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Exhibit (10.10)
Administrative
Guide
for _______________, 20__
Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) Grant under the
2005 Omnibus Long-Term
Compensation Plan
Under Article
10 (Restricted Stock Awards) of the 2005 Omnibus Long-Term
Compensation (the “Plan”), the Executive Compensation
and Development Compensation Committee of Kodak’s Board of
Directors (the “Committee”) may, among other things,
award Restricted Stock Unit Awards to those Participants as the
Committee in its discretion may determine, subject to such terms,
conditions and restrictions as it deems appropriate.
The purpose of
this Administrative Guide is to evidence the Committee’s
__________, 20__ grant of Restricted Stock Unit Awards under
Article 10 of the 2005 Omnibus Long-Term Compensation
Plan.
1.3
Administration
This
Administrative Guide will be administered by the
Committee. The Committee is authorized to issue this
Administrative Guide and to make changes in this Administrative
Guide as it from time to time deems proper. The Committee is
authorized to interpret and construe this Administrative Guide, to
prescribe, amend, and rescind rules and regulations relating to it,
and to make all other determinations necessary, appropriate or
advisable for the administration of it. If there are any
inconsistencies between the terms of this Administrative Guide and
the terms of the Plan, the terms of the Plan will
control. Any determination by the Committee in carrying
out, administering or construing this Administrative Guide will be
final and binding for all purposes and upon all interested persons
and their heirs, successors and personal
representatives. Notwithstanding any provision herein to
the contrary, the Committee shall not make any change to this
Administrative Guide that would cause the Restricted Stock Unit
Awards granted hereunder to violate the requirements of Section
409A. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the
contrary, the Company's Chief Human Resources Officer is authorized
to round fractional shares arising in any way under this
Administrative Guide either up or down with respect to any or all
Participants, for ease of administration or any other reasonable
purpose.
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All capitalized
terms used in this Administrative Guide, other than those set forth
in this Article 2 or defined within another Article of this
Administrative Guide, will have the same meaning for purposes of
this document as that ascribed under the terms of the
Plan.
2.1 Approved
Reason
“Approved
Reason” means, with regard to all Participants other than a
Participant who is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act or a
Covered Employee, a reason for terminating employment which, in the
opinion of the Chief Executive Officer of Kodak, is in the best
interests of the Company. With regard to a Participant
who is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act or who is a
Covered Employee, “Approved Reason” means a reason for
terminating employment which, in the opinion of the Committee, is
in the best interests of the Company.
2.2 Award Payment
Date
“Award
Payment Date” is the date payment of an Award in the form of
shares of Common Stock is credited to the Participant Account with
Kodak’s transfer agent pursuant to Article 9.
“Grant
Date” shall mean __________, 20__, the date that Restricted
Stock Units are awarded to Participants.
2.4 Joint
Venture
“Joint
Venture” means a corporation or other business entity in
which the Company has an ownership interest of fifty percent (50%)
or more.
“Participant Account” means the
account established by the Company for each Participant who is
granted an Award under this Administrative Guide to record and
account for the Units granted to him or her and any other Units
that are to be credited to the Participant’s Participant
Account pursuant to Article 7, until such time as the balance in
the Participant Account is paid, canceled, forfeited or terminated
as the case may be.
“Section
409A” means Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended, and the Treasury Regulations promulgated and
other official guidance issued thereunder.
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“Unit” means a bookkeeping entry
used by the Company to record and account for the Award granted to
a Participant and any dividend equivalents or stock dividends that
are to be credited to the Participant’s Participant Account
pursuant to Article 7 until such time as the balance in the
Participant Account is paid, canceled, forfeited, or terminated, as
the case may be. Units are expressed in terms of one
Unit being the equivalent of one share of Common Stock.
2.8 Vesting
Date
“Vesting
Date” shall mean the date on which the restrictions on a Unit
will lapse, which, unless the Unit is forfeited sooner, shall be
upon the expiration of the Unit’s Restriction
Period.
ARTICLE
3. FORM AND TERMS OF AWARDS
Except as noted
below, all of the Awards granted under this Administrative Guide
will be in the form of Restricted Stock Unit
Awards. Each Award granted under this Administrative
Guide will be expressed as a fixed number of Units that will be
equivalent to an equal number of shares of Common
Stock. Article 6 establishes the restriction that will
apply to the Awards.
In those
countries where: (i) the grant of Restricted Stock Unit Awards is
illegal; (ii) compliance with applicable legal or regulatory
requirements is significantly onerous; or (iii) the tax
consequences of the Restricted Stock Unit Award to either the
Participant or Kodak are more onerous than those that would apply
were the Award to be granted to a U.S. citizen residing in the
United States, the Chief Executive Officer of Kodak may, in the
exercise of his sole discretion, either grant Awards in alternative
form or forms or modify an Award to include additional or different
terms or conditions; provided, however, that any modified or
alternative form of Award shall either be exempt from or comply
with Section 409A.
Any Award
issued under this Administrative Guide will be subject to the
terms, conditions, restrictions, and limitations contained in this
Administrative Guide and the Plan.
ARTICLE
4. PARTICIPANT ACCOUNT
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The Company
will establish a Participant Account for each Participant who is
granted an Award under this Administrative Guide. The
maintenance of individual Participant Accounts is for bookkeeping
purposes only; the Units recorded in the account are not actual
shares of Common Stock. The Company will not reserve or
otherwise set aside any Common Stock for or to any Participant
Account. A Participant will not have the right to
exercise any of the rights or privileges of a shareholder with
respect to the Units credited to his or her Participant
Account.
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4.2 Procedure for
Crediting Awards
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Effective as of
the Grant Date, Kodak will credit to each Participant’s
Participant Account the number of Units granted to the Participant
under this Administrative Guide.
The Committee
grants Awards under this Administrative Guide to each
Section 16 Officer of Kodak. Exhibit A, attached
hereto, sets forth the size of the Awards granted by the Committee
to each Section 16 Officer of Kodak.
The Chief
Executive Officer of Kodak grants Awards under this Administrative
Guide to all other Participants, which include executives who, as
of the Grant Date, are either employed by Kodak globally in wage
grades 48 and higher or are selected senior-level executives
employed by Kodak Subsidiaries. Exhibit B, attached
hereto, sets forth the size of Awards granted by the Chief
Executive Officer of Kodak to such Participants.
5.2 New
Participants
No person may
become eligible to receive Awards under this Administrative Guide
after the Grant Date, whether as a result of a job change or
otherwise.
The Award will
be subject to a three-year “Restriction
Period.” The Restriction Period of a
Participant’s Award will begin on _________, 20__ and, except
as otherwise provided by Article 8, lapse on _______,
20__.
6.2 Restriction
Requirements
A Participant
must remain continuously employed by the Company throughout the
Restriction Period in order to receive his or her Units that are
subject to that Restriction Period, including, but not limited to,
any Units that are credited to the Participant’s Participant
Account under Article 7. Thus, except as set forth in
Article 8, if the Participant