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THE PEP BOYS
DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
As Amended and Restated
Effective as of January 1, 2009
ARTICLE 1
HISTORY AND PURPOSE
In recognition
of the services provided by certain key employees, the Board
adopted the
Plan to make additional retirement benefits and increased financial
security, on a tax-favored
basis, available to those individuals. The Plan was last amended
and restated, effective as of
January 1, 2005, to incorporate the applicable provisions of
section 409A of the Code and
regulations issued thereunder with respect to amounts covered by
the Plan subject to such
requirements. It is now desired to further amend and restate the
Plan, effective as of January 1,
2009, to implement changes into the Plan that are required pursuant
to and consistent with
section 409A of the Code and the final regulations issued
thereunder. This Plan document covers
any Participant who was entitled to receive a benefit from the Plan
as of December 31, 2008, but
did not receive payment of his benefit under the Plan as of such
date, as well as any individual
who becomes a Participant in the Plan on or after January 1, 2009.
Benefit payments
commencing prior to January 1, 2009 are governed by the terms of
the Plan as it existed prior to
January 1, 2009 and are either grandfathered from the requirements
of section 409A of the Code
or payable pursuant to a fixed schedule as required by, and in
compliance with, section 409A of
the Code, with payments made between January 1, 2005 and December
31, 2008 that are subject
to the requirements of section 409A of the Code, the Plan has been
operated in accordance with
the transition relief established by the Treasury Department and
Internal Revenue Service
pursuant to section 409A of the Code. The Plan, as amended and
restated herein, is intended to
be maintained and operated in accordance with the requirements of
section 409A of the Code.
All capitalized terms in this Article 1 shall be as defined in
Article 2 below. The amended and
restated Plan reads as follows:
ARTICLE 2
DEFINITIONS
2.1 Definitions.
The following words and phrases, when used in this Plan, shall
have
the following meanings:
Affiliate
means any firm, partnership, or corporation that directly or
indirectly
through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or
is under common control with
the Company. ?Affiliate? also includes any other organization
related to the Company that is
designated as such by the Board.
Associate
means any individual employed by the Employer on a regular,
full-time
basis at the manager level or above (determined in accordance with
the personnel policies and
practices of the Employer), including citizens of the United States
employed outside of their
home country and resident aliens employed in the United States;
provided, however, that to
qualify as an ?Associate? for purposes of the Plan, the individual
must be a member of a group of
?key management or other highly compensated employees? within the
meaning of sections 201,
301 and 401 of ERISA whose Compensation is within the top 5% of all
Associates of the
Employer ranked by Compensation.
Base
Salary means, for each Associate, his annual rate of base salary
for the Plan
Year, before any reduction for amounts deferred by the Participant
pursuant to any Code section
401(k) plan or Code section 125 plan or pursuant to this Plan.
Base
Salary Deferral means that portion of Base Salary as to which a
Participant
has made an annual irrevocable election to defer receipt until the
date specified under the In-
Service Distribution Option or the Retirement Distribution
Option.
Beneficiary
means the person or persons (natural or otherwise) designated by
the
Participant in accordance with Section 9.3.
Board
means the Board of Directors of the Company.
Bonus
means the amount earned by an Associate under the Employer?s
Annual
Incentive Bonus Plan, or any other bonus plan that replaces such
plan, for the performance period
that commences during such Plan Year.
Cause
means (i) the continued failure of the Associate to perform
substantially his
duties with the Employer (other than such failure resulting from an
Associate?s Disability), (ii)
any act by the Associate of illegality, dishonesty or fraud in
connection with the Associate?s
employment, (iii) the willful engaging by the Associate in gross
misconduct which is
demonstrably and materially injurious to the Employer or its
affiliates, (iv) the Associate?s
conviction of or pleading guilty or no contest to a felony, or (v)
a violation of the Associate?s
employment agreement or non-competition agreement with the
Employer.
Code
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time
and includes any regulations issued thereunder.
Company
means The Pep Boys ? Manny, Moe & Jack.
Company
Stock Fund means the Deemed Investment Option under the Plan
for
which the rate of return credited to a Participant?s Distribution
Accounts shall be based on the
actual performance of the common stock of the Company.
Compensation
means the sum of the Associate?s Base Salary and Bonus for the
Plan Year.
Deemed
Investment Options means the deemed investment options selected
by
the Participant from time to time pursuant to which deemed earnings
are credited to the
Participant?s Distribution Accounts.
Disability
or Disabled means a medically determinable physical or mental
impairment of a permanent nature which prevents a Participant from
performing his customary
employment duties without endangering his health and which would
qualify the Participant for
Social Security disability benefits or a benefit under the Pep Boys
? Manny, Moe & Jack Long
Term Disability Salary Continuation Plan.
