Exhibit 10.4
HARLEY-DAVIDSON
MANAGEMENT DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
(As Amended and Restated Effective
January 1, 2009)
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND
CONSTRUCTION
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Section 1.01. Definitions
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Section 1.02. Construction and Applicable
Law
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ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION
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Section 2.01. Eligibility
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ARTICLE III. EMPLOYEE DEFERRED
COMPENSATION
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Section 3.01. Deferrals Of Base
Compensation
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Section 3.02. Deferrals of Annual Bonus
Awards
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Section 3.03. Restricted Stock
Deferrals
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Section 3.04. Matching Contribution
Credits
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Section 3.05. Employer Retirement
Contribution Restoration Credits
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Section 3.06. Other Deferrals and
Credits
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Section 3.07. Effect of Unforeseeable
Emergency or Hardship
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Section 3.08. Involuntary Termination of
Deferral Elections
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ARTICLE IV. ACCOUNTING AND HYPOTHETICAL
INVESTMENT ELECTIONS
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Section 4.01. Investment
Options
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Section 4.02. Participant Investment
Elections
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Section 4.03. Allocation of Deemed
Investment Gain or Loss
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Section 4.04. Accounts are For Record
Keeping Purposes Only
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ARTICLE V. DISTRIBUTION OF
ACCOUNTS
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Section 5.01. Distribution of
Account
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Section 5.02. Distribution
Election
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Section 5.03. Death Benefit
Payments
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Section 5.04. Hardship
Withdrawals
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Section 5.05. Automatic Single Sum
Distribution
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Section 5.06. Acceleration of Payments
Upon a Change of Control
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ARTICLE VI. GENERAL PROVISIONS
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Section 6.01. Administration
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Section 6.02. Restrictions to Comply with
Applicable Law
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Section 6.03. Claims Procedures
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Section 6.04. Participant Rights
Unsecured
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Section 6.05. Distributions for Tax
Withholding and Payment
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Section 6.06. Amendment or Termination of
Plan
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Section 6.07. Administrative
Expenses
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Section 6.08. Successors and
Assigns
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Section 6.09. Right of Offset
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Section 6.10. Not a Contract of
Employment
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Section 6.11. Miscellaneous Distribution
Rules
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HARLEY-DAVIDSON
MANAGEMENT DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group,
Inc. (the “Company”) maintains the Harley-Davidson
Management Deferred Compensation Plan for the benefit of eligible
employees of the Company and its Affiliates.
The Plan is intended to promote the
best interests of the Company and its Affiliates by attracting and
retaining key management employees possessing a strong interest in
the successful operation of the Company and its Affiliates and
encouraging their continued loyalty, service and counsel to the
Company and its Affiliates. The Plan is amended and restated
effective January 1, 2009 to comply with final regulations
under Code Section 409A.
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND
CONSTRUCTION
Section 1.01.
Definitions .
The following terms have the
meanings indicated below unless the context in which the term is
used clearly indicates otherwise:
(a) Account: The record keeping
account or accounts maintained to record the interest of each
Participant under the Plan. An Account is established for record
keeping purposes only and not to reflect (or require) the physical
segregation of assets on the Participant’s behalf. To the
extent relevant with respect to any Participant, the
Participant’s overall Account may consist of such subaccounts
or balances as the Administrator may determine to be necessary or
appropriate.
(b) Administrator: The Retirement
Plans Committee appointed by the Board.
(c) Affiliate: Each corporation,
trade or business that, with the Company, forms part of a
controlled group of corporations or group of trades or businesses
under common control within the meaning of Code Sections 414(b) or
(c); provided that for purpose of determining when a Participant
has incurred a Separation from Service, the phrase “at least
fifty percent (50%)” shall be used in place of “at
least eighty percent (80%)” each place it appears in Code
Section 414(b) and (c) and the regulations
thereunder.
(d) Annual Bonus Deferral: See
Section 1.01(l)(ii).
(e) Base Compensation: The base
salary or wage payable by a Participating Employer to an Eligible
Employee for services performed prior to reduction for
contributions by the Eligible Employee to this Plan or pre-tax or
after-tax contributions by the Eligible Employee to any other
employee benefit plan maintained by a Participating Employer, but
exclusive of extraordinary payments such as overtime, bonuses, meal
allowances, reimbursed expenses, termination pay, moving pay,
commuting expenses, severance pay, non-elective deferred
compensation payments or accruals, stock options or restricted
stock, or the value of employer-provided fringe benefits or
coverage, all as determined in accordance with such uniform rules,
regulations or standards as may be prescribed by the
Administrator.
