Exhibit 10.5
UNITED TECHNOLOGIES
CORPORATION
DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
(As amended and restated
effective January 1, 2005)
ARTICLE
I—PREAMBLE
United Technologies Corporation
established the United Technologies Deferred Compensation Plan
effective April 1, 1985. Pursuant to such Plan, certain
eligible executives of the Corporation, its Subsidiaries and
Affiliates deferred all or a portion of their compensation earned
with respect to 1985 and 1986. No compensation earned after 1986
was deferred under the Plan until the Plan was amended and restated
effective December 15, 1993 to offer eligible executives the
opportunity to defer all or a portion of Compensation earned or
otherwise payable in 1994 and subsequent years. The Plan has been
amended from time to time since 1993.
The Plan is hereby amended and
restated, effective January 1, 2005, to reflect the
requirements of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code. The
Plan, as amended and restated, applies to deferrals that were
earned or vested after December 31, 2004. Amounts that were
earned and vested (within the meaning of Section 409A) before
January 1, 2005, and any subsequent increases in these amounts
that are permitted to be treated as grandfathered benefits under
Section 409A, are subject to and shall continue to be governed
by the terms of the Prior Plan as set forth in Appendix
A.
From January 1, 2005 through
December 31, 2008, the Plan has been operated in good faith
compliance with Section 409A in accordance with guidance
provided by the Internal Revenue Service.
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ARTICLE II—DEFINITIONS
Beneficiary
means the person, persons or entity
designated on an electronic or written form by the Participant to
receive the value of his or her Plan Account in the event of the
Participant’s death. If the Participant fails to designate a
Beneficiary, or the Beneficiary (and any contingent Beneficiary)
does not survive the Participant, the value of the
Participant’s Plan Account will be paid to the estate of the
Participant.
Benefit Reduction
Contribution means a
contribution by the Corporation to the Participant’s Plan
Account to recognize the reduction in the value of employer
matching or other contributions under any of the
Corporation’s savings or other tax qualified defined
contribution retirement plans as a result of the reduction of such
Participant’s Compensation pursuant to this Plan.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended from time to time, and any successor thereto. Reference to
any section of the Internal Revenue Code shall include any final
regulations or other published guidance interpreting that
section.
Committee means the United Technologies Corporation
Deferred Compensation Committee, which is responsible for the
administration of the Plan. The Corporation’s Pension
Administration Committee shall appoint the Committee’s
members.
Compensation
means base salary and Incentive
Compensation Payments otherwise payable to a Participant by a UTC
Company and considered to be wages for purposes of federal income
tax withholding, but before any deferral of Compensation pursuant
to the Plan. Compensation does not include foreign service premiums
and allowances, compensation realized from Long Term Incentive Plan
awards or other types of awards.
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Corporation
means United Technologies
Corporation.
Credited Interest
Account means the
Investment Fund that is valued in the manner set forth in
Section 5.2.
Deferral Period
means the period prior to the
receipt of Compensation deferred hereunder.
“Disability” means permanent and total disability as
determined under the Corporation’s long-term disability plan
applicable to the Participant, or if there is no such plan
applicable to the Participant, “Disability” means a
determination of total disability by the Social Security
Administration; provided that, in either case, the
Participant’s condition also qualifies as a
“disability” for purposes of Section 409A(a)(2)(C)
of the Code.
Election Form
means the enrollment form provided
by the Committee to Participants electronically or in paper form
for the purpose of deferring Compensation under the Plan. Each
Participant’s Election Form must specify: the amount to be
deferred from base salary and/or from any Incentive Compensation
Payment with respect to the following calendar year; the respective
amounts to be allocated to the Participant’s Retirement
Account and/or Special Purpose Account or Accounts; the percentage
allocation among the Investment Funds with respect to each such
Account; and if not previously elected for an Account, the method
of distribution of each such Account; and the Deferral Period for
each Special Purpose Account. There will be a separate Election
Form for each calendar year.
