Fidelity
National Financial, Inc.
Deferred Compensation
Plan
Amended And
Restated, Effective January 1, 2009
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Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Deferred
Compensation Plan
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Establishment and Purpose
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Modifications to Payment Schedules
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Valuation of Account Balances;
Investments
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Amendment and Termination
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Fidelity
National Financial, Inc. Deferred Compensation Plan
Article
I
Establishment and Purpose
Fidelity
National Financial, Inc. (the “Company”) hereby amends
and restates the Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Deferred
Compensation Plan (the “Plan”), effective
January 1, 2009. This amendment and restatement applies only
to amounts deferred under the Plan on or after January 1,
2005, and to amounts deferred prior to January 1, 2005 that
were not vested as of December 31, 2004. Amounts deferred
under the Plan prior to January 1, 2005 that were vested as of
December 31, 2004 (the “Grandfathered Accounts”)
shall be subject to the provisions of the Plan as in effect on
October 3, 2004, as the same may be amended from time to time
by the Company without material modification, it being expressly
intended that such Grandfathered Accounts are to remain exempt from
the requirements of Code Section 409A. The provisions of the
Plan applicable to Grandfathered Accounts are reflected in this
document for ease of reference.
The purpose of
the Plan is to attract and retain key employees and Directors by
providing each Participant with an opportunity to defer receipt of
a portion of their salary, bonus, Directors’ Fees and other
specified compensation. The Plan is not intended to meet the
qualification requirements of Code Section 401(a), but is
intended to meet the requirements of Code Section 409A, and
shall be operated and interpreted consistent with that
intent.
The Plan
constitutes an unsecured promise by a Participating Employer to pay
benefits in the future. Participants in the Plan shall have the
status of general unsecured creditors of the Company or the
Adopting Employer, as applicable. Each Participating Employer shall
be solely responsible for payment of the benefits of its employees
and their beneficiaries. The Plan is unfunded for Federal tax
purposes and is intended to be an unfunded arrangement for eligible
employees who are part of a select group of management or highly
compensated employees of the Employer within the meaning of
Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(l) of ERISA. Any amounts
set aside to defray the liabilities assumed by the Company or an
Adopting Employer will remain the general assets of the Company or
the Adopting Employer and shall remain subject to the claims of the
Company’s or the Adopting Employer’s creditors until
such amounts are distributed to the Participants.
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2.1
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Account. Account means a bookkeeping account
maintained by the Committee to record the payment obligation of a
Participating Employer to a Participant as determined under the
terms of the Plan. The Committee may maintain an Account to record
the total obligation to a Participant and component Accounts to
reflect amounts payable at different times and in different forms.
Reference to an Account means any such Account established by the
Committee, as the context requires. Accounts are intended to
constitute unfunded obligations within the meaning of
Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(l) of ERISA.
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2.2
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Account Balance.
Account Balance means,
with respect to any Account, the total payment obligation owed to a
Participant from such Account as of the most recent Valuation
Date.
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2.3
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Adopting Employer.
Adopting Employer means
an organization that, with the consent of the Company, has adopted
the Plan for the benefit of its eligible employees.
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2.4
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Affiliate. Affiliate means a corporation, trade
or business that, together with the Company, is treated as a single
employer under Code Section 414(b) or (c).
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2.5
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Beneficiary. Beneficiary means a natural person,
estate, or trust designated by a Participant to receive payments to
which a Beneficiary is entitled in accordance with provisions of
the Plan. The Participant’s spouse, if living, otherwise the
Participant’s estate, shall be the Beneficiary if:
(i) the Participant has failed to properly designate a
Beneficiary, or (ii) all designated Beneficiaries have
predeceased the Participant. If the Participant names someone other
than his or her spouse as a Beneficiary, a spousal consent, in the
form designated by the Committee, must be signed by that
Participant’s spouse and returned to the
Committee.
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former spouse shall have no interest under the Plan, as Beneficiary
or otherwise, unless the Participant designates such person as a
Beneficiary after dissolution of the marriage, except to the extent
provided under the terms of a domestic relations order as described
in Code Section 414(p)(l)(B).
