Exhibit (10)C
TARGET
CORPORATION
DIRECTOR DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
(As amended and restated
on September 12, 2007)
ARTICLE I
GENERAL
Sec
1.1 Name
of Plan . The name of the Plan set forth herein is the
Target Corporation Director Deferred Compensation Plan. It is
referred to herein as the “Plan.”
Sec
1.2
Purpose . The purpose of the Plan is to provide a
means whereby Target Corporation (the “Company”) may
allow certain directors a way to defer compensation.
Sec
1.3
Effective Date . The Effective Date of the Plan is
January 1, 1997.
Sec
1.4
Company . “Company” means all of the
following:
(a)
Target Corporation, a
Minnesota corporation.
(b)
Any successor of Target
Corporation (whether direct or indirect, by purchase of a majority
of the outstanding voting stock of Target Corporation or all or
substantially all of the assets of Target Corporation, or by
merger, consolidation or otherwise).
(c)
Any person that becomes
liable for the obligations hereunder of the entities specified in
(a) and (b) above by operation of law.
Sec
1.5
Participating Employers . The Company is a
Participating Employer in the Plan. With the consent of the
Company, by action of the Board or any duly authorized officer, any
wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company may, by action of its board
of directors or any duly authorized officer, also become a
Participating Employer in the Plan effective as of the date
specified by it in its adoption of the Plan; but the subsidiary
shall cease to be a Participating Employer on the date it ceases to
be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.
Sec
1.6
Construction and Applicable Law . The Plan is intended
to be an unfunded benefit plan maintained for the purpose of
providing deferred compensation for certain directors. The
Plan shall be construed and administered according to the laws of
the State of Minnesota. All controversies, disputes and
claims arising hereunder shall be submitted to the United States
District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Sec
1.7 Rules
of Construction . The Plan shall be construed in
accordance with the following:
(a)
Headings at the beginning
of articles and sections hereof are for convenience of reference,
shall not be considered as part of the text of the Plan and shall
not influence its construction.
(b)
Capitalized terms used in
the Plan shall have their meaning as defined in the Plan unless the
context clearly indicates to the contrary.
(c)
All
pronouns and any variations thereof shall be deemed to refer to the
masculine or feminine as the identity of the person or persons may
require. As the context may require, the singular may be read
as the plural and the plural as the singular.
(d)
Use of the words
“hereof,” “herein,” “hereunder”
or similar compounds of the word “here” shall mean and
refer to the entire Plan unless the context clearly indicates to
the contrary.
(e)
The provisions of the Plan
shall be construed as a whole in such manner as to carry out the
provisions thereof and shall not be construed separately without
relation to the context.
ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS
Sec
2.1
Beneficiary . “Beneficiary” means the
person or persons designated as such in accordance with Article
VI.
Sec
2.2
Benefit Deferral Period . “Benefit Deferral
Period” means that period of one Plan Year as determined
pursuant to Article IV over which a Participant defers a portion of
such Participant’s Earnings.
Sec
2.3
Board . “Board” means the board of
directors of the Company, and includes any committee thereof
authorized to act for said board of directors.
Sec
2.4
Committee . “Committee” means the Plan
Administrative Committee appointed in accordance with Section
7.1(d) hereof which is authorized by the Board of Directors of the
Company to act on behalf of the Company in accordance with the
terms of this Plan.
Sec
2.5
Crediting Rate . “Crediting Rate” means
the earnings or losses for a day on the Crediting Rate
Alternative(s) available for the Plan.
Sec
2.6
Crediting Rate Alternative . “Crediting Rate
Alternative” means the Crediting Rate for any investment fund
options available to Participants of the TGT 401(k)
Plan.
Sec
2.7
Cumulative Deferral Amount . “Cumulative
Deferral Amount” means the total cumulative amount by which a
Participant’s Earnings must be reduced over the period
prescribed in Section 4.1.
Sec
2.8 TGT
401(k) Plan . “ TGT 401(k) Plan” or
“ TGT 401(k)” means the Target Corporation
401(k) Plan, formerly known as the “SRSP” (Dayton
Hudson Corporation Supplemental Retirement Savings and Employee
Stock Ownership Plan).
Sec
2.9
Deferral Account . “Deferral Account”
means the accounts maintained on the books of account of the
Company pursuant to Section 4.2.
2
Sec
2.10 Director
. “Director” means any person who is a director
of the Company or another Participating Employer but who is not an
Employee of a Participating Employer.
Sec
2.11 Earnings
. “Earnings” means the total fees paid to a
Participant for service on the Board (or any committee thereof) or
on a board of a Participating Employer.
Sec
2.12 Employee
. “Employee” means a Qualified Employee as that
term is defined in the TGT 401(k) Plan.
Sec
2.13 Enhancement
. “Enhancement” means an additional .1667% per
month added to each Crediting Rate Alternative.
Sec
2.14 Enrollment
Agreement . “Enrollment Agreement” means the
agreement entered into by the Company and a Director pursuant to
which the Director becomes a Participant in the Plan. In the
sole discretion of the Company, authorization forms filed by any
Participant by which the Participant makes the elections provided
for by this Plan may be treated as a completed and fully executed
Enrollment Agreement for all purposes under the Plan.
Sec
2.15 Participant
. “Participant” means an eligible Director who
has filed a completed and executed Enrollment Agreement or
authorization form with the Company and is participating in the
Plan in accordance with the provisions of Article IV.
