Exhibit 10.8
FIRST FARMERS AND MERCHANTS
CORPORATION
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
DIRECTOR DEFERRED COMPENSATION
AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED & RESTATED
Director Deferred Compensation Agreement (the
“Agreement”) is adopted this
day of
,
by and between First Farmers and Merchants Corporation, a Tennessee
corporation located in Columbia, Tennessee (the
“Corporation”), and
(the “Director”) and is effective as of the
day of
.
This Agreement amends and restates
the prior Director Deferred Compensation Agreement between the
Corporation and the Director dated
(the “Prior Agreement”).
The parties intend this Amended and
Restated Agreement to be a material modification of the Prior
Agreement such that all amounts earned and vested prior to
shall be subject to the provisions of Section 409A of the Code
and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
The purpose of this Agreement is to
provide specified benefits to the Director who contributes to the
continued growth, development and future business success of the
Corporation.
Article 1
Definitions
Whenever used in this Agreement, the
following words and phrases shall have the meanings
specified:
1.1
“Beneficiary” means each
designated person, or the estate of a deceased Director, entitled
to benefits, if any, upon the death of the Director determined
pursuant to Article 6.
1.2
“Beneficiary Designation
Form” means the form established from time to time by the
Plan Administrator that the Director completes, signs and returns
to the Plan Administrator to designate one or more
beneficiaries.
1.3
“Board” means the Board
of Directors of the Corporation as from time to time
constituted.
1.4
“Change in Control”
means a change in the ownership or effective control of the
Corporation, or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the
assets of the Corporation, as such change is defined in
Section 409A of the Code and regulations
thereunder.
1.5
“Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
1.6
“Crediting Rate” means
the Wall Street Journal Prime Rate as published on the last
business day of the previous Plan Year plus three percent
(3%).
1.7
“Deferrals” means the
amount of Fees which the Director elects to defer according to this
Agreement. In the absence of a valid Deferral Election Form,
Deferrals shall mean 100% of the Fees.
1.8
“Deferral Account” means
the Corporation’s accounting of the Director’s
accumulated Deferrals, plus accrued interest.
1.9
“Deferral Election Form”
means the form established from time to time by the Plan
Administrator that the Director completes, signs and returns to the
Plan Administrator to designate the amount of the
Deferrals.
1.10
“Distribution Election
Form” means the form established from time to time by the
Plan Administrator that the Director completes, signs and returns
to the Plan Administrator to designate the time and form of
distribution.
1.11
“Fees” means the total
fees payable to the Director during a Plan Year.
1.12
“Original Effective
Date” means January 1, 1993.
1.13
“Plan Administrator”
means the plan administrator described in
Article 8.
1.14
“Plan Year” means each
twelve-month period commencing on January 1 and ending on
December 31 of each year.
1.15
“Separation from
Service” means the termination of the Director’s
service with the Corporation for reasons other than death. Whether
a Separation from Service takes place is determined based on the
facts and circumstances surrounding the termination of the
Director’s service and whether the Corporation and the
Director intended for the Director to provide significant services
for the Corporation following such termination.
1.16
“Specified Employee”
means a key employee (as defined in Section 416(i) of the
Code without regard to paragraph 5 thereof) of the Corporation if
any stock of the Corporation is publicly traded, on an established
securities market or otherwise.
1.17
“Termination for Cause”
means a Separation from Service for:
(a)
Gross negligence or gross neglect of
duties to the Corporation; or
(b)
Conviction of a felony or of a gross
misdemeanor involving moral turpitude in connection with the
Director’s service with the Corporation; or
(c)
Fraud, disloyalty, dishonesty or
willful violation of any law or significant Corporation policy
committed in connection with the Director’s service and
resulting in a material adverse effect on the
Corporation.
1.18
“Unforeseeable
Emergency” means a severe financial hardship to the Director
resulting from an illness or accident of the Director, the
Director’s spouse, or the Director’s dependent (as
defined in Section 152(a) of the Code), loss of the
Director’s property due to
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casualty, or other similar extraordinary and
unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond
the control of the Director.
Article 2
Deferral Election
Elections Generally
. The Director may annually file a
Deferral Election Form with the Plan Administrator no later
than the end of the Plan Year preceding the Plan Year in which
services leading to such deferrals will be performed.
Article 3
Deferral Account
3.1
Establishing and Crediting. The
Corporation shall establish a Deferral Account on its books for the
Director and shall credit to the Deferral Account the following
amounts:
(a)
Any Deferrals hereunder;
and
(b)
Interest as follows:
(i)
On the last day of each month and
immediately prior to the distribution of any benefits, but only
until commencement of benefit distributions under this Agreement,
interest shall be credited on the Deferral Account at an annual
rate equal to the Crediting Rate, compounded monthly;
and
(ii)
Prior to the commencement of any
distributions hereunder, the Board, in its sole discretion, may
change the rate used to calculate interest credited on the unpaid
Deferral Account balance during any applicable installment period.
Once the annual interest rate is determined it will compound
monthly on the last day of each month.
3.2
Accounting Device Only. The Deferral
Account is solely a device for measuring amounts to be paid under
this Agreement. The Deferral Account is not a trust fund of any
kind. The Director is a general unsecured creditor of the
Corporation for the distribution of benefits. The benefits
represent the mere Corporation promise to distribute such benefits.
