Exhibit 4.1
THE CORPORATEPLAN
FOR RETIREMENT
SM
FIDELITY BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT
NO. 02
THE CORPORATEPLAN
FOR RETIREMENT
SM
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The CORPORATEplan for
Retirement SM
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Basic Plan Document 02
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10/9/2003
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©2003 FMR Corp.
All rights reserved.
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Preamble.
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Article 1. Adoption
Agreement.
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Article 2.
Definitions.
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2.01.
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Definitions
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1
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2.02.
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Pronouns
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11
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2.03.
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Special Effective
Dates
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11
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Article 3.
Service.
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3.01.
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Crediting of Eligibility
Service
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11
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3.02.
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Re-Crediting of Eligibility
Service Following Termination of Employment
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11
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3.03.
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Crediting of Vesting
Service
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12
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3.04.
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Application of Vesting Service to
a Participant’s Account Following a Break in Vesting
Service
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12
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3.05.
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Service with Predecessor
Employer
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12
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3.06.
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Change in Service
Crediting
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12
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Article 4.
Participation.
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4.01.
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Date of
Participation
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12
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4.02.
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Transfers Out of Covered
Employment
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13
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4.03.
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Transfers Into Covered
Employment
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13
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4.04.
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Resumption of Participation
Following Reemployment
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13
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Article 5.
Contributions.
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5.01.
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Contributions Subject to
Limitations
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14
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5.02.
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Compensation Taken into Account
in Determining Contributions
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14
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5.03.
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Deferral
Contributions
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14
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5.04.
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Employee
Contributions
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15
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5.05.
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No Deductible Employee
Contributions
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15
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5.06.
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Rollover
Contributions
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15
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5.07.
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Qualified Nonelective Employer
Contributions
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16
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5.08.
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Matching Employer
Contributions
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17
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5.09.
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Qualified Matching Employer
Contributions
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17
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5.10.
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Nonelective Employer
Contributions
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17
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5.11.
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Vested Interest in
Contributions
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19
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5.12.
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Time for Making
Contributions
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20
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5.13.
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Return of Employer
Contributions
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20
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Article 6. Limitations on
Contributions.
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6.01.
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Special
Definitions
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20
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6.02.
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Code
Section 402(g) Limit on Deferral
Contributions
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27
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6.03.
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Additional Limit on Deferral
Contributions
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27
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6.04.
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Allocation and Distribution of
“Excess Contributions”
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28
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6.05.
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Reductions in Deferral
Contributions to Meet Code Requirements
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29
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6.06.
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Limit on Matching Employer
Contributions and Employee Contributions
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29
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6.07.
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Allocation, Distribution, and
Forfeiture of “Excess Aggregate
Contributions”
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30
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6.08.
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Aggregate Limit on
“Contribution Percentage Amounts” and “Includable
Contributions”
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30
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6.09.
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Income or Loss on Distributable
Contributions
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31
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6.10.
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Deemed Satisfaction of
“ADP” Test
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31
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6.11.
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Deemed Satisfaction of
“ACP” Test With Respect to Matching Employer
Contributions
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32
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6.12.
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Code Section 415
Limitations
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32
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Article 7.
Participants’ Accounts.
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7.01.
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Individual
Accounts
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36
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7.02.
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Valuation of
Accounts
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36
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Article 8. Investment of
Contributions.
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8.01.
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Manner of
Investment
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36
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8.02.
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Investment
Decisions
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36
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8.03.
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Participant Directions to
Trustee
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37
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Article 9. Participant
Loans.
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9.01.
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Special
Definitions
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38
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9.02.
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Participant Loans
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9.03.
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Separate Loan
Procedures
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38
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9.04.
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Availability of
Loans
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38
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9.05.
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Limitation on Loan
Amount
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38
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9.06.
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Interest Rate
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38
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9.07.
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Level Amortization
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39
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9.08.
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Security
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39
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9.09.
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Transfer and Distribution of Loan
Amounts from Permissible Investments
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39
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9.10.
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Default
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39
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9.11.
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Effect of Termination Where
Participant has Outstanding Loan Balance
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39
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9.12.
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Deemed Distributions Under Code
Section 72(p)
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40
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9.13.
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Determination of Account Value
Upon Distribution Where Plan Loan is Outstanding
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40
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Article 10. In-Service
Withdrawals.
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10.01.
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Availability of In-Service
Withdrawals
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41
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10.02.
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Withdrawal of Employee
Contributions
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41
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10.03.
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Withdrawal of Rollover
Contributions
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41
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10.04.
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Age 59 1/2
Withdrawals
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41
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10.05.
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Hardship
Withdrawals
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41
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10.06.
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Preservation of Prior Plan
In-Service Withdrawal Rules
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42
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10.07.
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Restrictions on In-Service
Withdrawals
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43
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10.08.
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Distribution of Withdrawal
Amounts
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43
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Article 11. Right to
Benefits.
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11.01.
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Normal or Early
Retirement
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44
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11.02.
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Late Retirement
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44
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11.03.
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Disability
Retirement
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44
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11.04.
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Death
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44
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11.05.
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Other Termination of
Employment
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44
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11.06.
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Application for
Distribution
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11.07.
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Application of Vesting Schedule
Following Partial Distribution
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45
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11.08.
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Forfeitures
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45
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11.09.
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Application of
Forfeitures
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46
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11.10.
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Reinstatement of
Forfeitures
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46
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11.11.
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Adjustment for Investment
Experience
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46
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Article 12.
Distributions.
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12.01.
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Restrictions on
Distributions
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47
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12.02.