Incentive Compensation
Payment means amounts
awarded to a Participant pursuant to the Corporation’s Annual
Executive Incentive Compensation Plan.
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Investment Fund
means the Credited Interest
Account, the S&P 500 Account, the UTC Stock Unit Account or
such other investment option as may be established by the Committee
from time to time. The value of Participants’ Accounts shall
be adjusted to replicate the performance of the applicable
Investment Funds. Amounts allocated to any Investment Fund do not
result in any investment in actual assets corresponding to the
Investment Fund.
Participant
means an executive of a UTC Company
who is paid from a US payroll, files a U.S. income tax return, and
who elects to defer Compensation under the Plan.
Plan means the United Technologies Corporation
Deferred Compensation Plan as amended and restated effective
September 1, 2002, and as amended from time to time
thereafter.
Plan Account
means the aggregate value of all
Special Purpose Accounts and the Retirement Account, but excluding
accounts under the Prior Plan. Accounts under the Prior Plan will
be valued and administered separately in accordance with the terms
and procedures in effect under the Prior Plan.
Prior Plan
means the United Technologies
Corporation Deferred Compensation Plan, as in effect on
October 3, 2004, as set forth in Appendix A. All amounts
earned and vested under the Prior Plan, and any subsequent
increases in these amounts that are permitted to be treated as
grandfathered benefits under Section 409A, shall continue to
be subject to the terms and conditions of the Prior Plan and shall
not be affected by this amendment and restatement.
Retirement Account
means a Plan Account maintained on
behalf of the Participant that is targeted for distribution
following the Participant’s Retirement.
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Retirement
means Separation from Service on or
after age 50 and attainment of age 65; Separation from Service on
or after age 50 and attainment of at least age 55 and a minimum of
10 or more years of “continuous service” (as defined in
the UTC Employee Retirement Plan as in effect on January 1,
2008); or a Rule of 65 termination.
Retirement Date
means the date of a
Participant’s Retirement.
“Rule of 65”
Termination means
Separation from Service on or after age 50 and before age 55, with
a combination of age and years of “continuous service”
(as defined in the UTC Employee Retirement Plan as in effect on
January 1, 2008) equal to at least 65.
Separation from
Service means a
Participant’s termination of employment with all UTC
Companies, other than by reason of death, or Disability that
qualifies as a “separation from service” for purposes
of Section 409A of the Code. A Separation from Service will be
deemed to occur where the Participant and the UTC Company that
employs the Participant reasonably anticipate that the bona fide
level of services the Participant will perform (whether as an
employee or as an independent contractor) for UTC Companies will be
permanently reduced to a level that is less than thirty-seven and a
half percent (37.5%) of the average level of bona fide
services the Participant performed during the immediately preceding
36 months (or the entire period the Participant has provided
services if the Participant has been providing services to the UTC
Companies for less than 36 months). A Participant shall not be
considered to have had a Separation from Service as a result of a
transfer from one UTC Company to another UTC Company.
S&P 500 Account
means an Investment Fund that is
valued in the manner set forth in Section 5.4.
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Special Purpose
Account means a Plan
Account maintained on behalf of the Participant with a targeted
distribution date in the calendar year specified by the
Participant. The minimum Deferral Period is five (5) calendar
years following the end of the calendar year in which the Account
is established; and the first payment from an Account must commence
no later than in the calendar year in which the Participant attains
age 72.
Specified
Employee means each of the 50
highest-paid executives of the Corporation and its Subsidiaries,
effective annually as of March 31 st , based on annual salary and
incentive compensation paid in the prior year. The term includes
both U.S. and non-U.S. employees.
UTC Common Stock
means the common stock of United
Technologies Corporation.
UTC Company
means United Technologies
Corporation or any entity controlled by or under common control
with United Technologies Corporation within the meaning of
Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (but substituting
“at least 20 percent” for “at least 80
percent” as the control threshold used in applying Sections
414(b) and (c)).
