Unassociated Document
As filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 22, 2010
Registration
No. 333-_______
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D.C. 20549
FORM
S-8
REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
DISCOVERY
LABORATORIES, INC.
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
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94-3171943
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(State
or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
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(I.R.S.
Employer Identification Number)
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2600
Kelly Road, Suite 100
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Warrington,
Pennsylvania 18976-3622
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(Address,
Including Zip Code and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s
Principal Executive Offices)
Discovery
Laboratories, Inc. 401(k) Plan
(Full
title of the plan)
David L.
Lopez, C.P.A., Esq.
Executive
Vice President, General Counsel
Discovery
Laboratories, Inc.
2600
Kelly Road, Suite 100
Warrington,
Pennsylvania 18976
(215)
488-9300
(Name,
address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent
for service)
Copies
to:
Ira L.
Kotel, Esq.
Sonnenschein
Nath & Rosenthal LLP
Two World
Financial Center
New York,
New York 10281
(212)
768-6700
Indicate
by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an
accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting
company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,”
“accelerated filer,” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2
of the
Exchange Act.
Large
accelerated filer o
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Accelerated
filer x
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Non-accelerated
filer o (Do
not check if a smaller reporting company
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Smaller
reporting company o
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CALCULATION
OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title
of Securities
to
be Registered
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Amount
to be
Registered(1)
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Proposed
Maximum Offering Price
Per
Share(2)
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Proposed
Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(2)
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Amount
of
Registration
Fee
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Common
Stock, $0.001 par value
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160,000
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$0.80
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$128,000
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$9.13
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(1)
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Pursuant
to Rule 416 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the
registration statement shall be deemed to cover any additional shares of
common stock, par value $0.001 per share, that become issuable under the
401(k) Plan by reason of any stock splits, stock dividends or similar
transactions. In addition, this registration statement also
covers an indeterminate amount of interests to be offered or sold pursuant
to the Discovery Laboratories Inc. 401(k)
Plan.
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(2)
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Estimated
solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to
Rules 457(c) and (h) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, by taking the average of the high and low sales price per share
of the common stock on The Nasdaq Global Market on January 19,
2010.
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REGISTRATION OF
ADDITIONAL SECURITIES
This
registration statement is being filed pursuant to General Instruction E of Form
S-8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), to
register an additional 160,000 shares of our common stock, par value $0.001 per
share, that may be issued pursuant to the 401(k) Plan (the “Plan”) of Discovery
Laboratories, Inc. (the “Company”) plus an indeterminate amount of interests in
the Plan. The Company previously registered shares of its common
stock for issuance under the Plan on registration statements on Form S-8 filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on November 12,
2003 (File No. 333-110412), September 28, 2006 (File No. 333-137643) and
December 23, 2008 (File No. 333-156443). Pursuant to General
Instruction E to Form S-8, the contents of such registration statements,
including all exhibits thereto as applicable, are incorporated herein by
reference.
All
documents subsequently filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c),
14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, prior to the
filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered
have been sold or which deregisters all such securities then remaining unsold,
shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference herein and to be part hereof
from the date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained
herein or in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference
herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
registration statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any
other subsequently filed document which also is incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such
statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be
deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this
registration statement.
PART
I
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS
The information specified in Item 1 and
Item 2 of Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this Registration Statement in
accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act, and the
introductory note to Part I of Form S-8.
PART
II
INFORMATION
REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Item
3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.
The SEC allows us to “incorporate by
reference” the information we file with them, which means that we can disclose
important information to you by referring you to those documents. The
information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this
registration statement, and information that we file later with the SEC will
automatically update and supersede this information. We incorporate
by reference the documents filed with SEC listed below:
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1.
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Our
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008,
filed on March 13, 2009, and Amendment No. 1 thereto, filed on April 30,
2009;
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2.
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Our
Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2009, June
30, 2009 and September 30, 2009, filed on May 11, 2009, August 10, 2009
and November 9, 2009, respectively;
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3.
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Our
Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on March 13, 2009
(excluding the matters in Item 2.02 and Exhibit 99.1 therein, which are
not incorporated by reference herein), April 24, 2009, April 29, 2009
(excluding the matters in Item 2.02 and Exhibit 99.1 therein, which are
not incorporated by reference herein), May 8, 2009, May 12, 2009, May 15,
2009, July 2, 2009, August 3, 2009 (excluding the matters in Item 2.02 and
Exhibit 99.1 therein, which are not incorporated by reference herein),
August 19, 2009, September 4, 2009, September 11, 2009, September 30,
2009, November 4, 2009 (excluding the matters in Item 2.02 and Exhibit
99.1 therein, which are not incorporated by reference herein), November
18, 2009, December 4, 2009, and December 12, 2009;
and
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4.
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The
description of our common stock contained in our Registration Statement on
Form 8-A filed with the SEC on July 13,
1995.
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Furthermore, all reports and other
documents subsequently filed by us with the SEC pursuant to Sections 13(a),
13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 prior to the filing
of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities offered have
been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference in this registration statement and to be
a part of this registration statement from the date of filing of such reports
and documents. Any statement contained in any document incorporated
or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified
or superseded for purposes of this registration statement to the extent that a
statement contained in this registration statement or in any other subsequently
filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference in
this registration statement modifies or supersedes such
statement. Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be
deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this
registration statement.
Item
4. Description of Securities
Not
applicable.
Item
5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
Not
applicable.
Item
6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
Article Eighth of our Amended and
Restated Certificate of Incorporation limits the liability of directors to the
maximum extent permitted by Delaware law. Delaware law provides that
directors of a corporation will not be personally liable for monetary damages
for breach of their fiduciary duties as directors, except for liability for (i)
any breach of their duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii)
acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of law, (iii) unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock
repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware or (iv) any transaction from which the director
derives an improper personal benefit.
Our By-Laws provide that we shall
indemnify our directors and officers, the directors and officers of any of our
subsidiaries and any other individuals acting as directors or officers of any
other corporation at our request, to the fullest extent permitted by
law.
We have entered into indemnification
agreements with certain of our executive officers containing provisions that may
require us, among other things, to indemnify them against liabilities that may
arise by reason of their status or service as officers other than liabilities
arising from willful misconduct of a culpable nature and to advance certain
expenses incurred as a result of any proceeding against them as to which they
could be indemnified. We have obtained limited directors’ and
officers’ liability insurance.
These provisions in our Amended and
Restated Certificate of Incorporation and our By-Laws do not eliminate the
officers’ and directors’ fiduciary duty, and in appropriate circumstances,
equitable remedies such as injunctive or other forms of non-monetary relief will
remain available under Delaware law. In addition, each officer and
director will continue to be subject to liability for breach of their duty of
loyalty to us for acts or omissions not in good faith or involving intentional
misconduct, for knowing violations of law, for actions leading to improper
personal benefit to the officer or director and for payment of dividends or
approval of stock repurchases or redemptions that are unlawful under Delaware
law. The provisions also do not affect an officer’s or director’s
responsibilities under any other law, such as the federal securities laws or
state or federal environmental laws.
Item
7. Exemptions from Registration Claimed.
Not
applicable.
Item
8. Exhibits.
Exhibit
No.
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Description
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Method of
Filing
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3.1
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Amended
and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Discovery Laboratories,
Inc.
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Incorporated
by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K
filed on 12/9/09
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4.1
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Form of Discovery
Laboratories Inc. 401(k) Plan.
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Filed
herewith.
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5.1
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Opinion
of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, legal counsel.*
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Filed
herewith.
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23.1
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Consent
of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (included in its opinion filed as
Exhibit 5.1 to this registration statement).
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Filed
herewith.
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23.2
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Consent
of Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting
firm.
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Filed
herewith.
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24.1
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Powers
of Attorney (included in signature page to this registration
statement).
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Filed
herewith.
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* In
accordance with Item 8 of Form S-8, and in lieu of the opinion of counsel or
determination contemplated by Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K, the Company
hereby undertakes that it will submit the Plan and all amendments thereto to the
Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) in a timely manner, and that it will make all
changes required by the IRS in order to qualify the Plan.
Item
9. Undertakings.
(a) The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) to
file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
the Registration Statement or any material change to such information in the
Registration Statement;
(2) that,
for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof;
(3) to
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the
securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.
(b) The
undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any
liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual
report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and,
where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report
pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference
in the Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering
thereof.
(h) Insofar
as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be
permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant
pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In
the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than
the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director,
officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any
action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling
person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will,
unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling
precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether
such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and
will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act, the registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing
on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Warrington,
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on this 22nd day of
January, 2010.
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DISCOVERY
LABORATORIES, INC.
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(Registrant)
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By:
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/s/ W. Thomas
Amick
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W.
Thomas Amick
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interim
Chief Executive Officer
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POWER
OF ATTORNEY
We, the
undersigned officers and directors of Discovery Laboratories, Inc., and each of
us, do hereby constitute and appoint each of W. Thomas Amick, and David L.
Lopez, CPA., Esq., or any of them, each acting alone, his true and lawful
attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution,
to do any and all acts and things in our name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, in connection with this registration statement on Form S-8 under the
Securities, or any registration statement for the same offering that is to be
effective upon filing under the Securities Act, including, without limitation,
to sign for us or any of us in our names in the capacities indicated below any
and all amendments or supplements to this registration statement, including any
and all stickers and post-effective amendments to the registration statement,
and to sign any and all additional registration statements relating to the same
offering of securities as this registration statement that are filed pursuant to
Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, and to file the same, with all exhibits
thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and any applicable securities exchange or securities
self-regulatory body, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, each
acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and
thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to
all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their substitutes or
substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Act, this registration statement has been
signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the dates
indicated.
Signature
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Name &
Title
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Date
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/s/ W. Thomas
Amick
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W.
Thomas Amick
Chairman
of the Board of Directors and
interim
Chief Executive Officer
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January
22, 2010
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/s/ John G.
Cooper
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John
G. Cooper
Executive
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal
Accounting Officer)
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January
22, 2010
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/s/ Herbert
McDade
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Herbert
McDade, Jr.
Director
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January
22, 2010
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/s/ Max
Link
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Max
Link, Ph.D.
Director
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January
22, 2010
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/s/ Antonio
Esteve
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Antonio
Esteve, Ph.D.
Director
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January
22, 2010
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/s/ Marvin E.
Rosenthale
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Marvin
E. Rosenthale, Ph.D.
Director
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January
22, 2010
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AMENDMENT
FOR PENSION PROTECTION ACT AND HEART ACT
DISCOVERY
LABORATORIES, INC. 401(K) PLAN
ARTICLE
I
PREAMBLE
1.1
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Effective date of
Amendment. The Employer adopts this Amendment to the Plan to
reflect recent law changes. This Amendment is effective as indicated below
for the respective provisions.
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1.2
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Superseding of inconsistent
provisions. This Amendment supersedes the provisions of the Plan to
the extent those provisions are inconsistent with the provisions of this
Amendment.
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1.3
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Construction. Except as
otherwise provided in this Amendment, any reference to "Section" in this
Amendment refers only to sections within this Amendment, and is not a
reference to the Plan. The Article and Section numbering in this Amendment
is solely for purposes of this Amendment, and does not relate to any Plan
article, section or other numbering
designations.
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1.4
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Effect of restatement of Plan.
If the Employer restates the Plan, then this Amendment shall remain
in effect after such restatement unless the provisions in this Amendment
are restated or otherwise become obsolete (e.g., if the Plan is restated
onto a plan document which incorporates PPA
provisions).
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ARTICLE
II
NONELECTIVE
CONTRIBUTION VESTING
2.1
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Applicability. This
Article applies to Participants who complete an Hour of Service in a Plan
Year beginning after December 31, 2006, with respect to accrued benefits
derived from employer nonelective contributions made in Plan Years
beginning after December 31, 2006. This Article also will apply to all
nonelective contributions subject to a vesting schedule, including
nonelective contributions allocated under the Plan terms as of a date in a
Plan Year beginning before January 1,
2007.
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2.2
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Vesting schedule.
Effective January 1, 2007, if the Plan has a 7-year graded vesting
schedule, the vesting schedule will be a 6-year graded schedule (20% after
2 years of vesting service and an additional 20% for each year
thereafter), and if the Plan has a 5-year cliff vesting schedule,
nonelective contributions will be nonforfeitable upon the completion of 3
years of vesting service.
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ARTICLE
III
PARTICIPANT
DISTRIBUTION NOTIFICATION
3.1
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180-day notification
period. For any distribution notice issued in Plan Years beginning
after December 31, 2006, any reference to the 90-day maximum notice period
prior to distribution in applying the notice requirements of Code §§402(f)
(the rollover notice), 411(a)(11) (Participant's consent to distribution),
and 417 (notice under the joint and survivor annuity rules) will become
180 days.
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3.2
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Notice of right to defer
distribution. For any distribution notice issued in Plan Years
beginning after December 31, 2006, the description of a Participant's
right, if any, to defer receipt of a distribution also will describe the
consequences of failing to defer receipt of the distribution. For notices
issued before the 90th day after the issuance of Treasury regulations
(unless future Revenue Service guidance otherwise requires), the notice
will include: (i) a description indicating the investment options
available under the Plan (including fees) that will be available if the
Participant defers distribution; and (ii) the portion of the summary plan
description that contains any special rules that might affect materially a
Participant's decision to defer.
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ARTICLE
IV
ROLLOVER
OF AFTER-TAX/ROTH AMOUNTS
4.1
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Direct rollover to qualified
plan/403(b) plan. For taxable years beginning after December 31,
2006, a Participant may elect to transfer employee (after-tax) or Roth
elective deferral contributions by means of a direct rollover to a
qualified plan or to a 403(b) plan that agrees to account separately for
amounts so transferred, including accounting separately for the portion of
such distribution which is includible in gross income and the portion of
such distribution which is not includible in gross
income.
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ARTICLE
V
DIVESTMENT
OF EMPLOYER SECURITIES
5.1
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Rule applicable to elective
deferrals and employee contributions. For Plan Years beginning
after December 31, 2006, if any portion of the account of a Participant
(including, for purposes of this Article V, a beneficiary entitled to
exercise the rights of a Participant) attributable to elective deferrals
or employee contributions is invested in publicly-traded Employer
securities, the Participant may elect to direct the Plan to divest any
such securities, and to reinvest an equivalent amount in other investment
options which satisfy the requirements of Section
5.3.
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5.2
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Rule applicable to Employer
contributions. If any portion of a Participant's account
attributable to nonelective or matching contributions is invested in
publicly-traded Employer securities, then a Participant who has completed
at least 3 years of vesting service, or a beneficiary of any deceased
Participant entitled to exercise the right of a Participant, may elect to
direct the Plan to divest any such securities, and to reinvest an
equivalent amount in other investment options which satisfy the
requirements of Section 6.3.
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a.
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Three-year phase-in applicable
to Employer contributions. For Employer securities acquired with
nonelective or matching contributions during a Plan Year beginning before
January 1, 2007, the rule described in this Section 5.2 only applies to
the percentage of the Employer securities (applied separately for each
class of securities) as follows:
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Plan Year
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Percentage
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2007
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33 |
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2008
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66 |
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2009
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100 |
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b.
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Exception to phase-in for
certain age 55 Participants. The 3-year phase-in rule of Section
5.2.a does not apply to a Participant who has attained age 55 and who has
completed at least 3 years of service before the first Plan Year beginning
after December 31, 2005.
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5.3
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Investment options. For
purposes of this Article V, other investment options must include not less
than 3 investment options, other than Employer securities, to which the
Participant may direct the proceeds of divestment of Employer securities
required by this Article V, each of which options is diversified and has
materially different risk and return characteristics. The Plan must
provide reasonable divestment and reinvestment opportunities at least
quarterly. Except as provided in regulations, the Plan may not impose
restrictions or conditions on the investment of Employer securities which
the Plan does not impose on the investment of other Plan assets, other
than restrictions or conditions imposed by reason of the application of
securities laws or a condition permitted under IRS Notice 2006-107 or
other applicable guidance.
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Exceptions for certain
plans. This Article V does not apply to a one-participant plan, as
defined in Code §401(a)(35)(E)(iv), or to an employee stock ownership plan
("ESOP") if: (i) there are no contributions to the ESOP (or related
earnings) attributable to elective deferrals or matching contributions;
and (ii) the ESOP is a separate plan, for purposes of Code §414(l), from
any other defined benefit plan or defined contribution plan maintained by
the same employer or employers.
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5.5
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Treatment as publicly traded
Employer securities. Except as provided in Treasury regulations or
in Code §401(a)(35)(F)(ii) (relating to certain controlled groups), a plan
holding Employer securities which are not publicly traded Employer
securities is treated as holding publicly traded Employer securities if
any Employer corporation, or any member of a controlled group of
corporations which includes such Employer corporation (as defined in Code
§401(a)(35)(F)(iii)) has issued a class of stock which is a publicly
traded Employer security.
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ARTICLE
VI
DIRECT
ROLLOVER OF NON-SPOUSAL DISTRIBUTION
6.1
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Non-spouse beneficiary rollover
right. For distributions after December 31, 2009, a non-spouse
beneficiary who is a "designated beneficiary" under Code §401(a)(9)(E) and
the regulations thereunder, by a direct trustee-to-trustee transfer
("direct rollover"), may roll over all or any portion of his or her
distribution to an individual retirement account the beneficiary
establishes for purposes of receiving the distribution. In order to be
able to roll over the distribution, the distribution otherwise must
satisfy the definition of an eligible rollover
distribution.
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6.2
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Trust beneficiary. If
the Participant's named beneficiary is a trust, the Plan may make a direct
rollover to an individual retirement account on behalf of the trust,
provided the trust satisfies the requirements to be a designated
beneficiary within the meaning of Code
§401(a)(9)(E).
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6.3
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Required minimum distributions
not eligible for rollover. A non-spouse beneficiary may not roll
over an amount which is a required minimum distribution, as determined
under applicable Treasury regulations and other Revenue Service guidance.
If the Participant dies before his or her required beginning date and the
non-spouse beneficiary rolls over to an IRA the maximum amount eligible
for rollover, the beneficiary may elect to use either the 5-year rule or
the life expectancy rule, pursuant to Treas. Reg. §1.401(a)(9)-3, A-4(c),
in determining the required minimum distributions from the IRA that
receives the non-spouse beneficiary's
distribution.
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ARTICLE
VII
DISTRIBUTION
BASED ON BENEFICIARY HARDSHIP
7.1
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Beneficiary-based
distribution. Effective January 1, 2010, if the Plan provides for
hardship distributions, a Participant's hardship event, for purposes of
the Plan's safe harbor hardship distribution provisions pursuant to Treas.
Reg. §1.401(k)-1(d)(3)(iii)(B), includes an immediate and heavy financial
need of the Participant's primary beneficiary under the Plan, that would
constitute a hardship event if it occurred with respect to the
Participant's spouse or dependent as defined under Code §152 (such
hardship events being limited to educational expenses, funeral expenses
and certain medical expenses). For purposes of this Article, a
Participant's "primary beneficiary under the Plan" is an individual who is
named as a beneficiary under the Plan and has an unconditional right to
all or a portion of the Participant's account balance under the Plan upon
the Participant's death.
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ARTICLE
VIII
OTHER
401(k)/401(m) PLAN PROVISIONS
8.1
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Gap period income on
distributed excess contributions and excess aggregate
contributions. This Section applies to excess contributions (as
defined in Code §401(k)(8)(B)) and excess aggregate contributions (as
defined in Code §401(m)(6)(B)) made with respect to Plan Years beginning
after December 31, 2007. The Plan administrator will not calculate and
distribute allocable income for the gap period (i.e., the period after the
close of the Plan Year in which the excess contribution or excess
aggregate contribution occurred and prior to the
distribution).
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8.2
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Gap period income on
distributed excess deferrals. With respect to 401(k) plan excess
deferrals (as defined in Code §402(g)) made in taxable year 2007, the Plan
administrator must calculate allocable income for the taxable year and
also for the gap period (i.e., the period after the close of the taxable
year in which the excess deferral occurred and prior to the distribution);
provided that the Plan administrator will calculate and distribute the gap
period allocable income only if the Plan administrator in accordance with
the Plan terms otherwise would allocate the gap period allocable income to
the Participant's account. With respect to 401(k) plan excess deferrals
made in taxable years after 2007, gap period income may not be
distributed.
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8.3
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Plan termination distribution
availability. For purposes of determining whether the Employer
maintains an alternative defined contribution plan (described in Treas.
Reg. §1.401(k)-1(d)(4)(i)) that would prevent the Employer from
distributing elective deferrals (and other amounts, such as QNECs, that
are subject to the distribution restrictions that apply to elective
deferrals) from a terminating 401(k) plan, an alternative defined
contribution plan does not include an employee stock ownership plan
defined in Code §§4975(e)(7) or 409(a), a simplified employee pension as
defined in Code §408(k), a SIMPLE IRA plan as defined in Code §408(p), a
plan or contract that satisfies the requirements of Code §403(b), or a
plan that is described in Code §§457(b) or
(f).
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ARTICLE
IX
QUALIFIED
OPTIONAL SURVIVOR ANNUITY
9.1
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Right to Elect Qualified
Optional Survivor Annuity. Effective with respect to Plan Years
beginning after December 31, 2007, a participant who elects to waive the
qualified joint and survivor annuity form of benefit, if offered under the
Plan, is entitled to elect the "qualified optional survivor annuity" at
any time during the applicable election period. Furthermore, the written
explanation of the joint and survivor annuity shall explain the terms and
conditions of the "qualified optional survivor
annuity."
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9.2
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Definition of Qualified
Optional Survivor Annuity.
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a.
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General. For purposes of
this Article, the term "qualified optional survivor annuity" means an
annuity:
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(1)
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For
the life of the participant with a survivor annuity for the life of the
spouse which is equal to the "applicable percentage" of the amount of the
annuity which is payable during the joint lives of the Participant and the
spouse, and
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(2)
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Which
is the actuarial equivalent of a single annuity for the life of the
participant.
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Such term
also includes any annuity in a form having the effect of an annuity described in
the preceding sentence.
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b.
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Applicable percentage.
For purposes of this Section, the "applicable percentage" is based
on the survivor annuity percentage (i.e., the percentage which the
survivor annuity under the Plan's qualified joint and survivor annuity
bears to the annuity payable during the joint lives of the participant and
the spouse). If the survivor annuity percentage is less than 75 percent,
then the "applicable percentage" is 75 percent; otherwise, the "applicable
percentage" is 50 percent.
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ARTICLE
X
DIRECT
ROLLOVER TO ROTH IRA
10.1
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Roth IRA rollover. For
distributions made after December 31, 2007, a participant may elect to
roll over directly an eligible rollover distribution to a Roth IRA
described in Code §408A(b).
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ARTICLE
XI
QUALIFIED
DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDERS
11.1
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Permissible QDROs.
Effective April 6, 2007, a domestic relations order that otherwise
satisfies the requirements for a qualified domestic relations order
("QDRO") will not fail to be a QDRO: (i) solely because the order is
issued after, or revises, another domestic relations order or QDRO; or
(ii) solely because of the time at which the order is issued, including
issuance after the annuity starting date or after the Participant's
death.
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11.2
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Other QDRO requirements
apply. A domestic relations order described in Section 11.1 is
subject to the same requirements and protections that apply to
QDROs.
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ARTICLE
XII
HEART
ACT PROVISIONS
12.1
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Death benefits. In the
case of a death occurring on or after January 1, 2007, if a Participant
dies while performing qualified military service (as defined in Code §
414(u)), the survivors of the Participant are entitled to any additional
benefits (other than benefit accruals relating to the period of qualified
military service) provided under the Plan as if the Participant had
resumed and then terminated employment on account of
death.
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12.2
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Differential wage
payments. For years beginning after December 31, 2008, (i) an
individual receiving a differential wage payment, as defined by Code
§3401(h)(2), is treated as an employee of the employer making the payment,
(ii) the differential wage payment is treated as compensation, and (iii)
the Plan is not treated as failing to meet the requirements of any
provision described in Code §414(u)(1)(C) by reason of any contribution or
benefit which is based on the differential wage
payment.
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12.3
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Severance from
employment. Notwithstanding Section 12.2(i), for purposes of Code
§401(k)(2)(B)(i)(I), an individual is treated as having been severed from
employment during any period the individual is performing service in the
uniformed services described in Code
§3401(h)(2)(A).
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a.
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Suspension of deferrals.
If an individual elects to receive a distribution by reason of severance
from employment, death or disability, the individual may not make an
elective deferral or employee contribution during the 6-month period
beginning on the date of the
distribution.
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b.
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Nondiscrimination
requirement. Section 12.2(iii) applies only if all employees of the
Employer performing service in the uniformed services described in Code
§3401(h)(2)(A) are entitled to receive differential wage payments (as
defined in Code §3401(h)(2)) on reasonably equivalent terms and, if
eligible to participate in a retirement plan maintained by the employer,
to make contributions based on the payments on reasonably equivalent terms
(taking into account Code §§410(b)(3), (4),
and (5)).
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This
Amendment has been executed this _____ day of December, 2009.
Discovery
Laboratories, Inc.
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EMPLOYER
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DISCOVERY
LABORATORIES, INC.
401(K)
PLAN
AND
ALL SUPPORTING FORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCED FOR
GELLER
GROUP, LLC
Copyright
2009 SunGard
All
Rights Reserved
DISCOVERY
LABORATORIES, INC.
401(K)
PLAN
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE
I
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DEFINITIONS
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ARTICLE
II
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ADMINISTRATION
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2.1
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POWERS
AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EMPLOYER
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12
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2.2
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DESIGNATION
OF ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY
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12
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2.3
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ALLOCATION
AND DELEGATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES
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13
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2.4
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POWERS
AND DUTIES OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
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13
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2.5
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RECORDS
AND REPORTS
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14
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2.6
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APPOINTMENT
OF ADVISERS
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14
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2.7
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PAYMENT
OF EXPENSES
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14
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2.8
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CLAIMS
PROCEDURE
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14
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2.9
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CLAIMS
REVIEW PROCEDURE
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14
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ARTICLE
III
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ELIGIBILITY
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3.1
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CONDITIONS
OF ELIGIBILITY
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15
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3.2
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EFFECTIVE
DATE OF PARTICIPATION
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15
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3.3
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DETERMINATION
OF ELIGIBILITY
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15
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3.4
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TERMINATION
OF ELIGIBILITY
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15
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3.5
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REHIRED
EMPLOYEES AND BREAKS IN SERVICE
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15
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3.6
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ELECTION
NOT TO PARTICIPATE
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16
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3.7
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OWNER-EMPLOYEE
LIMITATION
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16
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3.8
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OMISSION
OF ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE; INCLUSION OF INELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE
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16
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ARTICLE
IV
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CONTRIBUTION
AND ALLOCATION
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4.1
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FORMULA
FOR DETERMINING EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION
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17
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4.2
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PARTICIPANT'S
SALARY REDUCTION ELECTION
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17
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4.3
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TIME
OF PAYMENT OF EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION
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19
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4.4
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ALLOCATION
OF CONTRIBUTION AND USAGE OF FORFEITURES AND EARNINGS
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19
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4.5
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ACTUAL
DEFERRAL PERCENTAGE TEST
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22
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4.6
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ADJUSTMENT
TO ACTUAL DEFERRAL PERCENTAGE TEST
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23
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4.7
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ACTUAL
CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE TEST
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25
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4.8
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ADJUSTMENT
TO ACTUAL CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE TEST
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27
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4.9
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MAXIMUM
ANNUAL ADDITIONS
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28
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4.10
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ADJUSTMENT
FOR EXCESS ANNUAL ADDITIONS
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29
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4.11
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PLAN-TO-PLAN
TRANSFERS (OTHER THAN ROLLOVERS) FROM QUALIFIED PLANS
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30
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4.12
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ROLLOVERS
FROM OTHER PLANS
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31
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4.13
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PARTICIPANT
DIRECTED INVESTMENTS
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31
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4.14
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QUALIFIED
MILITARY SERVICE
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33
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ARTICLE
V
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VALUATIONS
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5.1
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VALUATION
OF THE TRUST FUND
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33
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5.2
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METHOD
OF VALUATION
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33
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ARTICLE
VI
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DETERMINATION
AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS
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6.1
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DETERMINATION
OF BENEFITS UPON RETIREMENT
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33
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6.2
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DETERMINATION
OF BENEFITS UPON DEATH
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33
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6.3
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DISABILITY
RETIREMENT BENEFITS
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34
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6.4
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DETERMINATION
OF BENEFITS UPON TERMINATION
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34
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6.5
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DISTRIBUTION
OF BENEFITS
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35
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6.6
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DISTRIBUTION
OF BENEFITS UPON DEATH
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36
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6.7
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TIME
OF DISTRIBUTION
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36
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6.8
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REQUIRED
MINIMUM DISTRIBUTIONS
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36
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6.9
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DISTRIBUTION
FOR MINOR OR INCOMPETENT INDIVIDUAL
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39
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6.10
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LOCATION
OF PARTICIPANT OR BENEFICIARY UNKNOWN
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39
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6.11
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PRE-RETIREMENT
DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS
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40
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6.12
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ADVANCE
DISTRIBUTION FOR HARDSHIP
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40
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6.13
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QUALIFIED
DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER DISTRIBUTION
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41
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6.14
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DIRECT
ROLLOVER
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41
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6.15
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TRANSFER
OF ASSETS FROM A MONEY PURCHASE PLAN
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42
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6.16
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CORRECTIVE
DISTRIBUTIONS
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42
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ARTICLE
VII
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AMENDMENT,
TERMINATION, MERGERS AND LOANS
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7.1
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AMENDMENT
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42
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7.2
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TERMINATION
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43
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7.3
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MERGER,
CONSOLIDATION OR TRANSFER OF ASSETS
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43
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7.4
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LOANS
TO PARTICIPANTS
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43
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ARTICLE
VIII
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TOP-HEAVY
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8.1
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TOP-HEAVY
PLAN REQUIREMENTS
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44
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8.2
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DETERMINATION
OF TOP-HEAVY STATUS
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44
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ARTICLE
IX
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MISCELLANEOUS
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9.1
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PARTICIPANT'S
RIGHTS
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45
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9.2
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ALIENATION
OF BENEFITS
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45
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9.3
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CONSTRUCTION
AND INTERPRETATION OF PLAN
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46
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9.4
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GENDER
AND NUMBER
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46
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9.5
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LEGAL
ACTION
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46
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9.6
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PROHIBITION
AGAINST DIVERSION OF FUNDS
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46
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9.7
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EMPLOYER'S
AND TRUSTEE'S PROTECTIVE CLAUSE
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46
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9.8
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INSURER'S
PROTECTIVE CLAUSE
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47
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9.9
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RECEIPT
AND RELEASE FOR PAYMENTS
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47
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9.10
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ACTION
BY THE EMPLOYER
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47
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9.11
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NAMED
FIDUCIARIES AND ALLOCATION OF RESPONSIBILITY
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47
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9.12
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HEADINGS
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47
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9.13
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APPROVAL
BY INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
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47
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9.14
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ELECTRONIC
MEDIA
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47
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9.15
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PLAN
CORRECTION
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48
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9.16
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UNIFORMITY
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48
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ARTICLE
X
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PARTICIPATING
EMPLOYERS
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10.1
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ADOPTION
BY OTHER EMPLOYERS
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48
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10.2
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REQUIREMENTS
OF PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS
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48
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10.3
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DESIGNATION
OF AGENT
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48
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10.4
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EMPLOYEE
TRANSFERS
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48
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10.5
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PARTICIPATING
EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION AND FORFEITURES
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48
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10.6
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AMENDMENT
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48
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10.7
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DISCONTINUANCE
OF PARTICIPATION
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49
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10.8
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ADMINISTRATOR'S
AUTHORITY
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49
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10.9
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PROVISIONS
APPLIED SEPARATELY (OR JOINTLY) FOR PARTICIPATING NON-AFFILIATED
EMPLOYERS
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49
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10.10
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TOP-HEAVY
APPLIED SEPARATELY FOR PARTICIPATING NON-AFFILIATED
EMPLOYERS
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49
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10.11
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HIGHLY
COMPENSATED EMPLOYEE STATUS
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50
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10.12
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SERVICE
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50
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10.13
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REQUIRED
MINIMUM DISTRIBUTIONS
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50
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DISCOVERY
LABORATORIES, INC.
401(K)
PLAN
THIS
PLAN, hereby adopted this __________ day of ___________________, by Discovery
Laboratories, Inc. (herein referred to as the "Employer").
