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FIDELITY BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT NO. 02 THE CORPORATEPLAN FOR RETIREMENTSM

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FIDELITY BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT NO. 02

THE CORPORATEPLAN

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Title: FIDELITY BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT NO. 02 THE CORPORATEPLAN FOR RETIREMENTSM
Governing Law: Massachusetts     Date: 7/10/2009
Industry: Retail (Catalog and Mail Order)     Sector: Services

FIDELITY BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT NO. 02

THE CORPORATEPLAN

FOR RETIREMENTSM, Parties: overstock.com  inc
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Exhibit 4.1

 

THE CORPORATEPLAN

 

FOR RETIREMENT SM

 

FIDELITY BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT NO. 02

THE CORPORATEPLAN

FOR RETIREMENT SM

 

The CORPORATEplan for Retirement SM  

Basic Plan Document 02

 

10/9/2003

 

©2003 FMR Corp.

All rights reserved.

 



 

Preamble.

 

Article 1.  Adoption Agreement.

 

Article 2. Definitions.

 

2.01.

Definitions

1

2.02.

Pronouns

11

2.03.

Special Effective Dates

11

Article 3. Service.

 

3.01.

Crediting of Eligibility Service

11

3.02.

Re-Crediting of Eligibility Service Following Termination of Employment

11

3.03.

Crediting of Vesting Service

12

3.04.

Application of Vesting Service to a Participant’s Account Following a Break in Vesting Service

12

3.05.

Service with Predecessor Employer

12

3.06.

Change in Service Crediting

12

Article 4. Participation.

 

4.01.

Date of Participation

12

4.02.

Transfers Out of Covered Employment

13

4.03.

Transfers Into Covered Employment

13

4.04.

Resumption of Participation Following Reemployment

13

Article 5. Contributions.

 

5.01.

Contributions Subject to Limitations

14

5.02.

Compensation Taken into Account in Determining Contributions

14

5.03.

Deferral Contributions

14

5.04.

Employee Contributions

15

5.05.

No Deductible Employee Contributions

15

5.06.

Rollover Contributions

15

5.07.

Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions

16

5.08.

Matching Employer Contributions

17

5.09.

Qualified Matching Employer Contributions

17

5.10.

Nonelective Employer Contributions

17

5.11.

Vested Interest in Contributions

19

5.12.

Time for Making Contributions

20

5.13.

Return of Employer Contributions

20

Article 6. Limitations on Contributions.

 

6.01.

Special Definitions

20

6.02.

Code Section 402(g) Limit on Deferral Contributions

27

6.03.

Additional Limit on Deferral Contributions

27

6.04.

Allocation and Distribution of “Excess Contributions”

28

6.05.

Reductions in Deferral Contributions to Meet Code Requirements

29

6.06.

Limit on Matching Employer Contributions and Employee Contributions

29

6.07.

Allocation, Distribution, and Forfeiture of “Excess Aggregate Contributions”

30

6.08.

Aggregate Limit on “Contribution Percentage Amounts” and “Includable Contributions”

30

6.09.

Income or Loss on Distributable Contributions

31

6.10.

Deemed Satisfaction of “ADP” Test

31

 

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6.11.

Deemed Satisfaction of “ACP” Test With Respect to Matching Employer Contributions

32

6.12.

Code Section 415 Limitations

32

Article 7. Participants’ Accounts.

 

7.01.

Individual Accounts

36

7.02.

Valuation of Accounts

36

Article 8. Investment of Contributions.

 

8.01.

Manner of Investment

36

8.02.

Investment Decisions

36

8.03.

Participant Directions to Trustee

37

Article 9. Participant Loans.

 

9.01.

Special Definitions

38

9.02.

Participant Loans

38

9.03.

Separate Loan Procedures

38

9.04.

Availability of Loans

38

9.05.

Limitation on Loan Amount

38

9.06.

Interest Rate

38

9.07.

Level Amortization

39

9.08.

Security

39

9.09.

Transfer and Distribution of Loan Amounts from Permissible Investments

39

9.10.

Default

39

9.11.

Effect of Termination Where Participant has Outstanding Loan Balance

39

9.12.

Deemed Distributions Under Code Section 72(p)

40

9.13.

Determination of Account Value Upon Distribution Where Plan Loan is Outstanding

40

Article 10. In-Service Withdrawals.

 

10.01.

Availability of In-Service Withdrawals

41

10.02.

Withdrawal of Employee Contributions

41

10.03.

Withdrawal of Rollover Contributions

41

10.04.

Age 59 1/2 Withdrawals

41

10.05.

Hardship Withdrawals

41

10.06.

Preservation of Prior Plan In-Service Withdrawal Rules

42

10.07.

Restrictions on In-Service Withdrawals

43

10.08.

Distribution of Withdrawal Amounts

43

Article 11. Right to Benefits.

 

11.01.

Normal or Early Retirement

44

11.02.

Late Retirement

44

11.03.

Disability Retirement

44

11.04.

Death

44

11.05.

Other Termination of Employment

44

11.06.

Application for Distribution

45

11.07.

Application of Vesting Schedule Following Partial Distribution

45

11.08.

Forfeitures

45

11.09.

Application of Forfeitures

46

11.10.

Reinstatement of Forfeitures

46

11.11.

Adjustment for Investment Experience

46

 

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Article 12. Distributions.

 

12.01.

Restrictions on Distributions

47

12.02.

Timing of Distribution Following Retirement or Termination of Employment

47

12.03.

Participant Consent to Distribution

47

12.04.

Required Commencement of Distribution to Participants

48

12.05.

Required Commencement of Distribution to Beneficiaries

48

12.06.

Whereabouts of Participants and Beneficiaries

49

Article 13. Form of Distribution.

 

13.01.

Normal Form of Distribution Under Profit Sharing Plan

49

13.02.

Cash Out Of Small Accounts

50

13.03.

Minimum Distributions

50

13.04.

Direct Rollovers

51

13.05.

Notice Regarding Timing and Form of Distribution

52

13.06.

Determination of Method of Distribution

52

13.07.

Notice to Trustee

53

Article 14. Superseding Annuity Distribution Provisions.

 

14.01.

Special Definitions

53

14.02.

Applicability

53

14.03.

Annuity Form of Payment

53

14.04.

“Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity” and “Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity Requirements”

54

14.05.

Waiver of the “Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity” and/or “Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity Rights”

55

14.06.

Spouse’s Consent to Waiver

55

14.07.

Notice Regarding “Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity”

56

14.08.

Notice Regarding “Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity”

56

14.09.

Former Spouse

56

Article 15. Top-Heavy Provisions.

 

15.01.

Definitions

56

15.02.

Application

58

15.03.

Minimum Contribution

58

15.04.

Modification of Allocation Provisions to Meet Minimum Contribution Requirements

59

15.05.

Adjustment to the Limitation on Contributions and Benefits

60

15.06.

Accelerated Vesting

61

15.07.

Exclusion of Collectively-Bargained Employees

61

Article 16. Amendment and Termination.

 

16.01.

Amendments by the Employer that do Not Affect Prototype Status

61

16.02.

Amendments by the Employer that Affect Prototype Status

62

16.03.

Amendment by the Mass Submitter Sponsor and the Prototype Sponsor

62

16.04.

Amendments Affecting Vested and/or Accrued Benefits

62

16.05.

Retroactive Amendments

63

16.06.

Termination

63

16.07.

Distribution upon Termination of the Plan

63

16.08.

Merger or Consolidation of Plan; Transfer of Plan Assets

63

 

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Article 17. Amendment and Continuation of Prior Plan; Transfer of Funds to or from Other Qualified Plans.

 

17.01.

Amendment and Continuation of Prior Plan

64

17.02.

Transfer of Funds from an Existing Plan

64

17.03.

Acceptance of Assets by Trustee

66

17.04.

Transfer of Assets from Trust

66

Article 18. Miscellaneous.

 

18.01.

Communication to Participants

67

18.02.

Limitation of Rights

67

18.03.

Nonalienability of Benefits

67

18.04.

Qualified Domestic Relations Orders Procedures

68

18.05.

Additional Rules for Paired Plans

68

18.06.

Application of Plan Provisions in Multiple Employer Plans

68

18.07.

Veterans Reemployment Rights

69

18.08.

Facility of Payment

69

18.09.

Information between Employer and Trustee

69

18.10.

Effect of Failure to Qualify Under Code

69

18.11.

Directions, Notices and Disclosure

69

18.12.

Governing Law

70

Article 19. Plan Administration.

 

19.01.

Powers and Responsibilities of the Administrator

70

19.02.

Nondiscriminatory Exercise of Authority

70

19.03.

Claims and Review Procedures

70

19.04.

Named Fiduciary

71

19.05.

Costs of Administration

71

Article 20. Trust Agreement.

 

20.01.

Acceptance of Trust Responsibilities

71

20.02.

Establishment of Trust Fund

72

20.03.

Exclusive Benefit

72

20.04.

Powers of Trustee

72

20.05.

Accounts

73

20.06.

Approval of Accounts

74

20.07.

Distribution from Trust Fund

74

20.08.

Transfer of Amounts from Qualified Plan

74

20.09.

Transfer of Assets from Trust

74

20.10.

Separate Trust or Fund for Existing Plan Assets

74

20.11.

Self-Directed Brokerage Option

75

20.12.

Employer Stock Investment Option

76

20.13.

Voting; Delivery of Information

81

20.14.

Compensation and Expenses of Trustee

81

20.15.

Reliance by Trustee on Other Persons

81

20.16.

Indemnification by Employer

82

20.17.

Consultation by Trustee with Counsel

82

20.18.

Persons Dealing with the Trustee

82

20.19.

Resignation or Removal of Trustee

82

20.20.

Fiscal Year of the Trust

83

 

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20.21.

Discharge of Duties by Fiduciaries

83

20.22.

Amendment

83

20.23.

Plan Termination

83

20.24.

Permitted Reversion of Funds to Employer

83

20.25.

Governing Law

84

 

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Preamble .

 

This prototype plan consists of three parts:  (1) an Adoption Agreement that is a separate document incorporated by reference into this Basic Plan Document; (2) this Basic Plan Document; and (3) a Trust Agreement that is a part of this Basic Plan Document and is found in Article 20. Each part of the prototype plan contains substantive provisions that are integral to the operation of the plan. The Adoption Agreement is the means by which an adopting Employer elects the optional provisions that shall apply under its plan. The Basic Plan Document describes the standard provisions elected in the Adoption Agreement. The Trust Agreement describes the powers and duties of the Trustee with respect to plan assets.

 

The prototype plan is intended to qualify under Code Section 401(a). Depending upon the Adoption Agreement completed by an adopting Employer, the prototype plan may be used to implement a money purchase pension plan, a profit sharing plan, or a profit sharing plan with a cash or deferred arrangement intended to qualify under Code Section 401(k).

 

Article 1. Adoption Agreement .

 

Article 2. Definitions .

 

2.01. Definitions .   Wherever used herein, the following terms have the meanings set forth below, unless a different meaning is clearly required by the context:

 

(a)  “ Account ” means an account established for the purpose of recording any contributions made on behalf of a Participant and any income, expenses, gains, or losses incurred thereon. The Administrator shall establish and maintain sub-accounts within a Participant’s Account as necessary to depict accurately a Participant’s interest under the Plan.

 

(b)  “ Active Participant ” means any Eligible Employee who has met the requirements of Article 4 to participate in the Plan and who may be entitled to receive allocations under the Plan.

 

(c)  “ Administrator ” means the Employer adopting this Plan, as listed in Subsection 1.02(a) of the Adoption Agreement, or any other person designated by the Employer in Subsection 1.01(c) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

(d)  “ Adoption Agreement ” means Article 1, under which the Employer establishes and adopts, or amends the Plan and Trust and designates the optional provisions selected by the Employer, and the Trustee accepts its responsibilities under Article 20. The provisions of the Adoption Agreement shall be an integral part of the Plan.

 

(e)  “ Annuity Starting Date ” means the first day of the first period for which an amount is payable as an annuity or in any other form permitted under the Plan.

 

(f)  “ Basic Plan Document ” means this Fidelity prototype plan document, qualified with the National Office of the Internal Revenue Service as Basic Plan Document No. 02.

 

(g)  “ Beneficiary ” means the person or persons (including a trust) entitled under Section 11.04 or 14.04 to receive benefits under the Plan upon the death of a Participant; provided, however, that for purposes of

 

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Section 13.03 such term shall be applied in accordance with Code Section 401(a)(9) and the regulations thereunder.

 

(h)  “ Break in Vesting Service ” means a 12-consecutive-month period beginning on an Employee’s Severance Date or any anniversary thereof in which the Employee is not credited with an Hour of Service.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following special rules apply in determining whether an Employee who is on leave has incurred a Break in Vesting Service:

 

(1)  If an individual is absent from work because of “maternity/ paternity leave” beyond the first anniversary of his Severance Date, the 12-consecutive-month period beginning on the individual’s Severance Date shall not constitute a Break in Vesting Service. For purposes of this paragraph, “maternity/paternity leave” means a leave of absence (A) by reason of the pregnancy of the individual, (B) by reason of the birth of a child of the individual, (C) by reason of the placement of a child with the individual in connection with the adoption of such child by the individual, or (D) for purposes of caring for a child for the period beginning immediately following such birth or placement.

 

(2)  If an individual is absent from work because of “FMLA leave” and returns to employment with the Employer or a Related Employer following such “FMLA leave”, he shall not incur a Break in Vesting Service during any 12-consecutive-month period beginning on his Severance Date or anniversaries thereof in which he is absent because of such “FMLA leave”. For purposes of this paragraph, “FMLA leave” means an approved leave of absence pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.

 

(i)  “ Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

 

(j)  “ Compensation ” means wages as defined in Code Section 3401(a) and all other payments of compensation to an Eligible Employee by the Employer (in the course of the Employer’s trade or business) for services to the Employer while employed as an Eligible Employee for which the Employer is required to furnish the Eligible Employee a written statement under Code Sections 6041(d) and 6051(a)(3). Compensation must 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)).

 

For any Self-Employed Individual, Compensation means Earned Income; provided, however, that if the Employer elects to exclude specified items from Compensation, such Earned Income shall be adjusted in a similar manner so that it is equivalent under regulations issued under Code Section 414(s) to Compensation for Participants who are not Self-Employed Individuals.

