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EXHIBIT 10.20
PROTOTYPE DEFINED
CONTRIBUTION PLAN
SPONSORED BY
THE RETIREMENT
PLAN COMPANY, LLC
BASIC PLAN
DOCUMENT
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THIS DOCUMENT IS COPYRIGHTED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. ITS USE,
DUPLICATION OR REPRODUCTION, INCLUDING THE USE OF ELECTRONIC MEANS, IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW WITHOUT THE EXPRESS CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1
Actual Contribution Percentage
(ACP)
1
1.2 Actual Deferral Percentage (ADP)
1
1.3 Adoption Agreement 2
1.4 Aggregate Limit
2
1.5 Allocation Date(s)
2
1.6 Annual Additions 2
1.7 Annuity Starting Date
3
1.8 Applicable Calendar Year
3
1.9 Applicable Life Expectancy
3
1.10 Average Annual Compensation
3
1.11 Average Contribution Percentage (ACP) 3
1.12 Average Deferral Percentage (ADP)
4
1.13 Beneficiary
4
1.14 Break In Service
4
1.15 Code
4
1.16 Compensation
5
1.17 Covered Compensation
8
1.18 Custodian
8
1.19 Davis-Bacon Act 8
1.20 Defined Benefit Plan
8
1.21 Defined Benefit (Plan) Fraction
8
1.22 Defined Contribution Dollar
Limitation 8
1.23 Defined Contribution Plan
9
1.24 Defined Contribution (Plan) Fraction 9
1.25 Direct Rollover
9
1.26 Disability
9
1.27 Distribution Calendar Year
9
1.28 Early Retirement Age
9
1.29 Early Retirement Date
9
1.30 Earned Income
10
1.31 Effective Date
10
1.32 Election Period 10
1.33 Elapsed Time
10
1.34 Elective Deferrals
10
1.35 Eligible Employee
10
1.36 Eligible Employer
10
1.37 Eligible Participant 11
1.38 Eligible Retirement Plan
11
1.39 Eligible Rollover Distribution
11
1.40 Employee 11
1.41 Employer
12
1.42 Entry Date
12
1.43 ERISA
12
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1.44 Excess Aggregate Contributions
12
1.45 Excess Annual Additions
12
1.46 Excess Contribution
13
1.47 Excess Elective Deferrals
13
1.48 Expected Year Of Service
13
1.49 First Distribution Calendar Year
13
1.50 Hardship
13
1.51 Highest Average Compensation
13
1.52 Highly Compensated Employee
13
1.53 Hour Of Service
14
1.54 Integration Level 14
1.55 Key Employee
15
1.56 Leased Employee
15
1.57 Limitation Year
15
1.58 Master Or Prototype Plan
15
1.59 Matching Contribution
15
1.60 Maximum Permissible Amount
15
1.61 Net Profit
16
1.62 Normal Retirement Age 16
1.63 Normal Retirement Date
16
1.64 Owner-Employee
16
1.65 Paired Plans
16
1.66 Participant
16
1.67 Participant's Benefit 16
1.68 Period Of Severance
16
1.69 Permissive Aggregation Group
16
1.70 Plan 16
1.71 Plan Administrator
16
1.72 Plan Sponsor
17
1.73 Plan Year
17
1.74 Present Value
17
1.75 Prior Plan Year 17
1.76 Prior Safe Harbor Plan
17
1.77 Projected Annual Benefit
17
1.78 Projected Participation
17
1.79 Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO
Or Order)
18
1.80 Qualified Early Retirement Age 18
1.81 Qualified Joint And Survivor Annuity
(QJSA)
18
1.82 Qualified Matching Contributions
(QMACs)
18
1.83 Qualified Non-Elective Contributions
(QNECs)
18
1.84 Qualified Plan
18
1.85 Qualified Pre-Retirement Survivor
Annuity
18
1.86
Qualified Voluntary Contribution
18
1.87 Required Aggregation Group
19
1.88 Required Beginning Date 19
1.89 Required After-tax Contributions
19
1.90 Rollover Contribution
19
1.91 Salary Deferral Agreement
19
1.92 Savings Incentive Match Plan For Employees
(SIMPLE) 19
1.93 Self-Employed Individual 19
1.94 Service
19
1.95 Severance Date
20
1.96 Severance Period 20
1.97 Service Provider
20
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1.98 Shareholder Employee
