Exhibit 10.28
The Walt Disney Productions
and
Associated Companies
Key Employees Deferred
Compensation and Retirement Plan
Amended and Restated
Effective as of January 1, 2009
Contents
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Article 1. Introduction
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1.1 Background and History
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1.2 Restatement of Plan
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1.3 Purpose and Applicability of the
Plan
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1.4 Status of the Plan
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Article 2. Definitions and
Construction
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2.1 Definitions
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2.2 Gender and Number
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2.3 Headings
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2.4 Requirement to Be in “Written
Form”
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2.5 Severability
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2.6 Applicable Law
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Article 3. Participation, Service and
Vesting
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3.1 Participation
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3.2 Duration
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3.3 Transfers
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3.4 Vesting
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Article 4. Retirement Income
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4.1 Determination of Retirement
Income
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4.2 Early Commencement of Retirement
Income
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4.3 Late Commencement of Retirement
Income
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Article 5. Distribution of Plan
Benefits
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5.1 General
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5.2 Time of Payment
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5.3 Form of Payment
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5.4 Benefit Cash-out
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Article 6. Transfers, Rehires and Other Special
Situations
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6.1 Effect and Applicability
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6.2 Code Section 409A Aggregation
Rules
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6.3 No Duplication of Benefits
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6.4 Excess Accumulated Contribution
Benefit
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6.5 Transfers from Nonaccount Plans
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6.6 Additional Retirement Income
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6.7 Permissible Delays or
Accelerations
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Article 7. Pre-Commencement Death
Benefit
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7.1 Amount of Pre-Commencement Death
Benefit
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7.2 Time and Form of Payment for
Pre-Commencement Death Benefit
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7.3 Beneficiary Determination
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7.4 Cash-Out Payment of Pre-Commencement Death
Benefit
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Article 8. Financing and
Administration
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8.1 Financing
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8.2 Plan Administrative Committee
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8.3 Duties of Committee
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8.4 Meetings
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8.5 Actions by the Committee
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8.6 Compensation and Bonding
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8.7 Establishment of Rules and Interpretation
of Plan
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8.8 Limitation of Liability
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8.9 Indemnification
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8.10 Claims Procedures
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8.11 Limitation on Actions
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8.12 Class Action Forum
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8.13 Records
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Article 9. Amendment and
Termination
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9.1 Amendments
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9.2 Termination of Plan
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9.3 Successors
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9.4 Prohibition on Changes Due to Code
Section 409A
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9.5 Additional Participating
Employers
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Article 10. Miscellaneous
Provisions
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10.1 Good-Faith Valuation Binding
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10.2 Taxation
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10.3 Withholding
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10.4 Offset for Obligations to the Company or
an Affiliate
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10.5 No Enlargement of Employment
Rights
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10.6 Non-Alienation
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10.7 No Examination or Accounting
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10.8 Incompetency
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10.9 Notice of Address
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10.10 Data
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10.11 Service of Legal Process
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10.12 Qualified Military Service
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10.13 Counterparts
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Article 1. Introduction
1.1 Background and
History
The Walt Disney Company
(“Company”) previously established The Walt Disney
Productions and Associated Companies Key Employees Deferred
Compensation and Retirement Plan (“Plan”) to provide
retirement income to certain employees and to equalize the benefits
of employees participating in certain retirement plans, including
the Disney Salaried Service Pension Plan and the Disney Salaried
Supplemental Pension Plan, both of which have been merged into the
Disney Salaried Retirement Plan (“Retirement Plan”).
The Plan was last restated effective as of May 1, 1984.
(Capitalized terms with special meanings are defined in Article 2
of this Plan.)
1.2 Restatement of
Plan
Effective as of January 1,
2009, the Company hereby amends and restates the Plan as reflected
herein to bring the Plan into compliance with Code section 409A and
the final Treasury Regulations thereunder. The provisions of this
restatement shall be effective as of January 1, 2009, except
as specifically provided in this document. Nothing contained in
this restatement shall be interpreted as amending any provision
under the Key Plan Part I.
1.3 Purpose and Applicability of
the Plan
The Company desires to provide
certain designated key management and highly compensated Employees
with enhanced retirement benefits over and above those provided
under the applicable portion(s) of the Retirement Plan due to the
application of the limits under Code sections 415 and
401(a)(17). The purpose of the Plan document is to set forth the
terms and conditions pursuant to which these benefits are accrued
and to describe the nature and extent of the employees’
rights to these accrued benefits.