 

Compensation shall generally be based on the amount actually paid to the Eligible Employee during the Plan Year or, for purposes of Articles 5 (and, for Plan Years beginning prior to January 1, 2003, Article 15) so elected by the Employer in Subsection 1.05(c) of the Adoption Agreement, during that portion of the Plan Year during which the Eligible Employee is an Active Participant. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, Compensation for purposes of Section 6.12 (Code Section 415

 

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Limitations) shall be based on the amount actually paid or made available to the Participant during the Limitation Year.

 

If the initial Plan Year of a new plan consists of fewer than 12 months, calculated from the Effective Date listed in Subsection 1.01(g)(1) of the Adoption Agreement through the end of such initial Plan Year, Compensation for such initial Plan Year shall be determined as follows:

 

(1) If the Plan is a profit sharing plan, for purposes of allocating Nonelective Employer Contributions under Section 1.11 of the Adoption Agreement (other than Nonelective Employer Contributions made in accordance with the Safe Harbor Nonelective Employer Contributions Addendum to the Adoption Agreement) and determining Highly Compensated Employees under Subsection 2.01(z), the initial Plan Year shall be the 12-month period ending on the last day of the Plan Year.

 

(2)  For purposes of Section 6.12 (Code Section 415 Limitations) where the Limitation Year is based on the Plan Year, the Limitation Year shall be the 12-month period ending on the last day of the Plan Year.

 

(3)  For all other purposes, the initial Plan Year shall be the period from the Effective Date listed in Subsection 1.01(g)(1) of the Adoption Agreement through the end of the initial Plan Year.

 

The annual Compensation of each Active Participant taken into account for determining benefits provided under the Plan for any determination period shall not exceed the annual Compensation limit under Code Section 401(a)(17) as in effect on the first day of the determination period. This limit shall be adjusted by the Secretary to reflect increases in the cost of living, as provided in Code Section 401(a)(17)(B); provided, however, that the dollar increase in effect on January 1 of any calendar year is effective for determination periods beginning in such calendar year. If a Plan determines Compensation over a determination period that contains fewer than 12 calendar months (a “short determination period”), then the Compensation limit for such “short determination period” is equal to the Compensation limit for the calendar year in which the “short determination period” begins multiplied by the ratio obtained by dividing the number of full months in the “short determination period” by 12; provided, however, that such proration shall not apply if there is a “short determination period” because (i) the Employer elected in Subsection 1.05(c) of the Adoption Agreement to determine contributions based only on Compensation paid during the portion of the Plan Year during which an individual was an Active Participant, (ii) an Employee is covered under the Plan less than a full Plan Year, or (iii) Deferral Contributions and/or Matching Employer Contributions are contributed for each pay period during the Plan Year and are based on Compensation for that pay period.

 

(k)  “ Contribution Period ” means the period for which Matching Employer and Nonelective Employer Contributions are made and calculated. The Contribution Period for additional Matching Employer Contributions, as described in Subsection 1.10(b) of the Adoption Agreement and Nonelective Employer Contributions is the Plan Year. The Contribution Period for basic Matching Employer Contributions, as described in Subsection 1.10(a) of the Adoption Agreement, is the period specified by the Employer in Subsection 1.10(c) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

(l)  “ Deferral Contribution ” means any contribution made to the Plan by the Employer in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.03.

 

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(m)  “ Early Retirement Age ” means the early retirement age specified in Subsection 1.13(b) of the Adoption Agreement, if any.

 

(n)  “ Earned Income ” means the net earnings of a Self-Employed Individual derived from the trade or business with respect to which the Plan is established and for which the personal services of such individual are a material income-providing factor, excluding any items not included in gross income and the deductions allocated to such items, except that net earnings shall be determined with regard to the deduction allowed under Code Section 164(f), to the extent applicable to the Employer. Net earnings shall be reduced by contributions of the Employer to any qualified plan, to the extent a deduction is allowed to the Employer for such contributions under Code Section 404.

 

(o)  “ Effective Date ” means the effective date specified by the Employer in Subsection 1.01(g)(1) or (2) of the Adoption Agreement with respect to the Plan, if this is a new plan, or with respect to the amendment and restatement, if this is an amendment and restatement of the Plan. The Employer may select special Effective Dates with respect to specified Plan provisions, as set forth in Section (a) of the Special Effective Dates Addendum to the Adoption Agreement. In the event that another plan is merged into and made a part of the Plan, the effective date of the merger shall be reflected in Section (b) of the Special Effective Dates Addendum to the Adoption Agreement.

 

If this is an amendment and restatement of the Plan, and the Plan was not amended prior to the effective date specified by the Employer in Subsection 1.01(g)(2) of the Adoption Agreement to comply with the requirements of the Acts specified in the Snap Off Addendum to the Adoption Agreement, the effective dates specified in such Snap Off Addendum shall apply with respect to those provisions specified therein. Such effective dates may be earlier than the date specified in Subsection 1.01(g)(2) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

(p)  “ Eligibility Computation Period ” means each 12-consecutive-month period beginning with an Employee’s Employment Commencement Date and each anniversary thereof.

 

(q)  “ Eligibility Service ” means an Employee’s service that is taken into account in determining his eligibility to participate in the Plan as may be required under Subsection 1.04(b) of the Adoption Agreement. Eligibility Service shall be credited in accordance with Article 3.

 

(r)  “ Eligible Employee ” means any Employee of the Employer who is in the class of Employees eligible to participate in the Plan. The Employer must specify in Subsection 1.04(c) of the Adoption Agreement any Employee or class of Employees not eligible to participate in the Plan. If Article 1 of the Employer’s Plan is a Non-Standardized Adoption Agreement, regardless of the Employer’s selection in Subsection  1.04(c) of the Adoption Agreement,  the following Employees are automatically excluded from eligibility to participate in the Plan:

 

(1)  any individual who is a signatory to a contract, letter of agreement, or other document that acknowledges his status as an independent contractor not entitled to benefits under the Plan or who is not otherwise classified by the Employer as a common law employee and with respect to whom the Employer does not withhold income taxes and file Form W-2 (or any replacement Form), with the Internal Revenue Service and does not remit Social Security payments to the Federal government, even if such individual is later adjudicated to be a common law employee; and

 

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(2)  any Employee who is a resident of Puerto Rico.

 

If the Employer elects to exclude collective bargaining employees from the eligible class, the exclusion applies to any Employee of the Employer included in a unit of Employees covered by an agreement which the Secretary of Labor finds to be a collective bargaining agreement between employee representatives and one or more employers, unless the collective bargaining agreement requires the Employee to be covered under the Plan. The term “employee representatives” does not include any organization more than half the members of which are owners, officers, or executives of the Employer.

 

If the Employer does not elect to exclude Leased Employees from the eligible class, contributions or benefits provided by the leasing organization which are attributable to services performed for the Employer shall be treated as provided by the Employer and there shall be no duplication of benefits under this Plan.

 

(s)  “ Employee ” means any common law employee of the Employer or a Related Employer, any Self-Employed Individual, and any Leased Employee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Leased Employee shall not be considered an Employee if Leased Employees do not constitute more than 20 percent of the Employer’s non-highly compensated work-force (taking into account all Related Employers) and the Leased Employee is covered by a money purchase pension plan maintained by the leasing organization and providing (1) a nonintegrated employer contribution rate of at least 10 percent of compensation, as defined for purposes of Code Section 415(c)(3), but including amounts contributed pursuant to a salary reduction agreement which are excludable from gross income under Code Section 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h) or 403(b), (2) full and immediate vesting, and (3) immediate participation by each employee of the leasing organization.

 

(t)  “ Employee Contribution ” means any after-tax contribution made by an Active Participant to the Plan.

 

(u)  “ Employer ” means the employer named in Subsection 1.02(a) of the Adoption Agreement and any Related Employer included as an Employer under this Subsection 2.01(u). If Article 1 of the Employer’s Plan is a Standardized Adoption Agreement, the term “Employer” includes all Related Employers; provided, however, that if an employer becomes a Related Employer as a result of an asset or stock acquisition, merger or other similar transaction, the term “Employer” shall not include such employer for periods prior to the earlier of (1) the date as of which Subsection 1.02(b) of the Adoption Agreement is amended to name such employer or (2) the first day of the second Plan Year beginning after the date of such transaction. If Article 1 of the Employer’s Plan is a Non-Standardized Adoption Agreement, the term “Employer” includes only those Related Employers designated in Subsection 1.02(b) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

If the organization or other entity named in the Adoption Agreement is a sole proprietor or a professional corporation and the sole proprietor of such proprietorship or the sole shareholder of the professional corporation dies, then the legal representative of such sole proprietor or shareholder shall be deemed to be the Employer until such time as, through the disposition of such sole proprietor’s or sole shareholder’s estate or otherwise, any organization or other entity succeeds to the interests of the sole proprietor in the proprietorship or the sole shareholder in the professional corporation. The legal representative of a sole proprietor or shareholder shall be (1) the person appointed as such by the sole

 

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proprietor or shareholder prior to his death under a legally enforceable power of attorney, or, if none, (2) the executor or administrator of the sole proprietor’s or shareholder’s estate.

 

If one of the Employers designated in Subsection 1.02(b) of the Adoption Agreement is not a Related Employer, the term “Employer” includes such un-Related Employer and the provisions of Section 18.06 shall apply.

 

(v)  “ Employment Commencement Date ” means the date on which an Employee first performs an Hour of Service.

 

(w)  “ Entry Date ” means the date specified by the Employer in Subsection 1.04(d) or (e) of the Adoption Agreement as of which an Eligible Employee who has met the applicable eligibility requirements begins to participate in the Plan. The Employer may specify different Entry Dates for purposes of eligibility to participate in the Plan by (1) making Deferral Contributions and (2) receiving allocations of Matching and/or Nonelective Employer Contributions.

 

(x)  “ ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as from time to time amended.

 

(y)  “ Fund Share ” means the share, unit, or other evidence of ownership in a Permissible Investment.

 

(z)  “ Highly Compensated Employee ” means both highly compensated active Employees and highly compensated former Employees.

 

A highly compensated active Employee includes any Employee who performs service for the Employer during the “determination year” and who (1) at any time during the “determination year” or the “look-back year” was a five percent owner or (2) received Compensation from the Employer during the “look-back year” in excess of $80,000 (as adjusted pursuant to Code Section 415(d)) and, if elected by the Employer in Section 1.06 of the Adoption Agreement, was a member of the top-paid group for such year.

 

For this purpose, the “determination year” shall be the Plan Year. The “look-back year” shall be the twelve-month period immediately preceding the “determination year”, unless the Employer has elected in Section 1.06 of the Adoption Agreement to make the “look-back year” the calendar year beginning within the preceding Plan Year.

 

A highly compensated former Employee includes any Employee who separated from service (or was deemed to have separated) prior to the “determination year”, performs no service for the Employer during the “determination year”, and was a highly compensated active Employee for either the separation year or any “determination year” ending on or after the Employee’s 55th birthday, as determined under the rules in effect for determining Highly Compensated Employees for such separation year or “determination year”.

 

The determination of who is a Highly Compensated Employee, including the determinations of the number and identity of Employees in the top-paid group, shall be made in accordance with Code Section 414(q) and the Treasury Regulations issued thereunder.

 

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For purposes of this Subsection 2.01(z), Compensation shall include amounts that are not includable in the gross income of an 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).

 

(aa)  “ Hour of Service ”, with respect to any individual, means:

 

(1)  Each hour for which the individual is directly or indirectly paid, or entitled to payment, for the performance of duties for the Employer or a Related Employer, each such hour to be credited to the individual for the Eligibility Computation Period in which the duties were performed;

 

(2)  Each hour for which the individual is directly or indirectly paid, or entitled to payment, by the Employer or a Related Employer (including payments made or due from a trust fund or insurer to which the Employer contributes or pays premiums) on account of a period of time during which no duties are performed (irrespective of whether the employment relationship has terminated) due to vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity, disability, layoff, jury duty, military duty, or leave of absence, each such hour to be credited to the individual for the Eligibility Computation Period in which such period of time occurs, subject to the following rules:

 

(A)  No more than 501 Hours of Service shall be credited under this paragraph (2) on account of any single continuous period during which the individual performs no duties, unless the individual performs no duties because of military duty, the individual’s employment rights are protected by law, and the individual returns to employment with the Employer or a Related Employer during the period that his employment rights are protected under Federal law;

 

(B)  Hours of Service shall not be credited under this paragraph (2) for a payment which solely reimburses the individual for medically-related expenses, or which is made or due under a plan maintained solely for the purpose of complying with applicable worker’s compensation, unemployment compensation or disability insurance laws; and

 

(C)  If the period during which the individual performs no duties falls within two or more Eligibility Computation Periods and if the payment made on account of such period is not calculated on the basis of units of time, the Hours of Service credited with respect to such period shall be allocated between not more than the first two such Eligibility Computation Periods on any reasonable basis consistently applied with respect to similarly situated individuals;

 

(3)   Each hour not counted under paragraph (1) or (2) for which he would have been scheduled to work for the Employer or a Related Employer during the period that he is absent from work because of military duty, provided the individual’s employment rights are protected under Federal law and the individual returns to work with the Employer or a Related Company during the period that his employment rights are protected, each such hour to be credited to the individual for the Eligibility Computation Period for which he would have been scheduled to work; and

 

(4)  Each hour not counted under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, has been either awarded or agreed to be paid by the Employer or a Related Employer, shall be credited to the individual for the Eligibility Computation Period to which the

 

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award or agreement pertains rather than the Eligibility Computation Period in which the award, agreement, or payment is made.

 

For purposes of paragraphs (2) and (4) above, Hours of Service shall be calculated in accordance with the provisions of Section 2530.200b-2(b) of the Department of Labor regulations, which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Subsection to the contrary, the Employer may elect to credit Hours of Service in accordance with any of the equivalencies set forth in paragraphs (d), (e), or (f) of Department of Labor Regulations Section 2530.200b-3.

 

(bb)  “ Inactive Participant ” means any individual who was an Active Participant, but is no longer an Eligible Employee and who has an Account under the Plan.

