Exhibit 10.40
The CORPORATE
plan for Retirement SM
EXECUTIVE P
LAN
BASIC PLAN
DOCUMENT
IMPORTANT NOTE
This document has not been
approved by the Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service
or any other governmental entity. The Employer must determine
whether the plan is subject to the Federal securities laws and the
securities laws of the various states. The Employer may not rely on
this document to ensure any particular tax consequences or to
ensure that the Plan is “unfunded and maintained primarily
for the purpose of providing deferred compensation to a select
group of management or highly compensated employees” under
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act with respect to the
Employer’s particular situation. Fidelity Management Trust
Company, its affiliates and employees cannot and do not provide
legal or tax advice or opinions in connection with this document.
This document does not constitute legal or tax advice or opinions
and is not intended or written to be used, and it cannot be used by
any taxpayer, for the purposes of avoiding penalties that may be
imposed on the taxpayer. This document must be reviewed by
the Employer’s attorney prior to adoption.
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CORPORATEplan for Retirement
EXECUTIVE
BASIC PLAN
DOCUMENT
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ARTICLE 1
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ADOPTION AGREEMENT
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ARTICLE 2
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DEFINITIONS
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2.01 - Definitions
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ARTICLE 3
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PARTICIPATION
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3.01 - Date of Participation
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3.02 - Participation Following a Change in
Status
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ARTICLE 4
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CONTRIBUTIONS
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4.01 - Deferral Contributions
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4.02 - Matching Contributions
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4.03 - Employer Contributions
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4.04 - Election Forms
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ARTICLE 5
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PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNTS
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ARTICLE 6
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INVESTMENT OF ACCOUNTS
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6.01 - Manner of Investment
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6.02 - Investment Decisions, Earnings and
Expenses
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ARTICLE 7
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RIGHT TO BENEFITS
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7.01 - Retirement
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7.02 - Death
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7.03 - Separation from Service
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7.04 - Vesting after Partial
Distribution
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7.05 - Forfeitures
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7.06 - Change in Control
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7.07 - Disability
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7.08 - Directors
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ARTICLE 8
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DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS
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8.01 - Events Triggering and Form of
Distributions
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8.02 - Notice to Trustee
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8.03 - Unforeseeable Emergency
Withdrawals
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ARTICLE 9
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AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION
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9.01 - Amendment by Employer
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9.02 - Termination
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ARTICLE 10
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MISCELLANEOUS
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10.01 - Communication to Participants
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10.02 - Limitation of Rights
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10.03 - Nonalienability of Benefits
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10.04 - Facility of Payment
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10.05 - Plan Records
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10.06 - USERRA
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10.07 - Governing Law
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ARTICLE 11
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PLAN ADMINISTRATION
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11.01 - Powers and Responsibilities of the
Administrator
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11.02 - Claims and Review Procedures
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PREAMBLE
It is the intention of the
Employer to establish herein an unfunded plan maintained solely for
the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select group
of management or highly compensated employees as provided in ERISA.
The Employer further intends that this Plan comply with Code
section 409A, and the Plan is to be construed
accordingly.
If the Employer has previously
maintained the Plan described herein pursuant to a previously
existing plan document or description, the Employer’s
adoption of this Plan document is an amendment and complete
restatement of, and supersedes, such previously existing document
or description with respect to benefits accrued or to be paid on or
after the effective date of this document (except to the extent
expressly provided otherwise herein).
Article 1. Adoption
Agreement .
Article 2. Definitions
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2.01. Definitions
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(a) Wherever used herein, the
following terms have the meanings set forth below, unless a
different meaning is clearly required by the context:
(1) “Account” means an
account established on the books of the Employer for the purpose of
recording amounts credited to a Participant and any income,
expenses, gains, or losses attributable thereto.
