PRO-DEX, INC.
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
2004 STOCK OPTION PLAN
This Second Amended and Restated 2004 Stock Option Plan (the
“ Plan ”) is adopted in consideration for
services rendered and to be rendered to Pro-Dex, Inc. or any
Related Company (as defined below).
1.
Definitions . The terms used in this Plan shall, unless
otherwise indicated or required by the particular context, have the
following meanings:
(a) Award Shares : The shares
of Common Stock underlying an Option or Restricted Stock granted to
an Employee.
(b) Board : The Board of
Directors of Pro-Dex, Inc.
(c) Code : The Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(d) Common Stock : The no par
value common stock of Pro-Dex, Inc.
(e) Company : Pro-Dex, Inc., a
corporation incorporated under the laws of Colorado, and any
successors in interest by merger, operation of law, assignment or
purchase of all or substantially all of the property, assets or
business of the Company.
(f) Date of Grant
: The date on which an Option is granted under the Plan.
(g) Disinterested Person : A
director who has not been granted or awarded equity securities
pursuant to any plan of the Company or of any Related Company of
the Company during one year prior to that director’s service
as an administrator of the Plan, except as otherwise provided in
Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”) with respect
to (i) participation in formula plans or ongoing securities
acquisitions plans, and (ii) an election to receive securities for
an annual retainer fee.
(h) Employee : An
Employee is an employee of the Company or any Related Company.
(i) Fair Market
Value : The Fair Market Value of the Option Shares. Such Fair
Market Value as of any date shall be determined by the Option
Committee as of the last business day for which the prices or
quotes discussed in this sentence are available prior to the date
an Option is granted and shall mean (i) the average (on that date)
of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on the principal
national securities exchange by which the Common Stock is traded,
if the stock is then traded on a national securities exchange; or,
(ii) the last reported sale price (on that date) of the Common
Stock on an established securities market, if the stock is not then
traded on a national securities exchange; or (iii) the closing bid
price (or average of bid prices) last quoted (on that date) by an
established securities market or quotation service for
over-the-counter securities, if the last sale price is not reported
for the stock on the service or market on which the stock is
quoted. However, if the Common Stock is not publicly-traded
at the time an Option is granted under the Plan, Fair Market Value
shall be deemed to be the fair value of the stock as determined in
good faith by the Board or the Option Committee, provided that such
valuation shall take into account all available information
material to the value of the company, including but not limited to
the value of the tangible and intangible assets of the company, the
present value of its anticipated future cash flows, the market
value of the stock or equity interests in other entities engaged in
substantially the same business, recent arm’s length
transactions involving the sale of such stock, and other relevant
factors, and a written record of the method of determining such
value shall be maintained.
(j)
Incentive Stock Options (“ISOs”) :
“Incentive Stock Options” as that term is defined in
Section 422 of the Code.
(k) Key Employee :
A person designated by the Option Committee who either is employed
by the Company or a Related Company (see below) and upon whose
judgment, initiative and efforts the Company or a Related Company
is largely dependent for the successful conduct of its business;
provided, however, that Key Employees shall not include those
members of the Board who are not employees of the Company or a
Related Company.
(l)
Non-Incentive Stock Options (“Non-ISOs” ):
Options which are not intended to qualify as “Incentive Stock
Options” under Section 422 of the Code.
(m) Option :
The rights granted to an Employee to purchase Common Stock pursuant
to the terms and conditions of an Option Agreement.
(n) Option
Agreement : The written agreement (and any amendment or
supplement thereto) between the Company and an Employee designating
the terms and conditions of an Option.
(o)
Option Committee : With respect to grants of Options to
Employees who are not also Officers and/or Directors of the
Company, the Plan shall be administered by an Option Committee
(“ Option Committee ”) composed of the Board or
at least two members of the Board. With respect to grants of
Options to Employees who are also Officers or Directors, the Plan
shall be administered by a committee, selected by the Board,
consisting of two or more persons, each of whom is a Disinterested
Person. Such committee may also be deemed an Option Committee.
