MasTec, Inc.
Deferred Fee Plan For Directors
ARTICLE I
INTRODUCTION
This
Deferred Fee Plan, adopted by the Company on December 19, 2005, is
established by MasTec, Inc. (the “Company”) for the
benefit of its Directors and their Beneficiaries (as such terms are
defined below), and it shall be maintained according to the terms
hereof.
ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS
When
used herein, the following capitalized words and phrases shall have
the meanings assigned to them, unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise. Other capitalized words and phrases shall have the
meanings assigned to them in the Stock Incentive Plan and
Non-Employee Plan.
2.1 “Board” means the board of directors of the
Company.
2.2 “Beneficiary” means the person or persons,
natural or otherwise, designated by a Director under Article
VIII.
2.3 “Board” means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
2.4 “Cash Account” means a bookkeeping account
established by the Company in the name of a Director to which is
credited (i) any Fees that are deferred by the Director under
section 3.1(a) and directed into the Cash Account under section
3.1(b), and (ii) any interest that is credited to the Director
under Article IV.
2.5 “Cash Fees” means any Fees payable in
cash.
2.6 “Change in Control” means a Change in
Control as defined in the Stock Incentive and Non-Employee
Plans.
2.7 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended.
2.8 “Common Stock” means the common stock of the
Company.
2.9 “Compensation Committee” means the
Compensation Committee of the Board.
2.10 “Deferred Fee Accounts” means a Director's
Cash Account and Stock Account.
2.11 “Deferred Fee Agreement” means the written
agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, between
the Company and a Director, which, together with the Deferred Fee
Plan, governs the Director’s rights to payment of deferred
Fees (adjusted for interest and dividends, as applicable) under the
Deferred Fee Plan.
2.12 “Deferred Fee Plan” means the MasTec, Inc.
Deferred Fee Plan For Directors set forth in this document,
effective as of January 1, 2006, as amended by the Board from time
to time.
2.13 “Deferred Stock” means Deferred Stock as
defined in the Stock Incentive Plan and the Non-Employee
Plan.
2.14 “ Director” means an Employee Director or
Outside Director.
2.15 “Employee Directors” means those Directors
who are not "Outside Directors."
2.16 “Fair Market Value” means, as of any date,
the value of Common Stock determined as follows:
(a)
If the Common Stock is listed on any established stock exchange or
a national market system, including without limitation the Nasdaq
National Market or The Nasdaq SmallCap Market of The Nasdaq Stock
Market, its Fair Market Value shall be the closing sales price for
such stock (or the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as
quoted on such exchange or system on the day of determination, as
reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the
administrator of this Deferred Fee Plan deems reliable;
(b)
If the Common Stock is regularly quoted by a recognized securities
dealer but selling prices are not reported, its Fair Market Value
shall be the mean between the high bid and low asked prices for the
Common Stock on the day of determination; or
(c)
In the absence of an established market for the Common Stock, the
Fair Market Value thereof shall be determined in good faith by the
administrator of this Deferred Fee Plan.
2.17 “Fees” means the annual retainer paid to a
Director, any fees paid to a Director for attending meetings of the
Board or any committee of the Board, and any fees paid to a
Director for serving as chairman of a committee of the
Board.
2.18 “Interest” means the amount of interest
credited to a Director's Cash Account pursuant to Article
IV.
2.19 “Non-Employee Plan” means the 2003 Stock
Incentive Plan For Non-Employees, as amended and restated,
effective October 16, 2003, as hereinafter may be further amended
from time to time.
2.20 “Outside Directors” means those Directors
who are “independent” under the independence
requirements of the New York Stock Exchange and who qualify as
nonemployee directors under Rule 16b-3 under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and “outside
directors” under Section 162(m) of the Code.
2.21 “Separation from Service” means the
cessation of services as a Director, and in the case of an Employee
Director, the voluntary or involuntary severing of employment from
the Company for any reason other than the Participant’s death
or Disability, determined in a manner consistent with the
requirements of Section 409A(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Code and the
Treasury Regulations and other guidance issued
thereunder.
2.22 “Share” means a share of Common
Stock.
2.23 “Specified Employee” means any Employee
Director who, at the time of his or her Separation from Service, is
a key employee, within the meaning of Section 416(i) of the Code,
of the Company if, at the time a distribution is being made, the
Company’s Common Stock is publicly traded on an established
securities market or otherwise, or the Employee Director is
otherwise deemed to be a specified employee under Section
409A(a)(2)(B)(i) of the Code.
2.24 “Stock Account” means a bookkeeping account
established by the Company in the name of a Director to which are
credited with Shares for any Fees that are deferred by the Director
under section 3.1(a) and directed into the Stock Account under
section 3.1(b), and (ii) any additional Shares that are
credited by the Company under Article V.
2.25 “Stock Fees” means the Fees payable in
shares of Common Stock, including without limitation any shares of
restricted stock granted to the Director pursuant to the Stock
Incentive Plan or the Non-Employee Plan.