(2) “Active Participant”
means a Participant who is eligible to accrue benefits under a plan
(other than earnings on amounts previously deferred) within the
24-month period ending on the date the Participant becomes a
Participant under Section 3.01. Notwithstanding the above,
however, a Participant is not an Active Participant if he has been
paid all amounts deferred under the plan, provided that he was, on
and before the date of the last payment, ineligible to continue or
to elect to continue to participate in the plan for periods after
such last payment (other than through an election of a different
time and form of payment with respect to the amounts
paid).
(A) For purposes of
Section 4.01(d), as used in the first paragraph of the
definition of “Active Participant” above,
“plan” means an account balance plan (or portion
thereof) of the Employer or a Related Employer subject to Code
section 409A pursuant to which the Participant is eligible to
accrue benefits only if the Participant elects to defer
compensation thereunder, and the “date the Participant
becomes a Participant under Section 3.01” refers only to
the date the Participant becomes a Participant with respect to
Deferral Contributions.
(B) For purposes of
Section 8.01(a)(2), as used in the first paragraph of the
definition of “Active Participant” above,
“plan” means an account balance plan (or portion
thereof) of the Employer or a Related Employer subject to Code
section 409A pursuant to which the Participant is eligible to
accrue benefits without any election by the Participant to defer
compensation thereunder, and the “date the Participant
becomes a Participant under Section 3.01” refers only to
the date the Participant becomes a Participant with respect to
Matching or Employer Contributions.
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(3) “Administrator”
means the Employer adopting this Plan (but excluding Related
Employers) or other person designated by the Employer in
Section 1.01(c).
(4) “Adoption Agreement”
means Article 1, under which the Employer establishes and adopts or
amends the Plan and selects certain provisions of the Plan. The
provisions of the Adoption Agreement are an integral part of the
Plan.
(5) “Beneficiary” means
the person or persons entitled under Section 7.02 to receive
benefits under the Plan upon the death of a Participant.
(6) “Bonus” means any
Performance-based Bonus or any Non-performance-based Bonus as
listed and identified in the table in Section 1.05(a)(2)
hereof.
(7) “Change in Control”
means a change in control with respect to the applicable
corporation, as defined in 26 CFR section 1.409A-3(i)(5). For
purposes of this definition “applicable corporation”
means:
(A) The corporation for which the
Participant is performing services at the time of the change in
control event;
(B) The corporation(s) liable for
payment hereunder (but only if either the accrued benefit hereunder
is attributable to the performance of service by the Participant
for such corporation(s) or there is a bona fide business purpose
for such corporation(s) to be liable for such payment and, in
either case, no significant purpose of making such corporation(s)
liable for such benefit is the avoidance of Federal income tax);
or
(C) A corporate majority shareholder
of one of the corporations described in (A) or (B) above
or any corporation in a chain of corporations in which each
corporation is a majority shareholder of another corporation in the
chain, ending in a corporation identified in (A) or
(B) above.
(8) “Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time.
(9) “Compensation” means
for purposes of Article 4:
(A) If the Employer elects
Section 1.04(a), such term as defined in such
Section 1.04(a).
(B) If the Employer elects
Section 1.04(b), wages as defined in Code section 3401(a) and
all other payments of compensation to an Employee by the Employer
(in the course of the Employer’s trade or business) for which
the Employer is required to furnish the Employee a written
statement under Code sections 6041(d) and 6051(a)(3), excluding any
items elected by the Employer in Section 1.04(b),
reimbursements or other expense allowances, fringe benefits (cash
and non-cash), moving expenses, deferred compensation and welfare
benefits, but including amounts that are not includable in the
gross income of the Employee under a salary reduction agreement by
reason of the application of Code section 125, 132(f)(4),
402(e)(3), 402(h) or 403(b). Compensation shall be determined
without regard to any rules under Code section 3401(a) that limit
the remuneration included in wages based on the nature or location
of the employment or the services performed (such as the exception
for agricultural labor in Code section 3401(a)(2)).
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(C) If the Employer elects
Section 1.04(c), any and all monetary remuneration paid to the
Director by the Employer, including, but not limited to, meeting
fees and annual retainers, and excluding items listed in
Section 1.04(c).
For purposes of this
Section 2.01(a)(9), Compensation shall also include amounts
deferred pursuant to an election under
Section 4.01.
