ONEOK, INC.
2005 SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE
RETIREMENT PLAN
As Amended and Restated December
18, 2008
ONEOK, INC.
2005 SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE
RETIREMENT PLAN
As Amended and Restated December
18, 2008
Table of
Contents
Page
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PURPOSE
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1
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PART
A.
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EXCESS
RETIREMENT BENEFITS
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2
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ARTICLE
I. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF PART
A
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3
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1.1
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Part A; Excess
Retirement Benefits
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3
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1.2
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Separate
Benefits
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3
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1.3
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Deferral of
Compensation
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3
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ARTICLE
II. ELIGIBILITY AND
PARTICIPATION
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3
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2.1
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Eligibility for
Selection
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3
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2.2
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Designation and
Selection of Part A Participants in the Plan
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3
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2.3
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Scope of Part A
Participation
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4
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2.4
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Election to
Defer Compensation
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4
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ARTICLE
III. EXCESS RETIREMENT
BENEFIT
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5
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3.1
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Excess
Retirement Benefit
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5
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3.2
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Payment of
Excess Retirement Benefit
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6
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3.3
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Specified
Employee; Six (6) Month Required Delay in Payment
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8
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3.4
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Vesting of
Excess Retirement Benefit
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8
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3.5
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Form of
Payment
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9
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3.6
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Disability
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9
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3.7
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Death
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9
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3.8
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Nonqualified
Deferred Compensation Plan Requirements
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9
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10
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ARTICLE
V. LEAVE OF ABSENCE
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10
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ARTICLE
VI. ADMINISTRATION OF PART A OF THIS
PLAN
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10
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PART
B.
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SUPPLEMENTAL
RETIREMENT BENEFITS
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11
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ARTICLE
I. PURPOSE AND SCOPE
OF PART B
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12
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1.1
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Part B,
Supplemental Retirement Benefits
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12
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1.2
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Separate
Benefits
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12
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1.3
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Deferral of
Compensation
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12
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ARTICLE
II. BENEFIT ACCOUNTS
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12
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2.1
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Eligibility for
Selection
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12
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2.2
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Designation and
Selection of Part B Participants in the Plan
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12
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2.3
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Scope of Part B
Participation
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13
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2.4
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Election to
Defer Compensation
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13
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ARTICLE
III. SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT
BENEFIT
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14
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3.1
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Supplemental
Retirement Benefit
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14
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3.2
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Payment of
Supplemental Retirement Benefit
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16
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3.3
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Specified
Employee; Six (6) Month Required Delay in Payment
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19
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3.4
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Vesting of
Supplemental Retirement Benefit
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19
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3.5
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Form of
Payment
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19
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3.6
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Disability
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20
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3.7
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Death
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20
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3.8
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Nonqualified
Deferred Compensation Plan Requirements
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20
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20
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ARTICLE
V. SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT BENEFIT
ADJUSTMENTS
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21
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ARTICLE
VI. LEAVE OF ABSENCE
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21
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ARTICLE VII. ADMINISTRATION OF PART B OF
THE PLAN
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21
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PART
C.
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PLAN
ADIMINSTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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22
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ARTICLE
I. PURPOSE AND SCOPE
OF PART C
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23
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ARTICLE
II. DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION
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23
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2.1
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Definitions
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23
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2.2
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Construction
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29
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2.3
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Plan
Purpose
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29
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ARTICLE
III. COMMITTEE
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29
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3.1
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Appointment of
Committee
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29
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3.2
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Committee
Officials
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29
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3.3
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Committee
Action
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30
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3.4
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Committee Rules
and Powers
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30
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3.5
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Reliance on
Certificates, etc.
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30
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3.6
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Liability of
Committee
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30
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3.7
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Determination
of Benefits
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30
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3.8
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Information to
Committee
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31
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ARTICLE
IV. ADOPTION OF PLAN BY SUBSIDIARY, AFFILIATED OR
ASSOCIATED COMPANIES
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31
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ARTICLE V.
SOURCE OF BENEFITS
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31
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5.1
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Benefits
Payable
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31
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5.2
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Investments to
Facilitate Payment of Benefits
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31
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5.3
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Ownership of
Insurance Contracts
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31
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5.4
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Trust for
Payment of Benefits
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32
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ARTICLE
VI. TERMINATION
OF EMPLOYMENT
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32
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ARTICLE
VII. TERMINATION
OF PARTICIPATION
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33
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ARTICLE
VIII. TERMINATION,
AMENDMENT, MODIFICATION, OR SUPPLEMENT OF THE PLAN
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33
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8.1
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Amendment or
Termination
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33
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8.2
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Rights and
Obligations Upon Amendment, Termination
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34
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ARTICLE
IX. TREATMENT
OF BENEFITS
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34
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ARTICLE
X. RESTRICTIONS
ON ALIENATION OF BENEFITS
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35
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ARTICLE
XI. MISCELLANEOUS
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35
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11.1
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Deferral of
Compensation Requirements
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35
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11.2
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Execution of
Receipts and Releases
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36
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11.3
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No Guarantee of
Interests
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36
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11.4
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Company
Records
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36
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11.5
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Evidence
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36
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11.6
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Notice
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36
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11.7
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Change of
Address
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37
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11.8
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Effect of
Provisions
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37
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11.9
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Headings
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37
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11.10
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Governing
Law
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37
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11.11
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Effective
Date
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37
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APPENDIX
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ONEOK, INC.
