PROTOTYPE DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN Sponsored By SBERA BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT #01
DEFINITIONS | 1 | |||||
1.1 |
ACTUAL CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE (ACP) | 1 | ||||
1.2 |
ACTUAL DEFERRAL PERCENTAGE (ADP) | 1 | ||||
1.3 |
Adoption Agreement | 2 | ||||
1.4 |
Aggregate Limit | 2 | ||||
1.5 |
Allocation Date(s) | 2 | ||||
1.6 |
Annual Additions | 2 | ||||
1.7 |
Annuity Starting Date | 3 | ||||
1.8 |
Applicable Calendar Year | 3 | ||||
1.9 |
Applicable Life Expectancy | 3 | ||||
1.10 |
Average Annual Compensation | 3 | ||||
1.11 |
Average Contribution Percentage (ACP) | 4 | ||||
1.12 |
Average Deferral Percentage (ADP) | 4 | ||||
1.13 |
Beneficiary | 4 | ||||
1.14 |
Break In Service | 4 | ||||
1.15 |
Code | 5 | ||||
1.16 |
Compensation | 5 | ||||
1.17 |
Covered Compensation | 8 | ||||
1.18 |
Custodian | 8 | ||||
1.19 |
Xxxxx-Xxxxx Act | 8 | ||||
1.20 |
Defined Benefit Plan | 8 | ||||
1.21 |
Defined Benefit (Plan) Fraction | 8 | ||||
1.22 |
Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation | 9 | ||||
1.23 |
Defined Contribution Plan | 9 | ||||
1.24 |
Defined Contribution (Plan) Fraction | 9 | ||||
1.25 |
Direct Rollover | 9 | ||||
1.26 |
Disability | 9 | ||||
1.27 |
Distribution Calendar Year | 9 | ||||
1.28 |
Early Retirement Age | 10 | ||||
1.29 |
Early Retirement Date | 10 | ||||
1.30 |
Earned Income | 10 | ||||
1.31 |
Effective Date | 10 | ||||
1.32 |
Election Period | 10 | ||||
1.33 |
Elapsed Time | 10 | ||||
1.34 |
Elective Deferrals | 10 | ||||
1.35 |
Eligible Employee | 11 | ||||
1.36 |
Eligible Employer | 11 | ||||
1.37 |
Eligible Participant | 11 | ||||
1.38 |
Eligible Retirement Plan | 11 | ||||
1.39 |
Eligible Rollover Distribution | 11 | ||||
1.40 |
Employee | 12 | ||||
1.41 |
Employer | 12 | ||||
1.42 |
Entry Date | 13 | ||||
1.43 |
ERISA | 13 | ||||
1.44 |
Excess Aggregate Contributions | 13 | ||||
1.45 |
Excess Annual Additions | 13 | ||||
1.46 |
Excess Contribution | 13 | ||||
1.47 |
Excess Elective Deferrals | 13 | ||||
1.48 |
Expected Year Of Service | 13 |
1.49 |
First Distribution Calendar Year | 13 | ||||
1.50 |
Hardship | 14 | ||||
1.51 |
Highest Average Compensation | 14 | ||||
1.52 |
Highly Compensated Employee | 14 | ||||
1.53 |
Hour Of Service | 14 | ||||
1.54 |
Integration Level | 15 | ||||
1.55 |
Key Employee | 15 | ||||
1.56 |
Leased Employee | 16 | ||||
1.57 |
Limitation Year | 16 | ||||
1.58 |
Master Or Prototype Plan | 16 | ||||
1.59 |
Matching Contribution | 16 | ||||
1.60 |
Maximum Permissible Amount | 16 | ||||
1.61 |
Net Profit | 16 | ||||
1.62 |
Normal Retirement Age | 16 | ||||
1.63 |
Normal Retirement Date | 16 | ||||
1.64 |
Owner-Employee | 17 | ||||
1.65 |
Paired Plans | 17 | ||||
1.66 |
Participant | 17 | ||||
1.67 |
Participant’s Benefit | 17 | ||||
1.68 |
Period Of Severance | 17 | ||||
1.69 |
Permissive Aggregation Group | 17 | ||||
1.70 |
Plan | 17 | ||||
1.71 |
Plan Administrator | 17 | ||||
1.72 |
Plan Sponsor | 17 | ||||
1.73 |
Plan Year | 18 | ||||
1.74 |
Present Value | 18 | ||||
1.75 |
Prior Plan Year | 18 | ||||
1.76 |
Prior Safe Harbor Plan | 18 | ||||
1.77 |
Projected Annual Benefit | 18 | ||||
1.78 |
Projected Participation | 18 | ||||
1.79 |
Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO Order) | 19 | ||||
1.80 |
Qualified Early Retirement Age | 19 | ||||
1.81 |
Qualified Joint And Survivor Xxxxxxx (QJSA) | 19 | ||||
1.82 |
Qualified Matching Contributions (QMACs) | 19 | ||||
1.83 |
Qualified Non-Elective Contributions (QNECs) | 19 | ||||
1.84 |
Qualified Plan | 19 | ||||
1.85 |
Qualified Pre-Retirement Survivor Annuity | 19 | ||||
1.86 |
Qualified Voluntary Contribution | 20 | ||||
1.87 |
Required Aggregation Group | 20 | ||||
1.88 |
Required Beginning Date | 20 | ||||
1.89 |
Required After-tax Contributions | 20 | ||||
1.90 |
Rollover Contribution | 20 | ||||
1.91 |
Salary Deferral Agreement | 20 | ||||
1.92 |
Savings Incentive Match Plan For Employees (SIMPLE) | 20 | ||||
1.93 |
Self-Employed Individual | 20 | ||||
1.94 |
Service | 20 | ||||
1.95 |
Severance Date | 21 | ||||
1.96 |
Severance Period | 21 | ||||
1.97 |
Service Provider | 21 | ||||
1.98 |
Shareholder Employee | 21 | ||||
1.99 |
Simplified Employee Pension Plan | 21 | ||||
1.100 |
Sponsor | 21 | ||||
1.101 |
Spouse | 21 | ||||
1.102 |
Stated Benefit Formula | 22 | ||||
1.103 |
Super Top-Heavy Plan | 22 | ||||
1.104 |
Taxable Wage Base | 22 |
1.105 |
Top-Heavy Determination Date | 22 | ||||
1.106 |
Top-Heavy Plan | 22 | ||||
1.107 |
Top-Heavy Ratio | 22 | ||||
1.108 |
Top-Paid Group | 23 | ||||
1.109 |
Transfer Contribution | 23 | ||||
1.110 |
Trust | 24 | ||||
1.111 |
Trustee | 24 | ||||
1.112 |
Uniformed Services Employment And Reemployment Rights Act Of 1994 (USERRA) | 24 | ||||
1.113 |
Valuation Date | 24 | ||||
1.114 |
Vested Account Balance | 24 | ||||
1.115 |
Voluntary After-tax Contribution | 24 | ||||
1.116 |
Welfare Benefit Fund | 24 | ||||
1.117 |
Year Of Service | 24 | ||||
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS | 27 | |||||
2.1 |
Eligibility | 27 | ||||
2.2 |
Determination Of Eligibility | 27 | ||||
2.3 |
Change In Classification Of Employment | 28 | ||||
2.4 |
Participation | 28 | ||||
2.5 |
Employment Rights | 28 | ||||
2.6 |
Service With Controlled Groups | 28 | ||||
2.7 |
Leased Employees | 28 | ||||
2.8 |
Thrift Plan | 29 | ||||
2.9 |
Target Benefit Plan | 29 | ||||
2.10 |
Xxxxx-Xxxxx Plan | 29 | ||||
2.11 |
Waiver Of Participation | 29 | ||||
2.12 |
Omission Of Eligible Employee | 30 | ||||
2.13 |
Inclusion Of Ineligible Employee | 30 | ||||
EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS | 31 | |||||
3.1 |
Contribution Amount | 31 | ||||
3.2 |
Contribution Amount For A SIMPLE 401(k) Plan | 31 | ||||
3.3 |
Responsibility For Contributions | 32 | ||||
3.4 |
Return Of Contributions | 32 | ||||
3.5 |
Merger Of Assets From Another Plan | 32 | ||||
3.6 |
Coverage Requirements | 33 | ||||
3.7 |
Eligibility For Contribution | 33 | ||||
3.8 |
Target Benefit Plan Contribution | 34 | ||||
3.9 |
Xxxxx-Xxxxx Plan Contribution | 35 | ||||
3.10 |
Uniform Dollar Contribution | 35 | ||||
3.11 |
Uniform Points Contribution | 35 | ||||
3.12 |
403(b) Matching Contribution | 35 | ||||
EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS | 36 | |||||
4.1 |
Voluntary After-tax Contributions | 36 | ||||
4.2 |