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(f) Base Compensation Deferral: See
Section 1.01(l)(i).
(g) Beneficiary: The person or
entity designated by a Participant to be his or her beneficiary for
purposes of this Plan. If a beneficiary dies before receiving all
payments due such beneficiary, any remaining payments will be made
to the designated beneficiary’s estate unless a contingent
beneficiary was designated by the Participant as to such amounts.
If there is a contingent beneficiary payments will be made to the
contingent beneficiary and, if such contingent beneficiary dies,
any remaining payments will be made to the contingent
beneficiary’s estate. If there is no beneficiary designation
in force when Plan benefits become payable upon the death of a
Participant, payment shall be made to the Participant’s
current spouse, or if the Participant is not married or the spouse
is not then living, to the Participant’s estate. Beneficiary
designations shall be in writing, filed with the Administrator, be
in such form as the Administrator may prescribe for this purpose,
and shall become effective only upon acknowledgement by the
Administrator.
(h) Board: The Board of Directors of
the Company.
(i) Code: The Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as interpreted by regulations and rulings issued pursuant
thereto, all as amended and in effect from time to time. Any
reference to a specific provision of the Code shall be deemed to
include reference to any successor provision thereto.
(j) Committee: The Compensation
Committee of the Board of Directors of Harley-Davidson,
Inc.
(k) Company: Harley-Davidson Motor
Company Group, Inc., or any successor thereto.
(l) Deferral: An amount credited, in
accordance with a Participant’s election, to the
Participant’s Account under the Plan in lieu of the current
payment of an equal amount of compensation to the Participant.
Deferrals include the following:
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Base
Compensation Deferral: A Deferral of all or a portion of a
Participant’s Base Compensation in accordance with
Section 3.01.
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(ii)
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Annual
Bonus Deferral: A Deferral of all or a portion of a
Participant’s annual bonus award in accordance with
Section 3.02.
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Restricted
Stock Deferral: A Deferral of all or a portion of a
Participant’s restricted stock or restricted stock unit award
under the Incentive Stock Plan, in accordance with
Section 3.03.
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(m) Disability: The inability of a
Participant to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason
of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can
be expected to result in death or can be expected to last for a
continuous period of not less than 12 months, as determined by the
Administrator.
(n) Eligible Employee: A common law
employee of a Participating Employer who has been designated by the
Administrator or the Committee as being eligible to participate in
this Plan or who is eligible for the benefits described in
Section 3.05.
(o) ERISA: The Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as interpreted by regulations and
rulings issued pursuant thereto, all as amended and in effect from
time to time. Any reference to a specific provision of ERISA shall
be deemed to include reference to any successor provision
thereto.
(p) Incentive Stock Plan: The
Harley-Davidson, Inc. 2004 Incentive Stock Plan, or any successor
to such plan.
(q) Investment Options: The
hypothetical investment options established by the Administrator
from time to time (which may, but need not, be based upon one or
more of the investment options available under the Retirement
Savings Plan for Salaried Employees of Harley-Davidson).
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(r) Matching Contribution Credits:
The amounts (if any) credited in accordance with
Section 3.04.
(s) Participant: An Eligible
Employee or a former Eligible Employee with an undistributed
Account balance under the Plan.
(t) Participating Employer: The
Company and each Affiliate that, with the consent of the
Administrator or the Committee, participates in the Plan for the
benefit of one or more Participants.
(u) Plan: The Harley-Davidson
Management Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended and in effect
from time to time.
(v) Separation from Service: The
date on which a Participant separates from service (within the
meaning of Code Section 409A) from the Company and all
Affiliates. A Separation from Service occurs when the Company and
the Participant reasonably anticipate that no further services will
be performed by the Participant for the Company and its Affiliates
after that date or that the level of bona fide services the
Participant will perform after such date as an employee of the
Company or an Affiliate will permanently decrease to no more than
20% of the average level of bona fide services performed by the
Participant (whether as an employee or independent contractor) for
the Company and its Affiliates over the immediately preceding
36-month period (or such lesser period of services). The
Participant is not considered to have incurred a Separation from
Service if the Participant is absent from active employment due to
military leave, sick leave or other bona fide reason if the period
of such leave does not exceed the greater of (i) six months,
or (ii) the period during which the Participant’s right
to reemployment by the Company or an Affiliate is provided either
by statute or by contract; provided that if the leave of absence is
due to a medically determinable physical or mental impairment that
can be expected to result in death or last for a continuous period
of not less than six months, where such impairment causes the
Participant to be unable to perform the duties of his or her
position of employment or any substantially similar position of
employment, the leave may be extended for up to 29 months without
causing the Participant to have incurred a Separation from
Service.