(10) “Deferral
Contribution” means a hypothetical contribution credited to a
Participant’s Account as the result of the
Participant’s election to reduce his Compensation in exchange
for such credit, as described in Section 4.01.
(11) “Director” means a
person, other than an Employee, who is elected or appointed as a
member of the board of directors of the Employer, with respect to a
corporation, or to an analogous position with respect to an entity
that is not a corporation.
(12) “Disability” is
described in Section 1.07(a)(2).
(13) “Employee” means
any employee of the Employer.
(14) “Employer” means
the employer named in Section 1.02(a) and any Related
Employers listed in Section 1.02(b).
(15) “Employer
Contribution” means a hypothetical contribution credited to a
Participant’s Account under the Plan as a result of the
Employer’s crediting of such amount, as described in
Section 4.03.
(16) “Employment Commencement
Date” means the date on which the Employee commences
employment with the Employer.
(17) “ERISA” means the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as from time to
time amended.
(18) “Inactive
Participant” means a Participant who is not an Employee or
Director.
(19) “Matching
Contribution” means a hypothetical contribution credited to a
Participant’s Account under the Plan as a result of the
Employer’s crediting of such amount, as described in
Section 4.02.
(20) “Non-performance-based
Bonus” means any Bonus listed under the column entitled
“non-performance based” in
Section 1.05(a)(2).
(21) “Participant” means
any Employee or Director who participates in the Plan in accordance
with Article 3 (or formerly participated in the Plan and has an
amount credited to his Account).
(22) “Performance-based
Bonus” means any Bonus listed under the column entitled
“performance based” in Section 1.05(a)(2), which
constitutes compensation, the amount of, or entitlement to, which
is contingent on the satisfaction of pre-established organizational
or individual performance criteria relating to a performance period
of at least 12 consecutive months and which is further defined in
26 CFR section 1.409A-1(e).
(23) “Permissible
Investment” means the investments specified by the Employer
as available for hypothetical investment of Accounts. The
Permissible Investments under the Plan are listed in the Service
Agreement, and the provisions of the Service Agreement listing the
Permissible Investments are hereby incorporated herein.
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(24) “Plan” means the
plan established by the Employer as set forth herein as a new plan
or as an amendment to an existing plan, such establishment to be
evidenced by the Employer’s execution of the Adoption
Agreement, together with any and all amendments hereto.
(25) “Related Employer”
means any employer other than the Employer named in
Section 1.02(a), if the Employer and such other employer are
members of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Code
section 414(b)) or trades or businesses (whether or not
incorporated) under common control (as defined in Code section
414(c)).
(26) “Separation from
Service” means the date the Participant retires or otherwise
has a termination of employment (or a termination of the contract
pursuant to which the Participant has provided services as a
Director, for a Director Participant) with the Employer and all
Related Employers, as further defined in 26 CFR section
1.409A-1(h); provided, however, that
(A) For purposes of this paragraph
(26), the definition of “Related Employer” shall be
modified as follows:
(i) In applying Code section
1563(a)(1), (2) and (3) for purposes of determining a
controlled group of corporations under Code section 414(b), the
phrase “at least 50%” shall be used instead of
“at least 80 percent” each place “at least 80
percent” appears in Code section 1563(a)(1), (2) and
(3); and
(ii) In applying 26 CFR section
1.414(c)-2 for purposes of determining trades or business (whether
or not incorporated) under common control for purposes of Code
section 414(c), the phrase “at least 50%” shall be used
instead of “at least 80 percent” each place “at
least 80 percent” appears in 26 CFR section
1.414(c)-2.
(B) In the event a Participant
provides services to the Employer or a Related Employer as an
Employee and a Director,
(i) The Employee Participant’s
services as a Director are not taken into account in determining
whether the Participant has a Separation from Service as an
Employee; and
(ii) The Director
Participant’s services as an Employee are not taken into
account in determining whether the Participant has a Separation
from Service as a Director
provided that this Plan is not
aggregated with a plan subject to Code section 409A in which the
Director Participant participates as an employee of the Employer or
a Related Employer or in which the Employee Participant
participates as a director (or a similar position with respect to a
non-corporate entity) of the Employer or a Related Employer, as
applicable, pursuant to 26 CFR section
1.409A-1(c)(2)(ii).
