Exhibit 10.32
NONQUALIFIED
DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
BASIC PLAN
DOCUMENT
(Including Code §409A
provisions)
Base Document
Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Prototype
Plan
NONQUALIFIED
DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
BASIC PLAN
DOCUMENT
By execution of the Adoption
Agreement associated with this Basic Plan Document, the Employer
establishes this Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan
(“Plan”) for the benefit of certain Employees and
Contractors the Employer designates in its Adoption Agreement. The
primary purpose of the Plan is to provide additional compensation
to Participants upon termination of employment or service with the
Employer. The Employer will pay benefits under the Plan only in
accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in the
Plan.
PREAMBLE
ERISA/Code Plan Type
. The Employer in its Adoption
Agreement will specify whether it establishes the Plan as a
nonqualified deferred compensation plan or as an ineligible Code
§457(f) plan. A nonqualified deferred compensation plan is an
unfunded plan that may be: (i) an “excess benefit
plan” under ERISA §3(36); (ii) a plan maintained
“primarily for the purpose of providing deferred compensation
for a select group of management or highly compensated
employees” (“top-hat plan”) under ERISA
§§201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1); (iii) a plan only
for Contractors and exempt from Title I of ERISA; or (iv) a
church plan under Code §414(e) and ERISA §3(33) and
maintained by a church or church-controlled organization under Code
§3121(w)(3). A top-hat plan includes a supplemental executive
retirement plan (“SERP”). A tax-exempt Code
§457(f) plan may include a church plan under Code §414(e)
and ERISA §3(33) but which is not sponsored by a church or
church-controlled organization under Code
§3121(w)(3).
409A Plan Type
. The Employer in its Adoption
Agreement will specify whether it establishes the Plan as an
Account Balance Plan or as a Separation Pay Plan.
Possible Nonuniformity
. The Employer in its Adoption
Agreement will specify such Plan terms as will apply to all
Participants uniformly or as may apply to a given Participant.
Except where the Plan or Applicable Guidance require uniformity in
order to comply with Code §409A, the Employer need not provide
the same Plan benefits or apply the same Plan terms and conditions
to all Participants, even as to Participants who are of similar
pay, title and other status with the Employer. The elections the
Employer makes in its Adoption Agreement apply uniformly to all
Participants, except to the extent the Employer adopts inconsistent
provisions with respect to one or more Participants in a separate
attachment designated as “Exhibit A” and attached to
the Adoption Agreement. The Employer may create a separate Exhibit
A for one or more Participants, specifying such terms and
conditions as are applicable to a given Participant. The Employer,
in Exhibit A, may modify any Plan provision or any Adoption
Agreement election as to one or more Participants.
I. DEFINITIONS
1.01 “Account”
means the account the Employer establishes under the Plan for each
Participant and, as applicable, means a Participant’s
Elective Deferral Account, Nonelective Contribution Account or
Matching Contribution Account.
1.02 “Account Balance
Plan” means an Elective Deferral Account Balance Plan or
an Employer Contribution Account Balance Plan, or a combination of
both, as the Employer elects in its Adoption Agreement.
(A) Elective Deferral Account
Balance Plan . An Elective Deferral Account Balance Plan is a
plan comprised of an Elective Deferral Account as described under
Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(c)(2)(i)(A).
(B) Employer Contribution Account
Balance Plan . An Employer Contribution Account Balance Plan is
a plan comprised of Employer Nonelective Contribution Accounts,
Matching Contribution Accounts, or both, as described under Treas.
Reg. §1.409A-1(c)(2)(i)(B).
1.03 “Accrued
Benefit” means the total dollar amount credited to a
Participant’s Account.
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1.04 “Adoption
Agreement” means the document the Employer executes to
establish the Plan and includes all Exhibits and other documents
referenced therein.
1.05 “Aggregated
Plans” means this Plan and any other like-type plan of
the Employer in which a given Participant participates and as to
which the Plan (see Sections 2.02(B)(2) and 6.03(B)) or Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-1 (c)(2) requires the aggregation of all such
nonqualified deferred compensation in applying Code §409A. For
this purpose, the following rules apply:
(A) Participants in Separate
Plans . The plan for a Participant is treated as a separate
plan from the plan for any other Participant, even though such
plans may be incorporated into a single written plan in this Plan
and covering all Participants.
(B) Plan Types . The
following plans under clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) are not
“like-type plans” and are treated as separate from each
other: (i) all Elective Deferral Account Balance Plans
(including for aggregation purposes only, Separation Pay Plans
based on Voluntary Separation from Service); (ii) all Employer
Contribution Account Balance Plans (including for aggregation
purposes only, Separation Pay Plans based on Voluntary Separation
from Service); and (iii) all Separation Pay Plans based on
Involuntary Separation from Service or under a Window
Program.
(C) Dual Status . If a
Participant in two like-type plans participates in one plan as an
Employee and in the other as a Contractor, the plans are not
Aggregated Plans. If an Employee also serves on the
Employer’s board of directors (or in a similar capacity with
regard to a non-corporate entity) and participates in like-type
plans but participates in one plan as an Employee and in the other
as a director (or similar capacity with regard to a non-corporate
entity) [a “director plan”], the plans are not
Aggregated Plans provided that the director plan is substantially
similar to a plan the maintains for non-employee directors. If the
director plan is not substantially similar, for purposes of
aggregation, the director plan is treated as a plan for Employees.
Director plans and plans for Contractors are subject to aggregation
under this Section 1.05.