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2.6
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Business Day.
A Business Day is each
day on which the New York Stock Exchange is open for
business.
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2.7
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Change in Control
. Change in Control,
with respect to a Participating Employer that is organized as a
corporation, occurs on the date on which any of the following
events occur (i) a change in the ownership of the
Participating Employer; (ii) a change in the effective control
of the Participating Employer; (iii) a change in the ownership
of a substantial portion of the assets of the Participating
Employer.
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For
purposes of this Section, a change in the ownership of the
Participating Employer occurs on the date on which any one person,
or more than one person acting as a group, acquires ownership of
stock of the Participating Employer that, together with stock held
by such person or group constitutes more than 50% of the total fair
market value or total voting power of the stock of the
Participating Employer. A change in the effective control of the
Participating Employer occurs on the date on which either
(i) a person, or more than one person acting as a group,
acquires ownership of stock of the Participating Employer
possessing 30% or more of the total voting power of the stock of
the Participating Employer, taking into account all such stock
acquired during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most
recent acquisition, or (ii) a majority of the members of the
Participating Employer’s Board of Directors is replaced
during any 12-month period by directors whose appointment or
election is not endorsed by a majority of the members of such Board
of Directors prior to the date of the appointment or election,
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only if no other corporation is a
majority shareholder of the Participating Employer . A change in
the ownership of a substantial portion of assets occurs on the date
on which any one person, or more than one person acting as a group,
other than a person or group of persons that is related to the
Participating Employer, acquires assets from the Participating
Employer that have a total gross fair market value equal to or more
than 40% of the total gross fair market value of all of the assets
of the Participating Employer immediately prior to such acquisition
or acquisitions, taking into account all such assets acquired
during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent
acquisition.
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An
event constitutes a Change in Control with respect to a Participant
only if the Participant performs services for the Participating
Employer that has experienced the Change in Control, or the
Participant’s relationship to the affected Participating
Employer otherwise satisfies the requirements of Treasury
Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)(ii).
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The
determination as to the occurrence of a Change in Control shall be
based on objective facts and in accordance with the requirements of
Code Section 409A.
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2.8
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Claimant. Claimant means a Participant or
Beneficiary filing a claim under Article XII of this
Plan.
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2.9
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Code. Code means the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as amended from time to time.
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2.10
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Code Section 409A.
Code Section 409A
means section 409A of the Code, and regulations and other guidance
issued by the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service
thereunder.
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Committee. Committee means the committee
appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company (or the
appropriate committee of such board) to administer the Plan. If no
designation is made, the Chief Executive Officer of the Company or
his delegate shall have and exercise the powers of the
Committee.
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2.12
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Company. Company means Fidelity National
Financial, Inc.
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2.13
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Company Contribution.
Company Contribution
means a credit by a Participating Employer to a Participant’s
Account(s) in accordance with the provisions of Article V of
the Plan. Company Contributions are credited at the sole discretion
of the Participating Employer and the fact that a Company
Contribution is credited in one year shall not obligate the
Participating Employer to continue to make such Company
Contribution in subsequent years. Unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise, a reference to Company Contribution shall
include Earnings attributable to such contribution.
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Compensation.
Compensation means a
Participant’s base salary, bonus, commission,
Directors’ Fees and such other cash or equity-based
compensation (if any) approved by the Committee as Compensation
that may be deferred under this Plan. Compensation shall not
include any compensation that has been previously deferred under
this Plan or any other arrangement subject to Code
Section 409A.
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2.15
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Compensation Deferral
Agreement. Compensation Deferral Agreement
means an agreement between a Participant and a Participating
Employer that specifies (i) the amount of each component of
Compensation that the Participant has elected to defer to the Plan
in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, and
(ii) the Payment Schedule applicable to one or more Accounts.