Distribution
Account means, with respect to a Participant, the Retirement
Distribution Account and/or the In-Service Distribution Account(s)
established on the books of
the Employer which is used solely to calculate the aggregate amount
payable to each Participant.
Distribution
Option means the two distribution options which are available
under
the Plan, consisting of the Retirement Distribution Option and the
In-Service Distribution
Option.
Distribution
Option Period means a Plan Year for which an Eligible Associate
elects, in the Enrollment Agreement for deferrals of Compensation
for a Plan Year, the time and
manner of payment of amounts credited to the Eligible Associate?s
In-Service Distribution
Option Account for such Plan Year. For deferrals of Compensation
for a particular Plan Year,
the Distribution Option Period must be no sooner than the third
Plan Year following the Plan
Year for which the Compensation is deferred for that Distribution
Option Period.
Eligible
Associate means any Associate who is designated by the Plan
Administrator as eligible to participate in the Plan.
Employer
means the Company and any Affiliate.
Enrollment
Agreement means the authorization form which an Eligible
Associate
files with the Plan Administrator to participate in the Plan.
ERISA
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
In-Service
Distribution Account means a separate sub-account under the
Distribution Account maintained for a Participant to which Base
Salary Deferrals, Voluntary
Bonus Deferrals and Matching Contributions are credited pursuant to
the In-Service Distribution
Option for each Plan Year.
In-Service
Distribution Option means the Distribution Option pursuant to
which
benefits are payable in accordance with Section 6.2.
Matching
Contributions are those credits made to the Participant?s
Distribution
Account by the Company pursuant to Section 4.2.
Normal
Retirement Age means age 62.
Participant
means an Eligible Associate who has filed a completed and
executed
Enrollment Agreement with the Plan Administrator or its designee
and is participating in the Plan
in accordance with the provisions of Article 4. In the event of the
death or incompetency of a
Participant, the term shall mean the Participant?s personal
representative or guardian. An
individual shall remain a Participant until that individual has
received full distribution of any
amount credited to the Participant?s Distribution Account(s).
Plan
means this plan, called The Pep Boys Deferred Compensation Plan, as
may
be amended from time to time.
Plan
Administrator means the committee appointed by the Board to act as
the
administrator of the Plan.
Plan
Year means the 12 month period beginning on each January 1 and
ending on
the following December 31.
Retirement
means a Participant?s Separation From Service with the Employer,
for
a reason other than death, at or after age 55.
Retirement
Distribution Account means a separate sub-account under the
Distribution Account maintained for a Participant to which Base
Salary Deferrals, Voluntary
Bonus Deferrals and Matching Contributions are credited pursuant to
the Retirement Distribution
Option for all Plan Years.
Retirement
Distribution Option means the Distribution Option pursuant to
which
benefits are payable on account of a Separation From Service in
accordance with Section 6.1.
Separation
Date means the last day on which the Participant is employed by
an
Employer on account of a Separation From Service.
Separation
From Service means a Participant?s separation from service with
the
Employer within the meaning of section 409A of the Code and the
regulations thereunder.
Specified
Employee means any Participant who, at any time during the
twelve
month period ending on the identification date (as determined by
the Company or its delegate), is
a specified employee under section 409A of the Code, as determined
by the Company (or its
delegate). The determination of ?specified employees,? including
the number and identity of
persons considered ?specified employees? and identification date,
shall be made by the Company
(or its delegate) in accordance with the provisions of sections
416(i) and 409A of the Code and
the regulations issued thereunder.
Tier
I Participant means a Participant who is employed as an officer of
the
Company.
Tier
II Participant means a Participant other than a Tier I
Participant.
Unforeseeable
Emergency means the Participant has experienced an
?unforeseeable emergency? within the meaning of Treas. Reg. section
1.409A-3(i)(3)(i).
Voluntary
Bonus Deferral means the portion of the Participant?s Bonus earned
in
a Plan Year, as to which a Participant has made an annual
irrevocable election to defer receipt
until the date specified under the In-Service Distribution Option
or the Retirement Distribution
Option.
2.2 Construction.
The masculine gender, where appearing in the Plan, shall be
deemed to include the feminine gender, unless the context clearly
indicates to the contrary.
ARTICLE 3
ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN AND DISCRETION
3.1 The
Plan Administrator shall have full power and authority to interpret
the Plan,
to prescribe, amend and rescind any rules, forms and procedures as
it deems necessary or
appropriate for the proper administration of the Plan and to make
any other determinations and to
take any other such actions as it deems necessary or advisable in
carrying out its duties under the
Plan. All actions taken by the Plan Administrator arising out of,
or in connection with, the
administration of the Plan or any rules adopted thereunder, shall,
in each case, lie within its sole
discretion, and shall be final, conclusive and binding upon the
Company, the Employer, the
Board, all Participants, all Beneficiaries and all persons and
entities having an interest therein
and the Enrollment Agreement of each Participant shall constitute
that Participant?s
acknowledgement and acceptance of the Plan Administrator?s
authority and discretion.
