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Exhibit 10.45 TOLL BROS., INC.
NONQUALIFIED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN Amended and Restated
effective as of November 1, 2008 RECITALS
This Toll Bros., Inc. Nonqualified
Deferred Compensation Plan (the "Plan") is adopted by Toll Bros.,
Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation (the "Employer") for certain of
its eligible employees. The purpose of the Plan is to offer those
employees an opportunity to elect to defer the receipt of
compensation in order to provide deferred compensation, post-
employment, supplemental retirement and related benefits taxable
pursuant to Section 451 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (the "Code"), and to provide a deferred compensation
vehicle to which the Employer may credit certain amounts on behalf
of participants. The Plan is intended to be a "top-hat" plan (i.e.,
an unfunded deferred compensation plan maintained for a select
group of management or highly- compensated employees) under
Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1) of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"). ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
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409A BENEFIT means any portion of a Participant’s Account
that is attributable to deferrals that were or are made after
December 31, 2004, that first became or becomes vested after
December 31, 2004, or otherwise is determined to be subject to
Code Section 409A.
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1.2
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ACCOUNT means the balance credited to a Participant’s or
Beneficiary’s Plan account, including amounts credited under
the Compensation Deferral Account and the Employer Contribution
Credit Account and deemed income, gains and losses (as determined
by the Employer, in its discretion) credited thereto. A
Participant’s or Beneficiary’s Account shall be
determined as of the date of reference.
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BENEFICIARY means any person or persons so designated in
accordance with the provisions of Article 7.
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1.4
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BOARD means the Board of Directors of Toll Bros., Inc., a
Pennsylvania corporation, and its successors and assigns, or any
other corporation or business organization which, with the consent
of Toll Bros., Inc., or its successors or assigns, assumes the
obligations of Toll Bros., Inc., hereunder.
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1.5
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CHANGE IN CONTROL means a transaction or series of transactions
occurring after the Effective Date, which results in one of the
following events: (i) Toll Bros., Inc. is no longer a
subsidiary of Toll Brothers, Inc.; (ii) the consummation of a
plan or other arrangement pursuant to which Toll Brothers, Inc.
will be dissolved or liquidated; (iii) the consummation of a
sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets
of Toll
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Brothers, Inc.; (iv) the consummation of a merger or
consolidation of Toll Brothers, Inc. (either directly or through a
wholly-owned subsidiary) with or into another corporation, other
than, in either case, a merger or consolidation of Toll Brothers,
Inc. in which holders of shares of the Toll Brothers, Inc.’s
common stock immediately prior to the merger or consolidation will
hold at least a majority of the ownership of common stock of the
surviving corporation (and, if one class of common stock is not the
only class of voting securities entitled to vote on the election of
directors of the surviving corporation, a majority of the voting
power of the surviving corporation’s voting securities)
immediately after the merger or consolidation, which common stock
(and, if applicable, voting securities) is to be held in the same
proportion as such holders’ ownership of Toll Brothers, Inc.
common stock immediately before the merger or consolidation;
(v) the date any entity, person or group, (within the meaning
of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), (other than (A) Toll
Brothers, Inc. or any of its subsidiaries or any employee benefit
plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by Toll Brothers,
Inc. or any of its subsidiaries or (B) any person who, on the
date the Plan is effective, shall have been the beneficial owner of
at least fifteen percent (15%) of the outstanding Toll Brothers,
Inc. common stock), shall have become the beneficial owner of, or
shall have obtained voting control over, more than fifty percent
(50%) of the outstanding shares of Toll Brothers, Inc. common
stock; or (vi) the first day after the date this Plan is
effective when directors are elected such that a majority of the
Board of Directors of Toll Brothers, Inc. shall have been members
of the Board of Directors of Toll Brothers, Inc. for less than
twenty-four (24) months, unless the nomination for election of
each new director who was not a director at the beginning of such
twenty-four (24) month period was approved by a vote of at
least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who were
directors at the beginning of such period.
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CODE means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the regulations
thereunder, as amended from time to time.
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1.7
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COMMON STOCK means Toll Brothers, Inc.’s voting common
stock.
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1.8
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COMPENSATION means the total current cash remuneration,
including regular salary, bonus payments, sales bonus compensation,
profit sharing distributions and other compensation as defined by
the Plan Committee and paid by the Employer to an Eligible Employee
with respect to his or her service for the Employer (as determined
by the Employer, in its discretion).
