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Terms and Conditions of Stock Option Agreement (Nonqualified Option) 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan

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Title: Terms and Conditions of Stock Option Agreement (Nonqualified Option) 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan
Date: 2/26/2009
Industry: Auto and Truck Manufacturers     Sector: Consumer Cyclical

Terms and Conditions of Stock Option Agreement (Nonqualified Option) 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan, Parties: ford motor co
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Exhibit 10-O-3

 

Terms and Conditions of Stock Option Agreement (Nonqualified Option)

2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan

 

Effective for Options and/or Stock Appreciation Rights granted on or after May 8, 2008.

 

Please refer to Appendix A for Additional Country-Specific Information

 

1.

The Option may not be exercised prior to the date one year from the date of the Stock Option Agreement of which these terms and conditions are a part (the Agreement). Thereafter, the Option may be exercised in installments as follows:

 

 

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(a) Beginning on the date one year from the date of the Agreement, the Option may be exercised to the extent of 33% of the shares originally covered thereby;

 

 

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(b) Beginning on the date two years from the date of the Agreement, the Option may be exercised to the extent of an additional 33% of the shares originally covered thereby;

 

 

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(c) Beginning on the date three years from the date of the Agreement, the Option may be exercised to the extent of an additional 34% of the shares originally covered thereby; and

 

 

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(d) To the extent not exercised, installments shall be cumulative and may be exercised in whole or in part;

 

all subject to the Agreement and these terms and conditions and any rules and regulations established by the Committee pursuant to the Plan.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if your stock option grant included an incentive stock option (ISO), the ISO portion of the grant would be maximized within permissible regulatory limits. This could result in a different number of options vesting on the first three anniversary dates of the grant under the nonqualified option (NQO) and/or the ISO portion of the grant than the number indicated by the schedule above. In any event, the total number of NQOs and ISOs in the grant, will, as a whole, vest according to the schedule above. Your grant information (available online via Smith Barney's Benefit Access website - www.benefitaccess.com or through a Smith Barney phone representative) will reflect the specific number of ISOs and NQOs vesting on the specific dates.

 

 

2.

The Stock Appreciation Right, if any, granted by the Company to the Optionee under the Agreement shall entitle the Optionee to receive, without payment to the Company and as the Optionee may elect, either (a) that number of shares of Stock determined by dividing (i) the total number of shares of Stock subject to the Option (or the portion or portions thereof which the Optionee from time to time elects to use for purposes of this clause (a)), multiplied by the amount by which the fair market value of a share of Stock on the day this right is exercised exceeds the option price set forth in the Agreement (such amount being hereinafter referred to as the Spread), by (ii) the fair market value of a share of Stock on the exercise date; or (b) cash in an amount determined by multiplying (i) the total number of shares of Stock subject to the Option (or the portion or portions thereof which the Optionee from time to time elects to use for purposes of this clause (b)), by (ii) the amount of the Spread; or (c) a combination of shares of Stock and cash, in amounts determined as set forth in clauses (a) and (b) above; all subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and any rules and regulations established by the Committee pursuant to the Plan.

 

The right of the Optionee to exercise any Stock Appreciation Right shall be cancelled if and to the extent that the Option is exercised. The right of the Optionee to exercise the Option shall be cancelled if and to the extent that shares covered by the Option are used to calculate shares or cash received upon exercise of any Stock Appreciation Right.

 

Fair market value shall mean the closing price at which Stock shall have been reported on the New York Stock Exchange on the date as of which such computation is to be made or, if no such closing price shall have been reported on such day, on the next preceding day on which such closing price of Stock shall have been reported on such Exchange.

 

 

 


 

 

If any fractional share of Stock would otherwise be deliverable to the Optionee upon exercise of any Stock Appreciation Right, the Optionee shall be paid a cash amount equal to the same fraction of the fair market value of the Stock on the date of exercise.

 

Any Stock Appreciation Right shall become and remain exercisable by the Optionee only to the extent that the Option becomes and remains exercisable.

 

 

 

3.

Except as provided in the immediately following two paragraphs, if, prior to the date one year from the date of the Agreement, the Optionee's employment with the Company shall be terminated by the Company, with or without cause, or by the act, death, incapacity or retirement of the Optionee, the Optionee's right to exercise the Option and any Stock Appreciation Right shall terminate on the date of such termination of employment and all rights hereunder and under the Agreement shall cease.