 

(cc)  “ Leased Employee ” means any individual who provides services to the Employer or a Related Employer (the “recipient”) but is not otherwise an employee of the recipient if (1) such services are provided pursuant to an agreement between the recipient and any other person (the “leasing  organization”), (2) such individual has performed services for the recipient (or for the recipient and any related persons within the meaning of Code Section 414(n)(6)) on a substantially full-time basis for at least one year, and (3) such services are performed under primary direction of or control by the recipient. The determination of who is a Leased Employee shall be made in accordance with any rules and regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate.

 

(dd)  “ Limitation Year ” means the 12-consecutive-month period designated by the Employer in Subsection 1.01(f) of the Adoption Agreement. If no other Limitation Year is designated by the Employer, the Limitation Year shall be the calendar year. All qualified plans of the Employer and any Related Employer must use the same Limitation Year. If the Limitation Year is amended to a different 12-consecutive-month period, the new Limitation Year must begin on a date within the Limitation Year in which the amendment is made.

 

(ee)  “ Matching Employer Contribution ” means any contribution made by the Employer to the Plan in accordance with Section 5.08 or 5.09 on account of an Active Participant’s Deferral Contributions.

 

(ff)  “ Mass Submitter Sponsor ” means Fidelity Management & Research Company or its successor.

 

(gg)  “ Nonelective Employer Contribution ” means any contribution made by the Employer to the Plan in accordance with Section 5.10.

 

(hh)  “ Non-Highly Compensated Employee ” means any Employee who is not a Highly Compensated Employee.

 

(ii)  “ Normal Retirement Age ” means the normal retirement age specified in Subsection 1.13(a) of the Adoption Agreement. If the Employer enforces a mandatory retirement age in accordance with Federal law, the Normal Retirement Age is the lesser of that mandatory age or the age specified in Subsection 1.13(a) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

(jj)  “ Participant ” means any individual who is either an Active Participant or an Inactive Participant.

 

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(kk)  “ Permissible Investment ” means the investments specified by the Employer as available for investment of assets of the Trust and agreed to by the Trustee and the Prototype Sponsor. The Permissible Investments under the Plan shall be listed in the Service Agreement.

 

(ll)  “ Plan ” means the plan established by the Employer in the form of the prototype plan, as set forth herein as a new plan or as an amendment to an existing plan, by executing the Adoption Agreement, together with any and all amendments hereto.

 

(mm)  “ Plan Year ” means the 12-consecutive-month period ending on the date designated by the Employer in Subsection 1.01(d) of the Adoption Agreement, except that the initial Plan Year of a new Plan may consist of fewer than 12 months, calculated from the Effective Date listed in Subsection 1.01(g)(1) of the Adoption Agreement through the end of such initial Plan Year, in which event Compensation for such initial Plan Year shall be treated as provided in Subsection 2.01(j).

 

(nn)  “ Prototype Sponsor ” means Fidelity Management & Research Company or its successor.

 

(oo)  “ Qualified Matching Employer Contribution ” means any contribution made by the Employer to the Plan on account of Deferral Contributions or Employee Contributions made by or on behalf of Active Participants in accordance with Section 5.09, that may be included in determining whether the Plan meets the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03.

 

(pp)  “ Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution ” means any contribution made by the Employer to the Plan on behalf of Non-Highly Compensated Employees in accordance with Section 5.07, that may be included in determining whether the Plan meets the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 or the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06.

 

(qq)  “ Reemployment Commencement Date ” means the date on which an Employee who terminates employment with the Employer and all Related Employers first performs an Hour of Service following such termination of employment.

 

(rr)  “ Related Employer ” means any employer other than the Employer named in Subsection 1.02(a) of the Adoption Agreement if the Employer and such other employer are members of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Code Section 414(b)) or an affiliated service group (as defined in Code Section 414(m)), or are trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) which are under common control (as defined in Code Section 414(c)), or such other employer is required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to regulations issued under Code Section 414(o); provided, however, that if Article 1 of the Employer’s Plan is a Standardized Adoption Agreement, for purposes of Subsection 1.02(b) of the Adoption Agreement, the term “Related Employer” shall not include any employer that becomes a Related Employer as a result of an asset or stock acquisition, merger or other similar transaction with respect to any period prior to the earlier of (1) the date as of which Subsection 1.02(b) of the Adoption Agreement is amended to name such employer or (2) the first day of the second Plan Year beginning after the date of such transaction.

 

(ss)  “ Required Beginning Date ” means:

 

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(1)  for a Participant who is not a five percent owner, April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which occurs the later of (i) the Participant’s retirement or (ii) the Participant’s attainment of age 70 1/2; provided, however, that a Participant may elect to have his Required Beginning Date determined without regard to the provisions of clause (i).

 

(2)  for a Participant who is a five percent owner, April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 70 1/2.

 

Once the Required Beginning Date of a five percent owner or a Participant who has elected to have his Required Beginning Date determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.01(ss)(1)(ii) has occurred, such Required Beginning Date shall not be re-determined, even if the Participant ceases to be a five percent owner in a subsequent year or continues in employment with the Employer or a Related Employer.

 

For purposes of this Subsection 2.01(ss), a Participant is treated as a five percent owner if such Participant is a five percent owner as defined in Code Section 416(i) (determined in accordance with Code Section 416 but without regard to whether the Plan is top-heavy) at any time during the Plan Year ending with or within the calendar year in which such owner attains age 70 1/2.

 

(tt)  “ Rollover Contribution ” means any distribution from a qualified plan (or an individual retirement account holding only assets allocable to a distribution from a qualified plan) that an Employee elects to contribute to the Plan in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.06.

 

(uu)  “ Self-Employed Individual ” means an individual who has Earned Income for the taxable year from the Employer or who would have had Earned Income but for the fact that the trade or business had no net profits for the taxable year, including, but not limited to, a partner in a partnership, a sole proprietor, a member in a limited liability company or a shareholder in a subchapter S corporation.

 

(vv)  “ Service Agreement ” means the agreement between the Employer and the Prototype Sponsor (or an agent or affiliate of the Prototype Sponsor) relating to the provision of investment and other services to the Plan and shall include any addendum to the agreement and any other separate written agreement between the Employer and the Prototype Sponsor (or an agent or affiliate of the Prototype Sponsor) relating to the provision of services to the Plan.

 

(ww)  “ Severance Date ” means the earlier of (i) the date an Employee retires, dies, quits, or is discharged from employment with the Employer and all Related Employers or (ii) the 12-month anniversary of the date on which the Employee was otherwise first absent from employment; provided, however, that if an individual terminates or is absent from employment with the Employer and all Related Employers because of military duty, such individual shall not incur a Severance Date if his employment rights are protected under Federal law and he returns to employment with the Employer or a Related Employer within the period during which he retains such employment rights, but, if he does not return to such employment within such period, his Severance Date shall be the earlier of (1) the anniversary of the date his absence commenced or (2) the last day of the period during which he retains such employment rights.

 

(xx)  “ Trust ” means the trust created by the Employer in accordance with the provisions of Section 20.01.

 

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(yy)  “ Trust Agreement ” means the agreement between the Employer and the Trustee, as set forth in Article 20, under which the assets of the Plan are held, administered, and managed.

 

(zz)  “ Trustee ” means Fidelity Management Trust Company or its successor. The term Trustee shall include any delegate of the Trustee as may be provided in the Trust Agreement.

 

(aaa)  “ Trust Fund ” means the property held in Trust by the Trustee for the Accounts of Participants and their Beneficiaries.

 

(bbb)  “ Vesting Service ” means an Employee’s service that is taken into account in determining his vested interest in his Matching Employer and Nonelective Employer Contributions Accounts as may be required under Section 1.15 of the Adoption Agreement. Vesting Service shall be credited in accordance with Article 3.

 

2.02. Pronouns .   Pronouns used in the Plan are in the masculine gender but include the feminine gender unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

 

2.03. Special Effective Dates .   Some provisions of the Plan are only effective beginning as of a specified date or until a specified date. Any such special effective dates are specified within Plan text where applicable and are exceptions to the general Plan Effective Date as defined in Section 2.01(o).

 

Article 3. Service .

 

3.01. Crediting of Eligibility Service .   If the Employer has selected an Eligibility Service requirement in Subsection 1.04(b) of the Adoption Agreement for an Eligible Employee to become an Active Participant, Eligibility Service shall be credited to an Employee as follows:

 

(a)  If the Employer has selected the one or two year(s) of Eligibility Service requirement described in Subsection 1.04(b)(1)(C) or (D) of the Adoption Agreement, an Employee shall be credited with a year of Eligibility Service for each Eligibility Computation Period during which the Employee has been credited with at least 1,000 Hours of Service.

 

(b)  If the Employer has selected the months of Eligibility Service requirement described in Subsection 1.04(b)(1)(B) of the Adoption Agreement, an Employee shall be credited with Eligibility Service for the aggregate of the periods beginning with the Employee’s Employment Commencement Date (or Reemployment Commencement Date) and ending on his subsequent Severance Date; provided, however, that an Employee who has a Reemployment Date within the 12-consecutive-month period following the earlier of the first date of his absence or his Severance Date shall be credited with Eligibility Service for the period between his Severance Date and his Reemployment Date. Months of Eligibility Service shall be measured from the Employee’s Employment Commencement Date or Reemployment Commencement Date to the coinciding date in the applicable following month.

 

3.02. Re-Crediting of Eligibility Service Following Termination of Employment . An Employee whose employment with the Employer and all Related Employers terminates and who is subsequently reemployed by the Employer or a Related Employer shall be re-credited upon reemployment with his Eligibility Service earned prior to his termination of employment.

 

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3.03. Crediting of Vesting Service .   If the Plan provides for Matching Employer and/or Nonelective Employer Contributions that are not 100 percent vested when made, Vesting Service shall be credited to an Employee for the aggregate of the periods beginning with the Employee’s Employment Commencement Date (or Reemployment Commencement Date) and ending on his subsequent Severance Date; provided, however, that an Employee who has a Reemployment Date within the 12-consecutive-month period following the earlier of the first date of his absence or his Severance Date shall be credited with Vesting Service for the period between his Severance Date and his Reemployment Date. Fractional periods of a year shall be expressed in terms of days.

 

3.04. Application of Vesting Service to a Participant’s Account Following a Break in Vesting Service .   The following rules describe how Vesting Service earned before and after a Break in Vesting Service shall be applied for purposes of determining a Participant’s vested interest in his Matching Employer and Nonelective Employer Contributions Accounts.

 

(a)  If a Participant incurs five-consecutive Breaks in Vesting Service, all years of Vesting Service earned by the Employee after such Breaks in Service shall be disregarded in determining the Participant’s vested interest in his Matching Employer and Nonelective Employer Contributions Account balances attributable to employment before such Breaks in Vesting Service. However, Vesting Service earned both before and after such Breaks in Vesting Service shall be included in determining the Participant’s vested interest in his Matching Employer and Nonelective Employer Contributions Account balances attributable to employment after such Breaks in Vesting Service.

 

(b)  If a Participant incurs fewer than five-consecutive Breaks in Vesting Service, Vesting Service earned both before and after such Breaks in Vesting Service shall be included in determining the Participant’s vested interest in his Matching Employer and Nonelective Employer Contributions Account balances attributable to employment both before and after such Breaks in Vesting Service.

 

3.05. Service with Predecessor Employer .   If the Plan is the plan of a predecessor employer, an Employee’s Eligibility and Vesting Service shall include years of service with such predecessor employer. In any case in which the Plan is not the plan maintained by a predecessor employer, service for such predecessor employer shall be treated as Eligibility and Vesting Service if so specified in Section 1.16 of the Adoption Agreement.

 

3.06. Change in Service Crediting .   If an amendment to the Plan or a transfer from employment as an Employee covered under another qualified plan maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer results in a change in the method of crediting Eligibility and/or Vesting Service with respect to a Participant between the Hours of Service crediting method set forth in Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor Regulations and the elapsed-time crediting method set forth in Section 1.410(a)-7 of the Treasury Regulations, each Participant with respect to whom the method of crediting Eligibility and/or Vesting Service is changed shall be treated in the manner set forth in Section 1.410(a)-7(f)(1) of the Treasury Regulations which are incorporated herein by reference.

 

Article 4. Participation .

 

4.01. Date of Participation .   If the Plan is an amendment and restatement of a prior plan, all Eligible Employees who were active participants in the Plan immediately prior to the Effective Date shall continue as

 

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Active Participants on the Effective Date. All Eligible Employees who are in the service of the Employer on the Effective Date (and, if this is an amendment and restatement of a prior plan, were not active participants in the prior plan immediately prior to the Effective Date) shall become Active Participants on the date elected by the Employer in Subsection 1.04(f) of the Adoption Agreement. Any other Eligible Employee shall become an Active Participant in the Plan on the Entry Date coinciding with or immediately following the date on which he first satisfies the eligibility requirements set forth in Subsections 1.04(a) and 1.04(b) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

The Employer may elect different Eligibility Service requirements for purposes of eligibility (a) to make Deferral Contributions and (b) to receive Nonelective and/or Matching Employer Contributions. Any Eligibility Service requirement that the Employer elects to apply in determining an Eligible Employee’s eligibility to make Deferral Contributions shall also apply in determining an Eligible Employee’s eligibility to make Employee Contributions, if Employee Contributions are permitted under the Plan, and to receive Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions. If an Employer elects to have different Eligibility Service requirements apply, an Eligible Employee who has met the eligibility requirements with respect to certain contributions, but who has not met the eligibility requirements with respect to other contributions, shall become an Active Participant in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, but only with respect to the contributions for which he has met the eligibility requirements.

 

4.02. Transfers Out of Covered Employment .   If any Active Participant ceases to be an Eligible Employee, but continues in the employ of the Employer or a Related Employer, such Employee shall cease to be an Active Participant, but shall continue as an Inactive Participant until his entire Account balance is forfeited or distributed. An Inactive Participant shall not be entitled to receive an allocation of contributions or forfeitures under the Plan for the period that he is not an Eligible Employee and wages and other payments made to him by the Employer or a Related Employer for services other than as an Eligible Employee shall not be included in Compensation for purposes of determining the amount and allocation of any contributions to the Account of such Inactive Participant. Such Inactive Participant shall continue to receive credit for Vesting Service completed during the period that he continues in the employ of the Employer or a Related Employer.

