Defined Contribution Prototype Plan. The Advisory Committee must establish reasonable procedures to determine the qualified status of a domestic relations order. Upon receiving a domestic relations order, the Advisory Committee promptly will notify the Participant and any alternate payee named in the order, in writing, of the receipt of the order and the Plan's procedures for determining the qualified status of the order. Within a reasonable period of time after receiving the domestic relations order, the Advisory Committee must determine the qualified status of the order and must notify the Participant and each alternate payee, in writing, of its determination. The Advisory Committee must provide notice under this paragraph by mailing to the individual's address specified in the domestic relations order, or in a manner consistent with Department of Labor regulations. If any portion of the Participant's Nonforfeitable Accrued Benefit is payable during the period the Advisory Committee is making its determination of the qualified status of the domestic relations order, the Advisory Committee must make a separate accounting of the amounts payable. If the Advisory Committee determines the order is a qualified domestic relations order within 18 months of the date amounts first are payable following receipt of the order, the Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to distribute the payable amounts in accordance with the order. If the Advisory Committee does not make its determination of the qualified status of the order within the l8-month determination period, the Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to distribute the payable amounts in the manner the Plan would distribute if the order did not exist and will apply the order prospectively if the Advisory Committee later determines the order is a qualified domestic relations order. To the extent it is not inconsistent with the provisions of the qualified domestic relations order, the Advisory Committee may direct the Trustee to invest any partitioned amount in a segregated subaccount or separate account and to invest the account in Federally insured, interest-bearing savings account(s) or time deposit(s) (or a combination of both), or in other fixed income investments. A segregated subaccount remains a part of the Trust, but it alone shares in any income it earns, and it alone bears any expense or loss it incurs. The Trustee will make any payments or distributions required under this Section 6.07 by separate benefit checks or other separat...
Defined Contribution Prototype Plan. Under the Participation Test, when determining whether an Employee is entitled to an allocation under Adoption Agreement Section 3.04, the Advisory Committee will disregard any allocation required solely by reason of the top heavy minimum allocation, unless the top heavy minimum allocation is the only allocation made under the Plan for the Plan Year. If this Section 3.06(E) applies for a Plan Year, the Advisory Committee will suspend the accrual requirements for the Includible Employees who are Participants, beginning first with the Includible Employee(s) employed with the Employer on the last day of the Plan Year, then the Includible Employee(s) who have the latest Separation from Service during the Plan Year, and continuing to suspend in descending order the accrual requirements for each Includible Employee who incurred an earlier Separation from Service, from the latest to the earliest Separation from Service date, until the Plan satisfies both the Participation Test and the Coverage Test for the Plan Year. If two or more Includible Employees have a Separation from Service on the same day, the Advisory Committee will suspend the accrual requirements for all such Includible Employees, irrespective of whether the Plan can satisfy the Participation Test and the Coverage Test by accruing benefits for fewer than all such Includible Employees. If the Plan suspends the accrual requirements for an Includible Employee, that Employee will share in the allocation of Employer contributions and Participant forfeitures, if any, without regard to the number of Hours of Service he has earned for the Plan Year and without regard to whether he is employed by the Employer on the last day of the Plan Year. If the Employer's Plan includes Employer matching contributions subject to Code Section 401(m), this suspension of accrual requirements applies separately to the Code Section 401(m) portion of the Plan, and the Advisory Committee will treat an Employee as benefiting under that portion of the Plan if he is an Eligible Employee for purposes of the Code Section 401(m) nondiscrimination test. The Employer may modify the operation of this Section 3.06(E) by electing appropriate modifications in Section 3.06 of its Adoption Agreement.
Defined Contribution Prototype Plan. (a) If the entire cash value of the contract(s) is vested in the terminating Participant, or if the contract(s) will have no cash value at the end of the policy year in which termination of employment occurs, the Trustee will transfer the contract(s) to the Participant endorsed so as to vest in the transferee all right, title and interest to the contract(s), free and clear of the Trust; subject however, to restrictions as to surrender or payment of benefits as the issuing insurance company may permit and as the Advisory Committee directs;
(b) If only part of the cash value of the contract(s) is vested in the terminating Participant, the Trustee, to the extent the Participant's interest in the cash value of the contract(s) is not vested, may adjust the Participant's interest in the value of his Account attributable to Trust assets other than incidental benefit insurance contracts and proceed as in (a), or the Trustee must effect a loan from the issuing insurance company on the sole security of the contract(s) for an amount equal to the difference between the cash value of the contract(s) at the end of the policy year in which termination of employment occurs and the amount of the cash value that is vested in the terminating Participant, and the Trustee must transfer the contract(s) endorsed so as to vest in the transferee all right, title and interest to the contract(s), free and clear of the Trust; subject however, to the restrictions as to surrender or payment of benefits as the issuing insurance company may permit and the Advisory Committee directs;
(c) If no part of the cash value of the contract(s) is vested in the terminating Participant, the Trustee must surrender the contract(s) for cash proceeds as may be available. In accordance with the written direction of the Advisory Committee, the Trustee will make any transfer of contract(s) under this Section 11.02 on the Participant's annuity starting date (or as soon as administratively practicable after that date). The Trustee may not transfer any contract under this Section 11.02 which contains a method of payment not specifically authorized by Article VI or which fails to comply with the joint and survivor annuity requirements, if applicable, of Article VI. In this regard, the Trustee either must convert such a contract to cash and distribute the cash instead of the contract, or before making the transfer, require the issuing company to delete the unauthorized method of payment option from the contract...
