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EXHIBIT 10.1
SIX FLAGS, INC.
2007 STOCK OPTION AND INCENTIVE PLAN
I. THE PLAN
There is hereby established the 2007 Stock Option and Incentive
Plan (the
"Plan") for Six Flags, Inc. (the "Company"), under which options
may be granted
to purchase shares of the common stock of the Company, under
which shares of
such common stock may be granted or sold at incentive prices
below the market
price at the time of sale, and under which stock appreciation
rights may be
granted.
II. DEFINITIONS
As used herein, the terms set forth below shall have the
following
respective meanings:
(a) "Award" means an Employee Award or a Director Award.
(b) "Award Agreement" means an Employee Award Agreement or
Director
Award Agreement.
(c) "Board" means the Board of Directors of the Company.
(d) "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
(e) "Company" means Six Flags, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and
its
successors.
(f) "Committee" means the Compensation Committee of the Board or
such
other committee of the Board as is designated by the Board
to
administer the Plan.
(g) "Director" means an individual serving as a member of the
Board.
(h) "Director Award" means the grant of Director Options to
a
Non-Employee Director.
(i) "Director Award Agreement" means a written agreement between
the
Company and a Participant who is a Non-Employee Director
setting
forth the terms, conditions and limitations applicable to a
Director
Award.
(j) "Director Option" means a Nonqualified Stock Option granted
to a
Non-Employee Director.
(k "Employee" means an officer or key employee of the Company or
its
Subsidiaries, including an officer or key employee who serves as
a
member of the Board.
(l) "Employee Award" means the grant of options, stock
appreciation
rights, shares or rights to purchase shares, whether granted
singly,
in combination or in tandem, to a Participant who is an
Employee.
(m) "Employee Award Agreement" means a written agreement between
the
Company and a Participant who is an Employee setting forth
the
terms, conditions and limitations applicable to an Employee
Award.
(n) "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as
amended.
(o) "Incentive Stock Option" means an option that is intended to
comply
with the requirements set forth in Section 422 of the Code.
(p) "Non-Employee Director" means a Director who is not an
employee of
the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(q) "Nonqualified Stock Option" means an option that is not an
Incentive
Stock Option.
(r) "Participant" means an Employee or Director to whom an Award
has
been made under the Plan.
(s) "Performance Goals" mean the measurable performance
objective or
objectives established pursuant to the Plan for Participants
who
have received, when so determined by the Committee, grants
of
shares of common stock pursuant to the Plan. Performance
Goals
may be described in terms of Company-wide objectives or
objectives that are related to the performance of the
individual
Participant or of the Subsidiary, division, department,
park,
region or function within the Company or Subsidiary in which
the
Participant is employed. The Performance Goals may be made
relative to the performance of other companies and will be
based
on one or more of the following business criteria: earnings
before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization; net
income; pretax earnings; operating income; pro forma net
income;
appreciation in value of shares; total shareholder return;
earnings per share; return on equity; return on designated
assets; return on capital; economic value added; revenues
(including net revenue per capita and sponsorship revenues);
expenses; operating cash flow; free cash flow; cash flow
return
on investment; operating margin or net profit margin;
attendance;
or any of the above criteria as compared to the performance of
a
published or a special index deemed applicable by the
Committee.
If the Committee determines that a change in the business,
operations, corporate structure or capital structure of the
Company, or the manner in which it conducts its business, or
other events or circumstances render the Performance Goals
unsuitable, the Committee may in its discretion modify such
Performance Goals or the related minimum acceptable level of
achievement, in whole or in part, as the Committee deems
appropriate and equitable, except in the case of a covered
employee (within the meaning of section 162(m) of the Code)
where
such action would result in the loss of the otherwise
available
exemption of the award under Section 162(m) of the Code.
(t) "Subsidiary" means a corporation so defined under Section
424(f) of
the Code.