(27) “Service Agreement”
means the agreement between the Employer and Trustee regarding the
arrangement between the parties for recordkeeping services with
respect to the Plan.
(28) “Specified
Employee,” (unless defined by the Employer in a separate
writing, in which case such writing is hereby incorporated herein)
means a Participant who meets the requirements in 26 CFR section
1.409A-1(i) applying the default definition components provided in
such regulation (those that would apply absent elections, as
described in 26 CFR section 1.409A-1(i)(8)), including an
identification date of December 31. In the event that such
default definition components are applicable, the Employer has
elected Section 1.01(b)(2) and, immediately prior to the date
in Section 1.01(b)(2), the Plan applied an identification date
(the “prior date”) other than the December 31, the
prior date shall continue to apply, and December 31 shall not
apply, until the date that is 12 months after the date in
Section 1.01(b)(2).
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(29) “Trust” means the
trust created by the Employer, pursuant to the Trust agreement
between the Employer and the Trustee, under which assets are held,
administered, and managed, subject to the claims of the
Employer’s creditors in the event of the Employer’s
insolvency, until paid to Participants and their Beneficiaries as
specified in the Plan.
(30) “Trust Fund” means
the property held in the Trust by the Trustee.
(31) “Trustee” means the
individual(s) or entity appointed by the Employer under the Trust
agreement.
(32) “Unforeseeable
Emergency” is as defined in 26 CFR section
1.409A-3(i)(3)(i).
(33) “Year of Service”
is as defined in Section 7.03(b) for purposes of the elapsed
time method and in Section 7.03(c) for purposes of the class
year method.
(b) Pronouns used in the Plan are in
the masculine gender but include the feminine gender unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise.
Article 3. Participation
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3.01. Date of
Participation . An
Employee or Director becomes a Participant on the date such
Employee’s or Director’s participation becomes
effective (as described in Section 1.03).
3.02. Participation following
a Change in Status .
(a) If a Participant ceases to be an
Employee or Director and thereafter resumes the same status he had
as a Participant during his immediately previous participation in
the Plan (as an Employee if previously a Participant as an Employee
and as a Director if previously a Participant as a Director), he
will again become a Participant immediately upon resumption of such
status, provided, however, that if such Participant is a Director,
he is an eligible Director upon resumption of such status (as
defined in Section 1.03(b)), and provided, further, that if
such Participant is an Employee, he is an eligible Employee upon
resumption of such status (as defined in Section 1.03(a)).
Deferral Contributions to such Participant’s Account
thereafter, if any, shall be subject to (1) or
(2) below.
(1) If the Participant resumes such
status during a period for which such Participant had previously
made a valid deferral election pursuant to Section 4.01, he
shall immediately resume such Deferral Contributions. Deferral
Contributions applicable to periods thereafter shall be made
pursuant to the election and other rules described in
Section 4.01.
(2) If the Participant resumes such
status after the period described in the first sentence of
paragraph (1) of this Section 3.02, any Deferral
Contributions with respect to such Participant shall be made
pursuant to the election and other rules described in
Section 4.01.
(b) When an individual who is a
Participant due to his status as an eligible Employee (as defined
in Section 1.03(a)) continues in the employ of the Employer or
Related Employer but ceases to be an eligible Employee, the
individual shall not receive an allocation of Matching or Employer
Contributions for the period during which he is not an eligible
Employee. Such Participant shall continue to make Deferral
Contributions throughout the remainder of the applicable period (as
described in Section 4.01) in which such change in status
occurs, if, and as, applicable.
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(c) When an individual who is a
Participant due to his status as an eligible Director (as defined
in Section 1.03(b)) continues his directorship with the
Employer or a Related Employer b