The Committee may permit different deferral amounts for each
component of Compensation and may establish a minimum or maximum
deferral amount for each such component. Unless otherwise specified
by the Committee in the Compensation Deferral Agreement,
Participants may defer up to 75% of their Annual Base Salary, up to
100% of their Annual Bonus, up to 100% of their quarterly bonuses,
up to 75% of their Commissions, and up to 100% of Directors’
Fees for a Plan Year. A Compensation Deferral Agreement may also
specify the investment allocation described in
Section 8.4.
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2.16
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Death Benefit.
Death Benefit means the
benefit payable under the Plan to a Participant’s
Beneficiary(ies) upon the Participant’s death as provided in
Section 6.1 of the Plan.
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Deferral. Deferral means a credit to a
Participant’s Account(s) that records that portion of the
Participant’s Compensation that the Participant has elected
to defer to the Plan in accordance with the provisions of
Article IV. Unless the context of the Plan clearly indicates
otherwise, a reference to Deferrals includes Earnings attributable
to such Deferrals.
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Deferrals shall be calculated with
respect to the gross cash Compensation payable to the Participant
prior to any deductions or withholdings, but shall be reduced by
the Committee as necessary so that it does not exceed 100% of the
cash Compensation of the Participant remaining after deduction of
all required income and employment taxes, 401(k) and other employee
benefit deductions, and other deductions required by law. Changes
to payroll withholdings that affect the amount of Compensation
being deferred to the Plan shall be allowed only to the extent
permissible under Code Section 409A.
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2.18
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Director. Director means a non-Employee member
of the Board of Directors of the Company or an Adopting
Employer.
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2.19
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Earnings. Earnings means an adjustment to the
value of an Account in accordance with
Article VIII.
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2.20
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Effective Date.
Effective Date means
January 1, 2009.
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2.21
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Eligible Employee.
Eligible Employee means
a member of a “select group of management or highly
compensated employees” of a Participating Employer within the
meaning of Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(l) of ERISA,
as determined by the Committee from time to time in its sole
discretion.
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Employee. Employee means a common-law employee
of an Employer.
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2.23
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Employer . Employer means, with respect to
Employees it employs, each Participating Employer and any Affiliate
of such Participating Employer.
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ERISA . ERISA means the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to
time.
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Fiscal Year Compensation
. Fiscal Year
Compensation means Compensation earned during one or more
consecutive fiscal years of a Participating Employer, all of which
is paid after the last day of such fiscal year or years.
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Grandfathered Account
. Grandfathered Account
means amounts deferred under the Plan prior to January 1, 2005
that were vested as of December 31, 2004.
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Participant . Participant means an Eligible
Employee or a Director who has received notification of his or her
eligibility to defer Compensation under the Plan under
Section 3.1 and any other person with an Account Balance
greater than zero, regardless of whether such individual continues
to be an Eligible Employee or a Director. A Participant’s
continued participation in the Plan shall be governed by
Section 3.2 of the Plan.
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Participating Employer
. Participating Employer
means the Company and each Adopting Employer.
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2.29
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Payment Schedule
. Payment Schedule means
the date as of which payment of an Account under the Plan will
commence and the form in which payment of such Account will be
made.
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Performance-Based
Compensation . Performance-Based Compensation
means Compensation where the amount of, or entitlement to, the
Compensation is contingent on the satisfaction of pre-established
organizational or individual performance criteria relating to a
performance period of at least twelve consecutive months.
Organizational or individual performance criteria are considered
pre-established if established in writing by not later than ninety
(90) days after the commencement of the period of service to
which the criteria relate, provided that the outcome is
substantially uncertain at the time the criteria are established.
The determination of whether Compensation qualifies as
“Performance-Based Compensation” will be made in
accordance with Treas. Reg. Section 1.409A-l(e) and subsequent
guidance.