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
the Employer heretofore established a Profit Sharing Plan effective January 1,
1998, (hereinafter called the "Effective Date") known as Discovery Laboratories,
Inc. 401(k) Plan (herein referred to as the "Plan") in recognition of the
contribution made to its successful operation by its Employees and for the
exclusive benefit of its Eligible Employees; and
WHEREAS,
under the terms of the Plan, the Employer has the ability to amend the Plan,
provided the Trustee joins in such amendment if the provisions of the Plan
affecting the Trustee are amended;
NOW,
THEREFORE, effective May 1, 2008, except as otherwise provided herein, the
Employer in accordance with the provisions of the Plan pertaining to amendments
thereof, hereby amends the Plan in its entirety and restates the Plan to provide
as follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
1.1
"Account" means any
separate notational account established and maintained by the Administrator for
each Participant under the Plan. The term "Participant's Account" or
"Participant's Account Balance" generally means the sum of all Accounts being
maintained for the Participant, which represents the Participant's total
interest in the Plan. Section 6.8 contains a definition of "Participant's
Account Balance" for purposes of that Section. To the extent applicable, a
Participant may have any (or all) of the following notational
Accounts:
(a)
the Elective Deferral Account that shall consist of the sub-Accounts listed
below. Unless specifically stated otherwise, any reference to a Participant's
Elective Deferral Account will refer to both of these sub-Accounts
(1)
the Pre-Tax Elective Deferral Account
(2)
the Roth Elective Deferral Account
(b)
the Matching Contribution Account
(c)
the Nonelective Contribution Account
(d)
the Qualified Matching Contribution Account
(e)
the Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account
(f)
the Rollover Account
(g)
the Transfer Account
(h)
any other account, including an overlapping account or sub-account, necessary
for the administration of the Plan
1.2
"ACP" means the actual
contribution percentage that is equal to, for a specific group of Participants
(either Highly Compensated Employees or Nonhighly Compensated Employees) for a
Plan Year, the average of the ACRs (calculated separately for each Participant
in such group). The ACP for each group shall be calculated to the nearest
one-hundredth of one percent.
For
purposes of computing an ACP, a Participant is an Eligible Employee who is
eligible to have Matching Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions made
pursuant to Section 4.1(b) (whether or not a deferral election was made or
suspended pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) allocated to such Participant's Matching
Contribution Account or Qualified Matching Contribution Account for a "specific
Plan Year". In addition, if an Employee contribution is required as a condition
of participation in the Plan, any Employee who would be a Participant in the
Plan if such Employee made such a contribution shall be treated (for purposes of
the ACP test) as an eligible Participant on behalf of whom no Employee
contributions are made. However, if a Participant has no 414(s) Compensation for
the Plan Year, then such Participant shall be disregarded for purposes of
calculating the ACP of a group.
For
purposes of the above paragraph, the term "specific Plan Year" means, for
Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees, the Plan Year being tested.
If the current year testing method is being used, then the term "specific Plan
Year" means, for Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees, the Plan
Year being tested. If the prior year testing method is being used, then the term
"specific Plan Year" means, for Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated
Employees, the Plan Year prior to the Plan Year being tested.
1.3
"ACP Test" means the
actual contribution percentage test determined pursuant to
Section 4.7.
1.4
"ACR" means the actual
contribution ratio of each Participant, that is a ratio (expressed as a
percentage) equal to (1) the Contribution Percentage Amounts of such Participant
for such Plan Year, to (2) such Participant's 414(s) Compensation for such Plan
Year.
Matching
Contributions, Qualified Matching Contributions and Qualified Nonelective
Contributions will be considered made for a Plan Year if made no later than the
end of the twelve (12) month period beginning on the date after the close of the
Plan Year.
The ACR
for each Participant shall be calculated to the nearest one-hundredth of one
percent.
1.5
"Act" means the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as it may be amended from time to
time.
1.6
"Administrator" means
the Employer unless another person or entity has been designated by the Employer
pursuant to Section 2.2 to administer the Plan on behalf of the Employer.
"Administrator" also includes any Qualified Termination Administrator (QTA) that
has assumed the responsibilities of the Administrator in accordance with
guidelines set forth by the Department of Labor.
1.7
"ADP" means the actual
deferral percentage that is equal to, for a specific group of Participants
(either Highly Compensated Employees or Nonhighly Compensated Employees) for a
Plan Year, the average of the ADRs (calculated separately for each Participant
in such group). The ADP for each group shall be calculated to the nearest
one-hundredth of one percent.
For
purposes of computing an ADP, a Participant is an Eligible Employee who is
eligible to make Elective Deferrals pursuant to Section 4.2 (whether or not
a deferral election was made or suspended pursuant to Section 4.2(e)) allocated
to the Participant's Elective Deferral Account for a "specific Plan Year."
However, if a Participant has no 414(s) Compensation for the Plan Year, then
such Participant shall be disregarded for purposes of calculating the ADP of a
group.
For
purposes of the above paragraph, the term "specific Plan Year" means, for
Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees, the Plan Year being tested.
If the current year testing method is being used, then the term "specific Plan
Year" means, for Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees, the Plan
Year being tested. If the prior year testing method is being used, then the term
"specific Plan Year" means, for Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated
Employees, the Plan Year prior to the Plan Year being tested.
1.8
"ADP Test" means the
actual deferral percentage test determined pursuant to
Section 4.5.
1.9
"ADR" means the actual
deferral ratio of each Participant, that is a ratio (expressed as a percentage)
equal to (1) the amount of Employer contributions actually paid over to the Plan
on behalf of such Participant for such Plan Year, to (2) such Participant's
414(s) Compensation for such Plan Year.
For
purposes of this definition of ADR, Employer contributions actually paid over to
the Plan on behalf of any Participant shall include: (a) any Elective Deferrals
(other than Catch-Up Contributions) made pursuant to the Participant's deferral
election (including Excess Deferrals of any Highly Compensated Employee), but
excluding (1) Excess Deferrals of any Nonhighly Compensated Employee that arise
solely from Elective Deferrals made under this Plan or any other plans
maintained by the Employer, and (2) Elective Deferrals that are taken into
account in the ACP Test set forth in Section 4.7 (provided that the ADP Test is
satisfied both with and without the exclusion of these Elective Deferrals); and
(b) at the election of the Employer, Qualified Nonelective Contributions and
Qualified Matching Contributions to the extent such contributions are not used
to satisfy the ACP Test, as well as any contributions authorized by (and to the
extent prescribed by) Section 4.6(c).
For
purposes of computing a Participant's ADR, an Eligible Employee who would be a
Participant but for the failure to make Elective Deferrals shall be treated as a
Participant on whose behalf no Elective Deferrals are made.
The ADR
for each Participant shall be calculated to the nearest one-hundredth of one
percent.
1.10 "Affiliated Employer" means
any corporation which is a member of a controlled group of corporations (as
defined in Code Section 414(b)) which includes the Employer; any trade or
business (whether or not incorporated) which is under common control (as defined
in Code Section 414(c)) with the Employer; any organization (whether or not
incorporated) which is a member of an affiliated service group (as defined in
Code Section 414(m)) which includes the Employer; and any other entity
required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to Regulations under Code
Section 414(o).
1.11 "Anniversary Date" means the
last day of the Plan Year.
1.12 "Annual Additions" means, for
purposes of applying the limitations of Code Section 415, the sum credited
to a Participant's Accounts for any Limitation Year of (1) Employer
contributions, (2) Employee contributions, (3) forfeitures,
(4) amounts allocated to an individual medical account, as defined in Code
Section 415(l)(2) which is part of a pension or annuity plan maintained by
the Employer, (5) amounts derived from contributions paid or accrued which
are attributable to post-retirement medical benefits allocated to the separate
account of a key employee (as defined in Code Section 419A(d)(3)) under a
welfare benefit plan (as defined in Code Section 419(e)) maintained by the
Employer and (6) allocations under a simplified employee pension plan.
Annual
Additions do not include the transfers of funds from one plan to another. In
addition, the following are not Annual Additions for the purposes of this
definition: (1) rollover contributions as defined in Code Sections 402(c),
403(a)(4), 403(b)(8), 408(d)(3) and 457(e)(16); (2) repayments of loans
made to a Participant from the Plan; (3) repayment of distributions
received by an Employee pursuant to Code Section 411(a)(7)(B) (cash-outs); (4)
repayment of distributions received by an Employee pursuant to Code Section
411(a)(3)(D) (mandatory contributions); (5) Catch-Up Contributions and (6)
employee contributions to a simplified employee pension excludable from gross
income under Code Section 408(k)(6).
1.13 "Beneficiary" means the person
(or entity) to whom the share of a deceased Participant's interest in the Plan
is payable. Section 6.8 contains a definition of "designated Beneficiary" for
purposes of that Section.
1.14 "Catch-Up Contribution" means,
effective January 1, 2002, Elective Deferrals made to the Plan by a Catch-Up
Eligible Participant during any taxable year of such Participant that are in
excess of:
(a)
a statutory dollar limit on Elective Deferrals or Annual Additions as provided
in Code Sections 401(a)(30), 402(h), 403(b), 408, 415(c), or 457(b)(2)
(without regard to Code Section 457(b)(3)), as applicable;
(b)
a Plan limit on Elective Deferrals which is not a limit provided in (a) above;
or
(c)
the limit imposed by the ADP Test under Code Section 401(k)(3), in which Excess
Contributions would otherwise be distributed pursuant to Section 4.6(b) to
a Highly Compensated Employee who is a Catch-Up Eligible
Participant.
Catch-Up
Contributions for a Participant for a Participant's taxable year may not exceed
the dollar limit on Catch-Up Contributions under Code Section 414(v)(2)(B)(i)
for the Participant's taxable year. The dollar limit on Catch-Up Contributions
under 414(v)(2)(B)(i) is $1,000 for taxable years beginning in 2002, increasing
by $1,000 for each year thereafter up to $5,000 for taxable years beginning in
2006 and later years. After 2006, the $5,000 limit will be adjusted by the
Secretary of the Treasury for cost-of-living increases under Code Section
414(v)(2)(C). Any such adjustments will be in multiples of $500.
1.15 "Catch-Up Eligible
Participant" means, effective January 1, 2002, a Participant
who:
(a)
is eligible to defer Compensation pursuant to Section 4.2; and
(b)
will attain age 50 or over by the end of the Participant's taxable
year.
1.16 "Code" means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended or replaced from time to time.
1.17 "Compensation" means, with
respect to any Participant and except as otherwise provided herein, the total
amount of regular wages or salary paid to a Participant, or earned income (as
defined in Code Section 401(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code) of a
Participant, during the Plan Year.
For
purposes of this Section, the determination of Compensation shall be
made by:
(a)
including amounts, for purposes of Elective Deferrals, which are contributed by
the Employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement and which are not
includible in the gross income of the Participant under Code Sections 125,
132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) or 457(b), and employee contributions
described in Code Section 414(h)(2) that are treated as Employer
contributions. For this purpose, effective January 1, 1998, amounts not
includible in gross income under Code Section 125 shall be deemed to
include any amounts not available to a Participant in cash in lieu of group
health coverage because the Participant is unable to certify that the
Participant has other health coverage, provided the Employer does not request or
collect information regarding the Participant's other health coverage as part of
the enrollment process for the health plan.
(b)
including payment for overtime, bonuses and commissions.
(c)
excluding pre-participation Compensation paid during the Plan Year while not a
Participant in the component of the Plan for which Compensation is being
used.
(d)
excluding Post-Severance Compensation.
(e)excluding
all contributions to or benefits paid by any pension, profit sharing, health or
welfare plan, other than any elective deferrals (as defined in Code Section
402(g)(3)) and any amount which is contributed or deferred by the Employer at
the election of the Employee and which is not includable in the gross income of
the Employee by reason of Code Section 125 or 457.
For Plan
Years beginning on or after January 1, 2002, Compensation in excess of $200,000
(or such other amount provided in the Code) shall be disregarded for all
purposes other than for purposes of salary deferral elections pursuant to
Section 4.2. Such amount shall be adjusted for increases in the
cost-of-living in accordance with Code Section 401(a)(17)(B), except that
the dollar increase in effect on January 1 of any calendar year shall be
effective for the Plan Year beginning with or within such calendar year. For any
"determination period" of less than twelve (12) months, the Compensation limit
shall be an amount equal to the Compensation limit for the calendar year in
which the "determination period" begins multiplied by the ratio obtained by
dividing the number of full months in the short "determination period" by twelve
(12). A "determination period" is not less than twelve (12) months solely
because a Participant's Compensation does not include Compensation paid during a
"determination period" while the Participant was not a Participant in the Plan
(or a component of the Plan).
If any
Employees are excluded from the Plan (or from any component of the Plan), then
Compensation for any such Employees who become eligible or cease to be eligible
to participate in the Plan (or in the component of the Plan) during a Plan Year
shall only include Compensation while such Employees are Eligible Employees of
the Plan (or of such component of the Plan).
For
purposes of this Section, if the Plan is a plan described in Code
Section 413(c) or 414(f) (a plan maintained by more than one Employer), the
limitation applies separately with respect to the Compensation of any
Participant from each Employer maintaining the Plan.
If, in
connection with the adoption of any amendment, the definition of Compensation
has been modified, then, except as otherwise provided herein, for Plan Years
prior to the Plan Year which includes the adoption date of such amendment,
Compensation means compensation determined pursuant to the terms of the Plan
then in effect.
1.18 "Contract" or "Policy" means
any life insurance policy, retirement income policy or annuity contract (group
or individual) issued pursuant to the terms of the Plan. In the event of any
conflict between the terms of this Plan and the terms of any contract purchased
hereunder, the Plan provisions shall control.
1.19 "Contribution Percentage
Amounts" means the sum of any Matching Contributions which are made
pursuant to Section 4.1(b); Qualified Matching Contributions (to the extent such
Qualified Matching Contributions are not used to satisfy the ADP Test) and
Qualified Nonelective Contributions (to the extent not used to satisfy the ADP
Test), as well as any contributions authorized by (and to the extent prescribed
by) Section 4.8(g). In addition, Contribution Percentage Amounts may include
Elective Deferrals, provided the ADP Test is met before the Elective Deferrals
are used in the ACP Test and continues to be met following the exclusion of
those Elective Deferrals that are used to meet the ACP Test. However,
Contribution Percentage Amounts shall not include Matching Contributions that
are forfeited either to correct Excess Aggregate Contributions or due to Code
Section 401(a)(4) and the Regulations thereunder because the contributions to
which they relate are Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions, or Excess
Aggregate Contributions.
1.20 "Custodian" means a person or
entity that has custody of all or any portion of the Plan
assets.
1.21 "Designated Investment
Alternative" means a specific investment identified by name by the
Employer (or such other Fiduciary who has been given the authority to select
investment options) as an available investment under the Plan to which Plan
assets may be invested by the Trustee pursuant to the investment direction of a
Participant.
1.22 "Directed Account" means that
portion of a Participant's interest in the Plan with respect to which the
Participant has directed the investment in accordance with the Participant
Direction Procedures.
1.23 "Directed Investment Option"
means a Designated Investment Alternative and any other investment permitted by
the Plan and the Participant Direction Procedures to which Plan assets may be
invested by the Trustee pursuant to the investment direction of a
Participant.
1.24 "Disability" means a physical
or mental condition of a Participant resulting from bodily injury, disease, or
mental disorder which renders such Participant incapable of continuing any
gainful occupation and which condition constitutes total disability under the
federal Social Security Acts.
1.25 "Early Retirement Date." This
Plan does not provide for a retirement date prior to Normal Retirement Date.
1.26 "Earned Income" means with
respect to a Self-Employed Individual, the net earnings from self-employment in
the trade or business with respect to which the Plan is established, for which
the personal services of the individual are a material income-producing factor.
Net earnings will be determined without regard to items not included in gross
income and the deductions allocable to such items. Net earnings are reduced by
contributions by the Self-Employed Individual to a qualified Plan to the extent
deductible under Code Section 404. In addition, net earnings shall be
determined with regard to the deduction allowed to the Self-Employed Individual
by Code Section 164(f).
If any
combination of bonuses, commissions, tips, overtime, moving expenses, fringe
benefits, or any other element of compensation is excluded from Compensation for
the purpose of determining any contribution, then for the purpose of determining
the amount of such contribution on behalf of any Self-Employed Individual, such
person's Earned Income will be reduced in the same proportion that the
"includible compensation" of "common law participants" bears to the "total
compensation" of all "common law participants."
For
purposes of the preceding paragraph, "common law participant" means a
Participant who is neither a Highly Compensated Employee nor a Self-Employed
Individual, "includible compensation" means the amount of Compensation taken
into account in determining the amount of such contribution for "common law
participants," and "total compensation" means the amount of Compensation that
would have been taken into account in determining such contribution for "common
law participants" if (1) no element of Compensation had been excluded in
determining such contribution, and (2) all of the following are included in
Compensation: any amount which is contributed by the Employer at the election of
the Participant pursuant to a salary reduction agreement and which is not
includible in the gross income of the Participant by reason of Code
Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) or 457(b), and
employee contributions described in Code Section 414(h)(2) that are treated
as Employer contributions.
However,
to the extent that the amount of "includible compensation" for "common law
participants" includes any amount which is contributed by the Employer at the
election of the Participant pursuant to a salary reduction agreement and which
is not includible in the gross income of the Participant by reason of Code
Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) or 457(b), and
employee contributions described in Code Section 414(h)(2) that are treated
as Employer contributions, then those amounts shall be added back to Earned
Income after making the adjustment described in the preceding
paragraph.
1.27 "Elective Deferral" means any
Employer contributions made to the Plan at the election of the Participant in
lieu of cash Compensation pursuant to Section 4.2. With respect to any
taxable year, a Participant's Elective Deferrals is the sum of all employer
contributions made on behalf of such Participant pursuant to an election to
defer under any qualified cash or deferred arrangement ("CODA") described in
Code Section 401(k), any salary reduction simplified employee pension described
in Code Section 408(k)(6), any SIMPLE IRA plan described in Code Section 408(p)
and any plan described under Code Section 501(c)(18), and any employer
contributions made on the behalf of a Participant for the purchase of an annuity
contract under Code Section 403(b) pursuant to a salary reduction agreement. The
term "Elective Deferrals" includes Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals and Roth Elective
Deferrals. Elective Deferrals shall not include any deferrals properly
distributed as excess Annual Additions pursuant to
Section 4.10(a).
1.28 "Elective Deferral Account"
means the separate account established and maintained by the Administrator for
each Participant with respect to the Participant's total interest in the Plan
resulting from Elective Deferrals. Amounts in the Elective Deferral Account are
nonforfeitable when made and are subject to the distribution restrictions of
Section 4.2(d). The Elective Deferral Account may consist of a Pre-Tax
Elective Deferral Account and a Roth Elective Deferral Account. Unless
specifically stated otherwise, any reference to a Participant's Elective
Deferral Account will refer to both of these sub-Accounts.
1.29 "Eligible Employee" means any
Employee, except as provided below, and except as provided in any other
particular provision for the limited purposes of that provision (e.g., ADP
test). The following Employees shall not be eligible to participate in this
Plan:
(a)
Employees of Affiliated Employers, unless such Affiliated Employers have
specifically adopted this Plan in writing.
(b)
An individual shall not be an Eligible Employee if such individual is not
reported on the payroll records of the Employer as a common law employee. In
particular, it is expressly intended that individuals not treated as common law
employees by the Employer on its payroll records and out-sourced workers, are
neither Employees nor Eligible Employees, and are excluded from Plan
participation even if a court or administrative agency determines that such
individuals are common law employees and not independent contractors. However,
this paragraph shall not apply to partners or other Self-Employed Individuals
unless the Employer treats them as independent contractors.
(c)
Unless or until otherwise provided, Employees who became Employees as the result
of a "Code Section 410(b)(6)(C) transaction" will not be Eligible Employees
until the expiration of the transition period beginning on the date of the
transaction and ending on the last day of the first Plan Year beginning after
the date of the transaction. A Code Section 410(b)(6)(C) transaction is an asset
or stock acquisition, merger, or similar transaction involving a change in the
Employer of the Employees of a trade or business that is subject to the special
rules set forth in Code Section 410(b)(6)(C).
(d)
Employees who are nonresident aliens (within the meaning of Code
Section 7701(b)(1)(B)) and who receive no earned income (within the meaning
of Code Section 911(d)(2)) from the Employer which constitutes income from
sources within the United States (within the meaning of Code
Section 861(a)(3)).
(e)
Summer Interns, Temporary Employees, Consultants/Project Employees.
1.30 "Employee" means any common
law employee, Self-Employed Individual, Leased Employee or other person to the
extent that the Code treats such an individual as an employee of the Employer
for purposes of the Plan, such as (for certain purposes) any person who is
employed by an Affiliated Employer.
1.31 "Employer" means Discovery
Laboratories, Inc. and any successor which shall maintain this Plan; and any
predecessor which has maintained this Plan. The Employer is a corporation, with
principal offices in the State of Delaware. In addition, where appropriate, the
term Employer shall include any Participating Employer.
1.32 "Excess Aggregate
Contributions" means, with respect to any Plan Year, the excess
of:
(a)
The aggregate Contribution Percentage Amounts actually made on behalf of
Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year and taken
into account in computing the numerator of the ACR, over
(b)
The maximum Contribution Percentage Amounts permitted by the ACP Test of
Section 4.7(a) (determined by hypothetically reducing contributions made on
behalf of Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees in order of their
ACRs beginning with the highest of such ACRs).
Such
determination shall be made after first taking into account corrections of any
Excess Deferrals pursuant to Section 4.2 and then taking into account any
adjustments of any Excess Contributions pursuant to
Section 4.6.
1.33 "Excess Contributions" means,
with respect to a Plan Year, the excess of Elective Deferrals made on behalf of
Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year over the
maximum amount of such contributions permitted under Section 4.5(a)
(determined by hypothetically reducing contributions made on behalf of
Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees in order of the ADRs beginning
with the highest of such ADRs). Excess Contributions shall be treated as an
Annual Addition pursuant to Section 1.12.
1.34 "Excess Deferrals" shall mean
those Elective Deferrals of a Participant that either (1) are made during the
Participant's taxable year and which exceed the dollar limitation under Code
Section 402(g) (including, if applicable, the dollar limitation on Catch-Up
Contributions defined in Code Section 414(v)) for such year; or (2) are made
during a calendar year and exceed the dollar limitation under Code Section
402(g) (including, if applicable, the dollar limitation on Catch-Up
Contributions defined in Code Section 414(v)) for the Participant's taxable year
beginning in such calendar year, counting only Elective Deferrals made under
this Plan and any other plan, contract or arrangement maintained by the
Employer.
1.35 "Fiduciary" means any person
who (a) exercises any discretionary authority or discretionary control
respecting management of the Plan or exercises any authority or control
respecting management or disposition of its assets, (b) renders investment
advice for a fee or other compensation, direct or indirect, with respect to any
monies or other property of the Plan or has any authority or responsibility to
do so, or (c) has any discretionary authority or discretionary
responsibility in the administration of the Plan.
1.36 "Fiscal Year" means the
Employer's accounting year of 12 months commencing on January 1st of each year
and ending the following December 31st.
1.37 "Forfeiture" means that
portion of a Participant's Account that is not Vested, and which becomes a
Forfeiture at the time described below:
The
earlier of:
(a)
the distribution of the entire Vested portion of the Participant's Account of a
Participant who has severed employment with the Employer. For purposes of this
provision, if the Participant has a Vested benefit of zero (determined without
regard to the Participant's Qualified Voluntary Employee Contribution Account or
Rollover Account), then such Participant shall be deemed to have received a
distribution of such Vested benefit as of the date on which the severance of
employment occurs, or
(b)
the last day of the Plan Year in which a Participant who has severed employment
with the Employer incurs five (5) consecutive 1-Year Breaks in
Service.
In
addition, the term "Forfeiture" shall also include amounts deemed to be
Forfeitures pursuant to any other provisions of this Plan.
Regardless
of the preceding provisions, if a Participant is eligible to share in the
allocation of Forfeitures in the year in which the Forfeiture would otherwise
occur, then the Forfeiture will not occur until the end of the subsequent Plan
Year.
For
purposes of this Plan, any Forfeiture will be disposed of in the Plan Year in
which the Forfeiture arises.
1.38 "Former Employee" means an
Employee who had a severance from employment with the Employer or an Affiliated
Employer.
1.39 "415 Compensation" with
respect to any Participant means such Participant's wages, salaries, fees for
professional services and other amounts received (without regard to whether or
not an amount is paid in cash) for personal services actually rendered in the
course of employment with the Employer maintaining the Plan to the extent that
the amounts are includible in gross income (including, but not limited to,
commissions paid salesmen, compensation for services on the basis of a
percentage of profits, commissions on insurance premiums, tips, bonuses, fringe
benefits, and reimbursements or other expense allowances under a nonaccountable
plan as described in Regulation 1.62-2(c)) for a Plan Year. 415
Compensation for any Self-Employed Individual shall be equal to such
individual's Earned Income.
415
Compensation shall exclude (a)(1) contributions made by the Employer to a plan
of deferred compensation to the extent that, the contributions are not
includible in the gross income of the Participant for the taxable year in which
contributed, (2) Employer contributions made on behalf of an Employee to a
simplified employee pension plan described in Code Section 408(k) to the
extent such contributions are excludable from the Employee's gross income,
(3) any distributions from a plan of deferred compensation;
(b) amounts realized from the exercise of a non-qualified stock option, or
when restricted stock (or property) held by an Employee either becomes freely
transferable or is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture;
(c) amounts realized from the sale, exchange or other disposition of stock
acquired under a qualified stock option; and (d) other amounts which
receive special tax benefits, or contributions made by the Employer (whether or
not under a salary reduction agreement) towards the purchase of any annuity
contract described in Code Section 403(b) (whether or not the contributions
are actually excludable from the gross income of the Employee).
Notwithstanding
the above, the determination of 415 Compensation shall be made by:
(a)
including any Elective Deferrals, and any amount which is contributed by the
Employer at the election of the Participant pursuant to a salary reduction
agreement and which is not includible in the gross income of the Participant by
reason of Code Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) or
457(b), and employee contributions described in Code Section 414(h)(2) that
are treated as Employer contributions. For this purpose, effective
January 1, 1998, amounts not includible in gross income under Code
Section 125 shall be deemed to include any amounts not available to a
Participant in cash in lieu of group health coverage because the Participant is
unable to certify that the Participant has other health coverage, provided the
Employer does not request or collect information regarding the Participant's
other health coverage as part of the enrollment process for the health
plan.
(b)
including Post-Severance Compensation.
1.40 "414(s) Compensation" means
415 Compensation or any other definition of compensation that satisfies the
nondiscrimination requirements of Code Section 414(s) and the Regulations
thereunder. The period for determining 414(s) Compensation must be either
the Plan Year or the calendar year ending with or within the Plan Year. An
Employer may further limit the period taken into account to that part of the
Plan Year or calendar year in which an Employee was a Participant in the
component of the Plan being tested. The period used to determine
414(s) Compensation must be applied uniformly to all Participants for the
Plan Year.
1.41 "Highly Compensated Employee"
means an Employee described in Code Section 414(q) and the Regulations
thereunder, and generally means any Employee who:
(a)
was a "five percent owner" as defined in Section 1.46(b) at any time during
the "determination year" or the "look-back year"; or
(b)
for the "look-back year" had 415 Compensation from the Employer in excess of
$80,000. The $80,000 amount is adjusted at the same time and in the same manner
as under Code Section 415(d), except that the base period is the calendar
quarter ending September 30, 1996.
The
"determination year" means the Plan Year for which testing is being performed,
and the "look-back year" means the immediately preceding twelve (12) month
period.
In
determining who is a Highly Compensated Employee, Employees who are nonresident
aliens and who received no earned income (within the meaning of Code
Section 911(d)(2)) from the Employer constituting United States source
income within the meaning of Code Section 861(a)(3) shall not be treated as
Employees. If an Employee who is a nonresident alien has U.S. source income,
that Employee is treated as satisfying this definition if all of such Employee's
U.S. source income from the Employer is exempt from U.S. income tax under an
applicable income tax treaty. Additionally, all Affiliated Employers shall be
taken into account as a single employer and Leased Employees within the meaning
of Code Sections 414(n)(2) and 414(o)(2) shall be considered Employees
unless such Leased Employees are covered by a plan described in Code
Section 414(n)(5) and are not covered in any qualified plan maintained by
the Employer. The exclusion of Leased Employees for this purpose shall be
applied on a uniform and consistent basis for all of the Employer's retirement
plans. Highly Compensated Former Employees shall be treated as Highly
Compensated Employees without regard to whether they performed services during
the "determination year."
1.42 "Highly Compensated
Participant" means, for a particular Plan Year, a Participant who meets
the definition of a Highly Compensated Employee in effect for that Plan
Year.
1.43 "Hour of Service" means
(1) each hour for which an Employee is directly or indirectly compensated
or entitled to Compensation by the Employer for the performance of duties (these
hours will be credited to the Employee for the computation period in which the
duties are performed); (2) each hour for which an Employee is directly or
indirectly compensated or entitled to compensation by the Employer (irrespective
of whether the employment relationship has terminated) for reasons other than
performance of duties (such as vacation, holidays, sickness, jury duty,
disability, lay-off, military duty or leave of absence) during the applicable
computation period (these hours will be calculated and credited pursuant to
Department of Labor regulation 2530.200b-2, which is incorporated herein by
reference); (3) each hour for which back pay is awarded or agreed to by the
Employer without regard to mitigation of damages (these hours will be credited
to the Employee for the computation period or periods to which the award or
agreement pertains rather than the computation period in which the award,
agreement or payment is made). The same Hours of Service shall not be credited
both under (1) or (2), as the case may be, and under (3).
Notwithstanding
(2) above, (i) no more than 501 Hours of Service are required to be
credited to an Employee on account of any single continuous period during which
the Employee performs no duties (whether or not such period occurs in a single
computation period); (ii) an hour for which an Employee is directly or
indirectly paid, or entitled to payment, on account of a period during which no
duties are performed is not required to be credited to the Employee if such
payment is made or due under a plan maintained solely for the purpose of
complying with applicable worker's compensation, or unemployment compensation or
disability insurance laws; and (iii) Hours of Service are not required to
be credited for a payment which solely reimburses an Employee for medical or
medically related expenses incurred by the Employee.
For
purposes of (2) above, a payment shall be deemed to be made by or due from the
Employer regardless of whether such payment is made by or due from the Employer
directly, or indirectly through, among others, a trust fund, or insurer, to
which the Employer contributes or pays premiums and regardless of whether
contributions made or due to the trust fund, insurer, or other entity are for
the benefit of particular Employees or are on behalf of a group of Employees in
the aggregate.
For
purposes of this Section, Hours of Service will be credited for employment with
any Affiliated Employers. The provisions of Department of Labor
regulations 2530.200b-2(b) and (c) are incorporated herein by
reference.
1.44 "Income" means the gains or
losses for the "applicable computation period" allocable to an "excess amount",
which amount shall be determined and allocated, at the discretion of the
Administrator, using any of the methods set forth below:
(a)
Method of allocating Income. The Administrator may use any reasonable method for
computing the Income allocable to an "excess amount" for the "applicable
computation period," provided that the method is used consistently for all
Participants and for all corrective distributions under the Plan for the
"applicable computation period," and is used by the Plan for allocating earnings
to a Participant's "specific account(s)."
(b)
Alternative method of allocating Income. The Administrator may allocate Income
to an "excess amount" for the "applicable computation period" by multiplying the
earnings for the "applicable computation period" allocable to the "Employer
contributions" taken into account under the test or limitation giving rise to
such "excess amount" by a fraction, the numerator of which is the "excess
amount" for the Employee for the "applicable computation period," and the
denominator of which is the sum of:
(1)
The "specific account(s)" balance(s) taken into account under the test or
limitation giving rise to such "excess amount" as of the beginning of the
"applicable computation period," and
(2)
Any additional amount of such "Employer contributions" made for the "applicable
computation period" to the "specific account(s)."
(c)
For purposes of calculating the Income attributable to Excess Deferrals of
Section 4.2(g), the terms "applicable computation period", "Employer
contributions", "excess amount", and "specific account(s)" will have the
following substitutions:
(1)
The taxable year of the Participant shall be substituted for the "applicable
computation period";
(2)
Elective Deferrals shall be substituted for "Employer
contributions";
(3)
Excess Deferrals shall be substituted for "excess amount"; and
(4)
The Elective Deferral Account shall be substituted for the "specific
account(s)."
(d)
For purposes of calculating the Income attributable to Excess Contributions of
Section 4.6(b), the terms "applicable computation period", "Employer
contributions", "excess amount", and "specific account(s)" will have the
following substitutions:
(1)
The Plan Year shall be substituted for the "applicable computation
period";
(2)
Elective Deferrals, and other contributions included in determining the ADR
under Section 1.9, shall be substituted for "Employer
contributions";
(3)
Excess Contributions shall be substituted for "excess amount";
(4)
The Elective Deferral Account, and, if included in the determination of the ADR
under Section 1.9, the Qualified Matching Contribution and/or the Qualified
Nonelective Contribution Account(s), shall be substituted for the "specific
account(s)."
