JACOBS
ENGINEERING GROUP INC.
1995 EXECUTIVE
DEFERRAL PLAN
(EDP)
Effective
January 1, 1995
1995
EXECUTIVE DEFERRAL PLAN
OF
JACOBS
ENGINEERING GROUP INC.
Purpose
The
purpose of this plan is to provide specified benefits to a select
group of key employees who contribute materially to the continued
growth, development and future business success of JACOBS
ENGINEERING GROUP INC. and its subsidiaries.
Article
1
Definitions
For
purposes hereof, unless otherwise clearly apparent from the
context, the following phrases or terms shall have the following
indicated meanings:
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1.2
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“Account
Balance” shall mean the sum of (i) the Deferral Amount
and (ii) interest credited in accordance with all the
applicable interest crediting provisions of this Plan, less all
distributions made in accordance with the Plan.
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1.3
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“Annual
Bonus” shall mean any compensation paid under any
discretionary or formula bonus plan sponsored by the
Employer.
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1.4
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“Base
Annual Salary” shall mean the annual compensation that is to
be paid to a Participant for each Plan Year, determined as the
first day of that year, excluding bonuses, commissions, overtime
and non-monetary awards for employment services to the
Employer.
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1.5
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“Beneficiary”
shall mean the person or persons, or the estate of a Participant,
designated in accordance with Article 9, who is entitled to receive
benefits under this Plan upon the death of a
Participant.
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1.6
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“Beneficiary
Designation Form” shall mean the form established from time
to time by the Board that Participant completes, signs and returns
to the Committee to designate one or more Beneficiaries.
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1.7
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“Board”
shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.
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1.8
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“Change
in Control” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 13.4.
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1.9
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“Claimant”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 17.1
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1.10
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“Committee”
shall mean the administrative committee appointed to manage and
administer the Plan in accordance with the provisions of Article
16.
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1.11
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“Company”
shall mean JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC.
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1.12
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“Continuing
Director” shall mean a director described in
Section 13.4(b).
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1.13
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“CRSS”
Plan” shall mean the CRSS Inc. Senior Management Deferred
Compensation Plan, a nonqualified deferred compensation plan in
which a Participant who was a CRSS employee prior to becoming an
Employee participated and received a distribution in
1995.
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1.14
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“Deferral
Amount” shall be the sum of all of Participant’s Base
Annual Salary deferrals, Annual Bonus deferrals and, if applicable,
Directors Fees deferrals.
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1.15
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“Deferral
Commitment Period” shall mean the period described in
Section 3.4 of this Plan.
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1.16
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“Director”
shall mean any member of the Board.
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1.17
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“Directors
Fees” shall mean the annual fees paid by the Company,
including retainer fees and meetings fees, as compensation for
serving on the Board.
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1.18
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“Disability”
shall mean a period of disability during which a Participant
qualifies for benefits under the Company’s or any of its
subsidiaries’ long-term disability program.
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1.19
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“Election
Form” shall mean the form established from time to time by
the Board that a Participant completes, signs and returns to the
Committee to make an election under the Plan.
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1.20
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“Employee”
shall mean any person who is in the regular full-time employment of
an Employer as determined by the personnel policies and practices
of the Employer.
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1.21
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“Employer”
shall mean the Company and any subsidiaries of the Company that
have been selected by the Board to participate in the
Plan.
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1.22
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“Moody’s
Rate” shall mean the interest rate determined and announced
by the Committee at any time before the commencement of each Plan
Year. The Moody’s Rate for a Plan Year shall be the most
current monthly “Seasoned Corporate Bond” rate
published by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor
to that service, available prior to the announcement by the
Committee. The Seasoned Corporate Bond rate is an economic
indicator, based on an arithmetic average of the yields of
representative bonds, including industrials, public utilities, Aaa,
A and Baa bonds, and is calculated as a monthly average of the
composite yield.
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1.23
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“Participant”
shall mean any Employee or Director who (i) is selected to
participate in the Plan, (ii) elects to participate in the
Plan, (iii) signs a Plan Agreement, an Election Form, a
Beneficiary Designation Form and a Spousal Consent Form,
(iv) the signed Plan Agreement, Election Form, Beneficiary
Designation Form and Spousal Consent Form are returned to and
accepted by the Committee and (v) neither the Plan nor the
Plan Agreement has terminated.
