Exhibit
10.6 Stock Option Plan
Oxysure Systems,
Inc.
VOTING STOCK OPTION
PLAN
Scope and
Purpose of Plan
The purpose of the Plan is to provide an
incentive for key employees and affiliates of Oxysure Systems, Inc.
(the “Company”) to remain in the service of the
Company, to extend to them the opportunity to acquire a proprietary
interest in the Company so that they will apply their best efforts
for the benefit of the Company, and to aid the Company in
attracting and retaining key personnel.
PARAGRAPH
1. Definitions .
1.1. “Act”
shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended or any
similar or superseding statute or statutes.
1.2. “Administrator”
shall mean the Board of Directors, or, if a committee is appointed
pursuant to Paragraph 3 of the Plan by the Board of Directors to
administer this Plan, such committee.
1.3. “Affiliates”
shall mean (a) any entity, other than the Company, in an unbroken
chain of entities ending with the Company if each of the entities,
other than the Company, owns stock or other equity interests
possessing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting
power of all classes of stock or other equity interests in any of
the other entities in such chain and (b) any entity, other than the
Company, in an unbroken chain of entities beginning with the
Company if each of the entities, other than the last entity in the
unbroken chain, owns stock or other equity interests possessing
fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power of
all classes of stock or other equity interests in one of the other
entities in such chain.
1.4. “Agreement”
shall mean the written agreement between the Company and an
Optionee evidencing the Options granted by the Company.
1.5. “Board
of Directors” shall mean the Board of Directors of the
Company.
1.6. “Shares”
shall mean the Voting Common Stock of the Company, as more
particularly described in the current Bylaws and Articles of
Incorporation of the Company or any other securities that are
substituted therefor as provided in Paragraph 6.5.
hereof.
1.7. “Code”
shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
1.8. “Company”
shall mean Oxysure Systems, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
1.9. “Disability”
shall mean a total and permanent disability as defined in the
Company’s current long term disability plan or, if the
Company has no long term disability plan in effect at the time of
the Optionee’s disability, as determined by the Administrator
in its sole discretion.
1.10. “Eligible
Individuals” shall mean those employees designated by the
Board of Directors as key employees of the Company.
1.11. “Fair
Market Value” of a Shares on a particular date shall be the
closing price for such Shares on such date (or, if the date is not
a business day, then on the next preceding business day), which
shall be: (i) if the Shares are listed or admitted for
trading on any United States national securities exchange, the last
reported sale price for the Shares on such exchange as reported in
any newspaper of general circulation; (ii) if the Shares are quoted
on NASDAQ or any similar system of automated dissemination of
quotations of securities prices in common use, the mean between the
closing high bid and low asked quotations for such day of the
Shares on such system; or (iii) if neither clause (i) nor (ii) is
applicable, a value determined by any fair and reasonable means
prescribed by the Board of Directors.
1.12. “Optionee”
shall mean an Eligible Individual to whom an Option has been
grante.
1.13. “Options”
shall mean voting common stock options granted under this
Plan;
1.14. “Plan”
shall mean the Oxysure Systems, Inc. Voting Stock Option
Plan.
1.15. “Securities
Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or
any similar or superseding statute or statutes.
PARAGRAPH
2. Shares and Maximum Number of Shares Subject to
the Plan .
2.1.
Description of Shares and Maximum Shares Allocated
. The Shares which may be issued upon the exercise of an
Option may either be unissued or reacquired Shares, as the Board of
Directors may, in its sole and absolute discretion, from time to
time determine.
Subject to the adjustments provided in Paragraph
6.5 hereof, the aggregate number of Shares to be issued pursuant to
the exercise of all Options granted under the Plan may equal but
shall not exceed 12,000,000 Shares.
2.2.
Restoration of Unpurchased Shares . If an Option
granted under the Plan expires or terminates for any reason during
the term of this Plan and prior to the exercise of the Option in
full, the Shares subject to, but not issued under, such Option
shall again be available for future Options granted under the Plan
after such Shares become available again.