1.06 “Applicable
Guidance” means as the context requires Code
§§83, 409A and 457, Treas. Reg. §1.83, Treas. Reg.
§§1.409A-1 through -6, Treas. Reg. §1.457-11, or
other written Treasury or IRS guidance regarding or affecting Code
§§83, 409A or 457(f), including, as applicable, any Code
§409A guidance in effect prior to January 1,
2008.
1.07 “Base
Salary” means a Participant’s Compensation
consisting only of regular salary and excluding any other
Compensation.
1.08 “Basic Plan
Document” means this Nonqualified Deferred Compensation
Plan document.
1.09
“Beneficiary” means the person or persons
entitled to receive Plan benefits in the event of a
Participant’s death.
1.10 “Bonus”
means a Participant’s Compensation consisting only of bonus
and excluding any other Compensation. A Bonus also may be
Performance-Based Compensation under Section 1.37.
1.11 “Change in
Control” means, as to an Employer which is a corporation,
a change: (i) in the ownership of the Employer (acquisition by
one or more persons acting as a group of more than 50% of the total
voting power or fair market value of the Employer); (ii) in
the effective control of the Employer (acquisition or acquisition
during a 12-month period ending on the date of the latest
acquisition, by one or more persons acting as a group of 30% or
more of the total voting power of the Employer or replacement of a
majority of the members of the board of directors of the Employer
[described below, but including only the entity for which no other
corporation is a majority shareholder] during any 12-month period
by directors not endorsed by a majority of the board before the
appointment or election); or (iii) in the ownership of a
substantial portion of the assets of the Employer (acquisition or
acquisition during a 12-month period ending on the date of the
latest acquisition, by one or more persons [other than related
persons described in Treas. Reg. §1.409A-3(i)(5)(vii)(B)]
acting as a group of assets with a total gross fair market value of
40% or more of the total gross fair market value of all assets of
the Employer immediately before such acquisition or acquisitions),
each within the meaning of Treas. Reg. §1.409A-3(i)(5) or in
Applicable Guidance. For this purpose, the Employer includes the
Employer, the corporation which is liable for the payment of the
Deferred Compensation, a majority shareholder (more than 50% of
total fair market value and voting
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power) of the foregoing or a corporation in a
chain of corporations in which each is a majority owner of another
corporation in the chain, ending in the Employer or in the
corporation that is liable for payment of the Deferred
Compensation, all in accordance with Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-3(i)(5)(ii). An event constituting a Change in Control
must be objectively determinable and any certification thereof by
the Employer or its agents may not subject to the discretion of
such person. For purposes of applying this Section 1.11, stock
ownership is determined in accordance with Code §318(a) as
modified under Treas. Reg. §1.409A-3(i)(5)(iii). The Employer
in its Adoption Agreement will elect whether a Change in Control
includes any or all the events described in clauses (i),
(ii) or (iii) and also may elect to increase the
percentage change required under any such event to constitute a
Change in Control. Pending the issuance of Applicable Guidance as
to the application of the Change in Control provisions to
partnerships (or other non-corporate entities), if the Employer
elects in its Adoption Agreement to permit Change in Control as a
payment event, the Employer will apply clauses (i) and
(iii) and clause (ii) as it relates to a change in the
composition of the board of directors by analogy in accordance with
Treas. Reg. §1.409A, Preamble, II.G.
1.12 “Change in the
Employer’s Financial Health” means an adverse
change in the Employer’s financial condition as described in
Applicable Guidance.
1.13 “Code” means
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
1.14
“Commissions” means Compensation or portions of
Compensation consisting of Sales Commissions or of Investment
Commissions. See Section 2.02(B)(5).
(A) Sales Commissions . Sales
Commissions means Compensation or portions of Compensation a
Participant earns if: (i) a substantial portion of
Participant’s services to the Employer consists of the direct
sale of a product or a service to a customer that is not related or
treated as related to the Employer or to the Participant (under
Treas. Reg. §§1.409A-1(f)(2)(ii)) and (iv));
(ii) the Compensation the Employer pays to the Participant
consists either of a portion of the purchase price for the product
or service or of an amount substantially all of which is calculated
by reference to volume of sales; and (iii) payment is either
contingent upon the Employer receiving payment from an unrelated
customer (as described in clause (i) above) for the product or
services or, if consistently applied as to all similarly situated
service providers, is contingent upon the closing of a sales
transaction and such other requirements as the Employer may specify
before the closing of the sales transaction.
(B) Investment Commissions .
Investment Commissions means Compensation or portions of
Compensation a Participant earns if: (i) a substantial portion
of the Participant’s services to the Employer to which the
Compensation relates consists of sales of financial products or
other direct customer services to a customer that is not related or
treated as related to the Employer or to the Participant (under
Treas. Reg. §§1.409A-1(f)(2)(ii)) and (iv)) as to
customer assets or customer asset accounts; (ii) the customer
retains the right to terminate the relationship and to move or
liquidate the assets or asset accounts without undue delay (but
subject to a reasonable notice period); (iii) the Compensation
is based on a portion of the value of the overall assets or asset
account balance, substantially all of the Compensation is
calculated by reference to the increase in value of the overall
assets of account balance, or both; and (iv) the value of the
overall assets or account balance and Investment Commissions are
determined at least annually.
(C) Related Customer
Commissions . This Section 1.14 also applies to Sales
Commissions and to Investment Commissions involving a related
customer provided: (i) the Employer as to unrelated customers
makes substantial sales or provides substantial services giving
rise to Commissions; and (ii) the sales, service and
Commission arrangements with the related customer are bona fide,
arise from the Employer’s ordinary course of business and are
substantially the same, in terms and in practice, as those terms
and practices that apply to unrelated customers to which
substantial sales are made or substantial services are
rendered.
