EXHIBIT 10.6
ZIONS
BANCORPORATION
SECOND RESTATED AND REVISED
DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
Restated and Revised Effective as
of January 1, 2005
ZIONS
BANCORPORATION
SECOND RESTATED AND
REVISED
DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
(Effective January 1,
2005)
ARTICLE I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Restatement of Existing
Plan. Zions
Bancorporation previously established the Zions Bancorporation
Deferred Compensation Plan effective as of January 1, 2001,
which Plan was restated in its entirety effective January 1,
2003, and subsequently restated effective January 1, 2004, and
restated again in the Zions Bancorporation Restated and Revised
Deferred Compensation Plan effective January 1, 2005 (the
“First Restatement”). This Second Restated and Revised
Deferred Compensation Plan (“Second Restatement”) has
the same effective date (January 1, 2005) as the First Restatement.
The purpose of the Second Restatement is limited to make those
changes necessary to comply with the final regulations issued under
Section 409A of the Code (“409A”) which were not
anticipated in the First Restatement. The January 1, 2004
restatement is hereinafter referred to as the “Prior
Plan”. It was the purpose of the First Restatement and is a
purpose of this Second Restatement to have those amounts which were
100% vested and credited to a Deferral Account prior to
January 1, 2005 (“Grandfather Amounts”) be
governed by the applicable laws and rules governing deferred
compensation arrangements, prior to the enactment of
Section 409A of the Code (“409A”) together with
the provisions of the Prior Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
there shall only be one Plan which will include a Deferral Account
for Grandfather Amounts and a Deferral Account for post
December 31, 2004 deferrals. Accordingly, the provisions of
the Prior Plan shall govern that portion of a Participant’s
Deferral Account which consists of Grandfather Amounts. Unless
specifically provided herein, the provisions of this Plan Document
where different from the Prior Plan shall apply only to amounts
deferred or vested after December 31, 2004. If the application
of any provision of this Plan document, would constitute a
“material modification” with respect to Grandfather
Amounts under guidance issued by the Service under 409A, then such
provision will not be applied to any Grandfather Amounts and the
provision of the Prior Plan will control. By this document the
Prior Plan is restated and revised as of the Effective Date and to
read as set forth hereafter.
1.2 Purpose of Plan.
Zions Bancorporation has established
this Plan as a continuation of the prior Plan to provide select
employees with the opportunity to defer the receipt of compensation
and a vehicle through which to do so. Zions Bancorporation intends
to maintain the Plan primarily for the purpose of providing
deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly
compensated employees, within the meaning of Sections 201(2),
301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended. The Plan will be interpreted in a manner
consistent with these intentions.
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1.3 Combined Plans and Successor
Plan. With the prior
restatement effective January 1, 2003, Zions Bancorporation
combined and merged certain plans which provided for deferred
compensation. The plans which were combined and merged into the
Prior Plan (and jointly referred to hereafter as the “Merged
Plans”) are:
Zions Bancorporation Deferred
Compensation Plan for Value-Sharing Participants
Zions Bancorporation Executive
Management Plan (“SERP”)
Grossmont Bank Deferred Compensation
Plan for Key Employees
With the January 1, 2004
restatement and revision those portions of the Merged Plans which
provided for continuing contributions from the Company (as
hereafter defined) and which were preserved in the Prior Plan
(including all related benefits and liabilities) were transferred
to the Zions Bancorporation Excess Benefit Plan, which plan has
been created by the Company for that purpose. From and after
January 1, 2004 no further benefits attributable to Company
contributions are available from or accrue under this Plan. All
benefits previously provided under the Prior Plan and attributable
to Company contributions shall only be payable by and available
from the Zions Bancorporation Excess Benefit Plan according to its
terms, regardless of the time or manner such benefits may have been
previously payable under the Merged Plans or the Prior
Plan.
ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS
Definitions are contained in this
article and throughout other sections of the Plan. The location of
a definition is for convenience only and should not be given any
significance. A word or term defined in this article (or in any
other article) will have the same meaning throughout the Plan
unless the context clearly requires a different meaning.