Required After-tax Contributions | 36 | ||||
4.3 |
Qualified Voluntary Contributions | 36 | ||||
4.4 |
Rollover Contributions | 36 | ||||
4.5 |
Plan To Plan Transfer Contributions | 37 | ||||
4.6 |
Voluntary Direct Transfers Between Plans | 37 | ||||
4.7 |
Elective Deferrals In A 401(k) Plan | 38 | ||||
4.8 |
Elective Deferrals In A SIMPLE 401(k) Plan | 39 | ||||
4.9 |
Automatic Enrollment | 40 | ||||
4.10 |
Make-Up Contributions Under USERRA | 41 | ||||
PARTICIPANT ACCOUNTS | 42 |
5.1 |
Separate Accounts | 42 | ||||
5.2 |
Valuation Date | 42 | ||||
5.3 |
Allocations To Participant Accounts | 43 | ||||
5.4 |
Allocating Employer Contributions | 43 | ||||
5.5 |
Allocating Investment Earnings And Losses | 44 | ||||
5.6 |
Allocation Adjustments | 44 | ||||
5.7 |
Participant Statements | 45 | ||||
5.8 |
Changes In Method And Timing Of Valuing Participants’ Accounts | 45 | ||||
RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND DISTRIBUTIONS | 46 | |||||
6.1 |
Normal Retirement Benefits | 46 | ||||
6.2 |
Early Retirement Benefits | 46 | ||||
6.3 |
Benefits On Termination Of Employment | 46 | ||||
6.4 |
Restrictions On Immediate Distributions | 47 | ||||
6.5 |
Normal And Optional Forms Of Payment | 48 | ||||
6.6 |
Commencement Of Benefits | 49 | ||||
6.7 |
Transitional Rules For Cash-Out Limits | 50 | ||||
6.8 |
In-Service Withdrawals | 51 | ||||
6.9 |
Hardship Withdrawals | 53 | ||||
6.10 |
Direct Rollover Of Benefits | 54 | ||||
6.11 |
Participant’s Notice | 54 | ||||
6.12 |
Assets Transferred From Money Purchase Pension Plans | 55 | ||||
6.13 |
Assets Transferred From A Code Section 401(k) Plan | 55 | ||||
DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS | 56 | |||||
7.1 |
Joint And Survivor Annuity Requirements | 56 | ||||
7.2 |
Minimum Distribution Requirements | 56 | ||||
7.3 |
Limits On Distribution Periods | 56 | ||||
7.4 |
Required Distributions On Or After The Required Beginning Date | 56 | ||||
7.5 |
Required Beginning Date | 57 | ||||
7.6 |
Transitional Rules | 59 | ||||
7.7 |
Designation Of Beneficiary | 60 | ||||
7.8 |
Beneficiary | 60 | ||||
7.9 |
Distribution Beginning Before Death | 61 | ||||
7.10 |
Distribution Beginning After Death | 61 | ||||
7.11 |
Distribution Of Excess Elective Deferrals | 61 | ||||
7.12 |
Distribution Of Excess Contributions | 62 | ||||
7.13 |
Distribution Of Excess Aggregate Contributions | 63 | ||||
7.14 |
Distributions To Minors And Individuals Who Are Legally Incompetent | 63 | ||||
7.15 |
Unclaimed Benefits | 63 | ||||
JOINT AND SURVIVOR ANNUITY REQUIREMENTS | 65 | |||||
8.1 |
Applicability Of Provisions | 65 | ||||
8.2 |
Payment Of Qualified Joint And Survivor Annuity | 65 | ||||
8.3 |
Payment Of Qualified Pre-Retirement Survivor Annuity | 65 | ||||
8.4 |
Qualified Election | 65 | ||||
8.5 |
Notice Requirements For Qualified Joint And Survivor Annuity | 66 | ||||
8.6 |
Notice Requirements For Qualified Pre-Retirement Survivor Annuity | 66 | ||||
8.7 |
Special Safe Harbor Exception For Certain Profit-Sharing Or 401(k) Plans | 67 | ||||
8.8 |
Transitional Joint And Survivor Annuity Rules | 67 | ||||
8.9 |
Automatic Joint And Survivor Annuity And Early Survivor Annuity | 68 | ||||
8.10 |
Annuity Contracts | 69 | ||||
VESTING | 70 | |||||
9.1 |
Employee Contributions | 70 | ||||
9.2 |
Employer Contributions | 70 |
9.3 |
Vesting Of Employer Contributions In A SIMPLE 401(k) Plan | 70 | ||||
9.4 |
Computation Period | 70 | ||||
9.5 |
Requalification Prior To Five Consecutive One-Year Breaks In Service | 70 | ||||
9.6 |
Requalification After Five Consecutive One-Year Breaks In Service | 70 | ||||
9.7 |
Calculating Vested Interest | 70 | ||||
9.8 |
Forfeitures | 71 | ||||
9.9 |
Amendment Of Vesting Schedule | 71 | ||||
9.10 |
Service With Controlled Groups | 72 | ||||
9.11 |
Compliance With Uniformed Services Employment And Reemployment Rights Act Of 1994 | 72 | ||||
LIMITATIONS ON ALLOCATIONS | 73 | |||||
10.1 |
Participation In This Plan Only | 73 | ||||
10.2 |
Disposition Of Excess Annual Additions | 73 | ||||
10.3 |
Participation In Multiple Defined Contribution Plans | 74 | ||||
10.4 |
Disposition Of Excess Annual Additions Under Two Plans | 74 | ||||
10.5 |
Participation In This Plan And A Defined Benefit Plan | 74 | ||||
ANTIDISCRIMINATION TESTING | 76 | |||||
11.1 |
General Testing Requirements | 76 | ||||
11.2 |
ADP Testing Limitations | 76 | ||||
11.3 |
Special Rules Relating To Application Of The ADP Test | 77 | ||||
11.4 |
Calculation And Distribution Of Excess Contributions And Excess Aggregate Contributions | 77 | ||||
11.5 |
Qualified Non-Elective And/Or Matching Contributions | 78 | ||||
11.6 |
ACP Testing Limitations | 78 | ||||
11.7 |
Special Rules Relating To The Application Of The ACP Test | 79 | ||||
11.8 |
Recharacterization | 80 | ||||
11.9 |
Nondiscrimination Tests In A SIMPLE 401(k) Plan | 80 | ||||
11.10 |
Safe Harbor Rules Of Application | 80 | ||||
11.11 |
Safe Harbor Definitions | 82 | ||||
11.12 |
Required Restrictions On Safe Harbor Contributions | 82 | ||||
11.13 |
ADP Test Safe Harbor | 83 | ||||
11.14 |
ACP Test Safe Harbor | 83 | ||||
11.15 |
Safe Harbor Status | 83 | ||||
11.16 |
Safe Harbor Notice Requirement | 84 | ||||
11.17 |
Satisfying Safe Harbor Contribution Requirements Under Another Defined Contribution Plan | 85 | ||||
ADMINISTRATION | 87 | |||||
12.1 |
Plan Administrator | 87 | ||||
12.2 |
Persons Serving As Plan Administrator | 88 | ||||
12.3 |
Action By Employer | 88 | ||||
12.4 |
Responsibilities Of The Parties | 88 | ||||
12.5 |
Allocation Of Investment Responsibility | 88 | ||||
12.6 |
Appointment Of Investment Manager | 89 | ||||
12.7 |
Participant Investment Direction | 89 | ||||
12.8 |
Application Of ERISA Section 404(c) | 90 | ||||
12.9 |
Participant Loans | 90 | ||||
12.10 |
Insurance Policies | 92 | ||||
12.11 |
Determination Of Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO Or Order) | 94 | ||||
12.12 |
Receipt And Release For Payments | 95 | ||||
12.13 |
Resignation And Removal | 95 | ||||
12.14 |
Claims And Claims Review Procedure | 95 | ||||
12.15 |
Bonding | 96 |
TRUST PROVISIONS | 97 | |||||
13.1 |
Establishment Of The Trust | 97 | ||||
13.2 |
Control Of Plan Assets | 97 | ||||
13.3 |
Discretionary Trustee | 97 | ||||
13.4 |
Nondiscretionary Trustee | 98 | ||||
13.5 |
Provisions Relating To Individual Trustees | 98 | ||||
13.6 |
Investment Instructions | 98 | ||||