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Plan . Generally, the term Plan means the
“Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Deferred Compensation
Plan” as documented herein and as may be amended from time to
time hereafter. However, to the extent permitted or required under
Code Section 409 A, the term Plan may in the appropriate
context also mean a portion of the Plan that is treated as a single
plan under Treas. Reg. Section 1.409A-l(c), or the Plan or
portion of the Plan and any other nonqualified deferred
compensation plan or portion thereof that is treated as a single
plan under such section. “Plan”, in the appropriate
context, refers to the
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portion of this Plan represented by
each Adopting Employer’s liabilities with respect to its
Employees and Directors.
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Plan Year . Plan Year means January 1 through
December 31.
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2.33
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Retirement. Retirement means a
Participant’s Separation from Service after attainment of age
60.
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Retirement Benefit.
Retirement Benefit means
the benefit payable to a Participant under the Plan following the
Retirement of the Participant.
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Retirement/Termination
Account .
Retirement/Termination Account means an Account established by the
Committee to record the amounts payable to a Participant upon
Separation from Service.
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Separation from Service
. An Employee incurs a
Separation from Service upon termination of employment with the
Employer. A Director incurs a Separation from Service when he or
she no longer serves on the Board of Directors of the Company.
Whether a Separation from Service has occurred shall be determined
by the Committee in accordance with Code Section 409
A.
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Except in the case of an Employee on
a bona fide leave of absence as provided below, an Employee is
deemed to have incurred a Separation from Service if the Employer
and the Employee reasonably anticipated that the level of services
to be performed by the Employee after a date certain would be
reduced to 20% or less of the average services rendered by the
Employee during the immediately preceding 36-month period (or the
total period of employment, if less than 36 months), disregarding
periods during which the Employee was on a bona fide leave of
absence.
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An
Employee who is absent from work due to military leave, sick leave,
or other bona fide leave of absence shall incur a Separation from
Service on the first date immediately following the later of
(i) the six-month anniversary of the commencement of the leave
or (ii) the expiration of the Employee’s right, if any,
to reemployment under statute or contract.
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For
purposes of determining whether a Separation from Service has
occurred, the Employer means the Employer as defined in
Section 2.23 of the Plan, except that for purposes of
determining whether another organization is an Affiliate of the
Company, common ownership of at least 50% shall be
determinative.
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The
Committee specifically reserves the right to determine whether a
sale or other disposition of substantial assets to an unrelated
party constitutes a Separation from Service with respect to a
Participant providing services to the seller immediately prior to
the transaction and providing services to the buyer after the
transaction. Such determination shall be made in accordance with
the requirements of Code Section 409A.
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Specified Date Account.
A Specified Date Account
means an Account established by the Committee to record the amounts
payable at a future date as specified in the Participant’s
Compensation Deferral Agreement. Unless otherwise determined by the
Committee, a Participant may maintain no more than five Specified
Date Accounts. A Specified Date Account may be identified in
enrollment materials as an “In-Service Account” or such
other name without affecting the meaning of this
Section.
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Specified Date Benefit.
Specified Date Benefit
means the benefit payable to a Participant under the Plan in
accordance with Section 6.1(c).
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Substantial Risk of
Forfeiture. Substantial Risk of Forfeiture shall
have the meaning specified in Treas. Reg.
Section 1.409A-l(d).
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Termination Benefit.
Termination Benefit
means the benefit payable to a Participant under the Plan following
the Participant’s Separation from Service prior to
Retirement.
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Unforeseeable Emergency.
An Unforeseeable
Emergency means a severe financial hardship to the Participant
resulting from an illness or accident of the Participant, the
Participant’s spouse, the Participant’s dependent (as
defined in Code section 152, without regard to section 152(b)(l),
(b)(2), and (d)(l)(B)) or a Beneficiary; loss of the
Participant’s property due to casualty (including the need to
rebuild a home following damage to a home not otherwise covered by
insurance, for example, as a result of a natural disaster); or
other similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising
as a result of events beyond the control of the Participant. The
types of events which may qualify as an Unforeseeable Emergency may
be limited by the Committee.
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Valuation Date.
Valuation Date shall
mean each Business Day.