UTC Stock Unit Account
means the Investment Fund that is
valued in the manner set forth in Section 5.3.
ARTICLE III—ELIGIBILITY
AND PARTICIPATION
Section 3.1—Eligibility
Each employee of a UTC Company who
is classified as an eligible Participant as of December 31 of
the current year will be eligible to elect to defer Compensation
under the Plan in respect of the immediately following calendar
year in accordance with the terms of the Plan and the rules
and
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procedures established by the Committee. Newly
hired executives (or employees promoted to executive level) are
eligible to elect to defer base salary during the current calendar
year if they make an election within 30 calendar days from their
hire date or promotion date.
Section 3.2—Participation
Each eligible Participant may elect
to participate in the Plan with respect to any calendar year for
which the Committee offers the opportunity to defer Compensation by
timely filing with the Committee an Election Form, properly
completed in accordance with Section 4.1. Participation in the
Plan is entirely voluntary.
ARTICLE IV—PARTICIPANT
ELECTIONS AND DESIGNATIONS
Section 4.1—Election
An eligible Participant may,, on or
before the election deadline established by the Committee, make an
electronic or written election on the Election Form provided by the
Committee to defer Compensation for the immediately following
calendar year.
Section 4.2—Election
Amount
An eligible Participant must
designate in the Election Form the dollar amount of base salary
that will be deferred during such calendar year, and/or the
percentage or dollar amount of any Incentive Compensation Payment
otherwise payable with respect to services performed during such
calendar year that will be deferred under the Plan. The minimum
dollar amount that a Participant may defer under the Plan for any
calendar year is $5,000. The maximum amount that a Participant may
defer under the Plan for any calendar year is 70% of base salary
and/or 100% of any Incentive Compensation Payment.
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Section 4.3—Election
Date
For an election to defer base
salary, an electronic or written Election Form must be completed
and submitted to the Committee no later than the December 31
immediately preceding the calendar year to which the election
applies, or such earlier date as the Committee may specify. A
deferral election shall be effective only if the individual making
the election is still an eligible Participant at the election
deadline. Except as provided below in Section 4.8 (Change in
Election), the choices reflected on the Participant’s
Election Form shall be irrevocable on the election deadline. If an
eligible executive fails to submit a properly completed Election
Form by the election deadline, the executive will be ineligible to
defer base salary under the Plan for the immediately following
calendar year.
For an election to defer any
Incentive Compensation Payment with respect to services to be
performed in the current calendar year and otherwise payable in the
immediately following calendar year, an electronic or written
Election Form must be completed and submitted to the Committee no
later than the June 30 of the current calendar year, or such
earlier date as the Committee may specify. A deferral election
shall be effective only if the individual making the election is
still an eligible Participant as of the election deadline. Except
as provided below in Section 4.8 (Change in Election), the
choices reflected on the Participant’s Election Form shall be
irrevocable on the election deadline. If an eligible executive
fails to submit a properly completed Election Form by the election
deadline, the executive will be ineligible to defer Incentive
Compensation under the Plan with respect to services to be
performed in the current calendar year.
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Section 4.4—Deferral
Period
Each Participant shall specify in
the Election Form, in whole percentages, how the amounts to be
deferred in the immediately following calendar year are to be
allocated among the Participant’s Retirement Account and any
Special Purpose Accounts established for the Participant. To the
extent that the Participant fails to make an effective allocation
among the available accounts, the deferral shall be allocated
entirely to the Participant’s Retirement Account. A
Participant may elect to defer into a Special Purpose Account that
has not previously been established, with a Deferral Period ending
on a Specific Deferral Date that is at least five (5) calendar
years following the end of the calendar year in which the Account
is established (but not later than the Participant’s 72nd
birthday). If the Participant’s 72nd birthday falls prior to
the completion of this five (5) year period, the Participant
must defer into the Retirement Account only.