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1.9
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COMPENSATION DEFERRALS are defined in Section 3.1(a).
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1.10
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COMPETITION means the Employer’s reasonable determination
that the Participant has (i) engaged in, become interested in,
directly or indirectly, as a sole proprietor, as a partner in a
partnership, or as a substantial shareholder in a corporation, or
become associated with, in the capacity of an employee, director,
officer, principal, agent, trustee or in any other capacity
whatsoever, any enterprise conducted in the geographic area of the
business of the Employer which enterprise is, or may be deemed to
be, competitive with any business carried on by Toll Brothers, Inc.
and its subsidiaries; (ii) solicited, induced or attempted to
induce, in connection with any business competitive with that of
Toll Brothers, Inc. and its subsidiaries,
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any customers or employees of Toll Brothers, Inc. and its
subsidiaries to curtail or discontinue their relationship with Toll
Brothers, Inc. and its subsidiaries; or (iii) disclosed,
communicated or misused, to the detriment or injury of Toll
Brothers, Inc. and its subsidiaries, any confidential and
proprietary information relating to the business and operations of
Toll Brothers, Inc. and its subsidiaries to any person or entity
not associated with Toll Brothers, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
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1.11
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DEFERRAL ELECTION FORM means the form or forms on which a
Participant elects to defer Compensation hereunder and on which the
Participant makes certain other designations as required
thereon.
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1.12
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DESIGNATION DATE means the date or dates as of which a
designation of deemed investment directions by an individual
pursuant to Section 4.5, or any change in a prior designation
of deemed investment directions by an individual pursuant to
Section 4.5, shall become effective. The Designation Dates in
any Plan Year shall only be the first day of any calendar month as
designated by the Plan Committee.
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1.13
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EFFECTIVE DATE means the effective date of the Plan, which shall
be November 15, 2001.
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ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE means, for any Plan Year (or applicable
portion thereof), a person employed by the Employer where
compensation is paid on a United States payroll, who is determined
by the Plan Committee in its sole discretion to be a member of a
select group of management or highly compensated employees eligible
to participate in the Plan. By each November 1, the Plan
Committee shall notify those individuals, if any, who will be
Eligible Employees for the next Plan Year. If the Plan Committee
determines that an individual first becomes an Eligible Employee
during a Plan Year, the Plan Committee shall notify such individual
of its determination and of the date during the Plan Year on which
the individual shall first become an Eligible Employee.
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1.15
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EMPLOYER means Toll Bros., Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation, and
its successors and assigns unless otherwise herein provided, or any
other corporation or business organization which, with the consent
of Toll Bros., Inc., or its successors or assigns, assumes the
Employer’s obligations hereunder, and any other corporation
or business organization which agrees, with the consent of Toll
Bros., Inc., to become a party to the Plan.
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1.16
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EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION CREDIT ACCOUNT is defined in
Section 3.2.
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1.17
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EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION CREDITS is defined in
Section 3.2.
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1.18
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ENTRY DATE with respect to an individual means 30 days
following the date on which the individual first becomes an
Eligible Employee.
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1.19
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FORM AND TIMING OF PAYMENT ELECTION FORM means the form or forms
on which a Participant elects the form and timing of the
Participant’s Plan benefit.
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PARTICIPANT means any person so designated in accordance with
the provisions of Article 2, including, where appropriate
according to the context of the Plan, any former employee who is or
may become eligible to receive a benefit under the Plan.
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1.21
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PLAN means this Toll Bros., Inc. Nonqualified Deferred
Compensation Plan set forth herein, as amended from time to
time.
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1.22
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PLAN COMMITTEE refers to the officers and employees of the
Employer appointed by the Board to administer the Plan on behalf of
the Employer.
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PLAN YEAR means the twelve (12) month period ending on
December 31 of each year during which the Plan is in
effect.
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1.24
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RETIREMENT AGE with respect to any Participant means the date on
which the Participant’s equals or exceeds 61.
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1.25
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TOTAL AND PERMANENT DISABILITY means the classification of a
Participant as "disabled" pursuant to the group long term
disability plan maintained by the Employer, or a successor to such
plan (or, if there is no such plan, as reasonably determined by the
Employer).
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TRUST means the Trust described in Article 11.
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1.27
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TRUSTEE means the trustee of the Trust described in
Article 11.
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1.28
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VALUATION DATE means the last day of each Plan Year; the date of
distribution; or any other date that the Plan Committee, in its
sole discretion, designates as a Valuation Date.