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3.1
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Eligibility and
Participation. An Eligible Employee or a Director
becomes a Participant upon the earlier to occur of (i) a
credit of Company Contributions under Article V or
(ii) receipt of notification of eligibility to
participate.
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3.2
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Duration. A Participant shall be eligible to
defer Compensation and receive allocations of Company
Contributions, subject to the terms of the Plan, for as long as
such Participant remains an Eligible Employee or a Director. A
Participant who is no longer an Eligible Employee or a Director but
has not Separated from Service may not file a Compensation Deferral
Agreement under Article IV, but may otherwise exercise all of
the rights of a Participant under the Plan with respect to his or
her Account(s). On and after a Separation from Service, a
Participant shall remain a Participant as long as his or her
Account Balance is greater than zero and during such time may
continue to make allocation elections as provided in
Section 8.4. An individual shall cease being a Participant in
the Plan when all benefits under the Plan to which he or she is
entitled have been paid.
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4.1
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Deferral Elections,
Generally.
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(a)
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A
Participant may elect to defer Compensation by submitting a
Compensation Deferral Agreement during the enrollment periods
established by the Committee and in the manner specified by the
Committee, but in any event, in accordance with Section 4.2. A
Compensation Deferral Agreement that is not timely filed with
respect to a service period or component of Compensation shall be
considered void and shall have no effect with respect to such
service period or Compensation. The Committee may modify or cancel
any Compensation Deferral Agreement prior to the date the election
becomes irrevocable under the rules of Section 4.2.
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(b)
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The
Participant shall specify on his or her Compensation Deferral
Agreement the amount of Deferrals and whether to allocate Deferrals
to a Retirement/Termination Account or to a Specified Date Account.
If no designation is made, Deferrals shall be allocated to the
Retirement/Termination Account. A Participant may also specify in
his or her Compensation Deferral Agreement the Payment Schedule
applicable to his or her Plan Accounts. If the Payment Schedule is
not specified in a Compensation Deferral Agreement, the Payment
Schedule shall be the Payment Schedule specified in
Section 6.2.
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4.2
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Timing Requirements for Compensation
Deferral Agreements.
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(a)
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First Year of
Eligibility. In the case of the first year in
which an Eligible Employee or a Director becomes eligible to
participate in the Plan, he has up to 30 days following his initial
eligibility to submit a Compensation Deferral Agreement with
respect to Compensation to be earned during such year. The
Compensation Deferral Agreement described in this paragraph becomes
irrevocable upon the end of such 30-day period. The determination
of whether an Eligible Employee or a Director may file a
Compensation Deferral Agreement under this paragraph shall be
determined in accordance with the rules of Code Section 409A,
including the provisions of Treas. Reg.
Section 1.409A-2(a)(7).
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A
Compensation Deferral Agreement filed under this paragraph applies
to Compensation earned on and after the date the Compensation
Deferral Agreement becomes irrevocable.
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(b)
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Prior Year Election.
Except as otherwise
provided in this Section 4.2, Participants may defer
Compensation by filing a Compensation Deferral Agreement no later
than December 31 of the year prior to the year in which the
Compensation to be deferred is earned. A Compensation Deferral
Agreement described in this paragraph shall become irrevocable with
respect to such Compensation as of January 1 of the year in which
such Compensation is earned.
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(c)
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Performance-Based
Compensation. Participants may file a Compensation
Deferral Agreement with respect to Performance-Based Compensation
no later than the date that is six months before the end of the
performance period, provided that:
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(i)
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the
Participant performs services continuously from the later of the
beginning of the performance period or the date the criteria are
established through the date the Compensation Deferral Agreement is
submitted; and
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(ii)
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the
Compensation is not readily ascertainable as of the date the
Compensation Deferral Agreement is filed.
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A
Compensation Deferral Agreement becomes irrevocable with respect to
Performance-Based Compensation as of the day immediately following
the latest date for filing such election. Any election to defer
Performance-Based Compensation that is made in accordance with this
paragraph and that becomes payable as a result of the
Participant’s death or disability (as defined in Treas. Reg.