2005 SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE
RETIREMENT PLAN
As Amended and Restated December
18, 2008
PURPOSE
The purpose of the ONEOK, Inc. 2005 Supplemental
Executive Retirement Plan is to provide the specified benefits to
employees who are in a select group of management or highly
compensated employees who contribute materially to the continued
growth, development and future business success of ONEOK, Inc., and
its subsidiaries, effective January 1, 2005. It is the
intention of ONEOK, Inc. that the Plan and the particular benefits
provided to individuals hereunder be administered as an unfunded
nonqualified deferred compensation and excess benefit plans
established and maintained for a select group of management or
highly compensated employees.
This Plan is a new and separate plan, and except
as otherwise expressly provided herein, is not a continuation,
successor plan to, or an amendment or restatement of the
preexisting and separate ONEOK, Inc. Supplemental Executive
Retirement Plan, as terminated and frozen pursuant to the terms
thereof, effective December 31, 2004 (hereinafter referred to as
the “Prior Frozen SERP”). It is intended
that no individual shall be entitled to benefit under both the
Prior Frozen SERP and this Plan.
The Plan is intended to meet all requirements of
Section 409A of the Code for compensation deferred under the Plan
to not be includible in gross income of the Participant until
actually paid or distributed pursuant to the Plan.
The capitalized words and terms in this Plan
document shall have the meaning given in the definitions stated in
Part C, Article II of the Plan, unless otherwise expressly
indicated.
PART A.
EXCESS RETIREMENT BENEFITS
ARTICLE I.
PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF PART
A
1.1 Part A; Excess
Retirement Benefits . The provisions of Part A of
the Plan shall establish and provide excess retirement benefits to
Employees of the Company who are (i) in a select group of
management or highly compensated employees of the Company within
the meaning of Sections 201(a)(7), 301(a)(9) and 401(a)(1) of
ERISA, and (ii) selected to participate in Excess Retirement
Benefits pursuant to the terms and provisions of this Part A of the
Plan.
1.2 Separate
Benefits . The Excess Retirement Benefits provided
to participants under Part A of the Plan are separate and
independent from Supplemental Retirement Benefits provided under
Part B of the Plan.
1.3 Deferral of
Compensation . The Excess Retirement Benefits
provided to Participants under Part A of the Plan shall be
considered and treated as deferral of compensation to the extent
and in the manner provided for in Section 409A of the Code and
Treasury Regulations thereunder.
ARTICLE II.
ELIGIBILITY AND
PARTICIPATION
2.1 Eligibility for
Selection . In order to be eligible to be selected as a
Part A Participant in the Plan pursuant to Section 2.2 of this
Article II, below, an Employee must be in a select group of
management or highly compensated employees of the Company, as
determined by the Chief Executive Officer, or the Committee in the
case of the Chief Executive Officer, in the Chief Executive
Officer’s (or Committee’s, as applicable) sole and
absolute discretion. An eligible Employee may become a
Part A Participant in the Plan only by being selected for
participation pursuant to Section 2.2 of this Article II,
below.
2.2
Designation and Selection of Part A Participants in the Plan
.
A. In order to
participate in Part A of the Plan an eligible Employee must also be
specifically designated and selected by the Chief Executive
Officer, or in the case of the Chief Executive Officer, by the
Committee, to be a Part A Participant in the Plan, with such
designation and selection to be in the Chief Executive
Officer’s (or Committee’s, as applicable) sole and
absolute discretion.
B. The designation
and selection of any eligible Employee to be a Part A Participant
in the Plan by the Chief Executive Officer/Committee, shall be
confirmed in writing by a written instrument and/or memorandum
which shall specify the date that compensation is first deferred
under this Plan for such Part A Participant and the date of his/her
designation and selection, in such form as is prescribed by the
Committee that shall be in substantially the same form as Appendix
I to this Plan and that shall be made a part of the records of the
Plan and the Company.
C. Not every eligible
Employee is required to be, or necessarily will be designated and
selected to be a Part A Participant in the Plan.
D. An eligible
Employee who is not designated and selected to be a Part A
Participant pursuant to this Section 2.2, shall not be entitled to
any benefit or payment under Part A of the Plan.
E. No Employee who is
a participant in the Prior Frozen SERP or entitled to receive any
benefit or payment under the Prior Frozen SERP shall be designated
and selected to be a Part A Participant in the Plan; and it may be
made a condition to the designation and selection of an eligible
Employee as a Part A Participant that such Employee shall have
elected in writing to completely terminate his/her participation in
the Prior Frozen SERP and waive all his/her entitlement to any
benefit or payment under the Prior Frozen SERP.