2.1 Base Salary
means (i) the employee’s
base salary paid for each payroll period, including any periodic
payment which constitutes a draw or advance against future
potential commission payments, and (ii) in the case of an
employee whose compensation from the Company contains a commission
element, the amount of the commission as paid, excluding any draw
or advance received, and without regard to any Bonus(es) or other
additional amount(s) paid or payable to the employee.
2.2 Beneficiary
means the individual(s) or
entity(ies) designated by a Participant, or by the Plan, to receive
any benefit payable upon the death of a Participant or Beneficiary.
A Beneficiary designation must be signed by the Participant and
delivered to the Committee on a form specified by the Committee for
that purpose. In the absence of a valid or effective Beneficiary
designation, the Beneficiary will be the Participant’s
surviving spouse, or if there is no surviving spouse, the
Participant’s estate.
2.3 Board means the Board of Directors of the
Company.
2.4 Bonus means any periodic or non-periodic payment to
the Participant which is not part of the Participant’s Base
Salary, including incentive pay, discretionary bonuses and any
amount
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denominated and paid by the Company as a value
sharing payment, and which is not otherwise excluded from the
definition of Compensation contained in this Plan. For purposes of
this Section “discretionary bonus” means any one time
annual payment (typically paid in February of each year) and not
included in any incentive plan, “incentive pay” means
any payment (excluding commissions) made to compensate for meeting
established goals or production levels set forth in documented
performance plans and value sharing payments means monies paid
according to long term based (more than one year) plans.
2.5 Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended from time to time.
2.6 Committee
means the Zions Bancorporation
Benefits Committee. The Committee will serve as the “plan
administrator” to manage and control the operation and
administration of the Plan, within the meaning of ERISA
Section 3(16)(A).
2.7 Company
means Zions Bancorporation, any
successor of Zions Bancorporation, and any subsidiary or affiliate
of Zions Bancorporation which elects, with the approval of Zions
Bancorporation, to become a participating employer under this Plan.
Regardless of the adoption of or participation in this Plan by one
or more affiliates of Zions Bancorporation, all rights, duties and
responsibilities for operation of this Plan, including all rights
reserved to amend, alter, supplement or terminate this Plan, shall
remain exclusively with and be exercised solely by the Board of
Directors of Zions Bancorporation, unless such rights or duties are
specifically allocated or assigned under this Plan by the Board to
the Committee or by Zions Bancorporation to one or more
participating employers.
2.8 Compensation
means the employee’s Base
Salary, Bonus(es) and any amounts withheld by salary reduction
under Code §§125 or 401(k), or under this Plan.
Compensation excludes any other form of remuneration paid or
payable to an Eligible Employee, such as restricted stock, stock
options, proceeds from stock options or stock appreciation rights,
severance payments, moving expenses, car or other special
allowances, and any other amounts, whether or not included in an
Eligible Employee’s taxable income. Deferral elections under
Article III and Company contribution credits under Article IV shall
be computed before taking into account any reduction in an Eligible
Employee’s Compensation by salary reduction election under
Code §§125 or 401(k), or deferral election under this
Plan.
2.9 Deferral Account
means a bookkeeping account
established for and maintained on behalf of a Participant to which
Compensation amounts are deferred, and net income (or losses)
thereon, are credited under this Plan. The Participant’s
Deferral Account shall also include and reflect all amounts
previously credited to the Participant under any of the Merged
Plans in which the Participant had a credit amount as of the day
before the Effective Date, as well as all amounts credited under
the Prior Plan on the day before the Effective Date, but only to
the extent such amounts are attributable to deferrals under a
Deferred Compensation Agreement or similar arrangement provided in
a Merged Plan.
2.10 Deferred Compensation
Agreement means an
agreement described in Section 3.4 and entered into by a
Participant and the Company to reduce the Participant’s
Compensation for a specified period of time and to credit such
amounts to the Plan for distribution at a specified time in the
future in accordance with Article III.