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1.24
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“Participation
Year” shall mean with respect to any Participant, any Plan
Year in which a Participant is at any time during such year a
Participant. Notwithstanding the previous sentence,
“Participation Year” shall not include any years prior
to the first Plan Year in which a Participant actually has any
amount deferred under this Plan.
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1.25
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“Plan”
shall mean the 1995 Executive Deferral Plan of the Employer which
is defined by this instrument and by each Plan
Agreement.
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1.26
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“Plan
Agreement” shall mean the form of written agreement which is
entered into by and between the Employer and a Participant. Each
Plan Agreement executed by a Participant shall provide for the
entire benefit to which such Participant is entitled to under the
Plan, and the Plan Agreement bearing the latest date shall govern
such entitlement.
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1.27
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The “Plan
Year” shall begin on January 1 of each year and continue
through December 31 of the same year.
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1.28
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“Pre-Retirement
Distribution” shall mean the distribution provided for in
Article 4.
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1.29
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“Retirement
Benefit” shall mean the retirement benefit provided for in
Article 5.
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1.30
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“Retirement
Date” shall be the earlier of the first day of the month in
which the Participant (i) attains the age of sixty-five (65),
(ii) is sixty (60) years of age or older and has
completed ten (10) Years of Service, or (iii) is
terminated as a result of a long-term disability under the
Employer’s policies and practices.
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1.31
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“Retirement
Distribution Date” shall mean the last day of the month in
which the Participant has both (i) reached or passed his or
her Retirement Date and (ii) has actually ceased being an
Employee or Director other than by death.
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1.32
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“Survivor’s
Benefit” shall mean the benefit provided for in Article
6.
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1.33
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“Termination
Benefit” shall mean the termination benefit provided for in
Section 7.2.
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1.34
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“Termination
of Employment” shall mean with respect to an Employer or
Director the cessation of employment or a Director’s
position, as the case may be, voluntarily or involuntarily, and,
except as provided in Article 8 and Article 10, shall exclude
cessation
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as
a result of an authorized leave of absence, retirement, Disability
or death. If a Participant is both an Employee and a Director,
Termination of Employment shall occur only upon the termination of
last held position.
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1.35
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“Trust”
shall mean the trust established pursuant to that certain Trust
Agreement, dated as of June 1, 1991, between the Company and
the Trustee named therein, as amended from time to time.
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1.36
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“Unforeseeable
Financial Emergency” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.8(b).
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1.37
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“Years of
Service” shall mean the total number of years, that a
Participant is an Employee or a Director, including, without
limitation, periods of Disability and leaves of absence prior to
Termination of Employment, as provided under Article 8 and Article
10.
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Article
2
Eligibility
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2.1
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Eligibility and
Participation. The Committee,
in its sole discretion, shall establish eligibility qualifications
for participation in the Plan. Participation shall be limited to a
select group of management and highly compensated employees of the
Employer.
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2.2
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Enrollment
Requirements. As a condition
of participation, each Participant so selected shall complete, sign
and return to the Committee a Plan Agreement, an Election Form, a
Beneficiary Designation Form and a Spousal consent Form and shall
comply with all further conditions that may be established by the
Committee.
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Article
3
Deferral
Commitments
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3.1
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Minimum
Deferral . A Participant
must defer during each Plan Year of the Deferral Commitment Period
at least one of the following minimum amounts:
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(a)
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In the case of
an Employee, $2,000 of his or her Base Salary; or
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(b)
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In the case of
a Director who is not an Employee, a percentage that is anticipated
to equal $2,000 of his or her Directors Fees.
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A Participant
shall not be permitted to defer any portion of his or her Annual
Bonus unless he or she meets one of the minimum Deferral
requirements set forth in this Section. If a Participant first
becomes a Participant after the first day of a Plan Year, or in the
case of the first Plan Year of the Plan itself, at the election of
the Employee on the Election Form, the minimum deferral described
in (a) shall be an amount equal to $2,000,
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multiplied by a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number of complete months
remaining in the Plan Year and the denominator of which is
12.