F. Notwithstanding
anything otherwise provided herein, any eligible Employee who
becomes a Part A Participant shall be deemed to consent and agree
that his/her participation in Part A of the Plan shall supersede
and cancel any entitlement he/she had to any benefit or payment
under the Prior Frozen SERP.
2.3 Scope of Part A
Participation . An eligible Employee designated and
selected to be a Part A Participant in the Plan shall, as a Part A
Participant, be entitled solely to the rights and benefits provided
under the terms of Part A of the Plan, and such designation and
selection shall not entitle such Employee to participate in Part B
of the Plan or to receive benefits thereunder; provided, that an
Employee who is an Officer of the Company may be designated and
selected to be a Part A Participant, and selected under Part B of
the Plan to be a Part B Participant.
2.4
Election to Defer Compensation .
A. Except as provided
in Section 2.4.B., of this Article, the Company, pursuant to the
Plan, elects, determines and provides for the time and form of
payment of an Excess Retirement Benefit to any eligible Employee
who is designated and selected to be a Part A
Participant. The time and form of payment of an Excess
Retirement Benefit is stated and provided in Article III of this
Part A of the Plan.
B. A Part A
Participant shall make a written Election that shall include a
Specified Time which shall be the Normal Specified Time of
Distribution when his/her Excess Retirement Benefit is to be paid
and distributed under the Plan. The Specified Time that may be
stated in the Election, shall be:
(1) The later of (a) a Specified
Date, or (b) the date such Part A Participant (i) attains age fifty
(50), (ii) completes five (5) years of service with the Company,
and (iii) has a Separation from Service with the Company;
or
(2) The date such Part A Participant
(i) attains age fifty (50), (ii) completes five (5) years of
service with the Company, and (iii) has a Separation from Service
with the Company.
The Normal Specified Time of Distribution of a
Part A Participant shall in no event be before he/she (i) attains
age fifty (50), (ii) completes five (5) years of service with the
Company, and (iii) has a Separation from Service with the
Company.
C. The designation
and Election of the time and form of payment of the Excess
Retirement Benefit of an eligible Employee when he/she
is first designated and selected to be a Part A Participant in the
Plan shall be made and confirmed in writing on or before the date
that is thirty (30 days after the date of such designation and
selection in an instrument prescribed by the Committee that shall
be in substantially the same form as Appendix I to this Plan and
that shall be made a part of the records of the Plan and the
Company.
D. The designation
and Election of the time and form of payment of an Excess
Retirement Benefit of a Part A Participant shall apply with respect
to all compensation deferred under the Plan for the Part A
Participant after the date of his/her designation and
selection. The designation and Election of the time and
form of payment of an Excess Retirement Benefit of a Part A
Participant shall be effective on and after the date that it is
made by the Part A Participant and the Company as to compensation
deferred under the Plan for all taxable years of the Part A
Participant thereafter.
E. The Plan does not
provide an eligible Employee or Part A Participant the opportunity
to make an initial election of the form of payment of the Excess
Retirement Benefit to him/her under the Plan. A Part A
Participant shall be allowed to change the form of an annuity
benefit to the extent provided in Section 3.5 of Article III of
this Part A of the Plan. A Part A Participant shall be
allowed to make a Subsequent Election as to time of payment of an
Excess Retirement Benefit as provided in Section 3.2 of Article III
of this Part A of the Plan.
F. All Elections made
under the Plan by and for a Part A Participant on or before
December 31, 2008, shall be retroactively effective to conform to
the terms and provisions of the Plan, as amended and restated
effective December 18, 2008, to meet the requirements of Code
section 409A and Treasury Regulations to the extent allowed under
such regulations and published guidance of the Internal Revenue
Service.
ARTICLE III.
EXCESS RETIREMENT
BENEFIT
3.1 Excess
Retirement Benefit .
A. The
Company shall pay each Part A Participant the vested Excess
Retirement Benefit attributable to a Part A Participant’s
annual eligible compensation under the Retirement Plan that is in
excess of the limitations on such Part A Participant’s
Retirement Plan Benefits contained in Code Sections 401(a)(17) and
415(b).
B. The
Excess Retirement Benefit will be calculated by applying the same
benefit formula, vesting provisions, and early retirement
provisions as are in and apply to the Part A Participant’s
Retirement Plan Benefit under the Retirement Plan.
C. The
Excess Retirement Benefit shall be calculated for the
time of the commencement of payment of it to a Part A Participant
(hereinafter referred to as "Excess Retirement Benefit Commencement
Date") pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Plan governing
the time and form of payment thereof, irrespective of whether or
not a corresponding Retirement Plan Benefit is then being paid or
is to commence payment to such Part A Participant at that time, and
irrespective of the time and form of payment of the Retirement Plan
Benefit that has been elected, is being paid or may be paid to the
Part A Participant.