1.15
“Compensation”
(A) Employees . Compensation
means as to an Employee, gross W-2 compensation. “W-2
Compensation” means wages for federal income tax withholding
purposes, as defined under Code §3401(a), plus all other
payments to an Employee in the course of the Employer’s trade
or business, for which the Employer must furnish the Employee a
written statement under Code §§6041, 6051 and 6052,
disregarding any rules limiting the remuneration included as wages
under this definition based on the nature or location of
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the employment or service performed.
“Gross W-2 compensation” means W-2 compensation plus
all amounts excludible from a Participant’s gross income
under Code §§125,132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(2), 403(b),
and 408(p), contributed by the Employer, at the Participant’s
election, to a cafeteria plan, a qualified transportation fringe
benefit plan, a 401(k) arrangement, a SEP, a tax sheltered annuity,
or a SIMPLE plan.
(B) Contractors .
Compensation as to a Contractor means all payments by the Employer
to the Contractor for services during a Taxable Year.
(C) Modifications . The
Employer in its Adoption Agreement will elect whether to modify the
definition of Compensation. The Employer may modify the definition
of Compensation or may specify a different definition of
Compensation either as to Employees, as to Contractors or
both.
1.16 “Contractor”
means a person or entity providing services to the Employer (not as
an Employee) as described in Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(f)(1) and
which for any Taxable Year of the Contractor that the Contractor is
on the cash receipts and disbursements method of accounting for
Federal income tax purposes. A person serving on a board of
directors is a Contractor as to Compensation for such service
without regard to whether the person is an Employee for other
purposes. A Contractor is not subject to this Plan or to Code
§409A if in the Taxable Year in which the Legally Binding
Right to Compensation arises: (i) the Contractor is actively
engaged in the trade or business of performing services other than
as an Employee or as a director (or similar position as to a
non-corporate Employer); (ii) the Contractor provides
significant services to the Employer and to at least 2 other
unrelated service recipients, where the Contractor, the Employer
and the other service recipient(s) are all unrelated to each other
within the meaning of Treas. Reg. §§1.409A-1(f)(2)(i)(B)
and (C) as applicable; and (iii) the services are not
“management services” within the meaning of Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-1(f)(2)(iv). For purposes of clause
(ii) “significant services” means as described in
Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(f)(2)(iii). This Plan and Code
§409A also do not apply to certain other “related”
Contractor services as described in Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-1(f)(2)(v).
1.17 “Disability”
except as the Plan otherwise provides means a condition of a
Participant who by reason of any medically determinable physical or
mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or can
be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12
months: (i) is unable to engage in any substantial gainful
activity; or (ii) is receiving income replacement benefits for
a period of not less than 3 months under an accident and health
plan covering Employees. The Employer in its Adoption Agreement
will elect whether Disability includes all impairments constituting
Disability under this Section 1.17, or only certain specified
Disabilities which satisfy the foregoing definition. The Employer
will determine whether a Participant has incurred a Disability
based on its own good faith determination and may require a
Participant to submit to reasonable physical and mental
examinations for this purpose. A Participant will be deemed to have
incurred a Disability if: (i) the Social Security
Administration or Railroad Retirement Board determines that the
Participant is totally disabled; or (ii) the applicable
insurance company providing disability insurance to the Participant
under an Employer sponsored disability program determines that a
Participant is disabled under the insurance contract definition of
disability, provided such definition complies with the definition
in this Section 1.17.
1.18. “Deferred
Compensation” means the Participant’s Account
Balance attributable to Elective Deferrals and Employer
Contributions and includes Earnings on such amounts except where
the Plan otherwise provides. “Compensation Deferred” is
Compensation that the Participant or the Employer has deferred
under this Plan. Compensation is Deferred Compensation if:
(i) under the terms of the Plan and the relevant facts and
circumstances, the Participant has a Legally Binding Right to
Compensation during a Taxable Year that the Participant has not
actually or constructively received and included in gross income;
and (ii) pursuant to the Plan terms, the Compensation is or
may be payable to or on behalf of the Participant in a later
Taxable Year. Deferred Compensation includes Separation Pay
paid pursuant to a Separation Pay Plan except as otherwise
described in Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(b)(9) relating to certain
excluded Involuntary or Voluntary Separation from Service or Window
Programs and certain reimbursements, medical benefits, in-kind
benefits and limited payments. Deferred Compensation
excludes certain “short-term deferrals” and all
other items described in Treas. Reg. §§1.409A-1(b)(3),
(4), (5), (6), (8), (10), (11) and (12) or in other
Applicable Guidance.
1.19 “Earnings”
means earnings, gain or loss applicable to a Participant’s
Account provided that such amounts reflect actual predetermined
investments or notional amounts which do not exceed a reasonable
rate of interest. Amounts credited to an Account
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that do not reflect actual predetermined
investments or a reasonable rate of interest are Deferred
Compensation and are not Earnings. For purposes of making the
determination of whether an amount is Earnings or is Deferred
Compensation, the principles of Treas. Reg.
§31.3121(v)(2)-1(d)(2) apply.