20
1.99 Simplified Employee Pension Plan
20
1.100 Sponsor 20
1.101 Spouse
20
1.102 Stated Benefit Formula
20
1.103
Super Top-Heavy Plan
20
1.104 Taxable Wage Base
20
1.105 Top-Heavy Determination Date 20
1.106 Top-Heavy Plan
20
1.107 Top-Heavy Ratio
21
1.108 Top-Paid Group
22
1.109 Transfer Contribution
22
1.110 Trust
22
1.111 Trustee
22
1.112 Uniformed Services Employment And
Reemployment Rights Act Of 1994 (USERRA)
22
1.113 Valuation Date 22
1.114 Vested Account Balance
22
1.115 Voluntary After-tax Contribution
22
1.116 Welfare Benefit Fund
23
1.117 Year Of Service
23
ARTICLE II
ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS
2.1 Eligibility
26
2.2 Determination Of Eligibility
26
2.3
Change In Classification Of
Employment 26
2.4 Participation
27
2.5 Employment Rights 27
2.6 Service With Controlled Groups
27
2.7 Leased Employees
27
2.8 Thrift Plan 28
2.9 Target Benefit Plan
28
2.10 Davis-Bacon Plan
28
2.11 Waiver Of Participation
28
2.12 Omission Of Eligible Employee
28
2.13 Inclusion Of Ineligible Employee 29
ARTICLE III
EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS
3.1 Contribution Amount
30
3.2 Contribution Amount For A SIMPLE 401(k)
Plan
30
3.3 Responsibility For Contributions
31
3.4 Return Of Contributions 31
3.5 Merger Of Assets From Another Plan
31
3.6 Coverage Requirements
32
3.7 Eligibility For Contribution
32
3.8 Target Benefit Plan Contribution
33
3.9 Davis-Bacon Plan Contribution 34
3.10 Uniform Dollar Contribution
34
3.11 Uniform Points Contribution
34
3.12 403(b) Matching Contribution
34
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ARTICLE IV
EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS
4.1 Voluntary After-tax Contributions
35
4.2 Required After-tax Contributions
35
4.3 Qualified Voluntary Contributions
35
4.4 Rollover Contributions
35
4.5 Plan To Plan Transfer Contributions 36
4.6 Voluntary Direct Transfers Between
Plans
36
4.7 Elective Deferrals In A 401(k) Plan
37
4.8 Elective Deferrals In A SIMPLE 401(k)
Plan
38
4.9 Automatic Enrollment
39
4.10 Make-Up Contributions Under USERRA
40
ARTICLE V
PARTICIPANT ACCOUNTS
5.1 Separate Accounts
41
5.2 Valuation Date 41
5.3 Allocations To Participant Accounts
42
5.4 Allocating Employer Contributions
42
5.5 Allocating Investment Earnings And
Losses
43
5.6 Allocation Adjustments
43
5.7 Participant Statements 44
5.8 Changes In Method And Timing Of Valuing
Participants' Accounts
44
ARTICLE VI
RETIREMENT
BENEFITS AND DISTRIBUTIONS
6.1 Normal Retirement Benefits
45
6.2 Early Retirement Benefits
45
6.3 Benefits On Termination Of
Employment 45
6.4 Restrictions On Immediate
Distributions 46
6.5 Normal And Optional Forms Of Payment
47
6.6 Commencement Of Benefits
48
6.7 Transitional Rules For Cash-Out
Limits 49
6.8 In-Service Withdrawals 50
6.9 Hardship Withdrawals
52
6.10 Direct Rollover Of Benefits
53
6.11 Participant's Notice 53
6.12 Assets Transferred From Money Purchase
Pension Plans
54
6.13 Assets Transferred From A Code Section
401(k) Plan
54
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ARTICLE VII
DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS
7.1
Joint And Survivor Annuity
Requirements
55
7.2 Minimum Distribution Requirements
55
7.3 Limits On Distribution Periods 55
7.4 Required Distributions On Or After The
Required Beginning Date
55
7.5 Required Beginning Date
56
7.6 Transitional Rules
58
7.7 Designation Of Beneficiary
58
7.8 Beneficiary 59
7.9 Distribution Beginning Before Death
59
7.10 Distribution Beginning After Death
59
7.11 Distribution Of Excess Elective