D. The
Excess Retirement Benefit shall be calculated and determined for
the Excess Retirement Benefit Commencement Date of a Part A
Participant as follows:
(1) Calculate as a single (straight)
life annuity payable at age sixty-five (65);
(2) Apply early retirement provisions
based upon the age of the Part A Participant at the Excess
Retirement Benefit Commencement Date;
(3) Apply the factors for the form of
payment that has been elected by the Part A Participant in
accordance with the terms and provisions of this Plan as an
actuarial equivalent of a single (straight) life annuity, if such
elected form of payment is other than a single (straight) life
annuity in accordance with the Plan and reasonable actuarial
assumptions and methods, as determined by the Committee;
and
(4) Deduct the Retirement Plan
Benefit calculated at the same time and form of payment as the
Excess Retirement Benefit, irrespective of the time and form of
payment of the Retirement Plan Benefit elected by the Participant
for the Retirement Plan.
E. The
Committee shall be authorized to take such other actions and apply
procedures that it determines, in its discretion, to calculate,
determine and commence the payment of an Excess Retirement Benefit
to a Part A Participant at the Excess Retirement Benefit
Commencement Date.
F. All
Elections made under the Plan by and for a Part B Participant on or
before December 31, 2008, shall be retroactively effective to
conform to the terms and provisions of the Plan, as amended and
restated effective December 18, 2008, to meet the requirements of
Code section 409A and Treasury Regulations to the extent allowed
under such regulations and published guidance of the Internal
Revenue Service.
3.2 Payment of
Excess Retirement Benefit .
A. Subject to the
requirements of Section 3.3 below (six-month required delay of
payment for Specified Employee), a vested Excess Retirement Benefit
shall be paid to a Part A Participant entitled thereto or his/her
Beneficiary, commencing on his/her Normal Specified Distribution
Date.
B. A Part A
Participant shall be allowed to make a Subsequent Election to
change the time of distribution and payment of his/her Excess
Retirement Benefit from his/her Normal Specified Distribution Date
to a Subsequent Election Distribution Date resulting from such
election, if:
(i) he/she delivers a
written notification of such Subsequent Election to the Committee,
or its designee, in the form it prescribes, not less than twelve
(12) months prior to his/her Normal Specified Distribution Date,
and
(ii) he/she makes a
corresponding Subsequent Election with respect to any Supplemental
Retirement Benefit he/she is entitled to under Part B of the Plan
in such written notification.
C. A Part A
Participant shall be allowed to make a Subsequent Election as to
any Subsequent Election Distribution Date established for the
payment of his/her Excess Retirement Benefit if:
(i) he/she delivers a
written notification of such Subsequent Election to the Committee,
or its designee, in the form it prescribes, not less than twelve
(12) months prior to such Subsequent Election Distribution Date,
and
(ii) he/she makes a
corresponding Subsequent Election with respect to any Supplemental
Retirement Benefit he/she is entitled to under Part B of the Plan
in such written notification.
D. Notwithstanding
anything otherwise provided in the Plan or in any Election or
Subsequent Election of a Part A Participant, any Subsequent
Election made by a Part A Participant under the Plan shall result
in a Subsequent Election Distribution Date of his/her Excess
Retirement Benefit being established for it, and the first
distribution and payment with respect to which such Subsequent
Election is made being deferred to a Subsequent Election
Distribution Date that is not less than five (5) years from the
date such distribution and payment would otherwise have been
made.
E. Except as
otherwise expressly specified in the Plan, a distribution or
payment shall be treated as made upon the date specified under the
Plan if the payment is made at such date or a later date within the
same taxable year of the Participant or, if later, by the 15th day
of the third calendar month following the date specified under the
Plan and the Participant is not permitted, directly or indirectly,
to designate the taxable year of the payment. In addition, a
distribution or payment shall be treated as made upon the date
specified under the Plan and shall not be treated as an accelerated
payment if the payment is made no earlier than thirty (30) days
before the designated payment date and the Participant is not
permitted, directly or indirectly, to designate the taxable year of
the payment. For purposes of this paragraph, if the date specified
is only a designated taxable year of the Participant, or a period
of time during such a taxable year, the date specified under the
Plan is treated as the first day of such taxable year or the first
day of the period of time during such taxable year, as
applicable. If calculation of the amount of the distribution
or payment is not administratively practicable due to events beyond
the
control of the
Participant (or Participant's beneficiary), the distribution or
payment will be treated as made upon the date specified under the
Plan if the distribution or payment is made during the first
taxable year of the Participant in which the calculation of the
amount of the distribution or payment is administratively
practicable. For purposes of this section, the inability of a
Corporation to calculate the amount or timing of a distribution or
payment due to a failure of a Participant (or Participant's
beneficiary) to provide reasonably available information necessary
to make such calculation does not constitute an event beyond the
control of the Participant.