(e) For
purposes of calculating the Income attributable to Excess Aggregate
Contributions of Section 4.8(b), the terms "applicable computation period",
"Employer contributions", "excess amount", and "specific account(s)" will have
the following substitutions:
(1)
The Plan Year shall be substituted for the "applicable computation
period";
(2)
Any Matching Contributions which are made pursuant to Section 4.1(b); Qualified
Matching Contributions (to the extent such Qualified Matching Contributions are
not used to satisfy the ADP Test) and Qualified Nonelective Contributions (to
the extent not used to satisfy the ADP Test) shall be substituted for "Employer
contributions." Elective Deferrals may be included in the substitution listed
above, provided the ADP Test is met before the Elective Deferrals are used in
the ACP Test and continues to be met following the exclusion of those Elective
Deferrals that are used to meet the ACP Test. However, Matching Contributions
that are forfeited either to correct Excess Aggregate Contributions or due to
Code Section 401(a)(4) and the Regulations thereunder because the contributions
to which they relate are Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions, or Excess
Aggregate Contributions shall not be included in the substitution listed
above.
(3)
Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be substituted for "excess
amount";
(4)
The Matching Contribution Account, Qualified Matching Contribution Account and
Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account shall be substituted for the
"specific account(s)."
(f) With
respect to Excess Contributions and Excess Aggregate Contributions, effective
beginning with the first Plan Year beginning in 2006, Income for the period
between the end of the Plan Year and the date of the distribution (the "gap
period") is required to be distributed. A Plan will not fail to use a reasonable
method for computing the Income that is allocable to Excess Contributions and
Excess Aggregate Contributions merely because the Income allocable to Excess
Contributions and Excess Aggregate Contributions is determined on a date that is
no more than 7 days before the distribution. Income for the "gap period" shall
be calculated by using any of the methods set forth below:
(1)
Safe harbor method of allocating "gap period" income. The Administrator may
use the safe harbor method in this paragraph to determine the Income on Excess
Contributions and Excess Aggregate Contributions for the "gap period." Under
this safe harbor method, Income on Excess Contributions and Excess Aggregate
Contributions for the "gap period" is equal to 10% of the Income allocable to
Excess Contributions and Excess Aggregate Contributions for the Plan Year that
would be determined under paragraph (b) above (with the appropriate
substitutions of paragraph (d) and paragraph (e)), multiplied by the number of
calendar months that have elapsed since the end of the Plan Year. For purposes
of calculating the number of calendar months that have elapsed under this safe
harbor method, a corrective distribution that is made on or before the fifteenth
day of a month is treated as made on the last day of the preceding month and a
distribution made after the fifteenth day of a month is treated as made on the
last day of the month.
(2)
Alternative method for allocating Plan Year and "gap period" income. The
Administrator may determine the allocable Income for the aggregate of the Plan
Year and the "gap period" by applying the alternative method provided by
paragraph (b) above with respect to the entire period represented by the Plan
Year and the "gap period", rather than just the Plan Year.
1.45 "Investment Manager" means any
Fiduciary described in Act Section 3(38).
1.46 "Key Employee" means, for Plan
Years beginning after December 31, 2001, an Employee as defined in Code
Section 416(i) and the Regulations thereunder. Generally, any Employee or
Former Employee (as well as each of the Employee's or Former Employee's
Beneficiaries) is considered a Key Employee if the Employee or Former Employee,
at any time during the Plan Year that contains the "determination date" is
described in one of the following categories:
(a)
an officer of the Employer (as that term is defined within the meaning of the
Regulations under Code Section 416) having annual 415 Compensation greater
than $130,000 (as adjusted under Code Section 416(i)(1) for Plan Years beginning
after December 31, 2002).
(b)
a "five percent owner" of the Employer. "Five percent owner" means any person
who owns (or is considered as owning within the meaning of Code
Section 318) more than five percent (5%) of the outstanding stock of
the Employer or stock possessing more than five percent (5%) of the total
combined voting power of all stock of the Employer or, in the case of an
unincorporated business, any person who owns more than five percent (5%) of
the capital or profits interest in the Employer. In determining percentage
ownership hereunder, employers that would otherwise be aggregated under Code
Sections 414(b), (c), (m) and (o) shall be treated as separate
employers.
(c)
a "one percent owner" of the Employer having an annual 415 Compensation from the
Employer of more than $150,000. "One percent owner" means any person who owns
(or is considered as owning within the meaning of Code Section 318) more
than one percent (1%) of the outstanding stock of the Employer or stock
possessing more than one percent (1%) of the total combined voting power of all
stock of the Employer or, in the case of an unincorporated business, any person
who owns more than one percent (1%) of the capital or profits interest in the
Employer. In determining percentage ownership hereunder, employers that would
otherwise be aggregated under Code Sections 414(b), (c), (m) and (o)
shall be treated as separate employers. However, in determining whether an
individual has 415 Compensation of more than $150,000, 415 Compensation from
each employer required to be aggregated under Code Sections 414(b), (c),
(m) and (o) shall be taken into account.
In
determining percentage ownership hereunder, employers that would otherwise be
aggregated under Code Sections 414(b), (c), (m) and (o) shall be treated as
separate employers. In determining whether an individual has 415 Compensation of
more than $150,000, 415 Compensation from each employer required to be
aggregated under Code Sections 414(b), (c), (m) and (o) shall be taken into
account.
1.47 "Late Retirement Date" means a
Participant's actual Retirement Date after having reached Normal Retirement
Date.
1.48 "Leased Employee" means any
person (other than an Employee of the recipient Employer) who, pursuant to an
agreement between the recipient Employer and any other person or entity
("leasing organization"), has performed services for the recipient (or for the
recipient and related persons determined in accordance with Code Section
414(n)(6)) on a substantially full time basis for a period of at least one year,
and such services are performed under primary direction or control by the
recipient Employer. Contributions or benefits provided a Leased Employee by the
leasing organization which are attributable to services performed for the
recipient Employer shall be treated as provided by the recipient Employer.
Furthermore, Compensation for a Leased Employee shall only include Compensation
from the leasing organization that is attributable to services performed for the
recipient Employer.
A Leased
Employee shall not be considered an employee of the recipient Employer if:
(a) such employee is covered by a money purchase pension plan providing:
(1) a non-integrated employer contribution rate of at least ten percent
(10%) of compensation, as defined in Code Section 415(c)(3),
(2) immediate participation, and (3) full and immediate vesting; and
(b) leased employees do not constitute more than twenty percent (20%) of the
recipient Employer's nonhighly compensated work force.
1.49 "Limitation Year" means the
Plan Year. However, the Employer may elect a different Limitation Year by
amending the Plan. All qualified plans maintained by the Employer must use the
same Limitation Year. Furthermore, unless there is a change to a new Limitation
Year, the Limitation Year will be a twelve (12) consecutive month period. In the
case of an initial Limitation Year, the Limitation Year will be the twelve (12)
consecutive month period ending on the last day of the initial Plan Year. If the
Limitation Year is amended to a different twelve (12) consecutive month period,
the new Limitation Year must begin on a date within the Limitation Year in which
the amendment is made.
1.50 "Matching Contribution" means
any Employer contribution (including a contribution made at the Employer's
discretion) to the Plan on account of a Participant's Elective
Deferrals.
1.51 "Matching Contribution
Account" means the separate account established and maintained by the
Administrator for each Participant with respect to the Participant's total
interest in the Plan resulting from Matching Contributions. However, if Matching
Contributions are Qualified Matching Contributions, then such Qualified Matching
Contributions shall be allocated to the Qualified Matching Contribution
Account.
1.52 "Nonelective Contribution"
means any Employer contribution (including a contribution made at the Employer's
discretion) to the Plan, other than a Participant's Elective Deferrals, Matching
Contributions, Qualified Matching Contributions and Qualified Nonelective
Contributions.
1.53 "Nonelective Contribution
Account" means the separate account established and maintained by the
Administrator for each Participant with respect to the Participant's total
interest in the Plan resulting from Nonelective Contributions.
1.54 "Nonhighly Compensated
Employee/Participant" means any Employee who is not a Highly Compensated
Employee. However, for purposes of Section 4.5(a) and Section 4.7(a),
if the prior year testing method is used, a Nonhighly Compensated Employee shall
be determined using the definition of Highly Compensated Employee in effect for
the preceding Plan Year. A Nonhighly Compensated Participant is a Participant
who is not a Highly Compensated Employee.
A
Participant is a Nonhighly Compensated Participant for a particular Plan Year if
such Participant does not meet the definition of a Highly Compensated Employee
in effect for that Plan Year.
1.55 "Non-Key Employee" means any
Employee or Former Employee (and such Employee's or Former Employee's
Beneficiaries) who is not a Key Employee.
1.56 "Normal Retirement Age" means
the Participant's 65th birthday. A Participant shall become fully Vested in the
Participant's Account upon attaining Normal Retirement Age (if the Participant
is still employed by the Employer on or after that date).
1.57 "Normal Retirement Date" means
the date a Participant attains Normal Retirement Age.
1.58 "1-Year Break in Service"
means a Period of Severance of at least 12 consecutive months.
1.59 "Owner-Employee" means a sole
proprietor who owns the entire interest in the Employer or a partner (or member
in the case of a limited liability company treated as a partnership or sole
proprietorship for federal income tax purposes) who owns more than 10% of either
the capital interest or the profits interest in the Employer and who receives
income for personal services from the Employer.
1.60 "Participant" means any
Employee or Former Employee who has satisfied the requirements of
Sections 3.1 and 3.2 and entered the Plan and is eligible to accrue
benefits under the Plan. In addition, the term "Participant" also includes any
individual who was a Participant (as defined in the preceding sentence) and who
must continue to be taken into account under a particular provision of the Plan
(e.g., because the Participant has an Account Balance in the Plan).
1.61 "Participant Direction
Procedures" means such instructions, guidelines or policies, the terms of
which are incorporated herein, as shall be established pursuant to
Section 4.13 and observed by the Administrator and applied and provided to
Participants who have Participant Directed Accounts.
1.62 "Participating Employer" means
an Employer who adopts the Plan pursuant to Section 10.1.
1.63 "Period of Service" means each
twelve (12) month period of service commencing with the Employee's first day of
employment or reemployment with the Employer or Affiliated Employer and ending
on the date a 1-Year Break in Service begins. The first day of employment or
reemployment is the first day the Employee performs an Hour of Service. An
Employee who incurs a Period of Severance of twelve (12) months or less will
also receive service-spanning credit for all such Periods of Severance.
Fractional periods of a year will be expressed in terms of days. A Participant's
whole year Periods of Service is equal to the sum of all full and partial
periods of service, whether or not such service is continuous or contiguous, and
whether or not such service is actual service or imputed service (under the
service-spanning rule above), expressed in the number of whole years represented
by such sum.
Periods
of Service with any Affiliated Employer shall be recognized. Furthermore,
Periods of Service with any predecessor employer that maintained this Plan shall
be recognized.
In
addition, Periods of Service with P.F. Laboratories, Inc. and Laureate Pharma,
Inc. shall be recognized for purposes of eligibility, vesting and
allocations.
In the
event the method of crediting service is amended from the hour-of-service method
to the elapsed-time method, an Employee will receive credit for a Period of
Service consisting of:
(a)
A number of years equal to the number of Years of Service credited to the
Employee before the computation period during which the amendment occurs;
and
(b)
The greater of (1) the Periods of Service that would be credited to the Employee
under the elapsed-time method for service during the entire computation period
in which the amendment occurs or (2) the service taken into account under the
hour-of-service method as of the date of the amendment.
In
addition, the Employee will receive credit for service subsequent to the
amendment commencing on the day after the last day of the computation period in
which the amendment occurs.
1.64 "Period of Severance" means a
continuous period of time during which an Employee is not employed by the
Employer. Such period begins on the date the Employee retires, quits or is
discharged, or if earlier, the twelve (12) month anniversary of the date on
which the Employee was otherwise first absent from service.
In the
case of an individual who is absent from work for maternity or paternity
reasons, the twelve (12) consecutive month period beginning on the first
anniversary of the first day of such absence shall not constitute a 1-Year Break
in Service. For purposes of this paragraph, an absence from work for maternity
or paternity reasons means an absence (a) by reason of the pregnancy of the
individual, (b) by reason of the birth of a child of the individual,
(c) by reason of the placement of a child with the individual in connection
with the adoption of such child by such individual, or (d) for purposes of
caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or
placement.
1.65 "Plan" means this instrument,
including all amendments thereto.
1.66 "Plan Year" means the Plan's
accounting year of twelve (12) months commencing on January 1st of each
year and ending the following December 31st.
1.67 "Post-Severance Compensation"
means payments made within 2 1/2 months after severance from employment (within
the meaning of Code Section 401(k)(2)(B)(i)(I)) if they are payments that,
absent a severance from employment, would have been paid to the Employee while
the Employee continued in employment with the Employer and are regular
compensation for services during the Employee's regular working hours,
compensation for services outside the Employee's regular working hours (such as
overtime or shift differential), commissions, bonuses, or other similar
compensation, and payments for accrued bona fide sick, vacation or other leave,
but only if the Employee would have been able to use the leave if employment had
continued. Any payments not described above are not considered compensation if
paid after severance from employment, even if they are paid within 2 1/2
months following severance from employment, except for payments to an individual
who does not currently perform services for the Employer by reason of qualified
military service (within the meaning of Code Section 414(u)(1)) to the extent
these payments do not exceed the amounts the individual would have received if
the individual had continued to perform services for the Employer rather than
entering qualified military service.
1.68 "Pre-Tax Elective Deferral
Account" means the portion of a Participant's Elective Deferral Account
that is attributable to Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals.
1.69 "Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals"
means a Participant's Elective Deferrals that are not includible in the
Participant's gross income at the time deferred.
1.70 "Qualified Matching
Contribution" means any Employer contribution (including a contribution
made at the Employer's discretion) to the Plan on account of a Participant's
Elective Deferrals that are designated as such pursuant to Sections 4.6 and
4.8.
1.71 "Qualified Matching Contribution
Account" means the separate account established and maintained by the
Administrator for each Participant with respect to the Participant's total
interest in the Plan resulting from Qualified Matching Contributions. Amounts in
the Qualified Matching Contribution Account are nonforfeitable when made and are
subject to the distribution restrictions of Section 4.2(d).
1.72 "Qualified Nonelective
Contribution" means any Employer contributions to the Plan that are
designated as such pursuant to Sections 4.1(c), 4.6 and 4.8 or any other provision
of the Plan. Qualified Nonelective Contributions may be used to satisfy the ADP
Test or the ACP Test. All such contributions shall be allocated to the Qualified
Nonelective Contribution Account, and shall be fully vested and subject to the
restrictions on distributions from that Account.
1.73 "Qualified Nonelective Contribution
Account" means the separate account established and maintained by the
Administrator for each Participant with respect to the Participant's total
interest in the Plan resulting from Qualified Nonelective Contributions. Amounts
in the Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account are nonforfeitable when made
and are subject to the distribution restrictions of
Section 4.2(d).
1.74 "Regulation" means the Income
Tax Regulations as promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury or a delegate of
the Secretary of the Treasury, and as amended from time to time.
1.75 "Retirement Date" means the
date as of which a Participant retires for reasons other than Disability,
whether such retirement occurs on a Participant's Normal Retirement Date or Late
Retirement Date.
1.76 "Rollover Account" means the
separate account established and maintained by the Administrator for each
Participant with respect to such Participant's interest in the Plan resulting
from amounts that are rolled over from another plan or Individual Retirement
Account in accordance with Section 4.12. Amounts in the Rollover Account
are nonforfeitable when made.
A
separate accounting shall be maintained with respect to any portion of the
Rollover Account that is attributable to amounts treated as Roth elective
deferrals.
1.77 "Roth Elective Deferral
Account" means the separate account established and maintained by the
Administrator for each Participant with respect to the Participant's total
interest in the Plan resulting from Roth Elective Deferrals. Amounts in the Roth
Elective Deferral Account are nonforfeitable when made and are subject to the
distribution restrictions of Section 4.2(d).
1.78 "Roth Elective Deferrals"
means, effective May 1, 2008, a Participant's Elective Deferrals that are
includible in the Participant's gross income at the time deferred and have been
irrevocably designated as Roth Elective Deferrals by the Participant in his or
her deferral election.
1.79 "Self-Employed Individual"
means an individual, other than an independent contractor, who has Earned Income
for the taxable year from the trade or business for which the Plan is
established, and, also, an individual who would have had Earned Income but for
the fact that the trade or business had no net profits for the taxable year. A
Self-Employed Individual shall be treated as an Employee.
1.80 "Shareholder-Employee" means a
Participant who owns more than five percent (5%) of the Employer's outstanding
capital stock during any year in which the Employer elected to be taxed as a
Small Business Corporation under the applicable Code Section.
1.81 "Terminated Participant" means
a person who has been a Participant, but whose employment has been terminated
other than by death, Disability or retirement.
1.82 "Top-Heavy Plan" means a plan
described in Section 8.1(a).
1.83 "Top-Heavy Plan Year" means a
Plan Year during which the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan.
1.84 "Total Vested Benefit" means
the total Participant's Vested Account balances derived from Employer and
Employee contributions, including rollover contributions, whether Vested before
or upon death.
1.85 "Transfer Account" means the
separate account established and maintained by the Administrator for each
Participant with respect to the Participant's total interest in the Plan
resulting from amounts transferred to this Plan from a direct plan-to-plan
transfer in accordance with Section 4.11. To the extent that the Plan is a
direct or indirect transferee of a defined benefit or defined contribution
pension plan, then the funds transferred to this Plan from such other plan shall
be treated as funds that are subject to a life annuity form of payment as well
as the survivor annuity requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(11) and 417 (and
are part of the Participant's Pre-Retirement Survivor Annuity Account). The
preceding sentence does not apply to amounts rolled over into a Participant's
Rollover Account, even if from a pension plan.
1.86 "Trustee" means the person or
entity named as trustee herein or in any separate trust forming a part of this
Plan, and any successors, effective upon the written acceptance of such person
or entity to serve as Trustee.
1.87 "Trust Fund" means the assets
of the Plan and Trust as the same shall exist from time to time.
1.88 "Valuation Date" means the
Anniversary Date and may include any other date or dates deemed necessary or
appropriate by the Administrator for the valuation of the Participants' Accounts
during the Plan Year, which may include any day that the Trustee, any transfer
agent appointed by the Trustee or the Employer or any stock exchange used by
such agent, is open for business. Nothing in this Plan requires or implies a
uniform Valuation Date for all Accounts; thus certain valuation provisions that
apply to an Account that is not valued on each business day will have no
application, in operation, to an Account that is valued on each business
day.
1.89 "Vested" means the
nonforfeitable portion of any account maintained on behalf of a
Participant.
ARTICLE
II
ADMINISTRATION
2.1 POWERS
AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE EMPLOYER
(a) Appointment of Trustee and
Administrator. In addition to the general powers and responsibilities
otherwise provided for in this Plan, the Employer shall be empowered to appoint
and remove the Trustee and the Administrator from time to time as it deems
necessary for the proper administration of the Plan to ensure that the Plan is
being operated for the exclusive benefit of the Participants and their
Beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of the Act, the Plan and the Code.
The Employer may appoint counsel, specialists, advisers, agents (including any
nonfiduciary agent) and other persons as the Employer deems necessary or
desirable in connection with the exercise of its fiduciary duties under this
Plan. The Employer may compensate such agents or advisers from the assets of the
Plan as fiduciary expenses (but not including any business (settlor) expenses of
the Employer), to the extent not paid by the Employer.
(b) Appointment of Investment Manager.
The Employer may appoint, at its option, an Investment Manager (qualified
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as amended), investment adviser, or
other agent to provide investment direction to the Trustee with respect to any
or all of the Plan assets. Such appointment shall be given by the Employer in
writing in a form acceptable to the Trustee and shall specifically identify the
Plan assets with respect to which the Investment Manager or other agent shall
have authority to direct the investment.
(c) Funding policy and method. The
Employer shall establish a funding policy and method, i.e., it shall determine
whether the Plan has a short run need for liquidity (e.g., to pay benefits) or
whether liquidity is a long run goal and investment growth (and stability of
same) is a more current need, or shall appoint a qualified person to do so. The
Employer or its delegate shall communicate such needs and goals to the Trustee,
who shall coordinate such Plan needs with its investment policy. The
communication of such a funding policy and method shall not, however, constitute
a directive to the Trustee as to the investment of the Trust Funds. Such funding
policy and method shall be consistent with the objectives of this Plan and with
the requirements of Title I of the Act.
(d) Review of fiduciary performance.
The Employer shall periodically review the performance of any Fiduciary
or other person to whom duties have been delegated or allocated by it under the
provisions of this Plan or pursuant to procedures established hereunder. This
requirement may be satisfied by formal periodic review by the Employer or by a
qualified person specifically designated by the Employer, through day-to-day
conduct and evaluation, or through other appropriate ways.
2.2 DESIGNATION
OF ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY
The
Employer shall be the Administrator. The Employer may appoint any person,
including, but not limited to, the Employees of the Employer, to perform the
duties of the Administrator. Any person so appointed shall signify acceptance by
filing written acceptance with the Employer. Upon the resignation or removal of
any individual performing the duties of the Administrator, the Employer may
designate a successor.
2.3 ALLOCATION
AND DELEGATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES
If more
than one person is serving as Administrator, the responsibilities of each
Administrator may be specified by the Employer and accepted in writing by each
Administrator. In the event that no such delegation is made by the Employer, the
Administrators may allocate the responsibilities among themselves, in which
event the Administrators shall notify the Employer and the Trustee in writing of
such action and specify the responsibilities of each Administrator. The Trustee
thereafter shall accept and rely upon any documents executed by the appropriate
Administrator until such time as the Employer or the Administrators file with
the Trustee a written revocation of such designation.
2.4 POWERS
AND DUTIES OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
The
primary responsibility of the Administrator is to administer the Plan for the
exclusive benefit of the Participants and their Beneficiaries, subject to the
specific terms of the Plan. The Administrator shall administer the Plan in
accordance with its terms and shall have the power and discretion to construe
the terms of the Plan and to determine all questions arising in connection with
the administration, interpretation, and application of the Plan. Benefits under
this Plan will be paid only if the Administrator decides in its discretion that
the applicant is entitled to them. Any such determination by the Administrator
shall be conclusive and binding upon all persons. The Administrator may
establish procedures, correct any defect, supply any information, or reconcile
any inconsistency in such manner and to such extent as shall be deemed necessary
or advisable to carry out the purpose of the Plan; provided, however, that any
procedure, discretionary act, interpretation or construction shall be done in a
nondiscriminatory manner based upon uniform principles consistently applied and
shall be consistent with the intent that the Plan shall continue to be deemed a
qualified plan under the terms of Code Section 401(a), and shall comply
with the terms of the Act and all regulations issued pursuant thereto. The
Administrator shall have all powers necessary or appropriate to accomplish the
Administrator's duties under the Plan.
The
Administrator shall be charged with the duties of the general administration of
the Plan as set forth under the terms of the Plan, including, but not limited
to, the following:
(a) the
discretion to determine all questions relating to the eligibility of Employees
to participate or remain a Participant hereunder and to receive benefits under
the Plan;
(b) the
authority to review and settle all claims against the Plan, including claims
where the settlement amount cannot be calculated or is not calculated in
accordance with the Plan's benefit formula. This authority specifically permits
the Administrator to settle disputed claims for benefits and any other disputed
claims made against the Plan;
(c) to
compute, certify, and direct the Trustee with respect to the amount and the kind
of benefits to which any Participant shall be entitled hereunder;
(d) to
authorize and direct the Trustee with respect to all discretionary or otherwise
directed disbursements from the Trust;
(e) to
maintain all necessary records for the administration of the Plan;
(f) to
interpret the provisions of the Plan and to make and publish such rules for
regulation of the Plan as are consistent with the terms hereof;
(g) to
determine the size and type of any Contract to be purchased from any insurer,
and to designate the insurer from which such Contract shall be
purchased;
(h) to
compute and certify to the Employer and to the Trustee from time to time the
sums of money necessary or desirable to be contributed to the Plan;
(i)
to consult with the Employer and the Trustee regarding the short and
long-term liquidity needs of the Plan in order that the Trustee can exercise any
investment discretion (if the Trustee has such discretion) in a manner designed
to accomplish specific objectives;
(j)
to prepare and implement a procedure to notify Eligible Employees that they may
elect to have a portion of their Compensation deferred or paid to them in
cash;
(k) to
act as the named Fiduciary responsible for communications with Participants as
needed to maintain Plan compliance with Act Section 404(c), including, but
not limited to, the receipt and transmitting of Participant's directions as to
the investment of their account(s) under the Plan and the formulation of
policies, rules, and procedures pursuant to which Participants may give
investment instructions with respect to the investment of their
accounts;
(l)
to determine the validity of, and take appropriate action with respect to, any
qualified domestic relations order received by it; and
(m) to
assist any Participant regarding the Participant's rights, benefits, or
elections available under the Plan.
2.5 RECORDS
AND REPORTS
The
Administrator shall keep a record of all actions taken and shall keep all other
books of account, records, policies, and other data that may be necessary for
proper administration of the Plan and shall be responsible for supplying all
information and reports to the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor,
Participants, Beneficiaries and others as required by law.
2.6 APPOINTMENT
OF ADVISERS
The
Administrator, or the Trustee with the consent of the Administrator, may appoint
counsel, specialists, advisers, agents (including nonfiduciary agents) and other
persons as the Administrator or the Trustee deems necessary or desirable in
connection with the administration of this Plan, including but not limited to
agents and advisers to assist with the administration and management of the
Plan, and thereby to provide, among such other duties as the Administrator may
appoint, assistance with maintaining Plan records and the providing of
investment information to the Plan's investment fiduciaries and to Plan
Participants.
2.7 PAYMENT
OF EXPENSES
All
reasonable expenses of administration may be paid out of the Plan assets unless
paid by the Employer. Such expenses shall include any expenses incident to the
functioning of the Administrator, or any person or persons retained or appointed
by any named Fiduciary incident to the exercise of their duties under the Plan,
including, but not limited to, fees of accountants, counsel, Investment
Managers, agents (including nonfiduciary agents) appointed for the purpose of
assisting the Administrator or the Trustee in carrying out the instructions of
Participants as to the directed investment of their accounts (if permitted) and
other specialists and their agents, the costs of any bonds required pursuant to
Act Section 412, and other costs of administering the Plan. Until paid, the
expenses shall constitute a liability of the Trust Fund. In addition, unless
specifically prohibited under statute, regulation or other guidance of general
applicability, the Administrator may charge to the Account of an individual
Participant a reasonable charge to offset the cost of making a distribution to
the Participant, Beneficiary, or alternate payee under a qualified domestic
relation order, as defined in Code Section 414(p). If liquid assets of the Plan
are insufficient to cover the fees of the Trustee or the Plan Administrator,
then Plan assets shall be liquidated to the extent necessary for such fees. In
the event any part of the Plan assets becomes subject to tax, all taxes incurred
will be paid from the Plan assets. Until paid, the expenses shall constitute a
liability of the Trust Fund.
2.8 CLAIMS
PROCEDURE
Claims
for benefits under the Plan may be filed in writing with the Administrator.
Written notice of the disposition of a claim shall be furnished to the claimant
within ninety (90) days (45 days if the claim involves disability benefits)
after the application is filed, or such period as is required by applicable law
or Department of Labor regulation. In the event the claim is denied, the reasons
for the denial shall be specifically set forth in the notice in language
calculated to be understood by the claimant, pertinent provisions of the Plan
shall be cited, and, where appropriate, an explanation as to how the claimant
can perfect the claim will be provided. In addition, the claimant shall be
furnished with an explanation of the Plan's claims review
procedure.
2.9 CLAIMS
REVIEW PROCEDURE
Any
Employee, Former Employee, or Beneficiary of either, who has been denied a
benefit by a decision of the Administrator pursuant to Section 2.8 shall be
entitled to request the Administrator to give further consideration to a claim
by filing with the Administrator a written request for a hearing. Such request,
together with a written statement of the reasons why the claimant believes the
claim should be allowed, shall be filed with the Administrator no later than
sixty (60) days (45 days if the claim involves disability benefits) after
receipt of the written notification provided for in Section 2.8. The
Administrator shall then conduct a hearing within the next 60 days (45 days if
the claim involves disability benefits), at which the claimant may be
represented by an attorney or any other representative of such claimant's
choosing and expense and at which the claimant shall have an opportunity to
submit written and oral evidence and arguments in support of the claim. At the
hearing the claimant or the claimant's representative shall have an opportunity
to review all documents in the possession of the Administrator which are
pertinent to the claim at issue and its disallowance. A final decision as to the
allowance of the claim shall be made by the Administrator within sixty (60) days
(45 days if the claim involves disability benefits) of receipt of the appeal
(unless there has been an extension of sixty (60) days (45 days if the claim
involves disability benefits) due to special circumstances, provided the delay
and the special circumstances occasioning it are communicated to the claimant
within the 60-day period (45 days if the claim involves disability benefits)).
Such communication shall be written in a manner calculated to be understood by
the claimant and shall include specific reasons for the decision and specific
references to the pertinent Plan provisions on which the decision is based.
Notwithstanding the preceding, to the extent any of the time periods specified
in this Section are amended by law or Department of Labor regulation, then the
time frames specified herein shall automatically be changed in accordance with
such law or regulation.
If the
Administrator, pursuant to the claims review procedure, makes a final written
determination denying a Participant's or Beneficiary's benefit claim, then in
order to preserve the claim, the Participant or Beneficiary must file an action
with respect to the denied claim not later than one hundred eighty (180) days
following the date of the Administrator's final determination.
ARTICLE
III
ELIGIBILITY
3.1 CONDITIONS
OF ELIGIBILITY
(a) Eligibility. For all Plan
purposes, any Eligible Employee who has completed a 1 month Period of Service
and has attained age 21 shall be eligible to participate hereunder as of the
date such Employee has satisfied such requirements. However, any Employee who
was a Participant in the Plan prior to the effective date of this amendment and
restatement shall continue to participate in the Plan.
3.2 EFFECTIVE
DATE OF PARTICIPATION
(a) Effective date of
participation. An Eligible Employee shall become a Participant effective
as of the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the date on
which such Employee met the eligibility requirements of Section 3.1 (or if
sooner, the first day of the following Plan Year), provided said Employee was
still employed as of such date (or if not employed on such date, as of the date
of rehire if a 1-Year Break in Service has not occurred or, if later, the date
that the Employee would have otherwise entered the Plan had the Employee not
terminated employment).
(b) Recognition of other employer
service. If an Eligible Employee satisfies the eligibility requirement
conditions of a specific component of the Plan by reason of recognition of
service with an entity that is not an Affiliated Employer, then such Employee
shall become a Participant in such component of the Plan as of the day that the
Plan credits such service with the entity or, if later, the date the Employee
would have otherwise entered such component of the Plan had the service with the
entity not been recognized for purposes of this Plan.
(c) Ineligible to eligible
classification. If an Employee, who has satisfied the Plan's eligibility
requirements and would otherwise have become a Participant in the Plan, shall go
from a classification of an ineligible Employee to an Eligible Employee, such
Employee shall become a Participant in the Plan on the date such Employee
becomes an Eligible Employee or, if later, the date that the Employee would have
otherwise entered the Plan had the Employee always been an Eligible
Employee.
(d) Eligible to ineligible
classification. If an Employee, who has satisfied the Plan's eligibility
requirements and would otherwise become a Participant in the Plan, shall go from
a classification of an Eligible Employee to an ineligible class of Employees,
such Employee shall become a Participant in the Plan on the date such Employee
again becomes an Eligible Employee, or, if later, the date that the Employee
would have otherwise entered the Plan had the Employee always been an Eligible
Employee. However, if such Employee incurs five (5) consecutive 1-Year Breaks in
Service, eligibility will be determined under the Break in Service rules set
forth in Section 3.5.
3.3 DETERMINATION
OF ELIGIBILITY
The
Administrator shall determine the eligibility of each Employee for participation
in the Plan based upon information furnished by the Employer. Such determination
shall be conclusive and binding upon all persons, as long as the same is made
pursuant to the Plan and the Act. Such determination shall be subject to review
pursuant to Section 2.9.
3.4 TERMINATION
OF ELIGIBILITY
In the
event a Participant shall go from a classification of an Eligible Employee to an
ineligible Employee with respect to the Plan, then such Participant shall
continue to Vest in the Plan for each Period of Service completed while an
ineligible Employee, until such time as the Participant's Account is forfeited
or distributed pursuant to the terms of the Plan. Additionally, the
Participant's interest in the Plan shall continue to share in the earnings of
the Trust Fund.