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2.11 Disability means a Participant is unable to engage in any
substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically
determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to
result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period
of not less than 12 months, or is, by reason of any medically
determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to
result in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period
of not less than 12 months, receiving income replacement benefits
for a period of not less than 3 months under an accident and health
plan covering employees of the Company. This definition of
Disability shall apply to Grandfather Amounts.
2.12 Effective Date
means January 1, 2005, the date
this Plan, as restated and revised, shall be effective. The
original effective date of the Plan is January 1, 2001.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, amounts deferred and vested under
the Plan prior to January 1, 2005 shall not be subject to any
amendments to the Plan with an effective date subsequent to
December 31, 2004.
2.12 Eligible Employee
means a common law employee of the
Company who:
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(a)
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on the day
before the Effective Date was a participant in this Plan;
or
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(b)
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has or is
projected to have Compensation in excess of $130,000 or such other
amount established by the Committee for the Plan Year commencing on
the Effective Date and for any Plan Year thereafter (or such
greater dollar amount as determined and announced by the Committee
from year to year); and
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(c)
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having
satisfied (a) or (b), is identified by the Committee and
designated as eligible to participate in the Plan;
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For purposes of determining as of
any given date whether the Eligible Employee’s Compensation
will satisfy (b) above, the Committee may project the Eligible
Employee’s current rate of Compensation on a Plan Year basis.
The Committee may adjust the dollar amount in (b) above from
year to year consistent with any index selected by the Committee
for this purpose, without further written amendment to this Plan.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.1 (concerning an
individual who ceases to be an Eligible Employee) and
Section 3.3 (concerning an individual who first becomes an
Eligible Employee on or after the first day of a Plan Year), an
individual’s status as an Eligible Employee for a Plan Year
shall be determined immediately prior to the first day of the Plan
Year. An individual’s status who becomes an Eligible Employee
on or after the first day of a Plan Year but prior to the next
calendar quarter shall be determined prior to that calendar
quarter. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee may determine
in writing that an otherwise Eligible Employee shall not be
eligible to participate in this Plan.
2.13 ERISA
means the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended.
2.14 Excess Benefit
Plan means the Zions
Bancorporation Excess Benefit Plan, which plan has been created by
the Company effective January 1, 2004, as the partial
successor to the
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Merged Plans for the sole purpose of providing
benefits to certain Employees which are determined through the
Merged Plans, but through means other than deferral of Compensation
under a Deferred Compensation Agreement.
2.15 Hardship
means an unforeseeable emergency
which is a severe financial hardship to the Participant resulting
from an illness or accident of the Participant, the
Participant’s spouse, the Participant’s beneficiary, or
the Participant’s dependent (as defined in section 152 of the
Code without regard to section 152(b)(1), (b)(2) and (d)(1)(b));
loss of the Participant’s property due to casualty (including
a need to rebuild a home following damage to a home not otherwise
covered by insurance, for example, not as a result of a natural
disaster); or other similar extraordinary and unforeseeable
circumstances arising as a result of events beyond the control of
the Participant. For example, the imminent foreclosure of or
eviction from the Participant’s primary residence may
constitute an unforeseeable emergency. In addition, the need to pay
medical expenses, including nonrefundable deductibles, as well as
for the costs of prescription drug medication may constitute an
unforeseeable emergency. Finally, the need to pay for the funeral
expenses of a spouse, a beneficiary, or a dependent (as defined in
section 152 of the Code without regard to section 152(b)(1), (b)(2)
and (d)(1)(b)) may also constitute an unforeseeable emergency.
Generally the purchase of a home or the payment of college tuition
are not unforeseeable emergencies. Whether a Participant is faced
with an unforeseeable emergency is to be determined based on the
relevant facts and circumstances of each case, but, in any case, a
distribution on account of unforeseeable emergency may not be made
to the extent that such 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
liquidation of assets would not cause severe financial hardship, or
by cessation of deferrals under the plan. A Hardship and any
resulting distribution will be determined in accordance with
section 409A of the Code and guidance issued by the Service there
under. The Committee will have sole discretion to determine whether
a Hardship condition exists and the amount of the distribution. The
Committee’s determination will be final.