 

4.03. Transfers Into Covered Employment .   If an Employee who is not an Eligible Employee becomes an Eligible Employee, such Eligible Employee shall become an Active Participant immediately as of his transfer date if such Eligible Employee has already satisfied the eligibility requirements and would have otherwise previously become an Active Participant in accordance with Section 4.01. Otherwise, such Eligible Employee shall become an Active Participant in accordance with Section 4.01.

 

Wages and other payments made to an Employee prior to his becoming an Eligible Employee by the Employer or a Related Employer for services other than as an Eligible Employee shall not be included in Compensation for purposes of determining the amount and allocation of any contributions to the Account of such Eligible Employee.

 

4.04. Resumption of Participation Following Reemployment .   If a Participant who terminates employment with the Employer and all Related Employers is reemployed as an Eligible Employee, he shall again become an Active Participant on his Reemployment Date. Any other Employee who terminates employment with the Employer and all Related Employers and is reemployed by the Employer or a Related Employer shall become an Active Participant as provided in Section 4.01 or 4.03. Any distribution which a Participant is receiving under the Plan at the time he is reemployed by the Employer or a Related Employer shall cease except as otherwise required under Section 12.04.

 

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Article 5. Contributions .

 

5.01. Contributions Subject to Limitations .   All contributions made to the Plan under this Article 5 shall be subject to the limitations contained in Article 6.

 

5.02. Compensation Taken into Account in Determining Contributions .   In determining the amount or allocation of any contribution that is based on a percentage of Compensation, only Compensation paid to a Participant for services rendered to the Employer while employed as an Eligible Employee shall be taken into account. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Article 5, for purposes of determining the amount and allocation of contributions under this Article 5, Compensation shall not include reimbursements or other expense allowances, fringe benefits (cash and non-cash), moving expenses, deferred compensation, welfare benefits, and any items elected by the Employer with respect to such contributions in Subsection 1.05(a) or (b), as applicable, of the Adoption Agreement, but shall include amounts that are not includable in the gross income of the Participant under a salary reduction agreement by reason of the application of Code Section 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h), 403(b), or 457(b).

 

If the initial Plan Year of a new plan consists of fewer than 12 months, calculated from the Effective Date listed in Subsection 1.01(g)(1) of the Adoption Agreement through the end of such initial Plan Year, except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, Compensation for purposes of determining the amount and allocation of contributions under this Article 5 for such initial Plan Year shall include only Compensation for services during the period beginning on the Effective Date listed in Subsection 1.01(g)(1) of the Adoption Agreement and ending on the last day of the initial Plan Year. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Plan is a profit sharing plan, Compensation for purposes of determining the amount and allocation of non-safe harbor Nonelective Employer Contributions under this Article 5 for such initial Plan Year shall include Compensation for the full 12-consecutive-month period ending on the last day of the initial Plan Year.

 

5.03. Deferral Contributions .   If so provided by the Employer in Subsection 1.07(a) of the Adoption Agreement, each Active Participant may elect to execute a salary reduction agreement with the Employer to reduce his Compensation by a specified percentage or dollar amount, not exceeding the percentage specified by the Employer in Subsection 1.07(a)(1) of the Adoption Agreement, per payroll period, subject to any exceptions elected by the Employer in Subsections 1.07(a)(2) and (3) of the Adoption Agreement, and equal to a whole number multiple of one percent. If elected by the Employer in Subsection 1.07(a)(1)(A) of the Adoption Agreement, in lieu of specifying a percentage of Compensation reduction, an Active Participant may elect to reduce his Compensation by a specified dollar amount per payroll period, provided that such dollar amount may not exceed the percentage of Compensation specified by the Employer in Subsection 1.07(a)(1) of the Adoption Agreement, subject to any exceptions elected by the Employer in Subsections 1.07(a)(2) and (3) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

An Active Participant’s salary reduction agreement shall become effective on the first day of the first payroll period for which the Employer can reasonably process the request, but not earlier than the later of (a) the effective date of the provisions permitting Deferral Contributions or (b) the date the Employer adopts such provisions. The Employer shall make a Deferral Contribution on behalf of the Participant corresponding to the amount of said reduction. Under no circumstances may a salary reduction agreement be adopted retroactively.

 

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An Active Participant may elect to change or discontinue the percentage or dollar amount by which his Compensation is reduced by notice to the Employer as provided in Subsection 1.07(a)(1)(B) or (C) of the Adoption Agreement. Notwithstanding the Employer’s election in Subsection 1.07(a)(1)(B) or (C) of the Adoption Agreement, if the Employer has elected one of the safe harbor contributions in Subsection 1.10(a)(3) or 1.11(a)(3) of the Adoption Agreement, an Active Participant may elect to change or discontinue the percentage or dollar amount by which his Compensation is reduced by notice to the Employer within a reasonable period, as specified by the Employer (but not less than 30 days), of receiving the notice described in Section 6.10.

 

5.04. Employee Contributions .   If the Employer elected to permit Deferral Contributions in Subsection 1.07(a) of the Adoption Agreement and if so provided by the Employer in Subsection 1.08(a)(1) of the Adoption Agreement, each Active Participant may elect to make non-deductible Employee Contributions to the Plan in accordance with the rules and procedures established by the Employer and in an amount not less than one percent of such Participant’s Compensation for the Plan Year.

 

5.05. No Deductible Employee Contributions .   No deductible Employee Contributions may be made to the Plan. Deductible Employee Contributions made prior to January 1, 1987 shall be maintained in a separate Account. No part of the deductible Employee Contributions Account shall be used to purchase life insurance.

 

5.06. Rollover Contributions .   An Eligible Employee who is or was entitled to receive an eligible rollover distribution, as defined in Code Section 402(c)(4) and Treasury Regulations issued thereunder, from a qualified plan (or an individual retirement account holding only assets attributable to a distribution from a qualified plan) may elect to contribute all or any portion of such distribution to the Trust directly from such qualified plan or individual retirement account or within 60 days of receipt of such distribution to the Eligible Employee. Rollover Contributions shall only be made in the form of cash, allowable Fund Shares, or, if and to the extent permitted by the Employer with the consent of the Trustee, promissory notes evidencing a plan loan to the Eligible Employee; provided, however, that Rollover Contributions shall only be permitted in the form of promissory notes if the Plan otherwise provides for loans.

 

An Eligible Employee who has not yet become an Active Participant in the Plan in accordance with the provisions of Article 4 may make a Rollover Contribution to the Plan. Such Eligible Employee shall be treated as a Participant under the Plan for all purposes of the Plan, except eligibility to have Deferral Contributions made on his behalf and to receive an allocation of Matching Employer or Nonelective Employer Contributions.

 

The Administrator shall develop such procedures and require such information from Eligible Employees as it deems necessary to ensure that amounts contributed under this Section 5.06 meet the requirements for tax-deferred rollovers established by this Section 5.06 and by Code Section 402(c). No Rollover Contributions may be made to the Plan until approved by the Administrator.

 

If a Rollover Contribution made under this Section 5.06 is later determined by the Administrator not to have met the requirements of this Section 5.06 or of the Code or Treasury regulations, the Trustee shall, within a reasonable time after such determination is made, and on instructions from the Administrator, distribute to the Employee the amounts then held in the Trust attributable to such Rollover Contribution.

 

A Participant’s Rollover Contributions Account shall be subject to the terms of the Plan, including Article 14, except as otherwise provided in this Section 5.06.

 

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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 5.06, the Employer may direct the Trustee not to accept Rollover Contributions.

 

5.07. Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions . The Employer may, in its discretion, make a Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution for the Plan Year in any amount necessary to satisfy or help to satisfy the “ADP” test, described in Section 6.03, and/or the “ACP” test, described in Section 6.06. Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be made and allocated based on Participants’ “testing compensation”, as defined in Subsection 6.01(t), rather than Compensation, as defined in Subsection 2.01(j). Any Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution shall be allocated among the Accounts of Non-Highly Compensated Employees who are Active Participants at any time during the Plan Year as follows:

 

(a)  Unless the Employer elects the allocation formula in Subsection 1.09(a)(1) of the Adoption Agreement, the Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution shall be allocated at the election of the Employer either

 

(1)  in the ratio that each eligible Active Participant’s “testing compensation”, as defined in Subsection 6.01(t), for the Plan Year bears to the total “testing compensation” paid to all eligible Active Participants for the Plan Year; or

 

(2)  as a uniform flat dollar amount for each eligible Active Participant for the Plan Year.

 

(b)  If the Employer elects the allocation formula in Subsection 1.09(a)(1) of the Adoption Agreement, the Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution shall be allocated as follows:

 

(1)  The eligible Active Participant with the least “testing compensation”, as defined in Subsection 6.01(t), for the Plan Year shall receive an allocation equal to the lowest of:

 

(A)  the maximum amount that may be contributed on the eligible Active Participant’s behalf under Code Section 415, taking into account all other contributions made by or on behalf of the eligible Active Participant to plans maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer that are includable as “annual additions”, as defined in Subsection 6.01(b); or

 

(B)  the full amount of the Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution.

 

(2)  The eligible Active Participant with the next lowest “testing compensation”, as defined in Subsection 6.01(t), for the Plan Year shall receive an allocation equal to the lowest of:

 

(A)  the maximum amount that may be contributed on the eligible Active Participant’s behalf under Code Section 415, taking into account all other contributions made by or on behalf of the eligible Active Participant to plans maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer that are includable as “annual additions”, as defined in Subsection 6.01(b); or

 

(B)  the balance of any Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution remaining after allocation is made as provided in Subsection 5.07(b)(1) above.

 

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(3)  The allocation in Subsection 5.07(b)(2) shall be applied individually to each remaining eligible Active Participant, in ascending order of “testing compensation”, until the Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution is fully allocated. Once the Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution is fully allocated, no further allocation shall be made to the remaining eligible Active Participants.

 

Active Participants shall not be required to satisfy any Hours of Service or employment requirement for the Plan Year in order to receive an allocation of Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions.

 

Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be distributable only in accordance with the distribution provisions that are applicable to Deferral Contributions; provided, however, that a Participant shall not be permitted to take a hardship withdrawal of amounts credited to his Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions Account after the later of December 31, 1988 or the last day of the Plan Year ending before July 1, 1989.

 

5.08. Matching Employer Contributions .  If so provided by the Employer in Section 1.10 of the Adoption Agreement, the Employer shall make a Matching Employer Contribution on behalf of each eligible Active Participant, as determined in accordance with Subsection 1.10(d) and Section 1.12 of the Adoption Agreement, who had Deferral Contributions made on his behalf during the Contribution Period. The amount of the Matching Employer Contribution shall be determined in accordance with Subsection 1.10(a) and/or (b) and/or the Safe Harbor Matching Employer Contribution Addendum to the Adoption Agreement, as applicable.

 

5.09. Qualified Matching Employer Contributions .   If so provided by the Employer in Subsection 1.10(e) of the Adoption Agreement, prior to making its Matching Employer Contribution (other than any safe harbor Matching Employer Contribution) to the Plan, the Employer may designate all or a portion of such Matching Employer Contribution as a Qualified Matching Employer Contribution. The Employer shall notify the Trustee of such designation at the time it makes its Matching Employer Contribution. Qualified Matching Employer Contributions shall be distributable only in accordance with the distribution provisions that are applicable to Deferral Contributions; provided, however, that a Participant shall not be permitted to take a hardship withdrawal of amounts credited to his Qualified Matching Employer Contributions Account after the later of December 31, 1988 or the last day of the Plan Year ending before July 1, 1989.

 

If the amount of an Employer’s Qualified Matching Employer Contribution is determined based on a Participant’s Compensation, and the Qualified Matching Employer Contribution is necessary to satisfy the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03, the compensation used in determining the amount of the Qualified Matching Employer Contribution shall be “testing compensation”, as defined in Subsection 6.01(t). If the Qualified Matching Employer Contribution is not necessary to satisfy the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03, the compensation used to determine the amount of the Qualified Matching Employer Contribution shall be Compensation as defined in Subsection 2.01(j), modified as provided in Section 5.02.

 

5.10. Nonelective Employer Contributions .   If so provided by the Employer in Section 1.11 of the Adoption Agreement, the Employer shall make Nonelective Employer Contributions to the Trust in accordance with Subsection 1.11(a)and/or (b) of the Adoption Agreement to be allocated as follows:

 

(a)  If the Plan is a money purchase pension plan or the Employer has elected a fixed contribution formula, Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be allocated among eligible Active Participants, as determined in accordance with Subsection 1.11(c) and Section 1.12 of the Adoption Agreement, in the

 

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manner specified in Subsection 1.11(a) or the Safe Harbor Nonelective Employer Contribution Addendum to the Adoption Agreement, as applicable.

 

(b) If the Employer has elected a discretionary contribution amount,  Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be allocated among eligible Active Participants, as determined in accordance with Subsection 1.11(c) and Section 1.12 of the Adoption Agreement, as follows:

 

(1)  If the non-integrated formula is elected in Subsection 1.11(b)(1) of the Adoption Agreement, Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be allocated to eligible Active Participants in the ratio that each eligible Active Participant’s Compensation bears to the total Compensation paid to all eligible Active Participants for the Plan Year; provided, however, that if the Plan is or is deemed to be a “top-heavy plan”, as defined in Subsection 15.01(f), for any Plan Year, these allocation provisions shall be modified as provided in Section 15.04; or

 

(2) If the integrated formula is elected in Subsection 1.11(b)(2) of the Adoption Agreement, Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be allocated in the following steps:

 

(A)  First, to each eligible Active Participant in the same ratio that the sum of the eligible Active Participant’s Compensation and “excess Compensation” for the Plan Year bears to the sum of the Compensation and “excess Compensation” of all eligible Active Participants for the Plan Year. This allocation as a percentage of the sum of each eligible Active Participant’s Compensation and “excess Compensation” shall not exceed the “permitted disparity limit”, as defined in Section 1.11 of the Adoption Agreement.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if in any Plan Year an eligible Active Participant has reached the “cumulative permitted disparity limit”, such eligible Active Participant shall receive an allocation under this Subsection 5.10(b)(2)(A) based on two times his Compensation for the Plan Year, rather than the sum of his Compensation and “excess Compensation” for the Plan Year. If an Active Participant did not benefit under a qualified defined benefit plan or target benefit plan for any Plan Year beginning on or after January 1, 1994, the Active Participant shall have no “cumulative disparity limit”.