3.5 REHIRED
EMPLOYEES AND BREAKS IN SERVICE
(a) Reemployed before five (5)
consecutive 1-Year Breaks in Service. If any Employee becomes a Former
Employee due to severance from employment with the Employer and is reemployed by
the Employer before five (5) consecutive 1-Year Breaks in Service occur, then
the Former Employee's prior service shall count in the same manner as if
severance from employment with the Employer had not occurred. If any Participant
ceases to be a Participant due to severance from employment with the Employer
and is reemployed by the Employer before five (5) consecutive 1-Year Breaks in
Service occur, then the Participant shall resume participation (in the same
manner as if severance from employment with the Employer had not occurred) as of
the reemployment date.
(b) Reemployed after five (5) consecutive
1-Year Breaks in Service ("rule of parity" provisions). If any Employee
becomes a Former Employee due to severance from employment with the Employer and
is reemployed after a 5-Year Break in Service has occurred, Periods of Service
shall include Periods of Service prior to the 5-year break in service subject to
the following rules:
(1) Rule of parity. In the case of
a Participant who under the Plan does not have a nonforfeitable right to any
interest in the Plan resulting from Employer contributions, Periods of Service
before a period of consecutive 1-Year Breaks in Service will not be taken into
account if the number of consecutive 1-Year Breaks in Service equal or exceed
the greater of (A) five (5) or (B) the aggregate number of pre-break
Periods of Service. Such aggregate number of Periods of Service will not include
any Periods of Service disregarded under the preceding sentence by reason of
prior period of five (5) consecutive 1-Year Breaks in Service.
(2) Participation in Plan. A
Former Employee shall participate in the Plan as of the date of reemployment, or
if later, as of the date that the Former Employee would otherwise enter the Plan
pursuant to Sections 3.1 and 3.2 taking into account all service not
disregarded in this subsection.
(c) Vesting after five (5) consecutive
1-Year Breaks in Service. After a Participant who has severed employment
with the Employer incurs five (5) consecutive 1-Year Breaks in Service, the
Vested portion of said Participant's Account attributable to pre-break service
shall not be increased as a result of post-break service. In such case, separate
accounts will be maintained as follows:
(1) one
account for nonforfeitable benefits attributable to pre-break service;
and
(2) one
account representing the Participant's Employer derived account balance in the
Plan attributable to post-break service.
(d) Buyback provisions. If any
Participant severs employment with the Employer and is reemployed by the
Employer before five (5) consecutive 1-Year Breaks in Service, and such
Participant had received a distribution of the entire Vested interest prior to
reemployment, then the forfeited account shall be reinstated only if the
Participant repays the full amount which had been distributed. Such repayment
must be made before the earlier of five (5) years after the first date on
which the Participant is subsequently reemployed by the Employer or the close of
the first period of five (5) consecutive 1-Year Breaks in Service
commencing after the distribution. If a distribution occurs for any reason other
than a severance of employment, the time for repayment may not end earlier than
five (5) years after the date of distribution. In the event the Participant
does repay the full amount distributed, the undistributed forfeited portion of
the Participant's Account must be restored in full, unadjusted by any gains or
losses occurring subsequent to the Valuation Date preceding the distribution.
The source for such reinstatement may be Forfeitures occurring during the Plan
Year. If such source is insufficient, then the Employer will contribute an
amount which is sufficient to restore any such forfeited Accounts provided,
however, that if a discretionary contribution is made for such year pursuant to
Section 4.1(d), such contribution will first be applied to restore any such
Accounts and the remainder shall be allocated in accordance with the terms of
the Plan.
If a
non-Vested Participant was deemed to have received a distribution and such
Participant is reemployed by the Employer before five (5) consecutive
1-Year Breaks in Service, then such Participant will be deemed to have repaid
the deemed distribution as of the date of reemployment.
3.6 ELECTION
NOT TO PARTICIPATE
(a) Irrevocable election not to
participate. An Employee may, subject to the approval of the Employer,
elect voluntarily not to participate in every Qualified Plan maintained by the
Employer. Such election must be made prior to the time the Employee first
becomes eligible to participate under any Qualified Plan maintained by the
Employer. The election not to participate must be irrevocable and communicated
to the Employer, in writing, within a reasonable period of time before the date
the Employee would have otherwise entered any Qualified Plan. "Qualified Plan"
means, for purposes of this Section, a plan intended to be tax-qualified under
Code Section 401(a).
(b) Prior Plan document provision.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, if any prior Plan
document of this Plan contained a provision permitting an Employee to make a
revocable election not to participate and an Employee made such revocable
election not to participate while that prior Plan document was in effect, then
such Employee may irrevocably revoke such election at any time and participate
in the Plan.
(c) Effect on coverage, ADP and ACP
Tests. An Employee who elected not to participate under the Plan is
treated as a nonbenefiting Employee for purposes of the minimum coverage
requirements under Code Section 410(b). Furthermore, such Employee is not a
Participant for purposes of the ADP Test or the ACP Test.
3.7 OWNER-EMPLOYEE
LIMITATION
If this
Plan provides contributions or benefits for one or more Owner-Employees, the
contributions on behalf of any Owner-Employee shall be made only with respect to
the Earned Income for such Owner-Employee which is derived from the trade or
business with respect to which such Plan is established.
3.8 OMISSION
OF ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE; INCLUSION OF INELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE
If, in
any Plan Year, any Employee who should be included as a Participant in the Plan
is erroneously omitted and discovery of such omission is not made until after a
contribution by the Employer for the year has been made and allocated, or any
person who should not have been included as a Participant in the Plan is
erroneously included, then the Employer shall apply the principles described by,
and take corrective actions consistent with, the IRS Employee Plans Compliance
Resolution System.
ARTICLE
IV
CONTRIBUTION
AND ALLOCATION
4.1 FORMULA
FOR DETERMINING EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION
For each
Plan Year, the Employer shall contribute to the Plan:
(a) Salary reductions. The amount
that all Participants' Compensation was reduced pursuant to Section 4.2(a),
which amount shall be Elective Deferrals.
(b) Matching Contributions. On
behalf of each Participant who is eligible to share in Matching Contributions
for the Plan Year, a discretionary Matching Contribution equal to a uniform
percentage (to be determined each year by the Employer) of each such
Participant's Elective Deferrals.
The
computation period for determining the Employer's discretionary matching
contributions shall be determined by the Employer at the time that the amount of
such contributions are determined.
Catch-Up
Contributions shall not be subject to the Matching Contribution.
(c) Qualified Nonelective
Contribution. On behalf of each Participant who is eligible to share in
the Qualified Nonelective Contribution for the Plan Year, a discretionary
Qualified Nonelective Contribution equal to a uniform percentage of each
eligible individual's Compensation or 415 Compensation. Such Qualified
Nonelective Contribution shall be allocated to the Qualified Nonelective
Contribution Account.
(d) Nonelective Contributions. A
discretionary amount, which amount, if any, shall be a Nonelective
Contribution.
(e) Top-Heavy contribution.
Additionally, to the extent necessary, the Employer shall contribute to the Plan
the amount necessary to provide the top-heavy minimum contribution, even if it
exceeds the amount that would be deductible under Code
Section 404.
(f)
Form of
contribution. All contributions by the Employer shall be made in cash or
in such property as is acceptable to the Trustee.
4.2 PARTICIPANT'S
SALARY REDUCTION ELECTION
(a) Deferral elections. Each
Participant may elect to defer Compensation which would have been received in
the Plan Year, but for the deferral election, by up to 70%. A deferral election
(or modification of an earlier election) may not be made with respect to
Compensation which is currently available on or before the date the Participant
executed such election. For purposes of this Section, Compensation shall be
determined prior to any reductions made pursuant to Code Sections 125,
132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) or 457(b), and employee contributions
described in Code Section 414(h)(2) that are treated as Employer
contributions.
Notwithstanding
anything in this Plan to the contrary, the Employer may impose a minimum
elective deferral percentage of 1% as an administrative procedure applied on a
uniform and consistent basis to all Participants.
For
purposes of this Section, the annual dollar limitation of Code Section
401(a)(17) ($200,000 as adjusted) shall not apply except that the Administrator
may elect to apply such limit as part of the deferral election procedures
established hereunder.
Roth Elective Deferrals.
Effective May 1, 2008, a Participant may elect to have all or a portion
of the Participant's Elective Deferrals to be Roth Elective Deferrals when
contributed to the Plan. These Roth Elective Deferrals are includible in the
Participant's gross income at the time deferred and must be irrevocably
designated as Roth Elective Deferrals by the Participant in the Deferral
Election Agreement. Absent a Participant's affirmative election to have any
portion of an Elective Deferral be considered a Roth Elective Deferral, Elective
Deferrals shall be treated as Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals.
The
amount that is deferred by a Participant shall be subject to the limitations of
this Section, shall be an Elective Deferral, and shall be held for such
Participant in the Elective Deferral Account.
(b) Catch-Up Contributions.
Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, effective January 1, 2002,
each Catch-Up Eligible Participant shall be eligible to make Catch-Up
Contributions during the Participant's taxable year in accordance with, and
subject to the limitations of, Code Section 414(v). Such Catch-Up
Contributions are not subject to the limits on Annual Additions under Code
Section 415(c), are not counted in the ADP Test of Section 4.5(a), are not
counted in determining the minimum allocation required in a Top-Heavy Plan
during a Top-Heavy Plan Year under Code Section 416 (but Catch-Up Contributions
made in prior years are counted in determining whether the Plan is a Top-Heavy
Plan), and are not taken into account under the limit on Elective Deferrals
under Code Section 402(g). Catch-Up Contributions may be a dollar amount or a
percentage of Compensation for each payroll period not to exceed the applicable
dollar limit under Code Section 414(v), pursuant to procedures established
by the Administrator. The Plan shall not be treated as failing to satisfy the
provisions of the Plan implementing the requirements of Code
Section 401(k)(3), 416 or 410(b), as applicable, by reason of the making of
such Catch-Up Contributions.
(c) Full vesting. Each
Participant's Elective Deferral Account shall be fully Vested at all times and
shall not be subject to Forfeiture for any reason.
(d) Distribution restrictions.
Notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, effective with respect to
distributions and transactions made after December 31, 2001, amounts (including
any offset of loans) held in the Participant's Elective Deferral Account may not
be distributed except as authorized by other provisions of this Plan, but in no
event may such amounts be distributed earlier than:
(1) a
Participant's death, disability or other severance of employment;
(2) a
Participant's attainment of age 59 1/2;
(3) effective
beginning with the first Plan Year beginning in 2006, the termination of the
Plan without the existence at the time of Plan termination of an alternative
defined contribution plan or the establishment of an alternative defined
contribution plan by the Employer or an Affiliated Employer within the period
ending twelve months after distribution of all assets from the Plan maintained
by the Employer. For this purpose, a defined contribution plan is not treated as
an alternative defined contribution plan if the plan is an employee stock
ownership plan (as defined in Code Section 4975(e)(7) or 409(a)), a simplified
employee pension plan (as defined in Code Section 408(k)), a SIMPLE IRA
plan (as defined in Code Section 408(p)), a plan or contract that satisfies
the requirements of Code Section 403(b), or a plan that is described in Code
Sections 457(b) or 457(f). Furthermore, if at all times during the 24-month
period beginning 12 months before the date of the Plan's termination, fewer than
2% of the Participants in the Plan as of the date of Plan termination are
eligible under the other defined contribution plan, then the other defined
contribution plan is not an alternative defined contribution plan. Distributions
from the terminating Plan may only be made in lump sum distributions, pursuant
to and defined in Regulation 1.401(k)-1(d)(4)(ii);
(4) the
proven financial hardship of a Participant, subject to the limitations of
Section 6.12.
(e) Suspension due to hardship. In
the event a Participant has received a hardship distribution, on or after
December 31, 2001 pursuant to Regulation 1.401(k)-1(d)(3)(iv)(E)(2) from this
Plan or any other plan maintained by the Employer, then such Participant shall
not be permitted to elect to have Elective Deferrals contributed to the Plan for
a period of six months following the receipt of the distribution.
(f) Deferrals limited to Code Section
402(g) dollar limit. A Participant's "elective deferrals" made under this
Plan and all other plans, contracts or arrangements of the Employer maintaining
this Plan during any calendar year shall not exceed the dollar limitation. For
this purpose, "elective deferrals" means, with respect to a calendar year, the
sum of all Employer contributions made on behalf of such Participant pursuant to
an election to defer under any qualified cash or deferred arrangement as
described in Code Section 401(k), any salary reduction simplified employee
pension (as defined in Code Section 408(k)(6)), any SIMPLE IRA plan described in
Code Section 408(p), any eligible deferred compensation plan under Code Section
457, any plans described under Code Section 501(c)(18), and any Employer
contributions made on the behalf of a Participant for the purchase of an annuity
contract under Code Section 403(b) pursuant to a salary reduction agreement.
"Elective deferrals" shall not include any deferrals properly distributed as
excess "Annual Additions" pursuant to Section 4.9. "Dollar limitation"
shall mean the dollar limitation contained in Code Section 402(g) in effect for
the Participant's taxable year beginning in such calendar year. In the case of a
participant aged 50 and over by the end of the taxable year, the "dollar
limitation" described in the preceding sentence shall be adjusted to include the
amount of Elective Deferrals that may be treated as Catch-Up Contributions. The
"dollar limitation" contained in Code Section 402(g) is $10,500 for taxable
years beginning in 2000 and 2001, increasing to $11,000 for taxable years
beginning in 2002 and increasing by $1,000 for each year thereafter up to
$15,000 for taxable years beginning in 2006 and later years. After 2006 the
$15,000 limit will be adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury for
cost-of-living increases under Code Section 402(g)(4). Any such adjustments will
be in multiples of $500.
(g) Assigning Excess Deferrals to this
Plan. If a Participant's Elective Deferrals under this Plan together with
any elective deferrals (as defined in Regulation 1.402(g)-1(b)) under another
qualified cash or deferred arrangement (as described in Code
Section 401(k)), a simplified employee pension (as described in Code
Section 408(k)(6)), a simple individual retirement account plan (as
described in Code Section 408(p)), a salary reduction arrangement (within the
meaning of Code Section 3121(a)(5)(D)), or a trust described in Code
Section 501(c)(18) cumulatively exceed the "dollar limitation" described in
the subsection 4.2(f) of this Section, for such Participant's taxable year, then
the Participant may assign to this Plan any Excess Deferrals made during a
taxable year of the Participant by notifying the Administrator in writing on or
before March 1 following the close of the Participant's taxable year, of
the amount of the Excess Deferrals to be assigned to the Plan. A Participant
shall be deemed to notify the Administrator of any Excess Deferrals that arise
by taking into account only those Elective Deferrals made to this Plan and any
other plan, contract, or arrangement of the Employer.
Notwithstanding
any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, the Administrator may direct
the Trustee to distribute such Excess Deferrals, plus any Income allocable to
such Excess Deferrals, to the Participant not later than the first
April 15th following the close of the Participant's taxable year. Such a
distribution may be made to a Participant to whose account Excess Deferrals were
assigned for the preceding year or/and who claims Excess Deferrals for such
taxable year or calendar year. Any distribution of less than the entire amount
of Excess Deferrals and Income shall be treated as a pro rata distribution
of Excess Deferrals and Income. The amount of the distribution shall not exceed
the Participant's Elective Deferrals under the Plan for the taxable year (and
any Income allocable to such Excess Deferrals). If a distribution of Excess
Deferrals is to be made on or before the last day of the Participant's taxable
year, then each of the following conditions must be satisfied:
(1) the
distribution must be made after the date on which the Plan received the Excess
Deferrals;
(2) the
Participant shall designate the distribution as Excess Deferrals;
and
(3) the
Plan must designate the distribution as a distribution of Excess
Deferrals.
Any
distribution made pursuant to this Section shall be made first from
unmatched Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals and, thereafter, from unmatched Roth
Elective Deferrals (unless the Participant elects to reverse that order), and,
thereafter, from Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals which are matched, and, thereafter,
from Roth Elective Deferrals which are matched, unless the Participant elects to
reverse that order.
Matching
Contributions that relate to Excess Deferrals (regardless of whether such Excess
Deferrals are Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals or Roth Elective Deferrals) which are
distributed pursuant to this Section 4.2(g) shall be treated as a
Forfeiture.
(h) Coordination with ADP Test.
Notwithstanding Section 4.2(g) above, a Participant's Excess Deferrals
shall be reduced, but not below zero, by any distribution of Excess
Contributions pursuant to Section 4.6 for the Plan Year beginning with or
within the taxable year of the Participant.
(i) Segregation. Elective
Deferrals made pursuant to this Section may be segregated into a separate
account for each Participant in a federally insured savings account, certificate
of deposit in a bank or savings and loan association, money market certificate,
or other short-term debt security acceptable to the Trustee until such time as
the allocations pursuant to Section 4.4 have been made.
(j) No conditions to receive Elective
Deferrals. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Participants
who terminated employment for any reason during the Plan Year shall share in the
Elective Deferrals made by the Employer for the year of termination without
regard to the Hours of Service credited.
(k) Procedures to implement deferral
elections. The Employer and the Administrator may adopt a procedure to
implement the salary reduction elections provided for herein. If such procedure
is adopted, then the procedure shall include (and shall not be limited to) the
following:
(1) A
Participant must make an initial salary deferral election, or an election to
receive cash in lieu of a salary deferral election, unless the Employer has
implemented an automatic deferral election feature. If the Participant fails to
make an initial salary deferral election, or an election to receive cash in lieu
of a salary deferral election, if the automatic deferral election applies, then
such Participant may thereafter make an election in accordance with the rules
governing modifications. The Participant shall make such an election by entering
into a salary reduction agreement with the Employer and filing such agreement
with the Administrator. Such election shall initially be effective beginning
with the pay period following the acceptance of the salary reduction agreement
by the Administrator (or as soon thereafter as practical), shall not have
retroactive effect and shall remain in force until revoked.
(2) A
Participant may modify a prior salary deferral election at any time during the
Plan Year and concurrently make a new election by filing a notice with the
Administrator (in accordance with procedures established by the Administrator)
within a reasonable time before the pay period for which such modification is to
be effective. Any modification shall be implemented as soon as practical after
being accepted by the Administrator, shall not have retroactive effect and shall
remain in force until revoked.
(3) A
Participant may elect to prospectively revoke the Participant's salary reduction
agreement in its entirety at any time during the Plan Year by providing the
Administrator with thirty (30) days written notice of such revocation (or upon
such shorter notice period as may be acceptable to the Administrator). Such
revocation shall become effective as of the beginning of the first pay period
coincident with or next following the expiration of the notice period (or as
soon thereafter as practical).
(4) Any
notices or required actions under this subsection may be provided or made in
accordance with Section 9.14.
4.3 TIME
OF PAYMENT OF EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION
Unless
otherwise provided by contract or law, the Employer may make its contribution to
the Plan for a particular Plan Year at such time as the Employer, in its sole
discretion, determines. If the Employer makes a contribution for a particular
Plan Year after the close of that Plan Year, then the Employer will designate to
the Administrator the Plan Year for which the Employer is making its
contribution.
4.4 ALLOCATION
OF CONTRIBUTION AND USAGE OF FORFEITURES AND EARNINGS
(a) Separate accounting. The
Administrator shall establish and maintain an account in the name of each
Participant to which the Administrator shall credit as of each Anniversary Date,
or other Valuation Date, all amounts allocated to a particular Account of each
such Participant as set forth herein.
(b) Allocation of contributions.
The Employer shall provide the Administrator with all information required by
the Administrator to make a proper allocation of the Employer contributions for
each Plan Year. Within a reasonable period of time after the date of receipt by
the Administrator of such information, the Administrator shall allocate such
contribution as follows:
(1) Elective Deferrals. With
respect to the Elective Deferrals made pursuant to Section 4.1(a), to each
Participant's Elective Deferral Account.
(2) Matching Contributions. With
respect to the Matching Contribution made pursuant to Section 4.1(b), to
each Participant's Matching Contribution Account in accordance with
Section 4.1(b). Such Matching Contributions will be allocated in the form
of shares of Employer stock.
A
Participant shall only share in the allocation of the Matching Contribution if
are employed on the last day of the Plan Year quarter.
(3) Waiver of conditions to share in
Matching Contributions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Participants who
are not employed on the last day of the Plan Year due to death, Disability or
Retirement (Normal or Late) shall share in the allocation of Matching
Contributions for that Plan Year.
(4) 410(b) ratio percentage fail-safe
provisions for Matching Contributions. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary, if the Matching Contribution component of this Plan would otherwise
fail to meet the requirements of Code Section 410(b)(1)(B) and the
Regulations thereunder because the Matching Contributions would not be allocated
to a sufficient number or percentage of Participants for a Plan Year, then the
following rules shall apply:
(i) The
group of Participants eligible to share in the Matching Contributions for the
Plan Year shall be expanded to include the minimum number of Participants who
would not otherwise be eligible as are necessary to satisfy the applicable test
specified above. The specific Participants who become eligible under the terms
of this paragraph shall be those who have not separated from service prior to
the last day of the Plan Year and have completed the longest Period of Service
in the Plan Year. In the event that more Participants than the "minimum
necessary" become entitled to an allocation because they all have the same
Period of Service (and at least one of that group is required to receive an
allocation in order for the test to be satisfied), then all such Participants
shall be deemed to constitute the minimum necessary to pass the
test.
(ii) If
after application of paragraph (i) above, the applicable test is still not
satisfied, then the group of Participants eligible to share in the Matching
Contributions for the Plan Year shall be further expanded to include the minimum
number of Participants who have separated from service prior to the last day of
the Plan Year as are necessary to satisfy the applicable test. The specific
Participants who become eligible to share shall be those Participants who have
completed the longest Period of Service in the Plan Year before terminating
employment. In the event that more Participants than the "minimum necessary"
become entitled to an allocation because they all have the same Period of
Service (and at least one of that group is required to receive an allocation in
order for the test to be satisfied), then all such Participants shall be deemed
to constitute the minimum necessary to pass the test.
(iii) Nothing
in this subsection shall permit the reduction of a Participant's accrued
benefit. Therefore any amounts that have previously been allocated to
Participants may not be reallocated to satisfy these requirements. In such
event, the Employer shall make an additional contribution equal to the amount
such affected Participants would have received had they been included in the
allocations, even if it exceeds the amount that would be deductible under Code
Section 404. Any adjustment to the allocations pursuant to this paragraph
shall be considered a retroactive amendment adopted by the last day of the Plan
Year.
(5) Qualified Nonelective
Contributions. With respect to the Qualified Nonelective Contribution
made pursuant to Section 4.1(c), to each Participant's Qualified
Nonelective Contribution Account in accordance with
Section 4.1(c).
The
Employer may limit such Qualified Nonelective Contributions only to Participants
who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees and/or Non-Key Employees. In addition,
the Employer may condition such Qualified Nonelective Contributions only to
Participants who have completed a Period of Service (or portion thereof) during
the Plan Year and/or who are employed on the last day of the Plan
Year.
(6) Nonelective Contributions.
With respect to the Nonelective Contribution made pursuant to
Section 4.1(d), to each Participant's Nonelective Contribution Account in
the same proportion that each such Participant's Compensation for the year bears
to the total Compensation of all Participants for such year.
(7) Entitlement to Nonelective
Contribution. Only Participants who are employed on the last day of the
Plan Year or who complete more than three (3) consecutive months of service
during the Plan Year prior to terminating employment shall be eligible to share
in the discretionary contribution made pursuant to Section 4.1(d) for the
year.
(8) Waiver of conditions to share in
Nonelective Contributions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Participants
who are not employed on the last day of the Plan Year due to Retirement (Normal
or Late), Disability and death shall share in the allocation of Nonelective
Contributions for that Plan Year.
(c) Usage of Forfeitures. On or
before each Anniversary Date, any Forfeitures may be made available to reinstate
previously forfeited Account balances of Participants, if any, in accordance
with Section 3.5(d), and any remaining Forfeitures may be used to satisfy any
contribution that may be required pursuant to Section 3.8 or 6.10, or be
used to pay any administrative expenses of the Plan. The remaining Forfeitures,
if any, shall be allocated in the following manner:
(1) Forfeitures
attributable to Matching Contributions made pursuant to Section 4.1(b) shall be
used to reduce the Employer's Contributions for the Plan Year.
(2) Forfeitures
attributable to Nonelective Contributions made pursuant to Section 4.1(d) shall
be used to reduce the Employer's contributions for the Plan Year.
(d) Minimum required allocation to those
not otherwise eligible to share. For any Top-Heavy Plan Year, Non-Key
Employees not otherwise eligible to share in the allocation of contributions as
provided above, shall receive the minimum required allocation of
Section 4.4(g) if eligible pursuant to the provisions of
Section 4.4(j).
(e) Allocation of earnings. As of
each Valuation Date, before the current valuation period allocation of Employer
contributions, any earnings or losses (net appreciation or net depreciation) of
the Trust Fund shall be allocated in the same proportion that each Participant's
nonsegregated accounts bear to the total of all Participants' nonsegregated
accounts as of such date. Earnings or losses with respect to a Participant's
Directed Account shall be allocated in accordance with Section
4.13.
(f)
Incoming transfers and rollovers.
Participants' transfers from other qualified plans and rollovers
deposited in the general Trust Fund shall share in any earnings and losses (net
appreciation or net depreciation) of the Trust Fund in the same manner provided
above. Each segregated account maintained on behalf of a Participant shall be
credited or charged with its separate earnings and losses.
(g) Minimum required allocation for
Top-Heavy Plan Years. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for any Top-Heavy
Plan Year, the sum of the Employer contributions allocated to the Account of
each Non-Key Employee shall be equal to at least three percent (3%) of such
Non-Key Employee's 415 Compensation (reduced by contributions and forfeitures,
if any, allocated to each Non-Key Employee in any defined contribution plan
included with this Plan in a required aggregation group). However, if
(1) the sum of the Employer contributions allocated to the Participant's
Account of each Key Employee for such Top-Heavy Plan Year is less than three
percent (3%) of each Key Employee's 415 Compensation and (2) this Plan is
not required to be included in an aggregation group to enable a defined benefit
plan to meet the requirements of Code Section 401(a)(4) or 410, then the
sum of the Employer contributions allocated to the Participant's Account of each
Non-Key Employee shall be equal to the largest percentage allocated to the
Account of any Key Employee. However, in determining whether a Non-Key Employee
has received the minimum required allocation, such Non-Key Employee's Elective
Deferrals shall not be taken into account. The minimum allocation required (to
the extent required to be nonforfeitable under Code Section 416(b)) may not be
forfeited under Code Section 411(a)(3)(B) or 411(a)(3)(D).
However,
no minimum required allocation shall be required in this Plan for any Non-Key
Employee who participates in another defined contribution plan subject to Code
Section 412 included with this Plan in a required aggregation group, if the
other defined contribution plan subject to Code Section 412 satisfies the
minimum required allocation.
(h) Top-Heavy contribution
allocation. For purposes of the minimum required allocation set forth
above, the percentage allocated to the Account of any Key Employee who is a
Participant shall be equal to the ratio of the sum of the Employer contributions
(excluding any Catch-Up Contributions) allocated on behalf of such Key Employee
for the Plan Year divided by the 415 Compensation for such Key Employee for the
Plan Year.
(i)
Matching contributions used to
satisfy top-heavy contribution. Effective with respect to Plan Years
beginning after December 31, 2001, Matching Contributions shall be
taken into account for purposes of satisfying the minimum required allocation of
Code Section 416(c)(2) and the Plan. The preceding sentence shall apply with
respect to Matching Contributions under the Plan or, if the Plan provides that
the minimum required allocation shall be met in another plan, such other plan.
Matching Contributions that are used to satisfy the minimum required allocation
shall be treated as Matching Contributions for purposes of the ACP Test and
other requirements of Code Section 401(m).
(j)
Participants eligible for top-heavy
allocation. For any Top-Heavy Plan Year, the minimum required allocation
set forth above shall be allocated to the Nonelective Contribution Account of
all Non-Key Employees who are Participants and who are employed by the Employer
on the last day of the Plan Year regardless of the Non-Key Employee's level of
Compensation, including Non-Key Employees who have (1) failed to complete a
Period of Service; and (2) declined to make mandatory contributions (if
required) or, in the case of a cash or deferred arrangement, Elective Deferrals
to the Plan.
(k) 415 Compensation for top-heavy
purposes. For the purposes of this Section, 415 Compensation will be
limited to the same dollar limitations set forth in Section 1.17, adjusted
in such manner as permitted under Code Section 415(d).
(l)
Delay in
processing transactions. Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the
contrary, all information necessary to properly reflect a given transaction may
not be available until after the date specified herein for processing such
transaction, in which case the transaction will be reflected when such
information is received and processed. Subject to express limits that may be
imposed under the Code, the processing of any contribution, distribution or
other transaction may be delayed for any legitimate business reason or force
majeure (including, but not limited to, failure of systems or computer programs,
failure of the means of the transmission of data, the failure of a service
provider to timely receive values or prices, and the correction for errors or
omissions or the errors or omissions of any service provider). The processing
date of a transaction will be binding for all purposes of the
Plan.
4.5 ACTUAL
DEFERRAL PERCENTAGE TEST
(a) ADP Test. The ADP for Highly
Compensated Employees who are Participants for each Plan Year and the ADP for
Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are Participants for each Plan Year (or for
the preceding Plan Year if the prior year testing method is used) shall satisfy
one of the following tests:
(1) The
ADP for the group of Highly Compensated Employees who are Participants shall not
exceed the ADP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are
Participants (for the preceding Plan Year if the prior year testing method is
used to calculate the ADP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who
are Participants) multiplied by 1.25, or
(2) The
ADP for the group of Highly Compensated Employees who are Participants shall not
exceed the ADP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are
Participants (for the preceding Plan Year, if the prior year testing method is
used to calculate the ADP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who
are Participants) by more than two percentage points. Furthermore, the ADP for
the group of Highly Compensated Employees who are Participants shall not exceed
the ADP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are Participants
(for the preceding Plan Year, if the prior year testing method is used to
calculate the ADP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are
Participants) multiplied by 2.
(b) Prior Year test upon
amendment. Notwithstanding the above, if the prior year test method is
used to calculate the ADP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who
are Participants for the first Plan Year of this amendment and restatement, then
the ADP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are Participants
for the preceding Plan Year shall be calculated pursuant to the provisions of
the Plan then in effect.
(c) Participant regardless of deferral
election. For the purposes of Sections 4.5(a) and 4.6, a Participant
shall be any Employee eligible to make a deferral election pursuant to
Section 4.2 at any point during the Plan Year, whether or not such deferral
election was made or suspended pursuant to Section 4.2.
(d) Aggregation with other plans.
In the event this Plan satisfies the requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(4),
401(k), or 410(b) only if aggregated with one or more other plans, or if one or
more other plans satisfy the requirements of such Code Sections only if
aggregated with this Plan, then this Section shall be applied by determining the
ADP of Employees as if all such plans were a single plan. If more than ten
percent (10%) of the Employer's Nonhighly Compensated Employees are involved in
a plan coverage change as defined in Regulation Section 1.401(k)-2(c)(4), then
any adjustments to the Nonhighly Compensated Employees' ADP for the prior year
will be made in accordance with such Regulations, unless the Employer has
elected to use the current year testing method. Plans may be aggregated in order
to satisfy Code Section 401(k) only if they have the same Plan Year and use the
same ADP Testing method.
(e) ADP of Highly Compensated Employee in
multiple plans. For the purposes of this Section, the ADP for any
Participant who is a Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year and who is
eligible to have Elective Deferrals (and Qualified Nonelective Contributions
and/or Qualified Matching Contributions, if treated as Elective Deferrals for
purposes of the ADP Test) allocated to the Participant's accounts under two or
more cash or deferred arrangements described in Code Section 401(k) of the
Employer or an Affiliated Employer, shall be determined as if such Elective
Deferrals (and, if applicable, such Qualified Nonelective Contributions and/or
Qualified Matching Contributions) were made under a single cash or deferred
arrangement. If a Highly Compensated Employee participates in two or more cash
or deferred arrangements of the Employer or an Affiliated Employer that have
different plan years, then all Elective Deferrals made during the Plan Year
under all such arrangements shall be aggregated. However, for Plan Years
beginning before 2006, if the cash or deferred arrangements have different plan
years, then all such cash or deferred arrangements ending with or within the
same calendar year shall be treated as a single arrangement. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, certain plans shall be treated as separate if mandatorily
disaggregated under the Regulations of Code Sections 401(k) or
410(b).
(f)
Testing
method. For the purpose of this Section, when calculating the ADP for the
group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are Participants, the current year
testing method shall be used. Once the current year testing method has been
elected, then the Employer may elect to use the prior year testing method for a
Plan Year only if the Plan has used the current year testing method for each of
the preceding 5 Plan Years (or if lesser, the number of Plan Years that the Plan
has been in existence) or if, as a result of a merger or acquisition described
in Code Section 410(b)(6)(C)(i), the Employer maintains both a plan using prior
year testing method and a plan using current year testing method and the change
is made within the transition period described in Code Section
410(b)(6)(C)(ii).