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ARTICLE 2
ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION
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REQUIREMENTS. Every Eligible Employee on the Effective Date
shall be eligible to become a Participant on the Effective Date.
Every other Eligible Employee shall be eligible to become a
Participant on the first Entry Date occurring on or after the date
on which he or she becomes an Eligible Employee. No individual
shall become a Participant, however, if he or she is not an
Eligible Employee on the date his or her participation is to
begin.
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Participation in the Compensation Deferral portion of the Plan
is voluntary. In order to participate in that portion of the Plan,
an otherwise Eligible Employee must make written application in
such manner as may be required by Section 3.1 and by the
Employer and must agree to make Compensation Deferrals as provided
in Article 3.
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Participation in the Employer Contribution Credit Account
portion of the Plan is automatic.
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RE-EMPLOYMENT. If a Participant whose employment with the
Employer is terminated is subsequently re-employed, he or she shall
become a Participant in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.1.
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2.3
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CHANGE OF EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY. During any period in which a
Participant remains in the employ of the Employer but ceases to be
an Eligible Employee, he or she shall not be eligible to make
Compensation Deferrals or to receive Employer Contribution Credits
hereunder.
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ARTICLE 3
CONTRIBUTIONS AND CREDITS
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3.1
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PARTICIPANT CONTRIBUTIONS AND CREDITS.
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COMPENSATION DEFERRALS. In accordance with rules established by
the Employer, a Participant may elect to defer Compensation which
is due to be earned and which would otherwise be paid to the
Participant, as a percentage of Compensation or in any fixed
periodic dollar amounts designated by the Participant. Amounts so
deferred will be considered a Participant’s "Compensation
Deferrals." A Participant shall make such an election with respect
to the coming twelve (12) month period during the period
beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31 of each Plan
Year following the initial Plan Year (or during such other period
as may be established by the Plan Committee) by completing and
delivering to the Plan Committee a Deferral Election Form in a form
prescribed by the Plan Committee. Should a Participant become newly
eligible during a Plan Year, their election will apply from the
date of participation to the next December 31.
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Compensation Deferrals shall be made through regular payroll
deductions or through an election by the Participant to defer the
payment of a bonus, sales bonus compensation or profit sharing
distribution not yet payable to him or her at the time of the
election, which election shall be set forth on such
Participant’s Deferral Election Form. Compensation deferrals
will be limited to the extent necessary to satisfy applicable tax
withholding or benefit plan contribution requirements. The
participant may make an irrevocable election during the Plan Year
to cease contributions to the Plan with written notice given to the
Committee. The Participant will then be ineligible to return to the
Plan until the next Plan Year. The Participant may change his or
her regular payroll deduction Compensation Deferral amount as of,
and by written notice delivered to the Plan Committee during the
periods described in the preceding paragraph, with such change
being first effective for Compensation to be earned following the
next December 31.
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Once made, a Compensation Deferral Election Form with respect to
a payroll deduction election shall continue in force indefinitely,
until changed as provided above. A Deferral Election Form with
respect to deferrals of bonuses, sales bonus compensation, profit
sharing distribution proceeds, or other compensation payments shall
continue in force only for the Plan Year for which the Deferral
Election Form is first effective. Compensation Deferrals shall be
deducted by the Employer from the pay of a deferring
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Participant and shall be credited to the Compensation Deferral
Account of the deferring Participant.
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PARTICIPANT COMPENSATION DEFERRAL ACCOUNT. There shall be
established and maintained by the Employer a separate Compensation
Deferral Account in the name of each Participant to which shall be
credited or debited, as applicable: (a) amounts equal to the
Participant’s Compensation Deferrals; (b) amounts equal
to any deemed earnings and/or losses (to the extent realized, based
upon deemed fair market value of the Compensation Deferral; and (c)
any withdrawals or distributions therefrom. A Participant shall at
all times be 100% vested in amounts credited to his or her
Compensation Deferral Account.
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COMPLIANCE WITH CODE SECTION 409A. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary in this Section 3.1, any election by a
Participant to defer base compensation shall become effective with
respect to base compensation that is payable for services performed
during a Plan Year only if such election is filed prior to such
deadline as is established by the Plan Committee for such deferral
elections, which in all cases shall be no later than
December 31 of the prior Plan Year, and any such deferral
election shall become irrevocable as of such deadline and may not
thereafter be modified until December 31 of the Plan Year
following the Plan Year in which such election became irrevocable.
