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Exhibit 10.13.1
ORIGINAL FOR EXECUTION
APPROVED VP, HR DECEMBER 29, 2005
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION MAKE-UP PLAN
OF
CONOCOPHILLIPS
TITLE I
(Effective for benefits earned and vested prior to
January 1, 2005)
The Defined Contribution Make-Up Plan of ConocoPhillips is intended to provide certain specified benefits to Highly Compensated Employees whose benefits under the ConocoPhillips Savings Plan might otherwise be limited. Title I of this Plan is effective with regard to benefits earned and vested prior to January 1, 2005, while Title II of this Plan is effective with regard to benefits earned or vested after December 31, 2004. Other than earnings, gains, and losses, no further benefits shall accrue under Title I of this Plan after December 31, 2004.
This Title I of the Plan is intended (1) to be a “grandfathered” plan pursuant to Code section 409A, as enacted as part of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, and official guidance issued thereunder, and (2) to be “a plan which is unfunded and is maintained by an employer primarily for the purpose of providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employees” within the meaning of sections 201(2), 301(a)(3), and 401(a)(1) of ERISA. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, this Plan shall be interpreted, operated, and administered in a manner consistent with these intentions.
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Section 1. Definitions.
For purposes of the Plan, the following terms, as used herein, shall have the meaning specified:
(a)
“Affiliated Company” shall mean ConocoPhillips and any company or other
legal entity that is controlled, either directly or indirectly, by
ConocoPhillips.
(b)
“Affiliated Group” shall mean ConocoPhillips and its subsidiaries and affiliates
in which it owns a 5% or more equity interest.
(c)
“Allocation Ratio” shall mean the ratio determined by dividing
(i) an amount equal to the total value of the unallocated shares of Stock
allocated to Stock Savings Feature participants and beneficiaries as of a Stock
Savings Feature Semiannual Allocation Date or Supplemental Allocation Date (as
defined in the CPSP) by (ii) an amount equal to the total net Stock
Savings Feature employee deposits used in the calculation of the Stock Savings
Feature Semiannual Allocation or Supplemental Allocation (as defined in the
CPSP).
(d)
“Beneficiary” shall mean a person or persons designated by a
Participant to receive, in the event of death, any unpaid portion of a
Participant’s Benefit from this Plan. Any Participant may designate
one or more persons primarily or contingently as beneficiaries in writing upon
forms supplied by and delivered to the Company, and may revoke such
designations in writing. If a Participant fails to properly designate
a beneficiary, then the Benefits will be paid in
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the following order of priority:
(i)
Surviving spouse; then
(ii)
Surviving children in equal shares; then
(iii)
To the estate of the Participant.
(e)
“Benefit” shall mean an obligation of the Company to pay
amounts from this Plan.
(f)
“Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company, as
it may be comprised from time to time.
(g)
“Code” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended from time to time, or any successor statute.
(h)
“CPSP” shall mean the ConocoPhillips Savings Plan.
(i)
“Committee” shall mean the Compensation Committee of the Board of
Directors of ConocoPhillips or any successor committee with substantially the
same responsibilities.
(j)
“Company” shall mean ConocoPhillips Company, a Delaware
corporation, or any successor corporation.
(k)
“Disability” shall mean the inability, in the opinion of the
Medical Director of ConocoPhillips, of a Participant, because of an injury or
sickness, to work at a reasonable occupation that is available with a member of
the Affiliated Group.
(l)
“Employee” shall mean any individual who is a salaried employee
of the Company or any Participating Subsidiary.
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(m)
“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended and in effect from time to time, or any successor statute.
(n)
“Highly Compensated
Employee” shall mean an
Employee whose compensation exceeds the amount set forth in Code
Section 401(a)(17), as amended from time to time, or who is eligible to
elect a voluntary salary reduction under the provisions of the KEDCP.
(o)
“KEDCP” shall mean the Key Employee Deferred Compensation
Plan of ConocoPhillips or any similar or successor plan maintained by an
Affiliated Company.
(p)
“Layoff” or “Laid Off” shall mean layoff
under the Phillips Layoff Plan, the Work Force Stabilization Plan of Phillips
Petroleum Company, the Phillips Petroleum Company Executive Severance Plan, the
Conoco Severance Pay Plan, the Conoco Inc. Key Employee Severance Plan, or any
similar plan which the Company, any Participating Subsidiary, or a member of
the Affiliated Group may adopt from time to time under the terms of which the
Participant executes and does not revoke a general release of liability,
acceptable to the Company, Participating Subsidiary, or a member of the
Affiliated Group, as applicable, under such layoff plan.
(q)
“Other Obligations” shall mean the “Other Obligations”
as defined in the Amendment to and Merger of Amended and Restated Conoco Inc.
Salary Deferral & Savings Restoration Plan into Key Employee Deferred
Compensation Plan of ConocoPhillips and Defined Contribution Make-Up Plan of
ConocoPhillips, pursuant to which a portion of the Amended
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and Restated Conoco Inc. Salary Deferral & Savings Restoration Plan is merged into this Plan effective October 3, 2003.
(r)
“Participant” shall mean an Employee who is eligible to receive a
Benefit from this Plan as a result of being a Highly Compensated Employee and
any person for whom a Supplemental Thrift Feature Account and/or a Supplemental
Stock Savings Feature Account is maintained.
(s)
“Participating Subsidiary” shall mean a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, which has
adopted the CPSP, and one or more Employees of which are Participants eligible
to make deposits to the CPSP, or are eligible for Benefits pursuant to this
Plan.
(t)
“Pay” shall mean “Pay” as defined
in the CPSP except without regard to Pay Limitations or voluntary Salary
Reduction under provisions of the KEDCP.
(u)
“Pay Limitations” shall mean the compensation limitations applicable to
the CPSP that are set forth in Code section 401(a)(17), as adjusted.
(v)
“Plan Administrator”
shall mean the Manager, Compensation and Benefits, of the Company, or his
successor.
(w)
“Retirement” shall mean termination of employment with the
Company, a Participating Subsidiary, or a member of the Affiliated Group that
qualifies the Employee for Retirement as that term is defined in the applicable
provisions of the ConocoPhillips Retirement Plan, the Retirement Plan of
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Conoco, or of the applicable retirement plan of a member of the Affiliated Group. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Employee will not be considered to be in Retirement for purposes of this Plan if he is entering Retirement under the Retirement Plan of Conoco prior to age 55, unless he had attained age 50 on or before August 30, 2002.