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3.2
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Maximum
Deferral . For each Plan
Year of the Deferral Commitment Period, subject to the provisions
of Section 3.6, a Participant may defer:
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Maximum Percentage
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Base Annual
Salary
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50%
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Directors
Fees
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100%
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Annual
Bonus
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50%
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A Participant
who received a distribution from the CRSS Plan may defer from his
Base Annual Salary an amount equal to the CRSS Plan distribution,
even if it exceeds the 50% maximum percentage above. Further, the
50% Base Annual Salary maximum percentage may be exceeded until a
Participant has completely offset the CRSS Plan distribution.
Accordingly, a Participant must notify the Committee of the amount
of his or her distribution under the CRSS Plan within five
(5) days of receipt of the distribution.
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3.3
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Fixed Deferral
Amount . Except as
provided in Section 3.6, the annual deferral selected by a
Participant shall be the same for each Plan Year of the Deferral
Commitment Period. A Base Annual Salary deferral shall be a fixed
dollar amount, and an Annual Bonus or Directors Fees deferral shall
be a fixed percentage of the applicable annual bonus or fee. In no
event shall an annual deferral amount be decreased during the
Deferral Commitment Period. An annual deferral amount may only be
increased (i) prior to the commencement of the Plan Year to
which such annual deferral amount relates and (ii) with the
approval of the Committee.
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3.4
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Deferral
Commitment Period. The
“Deferral Commitment Period” for each Participant shall
be a fixed period of four (4) consecutive Plan Years
commencing with the 1995 Plan Year unless otherwise designated by
the Committee.
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3.5
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Withholding of
Deferral Amounts. The portion of
the Base Annual Salary elected to be deferred annually shall be
withheld in equal amounts over the Plan Year. The portion of Annual
Bonus and Directors Fees being deferred shall be withheld at the
time of the Annual Bonus or Directors Fees would otherwise be paid
to the Participant.
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3.6
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FICA
Taxes . For each Plan
Year of the Deferral Commitment Period, the Employer shall withhold
from that portion of the Participant’s Base Annual Salary
and/or Annual Bonus that is not being deferred, the
Participant’s share of FICA taxes based on an amount equal to
the Base Annual Salary and/or Annual Bonus before reduction by the
amount deferred. If necessary, the Committee shall reduce the
amount deferred in order to comply with this
Section 3.6.
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3.7
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Interest
Crediting Prior to Distribution
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(a)
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Except as
provided in Section 3.7(b) and Section 3.7(c) below,
interest shall be credited annually on a Participants Account
Balance at 125% of the Moody’s Rate. For purposes of this
crediting, all amounts deferred during a Plan Year. Such interest
crediting shall be made up to the date of the pre-Retirement
Distribution, the Retirement Date the date of the
Participant’s death or the date of Termination of Employment,
depending on whether the benefit is paid under Article 4, 5, 6 or
7, respectively.
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(b)
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In the event of
a Termination of Employment, interest shall be credited in the
manner provided in Section 3.7(a), but at the rate provided
for in Section 7.2
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(c)
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In the event of
a Participant’s suicide within twenty-four months of the
first deferral of any Deferral Commitment period, interest shall be
credited in accordance with Section 6.4. After the first
twenty-four months, interest will be credited in accordance with
Sections 3.7(a) and 3.7(b) above.
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(a)
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If a
Participant experiences on Unforeseeable Financial Emergency as
described in Section 3.8(b) below, the Participant may
petition the Committee to (i) suspend any deferrals required
by the Plan Agreement and/or (ii) receive a distribution from
the Plan. Any approval of such a petition shall be made at the sole
discretion of the Committee. If the Committee approves a
distribution, the distribution shall be made within sixty
(60) days of the date of approval. The distribution may not
exceed the Participant’s Account Balance as of the last day
of the month prior to the date of the Committee’s approval of
the petition, calculated as if such Participant were receiving a
Termination Benefit as of such date.