 

(B)  Second, if any Nonelective Employer Contributions remain after the allocation in Subsection 5.10(b)(2)(A), the remaining Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be allocated to each eligible Active Participant in the same ratio that the eligible Active Participant’s Compensation for the Plan Year bears to the total Compensation of all eligible Active Participants for the Plan Year.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of Subsections 5.10(b)(2)(A) and (B) above, if in any Plan Year an eligible Active Participant benefits under another qualified plan or simplified employee pension, as defined in Code Section 408(k), that provides for or imputes permitted disparity, the Nonelective Employer Contributions for the Plan Year allocated to such eligible Active Participant shall be in the ratio that his Compensation for the Plan Year bears to the total Compensation paid to all eligible Active Participants.

 

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If the Plan is or is deemed to be a “top-heavy plan”, as defined in Subsection 15.01(f), for any Plan Year, the allocation steps in Subsections 5.10(b)(2)(A) and (B) shall be modified as provided in Section 15.04.

 

For purposes of this Subsection 5.10(b)(2), the following definitions shall apply:

 

(C)  “ Cumulative permitted disparity limit ” means 35 multiplied by the sum of an Active Participant’s annual permitted disparity fractions, as defined in Sections 1.401(l)-5(b)(3) through (b)(7) of the Treasury Regulations, attributable to the Active Participant’s total years of service under the Plan and any other qualified plan or simplified employee pension, as defined in Code Section 408(k), maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer. For each Plan Year commencing prior to January 1, 1989, the annual permitted disparity fraction shall be deemed to be one, unless the Participant never accrued a benefit under any qualified plan or simplified employee pension maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer during any such Plan Year. In determining the annual permitted disparity fraction for any Plan Year, the Employer may elect to assume that the full disparity limit has been used for such Plan Year.

 

(D)  “ Excess Compensation ” means Compensation in excess of the “integration level” specified by the Employer in Subsection 1.11(b)(2) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

5.11. Vested Interest in Contributions .   A Participant’s vested interest in the following sub-accounts shall be 100 percent:

 

(a)  his Deferral Contributions Account;

 

(b)  his Qualified Nonelective Contributions Account;

 

(c)  his Qualified Matching Employer Contributions Account;

 

(d) his Nonelective Employer Contributions Account attributable to Nonelective Employer Contributions made in accordance with the Safe Harbor Nonelective Employer Contribution Addendum to the Adoption Agreement that are intended to satisfy the safe harbor contribution requirement for deemed satisfaction of the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03;

 

(e)  his Matching Employer Contributions Account attributable to Matching Employer Contributions made in accordance with the Safe Harbor Matching Employer Contribution Addendum to the Adoption Agreement that are intended to satisfy the safe harbor contribution requirement for deemed satisfaction of the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03;

 

(f)  his Rollover Contributions Account;

 

(g)  his Employee Contributions Account; and

 

(h)  his deductible Employee Contributions Account.

 

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A Participant’s vested interest in his Nonelective Employer Contributions Account attributable to Nonelective Employer Contributions other than those described in Subsection 5.11(d) above, shall be determined in accordance with the vesting schedule elected by the Employer in Subsection 1.15(b)(1) of the Adoption Agreement. A Participant’s vested interest in his Matching Employer Contributions Account attributable to Matching Employer Contributions other than those described in Subsection 5.11(e) above, shall be determined in accordance with the vesting schedule elected by the Employer in Subsection 1.15(b)(2) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

5.12. Time for Making Contributions .   The Employer shall pay its contribution for each Plan Year not later than the time prescribed by law for filing the Employer’s Federal income tax return for the fiscal (or taxable) year with or within which such Plan Year ends (including extensions thereof).

 

The Employer shall remit any safe harbor Matching Employer Contributions made during a Plan Year quarter to the Trustee no later than the last day of the immediately following Plan Year quarter.

 

The Employer should remit Employee Contributions and Deferral Contributions to the Trustee as of the earliest date on which such contributions can reasonably be segregated from the Employer’s general assets, but not later than the 15 th  business day of the calendar month following the month in which such amount otherwise would have been paid to the Participant, or within such other time frame as may be determined by applicable regulation or legislation.

 

The Trustee shall have no authority to inquire into the correctness of the amounts contributed and paid over to the Trustee, to determine whether any contribution is payable under this Article 5, or to enforce, by suit or otherwise, the Employer’s obligation, if any, to make a contribution to the Trustee.

 

5.13. Return of Employer Contributions .   The Trustee shall, upon request by the Employer, return to the Employer the amount (if any) determined under Section 20.24. Such amount shall be reduced by amounts attributable thereto which have been credited to the Accounts of Participants who have since received distributions from the Trust, except to the extent such amounts continue to be credited to such Participants’ Accounts at the time the amount is returned to the Employer. Such amount shall also be reduced by the losses of the Trust attributable thereto, if and to the extent such losses exceed the gains and income attributable thereto, but shall not be increased by the gains and income of the Trust attributable thereto, if and to the extent such gains and income exceed the losses attributable thereto. To the extent such gains exceed losses, the gains shall be forfeited and applied as provided in Section 11.09. In no event shall the return of a contribution hereunder cause the balance of the individual Account of any Participant to be reduced to less than the balance which would have been credited to the Account had the mistaken amount not been contributed.

 

Article 6. Limitations on Contributions .

 

6.01. Special Definitions .   For purposes of this Article, the following definitions shall apply:

 

(a) “ Aggregate limit ” means the greater of (1) or (2) where (1) is the sum of (A) 125 percent of the greater of the average “deferral ratio” of the Active Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” or the average “contribution percentage” of Active Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” beginning with or within the “testing year” of the cash or deferred arrangement and (B) the lesser of 200 percent or two plus the lesser of such average

 

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“deferral ratio” or average “contribution percentage” and where (2) is the sum of (A) 125 percent of the lesser of the average “deferral ratio” of the Active Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” or the average “contribution percentage” of the Active Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” beginning with or within the “testing year” of the cash or deferred arrangement and (B) the lesser of 200 percent or two plus the greater of such average “deferral ratio” or average “contribution percentage”.

 

(b)  “ Annual additions ” mean the sum of the following amounts allocated to an Active Participant for a Limitation Year:

 

(1)  all employer contributions allocated to an Active Participant’s account under qualified defined contribution plans maintained by the “415 employer”, including amounts applied to reduce employer contributions as provided under Section 11.09;

 

(2)  all employee contributions allocated to an Active Participant’s account under a qualified defined contribution plan or a qualified defined benefit plan maintained by the “415 employer” if separate accounts are maintained with respect to such Active Participant under the defined benefit plan;

 

(3)  all forfeitures allocated to an Active Participant’s account under a qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the “415 employer”;

 

(4)  all amounts allocated, after March 31, 1984, to an “individual medical benefit account” which is part of a pension or annuity plan maintained by the “415 employer”;

 

(5)  all amounts derived from contributions paid or accrued after December 31, 1985, in taxable years ending after such date, which are attributable to post-retirement medical benefits allocated to the separate account of a key employee, as defined in Code Section 419A(d)(3), under a “welfare benefit fund” maintained by the “415 employer”; and

 

(6)  all allocations to an Active Participant under a “simplified employee pension”.

 

(c)  “ Contribution percentage ” means the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of (1) the “contribution percentage amounts” allocated to an “eligible participant’s” accounts for the Plan Year to (2) the “eligible participant’s” “testing compensation” for the Plan Year.

 

(d)  “ Contribution percentage amounts ” mean:

 

(1)  any Employee Contributions made by an “eligible participant” to the Plan;

 

(2)  any Matching Employer Contributions, but excluding (A) Qualified Matching Employer Contributions that are taken into account in satisfying the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 (except that such exclusion shall not apply for any Plan Year in which the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 is deemed satisfied pursuant to Section 6.10) and (B) Matching Employer Contributions that are forfeited either to correct “excess aggregate contributions” or because the contributions to which they relate are “excess deferrals”, “excess contributions”, or “excess aggregate contributions”;

 

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(3)  at the election of the Employer, Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions, excluding Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions that are taken into account in satisfying the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03; and

 

(4)  at the election of the Employer, Deferral Contributions, excluding Deferral Contributions that are taken into account in satisfying the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, for any Plan Year in which the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 is deemed satisfied pursuant to Section 6.10, “contribution percentage amounts” shall not include the following:

 

(5)  any Deferral Contributions; and

 

(6)  if the requirements described in Section 6.11 for deemed satisfaction of the “ACP” test with respect to Matching Employer Contributions are met, any Matching Employer Contributions; or if the requirements described in Section 6.11 for deemed satisfaction of the “ACP” test with respect to Matching Employer Contributions are not met, any Matching Employer Contributions made on behalf of an “eligible participant” for the Plan Year that do not exceed four percent of the “eligible participant’s” Compensation for the Plan Year.

 

To be included in determining an “eligible participant’s” “contribution percentage” for a Plan Year, Employee Contributions must be made to the Plan before the end of such Plan Year and other “contribution percentage amounts” must be allocated to the “eligible participant’s” Account as of a date within such Plan Year and made before the last day of the 12-month period immediately following the Plan Year to which the “contribution percentage amounts” relate. If an Employer has elected the prior year testing method described in Subsection 1.06(a)(2) of the Adoption Agreement, “contribution percentage amounts” that are taken into account for purposes of determining the “contribution percentages” of Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the prior year relate to such prior year. Therefore, such “contribution percentage amounts” must be made before the last day of the Plan Year being tested.

 

Effective for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1999, if an Employer elects to change from the current year testing method described in Subsection 1.06(a)(1) of the Adoption Agreement to the prior year testing method described in Subsection 1.06(a)(2) of the Adoption Agreement, the following shall not be considered “contribution percentage amounts” for purposes of determining the “contribution percentages” of Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the prior year immediately preceding the Plan Year in which the change is effective:

 

(7) Qualified Matching Employer Contributions that were taken into account in satisfying the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 for such prior year;

 

(8) Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions that were taken into account in satisfying the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 or the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06 for such prior year; and

 

(9) all Deferral Contributions.

 

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(e)  “ Deferral ratio ” means the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of (1) the amount of “includable contributions” made on behalf of an Active Participant for the Plan Year to (2) the Active Participant’s “testing compensation” for such Plan Year. An Active Participant who does not receive “includable contributions” for a Plan Year shall have a “deferral ratio” of zero.

 

(f)  “ Defined benefit fraction ” means a fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of the Active Participant’s annual benefits (adjusted to an actuarially equivalent straight life annuity if such benefit is expressed in a form other than a straight life annuity or qualified joint and survivor annuity) under all the defined benefit plans (whether or not terminated) maintained by the “415 employer”, each such annual benefit computed on the assumptions that the Active Participant shall remain in employment until the normal retirement age under each such plan (or the Active Participant’s current age, if later) and that all other factors used to determine benefits under such plan shall remain constant for all future Limitation Years, and the denominator of which is the lesser of 125 percent of the dollar limitation determined for the Limitation Year under Code Sections 415(b)(1)(A) and 415(d) or 140 percent of the Active Participant’s highest average Compensation for three consecutive calendar years of service during which the Active Participant was active in each such plan, including any adjustments under Code Section 415(b). However, if the Active Participant was a participant as of the first day of the first Limitation Year beginning after December 31, 1986, in one or more defined benefit plans maintained by the “415 employer” which were in existence on May 6, 1986 then the denominator of the “defined benefit fraction” shall not be less than 125 percent of the Active Participant’s total accrued benefit as of the close of the last Limitation Year beginning before January 1, 1987, disregarding any changes in the terms and conditions of such plans made after May 5, 1986, under all such defined benefit plans that met, individually and in the aggregate, the requirements of Code Section 415 for all Limitation Years beginning before January 1, 1987.

 

(g)  “ Defined contribution fraction ” means a fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of all “annual additions” credited to an Active Participant for the current Limitation Year and all prior Limitation Years and the denominator of which is the sum of the “maximum permissible amounts” for the current Limitation Year and all prior Limitation Years during which the Participant was an Employee (regardless of whether the “415 employer” maintained a defined contribution plan in any such Limitation Year).

 

If the Active Participant was a participant as of the first day of the first Limitation Year beginning after December 31, 1986, in one or more defined contribution plans maintained by the “415 employer” which were in existence on May 6, 1986, then the numerator of the “defined contribution fraction” shall be adjusted if the sum of this fraction and the “defined benefit fraction” would otherwise exceed 1.0 under the terms of the Plan. Under the adjustment an amount equal to the product of (1) the excess of the sum of the fractions over 1.0 and (2) the denominator of this fraction shall be permanently subtracted from the numerator of this fraction. The adjustment is calculated using the fractions as they would be computed as of the end of the last Limitation Year beginning before January 1, 1987, and disregarding any changes in the terms and conditions of the plans made after May 6, 1986, but using the Section 415 limitation applicable to the first Limitation Year beginning on or after January 1, 1987.

 

For purposes of determining the “defined contribution fraction”, the “annual additions” for Limitation Years beginning before January 1, 1987 shall not be recomputed to treat all employee contributions as “annual additions”.

 

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(h)  “ Determination year ” means (1) for purposes of determining income or loss with respect to “excess deferrals”, the calendar year in which the “excess deferrals” were made and (2) for purposes of determining income or loss with respect to “excess contributions”, and “excess aggregate contributions”, the Plan Year in which such “excess contributions” or “excess aggregate contributions” were made.

 

(i)   “ Elective deferrals ” mean all employer contributions, other than Deferral Contributions, made on behalf of a Participant pursuant to an election to defer under any qualified CODA as described in Code Section 401(k), any simplified employee pension cash or deferred arrangement as described in Code Section 402(h)(1)(B), any eligible deferred compensation plan under Code Section 457, any plan as described under Code Section 501(c)(18), and any employer contributions made on behalf of a Participant pursuant to a salary reduction agreement for the purchase of an annuity contract under Code Section 403(b). “Elective deferrals” shall not include any deferrals properly distributed as excess “annual additions”.

 

(j)  “ Eligible participant ” means any Active Participant who is eligible to make Employee Contributions, or Deferral Contributions (if the Employer takes such contributions into account in calculating “contribution percentages”), or to receive a Matching Employer Contribution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “eligible participant” shall not include any Active Participant who is included in a unit of Employees covered by an agreement which the Secretary of Labor finds to be a collective bargaining agreement between employee representatives and one or more employers.

