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(g) Generally to do and perform all such duties as pertain to such office and as may be required by the Board of Directors or these Bylaws.
3.13 Chief Financial Officer
The powers and duties of the Chief Financial Officer are:
(a) To supervise and control the keeping and maintaining of adequate and correct accounts of the Corporation's properties and business
transactions, including accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, gains, losses, capital, surplus and shares. The books of account
shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any director.
(b) To have the custody of all funds, securities, evidences of indebtedness and other valuable documents of the Corporation and, at his or
her discretion, to cause any or all thereof to be deposited for the account of the Corporation with such depository as may be designated from time
to time by the Board of Directors.
(c) To receive or cause to be received, and to give or cause to be given, receipts and acquittances for moneys paid in for the account of the
Corporation.
(d) To disburse, or cause to be disbursed, all funds of the Corporation as may be directed by the Chief Executive Officer, the President or
the Board of Directors, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements.
(e) To render to the Chief Executive Officer, the President or to the Board of Directors, whenever either may require, accounts of all
transactions as Chief Financial Officer and of the financial condition of the Corporation.
(f) Generally to do and perform all such duties as pertain to such office and as may be required by the Board of Directors or these Bylaws.
3.14 Officers Appointed by Chief Executive Officer
(a) The Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation shall have the power, in the exercise of his or her discretion, to appoint additional
persons to hold positions and titles such as vice president of the Corporation or a division of the Corporation or president of a division of the
Corporation, or similar such titles, as the business of the Corporation may require, subject to such limits in appointment power as the Board of
Directors may determine. The Board of Directors shall be advised of any such appointment at a meeting of the Board of Directors, and the
appointment shall be noted in the minutes of the meeting. The minutes shall clearly state that such persons are non-corporate officers appointed
pursuant to this Section 3.14 .
(b) Each such appointee shall have such title, shall serve in such capacity and shall have such authority and perform such duties as the
Chief Executive Officer shall determine. Appointees may hold titles such as "president" of a division or other group within the Corporation, or
"vice president" of the Corporation or of a division or other group within the Corporation. However, any such appointee, absent specific election
by the Board of Directors as an elected corporate officer, (i) shall not be considered an officer elected by the Board of Directors pursuant to this
Article III and shall not have the executive powers or authority of corporate officers elected pursuant to this Article III , (ii) shall not be
considered (a) an "officer" of the Corporation for the purposes of Rule 3b-2 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the " Exchange Act ") or an "executive officer" of the Corporation
for the purposes of Rule 3b-7 promulgated under the Exchange Act, and similarly shall not be considered an "officer" of the Corporation for the
purposes of Section 16 of the Exchange Act (as such persons shall not be given the access to inside information of the Corporation enjoyed by
officers of the Corporation) or an "executive officer" of the Corporation for the purposes of Section 14 of the Exchange Act or (b) a
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