**EXHIBIT 14**

 

**CODE OF ETHICS FOR CEO AND SENIOR FINANCIAL OFFICERS**

 

The Company has a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics applicable to all directors and employees of the Company. The CEO and all senior financial officers, including theCFO and principal accounting officer, are bound by the provisions set forth therein relating to ethical conduct, conflicts of interest and compliance with law. In addition to the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, the CEO and senior financialofficers are subject to the following additional specific policies: 

 

1. TheCEO and all senior financial officers are responsible for full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable disclosure in the periodic reports required to be filed by the Company with the SEC and other communications with the public. Accordingly, itis the responsibility of the CEO and each senior financial officer promptly to bring to the attention of the CFO, the Controller, or the chair of the Audit Committee (the “Disclosure Committee”) any material information of which he or shemay become aware that affects the disclosures made by the Company in its public filings or communications or otherwise assist the Disclosure Committee in fulfilling its responsibilities to make full and accurate disclosure of all material matters inthe Company’s public filings and communications. 

 

2. The CEO and eachsenior financial officer shall promptly bring to the attention of the Disclosure Committee and the Audit Committee any information he or she may have concerning (a) significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which couldadversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial data or (b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s financialreporting, disclosures or internal controls. 

 

3. The CEO and each seniorfinancial officer shall promptly bring to the attention of the CEO or the Audit Committee any information he or she may have concerning any violation of the Company’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, including any actual or apparentconflicts of interest between personal and professional relationships, involving any management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s financial reporting, disclosures or internal controls. 

 

4. The CEO and each senior financial officer shall promptly bring to the attention of the CEOor the Audit Committee any information he or she may have concerning evidence of a material violation of the securities or other laws, rules or regulations applicable to the Company and the operation of its business, by the Company or any agentthereof, or of violation of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics or of these additional procedures. 

 

5. The Board of Directors shall determine, or designate appropriate persons to determine, appropriate actions to be taken in the event of violations of the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics or of these additionalprocedures by the CEO and the Company’s senior financial officers. Such actions shall be reasonably designed to deter wrongdoing and to promote accountability for adherence to the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and to these additionalprocedures, and shall include written notices to the individual involved that the Board has determined that there has been a violation, censure by the Board, demotion or re-assignment of the individual involved, suspension with or without pay orbenefits (as determined by the Board) and termination of the individual’s employment. In determining what action is appropriate in a particular case, the Board of Directors or such designee shall take into account all relevant information,including the nature and severity of the violation, whether the violation was a single occurrence or repeated occurrences, whether the violation appears to have been intentional or inadvertent, whether the individual in question had been advisedprior to the violation as to the proper course of action and whether or not the individual in question had committed other violations in the past.