CHEVRON CORPORATION DEFERRED
COMPENSATION PLAN
FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES
II
(Amended and Restated Effective
January 1, 2009)
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SECTION I. ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE
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(c) “Business in
Competition”
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(e) “Chevron Incentive
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(k) “Corporation Confidential
Information”
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(r) “Independent
Director”
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(s) “Long-Term Incentive
Plan”
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(u) “Non-Employee
Director”
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(ee) “Successors or
Assigns”
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SECTION III. ADMINISTRATION
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(a) Composition of the Committee
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(b) Actions by the Committee
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(c) Powers of the Committee
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(d) Liability of Committee
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(e) Administration of the Plan Following a
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SECTION IV. ASSIGNMENT OR TRANSFER OF
ACCOUNT
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SECTION V. RECAPITALIZATION
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SECTION VI. SECURITIES LAW
REQUIREMENTS
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SECTION VII. FORFEITURE FOR
MISCONDUCT
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SECTION VIII. AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION OF THE
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(a) Right to Alter, Amend, or Terminate the
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(b) Rights of Participant
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(c) Effect on Other Plans
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(d) Corporation Dissolution or
Bankruptcy
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SECTION IX. GENERAL PROVISIONS
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(a) Participant’s Rights
Unsecured
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(b) Authority to Establish a Grantor
Trust
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(d) Participant’s
Beneficiary
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(f) Binding Effect of Plan
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(h) No Right to Employment
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CHEVRON CORPORATION DEFERRED
COMPENSATION PLAN
FOR MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEES
II
(Amended and Restated Effective
January 1, 2009)
SECTION I.
ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE.
(a) The
Chevron Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan for Management
Employees II (“Plan”) is effective January 1, 2005
and is the successor plan to the Corporation’s Deferred
Compensation Plan for Management Employees (formerly the Salary
Deferral Plan for Management Employees) (the “Prior
Plan”). Effective December 31, 2004, the Prior Plan was
frozen and no new contributions shall be made to it; provided,
however, that any deferrals of compensation under the Prior Plan
that were earned and vested prior to January 1, 2005 shall
continue to be governed by the terms and conditions of the Prior
Plan as in effect on December 31, 2004 or on the date of any
later amendment, provided that such amendment is not a material
modification of the Prior Plan under Section 409A of the Code
and the regulations promulgated thereunder. However, any deferrals
of compensation that had been made under the Prior Plan that were
not earned and vested prior to December 31, 2004 shall be
deemed to have been made under this Plan instead and all such
deferrals are governed by its terms and conditions as they may be
amended from time to time.
(b) The Plan
is designed to enhance the ability of the Corporation and its
Subsidiaries to attract, motivate, and retain executive and other
key employees. It is intended to qualify as an unfunded ERISA
pension plan maintained by an employer for a select group of
management or highly compensated employees, as described in 26
C.F.R. § 2520.104-23(d) and to comply with the requirements of
Section 409A of the Code.
(c) This
Restatement shall apply to all Plan deferrals and distributions
made after December 31, 2008.
For purposes of
the Plan, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth
below:
(a) “
Account ” means the bookkeeping account maintained on
behalf of a Participant to which shall be credited any amount
deferred under the Plan along with bookkeeping earnings, gains, and
losses on such deferrals.
(b) “
Board ” means the Board of Directors of the
Corporation.
(c) “
Business in Competition ” means any person,
organization or enterprise which is engaged in or is about to be
engaged in any line of business engaged in by the Corporation at
such time.
(d) “
Change in Control ” means a ‘change in
control’ as that term is defined in Article VI. of the bylaws
of the Corporation, as such bylaws may be amended from time to
time.
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(e) “
Chevron Incentive Plan ” means the Chevron Incentive
Plan, as amended from time to time. The Chevron Incentive Plan was
formally known as the Management Incentive Plan for Chevron
Corporation.
(f) “
Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
(g) “
Commission ” means the federal Securities and Exchange
Commission.
(h) “
Committee ” means the committee of the Board that it
appoints to administer the Plan. In the absence of specific action
by the Board, the Board shall be deemed to have appointed the
Board’s Management Compensation Committee.
(i) “
Common Stock ” means the $0.75 par value common stock
of the Corporation or any security of the Corporation identified by
the Committee as having been issued in substitution, exchange or
lieu thereof.
(j) “
Corporation ” means Chevron Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, or any Successors or Assigns. Where the context shall
permit, “Corporation” shall include the Subsidiaries of
Chevron Corporation.
