EXHIBIT 10.01
The CORPORATE plan for Retirement
SM EXECUTIVE PLAN
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
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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.
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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:
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(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.
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“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).
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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 port ion 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 hereunder” refers only to
the date the Participant becomes a Participant with respect to
Deferral Contributions.
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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 hereunder”
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).
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(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.
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(5) “Beneficiary”
means the person or persons entitled under Section 7.02 to receive
benefits under the Plan upon the death of a Participant.
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(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.
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(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:
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(A)
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The corporation for which the
Participant is performing services at the time of the change in
control event;
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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
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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.
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(8) “Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time.
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(9) “Compensation”
means for purposes of Article 4:
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(A)
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If the Employer elects Section
1.04(a), such term as defined in such Section 1.04(a).
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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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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).
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For purposes of this Section
2.01(a)(9), Compensation shall also include amounts deferred
pursuant to an election under Section 4.01.
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(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.
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(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.
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(12) “Disability”
is described in Section 1.07(a)(2).
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(13) “Employee”
means any employee of the Employer.
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(14) “Employer”
means the employer named in Section 1.02(a) and any Related
Employers listed in Section 1.02(b).
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(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.
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(16) “Employment
Commencement Date” means the date on which the Employee
commences employment with the Employer.
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(17) “ERISA”
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as from
time to time amended.
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(18) “Inactive
Participant” means a Participant who is not an Employee or
Director.
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(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.
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(20) “Non-performance-based
Bonus” means any Bonus listed under the column entitled
“non-performance based” in Section
1.05(a)(2).
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(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).
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(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).
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(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.
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(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)).
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(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
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(A) For
purposes of this paragraph (26), the definition of “Related
Employer” shall be modified as follows:
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(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
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(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.
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(B) In the event a
Participant provides services to the Employer or a Related Employer
as an Employee and a Director,
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(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
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(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
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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).
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(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.
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(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.
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(30) “Trust
Fund” means the property held in the Trust by the
Trustee.
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(31) “Trustee”
means the individual(s) or entity appointed by the Employer under
the Trust agreement.
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(32) “Unforeseeable
Emergency” is as defined in 26 CFR section 1.409A
-3(i)(3)(i).
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(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.
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(b) Pronouns used
in the Plan are in the masculine gender but include the feminine
gender unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
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Article 3.
Participation .
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 .
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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(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 but ceases to be an eligible Director, the
individual shall not receive an allocation of Matching or Employer
Contributions for the period during which he is not an eligible
Director. 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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Article 4.
Contributions .
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4. 01
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Deferral
Contributions . If
elected by the Employer pursuant to Section 1.05(a) and/or 1.06(a),
a Participant described in such applicable Section may elect to
reduce his Compensation by a specified percentage or dollar amount.
The Employer shall credit an amount to the Participant’s
Account equal to the amount of such reduction. Except as otherwise
provided in this Section 4.01, such election shall be effective to
defer Compensation relating to all services performed in the
calendar year beginning after the calendar year in which the
Participant executes the election. Under no circumstances may a
salary reduction agreement be adopted retroactively. If the
Employer has elected to apply Section 1.05(a)(2), no amount will be
deducted from Bonuses unless the Participant has made a separate
deferral election applicable to such Bonuses. A Participant’s
election to defer Compensation may be changed at any time before
the last permissible date for making such election, at which time
such election becomes irrevocable. Notwithstanding anything herein
to the contrary, the conditions under which a Participant may make
a deferral election as provided in the applicable salary reduction
agreement are hereby incorporated herein and supersede any
otherwise inconsistent Plan provision.
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Performance Based
Bonus .
With respect to a Performance-based
Bonus, a separate election made pursuant to Section 1.05(a)(2) will
be effective to defer such Bonus if made no later than 6
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