Except as otherwise provided herein,
the provisions of this Plan restatement are applicable only to
Eligible Employees (other than Grandfathered Participants) who have
a Payment Event on or after January 1, 2009. Unless otherwise
explicitly provided in this Plan restatement, the Plan provisions,
operation and administration in effect prior to this restatement
shall continue to govern the terms and conditions of the Plan prior
to January 1, 2009. The benefits of Grandfathered Participants
shall be determined solely under the provisions of Key Plan
Part I.
1.4 Status of the
Plan
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Nonqualified Plan.
The Plan is not qualified within the
meaning of Code section 401(a). The Plan is intended to
provide an unfunded and unsecured promise to pay money in the
future and thus not to involve, pursuant to Treasury Regulations
section 1.83-3(e), the transfer of “property” for
purposes of Code section 83. Likewise, benefits credited under this
Plan are not intended to confer an economic benefit upon the
Participant nor is the right to the receipt of future benefits
under the Plan intended to result in any Participant, Beneficiary
or alternate payee being in constructive receipt of any amount so
as to result in any benefit due under the Plan
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being includible in the gross income
of any Participant, Beneficiary or alternate payee in advance of
the date on which payment of any benefit due under the Plan is
actually made. For tax purposes and purposes of Title I of ERISA,
the Plan is intended to be an unfunded, nonqualified deferred
compensation plan covering certain designated employees who are
within a select group of key management or highly compensated
employees.
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(b)
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Compliance
with Code Section 409A. This Plan is intended to comply with Code
section 409A and related regulatory guidance. Therefore, the
Plan shall be administered and interpreted in a manner consistent
with that purpose. The Committee shall have full authority to take
any and all actions as it deems necessary or appropriate to carry
out this intent and purpose of the Plan.
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Additional
or Special Arrangements. The Committee, the Company, or any other
Employer may, in its sole discretion, provide by a separate written
agreement that the benefits payable to any individual who is also
an Eligible Employee under the Plan shall be determined in
accordance with the terms of the Plan, as the same may be modified
in respect of that Eligible Employee under such agreement. Any such
agreement may provide such Eligible Employee with additional years
of service, credit for service with affiliated companies, a
different vesting schedule, an individualized formula for the
determination of such Eligible Employee’s benefit, or such
other modification (which may constitute an enhancement or
limitation) of the benefits provided hereby as the Committee,
Company, or other Employer shall specify. Further, any separate
agreement may provide for benefits which may be partially or wholly
in addition to or in lieu of any benefits provided hereunder, and
which may be greater, less than or equal to any benefits provided
hereunder and any such benefits may or may not be calculated or
otherwise determined by reference to the benefits provided by the
Plan or by reference to, or by incorporation by reference of, any
of the terms or provisions of the Plan. However, deferrals of
compensation under this Plan and such other separate written
agreement, if any, shall be aggregated with respect to the Eligible
Employee to the extent required under Code section 409A and
related regulations for purposes of assuring compliance with those
rules.
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No
Guarantees of Intended Tax Treatment. The Plan shall be administered and interpreted
so as to satisfy the requirements for the intended tax treatment
under the Code described in this Plan section. However, the
treatment of benefits earned under and benefits received from this
Plan, for purposes of the Code and other applicable tax laws (such
as state income and employment tax laws), shall be determined under
the Code and other applicable tax laws and no guarantee or
commitment is made to any Participant, Beneficiary or alternate
payee with respect to the treatment of accruals under or benefits
payable from the Plan for purposes of the Code and other applicable
tax laws.
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Article 2. Definitions and
Construction
2.1 Definitions
Whenever used in the Plan, the
following terms shall have the respective meanings set forth below,
unless otherwise expressly provided; and when the defined meaning
is intended, the term is capitalized.
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“Actuarial Equivalent”
or “Actuarially
Equivalent” means equality in the value of the aggregate
amounts expected under different forms of payment, with adjustments
to compensate for time or frequency of receipt, using the interest
rates, mortality tables, and other actuarial assumptions provided
in the definition of “Actuarial Equivalent” under the
Retirement Plan, as adjusted to comply with any required law
changes. At any given time,
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The same
actuarial assumptions and methods shall be used in valuing each
annuity payment option, in determining whether the payments are
actuarially equivalent; and
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Such
assumptions must be reasonable.