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(w) Specified Employee: A
Participant who, as of the date of the Participant’s
Separation from Service, is treated as a Specified Employee in
accordance with Code Section 409A and the rules below. The
Plan will identify Specified Employees each year as of
December 31, which shall be the Plan’s Specified
Employee identification date. A Participant who is identified as of
December 31 as satisfying the requirements for classification
as a Specified Employee will be treated as a Specified Employee for
the entire 12 month period that begins on the April 1
following the December 31 Specified Employee identification
date and ends on the following March 31. A Participant
satisfies the requirements for classification as a Specified
Employee if the Participant, at any time during the 12-month period
ending on the Specified Employee identification date, is
(i) an officer of the Company or an Affiliate having annual
compensation from the Company and its Affiliates of greater than
$130,000, as indexed; provided that no more than 50 employees, or
if lesser, the greater of three or 10 percent of all employees,
shall be treated as officers, (ii) a five percent owner of the
Company or an Affiliate, or (iii) .a one percent owner of the
Company or an Affiliate having annual compensation from the Company
and its Affiliates of greater than $150,000, as indexed, in all
cases applied in accordance with the regulations issued by the
Secretary of the Treasury under Code Section 409A.
(x) Stock Unit: A hypothetical share
of common stock of Harley-Davidson, Inc.
(y) Valuation Date: See
Section 4.03.
Section 1.02. Construction
and Applicable Law .
(a) Wherever any words are used in
the masculine, they shall be construed as though they were used in
the feminine in all cases where they would so apply; and wherever
any words are use in the singular or the plural, they shall be
construed as though they were used in the plural or the singular,
as the case may be, in all cases where they would so apply. Titles
of articles and sections are for general information only, and the
Plan is not to be construed by reference to such items.
(b) This Plan is intended to be a
plan of deferred compensation maintained for a select group of
management or highly compensated employees as that term is used in
ERISA, and shall be interpreted so as to comply with the applicable
requirements thereof. In all other respects, the Plan is to be
construed and its validity determined according to the laws of the
State of Wisconsin
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(without reference to conflict of law principles
thereof) to the extent such laws are not preempted by federal law,
and any action for benefits under the Plan or to enforce the terms
of the Plan shall be heard in the State of Wisconsin by the court
with jurisdiction over the claim. In case any provision of the Plan
is held illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or
invalidity will not affect the remaining parts of the Plan, but the
Plan shall, to the extent possible, be construed and enforced as if
the illegal or invalid provision had never been
inserted.
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ARTICLE II.
PARTICIPATION
Section 2.01.
Eligibility .
Except for Section 3.05, an
employee shall be eligible to participate in the Plan only if the
employee is employed by a Participating Employer and if the
employee has been designated as an Eligible Employee by the
Administrator or the Committee. When designating an employee as an
Eligible Employee, the Administrator or the Committee, in their
sole discretion, may designate the employee for participation in
the entire Plan or any part thereof. An employee who satisfies the
requirements Section 3.05 is eligible to participate in the
Plan with respect to the benefits described in that Section,
whether or not the Participant has been designated for
participation in the other components of the Plan.
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ARTICLE III. EMPLOYEE DEFERRED
COMPENSATION
Section 3.01. Deferrals Of
Base Compensation .
(a) Amount . A Participant
may elect, in such form and manner as the Administrator may
prescribe, to defer payment of a portion of the Base Compensation
that would otherwise be paid to the Participant. A
Participant’s election shall specify either a fixed dollar
amount or a percentage (in increments of 1% to a maximum of 85% or
such lower percentage specified by the Administrator) of the
Participant’s Base Compensation that the Participant wishes
to defer. The minimum annual Base Compensation Deferral is $5,000
(or if the Participant has designated a percentage of Base
Compensation to be deferred, the percentage that, when applied to
the Participant’s Base Compensation rate at the time the
Deferral election is made, is expected to result in an annual Base
Compensation Deferral of at least $5,000).
(b) Initial Deferral Election
. In the case of a Participant who has been designated for
participation for the first time (and who has not previously been
designated as being eligible for participation in another deferred
compensation plan that is required to be aggregated with this Plan
for purposes of Code Section 409A), the Participant may submit
his or her initial Base Compensation Deferral election within 30
days of being designated for participation in the Plan. If the
Participant does so, the Participant’s validly executed Base
Compensation Deferral election shall become effective with respect
to Base Compensation attributable to services to be performed
subsequent to the date on which the election is filed with the
Administrator, or as soon thereafter as is practicable.