Any election by a Participant to defer an annual bonus that is
determined by reference to the Employer’s fiscal year shall
be effective only if such election is filed prior to such deadline
as is established by the Plan Committee for such deferral
elections, which in all cases shall be no later than
October 31 of the Employer’s prior fiscal year, and any
such deferral election shall become irrevocable as of such deadline
and may not thereafter be modified until October 31 of the
Employer’s fiscal year following the fiscal year in which
such election became irrevocable. Except as otherwise provided in
this Plan or in the Participant’s Deferral Election Form, a
Participant’s election to defer Compensation shall remain in
effect from one Plan Year to the next, unless otherwise changed by
the Participant. The provisions of this Section 3.1(c) are
intended to be consistent with the requirements of Treasury
Regulation Section 1.409A-2(a). In addition, and
notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 3.1, at
the discretion of the Plan Committee, an Eligible Employee may
elect to defer Compensation within 30 days after the date the
Eligible Employee first becomes eligible to participate in the
Plan; provided, however, that any such election shall only be
effective with respect to Compensation paid for services to be
performed after such 30 day period, consistent with the
requirements of Treasury
Regulation Section 1.409A-2(a)(7)..
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EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION CREDITS. Apart from Compensation Deferral
Contributions, the Employer shall retain the right to make
discretionary contributions for any Participant under this Plan. If
applicable, there shall be established and maintained a separate
Employer Contribution Credit Account in the name of each
Participant which shall be credited or debited, as applicable,
(a) amounts equal to the Employer’s Contribution
Credits; and (b) any deemed earnings and/or losses (as
determined by the Employer, in its discretion) allocated to the
Employer Contribution Credit Account. The Participant’s
Employer Contribution Credits for a Plan Year, if any, shall be
determined by the Employer’s Board of
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Directors in its sole discretion. The Employer shall credit such
Contributions on behalf of such individuals, in such amounts and
with such frequency, as the Board determines in its sole
discretion. A Participant shall become vested in amounts (if any)
credited to his or her Employer Contribution Credit Account
according to any vesting schedule(s) adopted by the
Employer’s Board of Directors, in its sole discretion,
provided, however, that a Participant shall become fully vested in
amounts (if any) credited to his or her Employer Contribution
Credit Account upon the occurrence during the Participant’s
employment with the Employer of: (i) the Participant’s death
or Total and Permanent Disability or (ii) a Change in Control
of the Employer.
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TRUST. An amount may be contributed, if and
when applicable, by the Employer to the Trust maintained under
Section 11 equal to the amount(s) required to be credited to
the Participant’s Account under Section 3.1 and 3.2. The
Employer shall make a good faith effort to contribute these amounts
to the Trust as soon as practicable following the date on which the
contribution credit amount(s) are determined.
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ARTICLE 4
ALLOCATION OF FUNDS
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4.1
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ALLOCATION OF DEEMED EARNINGS OR LOSSES ON ACCOUNTS. Subject to
such limitations as may from time to time be required by law,
imposed by the Employer or the Trustee or contained elsewhere in
the Plan (including Section 4.6), and subject to such
operating rules and procedures as may be imposed from time to time
by the Employer, prior to the date on which a direction will become
effective, the Participant shall have the right to direct the
Employer as to how amounts in his or her Account shall be deemed to
be invested. The Employer shall direct the Trustee to invest the
account maintained in the Trust on behalf of the Participant
pursuant to the deemed investment directions the Employer has
properly received from the Participant.
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The value of the Participant’s Account shall be equal to
the value of the account maintained under the Trust on behalf of
the Participant. As of each Valuation Date of the Trust, the
Participant’s Account will be credited or debited to reflect
the Participant’s deemed investments of the Trust. The
Participant’s Account will be credited or debited with the
increase or decrease in the realizable net asset value or credited
interest, as applicable, of the designated deemed investments, as
follows: As of each Valuation Date, an amount equal to the net
increase or decrease in realizable net asset value or credited
interest, as applicable (as determined by the Trustee), of each
deemed investment option within the Account since the preceding
Valuation Date shall be allocated among all Participants’
Accounts deemed to be invested in that investment option in
accordance with the ratio which the portion of the Account of each
Participant which is deemed to be invested within that investment
option, determined as provided herein, bears to the aggregate of
all amounts deemed to be invested within that investment
option.