(g) Otherwise excludable Employee and
early participation rules. Notwithstanding anything in this Section to
the contrary, the provisions of this Section and Section 4.6 may be applied
separately (or will be applied separately to the extent required by Regulations)
to each "plan" within the meaning of Regulation Section 1.401(k)-1(b)(4)(iv).
For purposes of applying this provision, the Administrator may use any effective
date of participation that is permitted under Code Section 410(b) provided such
date is applied on a consistent and uniform basis to all Participants.
Alternatively, the provisions of Code Section 401(k)(3)(F) may be used to
exclude from consideration all Nonhighly Compensated Employees who have not
satisfied the greatest minimum age and service requirements of Code
Section 410(a)(1)(A).
(h) Timing of allocations. For
purposes of determining the ADP Test, only Elective Deferrals, Qualified
Nonelective Contributions and Qualified Matching Contributions that are
contributed to the Plan prior to the end of the twelve (12) month period
immediately following the Plan Year to which the contributions relate shall be
considered.
(i) Targeted Qualified Nonelective
Contributions. Notwithstanding the preceding, for Plan Years beginning in
and after 2006, Qualified Nonelective Contributions cannot be taken into account
in determining the ADR for a Plan Year for a Nonhighly Compensated Employee to
the extent such contributions exceed the product of that Nonhighly Compensated
Employee's 414(s) Compensation and the greater of five percent (5%) or two (2)
times the Plan's "representative contribution rate." Any Qualified Nonelective
Contribution taken into account under an ACP Test under Regulation Section
1.401(m)-2(a)(6) (including the determination of the representative contribution
rate for purposes of Regulation Section 1.401(m)-2(a)(6)(v)(B)), is not
permitted to be taken into account for purposes of this paragraph (including the
determination of the representative contribution rate under this Section). For
purposes of this subsection:
(1) The
Plan's "representative contribution rate" is the lowest applicable contribution
rate of any eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee among a group of eligible
Nonhighly Compensated Employees that consists of half of all eligible Nonhighly
Compensated Employees for the Plan Year (or, if greater, the lowest "applicable
contribution rate" of any eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee in the group
of all eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year and who is
employed by the Employer on the last day of the Plan Year), and
(2) The
"applicable contribution rate" for an eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee is
the sum of the Qualified Matching Contributions taken into account for the
eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year and the Qualified
Contributions made for the eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee for the Plan
Year, divided by the eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee's 414(s)
Compensation for the same period.
Restriction on Qualified Matching
Contributions. Qualified Matching Contributions may only be used to
calculate the ADP to the extent that such Qualified Matching Contributions are
Matching Contributions that are not precluded from being taken into account for
ACP Test purposes under the rules of Regulation Section
1.401(m)-2(a)(5)(ii).
Restrictions of Qualified Nonelective
Contributions and Qualified Matching Contributions. Qualified Nonelective
Contributions and Qualified Matching Contributions cannot be taken into account
to determine the ADP to the extent such contributions are taken into account for
purposes of satisfying any other ADP Test, any ACP Test, or the requirements of
Regulation Sections 1.401(k)-3, 1.401(m)-3 or 1.401(k)-4. Thus, for example,
Matching Contributions that are made pursuant to Regulation Section
1.401(k)-3(c) cannot be taken into account under the ADP Test. Similarly, if a
plan switches from the current year testing method to the prior year testing
method pursuant to Regulation Section 1.401(k)-2(c), then Qualified Nonelective
Contributions that are taken into account under the current year testing method
for a year may not be taken into account under the prior year testing method for
the next year.
(j) ADP when no Nonhighly Compensated
Employees. If, for the applicable year for determining the ADP of the
Nonhighly Compensated Employees for a Plan Year, there are no eligible Nonhighly
Compensated Employees, then the Plan is deemed to satisfy the ADP Test for the
Plan Year.
(k) Repeal of multiple use test.
The multiple use test described in Code Section 401(m) in effect prior to the
enactment of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 shall
not apply for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001.
4.6 ADJUSTMENT
TO ACTUAL DEFERRAL PERCENTAGE TEST
(a) Authority to correct. In the
event that the initial allocations of the Elective Deferrals made pursuant to
Section 4.2 do not satisfy the ADP Test set forth in Section 4.5(a),
the Administrator shall implement some or all of the provisions of this Section
in order to correct such failure.
(b) Corrective action. The
Participant who is the Highly Compensated Employee having the largest dollar
amount of Elective Deferrals shall have a portion of such Participant's Elective
Deferrals first treated as Catch-Up Contributions and then distributed until the
amount of such Participant's remaining Elective Deferrals equals the Elective
Deferrals (less Catch-Up Contributions) of the Participant who is the Highly
Compensated Employee having the second largest dollar amount of Elective
Deferrals (less Catch-Up Contributions). This process shall continue until the
total amount of Excess Contributions has been eliminated. In determining the
amount of Excess Contributions to be treated as Catch-Up Contributions and/or
distributed with respect to an affected Participant who is a Highly Compensated
Employee as determined herein, such amount shall be reduced pursuant to
Section 4.2(g) by any Excess Deferrals previously distributed to such
affected Participant who is a Highly Compensated Employee for such Participant's
taxable year ending with or within such Plan Year.
(1) Corrective distribution. With
respect to the distribution of Excess Contributions pursuant to (a) above,
such distribution:
(i) may
be postponed but not later than the last day of the twelve-month period
following the Plan Year to which they are allocable;
(ii) shall
be made proportionately from Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals and the related Matching
Contributions that are used in the ADP Test pursuant to Section 4.5, and,
thereafter; from any Roth Elective Deferrals which are matched and the related
Matching Contributions that are used in the ADP Test pursuant to Section 4.5
(unless the Participant elects to reverse that order);
(iii) shall
be adjusted for Income; and
(iv) shall
be designated by the Employer as a distribution of Excess Contributions (and
Income).
Matching
contributions which relate to Excess Contributions that are distributed pursuant
to this subsection shall be treated as a Forfeiture to the extent required
pursuant to Code Section 401(a)(4) and the Regulations thereunder, unless the
related Matching Contribution is distributed as an Excess Contribution or as an
Excess Aggregate Contribution.
(2) Income and principal. Any
distribution of less than the entire amount of Excess Contributions shall be
treated as a pro rata distribution of Excess Contributions and
Income.
(3) Related Matching Contributions.
Matching Contributions which relate to Excess Contributions shall be
forfeited unless the related Matching Contribution is distributed as an Excess
Aggregate Contribution pursuant to Section 4.8.
(c) Corrective contributions.
Notwithstanding the above, if the current year testing method is used, within
twelve (12) months after the end of the Plan Year, the Employer may make a
Qualified Nonelective Contribution or Qualified Matching Contribution in
accordance with one of the following provisions which contribution shall be
allocated either to the Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account or Qualified
Matching Contribution Account of each Participant who is a Nonhighly Compensated
Employee eligible to share in the allocation in accordance with such provision.
If the prior year testing method is used, then a Qualified Nonelective
Contribution may not be made to correct a failed ADP test. The Employer shall
provide the Administrator with written notification of the amount of the
contribution being made and for which provision it is being made pursuant
to:
(1) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Participants in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated in the same
proportion that each Nonhighly Compensated Employee's 414(s) Compensation for
the year bears to the total 414(s) Compensation of all Nonhighly Compensated
Employees for such year.
(2) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated in the same
proportion that each Nonhighly Compensated Employee's 414(s) Compensation for
the year bears to the total 414(s) Compensation of all Nonhighly Compensated
Employees for such year. However, for purposes of this contribution, Nonhighly
Compensated Employees who are not employed at the end of the Plan Year shall not
be eligible to share in the allocation and shall be disregarded.
(3) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated in equal
amounts (per capita).
(4) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated in equal
amounts (per capita). However, for purposes of this contribution, Nonhighly
Compensated Employees who are not employed at the end of the Plan Year shall not
be eligible to share in the allocation and shall be disregarded.
(5) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to the
Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee
having the lowest 414(s) Compensation, until one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.5(a) is satisfied, or until such Nonhighly Compensated Employee
has received the maximum permissible amount pursuant to Section 4.9 or the
maximum that may be taken into account in the ADP Test pursuant to
Section 4.5(i) (Targeted Qualified Nonelective Contributions). This process
shall continue until one of the tests set forth in Section 4.5(a) is
satisfied.
(6) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to the
Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee
having the lowest 414(s) Compensation, until one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.5(a) is satisfied, or until such Nonhighly Compensated Employee
has received the maximum permissible amount pursuant to Section 4.9 or the
maximum that may be taken into account in the ADP Test pursuant to
Section 4.5(i) (Targeted Qualified Nonelective Contributions). This process
shall continue until one of the tests set forth in Section 4.5(a) is
satisfied. However, for purposes of this contribution, Nonhighly Compensated
Employees who are not employed at the end of the Plan Year shall not be eligible
to share in the allocation and shall be disregarded.
(7) A
Qualified Matching Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly Compensated
Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to the Qualified
Matching Contribution Account of each Nonhighly Compensated Employee in the same
proportion that each Nonhighly Compensated Employee's Elective Deferrals for the
year bears to the total Elective Deferrals of all Nonhighly Compensated
Employees.
(8) A
Qualified Matching Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly Compensated
Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to the Qualified
Matching Contribution Account of each Nonhighly Compensated Employee in the same
proportion that each Nonhighly Compensated Employee's Elective Deferrals for the
year bears to the total Elective Deferrals of all Nonhighly Compensated
Employees. However, for purposes of this contribution, Nonhighly Compensated
Employees who are not employed at the end of the Plan Year shall not be eligible
to share in the allocation and shall be disregarded.
(9) A
Qualified Matching Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly Compensated
Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to the Qualified
Matching Contribution Account of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee having the
lowest Elective Deferrals until one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.5(a) is satisfied, or until such Nonhighly Compensated Employee
has received the maximum permissible amount pursuant to Section 4.9,
subject to the restriction on Qualified Matching Contributions imposed by the
provisions of Section 4.7(g). This process shall continue until one of the
tests set forth in Section 4.5(a) is satisfied.
(10) A
Qualified Matching Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly Compensated
Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.5(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to the Qualified
Matching Contribution Account of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee having the
lowest Elective Deferrals until one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.5(a) is satisfied, or until such Nonhighly Compensated Employee
has received the maximum permissible amount pursuant to Section 4.9,
subject to the restriction on Qualified Matching Contributions imposed by the
provisions of Section 4.7(g). This process shall continue until one of the
tests set forth in Section 4.5(a) is satisfied). However, for purposes of
this contribution, Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are not employed at the
end of the Plan Year shall not be eligible to share in the allocation and shall
be disregarded.
Notwithstanding
the above, if the testing method changes from the current year testing method to
the prior year testing method, then for purposes of preventing the double
counting of Qualified Nonelective Contributions for the first testing year for
which the change is effective, any special Qualified Nonelective Contribution on
behalf of Nonhighly Compensated Participants used to satisfy the ADP Test or the
ACP Test under the current year testing method for the prior year testing year
shall be disregarded.
(d) Administrator may prevent projected
failure. If during a Plan Year, it is projected that the aggregate amount
of Elective Deferrals to be allocated to all Highly Compensated Participants
under this Plan would cause the Plan to fail the tests set forth in
Section 4.5(a), then the Administrator may automatically reduce the
deferral amount of affected Highly Compensated Participants, beginning with the
Highly Compensated Participant who has the highest ADR until it is anticipated
the Plan will pass the tests or until such Participant's ADR equals the ADR of
the Highly Compensated Participant having the next highest ADR. This process may
continue until it is anticipated that the Plan will satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.5(a). Alternatively, the Employer may specify a maximum
percentage of Compensation that may be deferred.
(e) Excise tax after 2 1/2 months.
Any Excess Contributions (and Income) which are distributed on or after
2 1/2 months after the end of the Plan Year shall be subject to the ten
percent (10%) Employer excise tax imposed by Code
Section 4979.
4.7 ACTUAL
CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE TEST
(a) ACP Test. The ACP for Highly
Compensated Employees who are Participants for each Plan Year and the ACP for
Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are Participants for each Plan Year (or for
the preceding Plan Year if the prior year testing method is used) shall satisfy
one of the following tests:
(1) The
ACP for the group of Highly Compensated Employees who are Participants shall not
exceed the ACP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are
Participants (for the preceding Plan Year if the prior year testing method is
used to calculate the ACP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who
are Participants) multiplied by 1.25; or
(2) The
ACP for the group of Highly Compensated Employees who are Participants shall not
exceed the ACP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are
Participants (for the preceding Plan Year, if the prior year testing method is
used to calculate the ACP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who
are Participants) by more than two percentage points. Furthermore, the ACP for
the group of Highly Compensated Employees who are Participants shall not exceed
the ACP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are Participants
(for the preceding Plan Year, if the prior year testing method is used to
calculate the ACP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are
Participants) multiplied by 2.
(b) Prior-year test upon
amendment. Notwithstanding the above, if the prior year test method is
used to calculate the ACP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who
are Participants for the first Plan Year of this amendment and restatement, then
the ACP for the group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are Participants
for the preceding Plan Year shall be calculated pursuant to the provisions of
the Plan then in effect.
(c) Aggregation with other plans.
In the event that this Plan satisfies the requirements of Code Sections
401(a)(4), 401(m), or 410(b) only if aggregated with one or more other plans, or
if one or more other plans satisfy the requirements of such sections of the Code
only if aggregated with this Plan (other than the average benefits test under
Code Section 410(b)(2)(A)(ii)), then this Section shall be applied by
determining the ACP of Employees as if all such plans were a single plan. If
more than ten percent (10%) of the Employer's Nonhighly Compensated Employees
are involved in a plan coverage change as defined in Regulation Section
1.401(m)-2(c)(4), then any adjustments to the Nonhighly Compensated Employees
ACP for the prior year will be made in accordance with such Regulations, unless
the Employer has elected to use the current year testing method. Plans may be
aggregated in order to satisfy Code Section 401(m) only if they have the same
Plan Year and use the same ACP testing method.
(d) ACP of Highly Compensated Employee in
multiple plans. For the purposes of this Section, if a Highly Compensated
Employee is a Participant under two (2) or more plans which are maintained by
the Employer or an Affiliated Employer to which Matching Contributions,
nondeductible Employee contributions, or both, are made, then all such
contributions on behalf of such Highly Compensated Employee shall be aggregated
for purposes of determining such Highly Compensated Employee's ACR. If the plans
have different plan years, then all such contributions made during the Plan Year
under all such arrangements shall be aggregated. However, for Plan Years
beginning before 2006 this paragraph shall be applied by treating all plans
ending with or within the same calendar year as a single plan. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, certain plans shall be treated as separate if mandatorily
disaggregated under Regulations under Code Section 401(m).
(e) Current year testing method.
For the purpose of this Section, when calculating the ACP for the group of
Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are Participants, the current year testing
method shall be used. Once the current year testing method has been elected,
then the Employer may elect to use the prior year testing method for a Plan Year
only if the Plan has used the current year testing method for each of the
preceding 5 Plan Years (or if lesser, the number of Plan Years that the Plan has
been in existence) or if, as a result of a merger or acquisition described in
Code Section 410(b)(6)(C)(i), the Employer maintains both a plan using prior
year testing method and a plan using current year testing method and the change
is made within the transition period described in Code Section
410(b)(6)(C)(ii).
(f)
Otherwise excludable Employee and
early participation rules. Notwithstanding anything in this Section to
the contrary, the provisions of this Section and Section 4.8 may be applied
separately (or will be applied separately to the extent required by Regulations)
to each plan within the meaning of Regulation Section 1.401(m)-1(b)(4). For
purposes of applying this provision, the Administrator may use any effective
date of participation that is permitted under Code Section 410(b) provided such
date is applied on a consistent and uniform basis to all Participants.
Alternatively, the provisions of Code Section 401(m)(5)(C) may be used to
exclude from consideration all Nonhighly Compensated Employees who have not
satisfied the greatest minimum age and service requirements of Code
Section 410(a)(1)(A).
(g) Targeted Matching
Contributions. Notwithstanding the preceding, for Plan Years beginning in
and after 2006, a Matching Contribution (and a Qualified Matching Contribution
not used in the ADP Test) with respect to an Elective Deferral for a year is not
taken into account in determining the ACP for Nonhighly Compensated Employees to
the extent it exceeds the greatest of:
(1) five
percent (5%) of the Participant's 414(s) Compensation for the year;
(2) the
Employee's Elective Deferrals for the year; and
(3) the
product of two (2) times the Plan's "representative matching rate" and the
Participant's Elective Deferrals for the year.
For
purposes of this subsection, the Plan's "representative matching rate" is the
lowest "matching rate" for any eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee among a
group of Nonhighly Compensated Employees that consists of half of all eligible
Nonhighly Compensated Employees in the Plan for the Plan Year who make Elective
Deferrals for the Plan Year (or, if greater, the lowest "matching rate" for all
eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employees in the Plan who are employed by the
Employer on the last day of the Plan Year and who make Elective Deferrals for
the Plan Year).
For
purposes of this subsection, the "matching rate" for an Employee generally is
the Matching Contributions (and Qualified Matching Contributions not used in the
ADP Test) made for such Employee divided by the Employee's Elective Deferrals
for the year. If the matching rate is not the same for all levels of Elective
Deferrals for an Employee, then the Employee's "matching rate" is determined
assuming that an Employee's Elective Deferrals are equal to six percent (6%) of
414(s) Compensation.
(h) Targeted Qualified Nonelective
Contributions. Notwithstanding the preceding, for Plan Years beginning in
and after 2006, Qualified Nonelective Contributions cannot be taken into account
in determining the ACR for a Plan Year for a Nonhighly Compensated Employee to
the extent such contributions exceed the product of that Nonhighly Compensated
Employee's 414(s) Compensation and the greater of five percent (5%) or two times
the Plan's "representative contribution rate." Any Qualified Nonelective
Contribution taken into account in the ADP test under Regulation Section
1.401(k)-2(a)(6) (including determination of the representative contribution
rate for purposes of Regulation Section 1.401(k)-2(a)(6)(iv)(B)), is not
permitted to be taken into account for purposes of this paragraph (including the
determination of the representative contribution rate under this Section). For
purposes of this subsection:
(1) The
Plan's "representative contribution rate" is the lowest applicable contribution
rate of any eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee among a group of eligible
Nonhighly Compensated Employees that consists of half of all eligible Nonhighly
Compensated Employees for the Plan Year (or, if greater, the lowest "applicable
contribution rate" of any eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee in the group
of all eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year and who is
employed by the Employer on the last day of the Plan Year), and
(2) The
"applicable contribution rate" for an eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee is
the sum of the Matching Contributions taken into account under this Section for
the eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year and the Qualified
Nonelective Contributions taken into account under this Section made for the
eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year, divided by the
eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employee's 414(s) Compensation for the same
period.
Restrictions of Qualified Nonelective
Contributions and Qualified Matching Contributions. Qualified Nonelective
Contributions and Qualified Matching Contributions cannot be taken into account
to determine the ACP to the extent such contributions are taken into account for
purposes of satisfying any other ACP Test, any ADP Test, or the requirements of
Regulation Sections 1.401(k)-3, 1.401(m)-3 or 1.401(k)-4. Thus, for example,
Qualified Nonelective Contributions that are made pursuant to Regulation Section
1.401(k)-3(b) cannot be taken into account under the ACP Test. Similarly, if a
plan switches from the current year testing method to the prior year testing
method pursuant to Regulation Section 1.401(m)-2(c)(1), then Qualified
Nonelective Contributions that are taken into account under the current year
testing method for a year may not be taken into account under the prior year
testing method for the next year.
(i)
ACP
when no Nonhighly Compensated Employees. If, for the applicable year for
determining the ACP of the Nonhighly Compensated Employees for a Plan Year,
there are no eligible Nonhighly Compensated Employees, then the Plan is deemed
to satisfy the ACP Test for the Plan Year.
(j)
Repeal
of multiple use test. The multiple use test described in Code Section
401(m) in effect prior to the enactment of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief
Reconciliation Act of 2001 shall not apply for Plan Years beginning after
December 31, 2001.
4.8
ADJUSTMENT TO ACTUAL CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE TEST
(a) Authority to correct. In the
event that the ACP Test set forth in Section 4.7(a) is not satisfied, the
Administrator shall implement some or all of the provisions of this Section in
order to correct such failure.
(b) Corrective distribution or
Forfeiture. On or before the close of the following Plan Year, the
Participant who is the Highly Compensated Employee having the largest dollar
amount of Contribution Percentage Amounts shall have a portion of such
Contribution Percentage Amounts (and Income allocable to such amounts)
distributed or, if non-Vested, treated as a Forfeiture (including Income
allocable to such Forfeitures) until the total amount of Excess Aggregate
Contributions has been distributed, or until the amount of the Participant's
Contribution Percentage Amounts equals the Contribution Percentage Amounts of
the Participant who is a Highly Compensated Employee having the next largest
amount of Contribution Percentage Amounts. This process shall continue until the
total amount of Excess Aggregate Contributions has been distributed or
forfeited. Any distribution and/or Forfeiture of Contribution Percentage Amounts
shall be made in the following order:
(1) Matching
Contributions distributed and/or forfeited pursuant to
Section 4.6(b);
(2) Any
remaining Matching Contributions.
If the
distribution of Excess Aggregate Contributions attributable to Matching
Contributions is not in proportion to the Vested and non-Vested portion of such
Matching Contributions, then the Vested portion of the Participant's Matching
Contribution Account after the distribution shall be subject to
Section 6.5(d).
(c) Source of corrective distribution or
Forfeiture. Any distribution and/or Forfeiture of less than the entire
amount of Excess Aggregate Contributions (and Income) shall be treated as a
pro rata distribution and/or Forfeiture of Excess Aggregate Contributions
(and Income). Distribution of Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be designated
by the Employer as a distribution of Excess Aggregate Contributions (and
Income). Forfeitures of Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be treated in
accordance with Section 4.4.
(d) Treatment of Excess Aggregate
Contributions. Excess Aggregate Contributions, including Matching
Contributions that are treated as Forfeitures, shall be treated as Employer
contributions for purposes of Code Sections 404 and 415 even if distributed from
the Plan.
(e) Ordering of tests. The
determination of the amount of Excess Aggregate Contributions with respect to
any Plan Year shall be made after first determining the Excess Contributions, if
any, to be treated as After-Tax Voluntary Contributions due to
recharacterization for the Plan Year of any other qualified cash or deferred
arrangement (as defined in Code Section 401(k)) maintained by the Employer
that ends with or within the Plan Year.
(f)
Administrator may prevent projected
failure. If during a Plan Year the projected aggregate Contribution
Percentage Amounts to be allocated to all Participants who are Highly
Compensated Employees under this Plan would, by virtue of the ACP Test of
Section 4.7(a), cause the Plan to fail the ACP Test, then the Administrator
may automatically reduce proportionately or in the order provided in
Section 4.8(b) the projected share each affected Participant who is a
Highly Compensated Employee of such contributions by an amount necessary to
satisfy the ACP Test of Section 4.7(a).
(g) Corrective contributions.
Notwithstanding the above, if the current year testing method is used, within
twelve (12) months after the end of the Plan Year, the Employer may make a
Qualified Nonelective Contribution or Matching Contribution in accordance with
one of the following provisions, which contribution shall be allocated to the
Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account, Qualified Matching Contribution
Account, or Matching Account of each Participant who is a Nonhighly Compensated
Employee eligible to share in the allocation in accordance with such provision.
If the prior year testing method is used, then a Qualified Nonelective
Contribution may not be made to correct a failed ACP test. The Employer shall
provide the Administrator with written notification of the amount of the
contribution being made and for which provision it is being made pursuant
to:
(1) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Participants in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated in the same
proportion that each Nonhighly Compensated Employee's 414(s) Compensation for
the year bears to the total 414(s) Compensation of all Nonhighly Compensated
Employees for such year.
(2) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated in the same
proportion that each Nonhighly Compensated Employee's 414(s) Compensation for
the year bears to the total 414(s) Compensation of all Nonhighly Compensated
Employees for such year. However, for purposes of this contribution, Nonhighly
Compensated Employees who are not employed at the end of the Plan Year shall not
be eligible to share in the allocation and shall be disregarded.
(3) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated in equal
amounts (per capita).
(4) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated in equal
amounts (per capita). However, for purposes of this contribution, Nonhighly
Compensated Employees who are not employed at the end of the Plan Year shall not
be eligible to share in the allocation and shall be disregarded.
(5) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to the
Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee
having the lowest 414(s) Compensation, until one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.7(a) is satisfied, or until such Nonhighly Compensated Employee
has received the maximum permissible amount pursuant to Section 4.9, or the
maximum that may be taken into account in the ACP Test pursuant to
Section 4.7(h) (Targeted Qualified Nonelective Contributions). This process
shall continue until one of the tests set forth in Section 4.7(a) is
satisfied.
(6) A
Qualified Nonelective Contribution may be made on behalf of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the tests set
forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to the
Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee
having the lowest 414(s) Compensation, until one of the tests set forth in
Section 4.7(a) is satisfied, or until such Nonhighly Compensated Employee
has received the maximum permissible amount pursuant to Section 4.9, or the
maximum that may be taken into account in the ACP Test pursuant to
Section 4.7(h) (Targeted Qualified Nonelective Contributions). This process
shall continue until one of the tests set forth in Section 4.7(a) is
satisfied. However, for purposes of this contribution, Nonhighly Compensated
Employees who are not employed at the end of the Plan Year shall not be eligible
to share in the allocation and shall be disregarded.
(7) A
Matching Contribution or Qualified Matching Contribution may be made on behalf
of Nonhighly Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the
tests set forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to
the Qualified Matching Contribution Account of each Nonhighly Compensated
Employee in the same proportion that each Nonhighly Compensated Employee's
Elective Deferrals for the year bears to the total Elective Deferrals of all
Nonhighly Compensated Employees.
(8) A
Matching Contribution or Qualified Matching Contribution may be made on behalf
of Nonhighly Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the
tests set forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to
the Qualified Matching Contribution Account of each Nonhighly Compensated
Employee in the same proportion that each Nonhighly Compensated Employee's
Elective Deferrals for the year bears to the total Elective Deferrals of all
Nonhighly Compensated Employees. However, for purposes of this contribution,
Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are not employed at the end of the Plan Year
shall not be eligible to share in the allocation and shall be
disregarded.
(9) A
Matching Contribution or Qualified Matching Contribution may be made on behalf
of Nonhighly Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the
tests set forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to
the Qualified Matching Contribution Account of the Nonhighly Compensated
Employee having the lowest Elective Deferrals until one of the tests set forth
in Section 4.7(a) is satisfied, or until such Nonhighly Compensated
Employee has received the maximum permissible amount pursuant to
Section 4.9, subject to the restriction on Targeted Matching Contributions
imposed by the provisions of Section 4.7(g). This process shall continue
until one of the tests set forth in Section 4.7(a) is
satisfied.
(10) A
Matching Contribution or Qualified Matching Contribution may be made on behalf
of Nonhighly Compensated Employees in an amount sufficient to satisfy one of the
tests set forth in Section 4.7(a). Such contribution shall be allocated to
the Qualified Matching Contribution Account of the Nonhighly Compensated
Employee having the lowest Elective Deferrals until one of the tests set forth
in Section 4.7(a) is satisfied, or until such Nonhighly Compensated
Employee has received the maximum permissible amount pursuant to
Section 4.9, subject to the restriction on Targeted Matching Contributions
imposed by the provisions of Section 4.7(g). This process shall continue
until one of the tests set forth in Section 4.7(a) is satisfied. However,
for purposes of this contribution, Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are not
employed at the end of the Plan Year shall not be eligible to share in the
allocation and shall be disregarded.
(h) Excise tax. Any Excess
Aggregate Contributions (and Income) which are distributed on or after
2 1/2 months after the end of the Plan Year shall be subject to the ten
percent (10%) Employer excise tax imposed by Code
Section 4979.
4.9 MAXIMUM ANNUAL
ADDITIONS
(a) Maximum permissible amount.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, for Limitation Years beginning after
December 31, 2001, the maximum Annual Additions credited to a Participant's
Accounts for any Limitation Year shall equal the lesser of:
(1) $40,000
adjusted annually as provided in Code Section 415(d) pursuant to the
Regulations, or
(2) one-hundred
percent (100%) of the Participant's 415 Compensation for such Limitation
Year.
The
percentage limitation in paragraph (2) above shall not apply to: (1) any
contribution for medical benefits (within the meaning of Code
Section 419A(f)(2)) after separation from service which is otherwise
treated as an annual addition, or (2) any amount otherwise treated as an
annual addition under Code Section 415(l)(1).
For any
short Limitation Year, the dollar limitation in paragraph (1) above shall be
reduced by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of full months in
the short Limitation Year and the denominator of which is twelve
(12).
(b) Reasonable estimate
permissible. Prior to determining the Participant's actual 415
Compensation for the Limitation Year, the Employer may determine the maximum
permissible amount for a Participant on the basis of a reasonable estimation of
the Participant's 415 Compensation for the Limitation Year, uniformly determined
for all Participants similarly situated. As soon as is administratively feasible
after the end of the Limitation Year, the maximum permissible amount for the
Limitation Year will be determined on the basis of the Participant's actual 415
Compensation for the Limitation Year.
(c) Excess Annual Additions
defined. For purposes of this Article, the term "Excess Annual Additions"
for any Participant for a Limitation Year means a Participant's Annual Additions
under this Plan and such other plans of the Employer or Affiliated Employer that
are in excess of the maximum permissible amount of Section 4.9 for a
Limitation Year. The Excess Annual Additions will be deemed to consist of the
Annual Additions last allocated, except that Annual Additions attributable to a
simplified employee pension will be deemed to have been allocated first,
followed by Annual Additions to a welfare benefit fund or individual medical
account, and then by Annual Additions to a plan subject to Code Section 412,
regardless of the actual allocation date.
(d) Annual Additions can cease when
maximum permissible amount reached. If the Employer contribution that
would otherwise be contributed or allocated to the Participant's Accounts would
cause the Annual Additions for the Limitation Year to exceed the maximum
permissible amount, then the amount that would otherwise be contributed or
allocated will be reduced so that the Annual Additions for the Limitation Year
will equal the maximum permissible amount, and any such amounts which would have
been allocated to such Participant may be allocated to other
Participants.
(e) All DC plans treated as one
plan. For the purpose of this Section, all qualified defined contribution
plans (regardless of whether such plan has terminated) maintained by the
Employer during a Limitation Year shall be treated as one defined contribution
plan.
(f) All Employees of Related Employers
treated as employed by one Employer. For the purpose of this Section, if
the Employer is a member of a controlled group of corporations, trades or
businesses under common control (as defined by Code Section 1563(a) or Code
Section 414(b) and (c) as modified by Code Section 415(h)), is a
member of an affiliated service group (as defined by Code Section 414(m)),
or is a member of a group of entities required to be aggregated pursuant to
Regulations under Code Section 414(o), then all Employees of such Employers
shall be considered to be employed by a single Employer.
(g) 413(c) Plan. If this is a plan
described in Code Section 413(c) (other than a plan described in Code
Section 414(f)), then all of the benefits or contributions attributable to
a Participant from all of the Employers maintaining this Plan shall be taken
into account in applying the limits of this Section with respect to such
Participant. Furthermore, in applying the limitations of this Section with
respect to such a Participant, the total 415 Compensation received by the
Participant from all of the Employers maintaining the Plan shall be taken into
account.
(h)(1) DC Plans with same/different
Anniversary Dates. If a Participant participates in more than one defined
contribution plan maintained by the Employer that have different Anniversary
Dates, then the maximum permissible amount under this Plan shall equal the
maximum permissible amount for the Limitation Year minus any Annual Additions
previously credited to such Participant's Accounts during the Limitation
Year.
(2) If
a Participant participates in both a defined contribution plan subject to Code
Section 412 and a defined contribution plan not subject to Code
Section 412 maintained by the Employer which have the same Anniversary
Date, then Annual Additions will be credited to the Participant's Accounts under
the defined contribution plan subject to Code Section 412 prior to
crediting Annual Additions to the Participant's Accounts under the defined
contribution plan not subject to Code Section 412.
(3) If
a Participant participates in more than one defined contribution plan not
subject to Code Section 412 maintained by the Employer which have the same
Anniversary Date, then the maximum permissible amount under this Plan shall
equal the product of (A) the maximum permissible amount for the Limitation
Year minus any Annual Additions previously credited under subparagraphs (1) or
(2) above, multiplied by (B) a fraction (i) the numerator of which is
the Annual Additions which would be credited to such Participant's Accounts
under this Plan without regard to the limitations of Code Section 415 and
(ii) the denominator of which is such Annual Additions for all plans
described in this subparagraph.