13.7 |
Fiduciary Standards | 99 | ||||
13.8 |
Powers Of The Trustee | 99 | ||||
13.9 |
Appointment Of Additional Trustee And Allocation Of Responsibilities | 102 | ||||
13.10 |
Compensation, Administrative Fees And Expenses | 102 | ||||
13.11 |
Records | 103 | ||||
13.12 |
Limitation On Liability And Indemnification | 103 | ||||
13.13 |
Custodian | 105 | ||||
13.14 |
Investment Alternatives Of The Custodian | 106 | ||||
13.15 |
Prohibited Transactions | 106 | ||||
13.16 |
Exclusive Benefit Rules | 106 | ||||
13.17 |
Assignment And Alienation Of Benefits | 106 | ||||
13.18 |
Liquidation Of Assets | 107 | ||||
13.19 |
Resignation And Removal | 107 | ||||
TOP-HEAVY PROVISIONS | 108 | |||||
14.1 |
Applicability Of Rules | 108 | ||||
14.2 |
Minimum Contribution | 108 | ||||
14.3 |
Minimum Vesting | 108 | ||||
14.4 |
Limitations On Allocations | 109 | ||||
14.5 |
Use Of Safe Harbor Contributions To Satisfy Top-Heavy Contribution Rules | 109 | ||||
14.6 |
Top-Heavy Rules For SIMPLE 401(k) Plans | 109 | ||||
AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION | 110 | |||||
15.1 |
Amendment By Sponsor | 110 | ||||
15.2 |
Amendment By Employer | 110 | ||||
15.3 |
Protected Benefits | 110 | ||||
15.4 |
Plan Termination | 110 | ||||
15.5 |
Distribution Restrictions Under A Code Section 401(k) Plan | 111 | ||||
15.6 |
Qualification Of Employer’s Plan | 111 | ||||
15.7 |
Mergers And Consolidations | 111 | ||||
15.8 |
Qualification Of Prototype | 112 | ||||
GOVERNING LAW | 113 | |||||
16.1 |
Governing Law | 113 | ||||
16.2 |
State Community Property Laws | 113 | ||||
IRS MODEL AMENDMENT | 115 | |||||
AMENDMENT TO THE PROTOTYPE DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT #01 | 116 | |||||
MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS MODEL AMENDMENT | 121 | |||||
INIMUM DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS | 121 | |||||
17.1 |
Effective Date | 121 | ||||
17.2 |
Coordination With Minimum Distribution Requirements Previously In Effect | 121 | ||||
17.3 |
Precedence | 121 | ||||
17.4 |
Requirements Of Treasury Regulations Incorporated | 121 |
17.5 |
TEFRA Section 242(b)(2) Elections | 121 | ||||
17.6 |
Required Beginning Date | 121 | ||||
17.7 |
Death Of Participant Before Distributions Begin | 121 | ||||
17.8 |
Forms Of Distributions | 122 | ||||
17.9 |
Amount of Required Minimum Distribution For Each Distribution Calendar Year | 122 | ||||
17.10 |
Lifetime Required Minimum Distributions Continue Through Year Of Participant's Death | 122 | ||||
17.11 |
Death On Or After Distributions Begin | 122 | ||||
17.12 |
Death Before Date Distributions Begin | 123 | ||||
17.13 |
Designated Beneficiary | 123 | ||||
17.14 |
Distribution Calendar Year | 123 | ||||
17.15 |
Life Expectancy | 124 | ||||
17.16 |
Participant’s Account Balance | 124 | ||||
17.17 |
Required Beginning Date | 124 | ||||
CODE SECTION 125 MODEL AMENDMENT | 125 | |||||
IRS MODEL AMENDMENT CODE SECTION 125 “DEEMED CONTRIBUTIONS” | 126 | |||||
DEEMED IRA AMENDMENT | 127 | |||||
18.1 |
Deemed IRAs | 127 | ||||
18.2 |
Individual | 127 | ||||
18.3 |
Investment In Collectibles | 127 | ||||
18.4 |
Restrictions On Directing | 127 | ||||
18.5 |
Prohibition Against Investing In Life Insurance | 127 | ||||
18.6 |
Nonforfeitability | 127 | ||||
18.7 |
Prohibition Against Commingling Of Assets | 127 | ||||
18.8 |
Separate Accounting | 127 | ||||
18.9 |
Reporting Duties | 128 | ||||
18.10 |
Voluntary Employee Contributions | 128 | ||||
18.11 |
Substitution Of Non-Bank Trustee Or Custodian | 128 | ||||
TRADITIONAL INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT PROVISIONS | 128 | |||||
19.1 |
Traditional IRA Or Regular IRA | 128 | ||||
19.2 |
Maximum Annual Contribution | 128 | ||||
19.3 |
Catch-Up Contribution | 128 | ||||
19.4 |
Required Beginning Date | 128 | ||||
19.5 |
Tax Year | 129 | ||||
19.6 |
Trustee | 129 | ||||
19.7 |
Traditional IRA Contributions | 129 | ||||
19.8 |
Excess Contributions | 131 | ||||
19.9 |
Sunset Provisions | 131 | ||||
19.10 |
Maintenance Of An Individual’s IRA | 131 | ||||
19.11 |
Methods Of Payment | 131 | ||||
19.12 |
Qualifying First-Time Homebuyer Distribution | 132 | ||||
19.13 |
Qualifying Higher Education Expenses | 132 | ||||
19.14 |
Requirements Of Income Tax Regulations | 132 | ||||
19.15 |
Required Beginning Date | 132 | ||||
19.16 |
Death Of Individual Before Distributions Begin | 132 | ||||
19.17 |
Forms Of Distributions | 133 | ||||
19.18 |
Amount Of Required Minimum Distribution For Each Distribution Calendar Year | 133 | ||||
19.19 |
Lifetime Required Minimum Distributions Continue Through Year Of Individual’s Death | 133 | ||||
19.20 |
Death On Or After Distributions Begin | 134 | ||||
19.21 |
Death Before Date Distributions Begin | 134 | ||||
19.22 |
Designated Beneficiary | 134 |
19.23 |
Remainder Beneficiary | 135 | ||||
19.24 |
Distribution Calendar Year | 135 | ||||
19.25 |
Life Expectancy | 135 | ||||
19.26 |
Individual’s Account Balance | 135 | ||||
19.27 |
Duties Of The Trustee | 135 | ||||
19.28 |
Duties Of The Individual | 135 | ||||
XXXX INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT | 136 | |||||
20.1 |
Xxxx XXX | 136 | ||||
20.2 |
Individual Accounts | 136 | ||||
20.3 |
Age Requirements | 136 | ||||
20.4 |
Plan Year | 136 | ||||
20.5 |
Timing Of Contributions | 136 | ||||
20.6 |
Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) | 136 | ||||
20.7 |
Modified AGI | 136 | ||||
20.8 |
Applicable Dollar Amount | 136 | ||||
20.9 |
Maximum Permissible Amount | 137 | ||||
20.10 |
Xxxx XXX Contributions | 137 | ||||
20.11 |
Excess Contribution | 138 | ||||
20.12 |
Qualified Distributions | 138 | ||||
20.13 |
Qualified Special Purpose Distribution | 139 | ||||
20.14 |
Nonqualified Distributions | 139 | ||||
20.15 |
Form Of Payment | 139 | ||||
20.16 |
Rollover From A Qualified Retirement Plan | 139 | ||||
20.17 |
Life Expectancy | 139 | ||||
20.18 |
Distributions Commencing Prior To Death | 139 | ||||
20.19 |
Distributions After Death | 139 | ||||
20.20 |
Ordering Rules Upon Death Of Individual | 140 | ||||
20.21 |
Minimum Payment | 140 | ||||
20.22 |
Duties Of Trustee | 140 | ||||
20.23 |
Duties Of Individual | 140 | ||||
XXXX 401(K) DEFERRAL AMENDMENT | 142 | |||||
FINAL 401(K) AND (M) AMENDMENT TO THE PROTOTYPE DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN | 148 |
