DENTAL
PATIENT CARE AMERICA, INC.
2007 STOCK
OPTION PLAN
1. Purpose; Effectiveness of the
Plan.
(a) The purpose of this Plan is to
advance the interests of the Company and its shareholders by
helping the Company obtain and retain the services of employees,
officers, consultants, independent contractors and directors, upon
whose judgment, initiative and efforts the Company is substantially
dependent, and to provide those persons with further incentives to
advance the interests of the Company.
(b) This Plan will become effective
on the date of its adoption by the Board. This Plan will remain in
effect until it is terminated by the Board under Section 9 hereof
or until the ten year anniversary of Board approval of the Plan,
whichever is earlier, except that no option will be granted after
the tenth anniversary of the date of this Plan’s adoption by
the Board and no option granted hereunder shall expire by reason of
the termination of the Plan. This Plan will be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of
Utah.
2. Certain Definitions. Unless the
context otherwise requires, the following defined terms (together
with other capitalized terms defined elsewhere in this Plan) will
govern the construction of this Plan, and of any stock option
agreements entered into pursuant to this Plan:
(a) “1933 Act” means the
Federal Securities Act of 1933, as amended;
(b) “Board” means the
Board of Directors of the Company;
(c) “Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (references herein to
Sections of the Code are intended to refer to Sections of the Code
as enacted at the time of this Plan’s adoption by the Board
and as subsequently amended, or to any substantially similar
successor provisions of the Code resulting from recodification,
renumbering or otherwise);
(d) “Company” means
Dental Patient Care America, Inc., a Utah corporation;
(f) “Disability” has the
same meaning as “permanent and total disability,” as
defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code;
(g) “Eligible
Participants” means persons who, at a particular time, are
employees, officers, consultants (but only if such consultant is a
natural person who provides bona fide services to the Company which
services are not in connection with a capital raising transaction
and who does not directly or indirectly promote the Company’s
stock), or directors of the Company or its subsidiaries;
(h) “Fair Market Value”
means, with respect to the Stock and as of the date an ISO is
granted hereunder, the market price per share of such Stock
determined by the Board, consistent with the requirements of
Section 422 of the Code and to the extent consistent therewith, as
follows:
(i) If the Stock was traded on a
stock exchange on the date in question, when the Fair Market Value
will be equal to the closing price reported by the applicable
composite-transactions report for the day preceding such
date;
(ii) If the Stock was traded
over-the-counter on the date in question and was classified as a
national market issue, then the Fair Market Value will be equal to
the last-transaction price quoted by the NASDAQ system for the day
preceding such date;
(iii) If the Stock was traded
over-the-counter on the date in question but was not classified as
a national market issue, then the Fair Market Value will be equal
to the average of the last reported representative bid and asked
prices quoted by the NASDAQ system for the day preceding such date;
and
(iv) If none of the foregoing
provisions is applicable, then the Fair Market Value will be
determined by the Board in good faith on such basis as it deems
appropriate.
