Exhibit 10.15
SPANSION EXECUTIVE DEFERRED
COMPENSATION PLAN
A MENDED AND R ESTATED E FFECTIVE AS OF J ANUARY 1, 2008
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND
CONSTRUCTION
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1.1
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Definitions . Where the following words and phrases appear
in the Plan, they shall have the respective meanings set forth
below, unless their context clearly indicates to the
contrary.
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(a)
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Account : The Plan account holding Participant’s
Deferred Compensation as well as Company Matching Contribution
Amounts, if any, for such Participant, plus earnings and losses
thereon. Participant’s Deferred Compensation and Company
Matching Contributions, if any, shall be segregated into
Grandfathered Benefits and 409A Benefits and separately accounted
for as set forth in Article IV.
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The Plan shall establish a separate
409A Benefits Sub account for each Plan Year beginning on and after
January 1, 2005, which shall hold all amounts credited to a
Participant’s Account for the applicable Plan
Year.
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(b)
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Base
Salary : A
Participant’s annual base salary excluding bonus, sales
incentive compensation, profit sharing, and all other remuneration
for services rendered to Company and prior to reduction for any
salary contributions to a plan established pursuant to Code
Section 125 or qualified pursuant to Code
Section 401(k).
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(c)
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Beneficiary
or Beneficiaries : The
person or persons, including a trustee, personal representative or
other fiduciary, last designated in writing by a Participant or
alternate payee in accordance with Article 8.4.
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(d)
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Board : The Board of Directors of Spansion
Inc.
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(e)
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Bonus : Bonuses or sales incentive compensation paid
under the plan(s) listed on Exhibit A, as such Exhibit may be
revised from time to time.
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(f)
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Code :
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time.
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(g)
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Committee : A committee appointed by the Board to
administer the Plan in accordance with Article X, and/or such
committee’s agents and designees and vendors retained by such
agents and designees.
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(h)
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Company : Spansion Inc., a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware. Where applicable,
Company also shall mean Spansion LLC.
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(i)
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Company
Contribution Account :
The bookkeeping sub account maintained by the Company for each
Participant that is credited with Company Matching Contributions,
if any, as permitted pursuant to Article III, and earnings and
losses on such amounts credited or debited pursuant to Article
4.2.
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(j)
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Company
Matching Contribution :
The discretionary amount, if any, contributed by the Company or a
Participating Employer, at each company’s sole discretion, as
a matching contribution for each Participant for a Plan Year. Such
amount may differ from Participant to Participant both in amount
and as percentage of Compensation.
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(k)
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Compensation : Base Salary and Bonuses earned by the
Participant for services rendered to the Company during a Plan
Year.
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(l)
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Deferred
Compensation : Amounts
contributed to the Plan from a Participant’s Base Salary
and/or Bonus.
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(m)
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Deferral
Account : The bookkeeping
sub account maintained by the Company for each Participant to which
is credited Deferred Compensation pursuant to Article 3.1, and
earnings and losses on such amounts credited or debited pursuant to
Article IV.
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(n)
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Disability : A Participant shall be considered to have a
“disability” if he or she (i) is unable to engage
in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any 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, or (ii) is, by reason of any
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, receiving income
replacement benefits for a period of not less than three months
under an accident and health plan covering the Employee that is
sponsored by the Company.
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(o)
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Distributable Amount : The balance in the Participant’s
Deferral Account and Company Contribution Account.
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(p)
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Early
Distribution : An
election by a Participant in accordance with Article VII to receive
a withdrawal of amounts from his Grandfathered Benefits Sub account
prior to the time at which such Participant would otherwise be
entitled to such amounts under his existing distribution
elections.
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(q)
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Effective
Date : January 1,
2008, except as otherwise provided herein.
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(r)
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Election
Period : The period prior
to each Plan Year during which employees may make elections to
defer compensation under the Plan’s terms.
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(s)
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Eligible
Employee : An Employee of
the Company or a Participating Employer whose position is at
director level or above.
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(t)
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Employee : Any individual on the payroll of the Company
or a Participating Employer whose wages are subject to withholding
for purposes of Federal income taxes and for purposes of the
Federal Insurance Contributions Act.