2.26 “Stock Incentive Plan” means the
Company’s 2003 Employee Stock Incentive Plan, as hereinafter
may be amended from time to time..
2.27 “Treasury Regulations” means the
regulations promulgated by the United States Treasury Department
with respect to the Code.
2.28 “Unforeseeable Emergency” means a severe
financial hardship to the Director resulting from: (1) an illness
or accident of the Director, the Director’s spouse, or a
dependent of the Director (as defined in Code Sec. 152(a)); (2)
loss of the Director’s property due to casualty; or (3) other
similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a
result of events beyond the Director’s control. This
definition of Unforeseeable Emergency shall, at all times, be
subject to the definition of an “unforeseeable
emergency” as provided for in the Treasury Regulations for
Section 409A of the Code. The existence of a Unforeseeable
Emergency shall be determined by the Compensation Committee of the
Company in his discretion.
ARTICLE III
DEFERRAL OF FEES
3.1 Election To Defer Fees.
(a)
A Director may elect to defer Fees earned for a given year by
filing a Deferred Fee Agreement with the Company by no later than
December 31 of the year prior to the calendar year in which the
Fees are to be earned. For a new Director, the election to defer
Fees earned during his or her initial calendar year of service
shall be made within 30 days following the Director’s
election or appointment, and shall not apply with respect to any
Fees earned in any calendar quarter ending on or before the
election is made. Each election shall remain in force for
subsequent calendar years unless and until modified or revoked by
the Director prior to the beginning of the calendar year with
respect to which the modification or revocation is to be
effective.
(b)
When a Director elects, pursuant to a Deferred Fee Agreement, to
defer Fees under section 3.1(a), the Director shall also elect in
the Deferred Fee Agreement whether Fees being deferred should be
credited to his or her Cash Account or to his or her Stock Account;
provided, however, that deferred Stock Fees only may be credited to
the Director’s Stock Account.
(c)
A Director shall elect, in each Deferred Fee Agreement, the method
of payment, under Article VI hereof pursuant to which the portion
of the Director’s Deferred Fee Accounts resulting from such
deferrals is to be distributed. A Director may make separate
elections with respect to amounts credited to the Director’s
Stock Account and Cash Account. To the extent that a Director fails
to elect the method of payment of his or her Deferred Fee Accounts,
the Director’s Deferred Fee Accounts shall be distributed in
a lump-sum as of the January 15 th following the
Director’s Separation from Service from the Company (subject
to section 6.1 of this Deferred Fee Plan).
3.2 Crediting to Deferred Fee Accounts.
(a)
If a Director elects under section 3.1(b) to have Cash Fees
credited to his or her Cash Account, the Company shall credit the
Director’s Cash Account, on the date that the Cash Fees
otherwise would have been payable to the Director, with the portion
of the Cash Fees that the Director has elected in the Deferred Fee
Agreement to defer into the Cash Account.
(b)
If a Director elects under section 3.1(b) to have Cash Fees
credited to his or her Stock Account, the Company shall credit the
Director’s Stock Account, on the date that the Fees otherwise
would have been payable to the Director, with a certain number of
shares of Deferred Stock. The number of shares of Deferred Stock
credited to the Stock Account shall be the quotient that results
from dividing the portion of the Cash Fees that the Director elects
in the Deferred Fee Agreement to be credited to his or her Stock
Account by the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the
date on which the Cash Fee otherwise would have been payable to the
Director.
(c)
If a Director elects under section 3.1(b) to have Stock Fees
credited to his or her Stock Account, the Company shall credit the
Director’s Stock Account, on the date that the shares of
Common Stock that comprise the Stock Fees otherwise would have been
transferred to the Director, with a number of shares of Deferred
Stock equal to the number of shares of Common Stock that the
Director has elected to defer under the Deferred Fee
Agreement.
(d)
No fractional shares of Deferred Stock shall be credited under the
Deferred Fee Plan. The number of shares of Deferred Stock credited
shall always be rounded down to the next whole unit and any
fractional amount will be credited as cash into the
Director’s Cash Account.
(e)
Deferred Stock shall have the terms set forth in the
Director’s Deferred Fee Agreement (which shall serve to the
extent necessary as the Agreement for the Deferred Stock award
under the Stock Incentive Plan or the Non-Employee Plan, as
applicable) and the Deferred Fee Plan, to the extent that such
terms are not inconsistent with the terms of the Stock Incentive
Plan or the Non-Employee Plan, as applicable.
(f)
If and to the extent that any Stock Fees are deferred pursuant to
this Plan, the Deferred Stock credited to the Director’s
Stock Account as a result of that deferral shall become vested and
nonforfeitable at the same times that the Stock Fees would have
become vested and nonforfeitable had the Participant not elected to
defer such Stock Fees pursuant to this Deferred Fee Plan, and for
purposes of determining the amount distributable to a Participant
under this Deferred Fee Plan, the Direct