(a) | the Participant’s Contribution Percentage Amounts [as defined at (c)-(f)] for a Plan Year, to | ||
(b) | the Participant’s Compensation for such Plan Year. [Unless otherwise specified in the Adoption Agreement, Compensation will only include amounts for the period during which the Employee was eligible to participate.] |
(c) | the amount of Voluntary After-tax Contributions, Required After-tax Contributions, Matching Contributions (except to the extent such Matching Contributions may be disregarded in accordance with IRS Notice 98-1), and Qualified Matching Contributions (to the extent not taken into account for purposes of the ADP test) made under the Plan on behalf of the Participant, | ||
(d) | forfeitures of Excess Aggregate Contributions or Matching Contributions allocated to the Participant’s account which shall be taken into account in the year in which such forfeiture is allocated, | ||
(e) | at the election of the Employer, Qualified Non-Elective Contributions, and | ||
(f) | the Employer may elect to use Elective Deferrals in the Contribution Percentage Amounts as long as 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. |
(a) | the amount of Employer contributions [as defined at (c) — (d)] actually contributed to the Trust on behalf of such Participant for a Plan Year, to | ||
(b) | the Participant’s Compensation for such Plan Year. [Unless otherwise specified in the Adoption Agreement, Compensation will only include amounts received for the period during which the Employee was eligible to participate.] |
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(c) | any Elective Deferrals made pursuant to the Participant’s Salary Deferral Agreement, including Excess Elective Deferrals of Highly Compensated Employees, but excluding Excess Elective Deferrals distributed to Non-Highly Compensated Employees and Elective Deferrals that are either taken into account in the Contribution Percentage test (provided the ADP test is satisfied both with and without exclusion of these Elective Deferrals) or are returned as excess Annual Additions, | ||
(d) | at the election of the Employer, Qualified Non-Elective Contributions and Qualified Matching Contributions. |
(a) | 125% of the greater of the Average Deferral Percentage of the Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Prior Plan Year or the Average Contribution Percentage of Non-Highly Compensated Employees under the 401(k) Plan subject to Code Section 401(m) for the Plan Year beginning with or within the Prior Plan Year, and | ||
(b) | the lesser of 200% or two percent plus the lesser of such ADP or ACP. |
(a) | Employer contributions (under Article III), | ||
(b) | Employee contributions (under Article IV), | ||
(c) | forfeitures, | ||
(d) | Employer allocations under a Simplified Employee Pension Plan, |
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(e) | amounts allocated after March 31, 1984, 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 (these amounts are treated as Annual Additions to a Defined Contribution Plan though they arise under a Defined Benefit Plan), and | ||
(f) | amounts derived from contributions paid or accrued after 1985, in taxable years ending after 1985, which are either attributable to post-retirement medical benefits allocated to the account of a Key Employee or to a Welfare Benefit Fund maintained by the Employer. For purposes of this paragraph, an Employee is a Key Employee if he or she meets the requirements of paragraph 1.55 at any time during the Plan Year or any preceding Plan Year. |
Rollover Contributions [as defined in Code Sections 402(e)(6), 403(a)(4), 403(b)(8) and 408(d)(3)]; | |||
(h) | repayments of loans made to a Participant from the Plan; | ||
(i) | repayments of distributions received by an Employee pursuant to Code Section 411(a)(7)(B) (cash-outs); | ||
repayments of distributions received by an Employee pursuant to Code Section 411(a)(3)(D) (mandatory contributions); and | |||
Employee contributions to a Simplified Employee Pension Plan excludible from gross income under Code Section 408(k)(6). |
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If the Hours of Service method is used in determining either an Employee’s initial or continuing eligibility to participate in the Plan, or the nonforfeitable interest in the Employee’s account balance derived from Employer contributions, a Break in Service is a twelve (12) consecutive month period during which the Employee has not completed more than five hundred (500) Hours of Service. | |||
For purposes of determining whether a Break in Service has occurred in a particular computation period, an Employee who is absent from work for maternity or paternity reasons shall receive credit for Hours of Service which would otherwise have been credited to such Employee but for such absence, or in any case in which such hours cannot be determined, with eight (8) Hours of Service per day of such absence. The Hours of Service to be so credited shall be credited in the computation period in which the absence begins if the crediting is necessary to prevent a Break in Service in that period or, in all other cases, in the following computation periods. | |||
(c) | With respect to determinations based on the Elapsed Time method, a severance period of not less than twelve (12) consecutive months. In the case of an Employee 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 Break in Service. | ||
(d) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of an Employee who is absent from work beyond the first anniversary of the first day of absence from work for maternity or paternity reasons, such period begins on the second anniversary of the first day of such absence. The period between the first and second anniversaries of said first day of absence from work is neither a Period of Service for which the Employee will receive credit nor is such period a Break in Service. For purposes of this paragraph, an absence from work for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence (1) by reason of the pregnancy of the Employee, (2) by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee, (3) by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with the adoption of such child by such Employee, or (4) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. | ||
