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10_11(XV)
GEORGIA-PACIFIC
CORPORATION
LONG-TERM INCENTIVE
PLAN
ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS, SEPTEMBER 17, 1997
APPROVED BY THE SHAREHOLDERS,
DECEMBER 16, 1997
(As
Amended)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. ADOPTION AND PURPOSE
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2. DEFINITIONS
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(a) Award
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(b) Award Agreement
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(c) Board
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(d) Cause
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(e) Change of Control
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(f) Code
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(g) Committee
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(h) Common Stock
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(i) Company
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(j) Dividend Equivalent
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(k) Effective Date
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(l) Employee
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(m) Exchange Act
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(n) Fair Market Value
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(o) Incentive Stock Option
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(p) Non-Qualified Stock
Option
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(q) Option
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(r) Participant
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(s) Performance Goals
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(t) Performance Award
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(u) Performance Period
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(v) Plan
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(w) Plan Year
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(x) Restricted Shares
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(y) Restriction Period
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(z) Subsidiary
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(aa) SAR
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(ab) SAR Unit
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3. ELIGIBILITY
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4. STOCK SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF
THIS PLAN; LIMITATIONS.
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(a) Applicable Stock
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(b) Plan Limitations
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(c) Individual Limitations
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(d) Calculation Procedures
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5. AWARDS UNDER THIS PLAN
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(a) Stock Options
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(b) Performance Awards
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(i) Administration
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(ii) Payment of Award
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(iii) Further Restriction
Period
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(c) Restricted Shares
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(i) Issuance of Stock
Certificates
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(ii) Status of Restricted
Shares
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(iii) Participant Rights With Respect to
Issued Restricted
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(d) Dividend Equivalents
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(e) SARs
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6. OTHER TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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(a) Assignability; Designation of
Beneficiaries
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(i) Prohibition on Transfer
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(ii) Designation of
Beneficiaries
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(b) Award Agreement
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(c) Rights as a Shareholder
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(d) No Obligation to Exercise
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(e) Payments by Participants
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(f) Tax Withholding
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(g) Restrictions on Exercise
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(h) Surrender of Options
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(i) Additional Options Upon
Exercise
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(j) Requirements of Law
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(k) Non-Exclusivity of the
Plan
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(l) Unfunded Plan
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(m) Legends
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(n) Company’s Retirement and
Welfare Plans
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(o) Forfeitures
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(i) Violations of Company
Policies
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(ii) For Cause Termination
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(p) Requirement of Employment
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(q) Code Section 162(m)
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(r) Deferred Transfer of Shares Upon
Exercise of Options
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7. PLAN ADMINISTRATION
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(a) Committee as Plan
Administrator
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(b) Delegation
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(c) Determinations Final
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8. AMENDMENTS AND TERMINATION
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(a) Authority to Amend or
Terminate
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(b) Awards Previously Granted
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(c) Limitations
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9. CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING
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(a) No Bar to Corporate
Restructuring
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(b) Capital Readjustments/Award
Modifications
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10. NO RIGHT TO EMPLOYMENT
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11. CHANGE OF CONTROL
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(a) Special Rights Upon Change of
Control
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(i) Lapse of Restrictions; Acceleration
of Exercise and/or Vesting
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(ii) Election of Cash or Stock
Distribution
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(iii) Extended Exercise
Period
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(iv) Awards Non-Cancellable
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(b) Definition of “Change of
Control
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(i) Acquisition of Stock
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(ii) Change in Board
Membership
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(iii) Shareholder-Approved
Reorganization, Merger or Consolidation
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(iv) Liquidation or
Dissolution
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12. GOVERNING LAW
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13. CAPTIONS
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14. RESERVATION OF SHARES
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15. SAVINGS CLAUSE
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16. EFFECTIVE DATE AND TERM
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GEORGIA-PACIFIC
CORPORATION
LONG-TERM INCENTIVE
PLAN
1. ADOPTION AND
PURPOSE
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
(the “Company”) hereby adopts this Georgia- Pacific
Corporation Long-Term Incentive Plan, which was approved by its
Board of Directors on September 17, 1997, subject to further
approval by the Company’s shareholders (the
“Plan”). The purposes of the Plan are to promote the
interests of the Company and its stockholders by (a) attracting and
retaining exceptional executive personnel and other key employees
for the Company and its Subsidiaries (as defined below), (b)
motivating such employees by means of performance-related
incentives to achieve long-range performance goals and (c) enabling
such employees to participate in the long-term growth and financial
success of the Company.
2. DEFINITIONS
The following words and
phrases shall have the following meanings unless a different
meaning is plainly required by the context:
“(a) Award.