4.10 ADJUSTMENT FOR EXCESS ANNUAL
ADDITIONS
(a) Disposal of Excess Annual
Additions. Allocation of Annual Additions to a Participant's Account for
a Limitation Year generally will cease in accordance with Section 4.9(d)
once the maximum permissible amount of Section 4.9 has been reached for
such Limitation Year. However, if, as a result of a reasonable error in
estimating a Participant's Compensation, a reasonable error in determining the
amount of Elective Deferrals (within the meaning of Code Section 402(g)(3))
that may be made with respect to any Participant with respect to the maximum
permissible amount of Section 4.9 or other facts and circumstances to which
Regulation 1.415-6(b)(6) shall be applicable, the Annual Additions under
this Plan would cause Excess Annual Additions for any Participant, then the
Excess Annual Additions will be disposed of in one of the following ways, as
uniformly determined by the Administrator for all Participants similarly
situated.
(1) Any
matched Elective Deferrals and Matching Contributions which relate to such
Elective Deferrals shall be proportionately reduced to the extent they would
reduce the Excess Annual Additions. The Elective Deferrals (and any gains
attributable to such Elective Deferrals) will be distributed to the Participant
and the Matching Contributions (and any gains attributable to such Matching
Contributions) will be used to reduce the Employer contribution in the next
Limitation Year;
(2) If
the Participant is covered by the Plan at the end of the Limitation Year, then
the Excess Annual Additions will be used to reduce the Employer contribution for
such Participant in the next Limitation Year, and each succeeding Limitation
Year if necessary;
(3) If
the Participant is not covered by the Plan at the end of the Limitation Year,
then the Excess Annual Additions will be held unallocated in a "Section 415
suspense account." The "Section 415 suspense account" will be applied to
reduce future Employer contributions for all remaining Participants in the next
Limitation Year, and each succeeding Limitation Year if necessary;
(4) If
a "Section 415 suspense account" is in existence at any time during the
Limitation Year pursuant to this Section, then the "Section 415 suspense
account" will not participate in the allocation of investment gains and losses
of the Trust Fund. If a "Section 415 suspense account" is in existence at
any time during a particular Limitation Year, then all amounts in the
"Section 415 suspense account" must be allocated and reallocated to
Participants' Accounts before any Employer contributions or any Employee
contributions may be made to the Plan for that Limitation Year. Except as
provided above, Excess Annual Additions may not be distributed to
Participants.
(b) Section 415 suspense account
defined. For purposes of this Section, the term "Section 415
suspense account" means an unallocated account equal to the sum of Excess Annual
Additions for all Participants in the Plan during the Limitation
Year.
4.11 PLAN-TO-PLAN TRANSFERS (OTHER THAN
ROLLOVERS) FROM QUALIFIED PLANS
(a) Transfers into this Plan. With
the consent of the Administrator (such consent must be exercised in a
nondiscriminatory manner and applied uniformly to all Participants), amounts may
be transferred (within the meaning of Code Section 414(l)) to this Plan
from other tax qualified plans under Code Section 401(a), provided that the
plan from which such funds are transferred permits the transfer to be made, the
funds are not subject to the notice and consent requirements of Code Section 417
(i.e., qualified joint and survivor annuity requirements), and the transfer will
not jeopardize the tax exempt status of the Plan or Trust or create adverse tax
consequences for the Employer. Prior to accepting any transfers to which this
Section applies, the Administrator may require satisfactory evidence that the
amounts to be transferred meet the requirements of this Section. The transferred
amounts shall be allocated to the Transfer Account of the
Participant.
At the
time of the transfer, the nonforfeitable percentage of the funds under the
transferor plan shall apply, but thereafter shall increase (if applicable) for
each Period of Service that the Participant completes after such transfer in
accordance with the Vesting provisions of this Plan applicable to the type of
Account represented by the transferred funds (e.g., transferred nonelective
funds will be subject to the vesting schedule applicable to Nonelective
Contributions under this Plan). If the vesting schedule applicable to a
Transferred Account changes as a result of this paragraph, such change will be
treated as an amendment to the vesting schedule for each affected
Participant.
(b) Accounting of transfers. The
Transfer Account of a Participant shall be held by the Trustee pursuant to the
provisions of this Plan and may not be withdrawn by, or distributed to the
Participant, in whole or in part, except as provided in paragraph (d) of
this Section. The Trustee shall have no duty or responsibility to inquire as to
the propriety of the amount, value or type of assets transferred, nor to conduct
any due diligence with respect to such assets; provided, however, that such
assets are otherwise eligible to be held by the Trustee under the terms of this
Plan.
(c) Restrictions on elective
deferrals. Except as permitted by Regulations (including Regulation
Section 1.411(d)-4), amounts attributable to elective deferrals (as defined in
Regulation Section 1.401(k)-6), including amounts treated as elective deferrals,
which are transferred from another qualified plan in a plan-to-plan transfer
(other than a direct rollover) shall be subject to the distribution limitations
provided for in Code Section 401(k)(2) and the Regulations.
(d) Distribution of Transfer
Account. At Normal Retirement Date, or such other date when the
Participant or the Participant's Beneficiary shall be entitled to receive
benefits, the Transfer Account of a Participant shall be used to provide
additional benefits to the Participant or the Participant's Beneficiary. Any
distributions of amounts held in the Transfer Account shall be made in a manner
which is consistent with and satisfies the provisions of Sections 6.5 and 6.6,
including, but not limited to, all notice and consent requirements of Code
Section 411(a)(11) and the Regulations thereunder. Furthermore, the Transfer
Account shall be considered as part of a Participant's benefit in determining
whether an involuntary cash-out of benefits may be made without Participant
consent.
(e) Segregation. The Administrator
may direct that Employee transfers made after a Valuation Date be segregated
into a separate account for each Participant until such time as the allocations
pursuant to this Plan have been made, at which time they may remain segregated
or be invested as part of the general Trust Fund or be directed by the
Participant pursuant to Section 4.13.
(f) Protected benefits.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a transfer directly to this
Plan from another qualified plan (or a transaction having the effect of such a
transfer) shall only be permitted if it will not result in the elimination or
reduction of any "Section 411(d)(6) protected benefit" as described in
Section 7.1(e).
(g) Separate Accounts. With
respect to each Participant's Transfer Account, separate sub-accounts shall be
maintained to the extent necessary to carry out the provisions of this
Plan.
4.12
ROLLOVERS FROM OTHER
PLANS
(a) Acceptance of rollovers into the
Plan. This Section applies to a rollover from an eligible retirement plan
into this Plan made on or after January 1, 2002. With the consent of the
Administrator (such consent must be exercised in a nondiscriminatory manner and
applied uniformly to all Participants), the Plan may accept a rollover by
Participants, excluding Participants who are no longer employed as an Employee
and including Eligible Employees, provided the rollover will not jeopardize the
tax-exempt status of the Plan or create adverse tax consequences for the
Employer. The rollover amounts shall be allocated to the Rollover Account of the
Participant. Furthermore, for a rollover from an eligible retirement plan into
this Plan made on or after January 1, 2006, any Roth Elective Deferrals that are
accepted as rollovers in this Plan shall be accounted for separately, and must
be directly rolled over from a Roth elective deferral account under an
applicable retirement plan described in Code Section 402A(e)(1) and only to the
extent that the rollover is permitted under the rules of Code Section 402(c).
The Rollover Account of a Participant shall be 100% Vested at all times and
shall not be subject to Forfeiture for any reason.
(b) Treatment of Rollover Account in the
Plan. The Rollover Account shall be held by the Trustee pursuant to the
provisions of this Plan and may not be withdrawn by, or distributed to the
Participant, in whole or in part, except as provided in paragraph (c) of
this Section. The Trustee shall have no duty or responsibility to inquire as to
the propriety of the amount, value or type of assets transferred, nor to conduct
any due diligence with respect to such assets; provided, however, that such
assets are otherwise eligible to be held by the Trustee under the terms of this
Plan.
(c) Distribution of rollovers. The
Administrator, at the election of the Participant, shall direct the Trustee to
distribute all or a portion of the amount credited to the Participant's Rollover
Account at any time. Furthermore, amounts in the Participant's Rollover Account,
with respect to distributions made on and after January 1, 2002, shall not be
considered as part of a Participant's benefit in determining whether the $5,000
threshold has been exceeded for purposes of the timing or form of payments under
the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, amounts in the Rollover Account, with
respect to distributions made on or after March 28, 2005, shall be considered in
determining whether a mandatory involuntary cash-out distribution of benefits
may be made without Participant consent. Any distributions of amounts that are
held in the Rollover Account shall be made in a manner which is consistent with
and satisfies the provisions of Sections 6.5 and 6.6, including, but not
limited to, all notice and consent requirements of Code Section 411(a)(11) and
the Regulations thereunder.
(d) Limits on accepting rollovers.
Prior to accepting any rollovers to which this Section applies, the
Administrator may require the Employee to provide evidence that the amounts to
be rolled over to this Plan meet the requirements of this Section. The Employer
may instruct the Administrator, operationally and on a nondiscriminatory basis,
to limit the source of rollovers that may be accepted by the Plan.
(e) Rollovers maintained in a separate
account. The Administrator may direct that rollovers received after a
Valuation Date be segregated into a separate account for each Participant until
such time as the allocations pursuant to this Plan have been made, at which time
they may remain segregated or be invested as part of the general Trust Fund or
be directed by the Participant pursuant to Section 4.13.
(f) Definitions. For purposes of
this Section, the following definitions shall apply:
(1) The
term "rollover" means: (i) amounts transferred to this Plan directly from
another "eligible retirement plan;" (ii) distributions received by an
Employee from other "eligible retirement plans" which are eligible for tax-free
rollover to an "eligible retirement plan" and which are transferred by the
Employee to this Plan within sixty (60) days following receipt thereof; and
(iii) any other amounts which are eligible to be rolled over to this Plan
pursuant to the Code.
(2) The
term "eligible retirement plan" means an individual retirement account described
in Code Section 408(a), an individual retirement annuity described in Code
Section 408(b) (other than an endowment contract), a qualified trust (an
employees' trust described in Code Section 401(a) which is exempt from tax
under Code Section 501(a)), an annuity plan described in Code
Section 403(a), an eligible deferred compensation plan described in Code
Section 457(b) which is maintained by an eligible employer described in
Code Section 457(e)(1)(A), and an annuity contract described in Code
Section 403(b).
4.13 PARTICIPANT DIRECTED
INVESTMENTS
(a) Directed Investments allowed.
Participants may, subject to a procedure established by the Administrator (the
Participant Direction Procedures) and applied in a uniform nondiscriminatory
manner, direct the Trustee, in writing (or in such other form which is
acceptable to the Trustee), to invest their entire Accounts in specific assets,
specific funds or other investments permitted under the Plan and the Participant
Direction Procedures. That portion of the interest of any Participant so
directing will thereupon be considered a Participant's Directed
Account.
(b) Establishment of Participant
Direction Procedures. The Administrator will establish Participant
Direction Procedures, to be applied in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner,
setting forth the permissible investment options under this Section, how often
changes between investments may be made, and any other limitations and
provisions that the Administrator may impose on a Participant's right to direct
investments.
(c) Administrative discretion. The
Administrator may, in its discretion, include or exclude by amendment or other
action from the Participant Direction Procedures such instructions, guidelines
or policies as it deems necessary or appropriate to ensure proper administration
of the Plan, and may interpret the same accordingly.
(d) Allocation of earnings. As of
each Valuation Date, all Participant Directed Accounts shall be charged or
credited with the net earnings, gains, losses and expenses as well as any
appreciation or depreciation in the market value using publicly listed fair
market values when available or appropriate as follows:
(1) to
the extent that the assets in a Participant's Directed Account are accounted for
as pooled assets or investments, the allocation of earnings, gains and losses of
each Participant's Directed Account shall be based upon the total amount of
funds so invested in a manner proportionate to the Participant's share of such
pooled investment; and
(2) to
the extent that the assets in the Participant's Directed Account are accounted
for as segregated assets, the allocation of earnings, gains and losses from such
assets shall be made on a separate and distinct basis.
(e) Plan will follow investment
directions. Investment directions will be processed as soon as
administratively practicable after proper investment directions are received
from the Participant. No guarantee is made by the Plan, Employer, Administrator
or Trustee that investment directions will be processed on a daily basis, and no
guarantee is made in any respect regarding the processing time of an investment
direction. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Employer,
Administrator or Trustee reserves the right to not value an investment option on
any given Valuation Date for any reason deemed appropriate by the Employer,
Administrator or Trustee. Furthermore, the processing of any investment
transaction may be delayed for any legitimate business reason or force majeure
(including, but not limited to, failure of systems or computer programs, failure
of the means of the transmission of data, the failure of a service provider to
timely receive values or prices, and correction for errors or omissions or the
errors or omissions of any service provider). The processing date of a
transaction will be binding for all purposes of the Plan and considered the
applicable Valuation Date for an investment transaction.
(f) Section 404(c) provisions. The
Participant Direction Procedures shall provide an explanation of the
circumstances under which Participants and their Beneficiaries may give
investment instructions, including, but not limited to, the following to the
extent required under the Department of Labor regulations or
guidance:
(1) the
conveyance of instructions by the Participants and their Beneficiaries to invest
Participant Directed Accounts in Directed Investment Options;
(2) the
name, address and phone number of the Fiduciary (and, if applicable, the person
or persons designated by the Fiduciary to act on its behalf) responsible for
providing information to the Participant or a Beneficiary upon request relating
to the Directed Investment Options;
(3) applicable
restrictions on transfers to and from any Designated Investment
Alternative;
(4) any
restrictions on the exercise of voting, tender and similar rights related to a
Directed Investment Option by the Participants or their
Beneficiaries;
(5) a
description of any transaction fees and expenses which affect the balances in
Participant Directed Accounts in connection with the purchase or sale of
Directed Investment Options; and
(6) general
procedures for the dissemination of investment and other information relating to
the Designated Investment Alternatives as deemed necessary or appropriate,
including but not limited to a description of the following:
(i) the
investment vehicles available under the Plan, including specific information
regarding any Designated Investment Alternative;
(ii) any
designated Investment Managers; and
(iii) a
description of the additional information which may be obtained upon request
from the Fiduciary designated to provide such information.
(g) Other documents. Any
information regarding investments available under the Plan, to the extent not
required to be described in the Participant Direction Procedures, may be
provided to the Participant in one or more written documents (or in any other
form including, but not limited to, electronic media) which are separate from
the Participant Direction Procedures and are not thereby incorporated by
reference into this Plan.
(h) Instructions, guidelines or
policies. The Administrator may, in its discretion, include or exclude by
amendment or other action from the Participant Direction Procedures such
instructions, guidelines or policies as it deems necessary or appropriate to
ensure proper administration of the Plan, and may interpret the same
accordingly.
4.14 QUALIFIED
MILITARY SERVICE
Notwithstanding
any provision of this Plan to the contrary, contributions, benefits and service
will be provided in accordance with Code Section 414(u). Furthermore, loan
repayments may be suspended under this Plan as permitted under Code Section
414(u)(4).
ARTICLE
V
VALUATIONS
5.1 VALUATION
OF THE TRUST FUND
The
Administrator shall direct the Trustee, as of each Valuation Date, to determine
the net worth of the assets comprising the Trust Fund as it exists on the
Valuation Date. In determining such net worth, the Trustee shall value the
assets comprising the Trust Fund at their fair market value as of the Valuation
Date and shall deduct all expenses for which the Trustee has not yet obtained
reimbursement from the Employer or the Trust Fund. The Trustee may update the
value of any shares held in the Participant Directed Account by reference to the
number of shares held by that Participant, priced at the market value as of the
Valuation Date.
5.2 METHOD
OF VALUATION
In
determining the fair market value of securities held in the Trust Fund which are
listed on a registered stock exchange, the Administrator shall direct the
Trustee to value the same at the prices they were last traded on such exchange
preceding the close of business on the Valuation Date. If such securities were
not traded on the Valuation Date, or if the exchange on which they are traded
was not open for business on the Valuation Date, then the securities shall be
valued at the prices at which they were last traded prior to the Valuation Date.
Any unlisted security held in the Trust Fund shall be valued at its bid price
next preceding the close of business on the Valuation Date, which bid price
shall be obtained from a registered broker or an investment banker. In
determining the fair market value of assets other than securities for which
trading or bid prices can be obtained, the Trustee may appraise such assets
itself, or in its discretion, employ one or more appraisers for that purpose and
rely on the values established by such appraiser or appraisers.
ARTICLE
VI
DETERMINATION
AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS
6.1 DETERMINATION OF BENEFITS UPON
RETIREMENT
Every
Participant may terminate employment with the Employer and retire for the
purposes hereof on the Participant's Normal Retirement Date. However, a
Participant may postpone the termination of employment with the Employer to a
later date, in which event the participation of such Participant in the Plan,
including the right to receive allocations pursuant to Section 4.4, shall
continue until such Participant's Late Retirement Date. Upon a Participant's
Retirement Date or attainment of Normal Retirement Date without termination of
employment with the Employer (subject to the provisions of Section 4.2(d)), or
as soon thereafter as is practicable, the Administrator shall direct the
distribution, at the election of the Participant, of the Participant's entire
Vested interest in the Plan (or any portion thereof), in accordance with
Section 6.5.
6.2 DETERMINATION OF BENEFITS UPON
DEATH
(a) 100% Vesting on death. Upon
the death of a Participant before the Participant's Retirement Date or other
termination of employment, all amounts credited to such Participant's Account
shall become fully Vested.
(b) Distribution upon death. Upon
the death of a Participant, the Administrator shall direct, in accordance with
the provisions of Sections 6.6 and 6.7, the distribution of any remaining
amounts credited to the accounts of the deceased Participant to such
Participant's Beneficiary.
(c) Security for loans. Any
security interest held by the Plan by reason of an outstanding loan to the
Participant shall be taken into account in determining the amount of the death
benefit.
(d) Determination of death benefit by
Administrator. The Administrator may require such proper proof of death
and such evidence of the right of any person to receive payment of the value of
the account of a deceased Participant as the Administrator may deem desirable.
The Administrator's determination of death and of the right of any person to
receive payment shall be conclusive.
(e) Beneficiary designation. The
Beneficiary of the death benefit payable pursuant to this Section shall be the
Participant's surviving spouse. Except, however, the Participant may designate a
Beneficiary other than the spouse if:
(1) the
spouse has waived the right to be the Participant's Beneficiary, or
(2) the
Participant is legally separated or has been abandoned (within the meaning of
local law) and the Participant has a court order to such effect (and there is no
qualified domestic relations order as defined in Code Section 414(p) which
provides otherwise), or
(3) the
Participant has no spouse, or
(4) the
spouse cannot be located.
In such
event, the designation of a Beneficiary shall be made on a form satisfactory to
the Administrator. A Participant may at any time revoke a designation of a
Beneficiary or change a Beneficiary by filing written notice (or in such other
form as permitted by the Internal Revenue Service) of such revocation or change
with the Administrator. However, the Participant's spouse must again consent in
writing (or in such other form as permitted by the Internal Revenue Service) to
any change in Beneficiary unless the original consent acknowledged that the
spouse had the right to limit consent only to a specific Beneficiary and that
the spouse voluntarily elected to relinquish such right.
(f) Beneficiary if no beneficiary elected
by Participant. In the event no valid designation of Beneficiary exists
with respect to all or a portion of the death benefit, or if the Beneficiary of
such death benefit is not alive at the time of the Participant's death and no
contingent Beneficiary has been designated, then such death benefit will be paid
to the Participant's estate.
If the
Beneficiary does not predecease the Participant, but dies prior to distribution
of the death benefit, the death benefit will be paid to the Beneficiary's
designated Beneficiary (or there is no designated Beneficiary, to the
Beneficiary's estate).
(g) Divorce revokes spousal beneficiary
designation. Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, if
a Participant has designated the spouse as a Beneficiary, then a divorce decree
or a legal separation that relates to such spouse shall revoke the Participant's
designation of the spouse as a Beneficiary unless the decree or a qualified
domestic relations order (within the meaning of Code Section 414(p))
provides otherwise or a subsequent beneficiary designation is made.
(h) Spousal consent. Any consent
by the Participant's spouse to waive any rights to the death benefit must be in
writing (or in such other form as permitted by the Internal Revenue Service),
must acknowledge the effect of such waiver, and be witnessed by a Plan
representative or a notary public. Further, the spouse's consent must be
irrevocable and must acknowledge the specific nonspouse
Beneficiary.
6.3 DISABILITY
RETIREMENT BENEFITS
In the
event of a Participant's Disability prior to the Participant's Retirement Date
or other termination of employment, all amounts credited to such Participant's
Account shall become fully Vested. In the event of a Participant's Disability,
the Administrator, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 6.5 and 6.7,
shall direct the distribution to such Participant of all Vested amounts credited
to such Participant's Account.
6.4 DETERMINATION OF BENEFITS UPON
TERMINATION
(a) Payment on termination of
employment. If a Participant's employment with the Employer is terminated
for any reason other than death, Disability or retirement, then such Participant
shall be entitled to such benefits as are provided hereinafter pursuant to this
Section 6.4.
Distribution
of the funds due to a Terminated Participant shall be made on the occurrence of
an event which would result in a distributable event had the Terminated
Participant remained in the employ of the Employer (upon the Participant's
death, Disability or Normal Retirement). However, at the election of the
Participant, the Administrator shall direct the distribution of the entire
Vested portion of the Terminated Participant's Account be payable to such
Terminated Participant as soon as administratively feasible after termination of
employment. Any distribution under this paragraph shall be made in a manner
which is consistent with and satisfies the provisions of Section 6.5,
including, but not limited to, all notice and consent requirements of Code
Section 411(a)(11) and the Regulations thereunder.
For
purposes of this Section 6.4, if the value of a Terminated Participant's
Vested benefit is zero, the Terminated Participant shall be deemed to have
received a distribution of such Vested benefit.
(b) Vesting schedule. The Vested
portion of the Account of any Participant attributable to Employer contributions
shall be a percentage of the total amount credited to the Participant's Accounts
determined on the basis of the Participant's number of whole year Periods of
Service according to the following schedule(s):
(1) The
Elective Deferral Account, the Roth Elective Deferral Account, the Qualified
Matching Contribution Account and the Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account
shall be 100% Vested regardless of a Participant's number of whole year Periods
of Service.
(2) The
Vested Portion of the Nonelective Contribution Account and the Vested portion of
the Matching Contribution Account shall be determined in accordance with the
following vesting schedule:
Vesting
Schedule
|
|
Periods
of Service
|
|
Percentage
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
34 |
% |
2
|
|
|
67 |
% |
3
|
|
|
100 |
% |
(c) No reduction in Vested percentage due
to change in vesting schedule. Notwithstanding the vesting schedule
above, the Vested percentage of a Participant's Account shall not be less than
the Vested percentage attained as of the later of the effective date or adoption
date of this amendment and restatement.
(d) Time of application of vesting
schedule liberalization. In the absence of any provision to the contrary,
any direct or indirect increase to a Participant's Vested percentage (at any
point on a vesting schedule) will not apply to a Participant unless and until
such Participant completes an Hour of Service after the effective date of such
amendment.
(e) 100% Vesting on partial or full Plan
termination. Notwithstanding the vesting schedule above, upon the
complete discontinuance of the Employer contributions to the Plan or upon any
full or partial termination of the Plan, all amounts then credited to the
account of any affected Participant shall become 100% Vested and shall not
thereafter be subject to Forfeiture.
(f) Continuation of old schedule if 3
years of service. The computation of a Participant's nonforfeitable
percentage of such Participant's interest in the Plan shall not be reduced as
the result of any direct or indirect amendment to this Plan. In the event that
the Plan is amended to change or modify any vesting schedule, or if the Plan is
amended in any way that directly or indirectly affects the computation of the
Participant's nonforfeitable percentage, or if the Plan is deemed amended by an
automatic change to or from a top-heavy vesting schedule, then each Participant
with an Hour of Service after such change and who has at least three (3)
whole year Periods of Service as of the expiration date of the election period
may elect to have such Participant's nonforfeitable percentage computed under
the Plan without regard to such amendment or change. If such a Participant fails
to make such election, then such Participant shall be subject to the new vesting
schedule. The Participant's election period shall commence on the date the
amendment is adopted or deemed to be made and shall end sixty (60) days
after the latest of:
(1) the
adoption date of the amendment,
(2) the
effective date of the amendment, or
(3) the
date the Participant receives written notice of the amendment from the Employer
or Administrator.
6.5 DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS
(a) The
Administrator, pursuant to the election of the Participant, shall direct the
Trustee to distribute to a Participant or such Participant's Beneficiary the
amount (if any) to which the Participant (or Beneficiary) has become entitled
under the Plan in one lump-sum payment in cash or in-kind allocated to the
Participant's Account.
(b) Effective
with respect to distributions made on or after March 28, 2005, a distribution to
a Participant who has a Total Vested Benefit which exceeds $1,000 shall require
such Participant's written consent (or in such other form as permitted by the
Internal Revenue Service) if such distribution occurs prior to the time the
benefit is "immediately distributable." A benefit is "immediately distributable"
if any part of the benefit could be distributed to the Participant (or surviving
spouse) before the Participant attains (or would have attained if not deceased)
the later of the Participant's Normal Retirement Age or age 62.
Any such
distribution may be made less than thirty (30) days after the notice
required under Regulation 1.411(a)-11(c) is given, provided that:
(1) the Administrator clearly informs the Participant that the Participant
has a right to a period of at least thirty (30) days after receiving the
notice to consider the decision of whether or not to elect a distribution (and,
if applicable, a particular distribution option), and (2) the Participant,
after receiving the notice, affirmatively elects a distribution.
(c) All
annuity Contracts under this Plan shall be non-transferable when distributed.
Furthermore, the terms of any annuity Contract purchased and distributed to a
Participant or spouse shall comply with all of the requirements of the
Plan.
(d) If
a distribution is made to a Participant who has not severed employment and who
is not fully Vested in the Participant's Account and the Participant may
increase the Vested percentage in such account, then, at any relevant time the
Participant's Vested portion of the account will be equal to an amount ("X")
determined by the formula:
X equals
P(AB plus D) - D
For
purposes of applying the formula: P is the Vested percentage at the relevant
time, AB is the account balance at the relevant time, and D is the amount of
distribution, and the relevant time is the time at which, under the Plan, the
Vested percentage in the account cannot increase.
(e) Required
minimum distributions (Code Section 401(a)(9)). Notwithstanding any provision in
the Plan to the contrary, the distribution of a Participant's benefits shall be
made in accordance with the requirements of Section 6.8.
6.6 DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS UPON
DEATH
(a) The
death benefit payable pursuant to Section 6.2 shall be paid to the
Participant's Beneficiary in one lump-sum payment in cash or in-kind allocated
to the Participant's Account subject to the rules of
Section 6.8.
(b) Notwithstanding
any provision in the Plan to the contrary, distributions upon the death of a
Participant shall comply with the requirements of Section 6.8.
Except as
limited by Section 6.8, whenever a distribution is to be made, or a series of
payments are to commence, the distribution or series of payments may be made or
begun as soon as practicable. However, unless a Participant elects in writing to
defer the receipt of benefits (such election may not result in a death benefit
that is more than incidental), the payment of benefits shall begin not later
than the sixtieth (60th) day after the close of the Plan Year in which the
latest of the following events occurs: (a) the date on which the
Participant attains the earlier of age 65 or the Normal Retirement Age specified
herein; (b) the tenth (10th) anniversary of the year in which the
Participant commenced participation in the Plan; or (c) the date the
Participant terminates service with the Employer.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the failure of a Participant and, if applicable, the
Participant's spouse, to consent to a distribution that is immediately
distributable (within the meaning of Section 6.5), shall be deemed to be an
election to defer the commencement of payment of any benefit sufficient to
satisfy this Section.
6.8 REQUIRED MINIMUM
DISTRIBUTIONS
(a) General Rules
(1) Effective Date. Unless
otherwise specified, the provisions of this Section will apply for purposes of
determining required minimum distributions for calendar years beginning with the
2002 calendar year.
(2) Precedence. The requirements
of this Section shall apply to any distribution of a Participant's interest in
the Plan and take precedence over any inconsistent provisions of the
Plan.
(3) Requirements of Treasury Regulations
Incorporated. All distributions required under this Section will be
determined and made in accordance with the Regulations under Code Section
401(a)(9) and the minimum distribution incidental benefit requirement of Code
Section 401(a)(9)(G).
(b) Time and manner of
distribution
(1) Required beginning date. The
Participant's entire interest will be distributed, or begin to be distributed,
to the Participant no later than the Participant's required beginning
date.
(2) Death of Participant before
distributions begin. If the Participant dies before distributions begin,
the Participant's entire death benefit will be distributed, or begin to be
distributed, as follows:
(i) If
the Participant or Beneficiary elects, distributions to the designated
beneficiary will begin by December 31 of the calendar year immediately following
the calendar year in which the Participant died, or, if the Participant's
surviving spouse is the Participant's designated beneficiary, by December 31 of
the calendar year in which the Participant would have attained age 70 1/2,
if later. Alternatively, the Participant or Beneficiary may elect to have
distribution of the Participant's death benefit be completed by the December 31
of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant's
death. In the absence of any election (including the failure to commence
required minimum distributions described by this Section by the December 31 of
the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the
Participant died), distribution of the Participant's death benefit shall be
completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary
of the Participant's death.
(ii) If
there is no beneficiary as of September 30 of the year following the year of the
Participant's death, the distribution of the Participant's death benefit will be
completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary
of the Participant's death.
(iii) If
the Participant's surviving spouse is the Participant's sole designated
beneficiary and the surviving spouse dies after the Participant but before
distributions to the surviving spouse begin, this Section 6.8(b), other than
this paragraph, will apply as if the surviving spouse were the Participant.
Thus, in all such cases, the time at which distributions must commence (or be
completed by) shall be determined solely by reference to the year that the
Participant died, and not the year in which the Participant would have attained
age 70 1/2.
For
purposes of this Section 6.8(b), unless a surviving spouse is electing to
commence benefits based upon the date that the Participant would have attained
age 70 1/2, distributions are considered to begin on the Participant's required
beginning date. If the surviving-spouse election applies, distributions are
considered to begin on the date distributions are required to begin to the
surviving spouse under Section 6.8(b).
(3) Forms of distribution. Unless
the Participant's interest is distributed in a single sum on or before the
required beginning date, as of the first distribution calendar year
distributions will be made in accordance with Sections 6.8(c) and 6.8(d). All
distributions under this Section shall be made in a manner which is consistent
with and satisfies the provisions of Section 6.5, including, but not
limited to, all notice and consent requirements of Code Section 411(a)(11) and
the Regulations thereunder.
(c) Required minimum distributions during
Participant's lifetime
(1) Amount of required minimum
distribution for each distribution calendar year. During the
Participant's lifetime, the minimum amount that will be distributed for each
distribution calendar year is the lesser of:
(i) the
quotient obtained by dividing the Participant's Account balance by the
distribution period in the Uniform Lifetime Table set forth in Regulation
Section 1.401(a)(9)-9, using the Participant's age as of the Participant's
birthday in the distribution calendar year; or
(ii) if
the Participant's sole designated beneficiary for the distribution calendar year
is the Participant's spouse and the spouse is more than 10 years younger than
the Participant, the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant's Account
balance by the number in the Joint and Last Survivor Table set forth in
Regulation Section 1.401(a)(9)-9, using the Participant's and spouse's attained
ages as of the Participant's and spouse's birthdays in the distribution calendar
year.
(2) Lifetime required minimum
distributions continue through year of Participant's death. Required
minimum distributions will be determined under this Section 6.8(c) beginning
with the first distribution calendar year and up to and including the
distribution calendar year that includes the Participant's date of
death.
(d) Required minimum distributions after
Participant's death
(1) Death on or after date distributions
begin.
(i) Participant survived by designated
beneficiary. If the Participant dies on or after the date distributions
begin and there is a designated beneficiary, the minimum amount that will be
distributed for each distribution calendar year after the year of the
Participant's death is the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant's
Account balance by the longer of the remaining life expectancy of the
Participant or the remaining life expectancy of the Participant's designated
beneficiary, determined as follows:
(A) The
Participant's remaining life expectancy is calculated using the age of the
Participant in the year of death, reduced by one for each subsequent
year.
(B) If
the Participant's surviving spouse is the Participant's sole designated
beneficiary, the remaining life expectancy of the surviving spouse is calculated
for each distribution calendar year after the year of the Participant's death
using the surviving spouse's age as of the spouse's birthday in that year. For
distribution calendar years after the year of the surviving spouse's death, the
remaining life expectancy of the surviving spouse is calculated using the age of
the surviving spouse as of the spouse's birthday in the calendar year of the
spouse's death, reduced by one for each subsequent calendar year.