3.2 The
Plan Administrator shall serve without compensation for their
services unless
otherwise determined by the Board. All expenses of administering
the Plan shall be paid by the
Company.
3.3 The
Company shall indemnify, defend and hold the Plan Administrator
harmless
from any and all claims, losses, damages, expenses (including
counsel fees) and liability
(including any amounts paid in settlement of any claim or any other
matter with the consent of
the Board) arising from any act or omission of such member, except
when the same is due to
gross negligence or willful misconduct.
3.4 Any
decisions, actions or interpretations to be made under the Plan by
the
Company, the Employer, the Board or Plan Administrator shall be
made in its respective sole
discretion, not as a fiduciary and need not be uniformly applied to
similarly situated individuals
and shall be final, binding and conclusive on all persons
interested in the Plan.
ARTICLE 4
PARTICIPATION
4.1 Election
to Participate.
(a) Annually,
all Eligible Associates will be offered the opportunity to make a
Base
Salary Deferral and a Voluntary Bonus Deferral with respect to Base
Salary and Bonus to be
earned in the following Plan Year. Any Eligible Associate may
enroll in the Plan effective as of
the first day of a Plan Year by filing a completed and fully
executed Enrollment Agreement with
the Plan Administrator by a date set by the Plan Administrator, but
in any event prior to the last
day of the preceding Plan Year. Pursuant to said Enrollment
Agreement, the Eligible Associate
shall irrevocably elect, except as otherwise provided herein, (1)
the percentages, in whole
percentages, by which (as a result of payroll reduction) an amount
equal to any whole percentage
of the Participant?s Base Salary and/or Bonus to be earned during
that Plan Year will be deferred,
(2) the Distribution Accounts to which such amounts will be
credited, (3) the time of distribution
from the designated Distribution Accounts for such Plan Year, and
(4) shall provide such other
information as the Plan Administrator shall
require. The Company may establish minimum or
maximum amounts of Base Salary Deferrals and Voluntary Bonus
Deferrals that may be elected
under this Section and may change such standards from time to time;
provided, that any such
limits shall be communicated by the Company to the Plan
Administrator and by the Plan
Administrator to the Participants prior to the commencement of a
Plan Year. With respect to an
election relating to a deferral to an In-Service Distribution
Account for a particular Plan Year, in
no event shall the date selected be sooner than the third Plan Year
following the Plan Year for
which the Compensation is deferred for that Distribution Option
Period.
(b) In
the Enrollment Agreement filed with the Plan Administrator for
each
Distribution Option, the Participant shall allocate his deferrals
for the Plan Year between the
Distribution Options in increments of ten percent and elect the
time and manner of distributions
from such Distribution Accounts. A Participant?s execution of the
Enrollment Agreement shall
also constitute acknowledgment that all decisions, interpretations
and determinations by the Plan
Administrator shall be final and binding on the Company, the
Employer, the Participant, his
Beneficiaries and any other persons having or claiming an interest
hereunder on behalf of the
Participant.
(c) Notwithstanding
the provisions of subsection (a):
(1) a
Participant who incurs an Unforeseeable Emergency may elect to
cancel
future Base Salary Deferrals and Voluntary Bonus Deferrals being
made on his behalf in the
current Plan Year by giving the Plan Administrator at least 30
days? advance written notice of
such election and agreeing not to make any further Base Salary
Deferrals and Voluntary Bonus
Deferrals under the Plan for the balance of the current Plan Year.
The Plan Administrator will
determine whether the Participant has experienced an Unforeseeable
Emergency. If the Plan
Administrator determines that the Participant has experienced an
Unforeseeable Emergency the
remaining Base Salary Deferrals and Voluntary Bonus Deferrals for
such Plan Year will be
cancelled.
(2) to
the extent required by a qualified plan maintained by the Employer,
a
Participant who takes a hardship withdrawal from any such qualified
plan pursuant to Treas. Reg.
section 1.401(k)-1(d)(3), shall have their Base Salary Deferrals
and Voluntary Bonus Deferrals for the
remainder of the Plan Year cancelled.
4.2 Matching
Contributions.
(a) Matching
Contributions for Tier I Participants.
(1) If
a Tier I Participant elects to direct a portion of his Voluntary
Bonus
Deferral to the Company Stock Fund, the Company shall credit to
such Tier I
Participant?s Distribution Account for which such Tier I
Participant?s Voluntary Bonus
Deferrals are credite
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