 

Notwithstanding the provisions of the next preceding paragraph, if the Optionee's employment with the Company shall be terminated by reason of retirement, release because of disability or death, and the Optionee had remained in the employ of the Company for at least six months following the date of the Agreement, and subject to the provisions of Article 4 hereof, all the Optionee's rights hereunder and under the Agreement shall continue in effect or continue to accrue until the date ten years after the date of the Agreement, subject, in the event of the Optionee's death during such ten-year period, to the provisions of the sixth paragraph of this Article and subject to any other limitation contained herein or in the Agreement on the exercise of the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right in effect at the date of exercise.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein or in the Agreement, if the Optionee's employment with the Company shall be terminated at any time by reason of a sale or other disposition (including, without limitation, a transfer to a Joint Venture (as hereinafter defined)) of the division, operation or subsidiary in which the Optionee was employed or to which the Optionee was assigned, all the Optionee's rights under the Option and any Stock Appreciation Right granted to him or her shall become immediately exercisable and continue in effect until the date five years after the date of such termination (but not later than the date ten years from the date of grant of the Option), provided the Optionee shall satisfy both of the following conditions: (a) the Optionee, at the date of such termination, had remained in the employ of the Company for at least three months following the grant of the Option and any Stock Appreciation Right, and (b) the Optionee continues to be or becomes employed in such division, operation or subsidiary following such sale or other disposition and remains in such employ until the date of exercise of the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right (unless the Committee, or any committee appointed by it for the purpose, shall waive this condition (b)). Upon termination of the Optionee's employment with such (former) division, operation or subsidiary following such sale or other disposition, any then existing right of the Optionee to exercise the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right shall be subject to the following limitations: (i) if the Optionee's employment is terminated by reason of disability, death or retirement with the approval of his or her employer, the Optionee's rights shall continue as provided in the preceding sentence with the same effect as if his or her employment had not terminated; (ii) if the Optionee's employment is terminated by reason of discharge or voluntary quit, the Optionee's rights shall terminate on the date of such termination of employment and all rights under the Option and any Stock Appreciation Right shall cease; and (iii) if the Optionee's employment is terminated for any reason other than a reason set forth in the preceding clauses (i) and (ii), the Optionee shall have the right, within three months after such termination, to exercise the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right to the extent that it or any installment thereof shall have accrued at the date of such termination and shall not have been exercised, subject in the case of any such termination to the provisions of Article 4 hereof and any other limitation on the exercise of the Option and any Stock Appreciation Right in effect at the date of exercise. For purposes of this paragraph, the term Joint Venture shall mean any joint venture corporation or partnership, or comparable entity, in which the Company has a substantial equity interest.

 

If, on or after the date one year from the date of the Agreement, the Optionee's employment with the Company shall be terminated for any reason except retirement, release because of disability, death, release because of a sale or other disposition of the division, operation or subsidiary in which the Optionee was employed or to which the Optionee was assigned, discharge, release in the best interest of the Company or voluntary quit, the Optionee shall have the right, within three months after such termination, to exercise the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right to the extent that it or any installment thereof shall have accrued at the date of such termination of employment and shall not have been exercised, subject to the provisions of Article 4 hereof and any other limitation contained herein or in the Agreement on the exercise of the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right in effect at the date of exercise.

 

 

 


 

 

If the Optionee's employment with the Company shall be terminated at any time by reason of discharge, release in the best interest of the Company or voluntary quit, the Optionee's right to exercise the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right shall terminate on the date of such termination of employment and all rights hereunder and under the Agreement shall cease.

 

If the Optionee shall die within the applicable period specified in the second, third, or fourth paragraph of this Article, the beneficiary designated pursuant to Article 7 hereof or, if no such designation is in effect, the executor or administrator of the estate of the decedent or the person or persons to whom the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right shall have been validly transferred by the executor or the administrator pursuant to will or the laws of descent and distribution shall have the right, within the same period of time as the period during which the Optionee would have been entitled to exercise the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right if the Optionee had not died, to exercise the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right (except that, if the fourth paragraph of this Article shall apply to the Optionee, the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right may be exercised only to the extent that it or any installment thereof shall have accrued at the date of death and shall not have been exercised, and except that the period of time within which the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right shall be exercisable following the date of the Optionee's death shall not be less than one year (unless the Option by its terms expires earlier)), subject to the provision that neither the Option nor any Stock Appreciation Right shall be exercised under any circumstances beyond ten years from the date of the Agreement and to any other limitation on the exercise of the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right in effect at the date of exercise.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in the Agreement or in these terms and conditions, neither the Option nor any Stock Appreciation Right shall be exercised on or after the date ten years from the date of the Agreement.

 

 

4.

Anything contained herein or in the Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, the right of the Optionee to exercise the Option or any Stock Appreciation Right following termination of the Optionee's employment with the Company shall remain effective only if, during the entire period from the date of the Optionee's termination to the date of such exercise, the Optionee shall have earned out such right by (i) making himself or herself available, upon request, at reasonable times and upon a reasonable basis, to consult with, supply information to and otherwise cooperate with the Company or any subsidiary thereof with respect to any matter that shall have been handled by him or her or under his or her supervision while he or she was in the employ of the Company or of any subsidiary thereof, and (ii) refraining from engaging in any activity that is directly or indirectly in competition with any activity of the Company or any subsidiary thereof.

 

In the event of the Optionee's nonfulfillment of the condition set forth in the immediately pr


 
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