Section 4.5—Distribution
Election
At the time the Participant first
elects to defer an amount to the Participant’s Retirement
Account or to a Special Purpose Account, the Participant must
further make an election to have the Participant’s Retirement
or Special Purpose Account distributed in a lump sum or in two to
fifteen annual installments. The Participant may elect a different
form of distribution for the Retirement Account and for each
Special Purpose Account. If no distribution election is made with
respect to a Participant’s Retirement Account or Special
Purpose Account, the Account will be distributed in a lump
sum.
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Section 4.6—Investment
Fund Allocations
When completing the Election Form,
the Participant must allocate the amounts to be deferred, in whole
percentages, among the available Investment Funds. To the extent
that the Participant fails to make an effective allocation among
the available Investment Funds, the deferral shall be allocated
entirely to the Credited Interest Account.
Participants may reallocate their
existing Plan Accounts among the available Investment Funds as
permitted by the Committee, generally once per year. Such
reallocations shall be in whole percentages and, unless otherwise
specified by the Committee, shall be effective the first business
day of the calendar year following the date of the reallocation
election.
Section 4.7—Change in
Election
A Participant who has made an
election to defer Compensation under the Plan may make a one time
irrevocable election to extend the Deferral Period for a Retirement
Account and/or any Special Purpose Account. A Participant may also
make a one time irrevocable election to change the form of
distribution for the Retirement and/or any Special Purpose Account.
A Participant may change his or her election, as provided in this
Section 4.8, for some accounts and not for others; provided
that the Participant may change his or her election only once for
the Retirement Account and only once for each Special Purpose
Account. With respect to each Special Purpose Account, the extended
Deferral Period shall end not less than five (5) years
following the date on which distribution would otherwise have
occurred. With respect to the Retirement Account, the extended
Deferral Period is five years form the date on which the Retirement
Account would otherwise have commenced payment.
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A deferral extension election and/or
change to the form of distribution must meet all of the following
requirements:
(a) The new election must be made at
least twelve months prior to the date on which payments will
commence under the current election (and the new election shall be
ineffective if the payment commencement date under the current
election occurs within twelve months after the date of the new
election);
(b) The new election will not take
effect until at least twelve months after the date when the new
election is submitted in a manner acceptable to the
Committee;
(c) The new payment commencement
date must be five years later than the date on which payments would
commence under the current election; and
(d) In no case may a Participant
extend the Deferral Period for a Special Purpose Account beyond the
Participant’s 72nd birthday. If the Participant’s 72nd
birthday falls less than five (5) years after the date on
which payments would commence under the current election, the
Participant is not eligible to extend his or her Deferral Period or
to change the form of distribution for the Special Purpose
Account.
Section 4.8—Designation of
Beneficiary
Each Participant shall designate a
Beneficiary for his or her Plan Account on an electronic or written
form provided by the Committee. A Participant may change such
designation on an electronic or written form acceptable to the
Committee and received by the Committee at any time before the
Participant’s death. In the event that no Beneficiary
designation is filed with the Committee, or if the
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Beneficiary (and any contingent Beneficiary)
does not survive the Participant, all amounts deferred hereunder
will be paid to the estate of the Participant. If a Participant
designates the Participant’s spouse as the
Participant’s Beneficiary, that designation shall not be
revoked or otherwise altered or affected by any: (a) change in
the marital status of the Participant; (b) agreement between
the Participant and such spouse; or (c) judicial decree (such
as a divorce decree) affecting any rights that the Participant and
such spouse might have as a result of their marriage, separation,
or divorce; it being the intent of the Plan that any change in the
designation of a Beneficiary hereunder may be made by the
Participant only in accordance with the procedures set forth in
this Section 4.8. In the event of the death of a Participant,
distributions shall be made in accordance with
Section 6.5.