Deferrals 60
7.12 Distribution Of Excess Contributions
61
7.13 Distribution Of Excess Aggregate
Contributions 61
7.14 Distributions To Minors And Individuals
Who Are Legally Incompetent
62
7.15 Unclaimed Benefits
62
ARTICLE VIII
JOINT AND
SURVIVOR ANNUITY REQUIREMENTS
8.1 Applicability Of Provisions
64
8.2 Payment Of Qualified Joint And Survivor
Annuity
64
8.3 Payment Of Qualified Pre-Retirement
Survivor Annuity
64
8.4 Qualified Election
64
8.5
Notice Requirements For
Qualified Joint And Survivor Annuity 65
8.6 Notice Requirements For Qualified
Pre-Retirement Survivor Annuity 65
8.7 Special Safe Harbor Exception For Certain
Profit-Sharing Or 401(k) Plans
66
8.8 Transitional Joint And Survivor Annuity
Rules
67
8.9 Automatic Joint And Survivor Annuity And
Early Survivor Annuity
67
8.10 Annuity Contracts
68
ARTICLE IX
VESTING
9.1 Employee Contributions 69
9.2 Employer Contributions
69
9.3 Vesting Of Employer Contributions In A
SIMPLE 401(k) Plan
69
9.4 Computation Period
69
9.5 Requalification Prior To Five Consecutive
One-Year Breaks In Service
69
9.6 Requalification After Five Consecutive
One-Year Breaks In Service
69
9.7 Calculating Vested Interest
69
9.8 Forfeitures
70
9.9 Amendment Of Vesting Schedule
70
9.10 Service With Controlled Groups
71
9.11 Compliance With Uniformed Services
Employment And Reemployment Rights Act Of 1994 71
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ARTICLE X
LIMITATIONS ON ALLOCATIONS
10.1 Participation In This Plan Only
72
10.2 Disposition Of Excess Annual
Additions
72
10.3 Participation In Multiple Defined
Contribution Plans 73
10.4 Disposition Of Excess Annual Additions
Under Two Plans
73
10.5 Participation In This Plan And A Defined
Benefit Plan 73
ARTICLE XI
ANTIDISCRIMINATION TESTING
11.1 General Testing Requirements
74
11.2 ADP Testing Limitations
74
11.3 Special Rules Relating To The Application
Of The ADP Test
75
11.4 Calculation And Distribution Of Excess
Contributions And Excess Aggregate
Contributions
75
11.5 Qualified Non-Elective And/Or Matching
Contributions
76
11.6 ACP Testing Limitations 76
11.7 Special Rules Relating To The Application
Of The ACP Test
77
11.8 Recharacterization
78
11.9 Nondiscrimination Tests In A SIMPLE 401(k)
Plan
78
11.10 Safe Harbor Rules Of Application
78
11.11 Safe Harbor Definitions 80
11.12 Required Restrictions On Safe Harbor
Contributions
80
11.13 ADP Test Safe Harbor
81
11.14 ACP Test Safe Harbor
81
11.15 Safe Harbor Status
81
11.16 Safe Harbor Notice Requirement 82
11.17 Satisfying Safe Harbor Contribution
Requirements Under Another Defined
Contribution Plan
83
ARTICLE XII
ADMINISTRATION
12.1 Plan Administrator
85
12.2 Persons Serving As Plan Administrator 86
12.3 Action By Employer
86
12.4 Responsibilities Of The Parties
86
12.5 Allocation Of Investment
Responsibility
86
12.6 Appointment Of Investment Manager
86
12.7 Participant Investment Direction 87
12.8 Application Of ERISA Section 404 (c)
88
12.9 Participant Loans
88
12.10 Insurance Policies
90
12.11 Determination Of Qualified Domestic
Relations Order (QDRO Or Order)
92
12.12 Receipt And Release For Payments 93
12.13 Resignation And Removal
93
12.14 Claims and Claims Review Procedure
93
12.15 Bonding 94
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ARTICLE XIII
TRUST PROVISIONS
13.1 Establishment Of The Trust
95
13.2 Control Of Plan Assets
95
13.3 Discretionary Trustee
95
13.4 Nondiscretionary Trustee
96
13.5 Provisions Relating To Individual
Trustees 96
13.6 Investment Instructions
96
13.7 Fiduciary Standards
97
13.8 Powers Of The Trustee