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Timing of Distribution Following
Retirement or Termination of Employment
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47
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12.03.
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Participant Consent to
Distribution
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12.04.
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Required Commencement of
Distribution to Participants
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48
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12.05.
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Required Commencement of
Distribution to Beneficiaries
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48
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12.06.
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Whereabouts of Participants and
Beneficiaries
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49
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Article 13. Form of
Distribution.
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13.01.
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Normal Form of Distribution
Under Profit Sharing Plan
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13.02.
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Cash Out Of Small
Accounts
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50
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13.03.
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Minimum
Distributions
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50
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13.04.
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Direct Rollovers
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13.05.
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Notice Regarding Timing and
Form of Distribution
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13.06.
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Determination of Method of
Distribution
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52
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13.07.
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Notice to Trustee
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Article 14. Superseding
Annuity Distribution Provisions.
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14.01.
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Special
Definitions
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53
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14.02.
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Applicability
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14.03.
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Annuity Form of
Payment
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53
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14.04.
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“Qualified Joint and
Survivor Annuity” and “Qualified Preretirement Survivor
Annuity Requirements”
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54
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14.05.
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Waiver of the “Qualified
Joint and Survivor Annuity” and/or “Qualified
Preretirement Survivor Annuity Rights”
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55
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14.06.
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Spouse’s Consent to
Waiver
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55
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14.07.
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Notice Regarding “Qualified
Joint and Survivor Annuity”
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56
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14.08.
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Notice Regarding “Qualified
Preretirement Survivor Annuity”
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56
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14.09.
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Former Spouse
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56
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Article 15. Top-Heavy
Provisions.
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15.01.
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Definitions
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56
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15.02.
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Application
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58
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15.03.
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Minimum
Contribution
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15.04.
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Modification of Allocation
Provisions to Meet Minimum Contribution Requirements
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59
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15.05.
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Adjustment to the Limitation on
Contributions and Benefits
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60
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15.06.
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Accelerated
Vesting
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15.07.
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Exclusion of
Collectively-Bargained Employees
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61
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Article 16. Amendment and
Termination.
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16.01.
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Amendments by the Employer that
do Not Affect Prototype Status
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61
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16.02.
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Amendments by the Employer that
Affect Prototype Status
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62
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16.03.
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Amendment by the Mass Submitter
Sponsor and the Prototype Sponsor
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62
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16.04.
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Amendments Affecting Vested
and/or Accrued Benefits
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62
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16.05.
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Retroactive
Amendments
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63
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16.06.
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Termination
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63
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16.07.
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Distribution upon Termination of
the Plan
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63
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16.08.
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Merger or Consolidation of Plan;
Transfer of Plan Assets
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63
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Article 17. Amendment and
Continuation of Prior Plan; Transfer of Funds to or from Other
Qualified Plans.
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17.01.
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Amendment and Continuation of
Prior Plan
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64
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17.02.
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Transfer of Funds from an
Existing Plan
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64
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17.03.
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Acceptance of Assets by
Trustee
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66
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17.04.
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Transfer of Assets from
Trust
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66
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Article 18.
Miscellaneous.
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18.01.
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Communication to
Participants
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18.02.
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Limitation of
Rights
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67
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18.03.
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Nonalienability of
Benefits
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67
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18.04.
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Qualified Domestic Relations
Orders Procedures
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68
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18.05.
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Additional Rules for Paired
Plans
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68
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18.06.
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Application of Plan Provisions in
Multiple Employer Plans
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68
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18.07.
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Veterans Reemployment
Rights
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69
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18.08.
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Facility of
Payment
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69
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18.09.
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Information between Employer and
Trustee
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69
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18.10.
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Effect of Failure to Qualify
Under Code
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69
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18.11.
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Directions, Notices and
Disclosure
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69
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18.12.
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Governing Law
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70
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Article 19. Plan
Administration.
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19.01.
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Powers and Responsibilities of
the Administrator
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70
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19.02.
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Nondiscriminatory Exercise of
Authority
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70
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19.03.
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Claims and Review
Procedures
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70
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19.04.
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Named Fiduciary
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71
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19.05.
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Costs of
Administration
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71
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Article 20. Trust
Agreement.
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20.01.
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Acceptance of Trust
Responsibilities
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71
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20.02.
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Establishment of Trust
Fund
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72
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20.03.
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Exclusive Benefit
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72
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20.04.
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Powers of Trustee
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72
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20.05.
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Accounts
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73
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20.06.
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Approval of
Accounts
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74
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20.07.
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Distribution from Trust
Fund
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74
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20.08.
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Transfer of Amounts from
Qualified Plan
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74
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20.09.
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Transfer of Assets from
Trust
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74
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20.10.
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Separate Trust or Fund for
Existing Plan Assets
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74
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20.11.
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Self-Directed Brokerage
Option
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75
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20.12.
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Employer Stock Investment
Option
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76
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20.13.
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Voting; Delivery of
Information
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81
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20.14.
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Compensation and Expenses of
Trustee
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81
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20.15.
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Reliance by Trustee on Other
Persons
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81
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20.16.
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Indemnification by
Employer
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82
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20.17.
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Consultation by Trustee with
Counsel
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82
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20.18.
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Persons Dealing with the
Trustee
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82
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20.19.
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Resignation or Removal of
Trustee
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82
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20.20.
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Fiscal Year of the
Trust
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83
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20.21.
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Discharge of Duties by
Fiduciaries
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83
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20.22.
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Amendment
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83
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20.23.
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Plan Termination
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83
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20.24.
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Permitted Reversion of Funds to
Employer
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83
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20.25.
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Governing Law
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84
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Preamble
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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