 

(k)  “ Excess aggregate contributions ” with respect to any Plan Year mean the excess of

 

(1)  The aggregate “contribution percentage amounts” actually taken into account in computing the average “contribution percentages” of “eligible participants” who are Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year, over

 

(2)  The maximum amount of “contribution percentage amounts” permitted to be made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees under Section 6.06 (determined by reducing “contribution percentage amounts” made for the Plan Year on behalf of “eligible participants” who are Highly Compensated Employees in order of their “contribution percentages” beginning with the highest of such “contribution percentages”).

 

“Excess aggregate contributions” shall be determined after first determining “excess deferrals” and then determining “excess contributions”.

 

(l)  “ Excess contributions ” with respect to any Plan Year mean the excess of

 

(1)  The aggregate amount of “includable contributions” actually taken into account in computing the average “deferral percentage” of Active Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year, over

 

(2)  The maximum amount of “includable contributions” permitted to be made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees under Section 6.03 (determined by reducing “includable contributions” made for the Plan Year on behalf of Active Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees in order of their “deferral ratios”, beginning with the highest of such “deferral ratios”).

 

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(m)  “ Excess deferrals ” mean those Deferral Contributions and/or “elective deferrals” that are includable in a Participant’s gross income under Code Section 402(g) to the extent such Participant’s Deferral Contributions and/or “elective deferrals” for a calendar year exceed the dollar limitation under such Code Section for such calendar year.

 

(n)  “ Excess 415 amount ” means the excess of an Active Participant’s “annual additions” for the Limitation Year over the “maximum permissible amount”.

 

(o)  “ 415 employer ” means the Employer and any other employers which constitute a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Code Section 414(b) as modified by Code Section 415(h)) or which constitute trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) which are under common control (as defined in Code Section 414(c) as modified by Code Section 415(h)) or which constitute an affiliated service group (as defined in Code Section 414(m)) and any other entity required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to regulations issued under Code Section 414(o).

 

(p)  “ Includable contributions ” mean:

 

(1) any Deferral Contributions made on behalf of an Active Participant, including “excess deferrals” of Highly Compensated Employees, but excluding (a) “excess deferrals” of Non-Highly Compensated Employees that arise solely from Deferral Contributions made under the Plan or plans maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer and (b) Deferral Contributions that are taken into account in satisfying the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06;

 

(2) at the election of the Employer, Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions, excluding Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions that are taken into account in satisfying the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06; and

 

(3) at the election of the Employer, Qualified Matching Employer Contributions; provided, however, that the Employer may not elect to treat Qualified Matching Employer Contributions as “includable contributions” for any Plan Year in which the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 is deemed satisfied pursuant to Section 6.10.

 

To be included in determining an Active Participant’s “deferral ratio” for a Plan Year, “includable contributions” must be allocated to the Participant’s Account as of a date within such Plan Year and made before the last day of the 12-month period immediately following the Plan Year to which the “includable contributions” relate. If an Employer has elected the prior year testing method described in Subsection 1.06(a)(2) of the Adoption Agreement, “includable contributions” that are taken into account for purposes of determining the “deferral ratios” of Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the prior year relate to such prior year. Therefore, such “includable contributions” must be made before the last day of the Plan Year being tested.

 

Effective for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1999, if an Employer elects to change from the current year testing method described in Subsection 1.06(a)(1) of the Adoption Agreement to the prior year testing method described in Subsection 1.06(a)(2) of the Adoption Agreement, the following shall not be considered “includable contributions” for purposes of determining the “deferral ratios” of Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the prior year immediately preceding the Plan Year in which the change is effective:

 

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(4) Deferral Contributions that were taken into account in satisfying the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06 for such prior year;

 

(5) Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions that were taken into account in satisfying the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 or the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06 for such prior year; and

 

(6) all Qualified Matching Employer Contributions.

 

(q)  “ Individual medical benefit account ” means an individual medical benefit account as defined in Code Section 415(l)(2).

 

(r)  “ Maximum permissible amount ” means for a Limitation Year with respect to any Active Participant the lesser of (1) $30,000 (adjusted as provided in Code Section 415(d)) or (2) 25 percent of the Active Participant’s Compensation for the Limitation Year. If a short Limitation Year is created because of an amendment changing the Limitation Year to a different 12-consecutive-month period, the dollar limitation specified in clause (1) above shall be adjusted by multiplying it by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of months in the short Limitation Year and the denominator of which is 12.

 

The Compensation limitation specified in clause (2) above shall not apply to any contribution for medical benefits within the meaning of Code Section 401(h) or 419A(f)(2) after separation from service which is otherwise treated as an “annual addition” under Code Section 419A(d)(2) or 415(l)(1).

 

(s)  “ Simplified employee pension ” means a simplified employee pension as defined in Code Section 408(k).

 

(t)  “ Testing compensation ” means compensation as defined in Code Section 414(s). “Testing compensation” shall be based on the amount actually paid to a Participant during the “testing year” or, at the option of the Employer, during that portion of the “testing year” during which the Participant is an Active Participant; provided, however, that if the Employer elected different Eligibility Service requirements for purposes of eligibility to make Deferral Contributions and to receive Matching Employer Contributions, then “testing compensation” must be based on the amount paid to a Participant during the full “testing year”.

 

The annual “testing compensation” of each Active Participant taken into account in applying the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 and the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06 for any “testing year” shall not exceed the annual compensation limit under Code Section 401(a)(17) as in effect on the first day of the “testing year”. This limit shall be adjusted by the Secretary to reflect increases in the cost of living, as provided in Code Section 401(a)(17)(B); provided, however, that the dollar increase in effect on January 1 of any calendar year is effective for “testing years” beginning in such calendar year. If a Plan determines “testing compensation” over a period that contains fewer than 12 calendar months (a “short determination period”), then the Compensation limit for such “short determination period” is equal to the Compensation limit for the calendar year in which the “short determination period” begins multiplied by the ratio obtained by dividing the number of full months in the “short determination period” by 12; provided, however, that such proration shall not apply if there is a “short determination period” because (1) the Employer elected in accordance with any rules and regulations issued by the Secretary of the

 

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Treasury or his delegate to apply the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 and/or the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06 based only on Compensation paid during the portion of the “testing year” during which an individual was an Active Participant or (2) an Employee is covered under the Plan for fewer than 12 calendar months.

 

(u)  “ Testing year ” means

 

(1)   if the Employer has elected the current year testing method in Subsection 1.06(a)(1) of the Adoption Agreement, the Plan Year being tested.

 

(2)   if the Employer has elected the prior year testing method in Subsection 1.06(a)(2) of the Adoption Agreement, the Plan Year immediately preceding the Plan Year being tested.

 

(v)  “ Welfare benefit fund ” means a welfare benefit fund as defined in Code Section 419(e).

 

6.02. Code Section 402(g) Limit on Deferral Contributions .   In no event shall the amount of Deferral Contributions made under the Plan for a calendar year, when aggregated with the “elective deferrals” made under any other plan maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer, exceed the dollar limitation contained in Code Section 402(g) in effect at the beginning of such calendar year.

 

A Participant may assign to the Plan any “excess deferrals” made during a calendar year by notifying the Administrator on or before March 15 following the calendar year in which the “excess deferrals” were made of the amount of the “excess deferrals” to be assigned to the Plan. A Participant is deemed to notify the Administrator of any “excess deferrals” that arise by taking into account only those Deferral Contributions made to the Plan and those “elective deferrals” made to any other plan maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, “excess deferrals”, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, as determined under Section 6.09, shall be distributed no later than April 15 to any Participant to whose Account “excess deferrals” were so assigned for the preceding calendar year and who claims “excess deferrals” for such calendar year.

 

Any Matching Employer Contributions attributable to “excess deferrals”, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, as determined under Section 6.09, shall be forfeited and applied as provided in Section 11.09.

 

“Excess deferrals” shall be treated as “annual additions” under the Plan, unless such amounts are distributed no later than the first April 15 following the close of the calendar year in which the “excess deferrals” were made.

 

6.03. Additional Limit on Deferral Contributions (“ADP” Test) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, the Deferral Contributions made with respect to a Plan Year on behalf of Active Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year may not result in an average “deferral ratio” for such Active Participants that exceeds the greater of:

 

(a)  the average “deferral ratio” for the “testing year” of Active Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” multiplied by 1.25; or

 

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(b) the average “deferral ratio” for the “testing year” of Active Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” multiplied by two, provided that the average “deferral ratio” for Active Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year being tested does not exceed the average “deferral ratio” for Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” by more than two percentage points.

 

For the first Plan Year in which the Plan provides a cash or deferred arrangement, the average “deferral ratio” for Active Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees used in determining the limits applicable under Subsections 6.03(a) and (b) shall be either three percent or the actual average “deferral ratio” for such Active Participants for such first Plan Year, as elected by the Employer in Section 1.06(b) of the Adoption Agreement.

 

The deferral ratios of Active Participants who are included in a unit of Employees covered by an agreement which the Secretary of Labor finds to be a collective bargaining agreement shall be disaggregated from the “deferral ratios” of other Active Participants and the provisions of this Section 6.03 shall be applied separately with respect to each group.

 

The “deferral ratio” for any Active Participant who is a Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year being tested and who is eligible to have “includable contributions” allocated to his accounts under two or more cash or deferred arrangements described in Code Section 401(k) that are maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer, shall be determined as if such “includable contributions” were made under a single arrangement. If a Highly Compensated Employee participates in two or more cash or deferred arrangements that have different plan years, all cash or deferred arrangements ending with or within the same calendar year shall be treated as a single arrangement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, certain plans shall be treated as separate if mandatorily disaggregated under regulations under Code Section 401(k).

 

If this Plan satisfies the requirements of Code Section 401(k), 401(a)(4), or 410(b) only if aggregated with one or more other plans, or if one or more other plans satisfy the requirements of such Code Sections only if aggregated with this Plan, then this Section 6.03 shall be applied by determining the “deferral ratios” of Employees as if all such plans were a single plan. Plans may be aggregated in order to satisfy Code Section 401(k) only if they have the same plan year.

 

The Employer shall maintain records sufficient to demonstrate satisfaction of the “ADP” test and the amount of Qualified Nonelective and/or Qualified Matching Employer Contributions used in such test.

 

6.04. Allocation and Distribution of “Excess Contributions” .   Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, the “excess contributions” allocable to the Account of a Participant, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, as determined under Section 6.09, shall be distributed to the Participant no later than the last day of the Plan Year immediately following the Plan Year in which the “excess contributions” were made. If such excess amounts are distributed more than 2 1 / 2  months after the last day of the Plan Year in which the “excess contributions” were made, a ten percent excise tax shall be imposed on the Employer maintaining the Plan with respect to such amounts.

 

The “excess contributions” allocable to a Participant’s Account shall be determined by reducing the “includable contributions” made for the Plan Year on behalf of Active Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees in order of the dollar amount of such “includable contributions”, beginning with the highest such dollar amount.

 

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“Excess contributions” shall be treated as “annual additions”.

 

Any Matching Employer Contributions attributable to “excess contributions”, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, as determined under Section 6.09, shall be forfeited and applied as provided in Section 11.09.

 

6.05. Reductions in Deferral Contributions to Meet Code Requirements .   If the Administrator anticipates that the Plan will not satisfy the “ADP” and/or “ACP” test for the year, the Administrator may objectively reduce the rate of Deferral Contributions of Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees to an amount determined by the Administrator to be necessary to satisfy the “ADP” and/or “ACP” test.

 

6.06. Limit on Matching Employer Contributions and Employee Contributions (“ACP” Test) .   The provisions of this Section 6.06 shall not apply to Active Participants who are included in a unit of Employees covered by an agreement which the Secretary of Labor finds to be a collective bargaining agreement between employee representatives and one or more employers.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, Matching Employer Contributions and Employee Contributions made with respect to a Plan Year by or on behalf of “eligible participants” who are Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year may not result in an average “contribution percentage” for such “eligible participants” that exceeds the greater of:

 

(a)  the average “contribution percentage” for the “testing year” of “eligible participants” who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” multiplied by 1.25; or

 

(b)  the average “contribution percentage” for the “testing year” of “eligible participants” who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” multiplied by two, provided that the average “contribution percentage” for the Plan Year being tested of “eligible participants” who are Highly Compensated Employees does not exceed the average “contribution percentage” for the “testing year” of “eligible participants” who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year” by more than two percentage points.

 

For the first Plan Year in which the Plan provides for “contribution percentage amounts” to be made, the “ACP” for “eligible participants” who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees used in determining the limits applicable under paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.06 shall be either three percent or the actual “ACP” of such eligible participants for such first Plan Year, as elected by the Employer in Section 1.06(b).

 

The “contribution percentage” for any “eligible participant” who is a Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year and who is eligible to have “contribution percentage amounts” allocated to his accounts under two or more plans described in Code Section 401(a) that are maintained by the Employer or a Related Employer, shall be determined as if such “contribution percentage amounts” were contributed under a single plan. If a Highly Compensated Employee participates in two or more such plans that have different plan years, all plans ending with or within the same calendar year shall be treated as a single plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, certain plans shall be treated as separate if mandatorily disaggregated under Treasury Regulations issued under Code Section 401(m).

 

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If this Plan satisfies the requirements of Code Section 401(m), 401(a)(4) or 410(b) only if aggregated with one or more other plans, or if one or more other plans satisfy the requirements of such Code Sections only if aggregated with this Plan, then this Section 6.06 shall be applied by determining the “contribution percentages” of Employees as if all such plans were a single plan. Plans may be aggregated in order to satisfy Code Section 401(m) only if they have the same plan year.

 

The Employer shall maintain records sufficient to demonstrate satisfaction of the “ACP” test and the amount of Deferral Contributions, Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions, and/or Qualified Matching Employer Contributions used in such test.

 

6.07. Allocation, Distribution, and Forfeiture of “Excess Aggregate Contributions” .   Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the “excess aggregate contributions” allocable to the Account of a Participant, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, as determined under Section 6.09, shall be forfeited, if forfeitable, or if not forfeitable, distributed to the Participant no later than the last day of the Plan Year immediately following the Plan Year in which the “excess aggregate contributions” were made. If such excess amounts are distributed more than 2 1/2 months after the last day of the Plan Year in which such “excess aggregate contributions” were made, a ten percent excise tax shall be imposed on the Employer maintaining the Plan with respect to such amounts.