97
13.9 Appointment Of Additional Trustee And
Allocation Of Responsibilities
99
13.10 Compensation, Administrative Fees And
Expenses
100
13.11 Records
100
13.12 Limitation On Liability And
Indemnification 101
13.13 Custodian 103
13.14 Investment Alternatives Of The
Custodian 103
13.15 Prohibited Transactions
104
13.16 Exclusive Benefit Rules
104
13.17 Assignment And Alienation Of Benefits 104
13.18 Liquidation Of Assets 104
13.19 Resignation and Removal
105
ARTICLE XIV
TOP-HEAVY PROVISIONS
14.1 Applicability Of Rules
106
14.2 Minimum Contribution
106
14.3 Minimum Vesting
106
14.4 Limitations On Allocations
107
14.5 Use Of Safe Harbor Contributions To
Satisfy Top-Heavy Contribution Rules
107
14.6 Top-Heavy Rules For SIMPLE 401(k)
Plans
107
ARTICLE XV
AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION
15.1 Amendment By Sponsor 108
15.2 Amendment By Employer
108
15.3 Protected Benefits
108
15.4 Plan Termination 108
15.5 Distribution Restrictions Under A Code
Section 401(k) Plan
109
15.6 Qualification Of Employer's Plan
109
15.7 Mergers And Consolidations
109
15.8 Qualification Of Prototype
109
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ARTICLE XVI
GOVERNING LAW
16.1 Governing Law
110
16.2 State Community Property Laws
110
IRS MODEL AMENDMENT 111
EGTRRA
MODEL AMENDMENT
MINIMUM
DISTRIBUTION MODEL AMENDMENT
CODE
SECTION 125 MODEL AMENDMENT
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PROTOTYPE DEFINED
CONTRIBUTION PLAN
SPONSORED BY
LBMC RETIREMENT
PLAN COMPANY, LLC
The Sponsor hereby establishes this Plan for use by its clients who wish to
adopt a qualified retirement plan. This Plan shall be interpreted in a manner
consistent with the intention of the adopting Employer that this Plan satisfy
Internal Revenue Code Sections 401 and 501. Any Plan and Trust established
hereunder shall be so established for the exclusive benefit of Plan
Participants
and their Beneficiaries and shall be administered under the following terms and
conditions:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.1 ACTUAL CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE (ACP) The ratio (expressed as a percentage
and calculated separately for each Participant) of:
(a) the Participant's Contribution Percentage
Amounts [as defined
at (c)-(f)] for a Plan
Year, to
(b) the Participant's Compensation for such
Plan Year. [Unless
otherwise specified in
the Adoption Agreement, Compensation
will only include
amounts for the period during which the
Employee was eligible
to participate.]
Contribution Percentage Amounts on behalf of any Participant shall include:
(c) the amount of Voluntary After-tax
Contributions, Required
After-tax
Contributions, Matching Contributions (except to the
extent such Matching
Contributions may be disregarded in
accordance with IRS Notice 98-1), and
Qualified Matching
Contributions (to the
extent not taken into account for
purposes of the ADP
test) made under the Plan on behalf of the
Participant,
(d)
forfeitures of Excess Aggregate Contributions or Matching
Contributions allocated
to the Participant's account which
shall be taken into
account in the year in which such
forfeiture is allocated,
(e) at the election of the Employer,
Qualified Non-Elective
Contributions, and
(f) the Employer may elect to use Elective
Deferrals in the
Contribution Percentage
Amounts as long as the ADP test is met
before the Elective
Deferrals are used in the ACP test and
continues to be met
following the exclusion of those Elective
Deferrals that are used
to meet the ACP test.