PARAGRAPH
3. Administration of the Plan .
3.1.
Committee . The Plan shall be administered by the
Administrator. If a committee is appointed, the
committee shall consist of not less than three individuals
appointed by the Board of Directors.
3.2.
Duration, Removal, Etc . If a committee has been
appointed pursuant to Paragraph 3.1. hereof, the members of the
committee shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Directors,
which shall have the power, at any time and from time to time, to
remove members from the committee, or to add members to the
committee. Vacancies on the committee, however caused,
shall be filled by action of the Board of Directors.
3.3.
Meetings and Actions of Administrator . The
Administrator, if a committee, shall elect one of its members as
its chairman and shall hold its meetings at such times and places
as it may determine. All decisions and determinations of
the committee shall be made by the majority vote or decision of all
of its members present at a meeting; provided, however, that any
decision or determination reduced to writing and signed by all of
the members of the Administrator shall be as fully effective as if
it had been made at a meeting duly called and held. The
committee may make any rules and regulations for the conduct of its
business that are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Plan
and with the Company's Bylaws, as may be amended from time to time,
as the committee may deem advisable.
3.4.
Administrator’s Powers . Subject to the
express provisions of this Plan, the Administrator shall have the
authority, in its sole and absolute discretion, (a) to adopt,
amend, and rescind administrative and interpretive rules and
regulations relating to the Plan; (b) to determine the terms and
provisions of the respective Agreements (which need not be
identical), including provisions defining or otherwise relating to
(i) subject to Paragraph 6 hereof, the term and the period or
periods and extent of exercisability of the Options, (ii) the
extent to which the transferability of Shares issued upon exercise
of Options is restricted, (iii) the effect of termination of
employment upon the exercisability of the Options, and (iv) the
effect of approved leaves of absence; (c) to accelerate the time of
exercisability of any Option that has been granted; (d) to construe
the terms of any Agreement and the Plan; and (e) to make all other
determinations and perform all other acts necessary or advisable
for administering the Plan, including the delegation of such
ministerial acts and responsibilities as the Administrator deems
appropriate. The Administrator may correct any defect,
supply any terms that were previously omitted, or reconcile any
inconsistency in the Plan or in any Agreement in the manner and to
the extent the Administrator shall deem it expedient to carry the
Plan into effect, and the Administrator shall be the sole and final
judge of such expediency. The Administrator shall have
full discretion to make all determinations on the matters referred
to in this Paragraph, and such determinations shall be final,
binding, and conclusive.
PARAGRAPH
4. Eligibility and Participation .
4.1.
Eligible Individuals . Options may be granted
under the Plan only to persons who are Eligible Individuals at the
time of grant of the Options.
4.2.
No Right to Option . The adoption of the Plan
shall not be deemed to give any person a right to be granted an
Option.
PARAGRAPH
5. Grant of Options and Certain Terms of the
Agreements .
5.1
Award Criteria . The Board of Directors shall
determine, in its sole discretion, which Eligible Individuals shall
be granted Options under the Plan from time to time. The
Board of Directors shall also determine the exercise price and the
number of Shares subject to each of such Options and shall
authorize and cause the Company to grant Options in accordance with
such determinations.
5.2
Grant . The date on which the Board of Directors
completes all action constituting an offer of an Option to an
individual, including the specification of the exercise price,
vesting schedule, and the number of Shares to be subject to the
Option, shall be the date on which the Option covered by an
Agreement is granted, even though certain terms of the Agreement
may not be at such time determined and even though the Agreement
may not be executed until a later time. In no event, however, shall
an Optionee gain any rights in addition to those specified by the
Board of Directors in its grant, regardless of the time that may
pass between the grant of the Option and the actual execution of
the Agreement by the Company and the Optionee.
Each Option granted under the Plan shall be
evidenced by an Agreement, executed by the Company and the Eligible
Individual to whom the Option is granted, incorporating such terms
as the Administrator shall deem necessary or
desirable. More than one Option may be granted to the
same Eligible Individual and be outstanding
concurrently. In the event an Eligible Individual is
granted more than one Option, such grants shall be evidenced by
separate Agreements.