(C) If
the Participant's surviving spouse is not the Participant's sole designated
beneficiary, the designated beneficiary's remaining life expectancy is
calculated using the age of the beneficiary in the year following the year of
the Participant's death, reduced by one for each subsequent year.
(ii) No designated beneficiary. If
the Participant dies on or after the date distributions begin and there is no
designated beneficiary as of September 30 of the year after the year of the
Participant's death, the minimum amount that will be distributed for each
distribution calendar year after the year of the Participant's death is the
quotient obtained by dividing the Participant's Account balance by the
Participant's remaining life expectancy calculated using the age of the
Participant in the year of death, reduced by one for each subsequent
year.
(2) Death before date distributions
begin.
(i) Participant survived by designated
beneficiary. Except as provided in Section 6.8(b)(3), if the
Participant dies before the date distributions begin and there is a designated
beneficiary, the minimum amount that will be distributed for each distribution
calendar year after the year of the Participant's death is the quotient obtained
by dividing the Participant's Account balance by the remaining life expectancy
of the Participant's designated beneficiary, determined as provided in Section
6.8(d)(1).
(ii) No designated beneficiary. If
the Participant dies before the date distributions begin and there is no
designated beneficiary as of September 30 of the year following the year of the
Participant's death, distribution of the Participant's entire interest will be
completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary
of the Participant's death.
(iii) Death of surviving spouse before
distributions to surviving spouse are required to begin. If the
Participant dies before the date distributions begin, the Participant's
surviving spouse is the Participant's sole designated beneficiary, and the
surviving spouse dies before distributions are required to begin to the
surviving spouse under Section 6.8(b), this Section 6.8(d)(2) will apply as
if the surviving spouse were the Participant.
(e) Definitions. For purposes of
this Section, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Designated
beneficiary" means the individual who is designated as the Beneficiary under the
Plan and is the designated beneficiary under Code Section 401(a)(9) and
Regulation Section 1.401(a)(9)-4, Q&A-4.
(2) "Distribution
calendar year" means a calendar year for which a minimum distribution is
required. For distributions beginning before the Participant's death, the first
distribution calendar year is the calendar year immediately preceding the
calendar year which contains the Participant's "required beginning date." For
distributions beginning after the Participant's death, the first distribution
calendar year is the calendar year in which distributions are required to begin
under Section 6.8(b). The required minimum distribution for the Participant's
first distribution calendar year will be made on or before the Participant's
"required beginning date." The required minimum distribution for other
distribution calendar years, including the required minimum distribution for the
distribution calendar year in which the Participant's "required beginning date"
occurs, will be made on or before December 31 of that distribution calendar
year.
(3) "Life
expectancy" means the life expectancy as computed by use of the Single Life
Table in Regulation Section 1.401(a)(9)-9, Q&A-1.
(4) "Participant's
account balance" means the "Participant's account balance" as of the last
Valuation Date in the calendar year immediately preceding the Distribution
calendar year (valuation calendar year) increased by the amount of any
contributions made and allocated or Forfeitures allocated to the account balance
as of dates in the valuation calendar year after the Valuation Date and
decreased by distributions made in the valuation calendar year after the
Valuation Date. For this purpose, the Administrator may exclude contributions
that are allocated to the account balance as of dates in the valuation calendar
year after the Valuation Date, but that are not actually made during the
valuation calendar year. The account balance for the valuation calendar year
includes any amounts rolled over or transferred to the Plan either in the
valuation calendar year or in the Distribution calendar year if distributed or
transferred in the valuation calendar year.
(5) "Required
beginning date" means, with respect to any Participant, April 1 of the calendar
year following the later of the calendar year in which the Participant attains
age 70 1/2 or the calendar year in which the Participant retires, except
that benefit distributions to a 5-percent owner must commence by April 1 of the
calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age
70 1/2.
(6) "5-percent
owner" means a Participant who is a 5-percent owner as defined in Code Section
416 at any time during the Plan Year ending with or within the calendar year in
which such owner attains age 70 1/2. Once distributions have begun to a
5-percent owner under this Section they must continue to be distributed, even if
the Participant ceases to be a 5-percent owner in a subsequent year.
(f) Transition rules
(1) Rules for plans in existence before
1997. Any required minimum distribution rights conferred on participants
in order to comply with (or as a means of complying with) the changes to Code
Section 401(a)(9) made by the Small Business Jobs Protection Act of 1996 that
were still in effect immediately prior to this restatement shall be
preserved.
(2) Applicable regulations.
Notwithstanding any Plan provision to the contrary, required minimum
distributions before 2003 were made as follows:
(i) 2001. Required minimum
distributions for calendar year 2001 were made pursuant to the proposed
Regulations under Code Section 401(a)(9) published in the Federal Register on
January 17, 2001 (the "2001 Proposed Regulations"). If distributions were made
in 2001 under the 1987 Proposed Regulations prior to the date in 2001 the plan
began operating under the 2001 Proposed Regulations, the special transition rule
in Announcement 2001-82, 2001-2 C.B. 123, applied.
(ii) 2002. Required minimum
distributions for calendar year 2002 were made pursuant to the Final and
Temporary Regulations under Code Section 401(a)(9) published in the Federal
Register on April 17, 2002, (the "2002 Final and Temporary Regulations") which
are described in Sections (b) through (f) of this Section. If distributions were
made in 2002 under either the 1987 Proposed Regulations or the 2001 Proposed
Regulations prior to the date in 2002 the Plan began operating under the 2002
Final and Temporary Regulations, the special transition rule in Section 1.2 of
the model amendment in Revenue Procedure 2002-29, 2002-1 C.B. 1176,
applied.
(g) Statutory (TEFRA) Transition
Rules
(1) Notwithstanding
the other provisions of this Section, other than the spouse's right of consent
afforded under the Plan, distributions may be made on behalf of any Participant,
including a five percent (5%) owner, who has made a designation in accordance
with Section 242(b)(2) of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA)
and in accordance with all of the following requirements (regardless of when
such distribution commences):
(i) The
distribution by the Plan is one which would not have disqualified such plan
under Code Section 401(a)(9) as in effect prior to amendment by the Deficit
Reduction Act of 1984.
(ii) The
distribution is in accordance with a method of distribution designated by the
Participant whose interest in the plan is being distributed or, if the
Participant is deceased, by a Beneficiary of such Participant.
(iii) Such
designation was in writing, was signed by the Participant or the Beneficiary,
and was made before January 1, 1984.
(iv) The
Participant had accrued a benefit under the Plan as of December 31,
1983.
(v) The
method of distribution designated by the Participant or the Beneficiary
specifies the time at which distribution will commence, the period over which
distributions will be made, and in the case of any distribution upon the
Participant's death, the Beneficiaries of the Participant listed in order of
priority.
(2) A
distribution upon death will not be covered by the transitional rule of this
subsection unless the information in the designation contains the required
information described above with respect to the distributions to be made upon
the death of the Participant.
(3) For
any distribution which commences before January 1, 1984, but continues after
December 31, 1983, the Participant, or the Beneficiary, to whom such
distribution is being made, will be presumed to have designated the method of
distribution under which the distribution is being made if the method of
distribution was specified in writing and the distribution satisfies the
requirements in (1)(i) and (1)(v) of this subsection.
(4) If
a designation is revoked, any subsequent distribution must satisfy the
requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) and the Regulations thereunder. If a
designation is revoked subsequent to the date distributions are required to
begin, the Plan must distribute by the end of the calendar year following the
calendar year in which the revocation occurs the total amount not yet
distributed which would have been required to have been distributed to satisfy
Code Section 401(a)(9) and the Regulations thereunder, but for the Section
242(b)(2) election. For calendar years beginning after December 31, 1988, such
distributions must meet the minimum distribution incidental benefit
requirements. Any changes in the designation will be considered to be a
revocation of the designation. However, the mere substitution or addition of
another Beneficiary (one not named in the designation) under the designation
will not be considered to be a revocation of the designation, so long as such
substitution or addition does not alter the period over which distributions are
to be made under the designation, directly or indirectly (for example, by
altering the relevant measuring life).
(5) In
the case in which an amount is transferred or rolled over from one plan to
another plan, the rules in Regulation Section 1.401(a)(9)-8, Q&A-14 and
Q&A-15, shall apply.
6.9 DISTRIBUTION
FOR MINOR OR INCOMPETENT INDIVIDUAL
In the
event a distribution is to be made to a minor or incompetent individual, then
the Administrator may direct that such distribution be paid to the
court-appointed legal guardian or any other person authorized under state law to
receive such distribution, or if none, then in the case of a minor Beneficiary,
to a parent of such Beneficiary, or to the custodian for such Beneficiary under
the Uniform Gift to Minors Act or Gift to Minors Act, if such is permitted by
the laws of the state in which said Beneficiary resides. Such a payment to the
guardian, custodian or parent of a minor or incompetent individual shall fully
discharge the Trustee, Employer, and Plan from further liability on account
thereof.
6.10 LOCATION OF PARTICIPANT OR
BENEFICIARY UNKNOWN
In the
event that all, or any portion, of the distribution payable to a Participant or
Beneficiary hereunder shall, at the later of the Participant's attainment of
age 62 or Normal Retirement Age, remain unpaid solely by reason of the
inability of the Administrator, after sending a registered letter, return
receipt requested, to the last known address, and after further diligent effort,
to ascertain the whereabouts of such Participant or Beneficiary, the amount so
distributable shall be treated as a Forfeiture pursuant to the Plan.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective with respect to distributions made
after March 28, 2005, if the Plan provides for mandatory distributions and the
amount to be distributed to a Participant or Beneficiary does not exceed $1,000,
then the amount distributable may, in the sole discretion of the Administrator,
either be treated as a Forfeiture, or be paid directly to an individual
retirement account described in Code Section 408(a) or an individual retirement
annuity described in Code Section 408(b) at the time it is determined that the
whereabouts of the Participant or the Participant's Beneficiary cannot be
ascertained. In the event a Participant or Beneficiary is located subsequent to
the Forfeiture, such benefit shall be restored, first from Forfeitures, if any,
and then from an additional Employer contribution if necessary. Upon Plan
termination, the portion of the distributable amount that is an eligible
rollover distribution as defined in Plan Section 6.14 may be paid directly
to an individual retirement account described in Code Section 408(a) or an
individual retirement annuity described in Code Section 408(b). However,
regardless of the preceding, a benefit that is lost by reason of escheat under
applicable state law is not treated as a Forfeiture for purposes of this Section
nor as an impermissible forfeiture under the Code.
6.11 PRE-RETIREMENT
DISTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYER
CONTRIBUTIONS
At such
time as a Participant shall have attained age 59 1/2 or Normal Retirement Age,
the Administrator, at the election of the Participant who has not severed
employment with the Employer, shall direct the Trustee to distribute all or a
portion of the amount then credited to all accounts maintained on behalf of the
Participant.
In the
event that the Administrator makes such a distribution, the Participant shall
continue to be eligible to participate in the Plan on the same basis as any
other Employee. Any distribution made pursuant to this Section shall be made in
a manner consistent with Section 6.5, including, but not limited to, all
notice and consent requirements of Code Section 411(a)(11) and the Regulations
thereunder.
For
purposes of this Section, a Participant shall also mean an Employee or Former
Employee with an Account Balance under the Plan.
Notwithstanding
anything in this Section to the contrary, pre-retirement distributions from a
Participant's Elective Deferral Account, Qualified Nonelective Account, or
Qualified Matching Account shall not be permitted prior to the Participant
attaining age 59 1/2 or one of the other events described in
Section 4.2(d).
The
following provision(s) also apply:
(a) No
such distribution shall be made from an Account until such Account has become
fully Vested.
6.12 ADVANCE DISTRIBUTION FOR HARDSHIP
(a) The
Administrator, at the election of the Participant whether or not currently
employed as an Employee, shall direct the Trustee to distribute to any
Participant from the Vested portion of the Participant's Account the amount
necessary to satisfy the immediate and heavy financial need of the Participant,
subject to the limitations of this Section. Any distribution made pursuant to
this Section shall be deemed to be made as of the first day of the Plan Year or,
if later, the Valuation Date immediately preceding the date of distribution.
Effective with respect to Plan Years beginning in 2006, any withdrawal made
pursuant to this Section shall be deemed to be on account of an immediate and
heavy financial need of the Participant if the withdrawal is for:
(1) Expenses
for (or necessary to obtain) medical care (for the Participant or the spouse or
dependent of the Participant) that would be deductible by the Participant under
Code Section 213(d) (determined without regard to whether the expenses exceed
7.5% of adjusted gross income);
(2) Costs
directly related to the purchase (excluding mortgage payments) of a principal
residence for the Participant;
(3) Payments
for burial or funeral expenses for the Participant's deceased parent, spouse,
children or dependents (as defined in Code Section 152, and, for taxable years
beginning on or after January 1, 2005, without regard to Code Section
152(d)(1)(B));
(4) Payment
of tuition, related educational fees, and room and board expenses, for up to the
next twelve (12) months of post-secondary education for the Participant, the
Participant's spouse, children, or dependents (as defined in Code Section 152,
and, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2005, without regard to
Code Sections 152(b)(1), (b)(2), and (d)(1)(B));
(5) Payments
necessary to prevent the eviction of the Participant from the Participant's
principal residence or foreclosure on the mortgage on that residence;
or
(6) For
Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2006, expenses for the repair of
damage to the Participant's principal residence that would qualify for the
casualty deduction under Code Section 165 (determined without regard to whether
the loss exceeds 10% of adjusted gross income).
(b) No
distribution shall be made pursuant to this Section unless the Administrator,
based upon the Participant's representation and such other facts as are known to
the Administrator, determines that all of the following conditions are
satisfied:
(1) The
distribution is not in excess of the amount of the immediate and heavy financial
need of the Participant. The amount of the immediate and heavy financial need
may include any amounts necessary to pay any federal, state, or local income
taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the
distribution;
(2) The
Participant has obtained all distributions, other than hardship distributions,
and all nontaxable (at the time of the loan) loans currently available under all
plans maintained by the Employer;
(3) On
or after December 31, 2001, the Plan, and all other plans maintained by the
Employer, provide that the Participant's Elective Deferrals and After-Tax
Voluntary Contributions will be suspended for at least six (6) months after
receipt of the hardship distribution or, the Participant, pursuant to a legally
enforceable agreement, will suspend Elective Deferrals and After-Tax Voluntary
Contributions to the Plan and all other plans maintained by the Employer for at
least six (6) months after receipt of the hardship distribution;
and
(4) For
hardship distributions made prior to 2002, the Plan, and all other plans
maintained by the Employer, provide that the Participant may not make Elective
Deferrals for the Participant's taxable year immediately following the taxable
year of the hardship distribution in excess of the applicable limit under Code
Section 402(g) for such next taxable year less the amount of such
Participant's Elective Deferrals for the taxable year of the hardship
distribution.
(c) Notwithstanding
the above, distributions from the Participant's "elective account" pursuant to
this Section shall be limited in amount, as of the date of distribution, to the
Participant's "elective account" as of the end of the last Plan Year ending
before July 1, 1989, plus the sum of the Participant's Elective
Deferrals after such date, reduced by the amount of any previous distributions
from this Account pursuant to this Section and Section 6.11. A Participant's
"elective account" shall be the amount attributable to Elective Deferrals,
Qualified Matching Contributions, and Qualified Nonelective Contributions as of
the end of the last Plan Year ending before July 1, 1989.
(d) Any
distribution made pursuant to this Section shall be made in a manner which is
consistent with and satisfies the provisions of Section 6.5, including, but
not limited to, all notice and consent requirements of Code Section 411(a)(11)
and the Regulations thereunder.
(e) The
following limitations apply to hardship distributions:
(1) The
minimum amount of a hardship distribution is $1,000.
(f) Hardship
distributions may be made from only the following accounts:
(1) Pre-Tax
Elective Deferral Account, subject to the limitations described above with
respect to hardship distributions of Elective Deferrals
(2) Roth
Elective Deferral Account, subject to the limitations described above with
respect to hardship distributions of Elective Deferrals
6.13 QUALIFIED
DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER DISTRIBUTION
All
rights and benefits, including elections, provided to a Participant in this Plan
shall be subject to the rights afforded to any alternate payee under a qualified
domestic relations order. Furthermore, a distribution to an alternate payee
shall be permitted if such distribution is authorized by a qualified domestic
relations order, even if the affected Participant has not separated from service
and has not reached the earliest retirement age. For the purposes of this
Section, the terms "alternate payee," "qualified domestic relations order" and
"earliest retirement age" shall have the meaning set forth under Code
Section 414(p).
6.14 DIRECT ROLLOVER
(a) Right to direct partial
rollover. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary that
would otherwise limit a distributee's election under this Section, effective for
Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2002, a distributee may elect, at
the time and in the manner prescribed by the Administrator, to have only a
portion of an eligible rollover distribution paid directly to an eligible
retirement plan specified by the distributee in a direct rollover. However, the
minimum partial rollover must equal at least $500 (applied separately with
respect to distributions payable from a Participant's Roth Elective Deferral
Account and remainder of the distributable amount).
(b) For
purposes of this Section the following definitions shall apply:
(1) An
"eligible rollover distribution" means any distribution described in Code
Section 402(c)(4) and generally includes any distribution of all or any portion
of the balance to the credit of the distributee, except that an eligible
rollover distribution does not include: any distribution that is one of a series
of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually)
made for the life (or life expectancy) of the distributee or the joint lives (or
joint life expectancies) of the distributee and the distributee's Designated
Beneficiary, or for a specified period of ten (10) years or more; any
distribution to the extent such distribution is required under Code Section
401(a)(9); the portion of any other distribution(s) that is not includible in
gross income (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized
appreciation with respect to employer securities); and any other distribution
(without regard to the amount to be distributed from the Participant's Roth
Elective Deferral Account) reasonably expected to total less than $200 during a
year. Any amount that is distributed on account of hardship shall not be an
eligible rollover distribution and the distributee may not elect to have any
portion of such a distribution paid directly to an eligible retirement
plan.
(2) An
"eligible retirement plan" is an individual retirement account described in Code
Section 408(a), an individual retirement annuity described in Code
Section 408(b), (other than an endowment contract), a qualified trust (an
employees' trust) described in Code Section 401(a) which is exempt from tax
under Code Section 501(a) and which agrees to separately account for
amounts transferred into such plan from this Plan, an annuity plan described in
Code Section 403(a), an eligible deferred compensation plan described in
Code Section 457(b) which is maintained by a state, political subdivision
of a state, or any agency or instrumentality thereof which agrees to separately
account for amounts transferred into such plan from this Plan, and an annuity
contract described in Code Section 403(b) that accepts the distributee's
eligible rollover distribution. The definition of eligible retirement plan shall
also apply in the case of a distribution to a surviving spouse, or to a spouse
or former spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic relation
order, as defined in Code Section 414(p). A direct rollover of a distribution
from a Roth Elective Deferral Account will only be made to another Roth Elective
Deferral Account under an applicable retirement plan described in Code Section
402A(e)(1) or to a Roth IRA described in Code Section 408A, and only to the
extent that the rollover is permitted under the rules of
402(c).
(3) A
"distributee" includes an Employee or Former Employee. In addition, the
Employee's or Former Employee's surviving spouse and the Employee's or Former
Employee's spouse or former spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified
domestic relations order, as defined in Code Section 414(p), are distributees
with regard to the interest of the spouse or former spouse.
(4) A
"direct rollover" is a payment by the Plan to the "eligible retirement plan"
specified by the distributee.
(c) Participant Notice. A
Participant entitled to an eligible rollover distribution must receive a written
explanation of his/her right to a direct rollover, the tax consequences of not
making a direct rollover, and, if applicable, any available special income tax
elections. The notice must be provided within the same 30-to-90 day timeframe
applicable to the Participant consent notice. The direct rollover notice must be
provided to all Participants, unless the total amount the Participant will
receive as a distribution during the calendar year (without regard to the amount
to be distributed from the Participant's Roth Elective Deferral Account) is
expected to be less than $200.
6.15 TRANSFER
OF ASSETS FROM A MONEY PURCHASE PLAN
Notwithstanding
any provision of this Plan to the contrary, to the extent that any optional form
of benefit under this Plan permits a distribution prior to the Employee's
attainment of Normal Retirement Age, death, disability, or severance from
employment, and prior to Plan termination, the optional form of benefit is not
available with respect to benefits attributable to assets (including the
post-transfer earnings thereon) and liabilities that are transferred, within the
meaning of Code Section 414(l), to this Plan from a money purchase pension plan
qualified under Code Section 401(a) (other than any portion of those assets and
liabilities attributable to after-tax voluntary employee contributions or to a
direct or indirect rollover contribution).
6.16 CORRECTIVE
DISTRIBUTIONS
Nothing
in this Article shall preclude the Administrator from making a distribution to a
Participant, to the extent such distribution is made to correct a qualification
defect in accordance with the corrective procedures under any voluntary
compliance program.
ARTICLE
VII
AMENDMENT,
TERMINATION, MERGERS AND LOANS
(a) General rule on Employer amendment.
The Employer shall have the right at any time to amend this Plan, subject
to the limitations of this Section. However, any amendment which affects the
rights, duties or responsibilities of the Trustee or Administrator may only be
made with the Trustee's or Administrator's written consent. Any such amendment
shall become effective as provided therein upon its execution. The Trustee shall
not be required to execute any such amendment unless the amendment affects the
duties of the Trustee hereunder.
(b) Permissible amendments without
affecting reliance. The Employer may make the modifications described
below without affecting reliance on the terms of the Plan. An Employer that
amends the Plan for any other reason may not rely on the advisory letter that
the terms of the Plan meet the qualification requirements of the Code. Permitted
changes include: adding options permitted by the Plan; adding or deleting
provisions that are optional under the volume submitter specimen plan; changing
effective dates within the parameters of the volume submitter specimen plan;
correcting obvious and unambiguous typographical errors; correcting
cross-references that do not in any way change the original intended meaning of
the provisions; adding a list of benefits that must be preserved as protected
benefits within the meaning of Code Section 411(d)(6) and the regulations
thereunder; amending provisions dealing with the administration of the Trust; a
change to the name of the Plan, Employer, Trustee, custodian, Plan Administrator
or any other fiduciary, the Plan Year; and any sample or model amendment
published by the IRS (or other required good-faith amendments) which
specifically provide that their adoption will not cause the plan to be treated
as an individually designed plan.
(c) Sponsoring practitioner amendments.
Effective March 31, 2008, the Employer (and every Participating Employer)
expressly delegates authority to the sponsoring organization of this Volume
Submitter Plan the right to amend the Plan by submitting a copy of the amendment
to each Employer (and Participating Employer) who has adopted this Volume
Submitter Plan, after first having received a ruling or favorable determination
from the Internal Revenue Service that the Volume Submitter Plan as amended
qualifies under Code Section 401(a) (unless a ruling or determination is not
required by the IRS). However, the volume submitter practitioner shall cease to
have the authority to amend on behalf of an Employer that adopts an
impermissible plan type or impermissible plan provision (as described in IRS
Announcement 2005-37 and any subsequent guidance). The volume submitter
practitioner will maintain a record of the Employers that have adopted the Plan,
and the practitioner will make reasonable and diligent efforts to ensure that
adopting Employers adopt new documents when necessary. This subsection
supersedes other provisions of the Plan to the extent those other provisions are
inconsistent with this subsection.
(d) Impermissible amendments. No
amendment to the Plan shall be effective if it authorizes or permits any part of
the Trust Fund (other than such part as is required to pay taxes and
administration expenses) to be used for or diverted to any purpose other than
for the exclusive benefit of the Participants or their Beneficiaries or estates,
or causes any reduction in the amount credited to the account of any
Participant, or causes or permits any portion of the Trust Fund to revert to or
become property of the Employer.
(e) Anti-cutback restrictions.
Except as permitted by Regulations (including Regulation 1.411(d)-4)
or other IRS guidance, no Plan amendment or transaction having the effect of a
Plan amendment (such as a merger, plan transfer or similar transaction) shall be
effective if it eliminates or reduces any Section 411(d)(6) protected
benefit or adds or modifies conditions relating to Section 411(d)(6)
protected benefits which results in a further restriction on such benefits
unless such "Section 411(d)(6) protected benefits" are preserved with
respect to benefits accrued as of the later of the adoption date or effective
date of the amendment. The term "Section 411(d)(6) protected benefits"
means benefits described in Code Section 411(d)(6)(A), early retirement
benefits and retirement-type subsidies, and optional forms of benefit. An
amendment which has the effect of decreasing a Participant's Account balance
with respect to benefits attributable to service before the amendment shall be
treated as reducing an accrued benefit. The preceding shall not apply to a Plan
amendment that eliminates or restricts the ability of a Participant to receive
payment of his or her Account under a particular optional form of benefit if the
amendment provides a single-sum distribution form that is otherwise identical to
the optional form of benefit being eliminated or restricted. For this purpose, a
single-sum distribution form is otherwise identical only if the single-sum
distribution form is identical in all respects to the eliminated or restricted
optional form of benefit (or would be identical except that it provides greater
rights to the Participant) except with respect to the timing of payments after
commencement.
7.2 TERMINATION
(a) Termination of Plan. The
Employer shall have the right at any time to terminate the Plan by delivering to
the Trustee and Administrator written notice of such termination. Upon any full
or partial termination, all amounts credited to the affected Participants'
Accounts shall become 100% Vested as provided in Section 6.4 and shall not
thereafter be subject to forfeiture.
(b) Distribution of assets. Upon
the full termination of the Plan, the Employer shall direct the distribution of
the assets of the Plan to Participants in a manner which is consistent with the
provisions of Section 6.5 except that no Participant or spousal consent is
required. Distributions to a Participant shall be made in cash or in-kind
allocated to the Participant's Account or through the purchase of irrevocable
nontransferable deferred commitments from an insurer. Except as permitted by
Regulations, the termination of the Plan shall not result in the reduction of
Section 411(d)(6) protected benefits in accordance with
Section 7.1(e).
(c) Abandoned plan. If the
Employer, in accordance with DOL guidance, abandons the Plan, then the Trustee
(or Insurer) or other party permitted to take action as a qualified terminal
administrator (QTA), may terminate the Plan in accordance with applicable
Department of Labor and IRS regulations and other guidance.
7.3 MERGER,
CONSOLIDATION OR TRANSFER OF ASSETS
This Plan
may be merged or consolidated with, or its assets and/or liabilities may be
transferred to any other plan and trust, only if the benefits which would be
received by a Participant of this Plan, in the event of a termination of the
Plan immediately after such transfer, merger or consolidation, are at least
equal to the benefits the Participant would have received if the Plan had
terminated immediately before the transfer, merger or consolidation, and such
transfer, merger or consolidation does not otherwise result in the elimination
or reduction of any Section 411(d)(6) protected benefits in accordance with
Section 7.1(e).
7.4 LOANS TO PARTICIPANTS
(a) Permitted loans. The Trustee
(or the Administrator if the Trustee is a nondiscretionary Trustee or if loans
are treated as Participant directed investments pursuant to this Plan) may, in
the Trustee's (or, if applicable, the Administrator's) sole discretion, make
Plan loans to Participants or Beneficiaries under the following circumstances:
(1) loans shall be made available to Participants and Beneficiaries on a
reasonably equivalent basis; (2) loans shall not be made available to
Highly Compensated Employees in an amount greater than the amount that is made
available to other Participants and Beneficiaries; (3) loans shall bear a
reasonable rate of interest; (4) loans shall be adequately secured; and
(5) loans shall provide for periodic repayment over a reasonable period of
time. Furthermore, no Plan loan shall exceed a Participant's Vested interest in
the Plan.
(b) Plan loans for Owner-Employees or
Shareholder-Employees. Effective for Plan loans made after December 31,
2001, the Plan provisions prohibiting Plan loans to any Owner-Employee or
Shareholder-Employee shall cease to apply.
(c) Prohibited assignment or
pledge. An assignment or pledge of any portion of a Participant's
interest in the Plan and a loan, pledge, or assignment with respect to any
insurance Contract purchased under the Plan, shall be treated as a Plan loan
under this Section.
(d) Loan program. The
Administrator shall be authorized to establish a Participant Loan Program to
provide for loans under the Plan. The Participant Loan Program shall be
established in accordance with Department of Labor regulation Section
2550.408(b)-1(d)(2) providing for loans by the Plan to parties-in-interest under
this Plan, such as Participants or Beneficiaries. In order for the Administrator
to implement such Participant Loan Program, a separate written document forming
a part of this Plan must be adopted, which document shall specifically include,
but need not be limited to, the following:
(1) the
identity of the person or positions authorized to administer the Participant
loan program;
(2) a
procedure for applying for loans;
(3) the
basis on which loans will be approved or denied;
(4) limitations,
if any, on the types and amounts of loans offered;
(5) the
procedure under the program for determining a reasonable rate of
interest;
(6) the
types of collateral which may secure a Participant loan; and
(7) the
events constituting default and the steps that will be taken to preserve Plan
assets in the event such default.
Such
Participant Loan Program shall be contained in a separate written document
which, when properly executed, is hereby incorporated by reference and made a
part of the Plan. Furthermore, such Participant Loan Program may be modified or
amended in writing from time to time without the necessity of amending this
Plan.
(e) Loan default. Notwithstanding
anything in this Plan to the contrary, if a Participant or Beneficiary defaults
on a Plan loan made pursuant to this Section and such loan is secured by the
Participant's interest in the Plan, then, to the extent provided in the
Participant loan program, a Participant's interest may be offset by the amount
subject to the security to the extent there is a distributable event permitted
by the Code or Regulations.
(f) Loans subject to Plan terms.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, any Plan loans made
prior to the date this amendment and restatement is adopted shall be subject to
the terms of the Plan in effect at the time such loan was made.
ARTICLE
VIII
TOP-HEAVY
8.1 TOP-HEAVY PLAN REQUIREMENTS
(a) Top-Heavy requirements. For
any Top-Heavy Plan Year, the Plan shall provide the special vesting requirements
of Code Section 416(b) pursuant to Section 6.4 of the Plan and the
minimum required allocation of Code Section 416(c) pursuant to
Section 4.4 of the Plan.
8.2 DETERMINATION OF TOP-HEAVY
STATUS
(a) Definition of Top-Heavy Plan.
This Plan shall be a Top-Heavy Plan if any of the following conditions
exists:
(1) if
the "top-heavy ratio" for this Plan exceeds sixty percent (60%) and this Plan is
not part of any "required aggregation group" or "permissive aggregation
group";
(2) if
this Plan is a part of a "required aggregation group" but not part of a
"permissive aggregation group" and the "top-heavy ratio" for the group of plans
exceeds sixty percent (60%); or
(3) if
this Plan is a part of a "required aggregation group" and part of a "permissive
aggregation group" and the "top-heavy ratio" for the "permissive aggregation
group" exceeds sixty percent (60%).
(b) Top-heavy ratio. "Top-heavy
ratio" means, with respect to a "determination date":
(1) If
the Employer maintains one or more defined contribution plans (including any
simplified employee pension plan (as defined in Code Section 408(k)) and the
Employer has not maintained any defined benefit plan which during the 5-year
period ending on the "determination date" has or has had accrued benefits, the
top-heavy ratio for this plan alone or for the "required aggregation group" or
"permissive aggregation group" as appropriate is a fraction, the numerator of
which is the sum of the account balances of all Key Employees as of the
"determination date" (including any part of any account balance distributed in
the 1-year period ending on the "determination date") (5-year period ending on
the "determination date" in the case of a distribution made for a reason other
than severance from employment, death or disability and in determining whether
the Plan is top-heavy for Plan Years beginning before January 1, 2002), and the
denominator of which is the sum of all account balances (including any part of
any account balance distributed in the 1-year period ending on the
"determination date") (5-year period ending on the "determination date" in the
case of a distribution made for a reason other than severance from employment,
death or disability and in determining whether the Plan is top-heavy for Plan
Years beginning before January 1, 2002), both computed in accordance with Code
Section 416 and the Regulations thereunder.
Both the
numerator and denominator of the top-heavy ratio are increased to reflect any
contribution not actually made as of the "determination date," but which is
required to be taken into account on that date under Code Section 416 and the
Regulations thereunder.