Alternatively, the Participant at any time may elect to make Base
Compensation Deferrals by submitting a validly executed Base
Compensation Deferral election to the Administrator, but the
election shall become effective and shall apply only to Base
Compensation attributable to services performed on or after
January 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year
during which the election is received by the Administrator, or as
soon thereafter as practicable. A Participant’s Base
Compensation Deferral election, once effective, shall remain in
effect until modified by the Participant in accordance with
subsection (c) below or otherwise revoked in accordance with
Plan rules.
(c) Revised Deferral Election
. Except to the extent that the Administrator is permitted (and
elects) to give earlier effect to a Participant’s revocation
or revision to his or her Base Compensation Deferral election in
accordance with regulations promulgated by
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the Secretary of the Treasury under Code
Section 409A, a Participant’s Deferral election, once
effective with respect to a calendar year, may not be revoked or
modified with respect to Base Compensation for that calendar year.
A Participant may modify his or her then current Base Compensation
Deferral election by filing a revised Base Compensation Deferral
election form, properly completed and signed, with the
Administrator. However, except to the extent that the Administrator
is permitted (and elects) to give earlier effect to a
Participant’s revised election in accordance with regulations
promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury under Code
Section 409A, the revised election will be effective only with
respect to Base Compensation for services performed on or after
January 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year
during which the revised election is received by the Administrator,
or as soon thereafter as practicable. A Participant’s revised
Deferral election, once effective, shall remain in effect until
again modified by the Participant under this Section or otherwise
revoked in accordance with Plan rules.
(d) Base Compensation Paid
Following Year End For the Payroll Period That Includes
December 31 . For purposes of applying a
Participant’s Base Compensation Deferral election, Base
Compensation paid after December 31 of a calendar year that is
attributable solely to services performed during the payroll period
that includes December 31, if paid in accordance with the
normal timing arrangement by which a Participating Employer
compensates employees for services rendered, is treated as Base
Compensation for services performed in the subsequent calendar
year, even though part or all of the Participant’s services
might have been performed in the prior calendar year.
Section 3.02. Deferrals of
Annual Bonus Awards .
A Participant may irrevocably elect,
in such form and manner as the Administrator may prescribe, to
defer payment of a portion of the annual cash bonus that may be
awarded and that would otherwise be paid to the Participant with
respect to any calendar year. A Participant’s election shall
specify either a fixed dollar amount or a percentage (in increments
of 1% to a maximum of 85% or such lesser amount or percentage as
may be established by the Administrator, or as may be consistent
with Code Section 409A and necessary in order to comply with
applicable withholding obligations, whether attributable to
withholdings required under applicable
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law or other authorized withholdings) of the
Participant’s annual cash bonus that the Participant wishes
to defer. In the case of any bonus award that does not constitute
performance-based compensation for purposes of Code
Section 409A, a validly executed Annual Bonus Deferral
election shall be effective only if the Annual Bonus Deferral
election is received by the Administrator prior to the last day of
the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which the
Participant performs the services on which the bonus award is
based, or by such other time as provided in regulations promulgated
by the Secretary of the Treasury and adopted by the Administrator.
In the case of any bonus award that constitutes performance-based
compensation for purposes of Code Section 409A, a validly
executed Annual Bonus Deferral election shall become effective with
respect to the bonus that may be awarded to the Participant with
respect to a calendar year if the Participant’s Deferral
election is received by the Administrator at least six
(6) months prior to the end of the (calendar year) performance
period for the bonus, or by such earlier (but not later) date as
the Administrator may establish. A Participant’s Annual Bonus
Deferral election becomes irrevocable at the end of the permitted
election period, and the Participant may not thereafter revoke or
modify his or her election, except as may be permitted by the
Administrator in accordance with regulations promulgated by the
Secretary of the Treasury under Code Section 409A. A
Participant’s election to defer a bonus award shall be
effective only for the performance period to which the election
relates, and shall not carry over from year to year.
Section 3.03. Restricted
Stock Deferrals .