Sec
2.16 Person
. “Person” means an individual, partnership,
corporation, estate, trust or other entity.
Sec
2.17 Plan Year
. “Plan Year” means the period commencing with
the Effective Date and ending December 31, 1997 and each subsequent
calendar year.
Sec
2.18 Rate of Return
Alternative Change Form . “Rate of Return
Alternative Change Form” means the form of authorization
approved by the Company by which the Participant notifies the Plan
of its choices for Crediting Rate Alternatives for his account
under the Plans.
Sec
2.19 Retirement
. “Retirement” shall mean when the Director
ceases to be a director of all Participating Employers.
Sec
2.20 Signature.
“Signature” or “sign” as used herein
shall mean either the Participant’s written signature or the
Participant’s electronic signature evidenced by the use of an
electronic personal identification number.
ARTICLE III
ELIGIBILITY
Sec
3.1
Eligibility . A Director shall be a Participant while,
and only while, he or she is a director of a Participating
Employer, subject to the following:
(a)
The Director must complete
an enrollment and sign an insurance consent form, in the form that
the Company determines in order to defer Earnings. The
insurance consent form will allow the Company to purchase life
insurance on the Director with the Company as
beneficiary.
3
Sec
3.2 No
Guarantee of Continued Directorship . Participation in
the Plan does not constitute a guarantee or contract with any
Participating Employer guaranteeing that the Director will continue
to be a director. Such participation shall in no way
interfere with any rights the shareholders of a Participating
Employer would have in the absence of such participation to
determine the duration of the director’s service.
ARTICLE IV
PARTICIPATION AND
BENEFITS
Sec
4.1
Election to Participate . Any Director of a
Participating Employer who is eligible to participate may enroll in
the Plan by filing a completed and fully executed Enrollment
Agreement or authorization form with the Company. Pursuant to
said Enrollment Agreement or authorization form, the Director shall
irrevocably designate a percent by which the Earnings of such
Participant would be reduced over the Benefit Deferral Period next
following the execution of the Enrollment Agreement; provided,
however, that:
(a)
Reduction in
Earnings . Except as otherwise provided in this
Section 4.1, the Earnings of the Participant for the Benefit
Deferral Period shall be reduced by the amount specified in the
Enrollment Agreement (including any authorization form) applicable
to such Plan Year.
(b)
Maximum Reduction in
Earnings . A Participant may not elect a
Cumulative Deferral Amount that would cause the reduction in
Earnings to exceed one hundred percent (100%) of Earnings payable
during such Plan Year. In the event that a Participant elects
a Cumulative Deferral Amount that would violate the limitation
described in this paragraph (c), the election shall be valid except
that the Cumulative Deferral Amount so elected shall automatically
be reduced to comply with such limitation.
(c)
Mid-Year Elections to
Participate . Notwithstanding any provision of the
Plan to the contrary, a Director who did not file an Enrollment
Agreement prior to the Benefit Deferral Period commencing on the
first day of the Plan Year may file an Enrollment Agreement in
advance of July 1 of that year during a period specified by the
Committee and in accordance with such rules as the Committee may
establish, which shall be effective as of July 1, and shall apply
to the Participant’s Earnings payable during the last six
months of the Plan Year.
Sec
4.2
Deferral Accounts . The Company shall establish and
maintain separate Deferral Accounts for each Participant. The
amount by which a Participant’s Earnings are reduced pursuant
to Section 4.1 shall be credited by the Company to the
Participant’s Deferral Accounts as soon as administratively
possible after each payment would otherwise have been paid.
Such Deferral Accounts shall be debited by the amount of any
payments made by the Company to the Participant or the
Participant’s Beneficiary pursuant to this Plan. A
separate Deferral Account shall be maintained for each type of
deferral election made and for each Crediting Rate
Alternative.
Sec
4.3
Crediting Rate Alternatives. The Participant shall
select the Crediting Rate Alternatives, using full percentages,
that are to be applied to his or her Deferral Accounts.
4
Participants may change their Crediting Rate
Alternatives daily, by completing a Rate of Return Alternative
Change Form. If a Participant does not make an election, the
Crediting Rate Alternative will be a default Crediting Rate
Alternative selected by the Committee.
Sec
4.4
Benefit Payment Elections. At the time a Participant
completes an Enrollment Agreement, he or she must also elect the
method of benefit payment and the time to start the benefit.
The elections are to be made for each Plan Year.
(a)
Method of Benefit
Payment.
Benefits for each Plan Year can be paid in a lump sum, five annual
installments or ten annual installments.
(b)
Commencement of
Benefit.
(i)
The benefit for each Plan
Year may be started as soon as possible following Retirement or one
year following Retirement.
(ii)
A Participant may elect a
lump sum payment as of January 1 of the calendar year elected by
the Participant at the time of deferral. If a Participant has
a Retirement prior to the fixed payment date, such amount shall be
paid on the earlier of: (A) within 60 days following January 1 in
the tenth year following the year of the Retirement, or (B) January
1 of the calendar year elected by the Participant at the time of
deferral. The Plan Administrator will establish Plan Rules,
procedures and limitations on establishing the number and times of
the fixed payment dates available for Participants to
elect.
(iii)
Consistent with transition
relief available under Code section 409A, and subject to Plan
Rules, the Plan Administrator, in its sole discretion, may offer an
opportunity to Participants to elect to r
|