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(b)
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“Affiliate” generally means any corporation or other entity
that is required to be aggregated with the Company under Code
sections 414(b) or (c).
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(1)
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With respect to
any Pre-Commencement Death Benefit, the person or persons
designated by the Plan as entitled to receive such benefit, as
determined under Plan section 7.3; and
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(2)
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With respect to
any Excess Accumulated Contribution Benefit, the person or persons
designated by the Plan as entitled to receive such benefit, as
determined under Plan section 6.4(c)(3).
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(d)
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“Benefit Calculation
Date” means the
date as of which a benefit payable from this Plan is calculated
and, unless otherwise explicitly provided, such date shall
be:
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(1)
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With respect to
a Participant, the first day of the calendar month coincident with
or next following the Payment Event; and
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(2)
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With respect to
a Beneficiary, the first day of the calendar month next following
the Payment Event.
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(e)
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“Board” means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
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“Certain and Life
Annuity” means a
monthly benefit that is the Actuarial Equivalent of a
Participant’s Single Life Annuity and that is payable during
the
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Participant’s lifetime with a
guaranteed payment period during which monthly payments shall be
made without regard to the Participant’s death. The last
payment shall be made on the first day of the calendar month in
which the Participant’s death occurs or, if later, the end of
the guaranteed payment period. If the Participant dies prior to the
end of the guaranteed payment period and is survived by the
Joint/Contingent Annuitant, the monthly benefit that is payable
shall be paid to the Joint/Contingent Annuitant for the remainder
of the guaranteed payment period. If the Joint/Contingent Annuitant
dies after the Participant and before the end of the guaranteed
payment period, then Actuarial Equivalent present value of the
remaining guaranteed payments shall be paid to the estate of the
Joint/Contingent Annuitant. If the Joint/Contingent Annuitant dies
before the Participant and no new Joint/Contingent Annuitant has
been designated at the Participant’s death, then Actuarial
Equivalent present value of the remaining guaranteed payments shall
be paid to the Participant’s estate.
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“Change in Control”
means an event described under
paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4) or (5) as
follows:
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(1)
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The acquisition
within any 12-month period by any individual, entity or group
(within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) (a
“Person”) of beneficial ownership (within the meaning
of Rule 13d–3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended) of thirty percent (30%) or more of the
total voting power of the then outstanding stock of the Company
entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, but
excluding the following transactions (the “Excluded
Acquisitions”):
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(A)
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Any acquisition
directly from the Company (other than an acquisition by virtue of
the exercise of a conversion privilege of a security that was not
acquired directly from the Company),
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Any acquisition
by the Company, and
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Any acquisition
by an employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or
maintained by the Company;
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Any time during
a period of 12 months or less, individuals who at the beginning of
such period constitute the Board (and any new directors whose
election by the Board or nomination for election by the
Company’s shareholders was approved by a vote of at least a
majority of the directors then still in office who either were
directors at the beginning of the period or whose election or
nomination for election was so approved) ceasing for any reason to
constitute a majority thereof;
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An acquisition
(other than an Excluded Acquisition) by any Person of fifty percent
(50%) or more of the voting power or value of the
Company’s stock;
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The
consummation of a merger, consolidation, reorganization or similar
corporate transaction, whether or not the Company is the surviving
company in such transaction, other than a merger, consolidation, or
reorganization that would result in the Persons who are beneficial
owners of the Company’s stock outstanding immediately prior
thereto continuing to beneficially own, directly or indirectly, in
substantially the same proportions, at least fifty percent
(50%) of the combined voting power or value of the
Company’s stock (or the stock of the surviving entity)
outstanding immediately after such merger, consolidation or
reorganization; or
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The sale or
other disposition during any 12-month period of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company, provided that such
sale is of assets having a total gross fair market value equal to
or greater than 40% of the total gross fair market value of the
assets of the Company immediately prior to such sale or
disposition.
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The foregoing definition of
“Change in Control” is intended to comply with the
requirements of Code section 409A and the guidance issued
thereunder and shall be interpreted and applied by the Committee in
a manner consistent with this intent.
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“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended and any succeeding federal tax provisions.
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(i)
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“Committee” means the Investment and Administrative
Committee of The Walt Disney Company Sponsored Qualified Benefit
Plans and Key Employees Deferred Compensation and Retirement
Plan.
