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EXHIBIT
10.5
March 27,
1995
BC INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATION
STOCK OPTION PLAN FOR
NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS
The purpose of this BC
International Corporation Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee
Directors (the “Plan”) is to attract and retain the
services of certain experienced and knowledgeable independent
directors of BC International Corporation (the
“Company”) for the benefit of the Company and its
stockholders and to provide additional incentive for such directors
to continue to promote the best interests of the Company and its
stockholders through continuing ownership of its common
stock.
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2. |
Shares Subject to the Plan. |
The total number of
shares(““) of the Company’s Common Stock, without
par value (“Common Stock”) for which options may be
granted under the Plan shall not exceed 40 shares in the aggregate,
subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 10
hereof.
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3. |
Administration of Plan. |
The Plan shall be
administered by a committee (the “Compensation
Committee”) consisting of two or more directors appointed by
the Board, all of whom shall be “disinterested persons”
(as hereinafter defined). For the purposes of the Plan, a director
or member of such committee shall be deemed to be
“disinterested” only if such person qualifies as a
“disinterested” only within the meaning of Rule 16b-3
promulgated under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, as such term is interpreted by the Board in its sole
discretion. In the absence of other action by the Board, the
Compensation Committee shall consist of all disinterested members,
and action may be taken at a Board meeting or
otherwise The Board may at any time and
from time to time hereafter appoint a member or members of the
Compensation Committee in substitution for or in addition to the
member or members then in office and may fill vacancies on the
Compensation Committee however caused. No person shall be appointed
to the Compensation Committee who has been within one year of his
appointment to the Compensation Committee granted or awarded any
equity securities pursuant to any other plan of the Company or any
of its affiliates entitling participants therein to acquire stock,
stock options or stock appreciation rights of the Company or any of
its affiliates, and no person shall be a member of the Compensation
Committee who is not a director of the Company.
No member of the
Administrator shall act upon any matter exclusively affecting any
option granted or to be granted to himself under the Plan. The
decision of the Compensation Committee as to all questions of
interpretation and application of the Plan shall be final, binding
and conclusive on all persons. The Compensation Committee shall
have authority, subject to the express provisions of the Plan, to
construe the respective option agreements and the Plan, to
prescribe, amend and rescind rules and regulations relating to the
Plan, to determine the terms and provisions of the respective
option agreements, which may but need not be identical, and to make
all other determinations in the judgment of the Compensation
Committee necessary or desirable for the administration of the
Plan. The Compensation Committee may correct any defect or supply
any omission or reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan or in any
option agreement in the manner and to the extent it shall deem
expedient to carry the Plan into effect and shall be the sole and
final judge of such expediency.
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4. |
Eligibility; Grant of Option. |
The Compensation Committee
shall grant options to purchase 4 shares under the Plan to each
newly elected Outside Director (as defined below) upon his or her
election as a Director. Thereafter, the Compensation Committee
shall grant options to purchase an additional 4 shares under the
Plan to each Outside Director continuing in office upon his or her
election as a Director at every third annual meeting thereafter.
For the purposes of this Plan, an “Outside Director”
shall be a director of the Company who (i) is not an employee
of the Company or any subsidiary, (ii) neither has nor has
had, nor is affiliated with an entity or person which has or has
had, a business relationship (other than as Director) with the
Company within the year prior to his or her election, and
(iii) has no significant stock ownership in the Company (as
determined by the Board). Such options shall be non-qualified
options, not intended to meet the requirements of Section 422
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
Each option granted under the
Plan shall be evidenced by an option agreement (the
“Agreement”) duly executed on behalf of the Company and
by the director to whom such option is granted, which Agreements
may but need not be identical and shall (i) comply with and be
subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and
(ii) provide that the optionee agrees to continue to serve as
a director of the Company during the term for which he or she was
elected. Any Agreement may contain such other terms, provisions and
conditions not inconsistent with the Plan as may be determined by
the Compensation Committee. No option shall be granted within the
meaning of the Plan and no purported grant of any option shall be
effective, until such an Agreement shall have been duly executed on
behalf of the Company and the director to whom the option is to be
granted.
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6. |
Option Exercise Price. |
Subject to the provision of
Section 10 hereof, the option exercise price for an option
granted under the Plan shall be the Fair Market Value (as defined
below) of shares of Common Stock on the day preceding the date of
grant. If the Common Stock is publicly traded, “Fair Market
Value” shall mean, as applied to a specific date, the price
of the last sale on that date on the principal stock exchange
listing the Common Stock, or the average of the closing bid and
asked prices of the Company’s Common Stock on such date, if
the is no such exchange.
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7. |
Time and Manner of Exercise of Option. |
Options granted under the
Plan shall, subject to Section 8(b) and Section 17
hereof, be exercisable in four equal annual installments,
commencing one year from the date of grant. To the extent that the
right to exercise an option has accrued and is in effect, the
option may be exercised in full at one time or in part from time to
time, by giving written notice to the Company, signed by the person
or persons exercising the option, stating the number of Shares with
respect to which the option is being exercised, accompanied by
payment in full for such Shares, which payment may be in whole or
in part in shares of Common Stock already owned by the person or
persons exercising the option, valued at Fair Market Value on the
date of exercise. Upon such exercise, delivery of a certificate for
paid-up nonassessable Shares shall be made at the principal office
of the Company to the person or persons exercising the option,
within thirty (30) days from the date of receipt of the notice
of exercise by the Company, or at such time and place as may be
agreed upon by the Company and the person or persons exercising the
option.
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(a) Each option shall expire
not more than ten (10) years from the date of the granting
thereof, but shall be subject to earlier termination as herein
provided. Options are exercisable during the lifetime of the option
holder only while the option holder is serving as a director to the
Company or within three months after termination of service as a
director. In the event that such termination is due to death or
disability, the option is exercisable for a twelve-month period
after such termination.
(b) In the event of the death
of any optionee, the option granted to such optionee may be
exercised by the legal representative of the estate of such
optionee, or by any person or persons who acquired the right to
exercise such option by bequest or inheritance by reason of the
death of such optionee, to the extent permitted under the Agreement
governing the Option.
(c) An option granted to an
optionee who ceases to be a director of the Company shall be
exercisable only to the extent that the right to purchase shares
under such option has accrued and is in effect on the date such
optionee ceases to be a director of the Company.
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9. |
Options Not Transferable. |
The right of any optionee to
exercise an option granted under the Plan shall not be assignable
or transferable by such optionee otherwise than by will or the laws
of descent and distribution or pursuant to a qualified domestic
relations order, and any such option shall be exercisable during
the lifetime of such optionee only by the optionee. Except as
otherwise
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provided in an Agreement pursuant to
Section 5 hereof, any option granted under the Plan
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