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4.2
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ACCOUNTING FOR DISTRIBUTIONS. As of the date of any distribution
hereunder, the distribution made hereunder to the Participant or
his or her Beneficiary or Beneficiaries shall be charged to such
Participant’s Account.
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SEPARATE ACCOUNTS. A separate bookkeeping account under the Plan
shall be established and maintained by the Employer to reflect the
Account for each Participant with bookkeeping sub-accounts to show
separately the Participant’s Compensation Deferral and the
Participant’s Employer Contribution Credit Account. Each
sub-account will separately account for the credits and debits
described in Article 3 and Section 4.2.
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DEEMED INVESTMENT DIRECTIONS OF PARTICIPANTS. Subject to such
limitations as may from time to time be required by law, imposed by
the Employer or the Trustee or contained elsewhere in the Plan
(including Section 4.5), and subject to such operating rules
and procedures as may be imposed from time to time by the Employer
prior to and effective for each Designation Date, each Participant
may communicate to the Employer a direction (in accordance with
(a), below) as to how his or her Plan Accounts should be deemed to
be invested among such categories of deemed investments as may be
made available by the Employer hereunder. Such direction shall
designate the percentage (in any whole percent multiples) of each
portion of the Participant’s Plan Accounts which is requested
to be deemed to be invested in such categories of deemed
investments, and shall be subject to the following rules:
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Any initial or subsequent deemed investment direction shall be
in writing, on a form supplied by and filed with the Employer,
and/or, as required or permitted by the Employer, shall be by oral
designation and/or electronic transmission designation. A
designation shall be effective as of the Designation Date next
following the date the direction is received and accepted by the
Employer on which it would be reasonably practicable for the
Employer to effect the designation.
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b)
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All amounts credited to the Participant’s Account shall be
deemed to be invested in accordance with the then effective deemed
investment direction, and as of the Designation Date with respect
to any new deemed investment direction, all or a portion of the
Participant’s Account at that date shall be reallocated among
the designated deemed investment funds according to the percentages
specified in the new deemed investment direction unless and until a
subsequent deemed investment direction shall be filed and become
effective. An election concerning deemed investment choices shall
continue indefinitely as provided in the Participant’s most
recent investment direction form provided by and filed with the
Employer.
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If the Employer receives an initial or revised deemed investment
direction which it deems to be incomplete, unclear or improper, the
Participant’s investment direction then in effect shall
remain in effect (or, in the case of a deficiency in an initial
deemed investment direction, the Participant shall be deemed to
have filed no deemed investment direction) until the next
Designation Date, unless the Employer provides for, and permits the
application of, corrective action prior thereto.
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If the Employer possesses (or is deemed to possess as provided
in (c), above) at any time directions as to the deemed investment
of less than all of a Participant’s Account, the Participant
shall be deemed to have directed that the undesignated portion of
the Account
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be deemed to be invested in a money market, fixed income or
similar fund made available under the Plan as determined by the
Employer in its discretion.
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Each Participant hereunder, as a condition to his or her
participation hereunder, agrees to hold the Employer and its agents
and representatives harmless, for any losses or damages of any kind
relating to the investment of the Participant’s Account
hereunder, other than such losses or damages that result directly
from gross negligence or intentional malfeasance on the part of the
Employer or its agents or representatives.
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Each reference in this Section to a Participant shall be deemed
to include, where applicable, a reference to a Beneficiary.
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4.5
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EXPENSES AND TAXES. Expenses associated with the administration
or operation of the Plan including Trustee fees, shall be paid by
the Employer from its general assets. Any taxes allocable to an
Account (or portion thereof) maintained under the Plan which are
payable prior to the distribution of the Account (or portion
thereof), as determined by the Employer, shall be paid by the
Employer.
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ARTICLE 5
ENTITLEMENT TO BENEFITS
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5.1
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FIXED PAYMENT DATES; TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT. On his or her
Form and Timing of Payment Election Form, a Participant shall
select the manner of payment (as described in Section 6.2(b)) and
shall select a fixed payment date for the payment or commencement
of payment of his or her Account (or the Participant may select
fixed payment dates for the payment or commencement of payment of
portions of his or her Account), which will be valued and payable
according to the provisions of Article 6. Such payment dates
may be extended to later dates so long as elections to so extend
the payment dates are made by the Participant at least six
(6) months prior to the date on which the distribution is
scheduled to be made or commence. Such payment dates may not be
accelerated, except as provided in Section 5.2. A Participant
may elect on his or her Form and Timing of Payment Election
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