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(j)
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“Company” means The Walt Disney Company.
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(k)
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“Domestic Partner”
means the individual determined by
the Company in its sole discretion to be the Participant’s
same-sex domestic partner in accordance with the Company’s
procedures for identifying domestic partners.
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“Early
Retirement Date” means, with respect to the Participant, the
“Early Retirement Date” as set forth in the applicable
provisions of the Retirement Plan to which benefits accrued under
this Plan relate.
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(m)
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“Eligible Employee”
means a salaried Employee of an
Employer who is or was a “Participant,” as this term is
defined in the Retirement Plan.
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(n)
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“Employee” means any individual who is employed as a
common-law employee of the Company or an Affiliate, including
officers, but excluding independent contractors and leased
employees (or any individuals designated as independent
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contractors or leased employees
under the customary worker classification procedures of the Company
or an Affiliate) and directors who are not officers or otherwise
employees.
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(o)
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“Employer” means the Company and all Affiliates that have
been designated as Employers with respect to the Plan in accordance
with the terms of Plan section 9.5.
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(p)
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“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended.
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(q)
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“Excess Accumulated Contribution
Benefit” means the
benefit, if any, determined and payable under Plan
section 6.4. For purposes of Code sections 409A and
3121(v)(2), the Excess Accumulated Contribution Benefit shall be a
deferral of compensation under a nonaccount balance plan, as
described in Treasury Regulations
sections 1.409A-1(c)(2)(i)(C) and
31.3121(v)(2)-1(c)(2).
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(r)
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“Grandfathered
Participant” means
an individual whose employment with the Company and all Affiliates
terminated before January 1, 2005, while the individual had a
vested benefit under the Key Plan Part I.
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(s)
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“Interest Rate”
means the 6-month LIBOR rate
effective as of each January 1 based on the rate in effect as
of the preceding October 1.
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(t)
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“Joint
and Survivor Annuity” means a monthly benefit that is the Actuarial
Equivalent of a Participant’s Single Life Annuity and that is
payable during the Participant’s lifetime with a designated
percentage of the Participant’s monthly benefit amount
continuing after his death to his Joint/Contingent Annuitant, if
such Joint/Contingent Annuitant survives him, for the
Joint/Contingent Annuitant’s remaining lifetime. The last
payment shall be made on the first day of the calendar month in
which the Participant’s death occurs or, if later, the
Joint/Contingent Annuitant’s death.
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“Joint/Contingent
Annuitant” means
the person(s) designated as such by the Participant or the Plan, as
applicable, as entitled to receive a portion of the
Participant’s Retirement Income following his
death.
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(v)
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“Key
Plan Part I” means,
with respect to a Grandfathered Participant, the Plan as in effect
on October 3, 2004.
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(w)
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“Military Leave”
means leave subject to reemployment
rights under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
Rights Act of 1994, as amended from time to time.
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(x)
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“Normal Retirement Date”
means, with respect to the
Participant, the “Normal Retirement Date” as set forth
in the applicable provisions of the Retirement Plan to which
benefits accrued under this Plan relate.
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(y)
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“Participant”
means any person who has been
admitted to, and has not been removed from, participation in the
Plan pursuant to the provisions of Article 3.
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(z)
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“Payment
Date” means the date that any vested
Retirement Income becomes payable to the Participant under Plan
section 5.2 or, if the Participant has died before the Payment
Date of any vested Retirement Income, the date that any
Pre-Commencement Death Benefit becomes payable to the Beneficiary
under Plan section 7.2. The Payment Date of any Excess
Accumulated Contribution Benefit shall be determined under Plan
section 6.4. If the Participant has post-separation or
reemployment accruals under Plan section 6.6(b), then the
Payment Date shall be the Benefit Calculation Date. Notwithstanding
any other Plan provision to the contrary and solely for purposes of
determining compliance with Code section 409A and related
Treasury Regulations, except with respect to any payment due under
Plan section 6.6(b), a payment shall be deemed made on the
Payment Date if the benefit actually commences by the end of the
calendar year in which the Payment Date occurs or, if later, by the
15 th day of the third month following
the Payment Date.