(e) | An Employer adopting the Elapsed Time method is required to credit periods of Service and, under the Service spanning rules, certain periods of severance of twelve (12) months or less. Under the first Service spanning rule, if an Employee xxxxxx from Service as a result of resignation, discharge or retirement and then returns to Service within twelve (12) months, the Period of Severance is required to be taken into account. A situation may arise in which an Employee is absent from Service for any reason other than resignation, discharge, retirement and during the absence a resignation, discharge or retirement occurs. The second Service spanning rule provides that, under such circumstances, the Plan is required to take into account the period of time between the severance from Service date (i.e., the date of resignation, discharge or |
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retirement) and the first anniversary of the date on which the Employee was first absent, if the Employee returns to Service on or before such first anniversary date. |
(a) | Code Section 3401(a) Wages — All remuneration received by an Employee for services performed for the Employer which are subject to Federal income tax withholding at the source. Unless elected otherwise in the Adoption Agreement, Compensation shall include any amount deferred under a Salary Deferral Agreement which is not includible in the gross income of a Participant under Code Section 125 in connection with a cafeteria plan, Code Section 402(e)(3) in connection with a cash or deferred plan, Code Section 402(h)(1)(B) in connection with a Simplified Employee Pension Plan, Code Section 401(k) in connection with a SIMPLE Retirement Account, Code Section 457 in connection with a Plan maintained under said Section, and Code Section 403(b) in connection with a tax-sheltered annuity plan. Wages are determined without regard to any rules that limit the remuneration included in wages based on the nature or location of the employment or the services performed [such as the exception for agricultural labor in Code Section 3401(a)(2)]. For Limitation Years beginning after December 31, 1997, for purposes of applying the limitations of this paragraph, Compensation paid or made available during such Limitation Year shall include any Elective Deferral [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 includible in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Code Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1), or 403(b). | ||
(b) | Code Sections 6041, 6051 And 6052 Reportable Wages — All remuneration received by an Employee for services performed for the Employer which are required to be reported on Form W-2. Unless otherwise elected in the Adoption Agreement, Compensation shall include any amount deferred under a Salary Deferral Agreement which is not includible in the gross income of a Participant under Code Section 125 in connection with a cafeteria plan, Code Section 402(e)(3) in connection with a cash or deferred plan, Code Section 402(h)(1)(B) in connection with a Simplified Employee Pension Plan, and Code Section 403(b) in connection with a tax-sheltered annuity plan. A Participant’s wages includes remuneration defined at subparagraph (a) above and all other remuneration paid to an Employee by the Employer (in the course of the Employer’s trade or business) for which the Employer is required to furnish the Employee a written statement under Code Sections 6041(d), 6051(a)(3) and 6052. Such amount must be determined without regard to any rules that limit the remuneration included in wages based on the nature or location of the employment or the services performed [such as the exception for agricultural labor in Code Section 3401(a)(2)]. For Limitation Years beginning after December 31, 1997, for purposes of applying the limitations of this paragraph, Compensation paid or made available during such Limitation Year shall include any Elective Deferral [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 includible in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Code Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1) or 403(b). |
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(c) | Code Section 415 Compensation — A Participant’s Earned Income, wages, salaries, and 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. Compensation includes, but is 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 Section 1.62-2(c)]. For Limitation Years beginning after December 31, 1997, for purposes of applying the limitations of this paragraph, Compensation paid or made available during such Limitation Year shall include any Elective Deferral [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 includible in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Code Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1) or 403(b). Compensation excludes the following: |
(1) | for Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1998, Employer contributions made under the terms of a Salary Deferral Agreement between an Employee and the Employer to a plan of deferred compensation which are not includible in the Employee’s gross income for the taxable year in which contributed. Such contributions shall include any amount deferred under Code Section 125 in connection with a cafeteria plan, Code Section 402(e)(3) in connection with a cash or deferred plan, Code Section 402(h)(1)(B) in connection with a Simplified Employee Pension Plan, Code Section 402(k) in connection with a SIMPLE Retirement Account, Code Section 457 in connection with a Plan maintained under said Section, and Code Section 403(b) in connection with a tax-sheltered annuity plan, | ||
(2) | distributions received from a plan of deferred compensation, | ||
(3) | amounts realized from the exercise of a non-qualified stock option, or when restricted stock (or property) held by the Employee either becomes freely transferable or is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, | ||
(4) | amounts realized from the sale, exchange or other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified stock option, and | ||
(5) | amounts deferred by an Employee under the terms of a non-qualified deferred compensation plan. |
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(a) | any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments made not less frequently than annually for the life (or life expectancy) of the Participant or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the Participant and the Participant’s Beneficiary, or for a specified period of ten (10) years or more, | ||