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(u)
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ERISA : The Employee Retirement Income Security
Account of 1974, as amended from time to time.
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(v)
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409A
Benefits : The portion of
a Participant’s Account credited for Plan Years beginning on
and after January 1, 2005.
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(w)
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Grandfathered Benefits : The portion of a Participant’s Account
credited for Plan Years beginning prior to January 1,
2005.
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(x)
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Initial
Election Period : The
30-day period immediately following the date an individual becomes
an Eligible Employee.
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(y)
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Investment
Fund(s) or Fund : The
investment fund(s) designated by the Committee from time to time,
at its sole discretion, for the hypothetical investment of
Participants’ Accounts pursuant to Article V.
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(z)
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Participant : An Eligible Employee participating in the Plan
in accordance with the provisions of Article II.
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(aa)
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Participating Employer : A controlled group member company, an
affiliated management or service group member company, a subsidiary
or joint venture of the Company, or other related business entity
as defined in Code Sections 414(b), (c) or (m); provided any
determination under Code Sections 414(b) or (c) shall be made
by replacing the generally applicable references to eighty percent
(80%) common control with a level of common ownership of not
less than fifty percent (50%).
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(bb)
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Plan :
The Spansion Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended from
time to time. Until January 1, 2008, the Plan was called the
Spansion Executive Investment Account Plan.
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(cc)
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Plan
Year : Every
January 1 through December 31.
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(dd)
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Scheduled
Withdrawal Date : The
distribution date elected by the Participant for an in-service
withdrawal of amounts from such Accounts deferred in a given Plan
Year, and earnings and losses attributable thereto.
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(ee)
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Separation
From Service or Separates from Service : The termination of a Participant’s
employment with the Company or with a Participating Employer in
accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures that is
not an authorized leave of absence (as determined under the
Company’s or Participating Employer’s standard leave
policies); provided, however, that the Company or Participating
Employer and the Participant reasonably anticipate that no further
services will be performed after the termination date or that the
level of bona fide services the Participant will perform after such
date (whether as an employee or as an independent contractor) would
permanently decrease to no more than 20 percent (20%) of the
average level of bona fide services performed (whether as an
employee or an independent contractor) over the immediately
preceding 36-month period (or the full period of services to the
Company or Participating Employer if the Participant has been
providing services to the Company or Participating Employer for
less than 36 months). For this purpose, a transfer of a
Participant’s employment to a subsidiary or affiliate of the
Company shall not be treated as a “Separation from
Service” with the Company if the Company is under
“common control” with the subsidiary or affiliate. For
this purpose, “common control” shall be determined as
provided in Code Section 414(b) or 414(c), but using a common
ownership level of not less than fifty percent (50%).
Notwithstanding the preceding, any determination of Separation from
Service shall be consistent with the requirements of Treasury
Regulations Section 1.409A-1(h).
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In the event that employees of a
subsidiary of the Company are permitted to participate in this Plan
and such subsidiary ceases to be owned by the Company in connection
with a “spin-off” transaction (which may occur in a
single transaction or as the culmination of several related events)
in which the Company ceases to own more than fifty percent
(50%) of the subsidiary, and the employees of such subsidiary
do not experience a termination of employment with the subsidiary,
any determination of whether individuals have experienced a
“Separation from Service” shall be made by reference to
their employment status with the subsidiary.
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(ff)
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Specified
Employee : The term
“Specified Employee” means Spansion’s Corporate
Vice Presidents, Executive Vice Presidents and Chief Executive
Officer.
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(gg)
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Unforeseeable Financial Emergency
: A severe financial hardship to the
Participant resulting from any of the following:
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(1)
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An illness or
accident of the Participant or the illness or accident of the
Participant’s spouse or dependent (as defined in Code
Section 152(a));
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(2)
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Loss of the
Participant’s property due to casualty; or
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(3)
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Any other
similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances arising as a
result of events beyond the Participant’s control.
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Any determination of Unforeseeable
Financial Emergency shall be made in accordance with the
requirements of Code Section 409A and any guidance issued
thereunder.
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(hh)
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Valuation
Date : Each day the
Nasdaq is open for business.