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(aa)
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“Payment Event”
means the applicable event
triggering a payment of vested benefits under the Plan. The
applicable event shall be one of the following:
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(1)
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With respect to
Retirement Income, the earlier of:
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(A)
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The later of
the Participant’s Separation from Service or attainment of
age 55;
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(2)
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With respect to
the Pre-Commencement Death Benefit and before the Payment Date of
any vested Retirement Income to the Participant, the later of
Participant’s death or the date that the Participant would
have attained age 55;
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(3)
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With respect to
any Excess Accumulated Contribution Benefit, the
Participant’s Separation from Service or, if earlier, the
Participant’s death; or
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(4)
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With respect to
post-separation or reemployment accruals under Plan
section 6.6(b) after a Payment Event under
subparagraph (1)(A), January 1.
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(bb)
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“Plan” means The Walt Disney Productions and Associated
Companies Key Employees Deferred Compensation and Retirement Plan,
as contained herein and as amended from time. With respect to a
Grandfathered Participant only, the Plan includes Key Plan Part
I.
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(cc)
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“Pre-Commencement Death
Benefit” means the
benefit described in Article 7.
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(dd)
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“Retirement Income”
means a monthly benefit:
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(1)
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Which a
Participant has earned under the Plan as of any date of reference;
and
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(2)
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Which is more
fully determined under Article 4.
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To the extent a Participant’s
Retirement Income is paid or expressed as an annual benefit, such
annual benefit payment shall be 12 times the Participant’s
monthly benefit.
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(ee)
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“Retirement Plan”
means the Disney Salaried Retirement
Plan (including the Disney Salaried Service Pension Plan and the
Disney Salaried Supplemental Pension Plan, which have been merged
into the Retirement Plan), as amended from time to time. The
Retirement Plan constitutes a qualified employer plan as defined
under Treasury Regulations section 1.409A-1(a)(2).
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(ff)
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“Retirement Plan Benefit”
means the benefit payable under the
Retirement Plan.
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(gg)
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“Separation from Service”
means, as provided in the following
paragraphs of this subsection, an Employee’s termination from
employment with the Company and all Affiliates, whether by
retirement, resignation from or discharge by the Company or an
Affiliate (but not by a transfer among the Company and Affiliates
or death).
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(1)
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A Separation
from Service shall be deemed to have occurred if an Employee and
the Company and Affiliates reasonably anticipate, based on the
facts and circumstances, that either:
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The Employee
will not provide any additional services for the Company or any
Affiliate after a certain date; or
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(B)
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The level of
bona fide services performed by the Employee after a certain date
will permanently decrease to no more than 40 percent of the average
level of bona fide services performed by the Employee over the
immediately preceding 36 months.
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If an Employee
is absent from employment due to Military Leave, sick leave, or any
other bona fide leave of absence authorized by the Company or an
Affiliate and there is a reasonable expectation that the Employee
will return to perform services for the Company or an Affiliate,
then a Separation from Service shall not occur until the later
of:
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(A)
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The first date
immediately following the date that is six months after the first
date that an Employee was absent from employment; and
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(B)
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To the extent
the Employee retains a right to reemployment with the Company or
any Affiliate under an applicable statute or by contract, the date
the Employee no longer retains a right to reemployment.
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If a Participant fails to return to
work upon the expiration of any Military Leave, sick leave, or
other bona fide leave of absence where such leave is for
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less than six months, the Separation
from Service shall occur as of the date of the expiration of such
leave.
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“Single Life Annuity”
means a benefit payable monthly
during the Participant’s lifetime, commencing as of his
Benefit Calculation Date and ending with the payment due on the
first day of the calendar month in which the Participant’s
death occurs.
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(ii)
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“Specified Employee”
means any person determined to be a
specified employee under Code section 409A and Treasury
Regulations section 1.409A-1(i).
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(jj)
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“Spouse” means a “spouse” as defined by the
Defense of Marriage Act (Pub. Law No. 104-199) and shall also
include a former spouse of a Participant to the extent required by
a domestic relations order, within the meaning of Code
section 414(p)(1)(B) and permitted under Treasury Regulations
section 1.409A-3(j)(4)(ii). This definition is intended to
clarify how the term “spouse” has been applied for
purposes of the Plan (and Key Plan Part I) prior to
January 1, 2009 and will be applied for purposes of the Plan
(and Key Plan Part I) on and after January 1,
2009.
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(kk)
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“Treasury Regulations”
means the regulations promulgated by
the United States Department of the Treasury under the
Code.