(j) “Just Cause
Termination” means a termination by the Company of an
Optionee’s employment by and/or service to the Company (or if
the Optionee is a director, removal of the Optionee from the Board
by action of the shareholders or, if permitted by applicable law
and the bylaws of the Company, the other directors), in connection
with the good faith determination of the Company’s board of
directors (or of the Company’s shareholders if the Optionee
is a director and the removal of the Options from the Board is by
action of the shareholders, but in either case excluding the vote
of the Optionee if he or she is a director or a shareholder) that
the Optionee has engaged in any acts involving dishonesty or moral
turpitude. For purposes of this definition, the
“Company” will also include a subsidiary of Dental
Patient Care America, Inc. if the Optionee is acting as an
employee, officer, consultant, independent contractor and/or
director of such subsidiary;
(k) “NSO” means any
option granted under this Plan whether designated by the Board as a
“non-qualified stock option,” a “non-statutory
stock option” or otherwise, other than an option designated
by the Board as an ISO, or any option so designated but which, for
any reason, fails to qualify as an ISO pursuant to Section 422 of
the Code and the rules and regulations thereunder;
(l) “Option” means an
option granted pursuant to this Plan entitling the option holder to
acquire shares of Stock issued by the Company pursuant to the valid
exercise of the option;
(m) “Option Agreement”
means an agreement between the Company and an Optionee, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Board in its sole discretion,
consistent with this Plan;
(n) “Option Price” with
respect to any particular Option means the exercise price at which
the Optionee may acquire each share of the Option Stock called for
under such Option;
(o) “Option Stock” means
Stock issued or issuable by the Company pursuant to the valid
exercise of an Option;
(p) “Optionee” means an
Eligible Participant to whom Options are granted hereunder, and any
transferee thereof pursuant to a Transfer authorized under this
Plan;
(q) “Plan” means this
2007 Stock Option Plan of the Company;
(r) “QDRO” has the same
meaning as “qualified domestic relations order” as
defined in Section 414(p) of the Code;
(s) “Stock” means shares
of the Company’s common stock, par value $.001 per
share;
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(t) “subsidiary” has the
same meaning as “Subsidiary Corporation” as defined in
Section 424(f) of the Code; and
(u) “Transfer,” with
respect to Option Stock, includes, without limitation, a voluntary
or involuntary sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance, pledge,
hypothecation, encumbrance, disposal, loan, gift, attachment or
levy of such Option Stock.
3. Eligibility. The Company may grant
Options under this Plan only to persons who are Eligible
Participants as of the time of such grant. Subject to the
provisions of Sections 4(c), 5 and 6 hereof, there is no limitation
on the number of Options that may be granted to an Eligible
Participant.
4. Administration.
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(a) General. The Board will administer
this Plan.
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(b) Authority and Discretion of
Board. The Board will have full and final authority in its
discretion, at any time and from time to time, subject only to the
express terms, conditions and other provisions of the
Company’s Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws and this Plan,
and the specific limitations on such discretion set forth
herein:
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(i)
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to select and approve the persons who will be
granted Options under this Plan from among the Eligible
Participants, and to grant to any person so selected one or more
Options to purchase such number of shares of Option Stock as the
Board may determine;
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(ii)
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to determine the period or periods of time
during which Options may be exercised, the Option Price and the
duration of such Options, and other matters to be determined by the
Board in connection with specific Option grants and Option
Agreements as specified under this Plan; and
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(iii)
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to interpret this Plan, to prescribe, amend and
rescind rules and regulations relating to this Plan, and to make
all other determinations necessary or advisable for the operation
and administration of this Plan.
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(c) Designation of Options.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the Board will designate any
Option granted hereunder either as an ISO or as an NSO. To the
extent that the Fair Market Value (determined at the time the
Option is granted) of Stock with respect to which all ISOs are
exercisable for the first time by any individual during any
calendar year (pursuant to this Plan and all other plans of the
Company and/or its subsidiaries) exceeds $100,000, such option will
be treated as an NSO. Notwithstanding the general eligibility
provisions of Section 3 hereof, the Board may grant ISOs only to
persons who are employees of the Company and/or its
subsidiaries.
(d) Option Agreements.
Options will be deemed granted hereunder only upon the execution
and delivery of an Option Agreement by the Optionee and a duly
authorized officer of the Company. Options will not be deemed
granted hereunder merely upon the authorization of such grant by
the Board.
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5. Shares Reserved for
Options.
(a) Option Pool. The
aggregate number of shares of Option Stock that may be issued
pursuant to the exercise of Options granted under this Plan will
not exceed 14,000,000 shares of Stock (the “Option
Pool”), provided that such number will be increased by the
number of shares of Option Stock that the Company subsequently may
reacquire through repurchase or otherwise. Shares of Option Stock
that would have been issuable pursuant to Options, but that are no
longer issuable because all or part of those Options have
terminated or expired, will be deemed not to have been issued for
purposes of computing the number of shares of Option Stock
remaining in the Option Pool and available for issuance.
(b) Adjustments Upon Changes in
Stock. In the event of any change in the outstanding Stock of
the Company as a result of a stock split, r