3.3 Specified
Employee; Six (6) Month Required Delay in Payment
. If a Part A Participant is a Specified Employee,
his/her vested Excess Retirement Benefit shall not commence being
paid until after the end of the Specified Employee Required
Deferral Period.
In the case of any Participant who is a
Specified Employee as of the date of a Separation from Service,
distribution and payments of any Deferred Compensation may not be
made before the date that is six (6) months after the date of
Separation from Service (or, if earlier than the end of the
six-month period, the date of death of the Specified Employee). For
this purpose, a Participant who is not a Specified Employee as of
the date of a Separation from Service will not be treated as
subject to this requirement even if the Participant would have
become a Specified Employee if the Participant had continued to
provide services through the next Specified Employee Effective
Date; and a Participant who is treated as a Specified Employee as
of the date of a Separation from Service will be subject to this
requirement even if the Participant would not have been treated as
a Specified Employee after the next Specified Employee Effective
Date had the Specified Employee continued in employment with the
Corporation through the next Specified Employee Effective Date. The
required delay in payment is met if payments to which a Specified
Employee would otherwise be entitled during the first six (6)
months following the date of Separation from Service are
accumulated and paid on the first day of the seventh month
following the date of Separation from Service, or if each payment
to which a Specified Employee is otherwise entitled upon a
Separation from Service is delayed by six (6) months. The Committee
shall have and retain discretion to choose which method will be
implemented, provided that no direct or indirect election as to the
method may be provided to the Participant. For an affected
Specified Employee, a date upon which the Committee or the
Corporation designates that the payment will be made after the
six-month delay is treated as a fixed payment date for purposes of
the other requirements of the Plan once the Separation from Service
has occurred.
In such a case, the Part A Participant shall, to
the extent permissible under Code Section 409A, receive a Specified
Employee Catch-Up Payment at the end of the Specified Employee
Required Deferral Period and thereafter receive vested Excess
Retirement Benefit monthly payments in accordance with the
Plan. If such a Specified Employee Catch-Up Payment is
not permissible under Code Section 409A, the Excess Retirement
Benefit shall be paid and distributed to the Specified Employee in
accordance with the requirements of Code Section 409A and the
regulations thereunder, and the time and form of payment elected
shall not otherwise be changed or accelerated.
3.4 Vesting of
Excess Retirement Benefit . A Part A Participant’s
Excess Retirement Benefit shall unconditionally vest in such
Participant and become nonforfeitable upon such Part
A
Participant’s completion of five (5) Years of Service;
provided, that the Excess Retirement Benefit shall not be vested
and nonforfeitable upon Retirement if the Part A Participant has
not completed five (5) Years of Service.
3.5 Form of
Payment. The vested Excess Retirement Benefit
shall be paid to a Part A Participant in the form of a 50%
qualified joint and survivor annuity, as defined in the Retirement
Plan, if such Part A Participant is married on his/her Initial
Participation Date as a Part A Participant. The vested
Excess Retirement Benefit shall be paid in the form of a single
(straight) life annuity, as defined in the Retirement Plan, if such
Part A Participant is unmarried on his/her Initial Participation
Date as a Part A Participant. A Part A Participant shall
be allowed to change the form of payment of an Excess Retirement
Benefit that is initially elected and designated, or any
permissible form previously elected by the Part A Participant
hereunder, to the extent provided in this Section
3.5. Any such change in the form of payment pursuant to
this Section 3.5 shall be allowed only if (i) it is made in writing
by the Participant in an instrument prescribed by the Committee
prior to the first payment and distribution of an Excess Retirement
Benefit, (ii) the Committee determines that the previously elected
form of payment and the changed form of payment are actuarially
equivalent applying reasonable actuarial methods and assumptions,
and (iii) the Part A Participant complies with such other
requirements as the Committee may prescribe. A change in form
of payment pursuant to the foregoing provisions shall not change,
delay or accelerate the scheduled date for the first annuity
payment of an Excess Retirement Benefit under the Plan. Each change
in form of payment of an Excess Retirement Benefit pursuant to the
foregoing provisions shall be deemed to make a similar change in
the form of payment with respect to any Supplemental Retirement
Benefit payable to the Participant under the Plan
3.6 Disability
. If a Part A Participant shall become Disabled prior to
Retirement and such total disability continues for more than six
(6) months, such Participant shall be entitled to receive an Excess
Retirement Benefit. The vested Excess Retirement Benefit
of such Part A Participant shall be distributed on the first day of
the month next following the time he/she becomes Disabled if he/she
has attained age fifty (50) at the time he/she becomes Disabled.
The vested Excess Retirement Benefit of such Part A Participant
shall be distributed on the first day of the month next following
such Part A Participant attaining the age of fifty (50) if he/she
becomes Disabled prior to attaining that age. A Part A Participant
shall be entitled to make a Subsequent Election with respect to the
distribution of a vested Excess Retirement Benefit in accordance
with and subject to the provisions of Section 3.2,
above.