“Award” means, individually or collectively, a grant
under this Plan of Options, Restricted Shares, Dividend
Equivalents, a Performance Award, and/or SARs. The issuance of
Options, Restricted Shares, shares of unrestricted Common Stock,
Dividend Equivalents, SARs and/or cash pursuant to an Award or the
taking of any other action mandated under the terms and conditions
of an Award, shall not be deemed to be a new Award for any purpose
under this Plan (including, but not limited to, Section
16).”
(b) Award Agreement.
“Award Agreement” means a written agreement entered
into between the Company and a Participant setting forth the terms
and conditions of an Award made to such Participant under this
Plan, in the form prescribed by the Committee.
(c) Board.
“Board” means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
(d) Cause.
“Cause” shall mean any of the following: (i) the
willful failure of a Participant to perform satisfactorily the
duties consistent with his title and position reasonably required
of him by the Board or supervising management (other than by reason
of incapacity due to physical or mental illness); (ii) the
commission by a Participant of a felony, or the perpetration by a
Participant of a dishonest act or common law fraud against the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries; or (iii) any other willful act
or omission (including without limitation the deliberate and
willful violation of any corporate policy or regulation) which
could reasonably be expected to expose the Company to civil
liability under the law of the applicable jurisdiction or causes or
may reasonably be expected to cause significant injury to the
financial condition or business reputation of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries.
(e) Change of Control.
“Change of Control” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 11(b).
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(f) Code. “Code”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Reference to a
specific section of the Code or regulation thereunder shall include
such section or regulation, any valid regulation promulgated under
such section, and any comparable provision of any future
legislation or regulation amending, supplementing or superseding
such section or regulation.
(g) Committee.
“Committee” means the Compensation Committee of the
Board of Directors of the Company, as constituted from time to
time, or such subcommittee of that body as the Compensation
Committee shall specify to act for the Compensation Committee with
respect to this Plan. Each member of the Committee shall be a
“non-employee director” within the meaning of Rule
16b-3 under the Exchange Act and shall be an “outside
director” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code.
The Committee shall be composed of at least two (2) such
directors.
(h) Common Stock.
“Common Stock” means the Company’s common stock,
par value $0.80 per share.
(i) Company.
“Company” means Georgia-Pacific Corporation, a Georgia
corporation headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
(j) Dividend Equivalent.
“Dividend Equivalent” means an Award granted to a
Participant under Section 5(d).
(k) Effective Date.
“Effective Date” means the effective date of this Plan
as defined in Section 16.
(l) Employee.
“Employee” means a common law employee of the Company
or a Subsidiary (including, without limitation, any Company or
Subsidiary officer).
(m) Exchange Act.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended. Reference to a specific section of the Exchange
Act or regulation thereunder shall include such section or
regulation, any valid regulation promulgated under such section,
and any comparable provision of any future legislation or
regulation amending, supplementing or superseding such section or
regulation.
(n) Fair Market Value.
“Fair Market Value” means, on any date, the mean
between the high and low sales prices of a share of Common Stock on
that date as reported in The Wall Street Journal, New York Stock
Exchange—Composite Transactions, or as reported in any
successor quotation system adopted prospectively for this purpose
by the Committee, in its discretion. If the date of determination
is not a trading date on the New York Stock Exchange, Fair Market
Value shall be determined using the high and low sales prices of a
share of Common Stock on the next preceding trading date. The Fair
Market Value of the Stock shall be rounded to the nearest whole
cent (with 0.5 cent being rounded to the next higher whole
cent).
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(o) Incentive Stock Option.
“Incentive Stock Option” has the meaning specified in
Section 5(a).
(p) Non-Qualified Stock
Option. “Non-Qualified Stock Option” has the meaning
specified in Section 5(a).
(q) Option.
“Option” means an Incentive Stock Option or a
Non-Qualified Stock Option as defined in this Plan.
(r) Participant.
“Participant” means an Employee who has been designated
as such by the Committee pursuant to this Plan.
(s) Performance Goals.
“Performance Goals” means, with respect to any
Performance Period, one or more objective performance goals based
on one of more of the following objective criteria established by
the Committee prior to the beginning of such Performance Period or
within such period after the beginning of the Performance Period as
shall meet the requirements to be considered “pre-established
performance goals” for purposes of Code Section 162(m): (i)
increases in the price of the Common Stock; (ii) market share;
(iii) sales; (iv) return on equity, assets or capital; (v) economic
profit (economic value added); (vi) total shareholder return; (vii)
costs; (viii) margins; (ix) earnings or earnings per share; (x)
cash flow; (xi) customer satisfaction; (xii) operating profit; or
(xiii) any combination of the foregoing. Such Performance Goals may
be particular to an Employee or may be based, in whole or part, on
the performance of the division, department, line of business,
Subsidiary or other business unit, whether or not legally
constituted, in which the Employee works or on the performance of
the Company generally.
(t) Performance Award.
“Performance Award” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 5(b).