1.20 “Effective
Date” of the Plan is the date the Employer specifies in
the Adoption Agreement, but which is not earlier than
January 1, 2008. If this Plan restates a Plan (written or
otherwise) which was in effect before January 1, 2008, for
periods before January 1, 2008, as to 409A Amounts, the
standards and transition rules in effect under Notices 2006-79,
2006-64, 2003-33, 2006-4, Prop. Treas. Reg. §1.409A, Preamble,
Section XI and Notice 2005-1 apply. See also the Treas. Reg.
§1.409A Preamble, Section XII as to the treatment of certain
actions which were in compliance with Applicable Guidance in effect
before the issuance of such 409A Regulations on April 17,
2007, but which are not in compliance with such
Regulations.
1.21 “Elective
Deferral” means Compensation a Participant elects to
defer into the Participant’s Account under the
Plan.
1.22 “Elective Deferral
Account” means the portion of a Participant’s
Account attributable to Elective Deferrals and Earnings
thereon.
1.23 “Employee”
means a person providing services to the Employer as a common law
employee (and not as a Contractor) as described in Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-1(f)(1) and who, for any Taxable Year of the Employee,
is on the cash receipts and disbursements method of accounting for
Federal income tax purposes.
1.24 “Employer”
means the person or entity: (i) receiving the services of the
Participant (even if another person pays the Deferred
Compensation); (ii) with respect to whom the Legally Binding
Right to Compensation arises; and (iii) who or which executes
an Adoption Agreement establishing the Plan. The Employer includes
all persons with whom the Employer would be considered a single
employer under Code §§414(b) or (c). In the case of an
Ineligible 457 Plan, Employer means a State or a Tax-Exempt
Organization. For purposes of this Plan, “Employer”
means “service recipient” as that term in used in
Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1 through -6.
1.25 “Employer
Contribution” means amounts the Employer contributes or
credits to an Account under the Plan, including Nonelective
Contributions and Matching Contributions but not including Elective
Deferrals.
1.26 “Employer Contribution
Account” means the portion of a Participant’s
Account attributable to Employer Contributions and Earnings
thereon.
1.27 “ERISA”
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
1.28 “409A
Amount” means: (i) any Compensation Deferred prior
to January 1, 2005, unless such Deferred Compensation is a
Grandfathered Amount; and (ii) any Compensation Deferred in
Taxable Years beginning after December 31, 2004. In
determining 409A Amounts, the rules of Section 1.05 regarding
Aggregated Plans apply.
1.29 “Grandfathered
Amount” means an amount of Deferred Compensation
hereunder as to which, prior to January 1, 2005, a
Participant: (i) had a Legally Binding Right to be paid
Deferred Compensation; and (ii) was Vested. However, if the
Employer after October 3, 2004, materially modifies the Plan
as described in Treas. Reg. 1.409A-6(a)(4), then such amount ceases
to be a Grandfathered Amount. In determining Grandfathered Amounts,
the rules of Section 1.05 regarding Aggregated Plans
apply.
1.30 “Ineligible 457
Plan” means this Plan which is subject to Code
§457(f) and that is not an eligible 457 plan under Code
§457(b).
1.31 “Legally Binding
Right” means, in reference to Compensation, the grant by
the Employer to the Participant of an enforceable right (under
contract, statute or other applicable law) to Compensation where,
after the Participant has performed the services which created the
Legally Binding Right, the Compensation is not subject to
unilateral reduction or elimination by the
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Employer or any other person. The Employer,
based on the facts and circumstances and in accordance with Treas.
Reg. §1.409A-1(b)(1), will determine: (i) whether a
Legally Binding Right exists; or (ii) whether a Legally
Binding Right does not exist on account of the existence of
negative discretion which has substantive significance to reduce or
eliminate the Compensation. Negative discretion does not exist
where the Participant has effective control over the person with
the negative discretion, has effective control over any portion of
compensation of the decision maker or is a family member of the
decision maker (within the meaning of Code §267(c)(4) applied
as if the family of an individual includes the spouse of any member
of the family). Compensation is not subject to unilateral reduction
or elimination merely because: (i) it may be reduced or
eliminated by operation of objective Plan terms, such as a
Substantial Risk of Forfeiture; (ii) the Compensation is
determined under a formula that provides for an offset based on
benefits provided under another plan, including a qualified plan;
or (iii) benefits are reduced on account of actual or notional
investment losses, or, in a final average pay plan, because of
subsequent decreases in compensation.
1.32 “Matching
Contribution” means a fixed or discretionary Employer
contribution made with respect to a Participant’s Elective
Deferral.
1.33 “Matching Contribution
Account” means the portion of a Participant’s
Account attributable to Matching Contributions and Earnings
thereon.
1.34 “Nonelective
Contribution” means a fixed or discretionary Employer
Contribution that is unrelated to a Participant’s Elective
Deferrals.
1.35 “Nonelective
Contribution Account” means the portion of a
Participant’s Account attributable to Nonelective
Contributions and Earnings thereon.
1.36
“Participant” means an Employee or Contractor
the Employer designates under Adoption Agreement Section 2.01
or in Exhibit “B” to the Adoption Agreement to
participate in the Plan. For purposes of this Plan,
“Participant” means a “service provider” as
that term in used in Treas. Reg. 1.409A-1 through-6, who is a
participant in the Plan. A reference herein to “service
provider” means another service provider to the Employer,
whether or not that person is a Participant.
1.37 “Performance-Based
Compensation” means Compensation (including a Bonus)
where the amount of, or entitlement to, the Compensation is
contingent on satisfaction of preestablished organizational or
individual performance criteria relating to a performance period of
at least 12 consecutive months. The Employer must establish the
organizational or individual performance criteria in writing not
later than 90 days after commencement of the performance period and
the outcome must be substantially uncertain at the time that the
Employer establishes the performance criteria. The Employer may
establish performance criteria without the necessity of action by
its shareholders, board of directors, compensation committee or
similar entities in the case of a non-corporate Employer.
