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(1) This Registration Statement covers 980,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value, of Indoor Harvest Corp. (the "Company") available for issuance under the Company's 2015 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan"). In addition, pursuant to Rule 416, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate number of shares of common stock of the Company that may become issuable as a result of stock dividends, stock splits, or similar transactions described in the Plan.

 

(2) Calculated solely for purposes of determining the registration fee pursuant to Rules 457(c) and (h) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The proposed maximum offering price per share and proposed maximum aggregate offering price are based upon the price of the common stock in the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, as amended, effective by operation of law on November 7, 2014.

We will send or give to participants in the Plan the document(s) containing the information specified by Part I of this Registration Statement as specified in Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"). We are not filing such document(s) with the Commission but such document(s) constitute (along with the documents incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II of this Registration Statement), a prospectus that meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the 1933 Act.

The contents of the Registration Statement on Form S-8 previously filed with the Commission by the Company on May 9, 2012 (File No. 333-181272) are incorporated herein by reference. In addition, the following documents filed with the Commission by the Company are incorporated herein by reference:

All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, subsequent to the effective date of this Registration Statement, and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement indicating that all securities offered hereby have been sold or deregistering all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such documents. In no event, however, shall any information that the Company discloses under Item 2.02 or Item 7.01 of any Current Report on Form 8-K, which the Company may furnish to the Commission from time to time, be incorporated by reference into, or otherwise become a part of, this Registration Statement. Any statement contained in any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed to constitute a part of this Registration Statement, except as so modified or superseded.

The Texas Business Corporation Act ("TBCA") contains specific provisions for indemnification of officers and directors. In 1989, the Texas Legislature amended the TBCA to expand the scope of this indemnification and to provide for assistance by a corporation with respect to litigation costs incurred by its officers or directors in certain circumstances.

Article 2.02-1 of the TBCA identifies circumstances by which indemnification must be made, may be made, and may not be made, and defines different standards for indemnification depending on the director's conduct.

A defendant-director is entitled to indemnification as a matter of right if he was "wholly successful, on the merits or otherwise, in the defense of the proceeding." TBCA art. 2.02-1 H. A director who successfully defends against the suit wholly on a procedural or other nonsubstantive ground is nevertheless entitled to mandatory indemnification. If the director who prevails in the litigation is later forced to file suit against the corporation in order to recover his indemnification, the expenses of that suit are also recoverable under the statute. TBCA art. 2.02-11.

In cases where a director is found liable to a third person, but has not received a personal benefit, or the director settles a lawsuit brought by or on behalf of the corporation, indemnification by the corporation is discretionary. TBCA art. 2.02-IB. The corporation may not exercise its discretion to indemnify the director in these circumstances, however, unless the director (i) conducted himself in good faith; (ii) reasonably believed that his conduct was in the corporation's best interests or, in cases where the questioned actions were not committed by the director in his official capacity, that his conduct was at least not opposed to the corporation's best interests; and (iii) in the case of any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. Id.

The determination of whether discretionary indemnification of the director is even permitted must be made either: (i) by a majority vote of a quorum of disinterested directors (i.e., directors who are not named in the lawsuit at the time the vote is taken); (ii) if such a quorum is unavailable, by a majority vote of a committee of two or more disinterested directors selected by a vote of all directors; (iii) by special legal counsel selected either by a vote of a quorum of disinterested directors, the committee established in the manner described above, or, if neither of those options is available, by vote of all directors; or (iv) by vote of the shareholders, excluding shares held by directors named as defendants in the proceeding. art. 2.02-1F.

Once it is determined that indemnification is permitted, the corporation's discretionary decision to actually authorize the indemnification, and its determination as to the "reasonableness" of the expenses for which indemnification is sought, must be made in the same manner, unless the determination that indemnification is permissible was made by special legal counsel, in which event the authorization decision must be made in the manner specified for selection of the special legal counsel. art. 2.02-IF(3), 2.02-1G. By a 1985 statutory clarification of section G, a mandatory indemnification agreement in the articles of incorporation, bylaws, a resolution of shareholders or directors or an agreement that makes the permissive indemnification provision in section B mandatory is enforceable even though it was not adopted in the manner described above, and it may not be avoided by the corporation failing to authorize the indemnification under article 2.02-1G. The issue of whether a director is eligible for indemnification is not foreclosed by the defendant's settlement of the case or even a judgment entered against him, because a director may be deemed to have been found liable for a claim only if he shall have been so adjudged in a court of competent jurisdiction after exhaustion of all appeals. art. 2.02-1D.

In many cases, a director may seek to avoid liability to a third person through a contractual release or indemnity by such third person. In effect, such a provision would prevent the need for any corporate indemnification of the director with respect to such matter and thus any related interpretation under article 2.02-1 of the TBCA. It is important to note, however, that the Supreme Court of Texas recently held that a person seeking indemnity from a third person as a result of the consequences of such person's own negligence must express such intent in a conspicuous manner within the four comers of a written contract. Dresser Indus., Inc. v. Page Petroleum, Inc., 853 S.W.2d 505, 508 (Tex. 1993). Accordingly, directors should take great care to ensure that any contractual release or indemnity by a third person satisfies such requirements.

Article 2.2-1C prohibits indemnification when the director "is found liable on the basis that personal benefit was improperly received by him, whether or not the benefit resulted from an action taken in the person's official capacity" and when the director "is found liable to the corporation." However, that provision is modified by article 2.02-1E, which allows corporations to indemnify directors even if they are found liable to the corporation or are found to have improperly received a personal benefit, but the indemnification is limited to "reasonable expenses actually incurred by the director in connection with the proceeding." No indemnification is available if the director is found liable for "willful or intentional misconduct in the performance of his duty to the corporation." Id.

Our Articles of Incorporation provide that no director or officer of the Company shall be personally liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty by such person as a director or officer, except for the payment of dividends in violation of Texas law.  Our Bylaws provide, in pertinent part, that the Company shall indemnify any person made a party to or involved in any civil, criminal or administrative action, suit or proceeding by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the Company, or of any corporation which such person served as such at the request of the Company, against expenses reasonably incurred by, or imposed on, such person in connection with, or resulting from, the exercise of such action, suit, proceeding or appeal thereon, except with respect to matters as to which it is adjudged in such action, suit or proceeding that such person was liable to the Company, or such other corporation, for negligence or misconduct in the performance of such persons duties as a director or officer of the Company.  The determination of the rights of such indemnification and the amount thereof may be made, at the option of the person to be indemnified, by (1) order of the Court or administrative body or agency having jurisdiction over the matter for which indemnification is being sought; (2) resolution adopted by a majority of a quorum of our disinterested directors; (3) if there is no such quorum, resolution adopted by a majority of the committee of stockholders and disinterested directors of the Company; (4) resolution adopted by a majority of the quorum of directors entitled to vote at any meeting; or (5) Order of any Court having jurisdiction over the Company.  Such right of indemnification is not exclusive of any other right which such director or officer may have, and without limiting the generality of such statement, they are entitled to their respective rights of indemnification under any bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders, provision of law, or otherwise in addition to their rights under our Bylaws.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 1933 Act may be permitted to directors, officers, or persons controlling the Company pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the Company has been informed that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and is therefore unenforceable.

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Indoor Harvest Corp. certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Houston TX on January 21, 2015.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.