(1) "Cooperative" includes any domestic or foreign predecessor entity of a cooperative in a merger or other transaction in which the predecessor’s existence ceased upon consummation of the transaction.
(2) "Director" means an individual who is or was a director of a cooperative or an individual who, while a director of a cooperative, is or was serving at the cooperative’s request as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another foreign or domestic cooperative, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise. A director is considered to be serving an employee benefit plan at the cooperative’s request if the director’s duties to the cooperative also impose duties on or otherwise involve services by the director to the plan or to participants in or beneficiaries of the plan. "Director" includes, unless the context requires otherwise, the estate or personal representative of a director.
(3) "Expenses" includes counsel fees.
(4) "Liability" means the obligation to pay a judgment, settlement, penalty or fine, including an excise tax assessed with respect to an employee benefit plan or reasonable expenses incurred with respect to a proceeding.
(5) "Officer" means an individual who is or was an officer of a cooperative or an individual who, while an officer of a cooperative, is or was serving at the cooperative’s request as a director, officer, partner, trustee, employee or agent of another foreign or domestic cooperative, corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise. An officer is considered to be serving an employee benefit plan at the cooperative’s request if the officer’s duties to the cooperative also impose duties on or include services by the officer to the employee benefit plan or to participants in or beneficiaries of the plan. "Officer" includes, unless the context requires otherwise, the estate or personal representative of an officer.
(6) "Party" includes an individual who was, is or is threatened to be made a named defendant or respondent in a proceeding.
(7) "Proceeding" means any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative and whether formal or informal. [1995 c.195 §15]