Performance-Based Compensation does not include any amount that
will be paid regardless of performance or that will be paid based
on a level of performance that is substantially certain to be met
at the time the criteria are established. If the Plan will pay the
Participant’s Performance-Based Compensation in the event of
the Participant’s death or disability or if a Change in
Control occurs, without regard to whether the performance criteria
have been satisfied, the Compensation is not Performance-Based
Compensation (and therefore is not entitled to the election timing
under Section 2.02(B)(4)) if payment occurs as a result of any
of such events. “Disability” for purposes of this
Section 1.37 means any medically determinable physical or
mental impairment resulting form the Participant’s inability
to perform the duties of his/her position or of any substantially
similar position, where such impairment can be expected to result
in death or to last for a continuous period of not less than 6
months. Performance-Based Compensation does not include an amount
of Compensation which is based on a specified number of shares of
stock multiplied by the share price at the end of the performance
period, but may include an amount of Compensation based on an
increase in share price over the performance period or which is not
payable unless the share price is at or above a specified price.
Performance-Based Compensation may be based on subjective
performance criteria provided: (i) the criteria are bona fide
and relate the Participant’s performance, a group of service
providers that includes the Participant or a business unit for
which the Participant provides services which may include the
Employer; and (ii) the person who decides whether the
subjective performance criteria have been met is someone other than
the Participant, the Participant’s family member (within the
meaning of Code §267(c)(4) applied as if the family of an
individual includes the spouse of any member of the family), or a
person under the effective control of the Participant or such
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family member. In addition, the decision
maker’s compensation may not be controlled in whole or in
part by the Participant or such a family member. The Employer will
determine the status of Compensation as Performance-Based
Compensation in accordance with Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(e) and
Applicable Guidance.
1.38 “Plan” means
the Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan of the Employer
established by and including the Adoption Agreement, the Basic Plan
Document, the Trust, if any, and all notices, forms, elections and
other written documentation to which the Plan refers. The Employer
will set forth the name of the Plan in its Adoption Agreement
. For purposes of applying Code §409A requirements this
Plan, as the Employer elects in its Adoption Agreement, is an
Elective Deferral Account Balance Plan, an Employer Contribution
Account Balance Plan or both, or is a Separation Pay Plan. This
Plan does not constitute: (i) a Code §401(a) plan with
and exempt trust under Code §501(a); (ii) a Code
§403(a) annuity plan; (iii) a Code §403(b) annuity;
(iv) a Code §408(k) SEP; (v) a Code §408(p)
Simple IRA; (vi) a Code §501(c)(18) trust to which an
active participant makes deductible contributions; (vii) a
Code §457(b) plan; or (viii) a Code §415(m)
plan.
1.39 “Retirement
Age” means the date (if any) the Employer elects in the
Adoption Agreement.
1.40 “Separation from
Service”
(A) Employees . Separation
from Service means in the case of an Employee, the Employee’s
termination of employment with the Employer whether on account of
death, retirement, Disability or otherwise.
(1) Insignificant or Significant
Service/Presumptions . The Employer will determine whether an
Employee has terminated employment (and incurred a Separation from
Service) based on whether the facts and circumstances as described
in Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(h)(1)(ii). An Employee incurs a
Separation from Service if the parties reasonably anticipate, based
on the facts and circumstances, the Employee will not perform any
additional services after a certain date or that the level of bona
fide services (whether performed as an Employee or as a Contractor)
will permanently decrease to no more than 20% of the average level
of bona fide services performed (whether performed as an Employee
or as a Contractor) over the immediately preceding 36-month period
(or, if less, the period the employee has rendered service to the
Employer) (“average prior service”). An Employee is
presumed to have incurred a Separation from Service if the
Employee’s service level decreases to 20% or less than the
average prior service and an Employee is presumed to not have
incurred a Separation from Service if the Employee’s service
level continues at a rate which is 50% or more of the average prior
service. No presumption applies where the Employee’s service
level is more than 20% and less than 50% of the average prior
service.
(2) Effect of Leave . An
Employee does not incur a Separation from Service if the Employee
is on military leave, sick leave, or other bona fide leave of
absence if such leave does not exceed a period of 6 months, or if
longer, the period for which a statute or contract provides the
Employee with the right to reemployment with the Employer. If a
Participant’s leave exceeds 6 months but the Participant is
not entitled to reemployment under a statute or contract, the
Participant incurs a Separation from Service on the next day
following the expiration of 6 months. A leave of absence
constitutes a bona fide leave of absence for this Section 1.40
only if there is a reasonable expectation that the Employee will
return to perform services for the Employer. Where a leave of
absence is due to any medically determinable physical or mental
impairment that can be expected to result in death or to last for a
continuous period of at least 6 months, and where the Participant
cannot perform his/her duties or the duties of any substantially
similar position, in determining when a Separation from Service
occurs, the above 6 month period is 29 months unless the Employer
or the Employee terminate the leave sooner. For purposes of
determining average prior service under Section 1.40 (A)(1),
during a paid leave of absence which is not a Separation From
Service, the Employee is treated as rendering bona fide services at
a level that would have been required to earn the amount paid
during the leave. If the leave of absence is unpaid, the leave
period is disregarded in determining average prior
service.