 

The “excess aggregate contributions” allocable to a Participant’s Account shall be determined by reducing the “contribution percentage amounts” made for the Plan Year on behalf of “eligible participants” who are Highly Compensated Employees in order of the dollar amount of such “contribution percentage amounts”, beginning with the highest such dollar amount.

 

“Excess aggregate contributions” shall be treated as “annual additions”.

 

“Excess aggregate contributions” shall be forfeited or distributed from a Participant’s Employee Contributions Account, Matching Employer Contributions Account and if applicable, the Participant’s Deferral Contributions Account and/or Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions Account in the order prescribed by the Employer, who shall direct the Trustee, and which order shall be uniform with respect to all Participants and non-discriminatory.

 

Forfeitures of “excess aggregate contributions” shall be applied as provided in Section 11.09.

 

6.08. Aggregate Limit on “Contribution Percentage Amounts” and “Includable Contributions” .   The sum of the average “deferral ratio” and the average “contribution percentage” of those Active Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees during the Plan Year shall not exceed the “aggregate limit”. The average “deferral ratio” and average “contribution percentage” of such Active Participants shall be determined after any corrections required to meet the “ADP” test, described in Section 6.03, and the “ACP” test, described in Section 6.06, have been made. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the “aggregate limit” shall not be exceeded if either the average “deferral ratio” or the average “contribution percentage” of such Active Participants for the Plan Year does not exceed 1.25 multiplied by the average “deferral ratio” or the average “contribution percentage”, as applicable, for the “testing year” of the Active Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the “testing year”.

 

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If the “aggregate limit” would be exceeded for any Plan Year, then the limit shall be met by reducing the “contribution percentage amounts” contributed for the Plan Year on behalf of the Active Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year (in order of their “contribution percentages”, beginning with the highest such “contribution percentage”). “Contribution percentage amounts” that are reduced as provided herein shall be treated as “excess aggregate contributions”. If for any Plan Year in which the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03 is deemed satisfied pursuant to Section 6.10, the average “deferral ratio” of those Active Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees during the Plan Year does not meet the “aggregate limit” after reducing the “contribution percentage amounts” contributed on behalf of such Active Participants to zero, no further reduction shall be required under this Section 6.08.

 

6.09. Income or Loss on Distributable Contributions .   The income or loss allocable to “excess deferrals”, “excess contributions”, and “excess aggregate contributions” shall be determined under one of the following methods:

 

(a)  the income or loss for the “determination year” allocable to the Participant’s Account to which such contributions were made multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of the distributable contributions and the denominator of which is the balance of the Participant’s Account to which such contributions were made, determined without regard to any income or loss occurring during the “determination year”; or

 

(b) the income or loss for the “determination year” determined under any other reasonable method, provided that such method is used consistently for all Participants in determining the income or loss allocable to distributable contributions hereunder for the Plan Year, and is used by the Plan in allocating income or loss to Participants’ Accounts.

 

Income or loss allocable to the period between the end of the “determination year” and the date of distribution shall be disregarded in determining income or loss.

 

6.10. Deemed Satisfaction of “ADP” Test .   Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article 6 to the contrary, for any Plan Year beginning on or after January 1, 1999, if the Employer has elected one of the safe harbor contributions in Subsection 1.10(a)(3) or 1.11(a)(3) of the Adoption Agreement and complies with the notice requirements described herein for such Plan Year, the Plan shall be deemed to have satisfied the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03. The Employer shall provide a notice to each Active Participant during the Plan Year describing the following:

 

(a)  the formula used for determining the amount of the safe harbor contribution to be made on behalf of Active Participants for the Plan Year or a statement that the Plan may be amended during the Plan Year to provide for a safe harbor Nonelective Employer Contribution for the Plan Year equal to at least three percent of each Active Participant’s Compensation for the Plan Year;

 

(b)  any other employer contributions provided under the Plan and any requirements that Active Participants must satisfy to be entitled to receive such employer contributions;

 

(c)  the type and amount of Compensation that may be deferred under the Plan as Deferral Contributions;

 

(d)  the procedures for making a cash or deferred election under the Plan and the periods during which such elections may be made or changed; and

 

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(e)  the withdrawal and vesting provisions applicable to contributions under the Plan.

 

The descriptions required in (b) through (e) may be provided by cross references to the relevant sections of an up to date summary plan description. Such notice shall be written in a manner calculated to be understood by the average Active Participant. The Employer shall provide the notice to each Active Participant within one of the following periods, whichever is applicable:

 

(f)  if the employee is an Active Participant 90 days before the beginning of the Plan Year, within the period beginning 90 days and ending 30 days before the first day of the Plan Year; or

 

(g)  if the employee becomes an Active Participant after the date described in paragraph (f) above, within the period beginning 90 days before and ending on the date he becomes an Active Participant;

 

provided, however, that such notice shall not be required to be provided to an Active Participant earlier than is required under any guidance published by the Internal Revenue Service.

 

If an Employer that provides notice that the Plan may be amended to provide a safe harbor Nonelective Employer Contribution for the Plan Year does amend the Plan to provide such contribution, the Employer shall provide a supplemental notice to all Active Participants stating that a safe harbor Nonelective Employer Contribution in the specified amount shall be made for the Plan Year. Such supplemental notice shall be provided to Active Participants at least 30 days before the last day of the Plan Year.

 

6.11. Deemed Satisfaction of “ACP” Test With Respect to Matching Employer Contributions .   A Plan that satisfies the requirements of Section 6.10 shall also be deemed to have satisfied the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06 with respect to Matching Employer Contributions, if Matching Employer Contributions to the Plan for the Plan Year meet all of the following requirements:  (a) the percentage of Deferral Contributions matched does not increase as the percentage of Compensation contributed increases; (b) Highly Compensated Employees are not provided a greater percentage match than Non-Highly Compensated Employees; (c) Deferral Contributions matched do not exceed six percent of a Participant’s Compensation; and (d) if the Employer elected in Subsection 1.10(a)(2) or 1.10(b) of the Adoption Agreement to provide discretionary Matching Employer Contributions, the Employer also elected in Subsection 1.10(a)(2)(A) or 1.10(b)(1) of the Adoption Agreement, as applicable, to limit the dollar amount of such discretionary Matching Employer Contributions allocated to a Participant for the Plan Year to no more than four percent of such Participant’s Compensation for the Plan Year.

 

If such Plan provides for Employee Contributions, the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06 must be applied with respect to such Employee Contributions. For purposes of applying the “ACP” test with respect to Employee Contributions, Matching Employer Contributions and Nonelective Employer Contributions that satisfy the vesting and distribution requirements applicable to safe harbor contributions, but which are not required to comply with the safe harbor contribution requirements may be taken into account.

 

6.12. Code Section 415 Limitations .   Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, the following limitations shall apply:

 

(a)  Employer Maintains Single Plan :  If the “415 employer” does not maintain any other qualified defined contribution plan or any “welfare benefit fund”, “individual medical benefit account”, or

 

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“simplified employee pension” in addition to the Plan, the provisions of this Subsection 6.12(a) shall apply.

 

(1)  If a Participant does not participate in, and has never participated in any other qualified defined contribution plan, “welfare benefit fund”, “individual medical benefit account”, or “simplified employee pension” maintained by the “415 employer”, which provides an “annual addition”, the amount of “annual additions” to the Participant’s Account for a Limitation Year shall not exceed the lesser of the “maximum permissible amount” or any other limitation contained in the Plan. If a contribution that would otherwise be contributed or allocated to the Participant’s Account would cause the “annual additions” for the Limitation Year to exceed the “maximum permissible amount”, the amount contributed or allocated shall be reduced so that the “annual additions” for the Limitation Year shall equal the “maximum permissible amount”.

 

(2)  Prior to the determination of a Participant’s actual Compensation for a Limitation Year, the “maximum permissible amount” may be determined on the basis of a reasonable estimation of the Participant’s Compensation for such Limitation Year, uniformly determined for all Participants similarly situated. Any Employer contributions based on estimated annual Compensation shall be reduced by any “excess 415 amounts” carried over from prior Limitation Years.

 

(3)  As soon as is administratively feasible after the end of the Limitation Year, the “maximum permissible amount” for such Limitation Year shall be determined on the basis of the Participant’s actual Compensation for such Limitation Year.

 

(4)  If there is an “excess 415 amount” with respect to a Participant for a Limitation Year as a result of the estimation of the Participant’s Compensation for the Limitation Year, the allocation of forfeitures to the Participant’s Account, or a reasonable error in determining the amount of Deferral Contributions that may be made on behalf of the Participant under the limits of this Section 6.12, such “excess 415 amount” shall be disposed of as follows:

 

(A)  Any Employee Contributions shall be reduced to the extent necessary to reduce the “excess 415 amount”.

 

(B)  If after application of Subsection 6.12(a)(4)(A) an “excess 415 amount” still exists, any Deferral Contributions that have not been matched shall be reduced to the extent necessary to reduce the “excess 415 amount”.

 

(C) If after application of Subsection 6.12(a)(4)(B) an “excess 415 amount” still exists, any Deferral Contributions that have been matched and the Matching Employer Contributions attributable thereto shall be reduced to the extent necessary to reduce the “excess 415 amount”.

 

(D)  If after the application of Subsection 6.12(a)(4)(C) an “excess 415 amount” still exists, any Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be reduced to the extent necessary to reduce the “excess 415 amount”.

 

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(E)  If after the application of Subsection 6.12(a)(4)(D) an “excess 415 amount” still exists, any Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be reduced to the extent necessary to reduce the “excess 415 amount”.

 

Employee Contributions and Deferral Contributions that are reduced as provided above shall be returned to the Participant. Any income allocable to returned Employee Contributions or Deferral Contributions shall also be returned or shall be treated as additional “annual additions” for the Limitation Year in which the excess contributions to which they are allocable were made.

 

If Matching Employer, Nonelective Employer, or Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions to a Participant’s Account are reduced as an “excess 415 amount”, as provided above, and the individual is still an Active Participant at the end of the Limitation Year, then such “excess 415 amount” shall be reapplied to reduce future Employer contributions under the Plan for the next Limitation Year (and for each succeeding Limitation Year, as necessary) for such Participant, so that in each such Limitation Year the sum of the actual Employer contributions made on behalf of such Participant plus the reapplied amount shall equal the amount of Employer contributions which would otherwise be made to such Participant’s Account. If the individual is not an Active Participant at the end of a Limitation Year, then such “excess 415 amount” shall be held unallocated in a suspense account. The suspense account shall be applied to reduce future Employer contributions for all remaining Active Participants in the next Limitation Year and each succeeding Limitation Year if necessary.

 

If a suspense account is in existence at any time during the Limitation Year pursuant to this Subsection 6.12(a)(4), it shall participate in the allocation of the Trust Fund’s investment gains and losses. All amounts in the suspense account must be allocated to the Accounts of Active Participants before any Employer contribution may be made for the Limitation Year.

 

Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Subsection 6.12, “excess 415 amounts” may not be distributed to Participants.

 

(b)  Employer Maintains Multiple Defined Contribution Type Plans :  Unless the Employer specifies another method for limiting “annual additions” in the 415 Correction Addendum to the Adoption Agreement, if the “415 employer” maintains any other qualified defined contribution plan or any “welfare benefit fund”, “individual medical benefit account”, or “simplified employee pension” in addition to the Plan, the provisions of this Subsection 6.12(b) shall apply.

 

(1)  If a Participant is covered under any other qualified defined contribution plan or any “welfare benefit fund”, “individual medical benefit account”, or “simplified employee pension” maintained by the “415 employer”, that provides an “annual addition”, the amount of “annual additions” to the Participant’s Account for a Limitation Year shall not exceed the lesser of

 

(A)  the “maximum permissible amount”, reduced by the sum of any “annual additions” to the Participant’s accounts for the same Limitation Year under such other qualified defined contribution plans and “welfare benefit funds”, “individual medical benefit accounts”, and “simplified employee pensions”, or

 

(B)  any other limitation contained in the Plan.

 

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If the “annual additions” with respect to a Participant under other qualified defined contribution plans, “welfare benefit funds”, “individual medical benefit accounts”, and “simplified employee pensions” maintained by the “415 employer” are less than the “maximum permissible amount” and a contribution that would otherwise be contributed or allocated to the Participant’s Account under the Plan would cause the “annual additions” for the Limitation Year to exceed the “maximum permissible amount”, the amount to be contributed or allocated shall be reduced so that the “annual additions” for the Limitation Year shall equal the “maximum permissible amount”. If the “annual additions” with respect to the Participant under such other qualified defined contribution plans, “welfare benefit funds”, “individual medical benefit accounts”, and “simplified employee pensions” in the aggregate are equal to or greater than the “maximum permissible amount”, no amount shall be contributed or allocated to the Participant’s Account under the Plan for the Limitation Year.

 

(2)  Prior to the determination of a Participant’s actual Compensation for the Limitation Year, the amounts referred to in Subsection 6.12(b)(1)(A) above may be determined on the basis of a reasonable estimation of the Participant’s Compensation for such Limitation Year, uniformly determined for all Participants similarly situated. Any Employer contribution based on estimated annual Compensation shall be reduced by any “excess 415 amounts” carried over from prior Limitation Years.

 

(3)  As soon as is administratively feasible after the end of the Limitation Year, the amounts referred to in Subsection 6.12(b)(1)(A) shall be determined on the basis of the Participant’s actual Compensation for such Limitation Year.

 

(4)  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other plan maintained by a “415 employer”, if there is an “excess 415 amount” with respect to a Participant for a Limitation Year as a result of estimation of the Participant’s Compensation for the Limitation Year, the allocation of forfeitures to the Participant’s account under any qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the “415 employer”, or a reasonable error in determining the amount of Deferral Contributions that may be made on behalf of the Participant to the Plan or any other qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the “415 employer” under the limits of this Subsection 6.12(b), such “excess 415 amount” shall be deemed to consist first of the “annual additions” allocated to this Plan and shall be reduced as provided in Subsection 6.12(a)(4); provided, however, that if the “415 employer” maintains both a profit sharing plan and a money purchase pension plan under this Basic Plan Document, “annual additions” to the money purchase pension plan shall be reduced only after all “annual additions” to the profit sharing plan have been reduced.