(a) A Participant may elect, in such
form and manner as the Administrator may prescribe, to defer
payment of all or any portion of any restricted stock or restricted
stock unit award that the Participant receives under the Incentive
Stock Plan. A Participant’s election shall specify the whole
number of shares or units (up to 100% of such shares or units, or
such lesser number or percentage as may be established by the
Administrator or as may be consistent with Code Section 409A
and necessary in order to comply with applicable withholding
obligations, whether attributable to withholdings required under
applicable law or other authorized withholdings) of the
Participant’s award that the Participant wishes to defer;
provided that if the Participant specifies a deferral percentage
and application of that percentage does not produce a whole number
of shares or units, the number of shares or units to be
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deferred shall be increased to the next higher
whole number of share or units. In the case of any award that is
not performance-based compensation for purposes of Code
Section 409A, a validly executed Restricted Stock Deferral
election shall be effective only if the Restricted Stock Deferral
election is received by the Administrator prior to the last day of
the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which begins the
service period for which the restricted stock or restricted stock
units are granted, or by such other time as provided in regulations
promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury and adopted by the
Administrator. In the case of any award that is performance-based
compensation for purposes of Code Section 409A, a validly
executed Restricted Stock Deferral election shall become effective
with respect to shares or units to be earned by the Participant
with respect to any performance period if the Participant’s
Restricted Stock Deferral election is received by the Administrator
at least six (6) months prior to the end of such performance
period or by such earlier (but not later) date as the Administrator
may establish. A Participant’s Restricted Stock Deferral
election becomes irrevocable at the end of the permitted election
period, and the Participant may not thereafter revoke or modify his
or her election, except as may be permitted by the Administrator in
accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the
Treasury under Code Section 409A. A Participant’s
Restricted Stock Deferral election shall be effective only for the
particular restricted stock or restricted stock unit award to which
the election relates, and a Participant’s election does not
carry over from award to award.
(b) A Participant who has made a
Restricted Stock Deferral election will be credited under this
Plan, on a one-for-one basis, with a number of Stock Units equal to
the number of shares of restricted stock or the number of stock
units that originally were granted to the Participant under the
Incentive Stock Plan but that the Participant has elected to defer
under this Plan as a Restricted Stock Deferral. Any dividends (or
similar distribution) that would have been payable on the Stock
Units credited to a Participant’s Account if such Stock Units
were actual shares of Harley-Davidson, Inc. common stock will be
credited to the Participant’s Account in the form of
additional Stock Units. If any such dividend or other distribution
is not already expressed in the form of shares, it shall be
converted, for record keeping purposes, into whole and fractional
Stock Units. The conversion shall be accomplished by dividing the
amount of the dividend or distribution by the closing price of a
share of Harley-Davidson, Inc. common stock on the payment date for
the dividend or distribution.
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(c) Unless otherwise determined by
the Committee, the Participant’s interest in Stock Units
attributable to a Restricted Stock Deferral shall be subject to the
same vesting or forfeiture conditions to which the Participant
would have been subject if the Participant had received the
restricted stock or restricted stock unit award directly rather
than electing to defer delivery of such award. Similarly, unless
otherwise determined by the Committee, the dividend (or
distribution) credits that are made in the form of additional Stock
Units in accordance with subsection (b), shall be subject to
the same vesting or forfeiture conditions as apply with respect to
the Stock Unit on which the dividend (or distribution) credit is
based.
(d) In the event of any merger,
share exchange, reorganization, consolidation, recapitalization,
stock dividend or stock split involving Harley-Davidson, Inc.
common stock, or other event in which Harley-Davidson, Inc. common
stock is subdivided or combined, or a cash dividend is declared the
amount of which, on a per share basis, exceeds fifteen percent
(15%) of the fair market value of a share of Harley-Davidson,
Inc. common stock, at the time the dividend is declared, or
Harley-Davidson, Inc. shall effect any other dividend or other
distribution of Harley-Davidson, Inc. common stock that the Board
determines by resolution is extraordinary or special in nature or
that is in connection with a transaction that Harley-Davidson, Inc.
characterizes publicly as a recapitalization or reorganization of
Harley-Davidson, Inc. common stock or words of similar import, or
any other event shall occur, which, in the judgment of the
Committee necessitates an adjustment to prevent dilution or
enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be
made available under this Plan, the Committee shall make
appropriate equitable adjustments with respect to the Stock Units
(if any) credited to the Account of each Participant. The nature of
any such adjustment shall be determined by the Committee, in its
discretion.
(e) Shares of Harley-Davidson, Inc.
common stock distributed in settlement of a Participant’s
Stock Units, including the shares distributed in settlement of
dividend (or distribution) credits that were made in the form of
additional Stock Units, shall be charged against the pool of
available shares under the Incentive Stock Plan.
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Section 3.04. Matching
Contribution Credits .
The Administrator will also credit
to the Account of each Participant a Matching Contribution Credit
(denominated in cash) on amounts deferred under this Plan as Base
Compensation Deferrals and/or Annual Bonus Deferrals, as determined
by the Administrator. The Matching Contribution Credit will be in
the same relative amount as the matching contribution that is made
to th