(3) Alternative Definition .
In lieu of applying Section 1.40(A)(1), the Employer or
Participant in an initial payment election or in a change payment
election may elect a percentage of reduced bona fide services
resulting in a Separation from Service which percentage must be
greater than 20% and less than 50% of prior average service,
determined over the immediately preceding 36 months.
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(B) Contractors . Separation
from Service, in the case of a Contractor, means the expiration of
the contract (or all contracts) under which the Contractor performs
services for the Employer provided that the expiration constitutes
a good-faith and complete termination of the contractual
relationship between the Contractor and the Employer. A good-faith
and complete termination does not occur if the Employer anticipates
a renewal of the service contract or the Employer anticipates the
Contractor becoming an Employee. The Employer anticipates the
renewal of the contract if the Employer intends to contract again
for the services provided under the expired contract and neither
the Employer nor the Contractor has eliminated the Contractor as a
possible provider of such additional services. The Employer is
deemed to intend renewal of the Contractor’s expired contract
if renewal is conditioned only upon incurring a need for services,
the Employer’s ability to pay for the services, or both. See
Section 4.01(E) as to Contractor “deemed”
Separation from Service provisions.
(C) Involuntary Separation from
Service (including for “good reason”) .
“Involuntary Separation from Service” means a
Separation from Service due to the Employer’s independent
exercise of unilateral authority to terminate the
Participant’s services (other than due the
Participant’s implicit or explicit request), where the
Participant was willing and able to continue performing services
for the Employer. Involuntary Separation from Service may include
the Employer’s failure to renew the service contract at the
time the contract expires provided that the Participant was willing
and able to execute a new contract on substantially the same terms
and conditions as the expiring contract and to continue providing
such services. The Employer will make the determination as to
whether an Involuntary Separation from Service has occurred based
on all of the facts and circumstances and in accordance with Treas.
Reg. §1.409A-1(n). For this purpose, a Participant’s
voluntary Separation from Service is treated as an Involuntary
Separation from Service if it is for “good reason” as
described in Treas. Reg. §§1.409A-1(n)(2). For this
purpose, the Separation from Service is deemed to be for a good
reason if it occurs during a limited period not to exceed 2 years
following the initial existence of the following without the
Participant’s: consent (i) a material reduction in the
Participant’s base compensation (including Base Salary);
(ii) a material reduction in the Participant’s
authority, duties or responsibilities; (iii) a material
reduction in the authority, duties or responsibilities of the
Participant’s supervisor, including a change in the
Participant’s reporting responsibilities to a lower level
than the board of directors or similar authority in a non-corporate
entity; (iv) a material reduction in the Participant’s
budget; (v) a material change in the location at which the
Participant renders service; or (vi) any other action or
inaction that constitutes the Employer’s material breach of
the agreement under which the Participant provides services to the
Employer. In addition, to be a deemed “good reason” the
amount, time and form of payment upon Separation from Service must
be substantially identical to the amount payable upon an actual
Involuntary Separation from Service, if such right exists, and the
Participant must provide notice to the Employer within 90 days of
the initial existence of the condition and afford the Employer at
least 30 days to remedy the condition without having to pay the
Compensation.
(D) Voluntary Separation from
Service . “Voluntary Separation from Service” means
a Separation from Service which is not an Involuntary Separation
from Service under Section 1.40(C).
(E) “Employer” for
Purposes of Separation Rules . The “Employer” for
purposes of applying this Section 1.40 (determining Separation
from Service under the Plan) means as defined under
Section 1.24 but by applying 50% in lieu of 80% in applying
Code §§414(b) and (c). The Employer in lieu of applying
the previous sentence may elect in its Adoption Agreement to use a
percentage equal to not less than 20% and not more than 80% in
determining related employers under Code §§414(b) and
(c); provided that the Employer may not elect to apply a percentage
which is less than 50% unless there are legitimate business
criteria for doing so.
(F) Dual Capacity . If a
Participant renders service to the Employer both in the capacity as
an Employee and as a Contractor (or changes status from Employee to
Contractor or vice versa), the Participant must incur a Separation
from Service in both capacities to constitute a Separation from
Service. For this purpose, if a Participant renders service both as
an Employee and as a member of the Employer’s board of
directors (or an analogous position in the case of a non-corporate
Employer) the director services (or the Employee services if this
Plan relates to director services) are disregarded in determining
whether the Participant has incurred a Separation from Service as
to this Plan provided that the plans are not Aggregated
Plans.
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(G) Certain Asset Sales . In
accordance with and subject to Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(h)(4), if
the Employer sells its assets to an unrelated party purchaser where
the Participants otherwise would incur a Separation from Service
and where such Participants will provide services to the purchaser
after the sale closing, the Employer and the purchaser retain
discretion no later than the asset sale closing date to specify in
writing whether the Participants will incur a Separation from
Service. In making such determination, the Employer and the
purchaser must treat all affected Participants
consistently.
(H) Collectively Bargained
Multiple Employer Plan . If the Plan is established pursuant to
a bona fide collective bargaining agreement covering services
rendered for multiple employers, the Employer (which for this
purpose means the employer which executes the Adoption Agreement)
in its Adoption Agreement may elect to define Separation from
Service in a reasonable manner that treats an Employee as not
having separated during periods in which the Employee is not
providing services but is available to do so for one or more
employers. However, such alternative definition must also provide
that the Employee is deemed to have incurred a Separation from
Service at a specified date not later than the end of any period of
at least 12 consecutive months during which time the Employee has
not provided any service covered by the collective bargaining
agreement to any participating employer. The Employer will apply
this section in accordance with the requirements of Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-1(h)(6).