3.7 Death
. In event of the death of a Part A Participant prior to
commencing payment of his/her Excess Retirement Benefit under this
Plan, , an amount equal to fifty-five percent (55%) of his/her
vested Excess Retirement Benefit of such Part A Participant shall
be paid and distributed to the Beneficiary of such Part A
Participant pursuant to Article IV of this Part A of the Plan,
below, on the first day of the month next following the date of
death of such Part A Participant.
3.8 Nonqualified
Deferred Compensation Plan Requirements
. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary expressed or
implied herein, the deferral of all Compensation under this Plan
shall be subject to the requirements set forth in Article XI,
Section 11.1 of Part C of the Plan.
ARTICLE IV.
BENEFICIARY
The Beneficiary of a Part A Participant’s
Excess Retirement Benefit shall be the person or persons who would
be the beneficiary or beneficiaries entitled to receive the
Retirement Plan Benefit of the Part A Participant under the terms
and provisions of the Retirement Plan if he/she died prior to the
commencement of payment of such Retirement Plan Benefit under the
Retirement Plan.
ARTICLE V.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
If a Part A Participant is authorized by the
Company for any reason, including military, medical, or other, to
take a leave of absence from employment, such Part A
Participant’s participation in Part A of the Plan shall
remain in effect.
ARTICLE VI.
ADMINISTRATION OF PART A OF THE
PLAN
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
this Part A of the Plan shall be administered pursuant to the
provisions of Part C of the Plan.
PART B.
SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS
ARTICLE I.
PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF PART
B
1.1 Part B,
Supplemental Retirement Benefits . The provisions of
Part B of the Plan shall establish and provide supplemental
retirement benefits to employees who are (i) in a select group of
management or highly compensated employees of the Company within
the meaning of Sections 201(a)(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1) of
ERISA, (ii) Officers of the Company, and (iii) selected to
participate in and receive Supplemental Retirement Benefits
pursuant to the terms and provisions of this Part B of the
Plan.
1.2 Separate
Benefits . The Supplemental Retirement Benefits
provided to participants under Part B of the Plan are separate and
independent from Excess Retirement Benefits provided under Part A
of the Plan.
1.3 Deferral of
Compensation . The Supplemental Retirement Benefits
provided to Participants under Part B of the Plan shall be
considered and treated as deferral of compensation to the extent
and in the manner provided for in Section 409A of the Code and
Treasury Regulations thereunder.
ARTICLE II.
ELIGIBILITY AND
PARTICIPATION
2.1 Eligibility for
Selection . In order to be eligible to be selected
as a Part B Participant in the Plan, pursuant to Section 2.2 of
this Article II, below, an Employee must be an Officer of the
Company, who is in a select group of management or highly
compensated employees of the Company, as determined by the Chief
Executive Officer, or in the case of the Chief Executive Officer,
by the Committee, in the Chief Executive Officer’s (or
Committee’s, as applicable) sole and absolute
discretion. An eligible Employee/Officer may become a
Part B Participant in the Plan only by being selected pursuant to
Section 2.2 of this Article II, below.
2.2 Designation and
Selection of Part B Participants in the Plan .
A. In order to
participate in Part B of the Plan an eligible Employee/Officer must
be specifically designated and selected by the Chief Executive
Officer, or in the case of the Chief Executive Officer, by the
Committee, to be a Part B Participant in the Plan, with such
designation and selection to be in the Chief Executive
Officer’s (or Committee’s, as applicable) sole and
absolute discretion.
B. The designation
and selection of an eligible Employee/Officer to be a Part B
Participant in the Plan by the Chief Executive Officer/Committee
shall be confirmed in writing by a written instrument and/or
memorandum which shall specify the date that compensation is first
deferred under this Plan for such Part B Participant and the date
of his/her designation and selection, in such form as is prescribed
by the Committee that shall be in substantially the same form as
Appendix I to this Plan and that shall be made a part of the
records of the Plan and the Company.
C. Not every eligible
Employee/Officer is required to be, or necessarily will be
designated and selected to be a Part B Participant in the
Plan.
D. An eligible
Employee/Officer who is not designated and selected to be a Part B
Participant in the Plan, pursuant to this Section 2.2, shall not be
entitled to any benefit or payment under Part B of the
Plan.
E. No
Employee/Officer, and who is a participant in the Prior Frozen SERP
or entitled to receive any benefit or payment under the Prior
Frozen SERP shall be designated and selected to be a Part B
Participant in the Plan; and it may be made a condition to the
designation and selection of an eligible Employee/Officer to be a
Part B Participant that he/she shall have elected in writing to
completely terminate his/her participation in the Prior Frozen SERP
and waive all his/her entitlement to any benefit or payment under
the Prior Frozen SERP.