(2) If
the Employer maintains one or more defined contribution plans (including any
simplified employee pension plan) and the Employer maintains or has maintained
one or more defined benefit plans which during the 5-year period ending on the
"determination date" has or has had any accrued benefits, the top-heavy ratio
for any "required aggregation group" or "permissive aggregation group" as
appropriate is a fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of account balances
under the aggregated defined contribution plan or plans for all Key Employees,
determined in accordance with (1) above, and the present value of accrued
benefits under the aggregated defined benefit plan or plans for all Key
Employees as of the "determination date," and the denominator of which is the
sum of the account balances under the aggregated defined contribution plan or
plans for all participants, determined in accordance with (1) above, and the
present value of accrued benefits under the defined benefit plan or plans for
all participants as of the "determination date," all determined in accordance
with Code Section 416 and the Regulations thereunder. The accrued benefits under
a defined benefit plan in both the numerator and denominator of the top-heavy
ratio are increased for any distribution of an accrued benefit made in the
1-year period ending on the "determination date" (5-year period ending on the
"determination date" in the case of a distribution made for a reason other than
severance from employment, death or disability and in determining whether the
Plan is top-heavy for Plan Years beginning before January 1, 2002).
(3) For
purposes of (1) and (2) above, the value of account balances and the present
value of accrued benefits will be determined as of the most recent "valuation
date" that falls within or ends with the 12-month period ending on the
"determination date," except as provided in Code Section 416 and the Regulations
thereunder for the first and second plan years of a defined benefit plan. The
account balances and accrued benefits of a participant (i) who is not a Key
Employee but who was a Key Employee in a prior year, or (ii) who has not been
credited with at least one Hour of Service with any Employer maintaining the
plan at any time during the 1-year period (5-year period in determining whether
the Plan is top-heavy for Plan Years beginning before January 1, 2002) ending on
the "determination date" will be disregarded. The calculation of the top-heavy
ratio, and the extent to which distributions, rollovers, and transfers are taken
into account will be made in accordance with Code Section 416 and the
Regulations thereunder. Deductible employee contributions will not be taken into
account for purposes of computing the top-heavy ratio. When aggregating plans
the value of account balances and accrued benefits will be calculated with
reference to the "determination dates" that fall within the same calendar
year.
The
accrued benefit of a participant other than a Key Employee shall be determined
under (i) the method, if any, that uniformly applies for accrual purposes under
all defined benefit plans maintained by the employer, or (ii) if there is no
such method, as if such benefit accrued not more rapidly than the slowest
accrual rate permitted under the fractional rule of Code Section
411(b)(1)(C).
(4) The
calculation of top-heavy ratio, and the extent to which distributions,
rollovers, and transfers are taken into account, will be made in accordance with
Code Section 416 and the regulations thereunder.
(c) Determination date.
"Determination date" means, for any Plan Year subsequent to the first Plan Year,
the last day of the preceding Plan Year. For the first Plan Year of the Plan,
"determination date" means the last day of that Plan Year.
(d) Permissive aggregation group.
"Permissive aggregation group" means the "required aggregation group" of plans
plus any other plan or plans of the Employer or any Affiliated Employer which,
when considered as a group with the required aggregation group, would continue
to satisfy the requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(4) and 410.
(e) Required aggregation group.
"Required aggregation group" means: (1) each qualified plan of the Employer or
any Affiliated Employer in which at least one Key Employee participates or
participated at any time during the Plan Year containing the determination date
or any of the four preceding plan years (regardless of whether the plan has
terminated), and (2) any other qualified plan of the Employer or any Affiliated
Employer which enables a plan described in (l) to meet the requirements of Code
Sections 401(a)(4) or 410.
(f) Valuation Date. "Valuation
date" means the date elected by the Employer as of which account balances or
accrued benefits are valued for purposes of calculating the "top-heavy
ratio."
ARTICLE
IX
MISCELLANEOUS
9.1 PARTICIPANT'S
RIGHTS
This Plan
shall not be deemed to constitute a contract between the Employer and any
Participant or to be a consideration or an inducement for the employment of any
Participant or Employee. Nothing contained in this Plan shall be deemed to give
any Participant or Employee the right to be retained in the service of the
Employer or to interfere with the right of the Employer to discharge any
Participant or Employee at any time regardless of the effect which such
discharge shall have upon the Employee as a Participant of this
Plan.
9.2 ALIENATION OF BENEFITS
(a) General rule. Subject to the
exceptions provided below, and as otherwise permitted by the Code and the Act,
no benefit which shall be payable to any person (including a Participant or the
Participant's Beneficiary) shall be subject in any manner to anticipation,
alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or charge, and any
attempt to anticipate, alienate, sell, transfer, assign, pledge, encumber, or
charge the same shall be void; and no such benefit shall in any manner be liable
for, or subject to, the debts, contracts, liabilities, engagements, or torts of
any such person, nor shall it be subject to attachment or legal process for or
against such person, and the same shall not be recognized, except to such extent
as may be required by law.
(b) Exception for loans.
Subsection (a) shall not apply to the extent a Participant or Beneficiary
is indebted to the Plan, by reason of a loan made pursuant to Section 7.4.
At the time a distribution is to be made to or for a Participant's or
Beneficiary's benefit, such proportion of the amount to be distributed as shall
equal such indebtedness shall be paid to the Plan, to apply against or discharge
such indebtedness. Prior to making a payment, however, the Participant or
Beneficiary must be given written notice by the Administrator that such
indebtedness is to be so paid in whole or part from the Participant's Account.
If the Participant or Beneficiary does not agree that the indebtedness is a
valid claim against the Vested Participant's Account, the Participant or
Beneficiary shall be entitled to a review of the validity of the claim in
accordance with procedures provided in Sections 2.8 and 2.9.
(c) Exception for QDRO. Subsection
(a) shall not apply to a qualified domestic relations order defined in Code
Section 414(p), and those other domestic relations orders permitted to be
so treated by the Administrator under the provisions of the Retirement Equity
Act of 1984. The Administrator shall establish a written procedure to determine
the qualified status of domestic relations orders and to administer
distributions under such qualified orders. Further, to the extent provided under
a qualified domestic relations order, a former spouse of a Participant shall be
treated as the spouse or surviving spouse for all purposes under the
Plan.
(d) Exception for certain debts to Plan.
Subsection (a) shall not apply to an offset to a Participant's accrued
benefit against an amount that the Participant is ordered or required to pay the
Plan with respect to a judgment, order, or decree issued, or a settlement
entered into in accordance with Code Sections 401(a)(13)(C) and
(D).
9.3 CONSTRUCTION
AND INTERPRETATION OF PLAN
(a) Applicable state laws. This
Plan shall be construed and enforced according to the Code, the Act and the laws
of the State of Delaware, other than its laws respecting choice of law, to the
extent not pre-empted by Federal law.
(b) Single subsections. This Plan
may contain single subsections. The existence of such single subsections shall
not constitute scrivener's errors.
(c) Separate Accounts. Unless
otherwise specified by a particular provision, the term "separate account" does
not require a separate fund, only a notational entry in a recordkeeping
system.
9.4 GENDER
AND NUMBER
(a) Masculine and feminine.
Wherever any words are used herein in the masculine, feminine or neuter gender,
they shall be construed as though they were also used in another gender in all
cases where they would so apply.
(b) Singular and plural. Whenever
any words are used herein in the singular or plural form, they shall be
construed as though they were also used in the other form in all cases where
they would so apply.
9.5 LEGAL
ACTION
In the
event any claim, suit, or proceeding is brought regarding the Trust and/or Plan
established hereunder to which the Trustee, the Employer or the Administrator
may be a party, and such claim, suit, or proceeding is resolved in favor of the
Trustee, the Employer or the Administrator, they shall be entitled to be
reimbursed from the Trust Fund for any and all costs, attorney's fees, and other
expenses pertaining thereto incurred by them for which they shall have become
liable.
9.6 PROHIBITION
AGAINST DIVERSION OF FUNDS
(a) General rule. Except as
provided below and otherwise specifically permitted by law, it shall be
impossible by operation of the Plan or of the Trust, by termination of either,
by power of revocation or amendment, by the happening of any contingency, by
collateral arrangement or by any other means, for any part of the corpus or
income of any Trust Fund maintained pursuant to the Plan or any funds
contributed thereto to be used for, or diverted to, purposes other than the
exclusive benefit of Participants or their Beneficiaries.
(b) Mistake of fact. In the event
the Employer shall make an excessive contribution under a mistake of fact
pursuant to Act Section 403(c)(2)(A), the Employer may demand repayment of such
excessive contribution at any time within one (1) year following the time
of payment and the Trustees shall return such amount to the Employer within the
one (1) year period. Earnings of the Plan attributable to the contributions
may not be returned to the Employer but any losses attributable thereto must
reduce the amount so returned.
(c) Contribution conditioned on
deductibility. Except as otherwise provided by a particular Plan
provision, any contribution made by the Employer to the Plan is conditioned upon
the deductibility of the contribution by the Employer under the Code and, to the
extent any such deduction is disallowed, the Employer may, within one (1)
year following the final determination of the disallowance, whether by agreement
with the Internal Revenue Service or by final decision of a competent
jurisdiction, demand repayment of such disallowed contribution and the Trustee
shall return such contribution within one (1) year following the
disallowance. Earnings of the Plan attributable to the contribution may not be
returned to the Employer, but any losses attributable thereto must reduce the
amount so returned.
9.7 EMPLOYER'S
AND TRUSTEE'S PROTECTIVE CLAUSE
The
Employer, Administrator and Trustee, and their successors, shall not be
responsible for the validity of any Contract issued hereunder or for the failure
on the part of the insurer to make payments provided by any such Contract, or
for the action of any person which may delay payment or render a Contract null
and void or unenforceable in whole or in part.
9.8 INSURER'S
PROTECTIVE CLAUSE
Except as
otherwise agreed upon in writing between the Employer and the insurer, an
insurer which issues any Contracts hereunder shall not have any responsibility
for the validity of this Plan or for the tax or legal aspects of this Plan. The
insurer shall be protected and held harmless in acting in accordance with any
written direction of the Trustee, and shall have no duty to see to the
application of any funds paid to the Trustee, nor be required to question any
actions directed by the Trustee. Regardless of any provision of this Plan, the
insurer shall not be required to take or permit any action or allow any benefit
or privilege contrary to the terms of any Contract which it issues hereunder, or
the rules of the insurer.
9.9 RECEIPT
AND RELEASE FOR PAYMENTS
Any
payment to any Participant, the Participant's legal representative, Beneficiary,
or to any guardian or committee appointed for such Participant or Beneficiary in
accordance with the provisions of the Plan, shall, to the extent thereof, be in
full satisfaction of all claims hereunder against the Trustee and the
Employer.
9.10 ACTION
BY THE EMPLOYER
Whenever
the Employer under the terms of the Plan is permitted or required to do or
perform any act or matter or thing, it shall be done and performed by a person
duly authorized by its legally constituted authority.
9.11 NAMED
FIDUCIARIES AND ALLOCATION OF RESPONSIBILITY
The named
Fiduciaries of this Plan are (1) the Employer, (2) the Administrator,
(3) the Trustee and (4) any Investment Manager appointed hereunder.
The named Fiduciaries shall have only those specific powers, duties,
responsibilities, and obligations as are specifically given them under the Plan
including, but not limited to, any agreement allocating or delegating their
responsibilities, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference. In
general, the Employer shall have the sole responsibility for making the
contributions provided for under Section 4.1; and shall have the authority
to appoint and remove the Trustee and the Administrator; to formulate the Plan's
funding policy and method; and to amend or terminate, in whole or in part, the
Plan. The Administrator shall have the sole responsibility for the
administration of the Plan, including, but not limited to, the items specified
in Article II of the Plan, as the same may be allocated or delegated thereunder.
The Administrator shall act as the named Fiduciary responsible for communicating
with the Participant according to the Participant Direction Procedures. The
Trustee shall have the sole responsibility of management of the assets held
under the Trust, except to the extent directed pursuant to Article II or
with respect to those assets, the management of which has been assigned to an
Investment Manager, who shall be solely responsible for the management of the
assets assigned to it, all as specifically provided in the Plan. Each named
Fiduciary warrants that any directions given, information furnished, or action
taken by it shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Plan, authorizing
or providing for such direction, information or action. Furthermore, each named
Fiduciary may rely upon any such direction, information or action of another
named Fiduciary as being proper under the Plan, and is not required under the
Plan to inquire into the propriety of any such direction, information or action.
It is intended under the Plan that each named Fiduciary shall be responsible for
the proper exercise of its own powers, duties, responsibilities and obligations
under the Plan as specified or allocated herein. No named Fiduciary shall
guarantee the Trust Fund in any manner against investment loss or depreciation
in asset value. Any person or group may serve in more than one Fiduciary
capacity.
9.12 HEADINGS
The
headings and subheadings of this Plan have been inserted for convenience of
reference and are to be ignored in any construction of the provisions
hereof.
9.13 APPROVAL
BY INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, if, pursuant to an application for
qualification filed by or on behalf of the Plan by the time prescribed by law
for filing the Employer's return for the taxable year in which the Plan is
adopted, or such later date that the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe,
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service or the Commissioner's delegate
should determine that the Plan does not initially qualify as a tax-exempt plan
under Code Sections 401 and 501, and such determination is not contested,
or if contested, is finally upheld, then if the Plan is a new plan, it shall be
void ab initio and all amounts contributed to the Plan by the Employer, less
expenses paid, shall be returned within one (1) year after the date the
initial qualification is denied, and the Plan shall terminate, and the Trustee
shall be discharged from all further obligations. If the disqualification
relates to an amended plan, then the Plan shall operate as if it had not been
amended.
The
Administrator may use telephonic or electronic media to satisfy any notice
requirements required by this Plan, to the extent permissible under regulations
(or other generally applicable guidance). In addition, a Participant's consent
to an immediate distribution may be provided through telephonic or electronic
means, to the extent permissible under regulations (or other generally
applicable guidance). The Administrator also may use telephonic or electronic
media to conduct plan transactions such as enrolling Participants, making (and
changing) deferral elections, electing (and changing) investment allocations,
applying for Plan loans, and other transactions, to the extent permissible under
regulations (or other generally applicable guidance).
9.15 PLAN
CORRECTION
The
Administrator in conjunction with the Employer may undertake such correction of
Plan errors as the Administrator deems necessary, including correction to
preserve tax qualification of the Plan under Code Section 401(a) or to correct a
fiduciary breach under the Act. Without limiting the Administrator's authority
under the prior sentence, the Administrator, as it determines to be reasonable
and appropriate, may undertake correction of Plan document, operational,
demographic and employer eligibility failures under a method described in the
Plan or under the IRS Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System ("EPCRS") or
any successor program to EPCRS. The Administrator, as it determines to be
reasonable and appropriate, also may undertake or assist the appropriate
Fiduciary or Plan official in undertaking correction of a fiduciary breach,
including correction under the DOL Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program
("VFC") or any successor program to VFC. For example, to correct an operational
error, the Administrator may require the Trustee to distribute Elective
Deferrals or Vested Matching Contributions, including earnings, from the Plan
where such amounts result from an operational error other than a failure of Code
Section 415, Code Section 402(g), or a failure of the ADP Test or the ACP
Test.
9.16 UNIFORMITY
All
provisions of this Plan shall be interpreted and applied in a uniform,
nondiscriminatory manner. In the event of any conflict between the terms of this
Plan and any Contract purchased hereunder, the Plan provisions shall
control.
ARTICLE
X
PARTICIPATING
EMPLOYERS
10.1 ADOPTION BY OTHER EMPLOYERS
Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, with the consent of the Employer and Trustee,
any other corporation or entity, whether an Affiliated Employer or not, may
adopt this Plan and all of the provisions hereof, and participate herein and be
known as a Participating Employer, by a properly executed document evidencing
said intent and will of such Participating Employer.
10.2 REQUIREMENTS
OF PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS
(a) Same Trustee for all. Each
such Participating Employer shall be required to use the same Trustee as
provided in this Plan.
(b) Holding and investing assets.
The Trustee may, but shall not be required to, commingle, hold and invest as one
Trust Fund all contributions made by Participating Employers, as well as all
increments thereof.
(c) Payment of expenses. Unless
the Employer otherwise directs, any expenses of the Plan which are to be paid by
the Employer or borne by the Trust Fund shall be paid by each Participating
Employer in the same proportion that the total amount standing to the credit of
all Participants employed by such Employer bears to the total standing to the
credit of all Participants.
10.3 DESIGNATION OF AGENT
Each
Participating Employer shall be deemed to be a party to this Plan; provided,
however, that with respect to all of its relations with the Trustee and
Administrator for the purpose of this Plan, each Participating Employer shall be
deemed to have designated irrevocably the Employer as its agent. Unless the
context of the Plan clearly indicates the contrary, the word "Employer" shall be
deemed to include each Participating Employer as related to its adoption of the
Plan.
10.4 EMPLOYEE
TRANSFERS
In the
event an Employee is transferred between Participating Employers, accumulated
service and eligibility shall be carried with the Employee involved. No such
transfer shall effect a termination of employment hereunder, and the
Participating Employer to which the Employee is transferred shall thereupon
become obligated hereunder with respect to such Employee in the same manner as
was the Participating Employer from whom the Employee was
transferred.
10.5 PARTICIPATING
EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION AND FORFEITURES
Any
contribution or Forfeiture subject to allocation during each Plan Year shall be
determined and allocated separately by each Participating Employer, and shall be
allocated only among the Participants eligible to share of the Employer or
Participating Employer making the contribution or by which the forfeiting
Participant was employed. On the basis of the information furnished by the
Administrator, the Trustee shall keep separate books and records concerning the
affairs of each Participating Employer hereunder and as to the accounts and
credits of the Employees of each Participating Employer. The Trustee may, but
need not, register Contracts so as to evidence that a particular Participating
Employer is the interested Employer hereunder, but in the event of an Employee
transfer from one Participating Employer to another, the employing Employer
shall immediately notify the Trustee thereof.
10.6 AMENDMENT
Any
Participating Employer that is an Affiliated Employer hereby authorizes the
Employer to make amendments on its behalf, unless otherwise agreed among all
affected parties. If a Participating Employer is not an Affiliated Employer,
then amendment of this Plan by the Employer at any time when there shall be a
Participating Employer shall, unless otherwise agreed to by the affected
parties, only be by the written action of each and every Participating Employer
and with the consent of the Trustee where such consent is necessary in
accordance with the terms of this Plan.
10.7 DISCONTINUANCE
OF PARTICIPATION
Any
Participating Employer shall be permitted to discontinue or revoke its
participation in the Plan at any time. At the time of any such discontinuance or
revocation, satisfactory evidence thereof and of any applicable conditions
imposed shall be delivered to the Trustee. The Employer shall have the right to
discontinue or revoke the participation in the Plan of any Participating
Employer by providing 45 days notice to such Participating Employer. The Trustee
shall thereafter transfer, deliver and assign Contracts and other Trust Fund
assets allocable to the Participants of such Participating Employer to such new
Trustee as shall have been designated by such Participating Employer, in the
event that it has established a separate qualified retirement plan for its
employees provided, however, that no such transfer shall be made if the result
is the elimination or reduction of any Section 411(d)(6) protected benefits
as described in Section 7.1(e). If a separate plan has not been
established, at the time of such continuance or revocation for whatever reason,
the assets and liabilities, Contracts and other Trust Fund assets allocable to
such Participating Employer's participation in this Plan shall be spun off
pursuant to Code Section 414(l) and such spun off assets shall constitute a
retirement plan of the Participating Employer with such Participating Employer
becoming sponsor and the individual who has signed the Supplemental
Participation Agreement on behalf of the Participating Employer becoming Trustee
for this purpose. Such individual shall agree to this appointment by virtue of
signing the Supplemental Participation Agreement. If such individual is no
longer an Employee of the Participating Employer, then the Participating
Employer shall appoint a Trustee. If no successor is designated, the Trustee
shall retain such assets for the Employees of said Participating Employer
pursuant to the provisions of the Trust. In no such event shall any part of the
corpus or income of the Trust Fund as it relates to such Participating Employer
be used for or diverted for purposes other than for the exclusive benefit of the
Employees of such Participating Employer.
10.8 ADMINISTRATOR'S
AUTHORITY
The
Administrator shall have authority to make any and all necessary rules or
regulations, binding upon all Participating Employers and all Participants, to
effectuate the purpose of this Article.
10.9 PROVISIONS
APPLIED SEPARATELY (OR JOINTLY) FOR PARTICIPATING NON-AFFILIATED
EMPLOYERS
(a) Separate status. The Plan
Administrator will apply the definition of Compensation and perform the tests
listed in this Section, separately for each Participating Employer other than an
Affiliated Employer of such Participating Employer. For this purpose, the
Employees of each Participating Employer (and its Affiliated Employers), and
their allocations and accounts, shall be treated as though they were in separate
plan. Any correction action, such as additional contributions or corrective
distributions, shall only affect the Employees of the Participating Employer
(and its Affiliated Employers, if any). The tests subject to this separate
treatment are:
(1) The
ADP Test.
(2) The
ACP Test.
(3) Nondiscrimination
testing as described in Code Section 401(a)(4) and the applicable
Regulations.
(4) Coverage
testing as described in Code Section 410(b) and the Regulations.
(5) Status
as a Highly Compensated Employee under Section 1.41.
(b) Joint status. The following
tests shall be performed for the plan as whole, without regard to employment by
a particular Participating Employer:
(1) Applying
the annual addition limitation in Section 4.9, including the related
Compensation definition.
(2) Applying
the Code Section 402(g) limitation in Section 4.2.
(3) Applying
the limit on Catch-Up Contributions in Section 4.2.
10.10 TOP-HEAVY
APPLIED SEPARATELY FOR PARTICIPATING NON-AFFILIATED EMPLOYERS
The Plan
will apply the Top-Heavy Plan provisions separately to each Participating
Employer other than an Affiliated Employer of such Participating Employer. The
Plan will be considered separate plans for each Participating Employer and its
Employees for purposes of determining whether such a separate plan is top-heavy
under Section 8.1 or is entitled to the exemption described in such
Section. For purposes of applying this Article to a Participating Employer, the
Participating Employer and any entity which is an Affiliated Employer to that
Participating Employer shall be the "Employer" for purposes of Section 8.1,
and the terms "Key Employee" and "Non-Key Employee" shall refer only to the
Employees of that Participating Employer and/or its Affiliated Employers. If
such a Participating Employer's separate plan is top-heavy, then:
(a) Highest
contribution rate. The Plan Administrator shall determine the highest Key
Employee contribution rate under Section 4.4(g) by reference to the Key
Employees and their allocations in the separate plan of that Participating
Employer;
(b) Top-Heavy
minimum allocation. The Plan Administrator shall determine the amount of any
required top-heavy minimum allocation separately for that separate plan under
Section 4.4(g); and
(c) Plan
which will satisfy. The Participating Employer shall make any additional
contributions Section 4.4(g) requires.
10.11 HIGHLY
COMPENSATED EMPLOYEE STATUS
Status as
a Highly Compensated Employee under Section 1.41 shall be determined
separately with respect to each Participating Employer (and all its Affiliated
Employers).
10.12 SERVICE
An
Employee's service includes all Hours of Service and Years of Service with any
and all Participating Employers and their Affiliated Employers. An Employee who
terminates employment with one Participating Employer and immediately commences
employment with another Participating Employer has not separated from service
and has not had a severance from employment.
10.13 REQUIRED
MINIMUM DISTRIBUTIONS
If a
Participant is a 5-percent owner (under Section 6.8(e)(6)) of any Participating
Employer for which the Participant is an Employee in the Plan Year the
Participant attains age 70 1/2, then the Participant's required beginning
date under Section 6.8 shall be the April 1 of the calendar year following
the close of the calendar year in which the Participant attains age
70 1/2.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, this Plan has been executed the day and year first above
written.
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Laboratories, Inc.
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VOLUME SUBMITTER MODIFICATIONS
Discovery
Laboratories, Inc.
401(k)
Plan
The
enclosed Plan is being submitted for expedited review as a Volume Submitter
Plan.
Certain
modifications from the approved specimen plan have been made to this Plan. In
accordance with Rev. Proc. 2003-6 submission requirements, the location, and
nature and effect of these changes are listed below.
To
facilitate your review of these changes, we have extracted the entire paragraph
in which a change occurred from the Plan document and listed it below. We have
indicated the page number or the Section of the Plan document where the modified
paragraph appears. The effect the change has on the Plan is listed below the
paragraph.
THE
FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH(S) HAS BEEN MODIFIED:
1.17 "Compensation" means, with
respect to any Participant and except as otherwise provided herein, the total
amount of regular wages or salary paid to a Participant, or earned income (as
defined in Code Section 401(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code) of a
Participant, during the Plan Year.
For
purposes of this Section, the determination of Compensation shall be
made by:
(a) including
amounts, for purposes of Elective Deferrals, which are contributed by the
Employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement and which are not includible
in the gross income of the Participant under Code Sections 125, 132(f)(4),
402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 403(b) or 457(b), and employee contributions described
in Code Section 414(h)(2) that are treated as Employer contributions. For
this purpose, effective January 1, 1998, amounts not includible in gross income
under Code Section 125 shall be deemed to include any amounts not available
to a Participant in cash in lieu of group health coverage because the
Participant is unable to certify that the Participant has other health coverage,
provided the Employer does not request or collect information regarding the
Participant's other health coverage as part of the enrollment process for the
health plan.
(b) including
payment for overtime, bonuses and commissions.
(c) excluding
pre-participation Compensation paid during the Plan Year while not a Participant
in the component of the Plan for which Compensation is being used.
(d) excluding
Post-Severance Compensation.
(e) excluding
all contributions to or benefits paid by any pension, profit sharing, health or
welfare plan, other than any elective deferrals (as defined in Code Section
402(g)(3)) and any amount which is contributed or deferred by the Employer at
the election of the Employee and which is not includable in the gross income of
the Employee by reason of Code Section 125 or 457.
For Plan
Years beginning on or after January 1, 2002, Compensation in excess of $200,000
(or such other amount provided in the Code) shall be disregarded for all
purposes other than for purposes of salary deferral elections pursuant to
Section 4.2. Such amount shall be adjusted for increases in the
cost-of-living in accordance with Code Section 401(a)(17)(B), except that
the dollar increase in effect on January 1 of any calendar year shall be
effective for the Plan Year beginning with or within such calendar year. For any
"determination period" of less than twelve (12) months, the Compensation limit
shall be an amount equal to the Compensation limit for the calendar year in
which the "determination period" begins multiplied by the ratio obtained by
dividing the number of full months in the short "determination period" by twelve
(12). A "determination period" is not less than twelve (12) months solely
because a Participant's Compensation does not include Compensation paid during a
"determination period" while the Participant was not a Participant in the Plan
(or a component of the Plan).
If any
Employees are excluded from the Plan (or from any component of the Plan), then
Compensation for any such Employees who become eligible or cease to be eligible
to participate in the Plan (or in the component of the Plan) during a Plan Year
shall only include Compensation while such Employees are Eligible Employees of
the Plan (or of such component of the Plan).
For
purposes of this Section, if the Plan is a plan described in Code
Section 413(c) or 414(f) (a plan maintained by more than one Employer), the
limitation applies separately with respect to the Compensation of any
Participant from each Employer maintaining the Plan.
If, in connection with the adoption of
any amendment, the definition of Compensation has been modified, then, except as
otherwise provided herein, for Plan Years prior to the Plan Year which includes
the adoption date of such amendment, Compensation means compensation determined
pursuant to the terms of the Plan then in effect.
[Revised
definition of Compensation p3]
THE
FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH(S) HAS BEEN MODIFIED:
(2) Matching Contributions. With
respect to the Matching Contribution made pursuant to Section 4.1(b), to
each Participant's Matching Contribution Account in accordance with
Section 4.1(b). Such Matching Contributions will be allocated in the form
of shares of Employer stock.
[Match
made in form of stock p20]
THE
FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH(S) HAS BEEN MODIFIED:
(a) The
Administrator, pursuant to the election of the Participant, shall direct the
Trustee to distribute to a Participant or such Participant's Beneficiary the
amount (if any) to which the Participant (or Beneficiary) has become entitled
under the Plan in one lump-sum payment in cash or in-kind allocated to the
Participant's Account.
[Distributions
in-kind P35]
THE
FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH(S) HAS BEEN MODIFIED:
(a) The
death benefit payable pursuant to Section 6.2 shall be paid to the
Participant's Beneficiary in one lump-sum payment in cash or in-kind allocated
to the Participant's Account subject to the rules of
Section 6.8.
[Distributions
in-kind P36]
THE
FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH(S) HAS BEEN MODIFIED:
(b) Distribution of assets. Upon
the full termination of the Plan, the Employer shall direct the distribution of
the assets of the Plan to Participants in a manner which is consistent with the
provisions of Section 6.5 except that no Participant or spousal consent is
required. Distributions to a Participant shall be made in cash or in-kind
allocated to the Participant's Account or through the purchase of irrevocable
nontransferable deferred commitments from an insurer. Except as permitted by
Regulations, the termination of the Plan shall not result in the reduction of
Section 411(d)(6) protected benefits in accordance with
Section 7.1(e).
[Distributions
in-kind P44]
Unassociated Document
Exhibit
5.1
January
22, 2010
Board
of Directors
Discovery
Laboratories, Inc.
2600
Kelly Road, Suite 100
Warrington,
Pennsylvania 18976-3622
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Two
World Financial Center
New
York, NY 10281-1008
212.768.6700
212.768.6800
fax
www.sonnenschein.com
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Re: Discovery
Laboratories, Inc. 401(k) Plan
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
We
have acted as counsel for Discovery Laboratories, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), in
connection with the preparation of the Company’s registration statement on Form
S-8, and any amendments thereto (the “Registration
Statement”), as filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “Commission”) under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for
the registration under the Securities Act of up to 160,000 shares (the “Shares”) of the
Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) to be
issued pursuant to the Company’s 401(k) Plan (the “Plan”).
In
connection with this opinion, we have examined originals or copies, certified or
otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of (i) the Plan; (ii) the Company’s
Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended; (iii) the Company’s Amended
and Restated By-Laws; and (iv) resolutions adopted by the Company’s Board of
Directors on December 7, 2009. We have also examined originals or copies,
certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such records of the
Company and such agreements, certificates of public officials, certificates of
officers or other representatives of the Company, and such other documents,
certificates and records as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis
for the opinions set forth herein. As to various questions of fact material to
this opinion, we have also relied upon representations and warranties of the
Company and upon such certificates and other instruments of officers of the
Company and public officials furnished to us by the Company, in each case
without independent investigation or verification of their
accuracy. We have also assumed that there are no agreements or
understandings between or among the Company and any participants in the Plans
that would expand, modify or otherwise affect the terms of the Plans or the
respective rights or obligations of the participants thereunder, and that each
award agreement setting forth the terms of each grant of options or other awards
under the Plans is consistent with the Plans and has been duly authorized and
validly executed and delivered by the parties thereto.
In our
examination, we have assumed (i) the genuineness of all signatures; (ii) the
authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals; (iii) the conformity
to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified, conformed
or photostatic, electronic or facsimile copies and the authenticity of the
originals of such documents; (iv) the authority of all persons signing any
document; (v) the enforceability of all the documents and agreements we have
reviewed in accordance with their respective terms against the parties thereto;
and (vi) the truth and accuracy of all matters of fact set forth in all
certificates and other instruments furnished to us.
Based
upon the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, qualifications and
limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that the Shares, when issued
and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Plan, will be validly issued,
fully paid and non-assessable.
No
opinion is expressed herein with respect to any laws other than Delaware
corporate law (which includes the Delaware General Corporation Law and
applicable provisions of the Delaware constitution, as well as reported judicial
opinions interpreting same). No opinion is expressed as to the effect that the
law of any other jurisdiction may have upon the subject matter of the opinion
expressed herein under conflicts of law principles, rules and regulations or
otherwise.
This
opinion is expressed as of the date hereof. We assume no obligation
to supplement this letter if any applicable laws change after the date hereof or
if we become aware of any new facts that might affect any view expressed herein
after the date hereof.
We hereby
consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration
Statement. In giving this consent, we do not hereby admit that we are
within the category of persons whose consent is required by Section 7 of the
Securities Act or the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the
Commission.
We are
delivering this opinion to you at your request in accordance with the
requirements on Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, and
not for any other purpose. We call your attention to the fact that
Ira L. Kotel, a member of this firm, is a holder of shares of Common
Stock.
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Very
truly yours,
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/s/ Sonnenschein Nath
& Rosenthal LLP
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Sonnenschein
Nath & Rosenthal LLP
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Brussels Chicago Dallas Kansas
City Los
Angeles New
York Phoenix St.
Louis
San
Francisco Short Hills,
N.J. Silicon
Valley Washington,
D.C. Zurich
Unassociated Document
Exhibit
23.2
Consent
of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
We
consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form
S-8 No. 333-000000) pertaining to the Employees' Savings Plan of Discovery
Laboratories, Inc. of our reports dated March 11, 2009, with respect to the
consolidated financial statements of Discovery Laboratories, Inc. included in
its Annual Report (Form 10-K) for the year ended December 31, 2008, and the
effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting of Discovery
Laboratories, Inc. filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
/s/ Ernst
& Young LLP
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
January
21, 2010