Contribution amounts shall not include Matching Contributions, whether or not
Qualified, that are forfeited either to correct Excess Aggregate Contributions,
or because the contributions to which they relate are Excess Deferrals, Excess
Contributions, or Excess Aggregate Contributions.
1.2 ACTUAL DEFERRAL PERCENTAGE (ADP) The ratio (expressed as a percentage and
calculated separately for each Participant) of:
(a) the amount of Employer contributions [as
defined at (c) --
(d)] actually contributed
to the Trust on behalf of such
Participant for a Plan
Year, to
(b) the Participant's Compensation for such
Plan Year. [Unless
otherwise specified in
the Adoption Agreement, Compensation
will only include amounts received for
the period during which
the Employee was
eligible to participate.]
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Employer contributions on behalf of any Participant shall include:
(c)
any Elective Deferrals made pursuant to the Participant's
Salary Deferral
Agreement, including Excess Elective Deferrals
of Highly Compensated
Employees, but excluding Excess Elective
Deferrals distributed
to Non-Highly Compensated Employees and
Elective Deferrals that
are either taken into account in the
Contribution Percentage
test (provided the ADP test is
satisfied both with and
without exclusion of these Elective
Deferrals) or are
returned as excess Annual Additions,
(d) at the election of the Employer,
Qualified Non-Elective
Contributions and
Qualified Matching Contributions.
For purposes of computing Actual Deferral Percentages, an eligible Employee who
fails to make Elective Deferrals shall be treated as a Participant on whose
behalf no Elective Deferrals are made.
1.3 ADOPTION AGREEMENT The document attached to this Plan by which an Employer
who adopts a Plan elects the terms and conditions of a Qualified Plan
established under this Basic Plan Document #01.
1.4 AGGREGATE LIMIT The sum of:
(a) 125% of the greater of the Average
Deferral Percentage of the
Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the
Prior Plan Year or
the Average
Contribution Percentage of Non-Highly Compensated
Employees under the
401(k) Plan subject to Code Section 401(m)
for the Plan Year
beginning with or within the Prior Plan
Year, and
(b) the lesser of 200% or two percent plus
the lesser of such ADP
or ACP.
Alternatively, the Aggregate Limit can be determined by substituting "the
lesser
of 200% or two percent plus" for "125% of" in (a) above, and
substituting "125%
of" for "the lesser of 200% or two percent plus" in (b) above if
it would result
in a larger Aggregate Limit.
If the Employer has elected in the Adoption Agreement to use the Current Year
Testing Method, then, in calculating the Aggregate Limit for a particular Plan
Year, the Non-Highly Compensated Employees' ADP and ACP for that Plan Year,
instead of the prior Plan Year, is used.
1.5 ALLOCATION DATE(s) The date or dates on which Participant recordkeeping
accounts are adjusted to reflect account activity including but not limited to
contributions, loans distributions, Hardship withdrawals, as well as earnings
activity including but not limited to income, capital gains or market
fluctuations in accordance with Article V hereof. Unless the Plan Administrator
in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner designates otherwise, all allocations
for a particular Plan Year will be made as of the Valuation Date of that Plan
Year.
1.6 ANNUAL ADDITIONS The sum of the following amounts credited to a
Participant's account for the Limitation Year:
(a) Employer contributions (under Article
III),
(b) Employee contributions (under Article
IV),
(c) forfeitures,
(d) Employer allocations under a Simplified
Employee Pension Plan,
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(e) amounts allocated after March 31, 1984,
to an individual
medical account as
defined in Code Section 415(l)(2), which is
part of a pension or
annuity plan maintained by the Employer
(these amounts are
treated as Annual Additions to a Defined
Contribution Plan
though they arise under a Defined Benefit
Plan), and
(f) amounts derived from contributions paid
or accrued after 1985,
in taxable years ending
after 1985, which are either
attributable to
post-retirement medical benefits allocated to
the account of a Key
Employee or to a Welfare Benefit Fund
maintained by the
Employer. For purposes of this paragraph, an
Employee is a Key
Employee if he or she meets the requirements
of paragraph 1.55 at
any time during the Plan Year or any
preceding Plan Year.