ARTICLE V—PLAN
ACCOUNTS
Section 5.1—Accounts
Deferred amounts that were earned
and vested before January 1, 2005, and any subsequent
increases in these amounts that are permitted to be treated as
grandfathered benefits under Section 409A of the Code, shall
be maintained in separate accounts and shall remain subject to the
terms and conditions of the Prior Plan. The Prior Plan accounts are
not intended to be subject to Section 409A of the Code. No
amendment to Appendix A that would constitute a “material
modification” for purposes of Section 409A shall be
effective unless the amending instrument states that it is intended
to materially modify Appendix A and to cause the Prior Plan to
become subject to Section 409A. Although the Prior Plan
accounts are not intended to be subject to Section 409A,
neither the UTC Companies nor any director, officer, or other
representative of a UTC Company shall be liable for any adverse tax
consequence suffered by a Participant or Beneficiary if a Prior
Plan account becomes subject to Section 409A.
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Deferred amounts that were earned or
vested after December 31, 2004, will be allocated to a
Retirement Account and/or one or more Special Purpose Accounts as
elected by the Participant. The Committee will establish the
maximum number of Special Purpose Accounts.
Participants’ Plan Accounts
shall be allocated or reallocated among Investment Funds in
accordance with each Participant’s instructions in the manner
set forth in Section 4.6.
Section 5.2—Valuation
of Credited Interest Account
Deferred amounts allocated to the
Credited Interest Account will be credited daily with a rate of
interest equal to the average interest rate on 10-Year Treasury
Bonds as of the last business day of each month from January
through October in the calendar year prior to the calendar year in
which the interest is credited, plus 1%.
Section 5.3—Valuation
of UTC Stock Unit Account
Deferred Compensation allocated to
the UTC Stock Unit Account will be converted to Stock Units,
including fractional Stock Units. A UTC Stock Unit is equal to the
closing price of one share of UTC Common Stock as reported on the
composite tape of the New York Stock Exchange. The number of Stock
Units will be calculated by dividing the amount of Compensation
deferred by the closing price of UTC Common Stock on the date when
the deferred amount is credited to the Participant’s UTC
Stock Unit Account. UTC Stock Units held in the UTC Stock Unit
Account on a dividend payment date will be credited with dividend
equivalent payments equal to the Corporation’s declared
dividend on UTC Common Stock (if any). Such dividend equivalent
payments will be converted to additional UTC Stock Units and
fractional units using the closing price of UTC Common Stock as of
the date such dividends are credited to the Participant’s UTC
Stock Unit Account.
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Section 5.4—Valuation
of S&P 500 Account
Deferred amounts allocated to the
S&P 500 Account will be converted to S&P Account units
based on the closing share price of the Vanguard 500 Index Fund as
of date the deferred amount is credited to the Participant’s
S&P 500 Account. The value of the S&P 500 Account units
will fluctuate on each business day based on the performance of the
Vanguard 500 Index Fund.
Section 5.5—Allocation
to Accounts
During the year of deferral,
deferred amounts will be allocated to the Participant’s Plan
Account and Investment Funds as of the date the deferred amounts
would otherwise have been paid to the Participant.
Section 5.6—Crediting
of Benefit Reduction Contribution
At the end of each calendar year,
the Committee will determine if any Benefit Reduction has been
incurred with respect to any of the Corporation’s savings
plans or other tax qualified defined contribution retirement plans,
and will credit the amount of such Benefit Reduction to the
affected Participant’s Plan Account as of the last business
day of the calendar year. Any such amounts will be allocated on a
pro-rata basis to the Participant’s Retirement Account and
Special Purpose Accounts and Investment Funds in accordance with
the Participant’s deferral elections on file for that
calendar year.
Section 5.7—Reports to
Participants
The Committee will provide or make
available detailed information to Participants regarding the value
of Plan Accounts, distribution elections, Beneficiary designations,
Investment Fund allocations and credited values for Retirement and
Special Purpose Accounts, not less than once per year. Such
information may be provided via electronic media as determined by
the Committee.