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1.2
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Number and
Gender . Wherever
appropriate herein, words used in the singular shall be considered
to include the plural, and words used in the plural shall be
considered to include the singular. The masculine gender, where
appearing in the Plan, shall be deemed to include the feminine
gender.
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1.3
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Headings . The headings of Articles and Sections herein
are included solely for convenience, and if there is any conflict
between such headings and the text of the Plan, the text shall
control.
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ARTICLE II.
PARTICIPATION
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(a)
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Prior to the
first day of each Plan Year, each Eligible Employee will be offered
an opportunity to elect to defer Compensation for the following
year. Any such Eligible Employee shall become a Participant in the
Plan by electing to defer a portion of his Compensation by
submitting an election that conforms to the requirements of the
Plan, on a form or electronic method provided by the
Committee.
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(b)
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A Participant
who transfers employment from the Company to a Participating
Employer shall continue to be classified as a Participant for
purposes of this Plan.
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(c)
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Notwithstanding
subsection (a) above, if an Employee first becomes an Eligible
Employee on a date outside of the annual deferral election period
held in the Plan Year in which he became so eligible, such Eligible
Employee may make a deferral election within the 30-day period
following the date he becomes an Eligible Employee.
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ARTICLE III.
CONTRIBUTIONS
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3.1
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Participant’s Deferred
Compensation . Each
Participant may elect to defer a portion of his Compensation in
accordance with this Article III.
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(a)
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General
Rule . A Participant may
elect to defer Compensation earned on or after the time at which
the Participant elects to defer in accordance with Article 2.1 and
the amount shall be a flat dollar amount or a percentage, not to
exceed 50 percent (50%) of the Base Salary and/or one-hundred
percent (100%) of the Bonuses, provided that the total amount
of Deferred Compensation shall be limited in any calendar year if
necessary, to satisfy Social Security Tax (including Medicare),
income tax and employee benefit plan withholding requirements as
determined in the sole and absolute discretion of the
Committee.
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(1)
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A
Participant’s initial election to defer Compensation shall be
made prior to the end of his Initial Election Period and shall be
effective with respect to Compensation received after such deferral
election is processed and shall be irrevocable for that Plan
Year.
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(2)
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Other than
Article 3.1(a)(1) above, A Participant’s election to defer
Compensation for any Plan Year shall be made during the Election
Period for the Plan Year and shall be irrevocable for such Plan
Year.
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(b)
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Cancellation
of Deferral Election . A
Participant may not cancel or modify his Compensation Deferral
election applicable to a Plan Year at any time during that Plan
Year.
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(c)
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Crediting of
Deferrals . Compensation
deferrals made by a Participant shall be credited to such
Participant’s Deferral Account as of a date determined in
accordance with procedures established from time to time by the
Committee.
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3.2
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Company
Contribution Account .
The Committee shall establish and maintain a Company Contribution
Account for each Participant in the Plan. As of any date or dates
selected by the Company, the Company may credit a
Participant’s Company Contribution Account with an amount of
Company Matching Contributions, if any, which the Company in its
sole discretion shall determine. Such credits may be made on behalf
of some Participants but not others, and such credits may vary in
amount among individual Participants. Each Participant’s
Company Contribution Account shall be further divided into separate
investment fund sub accounts corresponding to the investment
fund(s) elected by the Participant pursuant to Article
V.
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Trust
Establishment and Funding . The Company may, but is not obligated to,
establish a grantor trust of the Company with an institutional
trustee to set aside assets to fund its obligations under this
Plan. Although the principal of the trust and any earnings thereon
shall be held separate and apart from other funds of the Company
and would be used exclusively for the uses and purposes of Plan
Participants and Beneficiaries, neither the Participants nor their
Beneficiaries would have any preferred claim on, or any beneficial
ownership in, any assets of the trust prior to the time such assets
are paid to the Participants or Beneficiaries as benefits and all
rights created under this Plan shall be unsecured contractual
rights of Plan Participants and Beneficiaries against the Company.
Any assets held in a trust established by the Company to fund its
obligations under this Plan will be subject to the claims of the
Company’s general creditors under federal and state law in
the event of insolvency as defined in applicable trust
agreement.