F. Notwithstanding
anything otherwise provided herein, any eligible Employee/Officer
who becomes a Part B Participant shall be deemed to consent to and
agree that his/her participation in Part B of the Plan shall
supersede and cancel any entitlement he/she had to any benefit or
payment under the Prior Frozen SERP.
2.3 Scope of Part B
Participation . An Employee/Officer designated and
selected to be a Part B Participant in the Plan shall as a Part B
Participant be entitled solely to the rights and benefits provided
under Part B of the Plan, and such designation and selection shall
not entitle such Employee/Officer to participate in Part A of the
Plan or receive any benefit thereunder; provided, that an
Employee/Officer may be designated and selected to be a Part B
Participant and designated and selected under Part A of the Plan to
be a Part A Participant under the Plan.
2.4
Election to Defer Compensation
A. Except as
otherwise provided in Section 2.4.B. of this Article, the Company,
pursuant to the Plan, elects, determines and provides for the time
and form of payment of a Supplemental Retirement Benefit to any
eligible Employee who is designated and selected to be a Part B
Participant. The time and form of payment of a
Supplemental Retirement Benefit is stated and provided in Article
III of this Part B of the Plan.
B. A Part B
Participant shall make a written Election that shall include a
Specified Time which shall be the Normal Specified Time of
Distribution when his/her Supplemental Retirement Benefit is to be
paid and distributed under the Plan. The Specified Time that may be
stated in the Election, shall be:
(1) The later of (a) a Specified Date, or (b)
the date such Part B Participant (i) attains age fifty (50), (ii)
completes five (5) years of service with the Company, and (iii) has
a Separation from Service with the Company; or
(2) the date such Part B Participant (i) attains
age fifty (50), (ii) completes five (5) years of service with the
Company, and (iii) has a Separation from Service with the
Company.
The Normal Specified Time of Distribution of a
Part B Participant shall in no event be before he/she (i) attains
age fifty (50), (ii) completes five (5) years of service with the
Company, and (iii) has a Separation from Service with the
Company.
C. The designation
and Election of the time and form of payment of the Supplemental
Retirement Benefit of an eligible Employee when he/she is first
designated and selected to be a Part B Participant in the Plan
shall be made and confirmed in writing on or before the date that
is thirty (30) days after the date of such designation and
selection in an instrument prescribed by the Committee, that shall
be in substantially the same form as Appendix I and that shall be
made a part of the records of the Plan and the Company.
D. The designation of
the time and form of payment of a Supplemental Retirement Benefit
of a Part B Participant shall apply with respect to all
compensation deferred under the Plan for the selected Part B
Participant after the date of his/her designation and
selection. The designation of the time and form of
payment of a Supplemental Retirement Benefit of a Part B
Participant shall be effective on and after the date that it is
made by the Part B Participant and the Company as to compensation
deferred under the Plan for all taxable years of the Part B
Participant thereafter.
E. The Plan does not
provide an eligible Employee or Part B Participant the opportunity
to make an initial election of the form of payment of the
Supplemental Retirement Benefit to him/her under the
Plan. A Part B Participant shall be allowed to change
the form of an annuity benefit to the extent provided in Section
3.5 of Article III of this Part B of the Plan. A Part B
Participant shall be allowed to make a Subsequent Election as to
time of payment of an Excess Retirement Benefit as provided in
Section 3.2 of Article III of this Part B of the Plan.
F. All Elections made
under the Plan by and for a Part B Participant on or before
December 31, 2008, shall be retroactively effective to conform to
the terms and provisions of the Plan, as amended and restated
effective December 18, 2008, to meet the requirements of Code
section 409A and Treasury Regulations to the extent allowed under
such regulations and published guidance of the Internal Revenue
Service.
ARTICLE III.
SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT
BENEFIT
3.1 Supplemental
Retirement Benefit .
A. The
Company shall pay a monthly Supplemental Retirement
Benefit to each Part B Participant which shall be an amount
calculated as follows:
(1) Calculate a single (straight) life annuity
payable at age sixty-five (65) equal to the product of the Part B
Participant’s Final Average Earnings, multiplied by the Part
B Participant’s Benefit Factor Percentage at his/her
Retirement under the Table in Section 3.1.D. of this Article III,
below, and then multiplied by the Part B Participant’s
Service Factor Percentage at his/her Retirement under the Table in
Section 3.1.E. of this Article III, below;
(2) Apply early commencement of payment
provisions based upon the age of the Part B Participant when
Supplemental Retirement Benefit payments to the Part B Participant
commence pursuant to Section 3.1.F. of this Article III,
below;
(3) Apply the factors for the form of payment
that has been elected by the Part B Participant in accordance with
the terms and provisions of this Plan as an actuarial equivalent of
a single (straight) life annuity, if such elected form of payment
is other than a single (straight) life annuity, in accordance with
the Plan and reasonable actuarial assumptions and methods, as
determined by the Committee; and
(4) Deduct the Retirement Plan Benefit pursuant
to Section 3.1.G. of this Article III, below, and the Excess
Retirement Benefit pursuant to Section 3.1.H. of this Article III,
below, calculated at the same time and the form of the Supplemental
Retirement Benefit elected under this Plan, irrespective of the
time and form of payment of the Retirement Plan Benefit elected by
the Participant for the Retirement Plan.