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ARTICLE VI—DISTRIBUTION OF
ACCOUNTS
Section 6.1—Timing of
Plan Distributions
Except as provided in
Section 4.8 (concerning the five-year delay following a Change
in Election), Section 6.3 (concerning Separation from Service
before Attaining Age Fifty), and Section 6.4 (concerning
distributions to Specified Employees), the value of a
Participant’s Retirement Account will be distributed (or
begin to be distributed) to the Participant in April of the
calendar year following the Retirement Date. The value of a
Participant’s Special Purpose Account will be distributed (or
begin to be distributed) to the Participant in April of the year
specified in the Participant’s initial election or in any
change in election under Section 4.8. This means, for example,
that if a deferral election specifies a Deferral Period until 2015,
distribution will occur in April of 2015.
Section 6.2—Method of
Distribution
Except as provided in
Section 6.3 (concerning Separation from Service before
Attaining Age Fifty), each Retirement and Special Purpose Account
will be distributed to the Participant in a single lump-sum cash
payment, or in a series of annual cash installment payments, in
accordance with the Participant’s election with respect to
each such account. Annual installments shall be payable to the
Participant beginning as of the payment commencement date and
continuing as of each anniversary of the payment commencement date
thereafter until all installments have been paid. To determine the
amount of each installment, the value of the Participant’s
Plan Account on the payment date will be multiplied by a fraction,
the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is the
number of scheduled installments that remain unpaid.
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Section 6.3—Separation
from Service before Attaining Age Fifty
If a Participant’s Separation
from Service occurs before the Participant attains age fifty (50),
the full value of the Participant’s Plan Account will be
distributed to the Participant in a lump-sum payment in April
following the Participant’s Separation from Service (or, if
the Participant is a Specified Employee at the time of his or her
Separation from Service, on the date provided in Section 6.4,
below, if later) regardless of the distribution option
elected.
If a Participant has a Separation
from Service and is later re-hired by a UTC Company, the
Participant’s age at the time of the Participant’s
first Separation from Service will determine how the
Participant’s Plan Account at the time of the first
Separation from Service is distributed. If the Participant
accumulates any additional deferrals after the Participant is
re-hired, the Plan shall separately account for the additional
deferrals (and related investment gains or losses), and the
Participant’s age at the time of the Participant’s
second Separation from Service will determine how the additional
amounts are distributed.
Section 6.4—Separation
from Service of Specified Employees
If the Participant is a Specified
Employee on the date of the Participant’s Separation from
Service, any distribution of the Participant’s Plan Account
to the Participant that is made on account of the
Participant’s Separation from Service will not be made or
commence earlier than the first day of the seventh month following
the date of Separation from Service. The Plan Account shall
continue to accrue hypothetical investment gains and losses as
provided in Article V until the distribution date.
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Section 6.5—Distribution in the Event
of Death
In the event of the death of a
Participant, the full value of the Participant’s Plan Account
will be distributed to the designated Beneficiary in a lump sum on
the first business day of the month following the
Participant’s death.
Section 6.6—Accelerated Distribution
in the Case of an Unforeseeable Emergency
(a) Unforeseeable Emergency. The
Committee may, upon a Participant’s written application,
agree to an accelerated distribution of some or all of the value of
Participant’s Plan Account upon the showing of an
unforeseeable emergency. An “unforeseeable emergency”
is a severe financial hardship to the Participant resulting from
(1) an illness or accident of the Participant, the
Participant’s spouse, the Participant’s Beneficiary, or
the Participant’s dependent (as defined in IRC
Section 152, without regard to Section 152(b)(1), (b)(2),
and (d)(1)(B)); (2) loss of the Participant’s property
due to casualty; or (3) other similar extraordinary and
unforeseeable circumstances arising as a result of events beyond
the control of the Participant. Whether a Participant is faced with
an unforeseeable emergency permitting a distribution is to be
determined based on the relevant facts and circumstances of each
case. Acceleration will not be granted if the emergency is or may
be relieved through reimbursement or compensation from insurance or
otherwise, by liquidation of the Participant’s assets (to the
extent the liq