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(b)
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An
“Unforeseeable Financial Emergency” shall mean an
unexpected need for cash arising from an illness, casualty loss,
sudden financial reversal, transfer of place of employment or other
such unforeseeable occurrence, all as determined in the sole
discretion of the Committee.
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Article
4
Pre-Retirement
Distribution
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4.1
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Eligibility for
Pre-Retirement Distribution . A
Participant may elect to receive a Pre-Retirement Distribution from
the Plan to be received in or after the eighth Participation Year.
This election shall be irrevocable and shall be made on the
Election Form, which form is to be delivered to the Committee prior
to the commencement of the Deferral Commitment Period.
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4.2
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Amount of
Distribution . The amount of
the Pre-Retirement Distribution shall be any amount not to exceed
the electing Participant’s Account Balance at the end of the
Participation Year prior to the Participation Year selected on the
Election Form for the distribution. The Pre-Retirement Distribution
may not be made prior to the eighth (8 th
) Participation
Year. At the election of the Participant (on the Election Form),
this amount
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shall be
distributed or, in the case of installment payments, shall start
distribution within ninety (90) days of the
January 1 st
of
the Participation Year selected on the Election Form in one of the
following manners:
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(a)
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In a lump equal
to the Total Account Balance at the end of the Participation Year
prior to the Participation Year selected on the Election Form for
the distribution; or
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(b)
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In a lump sum
equal to a fixed dollar amount. Such fixed dollar amount shall be
chosen by the Participant on the Election Form. Any remaining
amounts in the Account Balance, after completion of the
Pre-Retirement Distribution, shall remain in the Plan to be paid
under the other provisions of the Plan; or
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(c)
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In four or
fewer annual consecutive installments of a fixed dollar amount.
Such fixed dollar amount shall be chosen by the Participant on the
Election Form. Interest on the unpaid Account Balance shall be
credited at 125% of Moody’s. Any remaining amounts in the
Account Balance, after completion of the Pre-Retirement
Distribution, shall remain in the Plan to be paid under the other
provisions of the Plan; or
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(d)
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In four or
fewer annual consecutive installments so that the total Account
Balance is completely distributed over the elected installment
period. Interest on the unpaid Account Balance shall be credited at
125% of Moody’s.
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If
the amount of Pre-Retirement Distribution elected by the
Participant exceeds the total Account Balance at any time during
the Pre-Retirement Distribution period, only the amount remaining
in the Account Balance shall be distributed to the Participant and
the Employer shall have no further liability under the
Plan.
Article
5
Retirement
Benefit
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5.1
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Eligibility for
Retirement Benefit . If the
Participant ceases to be an Employee or a Director for any reason
other than death, including without limitation, retirement or a
Termination of Employment after the Retirement Date, the Employer
shall pay the Retirement Benefit to the Participant (or his or her
Beneficiary) as provided in Section 5.2 and Section 5.3
below.
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5.2
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Retirement
Benefit – Method of Payment . The
Retirement Benefit may be paid in a lump sum, or in installments
over a period of 60, 120, or 180 months at the sole discretion of
the Committee. The lump sum payment shall be made, or installment
payments shall commence, within sixty (60) days of the
Retirement Distribution Date and in the case of installment
payments, shall continue until the Retirement Benefit is paid in
full.
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5.3
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Retirement
Benefit – Amount . If the
Retirement Benefit is paid in a lump sum, it shall be the retired
Participant’s Account Balance determined as of the Retirement
Distribution Date. If the Retirement Benefit is paid in
installments, it shall be a constant monthly
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payment,
determined at the beginning of each Plan Year by monthly
amortization of the remaining Account Balance over the remaining
payment period. Interest on the unpaid balance will be credited for
the remaining periods at 125% of the Moody’s Rate established
for each of the subsequent Plan Years.
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5.4
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Death Prior to
Completion of Retirement Benefit . If the
Participant dies after the Retirement Date and prior to the
completion of the Retirement Benefit payments, the retired
Participant’s designated Beneficiary will receive any unpaid
Retirement Benefit payments due the Participant, either at the
times they were to be received by the Participant, or in
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