The Director’s rights are not subject in any manner to
anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge,
encumbrance, attachment or garnishment by the Director’s
creditors.
Article 4
Distributions During
Lifetime
4.1
Separation from Service Benefit.
Upon Separation from. Service, the Corporation shall distribute to
the Director the benefit described in this section 4.1.
4.1.1
Amount of Benefit. The benefit under
this Section 4.1 is the Deferral Account balance at Separation
from Service.
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4.1.2
Distribution of Benefit. The
Corporation shall pay the benefit to the Director as elected by the
Director on the Distribution Election Form commencing within
sixty (60) days following Separation from Service. In the event the
Director elects monthly installments, the Corporation shall
annuitize the Deferral Account using an interest rate determined in
accordance with Section 3.1(b)(ii).
4.2
Hardship Distribution. If an
Unforeseeable Emergency occurs, the Director may petition the Board
to receive a distribution from the Agreement. The Board in its sole
discretion may grant such petition. If granted, the Director shall
receive, within sixty (60) days, a distribution from the Agreement
(i) only to the extent deemed necessary by the Board to remedy
the Unforeseeable Emergency, plus an amount necessary to pay taxes
reasonably anticipated as a result of the distribution; and
(ii) after taking into account the extent to which such
hardship is or may be relieved through reimbursement or
compensation by insurance or otherwise or by liquidation of the
Director’s assets (to the extent the liquidation would not
itself cause severe financial hardship). In any event, the maximum
amount which may be paid out pursuant to this Section 4.2 is
the Deferral Account balance as of the day that the Director
petitioned the Board to receive a Hardship Distribution under this
Section.
4.3
Restriction on Timing of
Distribution. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to
the contrary, if the Director is considered a Specified Employee at
Separation from Service under such procedures as established by the
Corporation in accordance with Section 409A of the Code,
benefit distributions that are made upon Separation from Service
may not commence earlier than six (6) months after the date of
such Separation from Service. Therefore, in the event this
Section 4.3 is applicable to the Director, any distribution
which would otherwise be paid to the Director within the first six
months following the Separation from Service shall be accumulated
and paid to the Director in a lump sum on the first day of the
seventh month following the Separation from Service. All subsequent
distributions shall be paid in the manner specified.
4.4
Distributions Upon Income Inclusion
Under Section 409A of the Code. Upon the inclusion of any
portion of the Deferral Account balance into the Director’s
income as a result of the failure of this non-qualified deferred
compensation plan to comply with the requirements of
Section 409A of the Code, to the extent such tax liability can
be covered by the Deferral Account balance, a distribution shall be
made as soon as is administratively practicable following the
discovery of the plan failure.
4.5
Change in Form or Timing of
Distributions. All changes in the form or timing of distributions
hereunder must comply with the following requirements. The
changes:
(a)
may not accelerate the time or
schedule of any distribution, except as provided in
Section 409A of the Code and the regulations
thereunder;
(b)
must, for benefits distributable
under Section 4.1, delay the commencement of distributions for
a minimum of five (5) years from the date the first
distribution was originally scheduled to be made; and
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(c)
must take effect not less than
twelve (12) months after the election is made.
Article 5
Distributions at
Death
5.1
Death During Active Service. If the
Director dies while in active service to the Corporation, the
Corporation shall distribute to the Beneficiary the benefit
described in this Section 5.1. This benefit shall be
distributed in lieu of the benefit under Article 4.
5.1.1
Amount of Benefit. The benefit under
this Section 5.1 is the greater of (i) the Deferral
Account balance determined as of the date of the Director’s
death or
(ii) $ .
5.1.2
Distribution of Benefit. The
Corporation shall pay the benefit to the Beneficiary as elected by
the Director on the Distribution Election Form commencing
within sixty (60) days following the Director’s death. In the
event the Director elects monthly installments, the Corporation
shall annuitize the Deferral Account using an interest rate
determined in accordance with Section 3.1(b)(ii).
5.2
Death During Distribution of a
Benefit. If the Director dies after any benefit distributions have
commenced under this Agreement but before receiving all such
distributions, the Corporation shall distribute to the Beneficiary
the remaining benefits at the same time and in the same amounts
that would have been distributed to the Director had the Director
survived.
5.3
Death After Separation from Service
But Before Benefit Distributions Commence. If the Director is
entitled to benefit distributions under this Agreement, but dies
prior to the commencement of said benefit distributions, the
Corporation shall distribute to the Beneficiary the same benefits
that the Director was entitled to prior to death except that the
benefit distributions shall commence within thirty (30) days
following receipt by the Corporation of the Director’s death
certificate.
Article 6
Beneficiaries
6.1
Beneficiary. The Director shall have
the right, at any time, to designate a Beneficiary(ies) to receive
any benefits distributable under the Agreement to a Beneficiary
upon the death of the Director. The Beneficiary designated under
this Agreement may be the same as or different from the beneficiary
designation under any other plan of the Corporation in which the
Director participates.
6.2
Beneficiary Designation., Change.
The Director shall designate a Beneficiary by completing and
signing the Beneficiary Designation Form, and delivering it to the
Plan Administrator or its d