Defined Contribution Prototype Plan. If the Employer makes a permissible amendment to the vesting schedule, each Participant having at least 3 Years of Service with the Employer may elect to have the percentage of his Nonforfeitable Accrued Benefit computed under the Plan without regard to the amendment. For Plan Years beginning prior to January 1, 1989, the election described in the preceding sentence applies only to Participants having at least 5 Years of Service with the Employer. The Participant must file his election with the Advisory Committee within 60 days of the latest of (a) the Employer's adoption of the amendment; (b) the effective date of the amendment; or (c) his receipt of a copy of the amendment. The Advisory Committee, as soon as practicable, must forward a true copy of any amendment to the vesting schedule to each affected Participant, together with an explanation of the effect of the amendment, the appropriate form upon which the Participant may make an election to remain under the vesting schedule provided under the Plan prior to the amendment and notice of the time within which the Participant must make an election to remain under the prior vesting schedule. The election described in this Section 7.05 does not apply to a Participant if the amended vesting schedule provides for vesting at least as rapid at all times as the vesting schedule in effect prior to the amendment. For purposes of this Section 7.05, an amendment to the vesting schedule includes any Plan amendment which directly or indirectly affects the computation of the Nonforfeitable percentage of an Employee's rights to his Employer derived Accrued Benefit. Furthermore, the Advisory Committee must treat any shift in the vesting schedule, due to a change in the Plan's top heavy status, as an amendment to the vesting schedule for purposes of this Section 7.05. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Defined Contribution Prototype Plan. The Advisory Committee, to the extent provided in a written loan policy adopted under Section 9.04, will treat a loan made to a Participant as a Participant direction of investment under this Section 8.10. To the extent of the loan outstanding at any time, the borrowing Participant's Account alone shares in any interest paid on the loan, and it alone bears any expense or loss it incurs in connection with the loan. The Trustee may retain any principal or interest paid on the borrowing Participant's loan in an interest bearing segregated Account on behalf of the borrowing Participant until the Trustee (or the Named Fiduciary, in the ease of a nondiscretionary Trustee) deems it appropriate to add the amount paid to the Participant's separate Account under the Plan. If the Trustee consents to Participant direction of investment of his Account, the Plan treats any post-December 31, 1981, investment by a Participant's directed Account in collectibles (as defined by Code (S)408(m)) as a deemed distribution to the Participant for Federal income tax purposes. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Defined Contribution Prototype Plan. If the entire cash value of the contract(s) is vested in the terminating Participant, or if the contract(s) will have no cash value at the end of the policy year in which termination of employment occurs, the Trustee will transfer the contract(s) to the Participant endorsed so as to vest in the transferee all right, title and interest to the contract(s), free and clear of the Trust; subject however, to restrictions as to surrender or payment of benefits as the issuing insurance company may permit and as the Advisory Committee directs;
Defined Contribution Prototype Plan spouse of a lineal ascendant or descendant) as a single Highly Compensated Employee, but only if the Highly Compensated Employee is a more than 5% owner or is one of the 10 Highly Compensated Employees with the greatest Compensation for the Plan Year. This aggregation rule applies to a family member even if that family member is a Highly Compensated Employee without family aggregation.
Defined Contribution Prototype Plan contributions made by an Employer (whether or not under a salary reduction agreement) towards the purchase of an annuity contract described in Code Section 403(b) (whether or not the contributions are excludible from the gross income of the Employee), other than "elective contributions," if elected in the Employer's Adoption Agreement. Any reference in this Plan to Compensation is a reference to the definition in this Section 1.12, unless the Plan reference specifies a modification to this definition. The Advisory Committee will take into account only Compensation actually paid for the relevant period. A Compensation payment includes Compensation by the Employer through another person under the common paymaster provisions in Code Sections 3121 and 3306.
Defined Contribution Prototype Plan has an employment relationship with the Employer maintaining this Plan.
Defined Contribution Prototype Plan the number (not exceeding 501) of Hours of Service necessary to prevent an Employee's Break in Service. The Advisory Committee credits all Hours of Service described in this paragraph to the computation period in which the absence period begins or, if the Employee does not need these Hours of Service to prevent a Break in Service in the computation period in which his absence period begins, the Advisory Committee credits these Hours of Service to the immediately following computation period.