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2.2 Gender and
Number
Except as otherwise indicated by the
context, any masculine or feminine terminology shall also include
the opposite gender, and the definition of any term in the singular
or plural shall also include the opposite number.
2.3 Headings
The headings of this Plan are
inserted for convenience or reference only, and they are not to be
used in the construction of the Plan.
2.4 Requirement to Be in
“Written Form”
Various notices provided by the
Company, the Committee, or any duly authorized agent of either of
them and various elections made by Participants, Beneficiaries or
other payees are required to be in written form. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Plan, any notices and elections
related to, or that may constitute part of, the Plan may be
conveyed through an electronic system or any other system approved
by the Committee unless otherwise provided under applicable law or
regulatory guidance.
2.5 Severability
If a provision of this Plan shall be
held illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or
invalidity shall not affect the remaining parts of the Plan, and
the Plan shall be construed and enforced as if the illegal or
invalid provision had not been included in the Plan.
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2.6 Applicable Law
To the extent not preempted by ERISA
or other federal law, the Plan and all rights hereunder shall be
governed, construed, and administered in accordance with the laws
of the state of California.
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Article 3. Participation, Service and
Vesting
3.1 Participation
Each Eligible Employee whose benefit
under the applicable portion of the Retirement Plan, for any
calendar year, is limited by Code sections 415 and/or 401(a)(17)
shall be a Participant in the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
each Employee who becomes an Eligible Employee pursuant to an
agreement approved by the Committee shall become a Participant as
of the date, if any, specified in such agreement or otherwise
specified by the Committee. Each individual who is a Participant in
the Plan on the date immediately preceding January 1, 2009
shall continue as a Participant in the Plan in accordance with the
terms of the Plan (or, in the case of a Grandfathered Participant,
the terms of Key Plan Part I).
3.2 Duration
An individual who becomes a
Participant under the Plan shall remain a Participant for as long
as he remains an Employee or is entitled to receive any benefits
hereunder.
3.3 Transfers
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(a)
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Transfers to
Eligible Employee Status. An Employee who transfers employment such that
he becomes an Eligible Employee and satisfies the requirements of
Plan section 3.1 as of the date of transfer shall be a
Participant in the Plan as of the date of transfer.
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(b)
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Transfers
from Eligible Employee Status. To the extent a Participant transfers employment
to an Affiliate and is no longer an Eligible Employee:
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(1)
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The Participant
may become vested in his Retirement Income pursuant to Plan
section 3.4, even though he is no longer an Eligible
Employee.
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(2)
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The Participant
shall, if he is or becomes vested in his Retirement Income, remain
a Participant in the Plan until the date his vested Retirement
Income is distributed from the Plan.
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(3)
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To the extent
the Participant has no vested interest in his Retirement Income
under the Plan but remains employed by an Affiliate, the
Participant shall remain a Participant in the Plan until the date
he ceases to be employed by the Company and all Affiliates at a
time when he has no vested Retirement Income under the Plan. If he
remains employed by an Affiliate until his Retirement Income under
the Plan vests, his status as a Participant shall be determined
under paragraph (2).
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3.4 Vesting
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(a)
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Vested Benefit.
Except as otherwise provided in this
Plan section, a Participant who is vested under the Retirement Plan
shall be 100 percent vested in his Retirement Income and shall be
entitled to a benefit from the Plan. If a Participant has
a
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Separation from Service prior to
becoming vested under the Retirement Plan, his Retirement Income
under the Plan shall be immediately forfeited.
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(b)
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Vesting on
Change in Control. If a
Change in Control occurs, each Participant shall become 100 percent
vested in his Retirement Income if he is not already 100 percent
vested upon the Change in Control.
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(c)
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Level of
Combined Vested Benefit. The amount of the combined vested benefits under
the Retirement Plan and the Plan that the Participant is entitled
to receive as of a date certain generally shall not decrease after
the Participant’s benefits under the Plan become 100 percent
vested; provided, however, that the portion of the
Participant’s vested benefits payable under this Plan may
decrease over time where benefits payable under the Retirement Plan
increase due to the operation of the Plan and the Retirement
Plan.
