life insurance contract Participants or by Participants of different Participating Insurance Companies;
(f) a decision by a Participating Insurance Company to disregard the voting instructions of Participants; or
(g) a decision by a Participating Plan to disregard the voting instructions of Plan participants. Consistent with the SEC's requirements in connection with exemptive orders of the type referred to in Section 5.1 hereof, LIFE COMPANY will assist the Board of Directors in carrying out its responsibilities by providing the Board of Directors with all information reasonably necessary for the Board of Directors to consider any issue raised, including information as to a decision by LIFE COMPANY to disregard voting instructions of Participants. LIFE COMPANY's responsibilities in connection with the foregoing shall be carried out with a view only to the interests of Participants.