B. The Supplemental
Retirement Benefit shall be calculated for the time of the
commencement of payment of it to the Part B Participant
(hereinafter referred to as the "Supplemental Retirement Benefit
Commencement Date") pursuant to the terms and provisions of this
Plan governing the time and form of payment thereof, irrespective
of whether or not a corresponding Retirement Plan Benefit is then
being paid or is to commence payment to such Part B Participant at
that time, and irrespective of the time and form of payment of the
Retirement Plan Benefit that has been elected, is being paid or may
be paid to the Part B Participant.
C. The Committee
shall be authorized to take such other actions and apply procedures
that it determines, in its discretion, to calculate, determine and
commence the payment of a Supplemental Retirement Benefit to a Part
B Participant at the Supplemental Retirement Benefit Commencement
Date.
D. Benefit Factor
Percentage . A Part B Participant’s Benefit
Factor Percentage shall be based upon his/her age at his/her
Retirement, as follows:
|
Retirement Age
|
Benefit Factor
Percentage
|
|
50 & under
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
|
50%
51%
52%
53%
54%
55%
56%
57%
58%
58.5%
59%
59.5%
|
|
Retirement Age
|
Benefit Factor
Percentage
|
|
62
63
64
65 & over
|
60%
60%
60%
60%
|
E.
Service Factor Percentage . A Part B
Participant’s Service Factor Percentage shall be based upon
his/her completed Years of Service at his/her Retirement, as
follows:
|
Years of Service
|
Service Factor Percentage
|
|
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20 & over
|
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
50%
55%
60%
65%
70%
75%
80%
85%
90%
95%
100%
|
F.
Adjustment of Retirement Benefit Payments; Early
Commencement . The amount of a Part B
Participant’s Supplemental Retirement Benefit payments will
be reduced by reason of early commencement of payment thereof,
based on the following table depending upon the Part B
Participant’s age when Supplemental Retirement Benefit
payments to the Part B Participant commence:
|
Part B Participant
Age At Commencement
|
Early Commencement
Reduced
Payout Percentage Factor
|
|
Under 50
50
51
|
0
50%
55%
|
|
Part B Participant
Age At Commencement
|
Early Commencement
Reduced
Payout Percentage Factor
|
|
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62 & over
|
60%
65%
70%
75%
80%
85%
90%
95%
97%
99%
100%
|
G. Retirement Plan
Benefit Offset . The Supplemental Retirement Benefit
of a Part B Participant shall be offset and reduced by an amount
equal to the Retirement Plan Benefit payable to such Part B
Participant to be calculated in the same form of payment and as if
it is to be paid at the time payment of the Supplemental Retirement
Benefit is calculated and made under this Plan.
H. Excess
Retirement Benefit Offset . If a Part B Participant
is also a Part A Participant under the Plan and entitled to receive
an Excess Retirement Benefit under Part A of the Plan, the
Supplemental Retirement Benefit of such Part B Participant shall be
offset and reduced by an amount equal to such Excess Retirement
Benefit payable to such Part B Participant pursuant to Part A of
the Plan.
3.2 Payment of
Supplemental Retirement Benefit .
A. Subject to the
requirements of Section 3.3 below (six-month required delay of
payment for a Specified Employee), a vested Supplemental Retirement
Benefit shall be paid to a Part B Participant entitled thereto or
his/her Beneficiary, commencing on his/her Normal Specified
Distribution Date.
B. A Part B
Participant shall be allowed to make a Subsequent Election to
change the time of distribution and payment of his/her Supplemental
Retirement Benefit from his/her Normal Specified Distribution Date
to a Subsequent Election Distribution Date resulting from such
election, if:
(i) he/she delivers a
written notification of such Subsequent Election to the Committee,
or its designee, in the form it prescribes, not less than twelve
(12) months prior to his/her Normal Specified Distribution Date,
and
(ii) he/she makes a
corresponding Subsequent Election with respect to any Excess
Retirement Benefit he/she is entitled to under Part A of the Plan
in such written notification.
C. A Part B
Participant shall be allowed to make a Subsequent Election as to
any Subsequent Election Distribution Date established for payment
of his/her Supplemental Retirement Benefit if:
(i) he/she delivers a
written notification of such Subsequent Election to the Committee,
or its designee, in the form it prescribes, not less than twelve
(12) months prior to such Subsequent Election Distribution Date,
and
(ii) he/she makes a
corresponding Subsequent Election with respect to any Excess
Retirement Benefit he/she is entitled to under Part A of the Plan
in such written notification.
D. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary otherwise provided in the Plan or in any
Election or Subsequent Election of a P