A Participant must submit a written
request for a distribution based on Hardship to the Committee on
the form and in the manner prescribed by the Committee. The
Hardship request must: (i) describe and certify the Hardship
condition substantiating the severe unforeseeable emergency and all
circumstances necessary to meet the definition of Hardship;
(ii) state the amount the Participant requests as a withdrawal
of all or a portion of his Deferral Account; and
(iii) demonstrate the amounts requested to be distributed do
not exceed the amounts necessary to satisfy such emergency plus
amounts necessary to pay any federal, state, local, or foreign
income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated as a result of the
distribution. Determinations of amounts necessary to satisfy an
emergency must take into account any additional compensation that
will be made available due to the restriction on further deferrals
set forth below in this Section. The Committee will have sole
discretion to determine whether a Hardship exists and to determine
the appropriate action, if any, provided however, in no event will
the Committee approve a Hardship distribution request for expenses
related to any medical condition or expenses related to the death
of any person unless the request for distribution is submitted to
the Committee and approved by the Committee for Hardship
distribution prior to the date on which the expense is incurred.
The Committee, in its sole discretion, may make exception to the
foregoing rule if it determines that the circumstances creating the
expense for which
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reimbursement is sought were not reasonably
foreseeable. Regardless of whether the Participant desires to
reduce or cease any Compensation amounts to be deferred after the
Hardship request is made, the Participant will be precluded from
deferring Compensation for the remainder of the Plan Year in which
a Hardship is approved by the Committee.
2.16 Insolvent
means the Company is (i) unable
to pay its debts as they become due or (ii) subject to a
pending proceeding as a debtor under the United States Bankruptcy
Code.
2.17 Investment
Options means the
investments designated by the Committee as the basis for
determining the earnings return to be allocated to
Participants’ Deferral Accounts. The Committee may change
Investment Options at such times as it deems
appropriate.
2.18 Participant
means an Eligible Employee who is
eligible to participate in the Plan as provided in Section 3.1
and who has made an election to defer Compensation pursuant to
Section 3.2.
2.19 Plan means the Zions Bancorporation Restated Deferred
Compensation Plan, as set forth in this document, as amended from
time to time.
2.20 Plan Year
means the Company’s fiscal
year, beginning January 1 and ending
December 31.
2.21 Retirement Age
means, while employed by the
Company, attainment of age 55 with 10 Years of Service
(“Early Retirement Age”), or attainment of age 65,
without regard to Years of Service.
2.22 Service
means the Internal Revenue Service
of the United States.
2.23 Specified
Employee means a
Participant who, as the date of such Participant’s Separation
from Service is a key employee of the Company if the Participant
meets the requirements of section 416(i)(1)(A)(i), (ii) or
(iii) of the Code (applied in accordance with the regulations
thereunder and disregarding section 416(i)(5))at any time during
the 12 month period ending December 31. The determination date
of Specified Employees shall be made as of each January 1. If
a Participant is a key employee as of January 1, the
Participant is treated as a key employee for the entire 12 month
period beginning on January 1 and ending on
December 31.
2.24 Year of Service
means, with respect to a
Participant, a calendar year during which the Eligible Employee was
in full time employment with the Company for the entire year. Full
time employment shall be determined according to the rules adopted
and utilized by the Company to classify full time
employees.
2.25 Separation from
Service means a
Participant who is an employee of the Company has died, retired or
otherwise has a Termination of Employment. However, the employment
relationship is treated as continuing intact while the employee is
on military leave, sick leave, or other bona fide leave of absence
if the period of such leave does not exceed six months, or if
longer, so long as the individual retains a right to reemployment
with the Company under an
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applicable statute or by contract. A leave of
absence constitutes a bona fide leave of absence only if there is a
reasonable expectation that the employee will return to perform
services for the Company. If the period of leave exceeds six months
and the individual does not retain a right to reemployme