Company: AWK
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: S-4
Source: 0001193125-25-321389
Chunk: 403

Company: American Water Works Company, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: S-4
Chunk 403
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 (b) the breach or
failure to perform constitutes self-dealing, willful misconduct or recklessness. This Section shall not limit a director’s liability for monetary damages to the extent prohibited by Section 1713(b) of the BCL.

Section 5.02 . The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party to or witness in, or is
threatened to be made a party to or a witness in, any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, including actions by or in the right of the Corporation, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the
fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving while a director or officer of the Corporation at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee, agent, fiduciary or other
representative of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, excise taxes and amounts paid in settlement actually and
reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding unless the act or failure to act giving rise to the claim for indemnification is determined by a court to have constituted self-dealing, willful misconduct or
recklessness, subject to any limitations prescribed by state or federal law, rule or regulation or interpretations thereof.

Section 5.03 . Expenses incurred by an officer or director of the Corporation in connection with
participating in a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding as described in Section 5.02 shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf
of such person to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the person is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation, subject to any limitations prescribed by state or federal law, rule or regulation or interpretations
thereof.

Section 5.04 . The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by or pursuant to this
Article shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or

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advancement of expenses may be entitled under the Corporation’s Articles of Incorporation, any insurance or other agreement, vote of shareholders or directors or otherwise, both as to
actions in their official capacity and as to actions in another capacity while holding an office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director