(p)
Option Shares : The shares of Common Stock underlying an
Option granted to an Employee.
(q)
Optionee : An Employee who has been granted an Option.
(r)
Related Company : Any corporation that is a “parent
corporation” or a “subsidiary corporation” with
respect to the Company, as those terms are defined in Section 425
of the Code. The determination of whether a corporation is a
Related Company shall be made without regard to whether the
corporation or the relationship between the corporation and the
Company now exists or comes into existence hereinafter.
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(s)
Restricted Stock : Shares of Common Stock granted pursuant
to the terms of Section 12 hereof.
(t)
Restricted Stock Agreement : The written agreement (and any
amendment or supplement thereto) between the Company and an
Employee designating the terms and conditions of Restricted
Stock.
(u)
Stock Award : Any Option or Restricted Stock granted under
this Plan.
2. Purpose
and Scope .
(a) The
purpose of this Plan is to advance the interests of the Company and
its shareholders by affording Employees an opportunity for
investment in the Company and the incentive advantages inherent in
stock ownership in this Company.
(b) This
Plan authorizes the Option Committee to grant Stock Awards to
Employees selected by the Option Committee while considering
criteria such as employment position or other relationship with the
Company, duties and responsibilities, ability, productivity, length
of service or association, morale, interest in the Company,
recommendations by supervisors, and other matters.
3.
Administration of the Plan .
(a) The
Plan shall be administered by the Option Committee. The Option
Committee shall have the authority granted to it under this Section
and under each other Section of the Plan.
(b) In
accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Plan, the
Option Committee shall select the Employees to receive Stock Awards
and shall determine (i) the number of shares of Common Stock to be
subject to each Stock Award, which number shall be fixed as of the
date of grant, (ii) the time at which each Stock Award is to be
granted, (iii) whether a Stock Award shall be granted in exchange
for the cancellation and termination of a previously granted option
or options under the Plan or otherwise, (iv) the purchase price for
the Option Shares, (v) the option period, and (vi) the manner in
which the Option becomes exercisable. In addition, the Option
Committee shall fix such other terms of each Stock Award as the
Option Committee may deem necessary or desirable. The Option
Committee shall determine the form of Option Agreement or
Restricted Stock Agreement to evidence each Stock Award.
(c) The
Option Committee from time to time may adopt such rules and
regulations for carrying out the purposes of the Plan as it may
deem proper and in the best interests of the Company. The Option
Committee shall keep minutes of its meetings and those minutes
shall be distributed to every member of the Board.
(d) The Board may
from time to time make such changes in and additions to the Plan as
it may deem proper and in the best interest of the Company;
provided, however, that no such change or addition shall impair any
Stock Award previously granted under the Plan, and that the
approval by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of
the Company’s securities entitled to vote and represented at
a meeting duly held in accordance with the applicable laws of the
State of California, shall be required for any amendment which
would:
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(i) materially modify the eligibility
requirements for receiving Stock Awards under the Plan;
(ii) materially increase the benefits
accruing to Employees under the Plan; or
(iii) increase the number of shares of
Common Stock that may be issued under the Plan.
(e) All
actions taken and all interpretations and determinations made by
the Option Committee in good faith (including determinations of
Fair Market Value) shall be final and binding upon all Employees,
the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the
Option Committee shall be personally liable for any action,
determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to
the Plan, and all members of the Option Committee shall, in
addition to rights they may have as Directors of the Company be
fully protected by the Company with respect to any such action,
determination or interpretation.
(f) It
is the further intent of the Plan that it conform in all respects
with the requirements of Rule 16b-3 of the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Exchange Act (“ Rule 16b-3
”). To the extent that any aspect of the Plan or its
administration is at any time viewed as inconsistent with the
requirements of Rule 16b-3 or, in connection with ISOs, the Code,
that aspect shall be deemed to be modified, deleted, or otherwise
changed as necessary to ensure continued compliance with the Rule
16b-3 requirements.