For purposes of applying the limitations of Code Section 415, the transfer of
funds from one Qualified Plan to another is not considered an Annual Addition.
The following are not Employee contributions for the purposes of Annual
Additions:
(g) Rollover Contributions [as defined in
Code Sections 402(e)(6),
403(a)(4), 403(b)(8)
and 408(d)(3)];
(h) repayments of loans made
to a Participant from the Plan;
(i) repayments of distributions received by
an Employee pursuant
to Code Section
411(a)(7)(B) (cash-outs);
(j) repayments of distributions received by
an Employee pursuant
to Code Section
411(a)(3)(D) (mandatory contributions); and
(k) Employee contributions to a Simplified
Employee Pension Plan
excludible from gross
income under Code Section 408(k)(6).
Employee and Employer make-up contributions under USERRA received during the
current Limitation Year shall be treated as Annual Additions with respect to
the
Limitation Year to which the make-up contributions are attributable. Excess
Amounts applied in a Limitation Year to reduce Employer contributions will be
considered Annual Additions for such Limitation Year, pursuant to the
provisions
of Article X.
1.7 ANNUITY STARTING DATE The first day of the first period for which an amount
is paid as an annuity or in any other form.
1.8 APPLICABLE CALENDAR YEAR The First Distribution Calendar Year, and in the
event of the recalculation of life expectancy, such succeeding calendar year.
If
payments commence in accordance with paragraph 7.4(d) before the Required
Beginning Date, the Applicable Calendar Year is the year such payments
commence.
If distribution is in the form of an immediate annuity purchased after the
Participant's death with the Participant's remaining interest, the Applicable
Calendar Year is the year of purchase.
1.9 APPLICABLE LIFE EXPECTANCY The life expectancy or joint and last survivor
expectancy calculated using the attained age of the Participant or Beneficiary
as of the Participant's or Beneficiary's birthday in the Applicable Calendar
Year, reduced by one for each calendar year which has elapsed since the date
life expectancy was first calculated. If life expectancy is being recalculated,
the Applicable Life Expectancy shall be the life expectancy as so recalculated.
The life expectancy of a non-Spouse Beneficiary may not be recalculated.
1.10 AVERAGE ANNUAL COMPENSATION The average of a Participant's annual
Compensation as defined in paragraph 1.16 of this Basic Plan Document #01, over
the three (3) consecutive Plan Year period ending in either the current year or
any prior year that produces the highest average. If the Participant has fewer
than three (3) years of participation in this Plan, Compensation is averaged
over the Participant's total period of participation.
1.11 AVERAGE CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE (ACP) The average of the Actual
Contribution Percentages for the eligible Participants in a specified group of
Participants for a Plan Year.
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1.12 AVERAGE DEFERRAL PERCENTAGE (ADP) The average of the Actual Deferral
Percentages for Participants in a specified group of Participants for a Plan
Year.
1.13 BENEFICIARY A "Beneficiary" is any person other than the
Participant and an
estate or trust who by operation of law, or under the terms of the Plan is
entitled to receive any Vested Account Balance of a Participant under the Plan.
A "Designated Beneficiary" is any individual designated or determined
in
accordance with Code Section 401(a)(9) and the Regulations issued thereunder,
except that it shall not include any person who becomes a beneficiary by virtue
of the laws of inheritance or intestate succession.
1.14 BREAK IN SERVICE
(a) If the Hours of Service method is used in
determining either
an Employee's initial or continuing
eligibility to participate
in the Plan, or the
nonforfeitable interest in the Employee's
account balance derived
from Employer contributions, a Break
in Service is a twelve
(12) consecutive month period during
which the Employee has
not completed more than five hundred
(500) Hours of Service.
(b)