Section 1.409A-l(e)) or upon a change in control (as defined in
Treas. Reg. Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)) prior to the satisfaction of
the performance criteria, will be void.
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(d)
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Sales Commissions.
Sales commissions (as
defined in Treas. Reg. Section 1.409A-2(a)(12)(i)) are considered
to be earned in the taxable year of the Participant in which the
sale occurs. The Compensation Deferral Agreement must be filed
before the last day of the year preceding the year in which the
sales commissions are earned and becomes irrevocable after that
date.
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(e)
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Short-Term Deferrals.
Compensation that meets
the definition of a “short-term deferral” described in
Treas. Reg. Section 1.409A-l(b)(4) may be deferred in
accordance with the rules of Article VII, applied as if the
date the Substantial Risk of Forfeiture lapses is the date payments
were originally scheduled to commence, provided, however, that the
provisions of Section 7.3 shall not apply to payments
attributable to a change in control (as defined in Treas. Reg.
Section 1.409A- 3(i)(5)).
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(f)
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Certain Forfeitable
Rights. With
respect to a legally binding right to a payment in a subsequent
year that is subject to a forfeiture condition requiring the
Participant’s continued services for a period of at least
twelve months from the date the Participant obtains the legally
binding right, an election to defer such Compensation may be made
on or before the 30th day after the Participant obtains the legally
binding right to the Compensation, provided that the election is
made at least twelve months in advance of the earliest date at
which the forfeiture condition could lapse. The Compensation
Deferral Agreement described in this paragraph becomes irrevocable
after such 30th day. If the forfeiture condition applicable to the
payment lapses before the end of the required service period as a
result of the Participant’s death or disability (as defined
in Treas. Reg. Section
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1.409A-3(i)(4)) or upon a change in
control (as defined in Treas. Reg. Section 1.409A-3(i)(5)), the
Compensation Deferral Agreement will be void unless it would be
considered timely under another rule described in this
Section.
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(g)
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Company Awards.
Participating Employers
may unilaterally provide for deferrals of Company awards prior to
the date of such awards. Deferrals of Company awards (such as
sign-on, retention, or severance pay) may be negotiated with a
Participant prior to the date the Participant has a legally binding
right to such Compensation.
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4.3
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Allocation of Deferrals.
A Compensation Deferral
Agreement may allocate Deferrals to one or more Specified Date
Accounts and/or to the Retirement/Termination Account. The
Committee may, in its discretion, establish a minimum deferral
period for Specified Date Accounts (for example, the fourth Plan
Year following the year Compensation subject to the Compensation
Deferral Agreement is earned).
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4.4
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Deductions from Pay.
The Committee has the
authority to determine the payroll practices under which any
component of Compensation subject to a Compensation Deferral
Agreement will be deducted from a Participant’s
Compensation.
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4.5
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Vesting. Participant Deferrals shall be 100%
vested at all times.
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4.6
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Cancellation of
Deferrals. The Committee may cancel a
Participant’s Deferrals (i) for the balance of the Plan
Year in which an Unforeseeable Emergency occurs, (ii) if the
Participant receives a hardship distribution under the
Employer’s qualified 401(k) plan, through the end of the Plan
Year in which the six-month anniversary of the hardship
distribution falls, and (iii) during periods in which the
Participant is unable to perform the duties of his or her position
or any substantially similar position due to a mental or physical
impairment that can be expected to result in death or last for a
continuous period of at least six months (a
“Disability”), provided cancellation occurs by the
later of the end of the taxable year of the Participant or the
15 th day of the third month following the
date the Participant incurs the Disability.
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5.1
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Discretionary Company
Contributions. The Participating Employer may, from
time to time in its sole and absolute discretion, credit Company
Contributions to any Participant in any amount determined by the
Participating Employer. Such contributions will be credited to a
Participant’s Retirement/Termination Account.
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5.2
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Vesting. Company Contributions described in
Section 5.1, above, and the Earnings ther
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