5.3
Forfeiture and Transferability Restrictions
. Each Agreement may contain or otherwise provide for
conditions giving rise to the forfeiture of the Shares acquired
pursuant to an Option granted under the Plan and for such
restrictions on the transferability of Shares acquired
pursuant to an Option as the Board of Directors or Administrator,
in their sole and absolute discretion, shall deem proper or
advisable. Such conditions giving rise to forfeiture may
include, but need not be limited to, the requirement that the
Optionee render substantial services to the Company for a specified
period of time. Such restrictions on transferability may
include, but need not be limited to, options and rights of first
refusal in favor of the Company and members of the
Company.
PARAGRAPH
6. Terms and Conditions of Options .
All Options granted under the Plan shall comply
with, be deemed to include, and shall be subject to the following
terms and conditions:
6.1.
Number of Shares . Each Agreement shall state the
number of Shares to which it relates.
6.2.
Exercise Price . Each Agreement shall state the
exercise price per Share. Subject to the adjustments
provided in Paragraph 6.5. hereof, the exercise price per Share
subject to any Option shall be determined by the Board of Directors
as provided in Paragraph 5.1. hereof
6.3.
Medium and Time of Payment, Method of Exercise, and Withholding
Taxes . The exercise price of an Option shall be
payable upon the exercise of the Option
(a) in
cash, or
(b) by
certified or cashier’s check payable to the order of the
Company.
Exercise of an
Option shall not be effective until the Company has received
written notice of exercise. Such notice must specify the number of
whole Shares to be purchased and be accompanied by payment in full
of the aggregate exercise price of the number of shares
purchased. The Company shall not in any case be required
to sell, issue, or deliver a fractional Share with respect to any
Option.
The Administrator may, in its discretion,
require an Optionee to pay to the Company at the time of exercise
of an Option (or portion of an Option) the amount that the Company
deems necessary to satisfy its obligation to withhold federal,
state, or local income or other taxes incurred by reason of the
exercise. If the exercise of an Option does not give
rise to an obligation to withhold federal income or other taxes on
the date of exercise, the Administrator may, in its discretion,
require an Optionee to place Shares purchased under the Option in
escrow for the benefit of the Company until such time as federal
income or other tax withholding is no longer required with respect
to such Shares or until such withholding is required on amounts
included in the gross income of the Optionee as a result of the
exercise of an Option or the disposition of Shares acquired
pursuant to the exercise. At such later time, the
Administrator, in its discretion, may require an Optionee to pay to
the Company the amount that the Company deems necessary to satisfy
its obligation to withhold federal, state, or local income or other
taxes incurred by reason of the exercise of the Option or the
disposition of Shares. Upon receipt of such payment by
the Company, such Shares shall be released from escrow to the
Optionee.
6.4.
Term, Time of Exercise, and Transferability of Options
. In addition to such other terms and conditions as may
be included in a particular Agreement granting an Option, an Option
shall be exercisable during an Optionee’s lifetime only by
the Optionee or by the Optionee’s guardian or legal
representative.
The Administrator shall have the authority to
prescribe in any Agreement a vesting schedule that governs when the
Option becomes exercisable, except that all Options shall become
fully vested and exercisable immediately upon the occurrence of a
Change in Control as defined in Paragraph 6.5. The
Optionee’s Voting Stock Option Agreement shall prescribe a
vesting and exercise schedule.
An Option shall not be transferrable other than
by will or the laws of descent and distribution.
The provisions of the remainder of this
Paragraph shall apply to the extent an Optionee’s Agreement
does not expressly provide otherwise. If an Optionee
ceases to be an Eligible Individual for any reason other than death
or Disability, the Option shall terminate ninety (90) days after
such Optionee ceases to be an Eligible Individual.
If an Optionee ceases to be an Eligible
Individual by reason of Disability, the Optionee shall have the
right for six (6) mont