1.41 “Separation
Pay” means any Deferred Compensation (applied before
application of any exclusion applicable to Separation Pay Plans
under Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(b)(9)) that will not be paid under
any circumstances unless the Participant incurs a Separation from
Service, whether voluntary or involuntary, including payments in
the form of reimbursements for expenses incurred and provision of
in-kind benefits. Deferred Compensation that a Participant may
receive without incurring a Separation from Service is not
Separation Pay merely because the Participant elects to receive or
receives payment upon or after Separation from Service. Deferred
Compensation does not fail to constitute Separation Pay merely
because the Participant must execute a release of claims,
noncompetition agreement or nondisclosure agreement or is subject
to similar requirements. Any amount or entitlement that acts as a
substitute for, or replacement of, Deferred Compensation is a
payment of Deferred Compensation and is not Separation
Pay.
1.42 “Separation Pay
Plan” means any plan that provides for Separation Pay,
including the portion of any plan that provides for Separation Pay,
under Treas. Reg. §§1.409A-1(m). The Employer in its
Adoption Agreement will elect whether this Plan is a Separation Pay
Plan and will elect whether the plan pays benefits in the event of
Involuntary Separation from Service, Voluntary Separation from
Service, pursuant to a Window Program or a combination
thereof.
1.43 “Service
Year” means a Participant’s Taxable Year in which
the Participant performs services which give rise to Compensation.
A “service period” or “performance period”
means a Service Year or such other period in which a Participant
performs services for the Employer giving rise to
Compensation.
1.44 “Specified
Employee” means a Participant who is a key employee as
described in Code §416(i)(1)(A), disregarding paragraph
(5) thereof and using compensation as defined under Treas.
Reg. §1.415(c)-2(a). However, a Participant is not a Specified
Employee unless any stock of the Employer is publicly traded on an
established securities market or otherwise and the Participant is a
Specified Employee on the date of his/her Separation from Service.
If a Participant is a key employee at any time during the 12 months
ending on the Specified Employee identification date, the
Participant is a Specified Employee for the 12 month period
commencing on the Specified Employee effective date. The Specified
Employee identification date is December 31. The Specified
Employee effective date is the April 1 following the Specified
Employee identification date. The Employer, in determining whether
this Section 1.44 and all related Plan provisions apply, will
determine whether the Employer has any publicly traded stock as of
the date of a Participant’s Separation from Service. In the
case of certain corporate transactions (a merger, acquisition,
spin-off or initial public offering), or in the case of nonresident
alien Employees, the Employer will apply the Specified Employee
provisions of the Plan in accordance with Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-1(i) and other Applicable Guidance. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Employer in its Adoption Agreement, and in
accordance with Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(i) and other Applicable
Guidance, may make the following elections: (i) use of any
Code §415 definition of compensation for Specified Employee
determination; (ii) designation of an alternative Specified
Employee identification date; (iii) designation of an
alternative Specified Employee effective date; (iv) use of an
alternative method to identify Participants who will be subject to
the 6 month delay rule in Section 4.01(D); (v) certain
elections in the context of corporate transactions; and
(vi) certain elections regarding nonresident alien Employees.
The Employer’s election
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under clauses (ii) or (iii) regarding
an identification date or effective date made on or before
December 31, 2007, applies to any Separation from Service
occurring on or after January 1, 2005, unless the Employer
subsequently changes the identification date and/or effective date.
Such elections are effective as of the date that all necessary
corporate action has been taken to make the election binding as to
all nonqualified deferred compensation plans in which service
providers of the Employer who would become a Specified Employees
participate. The Employer must apply all such elections
consistently as to all service providers. The Employer will apply
the Specified Employee provisions of the Plan, including the
elections described in this Section 1.44, in accordance with
Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(i) and other Applicable
Guidance.
1.45 “Specified Time or
Fixed Schedule” means, in reference to a payment of
Deferred Compensation, the Employer, at the time of the deferral of
the Compensation can objectively determine: (i) the amount
payable; and (ii) the payment date or dates. An amount is
objectively determinable if the deferral election specifically
identifies the amount or if the Employer can determine the amount
at the time it is due pursuant to an objective, nondiscretionary
formula specified at the time of deferral.
(A) Dates and Period(s) . A
payment is scheduled to occur at a specified time if it is a lump
sum payment on a specific date, or a specific, objectively
determinable date, including following the lapse of a substantial
risk of forfeiture. A payment is scheduled to occur on a fixed
schedule if it is a series of payments (which may include an
annuity or a series of installments) payable on specific dates or
on specifically, objectively determinable dates including following
the lapse of a substantial risk of forfeiture. The designation of a
Taxable Year of the Participant, or a defined period within a
Taxable Year of the Participant, in which payment will occur is
adequate designation of a specific date. For purposes of Sections
4.02 and 4.05, if the date specified is only a designated Taxable
Year of the Participant, or a period of time during such a Taxable
Year, the date specified under the plan is treated as the first day
of such Taxable Year or the first day of the period of time, as
applicable.
(B) Limitations and Link to
Employer Receipts . A Fixed Schedule may include certain:
(i) limitations on the amount payable at a specified time of
during a specified period expressed either as a stated limit or
based on an objective nondiscretionary formula; and
(ii) payment schedules based on the timing of payments
received by the Employer as described in Treas. Reg.
§§1.409A-3(i)(1)(ii) and (iii) and other Applicable
Guidance.