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Article 4. Retirement Income
4.1 Determination of Retirement
Income
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(a)
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A
Participant’s Retirement Income payable for the
Participant’s lifetime (or other form in which the accrued
benefit is defined under the Retirement Plan at any time of
reference) from the Plan as of his Normal Retirement Date shall be
equal to the amount determined under paragraph (1) minus the
amount determined under paragraph (2), as follows:
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(1)
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The Retirement
Plan Benefit accrued through the Benefit Calculation Date that
would be payable to the Participant under the Retirement Plan as of
his Normal Retirement Date if the Retirement Plan Benefit was
determined:
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(A)
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Without regard
to the limits imposed by Code sections 415 and 401(a)(17);
and
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(B)
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By taking into
account the amount of any base compensation, as determined by the
Committee in its sole discretion, that the Participant deferred
into a nonqualified account balance plan, within the meaning of
Treasury Regulations section 1.409A-1(c)(2) through
December 31, 2005.
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(2)
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The Retirement
Plan Benefit accrued through the Benefit Calculation Date that
would be payable to the Participant under the Retirement Plan as of
his Normal Retirement Date.
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(b)
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To the extent
any portion of the Participant’s Retirement Plan Benefit is
offset by benefits payable under another qualified retirement plan,
a Participant’s Retirement Income shall be determined prior
to the application of any such other offsets.
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4.2 Early Commencement of
Retirement Income
If payment of a Participant’s
vested Retirement Income is to commence or be made before his
Normal Retirement Date, the amount of his Retirement Income shall
be equal to his vested Retirement Income determined under Plan
section 4.1 as of his Normal Retirement Date reduced for early
commencement in accordance with the early retirement reduction
rules set forth in the portion of the Retirement Plan to which the
benefits under the Plan relate or, where no such rules apply or
where reductions to a lower age than specified in the Retirement
Plan are necessary, on an Actuarially Equivalent basis.
4.3 Late Commencement of
Retirement Income
If payment of a Participant’s
vested Retirement Income is to commence or be made after his Normal
Retirement Date, the Participant’s Retirement Income shall be
equal to the amount that would be payable under Plan section 4.1 if
the Participant’s Retirement Plan Benefit is determined as of
the Benefit Calculation Date, instead of the Participant’s
Normal Retirement Date.
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Article 5. Distribution of Plan
Benefits
5.1 General
A Participant’s vested
Retirement Income shall be payable, for reasons other than the
Participant’s death, at the time and in the form determined
in this Article 5.
5.2 Time of
Payment
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(a)
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Default Time
of Payment. Except as
otherwise provided for under the terms of the Plan, the Participant
shall be entitled to a payment of Retirement Income under the Plan
as of the earlier Payment Date determined below:
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(1)
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If the Payment
Event is the later of the Participant’s Separation from
Service or attainment of age 55; then the Payment Date is the
first day of the second calendar month following the Benefit
Calculation Date; provided, however, that in the case of a
Specified Employee, this date shall in no event be earlier than the
first day of the month coinciding with or next following the date
that is six months after Separation from Service of a Specified
Employee; or
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(2)
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If the Payment
Event is a Change in Control, then the Payment Date is the first
day of the second calendar month following the Benefit Calculation
Date.
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(b)
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Catch-Up
Payments. Once payments
commence, the Plan shall provide the Participant with a one-time
payment equal to the amount of missed payments between the Benefit
Calculation Date and the actual Payment Date. In the case of a
Specified Employee, the missed payments shall be adjusted at the
Interest Rate for the period between the Payment Date that would
have applied had the Participant not been a Specified Employee and
the Specified Employee’s Payment Date, as determined under
subsection (a)(1).
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(c)
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Earlier
Payments. An earlier
payment may be made, as determined by the Committee in its sole
discretion, only to the extent that a permissible Code section 409A
and related Treasury Regulations exception ( e.g. , the
payment of employment taxes) may be applied.
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(d)
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Continued
Payments. Once a
Participant’s Retirement Income commences, the payment of his
Retirement Income shall not be delayed or accelerated, except as
provided for in accordance with Plan section 6.7.
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5.3 Form of
Payment
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(a)
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Default Form
of Payment.
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(1)
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If a Participant’s
Retirement Income is payable due to a Payment Event under Plan
section 5.2(a)(1), the Participant’s Retirement Income
shall be paid in the form of a 50% Joint and Survivor Annuity if
the Participant has a Spouse on the Benefit Calculation Date, and
in the form of a Single Life Annuity if the
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Participant does not have a Spouse
on the Benefit Calculation Date. In lieu of this default
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