 

(c)  Employer Maintains or Maintained Defined Benefit Plan:  For Limitation Years beginning prior to January 1, 2000, if the “415 employer” maintains, or at any time maintained, a qualified defined benefit plan, the sum of any Participant’s “defined benefit plan fraction and “defined contribution plan fraction” shall not exceed the combined plan limitation of 1.00 in any such Limitation Year. The combined plan limitation shall be met by reducing “annual additions” under the Plan, unless otherwise provided in the qualified defined benefit plan.

 

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(d)  Adjustment to Compensation :  Compensation for purposes of this Section 6.12 shall include amounts that are not includable in the gross income of the Participant 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).

 

Article 7. Participants’ Accounts .

 

7.01. Individual Accounts .   The Administrator shall establish and maintain an Account for each Participant that shall reflect Employer and Employee contributions made on behalf of the Participant and earnings, expenses, gains and losses attributable thereto, and investments made with amounts in the Participant’s Account. The Administrator shall establish and maintain such other accounts and records as it decides in its discretion to be reasonably required or appropriate in order to discharge its duties under the Plan. The Administrator shall notify the Trustee of all Accounts established and maintained under the Plan.

 

7.02. Valuation of Accounts .   Participant Accounts shall be valued at their fair market value at least annually as of a date specified by the Administrator in accordance with a method consistently followed and uniformly applied, and on such date earnings, expenses, gains and losses on investments made with amounts in each Participant’s Account shall be allocated to such Account. Participants shall be furnished statements of their Account values at least once each Plan Year.

 

Article 8. Investment of Contributions .

 

8.01. Manner of Investment .   All contributions made to the Accounts of Participants shall be held for investment by the Trustee. Except as otherwise specifically provided in Section 20.10, the Accounts of Participants shall be invested and reinvested only in Permissible Investments selected by the Employer and designated in the Service Agreement.

 

8.02. Investment Decisions .   Investments shall be directed by the Employer or by each Participant or both, in accordance with the Employer’s election in Subsection 1.23 of the Adoption Agreement. Pursuant to Section 20.04, the Trustee shall have no discretion or authority with respect to the investment of the Trust Fund; however, an affiliate of the Trustee may exercise investment management authority in accordance with Subsection (e) below.

 

(a)  With respect to those Participant Accounts for which Employer investment direction is elected, the Employer (in its capacity as a named fiduciary under ERISA) has the right to direct the Trustee in writing with respect to the investment and reinvestment of assets comprising the Trust Fund in the Permissible Investments designated in the Service Agreement.

 

(b) With respect to those Participant Accounts for which Participant investment direction is elected, each Participant shall direct the investment of his Account among the Permissible Investments designated in the Service Agreement. The Participant shall file initial investment instructions with the Administrator, on such form as the Administrator may provide, selecting the Permissible Investments in which amounts credited to his Account shall be invested.

 

(1)  Except as provided in this Section 8.02, only authorized Plan contacts and the Participant shall have access to a Participant’s Account. While any balance remains in the Account of a Participant

 

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after his death, the Beneficiary of the Participant shall make decisions as to the investment of the Account as though the Beneficiary were the Participant. To the extent required by a qualified domestic relations order as defined in Code Section 414(p), an alternate payee shall make investment decisions with respect to any segregated account established in the name of the alternate payee as provided in Section 18.04.

 

(2)  If the Trustee receives any contribution under the Plan as to which investment instructions have not been provided, the Trustee shall promptly notify the Administrator and the Administrator shall take steps to elicit instructions from the Participant. The Trustee shall credit any such contribution to the Participant’s Account and such amount shall be invested in the Permissible Investment selected by the Employer for such purposes or, absent Employer selection, in the most conservative Permissible Investment designated in the Service Agreement, until investment instructions have been received by the Trustee.

 

If the Employer elects to allow Participants to direct the investment of their Account in Subsection 1.23(b) or (c) of the Adoption Agreement, the Plan is intended to constitute a plan described in ERISA Section 404(c) and regulations issued thereunder. The fiduciaries of the Plan shall be relieved of liability for any losses that are the direct and necessary result of investment instructions given by the Participant, his Beneficiary, or an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order. The Employer shall not be relieved of fiduciary responsibility for the selection and monitoring of the Permissible Investments under the Plan.

 

(c)  All dividends, interest, gains and distributions of any nature received in respect of Fund Shares shall be reinvested in additional shares of that Permissible Investment.

 

(d)  Expenses attributable to the acquisition of investments shall be charged to the Account of the Participant for which such investment is made.

 

(e) The Employer may appoint an investment manager (which may be the Trustee or an affiliate) to determine the allocation of amounts held in Participants’ Accounts among various investment options (the “Managed Account” option) for Participants who direct the Trustee to invest any portion of their accounts in the Managed Account option. The investment options utilized under the Managed Account option may be those generally available under the Plan or may be as selected by the investment manager for use under the Managed Account option. Participation in the Managed Account option shall be subject to such conditions and limitations (including account minimums) as may be imposed by the investment manager.

 

8.03. Participant Directions to Trustee .   The method and frequency for change of investments shall be determined under (a) the rules applicable to the Permissible Investments selected by the Employer and designated in the Service Agreement and (b) any additional rules of the Employer limiting the frequency of investment changes, which are included in a separate written administrative procedure adopted by the Employer and accepted by the Trustee. The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire into the investment decisions of a Participant or to advise him regarding the purchase, retention, or sale of assets credited to his Account.

 

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Article 9. Participant Loans .

 

9.01. Special Definitions .   For purposes of this Article, the following special definitions shall apply:

 

(a) A “ participant ” is any Participant or Beneficiary, including an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, as defined in Code Section 414(p), who is a party-in-interest (as determined under ERISA Section 3(14)) with respect to the Plan.

 

(b) An “ owner-employee ” is, if the Employer is a sole proprietorship for Federal income tax purposes (regardless of its characterization under state law), the individual who is the sole proprietor or sole member, as applicable; if the Employer is a partnership for Federal income tax purposes (regardless of its characterization under state law), a partner or member, as applicable, who owns more than 10 percent of either the capital interest or the profits interest of the partnership.

 

(c) A “ shareholder-employee ” is an employee or officer of an electing small business (Subchapter S) corporation who owns (or is considered as owning within the meaning of Code Section 318(a)(1)), on any day during the taxable year of such corporation, more than five percent of the outstanding stock of the corporation.

 

9.02. Participant Loans .   If so provided by the Employer in Section 1.17 of the Adoption Agreement, the Administrator shall allow “participants” to apply for a loan from their Accounts under the Plan, subject to the provisions of this Article 9.

 

9.03. Separate Loan Procedures .   All Plan loans shall be made and administered in accordance with separate loan procedures that are hereby incorporated into the Plan by reference.

 

9.04. Availability of Loans .   Loans shall be made available to all “participants” on a reasonably equivalent basis. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, no loans shall be made to (a) an Eligible Employee who makes a Rollover Contribution in accordance with Section 5.06, but who has not satisfied the requirements of Section 4.01 to become an Active Participant or (b) a “shareholder-employee” or “owner-employee”.

 

Loans shall not be made available to “participants” who are Highly Compensated Employees in an amount greater than the amount made available to other “participants”.

 

9.05. Limitation on Loan Amount .   No loan to any “participant” shall be made to the extent that such loan when added to the outstanding balance of all other loans to the “participant” would exceed the lesser of (a) $50,000 reduced by the excess (if any) of the highest outstanding balance of plan loans during the one-year period ending on the day before the loan is made over the outstanding balance of plan loans on the date the loan is made, or (b) one-half the present value of the “participant’s” vested interest in his Account. For purposes of the above limitation, plan loans include all loans from all plans maintained by the Employer and any Related Employer.

 

9.06. Interest Rate .   All loans shall bear a reasonable rate of interest as determined by the Administrator based on the prevailing interest rates charged by persons in the business of lending money for loans which would be made under similar circumstances. The determination of a reasonable rate of interest must be based on appropriate regional factors unless the Plan is administered on a national basis in which case the Administrator may establish a uniform reasonable rate of interest applicable to all regions.

 

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9.07. Level Amortization .  All loans shall by their terms require that repayment (principal and interest) be amortized in level payments, not less than quarterly, over a period not extending beyond five years from the date of the loan unless such loan is for the purchase of a “participant’s” primary residence. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the amortization requirement may be waived for a period not exceeding one year during which a “participant” is on a leave of absence from employment with the Employer and any Related Employer either without pay or at a rate of pay which, after withholding for employment and income taxes, is less than the amount of the installment payments required under the terms of the loan. Installment payments must resume after such leave of absence ends or, if earlier, after the first year of such leave of absence, in an amount that is not less than the amount of the installment payments required under the terms of the original loan. No waiver of the amortization requirements shall extend the period of the loan beyond five years from the date of the loan, unless the loan is for purchase of the “participant’s” primary residence.

 

9.08. Security .   Loans must be secured by the “participant’s” vested interest in his Account not to exceed 50 percent of such vested interest. If the provisions of Section 14.04 apply to a Participant, a Participant must obtain the consent of his or her spouse, if any, to use his vested interest in his Account as security for the loan. Spousal consent shall be obtained no earlier than the beginning of the 90-day period that ends on the date on which the loan is to be so secured. The consent must be in writing, must acknowledge the effect of the loan, and must be witnessed by a Plan representative or notary public. Such consent shall thereafter be binding with respect to the consenting spouse or any subsequent spouse with respect to that loan.

 

9.09. Transfer and Distribution of Loan Amounts from Permissible Investments . The Employer shall confirm the order in which the Permissible Investments shall be liquidated in order that the loan amount can be transferred and distributed.

 

9.10. Default .   The Administrator shall treat a loan in default if

 

(a)  any scheduled repayment remains unpaid at the end of the period specified in the separate loan procedures (unless payment is not made due to a waiver of the amortization schedule for a “participant” who is on a leave of absence, as described in Section 9.07), or

 

(b)  there is an outstanding principal balance existing on a loan after the last scheduled repayment date.

 

Upon default, the entire outstanding principal and accrued interest shall be immediately due and payable. If a distributable event (as defined by the Code) has occurred, the Administrator shall direct the Trustee to foreclose on the promissory note and offset the “participant’s” vested interest in his Account by the outstanding balance of the loan. If a distributable event has not occurred, the Administrator shall direct the Trustee to foreclose on the promissory note and offset the “participant’s” vested interest in his Account as soon as a distributable event occurs. The Trustee shall have no obligation to foreclose on the promissory note and offset the outstanding balance of the loan except as directed by the Administrator.

 

9.11. Effect of Termination Where Participant has Outstanding Loan Balance .  If a Participant has an outstanding loan balance at the time his employment terminates, the entire outstanding principal and accrued interest shall be immediately due and payable. Any outstanding loan amounts that are immediately due and payable hereunder shall be treated in accordance with the provisions of Sections 9.10 and 9.12 as if the Participant had defaulted on the outstanding loan.

 

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9.12. Deemed Distributions Under Code Section 72(p) .   Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9.10, if a “participant’s” loan is in default, the “participant” shall be treated as having received a taxable “deemed distribution” for purposes of Code Section 72(p), whether or not a distributable event has occurred. The amount of a loan that is a deemed distribution ceases to be an outstanding loan for purposes of Code Section 72, except as otherwise specifically provided herein, and a Participant shall not be treated as having received a taxable distribution when the Participant’s Account is offset by the outstanding balance of the loan amount as provided in Section 9.10. In addition, interest that accrues on a loan after it is deemed distributed shall not be treated as an additional loan to the Participant and shall not be included in the income of the Participant as a deemed distribution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless a Participant repays a loan that has been deemed distributed, with interest thereon, the amount of such loan, with interest, shall be considered an outstanding loan under Code Section 72(p) for purposes of determining the applicable limitation on subsequent loans under Section 9.05.

 

If a Participant makes payments on a loan that has been deemed distributed, payments made on the loan after the date it was deemed distributed shall be treated as Employee Contributions to the Plan for purposes of increasing the Participant’s tax basis in his Account, but shall not be treated as Employee Contributions for any other purpose under the Plan, including application of the “ACP” test described in Section 6.06 and application of the Code Section 415 limitations described in Section 6.12.

 

The provisions of this Section 9.12 regarding treatment of loans that are deemed distributed shall be effective as of

 

(a) the Effective Date, if the Plan is a new plan or is an amendment and restatement of a plan that administered loans in accordance with the provisions of Q & A 19 and 20 of Section 1.72(p)-1 of the Proposed Treasury Regulations immediately prior to the Effective Date or

 

(b) as of the January 1 coinciding with or immediately following the Effective Date, in any other case.

 

Any loan that was deemed distributed prior to the date the provisions of this Section 9.12 are effective shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this Section 9.12 to the extent such administration is consistent with the transition rules in Q & A 21(c)(2) of Section 1.72(p)-1 of the Proposed Treasury Regulations.

 

9.13. Determination of Account Value Upon Distribution Where Plan Loan is Outstanding .   Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the portion of a “participant’s” vested interest in his Account that is held by the Plan as security for a loan outstanding to the “participant” in accordance with the provisions of this Article shall reduce the amount of the Account payable at the time of death or distribution, but only if the reduction is used as repayment of the loan. If less than 100 percent of a “participant’s” vested interest in his Account (determined without regard to the preceding sentence) is payable to the “participant’s” surviving spouse or other Beneficiary, then the Account shall be adjusted by first reducing the “participant’s” vested interest in his Account by the amount of the security used as repayment of the loan, and then determining the benefit payable to the surviving spouse or other Beneficiary.

 

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Article 10. In-Service Withdrawals .

 

10.01. Availability of In-Service Withdrawals .   Except as otherwise permitted under Section 11.02 with respect to Participants who continue in employment past Normal Retirement Age, or as required under Section 12.04 with respect to Participants who continue in employment past their Required Beginning Date, a Participant shall not be permitted to make a withdrawal from his Account under the Plan prior to retirement or termination of employment with the Employer and all Related Employers, if any, except as provided in this Article.

 

10.02. Withdrawal of Employee Contributions .   A Participant may elect to withdraw, in cash, up to 100 percent of the amount then credited to his Employee Contributions Account. Such withdrawals may be made at any time, unless the Employer elects in Subsection 1.18(c)(1)(A) o


 
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