4. Number of
Shares . The Board is authorized to appropriate, issue and sell
for the purposes of the Plan, and the Option Committee is
authorized to grant Options with respect to, a total number, not in
excess of 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock, either treasury or
authorized but unissued, or the number and kind of shares of stock
or other securities which in accordance with Section 9 shall
be substituted for the 2,000,000 shares or into which such
2,000,000 shares shall be adjusted. Such number of shares shall
include any options granted under any other stock option plan of
the Company that may from time to time become subject to and
governed by the terms and conditions of this Plan. All or any
unsold shares subject to a Stock Award that for any reason expires
or otherwise terminates, may again be made subject to Stock Awards
under the Plan.
5.
Eligibility . Options which are intended to qualify as ISOs
will be granted only to Key Employees. Key Employees and other
Employees may hold more than one Option under the Plan and may hold
Stock Awards under the Plan and options or awards granted pursuant
to other plans or otherwise.
6. Option
Price . The Option Committee shall determine the purchase price
for the Options Shares, provided that the purchase price to be paid
by Optionees for the Option Shares shall not be less than 100
percent of the Fair Market Value of the Option Shares at the time
the Option is granted. The purchase price for the Option Shares
shall be a fixed, and cannot be a fluctuating, price.
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7.
Duration and Exercise of Options .
(a) Each
Option granted under the Plan shall be exercisable on such date or
dates and during such period and for such number of shares as shall
be determined pursuant to the provisions of the instrument
evidencing such Option. The Option Committee shall have the right
to accelerate the date of exercise of any Option, provided that the
Option Committee shall not accelerate the exercise of any ISO
granted if such acceleration would violate the annual vesting
limitation contained in Section 422(d)(1) of the Code. In no
event shall the Option Committee have the discretion to extend an
Option beyond the earlier of the last date that the Option could
have been exercised under the initial term of the Option and the
date that is 10 years after the initial date of grant, unless said
extension is granted at a time when the exercise price of the
Option does not equal or exceed the Fair Market Value of the stock
that could be purchased pursuant to the Option.
(b) Except as
otherwise permitted under Section 11 , during the lifetime
of the Optionee, the Option shall be exercisable only by the
Optionee; provided, that in the event of the legal disability of an
Optionee, the guardian or personal representative of the Optionee
may exercise the Option. However, if the Option is an ISO it may be
exercised by the guardian or personal representative of the
Optionee only if such guardian or personal representative obtains a
ruling from the Internal Revenue Service or an opinion of counsel
to the effect that neither the grant nor the exercise of such power
is violative of Section 422(b)(5) of the Code. Any opinion of
counsel must be both from counsel and in a form acceptable to the
Option Committee.
(c) The
Option Committee may determine whether any Option shall be
exercisable as provided in Subsection (a) of this Section 7
or whether the Options shall be exercisable in installments only;
if the Option Committee determines the latter, it shall determine
the number of installments and the percentage of the Option
exercisable at each installment date. All such installments shall
be cumulative.
(d) If
the Optionee ceases to be employed by either the Company or a
Related Company because of the death or permanent and total
disability (as defined in Section 22(e) (3) of the Code) of the
Optionee, any Option held by the Optionee at the time his
employment ceases may be exercised within 90 days after the date
his employment ceased, but only to the extent that the Option was
exercisable according to its terms on the date the Optionee’s
employment ceased. After such 90-day period, any unexercised
portion of an Option shall expire.
(e) Notwithstanding
the provisions of Subsection (d) of this Section 7 , if an
Optionee’s employment by the Company or a Related Company
ceases for any reason other than the Optionee’s death or
permanent and total disability, any unexercised portion of any
Option held by the Optionee at the time his employment ceases may
be exercised within 30 days after the date his employment ceased,
but only to the extent that the Option was exercisable according to
its terms on the date the Optionee’s employment ceased. After
such dat
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