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Title: 2005 SUPPLEMENTAL EXECUTIVE RETIREMENT PLAN
Date: 2/25/2009
Industry: Natural Gas Utilities     Sector: Utilities

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Exhibit 10.3

 

 

 

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

 

PURPOSE

1

PART A.

EXCESS RETIREMENT BENEFITS

2

ARTICLE I.     PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF PART A

3

1.1

Part A; Excess Retirement Benefits

3

1.2

Separate Benefits

3

1.3

Deferral of Compensation

3

ARTICLE II.     ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

3

2.1

Eligibility for Selection

3

2.2

Designation and Selection of Part A Participants in the Plan

3

2.3

Scope of Part A Participation

4

2.4

Election to Defer Compensation

4

ARTICLE III.     EXCESS RETIREMENT BENEFIT

5

3.1

Excess Retirement Benefit

5

3.2

Payment of Excess Retirement Benefit

6

3.3

Specified Employee; Six (6) Month Required Delay in Payment

8

3.4

Vesting of Excess Retirement Benefit

8

3.5

Form of Payment

9

3.6

Disability

9

3.7

Death

9

3.8

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan Requirements

9

ARTICLE IV.     BENEFICIARY

10

ARTICLE V.      LEAVE OF ABSENCE

10

ARTICLE VI.     ADMINISTRATION OF PART A OF THIS PLAN

10

PART B.

SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS

11

ARTICLE I.        PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF PART B

12

1.1

Part B, Supplemental Retirement Benefits

12

1.2

Separate Benefits

12

1.3

Deferral of Compensation

12

ARTICLE II.   BENEFIT ACCOUNTS

12

2.1

Eligibility for Selection

12

 

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2.2

Designation and Selection of Part B Participants in the Plan

12

2.3

Scope of Part B Participation

13

2.4

Election to Defer Compensation

13

ARTICLE III.     SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT BENEFIT

14

3.1

Supplemental Retirement Benefit

14

3.2

Payment of Supplemental Retirement Benefit

16

3.3

Specified Employee; Six (6) Month Required Delay in Payment

19

3.4

Vesting of Supplemental Retirement Benefit

19

3.5

Form of Payment

19

3.6

Disability

20

3.7

Death

20

3.8

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan Requirements

20

ARTICLE IV.   BENEFICIARY

20

ARTICLE V.   SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT BENEFIT  ADJUSTMENTS

21

ARTICLE VI.   LEAVE OF ABSENCE

21

ARTICLE VII.  ADMINISTRATION OF PART B OF THE PLAN

21

PART C.

PLAN ADIMINSTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

22

ARTICLE I.        PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF PART C

23

ARTICLE II.   DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION

23

2.1

Definitions

23

2.2

Construction

29

2.3

Plan Purpose

29

ARTICLE III.   COMMITTEE

29

3.1

Appointment of Committee

29

3.2

Committee Officials

29

3.3

Committee Action

30

3.4

Committee Rules and Powers

30

3.5

Reliance on Certificates, etc.

30

3.6

Liability of Committee

30

3.7

Determination of Benefits

30

3.8

Information to Committee

31

ARTICLE IV.   ADOPTION OF PLAN BY SUBSIDIARY, AFFILIATED OR ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

31

ARTICLE V.   SOURCE OF BENEFITS

31

5.1

Benefits Payable

31

 

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5.2

Investments to Facilitate Payment of Benefits

31

5.3

Ownership of Insurance Contracts

31

5.4

Trust for Payment of Benefits

32

ARTICLE VI.                                 TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT

32

ARTICLE VII.                                TERMINATION OF PARTICIPATION

33

ARTICLE VIII.                                           TERMINATION, AMENDMENT, MODIFICATION, OR SUPPLEMENT OF THE PLAN

33

8.1

Amendment or Termination

33

8.2

Rights and Obligations Upon Amendment, Termination

34

ARTICLE IX.                                 TREATMENT OF BENEFITS

34

ARTICLE X.                                 RESTRICTIONS ON ALIENATION OF BENEFITS

35

ARTICLE XI.                                 MISCELLANEOUS

35

11.1

Deferral of Compensation Requirements

35

11.2

Execution of Receipts and Releases

36

11.3

No Guarantee of Interests

36

11.4

Company Records

36

11.5

Evidence

36

11.6

Notice

36

11.7

Change of Address

37

11.8

Effect of Provisions

37

11.9

Headings

37

11.10

Governing Law

37

11.11

Effective Date

37

APPENDIX I

38

 

 

 

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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.

 

                       

 

 

 

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PART A.                        EXCESS RETIREMENT BENEFITS

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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

 

 

 

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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

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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.

 

                     

 

 

 

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PART B.                        SUPPLEMENTAL RETIREMENT BENEFITS

 

                                

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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;

 

 

 

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(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%

 

 

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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%

 

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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.

 

 

 

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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


 
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