(u) Performance Period.
“Performance Period” means the period of service
designated by the Committee applicable to a Performance Award
during which the Performance Goals will be measured.
(v) Plan. “Plan”
means the Georgia-Pacific Corporation Long-Term Incentive Plan
(formerly known as the Georgia-Pacific Corporation/Georgia-Pacific
Group 1997 Long-Term Incentive Plan) as described in this plan
document.
(w) Plan Year. “Plan
Year” means the calendar year.
(x) Restricted Shares.
“Restricted Shares” shall have the meaning specified in
Section 5(c).
(y) Restriction Period.
“Restriction Period” means a Performance Period and/or
any other period during which full ownership of compensation
contemplated in an Award remains restricted pursuant to the terms
and conditions of that Award.
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(z) Subsidiary.
“Subsidiary” means any corporation or other entity,
whether domestic or foreign, in which the Company has or obtains,
directly or indirectly, a proprietary interest of more than 20% by
reason of stock ownership or otherwise.
(aa) SAR. “SAR”
has the meaning specified in Section 5(e).
(ab) SAR Unit. “SAR
Unit” means a bookkeeping entry maintained by the Company on
the Company’s books and records for each share of Common
Stock with respect to which a Participant has a SAR.
3. ELIGIBILITY
Any Employee designated by
the Committee (in its sole discretion) as a Participant under this
Plan will be eligible to receive an Award specified by the
Committee in accordance with this Plan.
4. STOCK SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS PLAN; LIMITATIONS
(a) Applicable Stock. The
stock subject to the provisions of this Plan shall either be shares
of authorized but unissued Common Stock, shares of Common Stock
held as treasury stock or previously issued shares reacquired by
the Company, including shares purchased on the open
market.
(b) Plan Limitations. Subject
to adjustment in accordance with the provisions of Sections 4(d)
and 9, the total number of shares of Common Stock with respect to
which Awards of Options, Restricted Shares, SARs, Performance
Awards, and/or unrestricted Common Stock may be granted under this
Plan may not exceed 16,000,000 shares.
(c) Individual Limitations.
Subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 9, and subject to
Section 4(b), (i) the total number of shares of Common Stock with
respect to which Awards of Options may be granted in any Plan Year
to any Employee shall not exceed 1,200,000 shares, (ii) the total
number of Restricted Shares which may be granted in any Plan Year
to any Employee shall not exceed 150,000 shares, (iii) the total
number of Performance Award shares which may be granted in any Plan
Year to any Employee shall not exceed 300,000 shares, (iv) the
value of any Performance Awards payable in cash that may be granted
in any Plan Year to any Employee shall not exceed $2,500,000 (as
determined on the date the Award is granted), and (v) the total
number of shares of Common Stock with respect to which Awards of
SARs may be granted in any Plan Year to any Employee shall not
exceed 1,200,000 shares.
(d) Calculation Procedures.
For purposes of calculating the total number of shares of Common
Stock available under this Plan for grants of Awards, (i) the grant
of an Award of Options, Restricted Shares, SARs or a Performance
Award shall be deemed to be equal to the maximum number of shares
of Common Stock which may be issued under the Award, (ii) the total
number of shares of Common Stock with respect to which Awards may
be granted under this Plan shall be increased by the number of
Restricted Shares issued under this Plan pursuant to the 2003
Exchange Offer (as defined in Section 8(b)) in exchange for
surrendered options that
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were granted under other option plans of
the Company or its Subsidiaries; and (iii) subject to the
provisions of Sections 4(b) and 4(c), there shall again be
available for Awards under this Plan all of the following: (A)
shares of Common Stock represented by Awards which have been
cancelled, forfeited, surrendered or terminated or which expire
unexercised (other than Restricted Shares granted in the 2003
Exchange Offer in exchange for surrendered options that were
granted under other option plans of the Company or its
Subsidiaries); (B) the excess portion of variable Awards which
become fixed at less than their maximum limitations; and (C) the
number of shares of Common Stock delivered in full or partial
payment of the exercise price of any Option granted under this
Plan; provided, however, that shares so delivered by an Employee in
full or partial payment of the exercise of his/her Option shall not
reduce the number of Options granted to the Employee in any Plan
Year for purposes of Section 4(c)(i); and provided further that in
no event shall the aggregate number of shares issued or delivered
pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options exceed
16,000,000 shares.”