(b) | any distribution to the extent such distribution is required under Code Section 401(a)(9), | ||
(c) | any Hardship withdrawals under Code Section 401(k)(2)(B)(i)(IV) received after December 31, 1998, (or if elected by the Employer in accordance with IRS Notice 99-5, received after December 31, 1999). |
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(d) | the portion of any distribution that would not be includible in gross income if paid to the Participant (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to Employer securities), | ||
(e) | excess amounts which are returned to a Participant in accordance with paragraphs 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, and 10.2, |
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(a) | the aggregate Contribution Percentage Amounts taken into account in computing the numerator of the Contribution Percentage actually made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year, over | ||
(b) | the maximum Contribution Percentage Amounts permitted by the ACP test (determined hypothetically by reducing contributions made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees in order of their Contribution Percentages beginning with the highest of such percentages). | ||
(c) | Such determination shall be made after first determining Excess Elective Deferrals pursuant to paragraph 1.47 and then determining Excess Contributions pursuant to paragraph 1.46. |
(b) | the maximum amount of such contributions permitted by the ADP Test (determined by hypothetically reducing contributions made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees in order of the ADPs, beginning with the highest of such percentages). |
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(a) | Unless otherwise specified in the Adoption Agreement, each hour for which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, for the performance of duties for the Employer. These hours shall be credited to the Employee for the computation period in which the duties are performed, and | ||
(b) | each hour for which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, by the Employer on account of a period of time during which no duties are performed (irrespective of whether the employment relationship has terminated) due to vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity (including Disability), layoff, jury duty, military duty or leave of absence. No more than five hundred and one (501) Hours of Service shall be credited under this paragraph for any single continuous period (whether or not such period need occur in a single computation period). Hours under this paragraph shall be calculated and credited pursuant to Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor Regulations which are incorporated herein by this reference, and | ||
(c) | each hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, is either awarded or agreed to by the Employer. The same Hours of Service shall not be credited both under paragraph (a) or paragraph (b), as the case may be, and under this paragraph (c). These hours shall 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. |
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(d) | Hours of Service shall be credited for employment with the Employer and with other members of an affiliated service group [as defined in Code Section 414(m)], a controlled group of corporations [as defined in Code Section 414(b)], or a group of trades or businesses under common control [as defined in Code Section 414(c)] of which the adopting Employer is a member, and any other entity required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to Code Section 414(o) and the Regulations thereunder. Hours of Service shall also be credited for any individual considered an Employee for purposes of this Plan under Code Section 414(n) or Code Section 414(o) and the Regulations thereunder. | ||
(e) | Solely for purposes of determining whether a Break in Service, as defined in paragraph 1.14, for participation and vesting purposes has occurred in a computation period, an individual who is absent from work for maternity or paternity reasons shall receive credit for the Hours of Service which would otherwise have been credited to such individual but for such absence, or in any case in which such hours cannot be determined, eight (8) Hours of Service per day of such absence. For purposes of this paragraph, an absence from work for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence by reason of the pregnancy of the individual, by reason of a birth of a child of the individual, by reason of the placement of a child with the individual in connection with the adoption of such child by such individual, or for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. The Hours of Service credited under this paragraph shall be credited in the computation period in which the absence begins if the crediting is necessary to prevent a Break in Service in that period, or in all other cases, in the following computation period. No more than five hundred and one (501) hours will be credited under this paragraph. |
(a) | an officer of the Employer if such individual’s annual Compensation exceeds 50% of the dollar limitation under Code Section 415(b)(1)(A) (the defined benefit maximum annual benefit), | ||
(b) | an owner or an individual considered an owner under Code Section 318 of one of the ten (10) largest interests in the Employer if such individual’s Compensation exceeds 100% of the dollar limitation under Code Section 415(c)(1)(A) and such ownership exceeds 1/2%, | ||
(c) | a more than 5% owner of the Employer, or | ||
(d) | a 1% owner of the Employer who has an annual Compensation of more than $150,000. |
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(a) | the Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation, or |
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(a) | was adopted and in effect on September 19, 1991, | ||
(b) | which on that date contained a Stated Benefit Formula applicable to Target Benefit Plans that took into account Service prior to that date, and | ||