(k) “
Corporation Confidential Information ”
includes:
(1) Information
embodied in inventions, discoveries and improvements, whether
patentable or unpatentable, including trade secrets;
(2) Geological
and geophysical data and analyses thereof, well information,
discoveries, development initiatives, reserves, offshore bidding
strategies, potential value of unleased offshore acreage,
exploration and other business strategies and investment plans,
business methods, current and planned technology, processes and
practices relating to the existence of, exploration for, or the
development of oil, gas, or other potentially valuable raw
material, product, mineral or natural resource of any
kind;
(3) Confidential
personnel or Human Resources data;
(4) Customer
lists, pricing, supplier lists, and Corporation
processes;
(5) Any
other information having present or potential commercial value;
and
(6) Confidential
information of any kind in possession of the Corporation, whether
developed for or by the Corporation (including information
developed by the Participant), received from a third party in
confidence, or belonging to others and licensed or disclosed to the
Corporation in confidence for use in any aspect of its business and
without regard to whether it is designated or marked as such
through use of such words as “classified,”
“confidential” or “restricted”;
Provided, however,
that Corporation Confidential Information shall not include any
information that is or becomes generally known through no wrongful
act or omission of the Participant. However, information shall not
fail to be Corporation Confidential Information solely because it
is embraced by more general information available on a
non-confidential basis.
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(l) “
Covered Employee ” means a covered employee of the
Corporation as defined in Section 162(m) of the Code.
(m) “
Director ” means a member of the Board.
(n) “
Document ” means any devices, records, data, notes,
reports, abstracts, proposals, lists, correspondence (including
e-mails), specifications, drawings, blueprints, sketches,
materials, equipment, reproductions of any kind made from or about
such documents or information contained therein, recordings, or
similar items.
(o) “
Eligible Employee ” means a salaried executive or
other key Corporation employee on its Payroll who holds a position
of significant responsibility or whose performance or potential
contribution, which in the judgment of the Committee, would benefit
the future success of the Corporation and who is designated by the
Committee as eligible to participate in the Plan. Eligible Employee
includes an officer of the Corporation, without regard to whether
he or she is also member of the Board. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, an employee on a non-U.S. Payroll or on the Global
Mobile Payroll is not an “Eligible
Employee”.
(p) “
ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended.
(q) “
Exchange Act ” means the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, 15 U.S.C. Section 78a, et seq., as amended from time to
time.
(r) “
Independent Director ” means a member of the Board
that is independent of the Corporation within the meaning of the
rules of the New York Stock Exchange.
(s) “
Long-Term Incentive Plan ” means the Long-Term
Incentive Plan of Chevron Corporation, as amended from time to
time.
(t) “
Misconduct ” of a Participant means:
(1) The
Corporation has been required to prepare an accounting restatement
due to material noncompliance, as a result of misconduct, with any
financial reporting requirement under the securities laws, and the
Committee has determined in its sole discretion that the
Participant:
(A) Had
knowledge of the material noncompliance or circumstances giving
rise to such noncompliance and willfully failed to take reasonable
steps to bring it to the attention of appropriate individuals
within the Corporation; or
(B) Knowingly
engaged in practices which materially contributed to the
circumstances that enabled such material noncompliance to
occur;
(2) A
Participant commits an act of embezzlement, fraud or theft with
respect to the property of the Corporation, materially violates the
Corporation’s conflict of interest policy, or breaches his or
her fiduciary duty to the Corporation;
(3) A
Participant, while still employed by the Corporation:
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(A) Willfully
misappropriates or discloses to any person, firm or corporation any
Corporation Confidential Information, unless the Participant is
expressly authorized by the Corporation’s management to
disclose such Corporation Confidential Information, pursuant to a
written non-disclosure agreement that sufficiently protects
it;
(B) Directly
or indirectly engages in, commences employment with, or materially
renders services, advice or assistance to any Business in
Competition with the Corporation other than on behalf of the
Corporation;
(C) Induces
or attempts to induce, directly or indirectly, any of the
Corporation’s customers, employees, representatives or
consultants to terminate, discontinue or cease working with or for
the Corporation, or to breach any contract with the Corporation, in
order to work with or for, or enter into a contract with, the
Participant or any third party other than when such action is taken
on behalf of the Corporation;
(4) A
Participant willfully fails to promptly return all Documents and
other tangible items belonging to the Corporation that are in his
or her possession or control upon termination of employment,
whether pursuant to retirement or otherwise;
(5) A
Participant willfully commits an act which, under applicable law,
constitutes the misappropriation of a Corporation trade secret or
otherwise violates the law of unfair competition with respect to
the Corporation; including, but not limited to,
unlawfully:
(A) Using
or disclosing Corporation Confidential Information; or
(B) Soliciting
(or contributing to the soliciting of) the Corporation’s
customers, employees, representatives, or consultants
to:
(i) Terminate,
discontinue or cease working with or for the Corporation;
or
(ii) To
breach any contract with the Corporation, in order to work with or
for, or enter into a contract with, the Participant or any third
party;
(6) A
Participant willfully fails to inform any new employer of the
Participant’s continuing obligation to maintain the
confidentiality of the trade secrets and other Corporation
Confidential Information obtained by the Participant during the
term of his or her employment with the Corporation;
The
Committee shall determine in its sole discretion whether the
Participant has
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