III. AMOUNT OF STOCK
(a) A maximum of four million (4,000,000) shares of the
Company's common
stock may be issued under the Plan upon exercises of options or
stock
appreciation rights or upon grants or purchases at incentive
prices. Such shares
may be authorized but unissued shares, shares held in the
treasury or
outstanding shares purchased from their owners on the market or
otherwise. If
any option or stock appreciation right granted under the Plan is
forfeited,
terminates or is cancelled for any reason before the option or
stock
appreciation right is exercised in full, the shares previously
reserved for
issuance upon exercise of such option or stock appreciation
right shall not
count toward the maximum number of shares or options or stock
appreciation
rights that may be issued under the Plan, as adjusted pursuant
to the next
paragraph, and such shares shall again be available to be issued
under the Plan.
(b) If the outstanding shares of the Company's common stock are
from time
to time increased, decreased, changed into or exchanged for a
different number
or kind of shares of the Company through merger, consolidation,
reorganization,
split-up, split-off, spin-off, recapitalization,
reclassification, stock
dividend, stock split or reverse stock split, an appropriate and
proportionate
adjustment shall be made in the number, kind and price of shares
which may be
issued pursuant to Awards under the Plan, such that each Award
shall be for such
securities, cash and/or other property as would have been
received and at such
exercise price or purchase price as would have been paid in
respect of such
shares had the shares been issued in full immediately prior to
such increase,
decrease, change or exchange. Such adjustment shall be made
successively each
time that any such increase, decrease, change or exchange is
made. In addition,
in the event of any such increase, decrease, change or exchange,
the Committee
shall make such further adjustments as are appropriate to the
maximum number of
shares subject to the Plan, to the other provisions of the Plan
and to Awards
pursuant to the Plan. Except to the extent provided in this
Section III, no
reduction shall be made in the exercise price of any option or
stock
appreciation right and no option or stock appreciation right
shall be regranted
with a lower exercise price or cancelled and replaced with an
option or stock
appreciation right having a lower exercise price.
(c) To the extent that the aggregate fair market value of stock
subject to
one or more Incentive Stock Options that are first exercisable
by an Employee in
any calendar year under the Plan (and under all other plans of
the Company and
its Subsidiaries) exceeds $100,000, determined as of the time
the options are
granted, such options shall be treated as Nonqualified Stock
Options. This
limitation will be applied by taking into account options in the
order in which
they were granted.
IV. ADMINISTRATION
(a) The Plan shall be administered by the Committee, which shall
include
not fewer than two Directors, each of whom shall be a
"Non-Employee Director"
within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange
Act and an
"outside director" within the meaning of Treasury Regulation
Section
1.162-27(e)(3). The Board may from time to time remove members
from or add
members to the Committee. Vacancies on the Committee, however
caused, shall be
filled by the Board. A majority of the Committee shall
constitute a quorum and
the acts of a majority of the members present at any meeting
(held at a time and
place determined by, and in accordance with rules adopted by,
the Committee) at
which a quorum is present, or actions approved in writing by a
majority of the
members of the Committee, shall constitute acts of the
Committee.
(b) Subject to the express terms and conditions of the Plan, the
Committee
shall have full power to construe the Plan, to prescribe, amend
and rescind
rules and regulations relating to the Plan and to make all other
determinations
necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan. The
exercise of these
powers by the Committee shall be conclusive and binding upon all
present, past
and future Participants in the Plan.
(c) The Committee may from time to time determine to which
Employees and
Non-Employee Directors eligible for selection as Participants in
the Plan, if
any, Awards shall be made under the Plan, the number of shares
which may be
issued in connection with each such Award, the restrictions and
forfeiture
provisions related to such Awards, the periods after which
shares subject to an
Award shall vest and after which options and stock appreciation
rights may be
exercised and incentive shares may be purchased, the
circumstances under which
such periods may be accelerated, the exercise price of options
and stock
appreciation rights and the purchase price of shares subject to
Awards, the
means of payment of such exercise price or purchase price, the
means of payment
of any withholding taxes related to an Award,
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