(c) | satisfied the applicable nondiscrimination requirements for Target Benefit Plans for those prior years. For purposes of determining whether a plan satisfies the applicable nondiscrimination requirements for Target Benefit Plans for Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1994, no amendments after September 19, 1991, other than amendments necessary to satisfy Code Section 401(l), will be taken into account. |
(a) | the Participant will continue employment until Normal Retirement Age under the Plan (or current age, if later), and |
(a) | is the number of years during which the Participant benefited under this Plan beginning with the latest of: |
(1) | the first Plan Year in which the Participant benefited under the Plan, | ||
(2) | the first Plan Year taken into account in the Stated Benefit Formula, and |
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(3) | any Plan Year immediately following a Plan Year in which the Plan did not satisfy the safe harbor for Target Benefit Plans in Regulations Section 1.401(a)(4)-8(b)(3), and ending with the last day of the current Plan Year, and |
(b) | is the number of years if any, subsequent to the current Plan Year through the end of the Plan Year in which the Participant attains Normal Retirement Age. |
(a) | the earliest date under the Plan on which the Participant may elect to receive retirement benefits, or | ||
(b) | the first day of the 120th month beginning before the Participant reaches Normal Retirement Age, or | ||
(c) | the date the Participant begins participation. |
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(a) | each Qualified Plan of the Employer in which at least one (1) Key Employee participates or participated at any time during the determination period (regardless of whether the plan has terminated), and | ||
(b) | any other Qualified Plan of the Employer which enables a plan described in (a) to meet the requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(4) or 410. |
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(a) | The Top-Heavy Ratio for the Employer’s Plan exceeds 60% and this Plan is not part of any Required Aggregation Group or Permissive Aggregation Group of plans. | ||
(b) | The Employer’s Plan is a part of a Required Aggregation Group of plans but not part of a Permissive Aggregation Group and the Top-Heavy Ratio for the group of plans exceeds 60%. | ||
(c) | The Employer’s Plan is a part of a Required Aggregation Group and part of a Permissive Aggregation Group of plans and the Top-Heavy Ratio for the Permissive Aggregation Group exceeds 60%. |
(a) | If the Employer maintains one or more Defined Contribution Plans (including any Simplified Employee Pension Plan) and the Employer has not maintained any Defined Benefit Plan which during the five (5) year period ending on the Determination Date(s) has or has had accrued benefits, the Top-Heavy Ratio for this Plan alone, or for the Required or Permissive Aggregation Group as appropriate, is a fraction, |
(1) | the numerator of which is the sum of the account balances of all Key Employees as of the Determination Date(s) [including any part of any account balance distributed in the five year period ending on the Determination Date(s)], and | ||
(2) | the denominator of which is the sum of all account balances [including any part of any account balance distributed in the five (5) year period ending on the Determination Date(s)], 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. | |||
(b) | 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 five (5) year period ending on the Determination Date(s) has or has had any accrued benefits, the Top-Heavy Ratio for any Required 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 |
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accordance with (a) 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(s), 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 (a) above, and the Present Value of accrued benefits under the Defined Benefit Plan or Plans for all Participants as of the Determination Date(s), 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 five (5) year period ending on the Determination Date. | |||
(c) | For purposes of (a) and (b) 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 twelve (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 who is not a Key Employee but who was a Key Employee in a prior year, or who has not been credited with at least one (1) Hour of Service with any Employer maintaining the Plan at any time during the five (5) year period 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. Qualified Voluntary 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 the method, if any, that uniformly applies for accrual purposes under all Defined Benefit Plans maintained by the Employer, or 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). |
(a) | Employees who have not completed six (6) months of Service by the end of the year; | ||
(b) | Employees who normally work less than seventeen and one-half (171/2) hours per week by the end of the year; | ||
(c) | Employees who normally work not more than six (6) months during any year; | ||
(d) | Employees who have not attained age twenty-one (21) by the end of the year; | ||
(e) | Employees included in a collective bargaining unit, covered by an agreement between Employee representatives and the Employer, where retirement benefits were the subject of good faith bargaining, if they constitute at least 90% of the Employer’s workforce and the Plan covers only non-union Employees; and | ||
(f) | Employees who are nonresident aliens and who receive no Earned Income which constitutes income from sources within the United States. |
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(1) | The eligibility computation period starts with the day the Employee first performs an Hour of Service and is a twelve (12) consecutive month period during which the Employee has completed the number of Hours of Service [not to exceed one-thousand (1,000)] as elected in the Adoption Agreement. |
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(2) | The vesting computation period is a twelve (12) consecutive month period as elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement during which the Employee completed the number of Hours of Service [not to exceed one-thousand (1,000)] as elected in the Adoption Agreement. If no election is made, the Plan Year shall be used provided that in the event the Plan Year is changed, the “vesting computation period” shall be the twelve (12) consecutive month period determined in accordance with Department of Labor Regulation Section 2530.203-2(c), the provisions of which are incorporated herein by reference. |
