1. As part of the transaction that resulted in the person becoming an interested stockholder;
2. By virtue of proportionate splitting of shares, dividends distributed in shares, or other distributions of shares in respect of shares not constituting a combination;
3. Through a combination meeting all of the conditions of NRS 78.439; or
4. Through a purchase at any price that, if the price had been paid in an otherwise permissible combination whose date of announcement and date of consummation were the date of the purchase, would have satisfied the requirements of NRS 78.441, 78.442 and 78.443.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1206; A 1993, 971; 2003, 3105)