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ZIONS BANCORPORATION SECOND RESTATED AND REVISED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

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Title: ZIONS BANCORPORATION SECOND RESTATED AND REVISED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
Date: 2/27/2009
Industry: Regional Banks     Sector: Financial

ZIONS BANCORPORATION SECOND RESTATED AND REVISED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN, Parties: zions bancorporation
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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:

 

 

(a)

on the day before the Effective Date was a participant in this Plan; or

 

 

(b)

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

 

 

(c)

having satisfied (a) or (b), is identified by the Committee and designated as eligible to participate in the Plan;

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


 
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