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ARTICLE IV. ALLOCATIONS TO
PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNTS
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4.1
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Account
Records . The Committee
shall create and maintain adequate records reflecting the interests
under the Plan of each Participant, former Participant and
Beneficiary. Such records shall consist of Participants’
Accounts (including applicable sub accounts) reflecting all credits
and debits made to such Accounts in the manner described in this
Article IV.
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(a)
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Deferred
Compensation shall be credited to the Participant’s Deferral
Account.
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(b)
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Company
Matching Contributions, if any, shall be credited to the
Participant’s Company Contribution Account.
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(c)
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Each
Participant’s Account, which is initially divided into his
Deferral Account and Company Contribution Account, shall be further
segregated into separate sub accounts for Grandfathered Benefits
and 409A Benefits, each of which shall be accounted for
separately.
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(1)
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Grandfathered
Benefits shall be credited into a sub account with that portion of
a Participant’s Deferral Account and Company Contribution
Account, if any, as applicable, that was 100% vested as of
December 31, 2004.
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(2)
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409A Benefits
shall be credited into a sub account with that portion of a
Participant’s Deferral Account and Company Contribution
Account, if any, as applicable, that was not 100% vested as of
December 31, 2004, and with all subsequent amounts credited to
the Participant’s Account for Plan Years beginning on and
after January 1, 2005.
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4.2
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Allocation
of Net Income or Loss and Changes in Value . The Committee shall credit allocable net
income (net loss) to each Participant’s Account according to
the hypothetical investments made by a Participant pursuant to the
terms of Article V.
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As of each
Valuation Date, the Committee shall determine the fair market value
and net income (net loss) of each Investment Fund for the period
elapsed since the immediately preceding Valuation Date. The net
income (or net loss) of each Investment Fund since the immediately
preceding Valuation Date shall be ascertained by the Committee in
such manner as it deems appropriate, which may include expenses, if
any, of administering the Investment Fund and the Plan.
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(b)
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As of each
Valuation Date the Committee shall credit allocable net income (or
net loss), to each Participant’s Account based on the
hypothetical investments elected by such Participant as provided in
Article V. Each Participant’s Account shall be credited with
(or debited for) that portion of such net income (or net loss)
which occurred since the immediately preceding Valuation
Date.
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Prior to the
allocation of any income or loss under this Section, the value of
each Participant’s Account shall be reduced by the amount of
any distributions made there from since the immediately preceding
Valuation Date.
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(d)
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So long as
there is a balance credited to any Account, such Account shall
continue to share in earnings (or loss) allocations pursuant to
this Section IV.
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ARTICLE V. INVESTMENT
ELECTIONS
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5.1
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Investment
Elections . For purposes
of crediting earnings and losses and valuation of each
Participant’s Account, each Participant’s Account shall
be deemed to be invested in the Investment Funds.
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5.2
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Designation
of Investment Funds .
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At the time of
making the deferral elections described in Article 3.1, the
Participant shall designate, on a form or electronic system
provided by the Committee, the investment fund(s) in which the
Participant’s Account will be deemed to be invested for
purposes of determining the amount of earnings to be credited to
that Account. Such Participant may designate one or more of such
Investment Funds for the investment of the amounts credited to such
Account in such increments as the Committee may
prescribe.
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(b)
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The Committee
shall from time to time select, add, and/or delete Investment Funds
for purposes of the investment of Participants’
Accounts.
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(c)
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If a
Participant fails to make a proper designation, then his Account
shall be deemed to be invested in the Investment Fund or Investment
Funds designated by the Committee from time to time.
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A Participant
may change his investment designation for either current Account
balances or future amounts to be credited to his Account, or both,
over which he has been given investment discretion by the
Committee. Any such change shall be made in accordance with the
procedures established by the Committee, and the frequency of such
changes may be limited by the Committee.
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A
Participant’s investment designations shall be made solely
for purposes of crediting earnings and/or losses to his Account
under Section 4.2 of this Plan. The Committee shall not, in
any way, be bound to actually invest any amounts set aside pursuant
to Article XI below to satisfy its obligations under this Plan in
accordance with such selections.
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ARTICLE VI.
VESTING
A Participant shall be 100% vested
in his Account.
ARTICLE VII. IN-SERVICE
WITHDRAWALS
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(a)
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Benefit
Amount. A
Participant’s Plan benefit shall be the value of his Account
is determined as of the end of the month immediately preceding the
time of payment of such Account in accordance with Article 7.2 or
Article 7.3, as applicable.