(C) Tax Gross-Up Payments . A
Specified Time or Fixed Schedule may include tax gross-up payments
made by the end of the Participant’s Taxable Year which
follows the Taxable Year in which the Participant remits the
related taxes resulting from compensation paid or made available to
the Participant by the Employer, as described in Treas. Reg.
§1.409A-3(i)(1)(v) and other Applicable Guidance.
1.46 “State”
means: (i) one of the fifty states of the United States or the
District of Columbia, or (ii) a political subdivision of a
State, or any agency or instrumentality of a State or its political
subdivision. A State does not include the federal government or an
agency or instrumentality thereof.
1.47 “Substantial Risk of
Forfeiture”
(A) 409A Amounts .
Substantial Risk of Forfeiture means as to 409A Amounts, and other
than for purposes of application of Code §457(f), Compensation
which is payable conditioned: (i) on the performance of
substantial future services by any person including the
Participant; or (ii) on the occurrence of a condition related
to a purpose of the Compensation, and where under clause
(i) or (ii) the possibility of forfeiture is substantial.
A condition related to the purpose of the Compensation relates to
the Participant’s performance for the Employer or to the
Employer’s business activities or organizational goals. A
Substantial Risk of Forfeiture includes conditioning payment on the
Participant’s Involuntary Separation from Service without
cause provided the possibility of not incurring such a Separation
from Service is substantial. Except as to payment of Compensation
related to a Change in Control, a Substantial Risk of Forfeiture
does not include any addition of a condition after a Legally
Binding Right to the Compensation arises or any extension of a
period during which the Compensation is subject to a Substantial
Risk of Forfeiture. Compensation is not subject to a Substantial
Risk of Forfeiture merely because payment is conditioned on the
Participant’s refraining from performing services.
Compensation is not subject to a Substantial Risk of Forfeiture
beyond the date or time that the Participant otherwise
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have elected to receive the Compensation unless
the present value of the amount subject to the Substantial Risk of
Forfeiture (determined without regard to the Substantial Risk of
Forfeiture) is materially greater than the present value of the
amount that the Participant otherwise could have elected to
receive, absent the Substantial Risk of Forfeiture. As such, a
Participant’s Elective Deferrals generally may not be made
subject to a Substantial Risk of Forfeiture if the Participant
could have elected to receive an equivalent amount in cash. In
addition, Compensation the Participant would receive for continuing
to perform service for the Employer (such as through the extension
of an employment contract) is disregarded in determining whether
the present value of such nonvested payment amount is materially
greater than the Compensation which the Participant could have
elected to receive presently. In determining whether the
possibility of forfeiture is substantial in the case of rights to
Compensation granted to a Participant who owns significant voting
power or value in the Employer, the Employer in accordance with
Treas. Reg. §1.409A-1(d)(3) and Applicable Guidance, will take
into account all relevant facts and circumstances.
(B) Grandfathered Amounts . A
Substantial Risk of Forfeiture for Grandfathered Amounts is defined
in Treas. Reg. §1.83-3(c) and in Notice 2005-1, Q/A-16(b) or
in Applicable Guidance.
(C) Ineligible 457 Plan . A
Substantial Risk of Forfeiture for purposes of application of Code
§457(f) under an Ineligible 457 Plan is described in Code
§457(f)(3)(B), Treas. Reg. §1.83-3(c) and Applicable
Guidance.
1.48 “Tax-Exempt
Organization” means any tax-exempt organization other
than: (i) a governmental unit; or (ii) a church or a
qualified church-controlled organization within the meaning of Code
§§3121(w)(3)(A) and 3121(w)(3)(B).
1.49 “Taxable
Year” means as to the Participant, the
Participant’s taxable year and means as to the Employer, the
Employer’s taxable year, in each case as the Plan provides or
as the context otherwise requires.
1.50 “Trust”
means the trust, if any, described in Section 5.03 of the
Basic Plan Document and which the Employer in its Adoption
Agreement elects to create.
1.51 “Unforeseeable
Emergency” means: (i) a severe financial hardship to
the Participant resulting from an illness or accident of the
Participant, the Participant’s spouse, a Beneficiary or the
Participant’s dependent (as defined in Code §152 but
without regard to Code §§152(b)(1), (b)(2) and
(d)(1)(B)); (ii) loss of the Participant’s property due
to casualty; or (iii) other similar extraordinary and
unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond
the Participant’s control. The Employer in its Adoption
Agreement will elect whether to permit payment based on a
Participant’s Unforeseeable Emergency. The Employer will
determine whether a Participant incurs an Unforeseeable Emergency
based on the relevant facts and circumstances and in accordance
with Treas. Reg. §1.409A-3(i)(3) or Applicable Guidance, but
in any case, the Plan may not make payment to the extent that the
Unforeseeable Emergency may be relieved: (i) through
reimbursement or compensation from insurance or otherwise;
(ii) by liquidation of the Participant’s assets to the
extent that such liquidation of assets would not itself cause
severe financial hardship; or (iii) by the Participant’s
cessation of Elective Deferrals under the Plan. The Plan must limit
the amount of any payment based on Unforeseeable Emergency to the
amount that is reasonably necessary to satisfy the emergency need,
which may include amounts necessary to pay any Federal, state,
local or foreign income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated
to result from the payment. The Employer in making the
determination as to the amount of payment must take into account
any additional Compensation available to the Participant upon
cancellation of an Elective Deferral election under
Section 4.03(D)(vii). However, the Employer in
determining