5. AWARDS UNDER THIS
PLAN
Subject to the provisions of
this Plan, the Committee shall have the sole and complete authority
to determine the Employees to whom Awards shall be granted and the
type, terms and conditions of such Awards. As the Committee may
determine, the following types of Awards may be granted under this
Plan to Employees on a stand alone, combination or tandem
basis:
(a) Options. An Award
consisting of a right to buy a specified number of shares of Common
Stock at a fixed exercise price during a specified time, and
subject to such other terms and conditions, all as the Committee
may determine. Such Options may be Non-Qualified Stock Options or
Incentive Stock Options. The exercise price for an Award of Options
(whether or not they are Incentive Stock Options) may not be less
than 100% of the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock on the grant
date. The terms and conditions for an Award of Incentive Stock
Options must otherwise comply with the requirements of Section 422
of the Code or any successor Section as it may be amended from time
to time. Non-Qualified Stock Options are not intended to satisfy
the Code requirements for Incentive Stock Options and need not meet
such requirements. Each Stock Option granted as an Award under this
Plan shall be subject to the provisions of this Plan and the
applicable Award Agreement approved by the Committee pursuant to
Section 6(b) governing that Option.
(b) Performance Awards. An
Award granted to an Employee consisting of the right to receive
cash, shares of Common Stock, Options or Restricted Shares that are
not to be issued to the Employee until after the satisfaction of
the related Performance Goals during the related Performance
Period. Such Awards shall be subject to the following conditions
and procedures:
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Administration. Performance Awards may be granted to Employees
either alone or in addition to other Awards granted under this
Plan. The Committee shall determine the Employees to whom
Performance Awards shall be awarded for any Performance Period, the
duration of the applicable Performance Period, the Performance
Goals which must be met for the Award to be paid and the amount of
cash and/or the number of shares of Common Stock, Options and/or
Restricted Shares to be awarded
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at the end of a Performance
Period to Employees if the Performance Goals are met or exceeded.
Each such Performance Award shall be subject to the provisions of
this Plan and the applicable Award Agreement approved by the
Committee pursuant to Section 6(b) governing that Award.
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Payment of Award. After the end of a Performance Period, the
degree to which the Performance Goals related to such Performance
Period have been met shall be determined by the Committee. If the
Performance Goals are not met, no compensation shall be issued
pursuant to the Performance Award. If the Performance Goals are met
or exceeded, the Committee shall certify that fact in writing in
the Committee minutes or elsewhere and authorize the payment of the
amount of cash or issuance of the number of shares of Common Stock,
Options and/or Restricted Shares as contemplated under the affected
Performance Award in accordance with the related Award
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Further Restriction Period. At the discretion of the Committee,
a Performance Award may provide for deferral of vesting and/or
transfer rights with respect to all or some of the incidents of
ownership of the compensation contemplated in the Award based on
the satisfaction of terms and conditions in addition to the
attainment of the stated Performance Goals during the related
Performance Period over a further Restriction Period following the
Performance Period. In such a case, such vesting and/or transfer
rights with respect to the affected incidents of ownership shall be
postponed until the Committee certifies that the additional
conditions have been timely met and authorizes such vesting and/or
transfer. Such acts by the Committee shall not be deemed to be a
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(c) Restricted Shares. An
Award consisting of a transfer of shares of Common Stock to a
Participant, subject to such restrictions on transfer or other
incidents of ownership, for such periods of time (with respect to
each Award, the “Restriction Period”) as the Committee
may determine. Restrictions on an Award of Restricted Shares may
include the attainment of specified Performance Goals during a
designated Performance Period having a minimum duration of at least
one year, the passage of a period of time having a minimum duration
of at least three years (during which Awards may vest
incrementally), or a combination of such restrictions and/or of
other delayed vesting conditions; provided that in no event may the
minimum duration of such Restriction Period be waived except in the
case of death, disability, termination of employment or a Change of
Control. If the issuance, vesting and/or transfer of ownership of
Restricted Shares granted under this Plan is contingent upon the
attainment of Performance Goals during a designated Performance
Period, the Award shall also be considered a Performance Award and
shall be subject to the provisions of Section 6(b) as well as those
of this Section 6(c). Awards of Restricted Shares under this Plan
shall be subject to the following conditions and
procedures:
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Issuance of Stock Certificates. At the time specified for
issuance of the Restricted Shares under the applicable Award
Agreement, the stock certificate or certificates representing
Restricted Shares shall be registered in the name of the
Participant to whom such Restricted Shares shall have been awarded.
During the Restriction Period, certificates representing the
Restricted Shares shall bear a restrictive legend to the effect
that the Restricted Shares are subject to the restrictions, terms
and conditions provided in this Plan and the applicable Award
Agreement. Such certificates shall remain in the custody of the
Company and the Participant shall deposit with the Company stock
powers or other instruments of assignment, each endorsed in blank,
so as to permit retransfer to the Company of all or any portion of
the Restricted Shares that shall be forfeited or otherwise not
become vested in accordance with the Plan and the applicable Award
Agreement. |
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Status of Restricted Shares. Restricted Shares which have been
issued in accordance with an Award Agreement shall constitute
issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock for all corporate
purposes. |
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(iii) |
Participant Rights With Respect to Issued |
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