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7.2
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Rules
Governing Grandfathered Benefits Only .
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(a)
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In-Service
Distributions With Scheduled Withdrawal Date(s).
Consistent with the Plan’s
prior terms and operation, a Participant may at any time make an
irrevocable election, effective not earlier than one year from the
date the election is filed, to have his Grandfathered Benefits paid
to him on up to four fixed dates as specified in such
election.
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The amount(s)
designated in Article 7.1(a)(1), above, shall be paid as soon as
practicable after the Participant’s Scheduled Withdrawal
Date(s), as determined in accordance with
Section 1.1(dd).
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(2)
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A Participant
may extend the Scheduled Withdrawal Date for any Plan Year,
provided such election is made at least one year before the
Scheduled Withdrawal Date. The Participant shall have the right to
twice so modify any Scheduled Withdrawal Date.
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If a
Participant separates from service prior to the Scheduled
Withdrawal Date, other than by reason of death, the portion of the
Participant’s Account associated with a Scheduled Withdrawal
Date that has not occurred prior to such termination, shall be
distributed in a lump sum.
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In the event
that a Participant designates a Scheduled Withdrawal Date for some
or all contributions made to his Account for a Plan Year, the
amount subject to such distribution election shall be accounted for
in a manner which allows separate accounting for the deferral of
Compensation and investment gains and losses associated with such
Plan Year’s deferral of Compensation.
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In-Service
Distribution Without Scheduled Withdrawal Date.
A Participant shall be permitted to
elect an Early Distribution from his Account prior to the elected
payment date, subject to the following restrictions:
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The election to
take an Early Distribution shall be made by making an election
pursuant to the Plan’s then current administrative
procedures.
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(2)
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The amount of
the Early Distribution may equal up to ninety percent (90%) of
the Participant’s Grandfathered Benefits. An amount equal to
ten percent (10%) of the amount of the Early Distribution
shall be permanently forfeited from Participant’s Account and
the Company shall have no obligation to the Participant or his
Beneficiary with respect to such forfeited amount.
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(3)
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The amount
described in Article 7.1(b)(2), above, shall be paid in cash in a
single lump sum distribution as soon as practicable after the end
of the calendar month in which the Early Distribution election is
received.
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(4)
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If a
Participant receives an Early Distribution of either all or a part
of his Grandfathered Benefits the Participant will be ineligible to
participate in the Plan for at least twelve (12) consecutive
months following the date of distribution. This suspension period
shall begin as soon as administratively feasible; provided,
however, that, to the extent required to comply with Code
Section 409A, it shall be delayed until the first day of the
immediately following Plan Year.
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(5)
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All Early
Distributions shall be made on a pro rata basis from a
Participant’s Deferral Account and Company Contribution
Account and each Investment Fund in such sub account.
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7.3
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Rules
Governing 409A Benefits Only .
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(a)
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Scheduled
In-Service Distributions .
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(1)
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At the time a
Participant makes his deferral election for a Plan Year, the
Participant may also file an irrevocable election to have all the
amount credited to his 409A Benefits for such Plan Year paid
directly to him in a single lump sum cash payment on a designated
date This election shall be irrevocable as of the date the election
is made.
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(2)
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Distribution
made pursuant to an election filed under this subsection may not
commence until at least one (1) full year has elapsed
following the date that such election is made.
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(3)
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The amount(s)
designated in Article 7.3(a)(1), above, shall be paid as soon as
practicable after the Scheduled Withdrawal Date(s), as determined
in accordance with Section 1.1(dd).
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(4)
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The
distribution election may be modified by the Participant to provide
that the date on which distribution is to be made or commence shall
be a date subsequent to the date payment would otherwise be made or
commence; provided, however, that the following requirements are
also met:
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A.
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The Participant
must submit this election at least twelve (12) months prior to
the date the payment is scheduled to be made (or the installment
payments are scheduled to commence) pursuant to the existing
distribution election.
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B.
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The new
election will not be effective until twelve (12) months have
elapsed after the date on which the new election is
received.
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C.
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The new
election provides that payment will not be made or commence for at
least five (5) years
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