(1) | A Break in Service under the Elapsed Time method is a Period of Severance of at least twelve (12) consecutive months. A Period of Severance is a continuous period of time during which the Employee is not employed by the Employer. The continuous period begins on the date the Employee retires, quits, is discharged or if earlier, the first twelve (12) month anniversary of the date on which the Employee is first absent from Service. |
If two (2) Years of Service are required as a condition of eligibility, a Participant will only have completed two (2) Years of Service for eligibility purposes upon the actual completion of two (2) consecutive Years of Service. | |||
The Employer may elect in the Adoption Agreement for purposes of determining a Participant’s vested interest to disregard Years of Service prior to: |
(1) | the time the Employer or any affiliate maintained the Plan or any predecessor plan; and | ||
(2) | an Employee’s attainment of a certain age, not to exceed age eighteen (18). |
(f) | An Employee’s Years of Service under this Plan may be determined using the hours counting method or the Elapsed Time method or both. Unless otherwise elected in the Adoption Agreement, Years of Service shall be determined using the hours counting method on the basis of actual hours worked. |
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(g) | If the Plan determines Service for a given purpose on one basis and an Employee transfers to Employment covered by this Plan from Employment covered by another Qualified Plan which determines Service for such purpose on the other basis, and if the Employee’s Service for the period during which he was covered by such other plan is required to be taken into consideration under this Plan for that purpose, then the following rules shall apply: |
(1) | If such Service was determined under the other plan using the hours counting method, then the period so taken into consideration through the close of the computation period in which such transfer occurs shall be: |
(i) | the number of Years of Service credited to the Employee for such purpose under such other plan as of the start of such computation period, and | ||
for the computation period in which such transfer occurs, the greater of: |
(A) | his Service for such period as of the date of transfer determined under the rules of such other plan, or | ||
(B) | his Service for such period determined under the Elapsed Time rules of this Plan. |
Service after the close of that computation period shall be determined for such purpose solely under the Elapsed Time rules of this Plan. | |||
(2) | If such Service was determined under the other plan using the Elapsed Time method, then the period taken into consideration shall be (1) the number of one-year periods of Service credited to the Employee under such other plan as of the date of the transfer, and (2) for the computation period which includes the date of transfer, the Hours of Service equivalent to any fractional part of a Year of Service credited to him under such other plan. In determining such equivalency, the Employee shall be credited with one-hundred-ninety (190) Hours of Service for each month or fraction thereof. |
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(a) | In the event that an Employee has satisfied the eligibility requirements, but is not employed on the applicable Entry Date, such Employee will become a Participant for the purpose(s) for which an Employee had previously qualified upon his or her rehire. | ||
(b) | Except as otherwise provided in the Adoption Agreement, all Years of Service will be counted for purposes of determining whether an Employee has satisfied the Plan’s Service eligibility requirement, if any. If a Participant has a Break in Service or Period of Severance, Service before that Break in Service or Period of Severance shall be reinstated as of the date the Employee is credited with an Hour of Service after incurring such Break in Service or Period of Severance. | ||
(c) | In the event an Employee who is not a member of an eligible class of Employees becomes a member of an eligible class, such Employee shall participate immediately if such Employee has satisfied the minimum age and Service requirements and would have previously become a Participant had he or she been in an eligible class. | ||
(d) | A former Participant shall be eligible to authorize Elective Deferrals and may make other Employee Contributions as permitted under the Plan as of the date on which the individual is rehired. Such contributions shall resume immediately (or as soon as administratively feasible) on or after his or her date of rehire. A former Employee who had become a Participant for the purpose of Employer contributions shall again become a Participant with respect to Employer Contributions on the date on which the individual is rehired. | ||
(e) | An Employee who has become a Participant under the Plan will remain a Participant for as long as an account is maintained under the Plan for his or her benefit, or until his or her death, if earlier. | ||
(f) | Each Employee will share in Employer contributions for the period beginning on the date the Employee commences participation under the Plan and ending on the date on which such Employee terminates employment with the Employer or is no longer a member of an eligible class of Employees. |
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(a) | a non-integrated Employer contribution rate of at least 10% of Compensation [as defined in Code Section 415(c)(3)], but including amounts contributed pursuant to a salary reduction agreement which are excludable from the Employee’s gross income under Code Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B) or 403(b), | ||
(b) | immediate participation, and |
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(c) | full and immediate vesting. |
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(a) | The Employer will make periodic contributions to the Plan in accordance with the contribution formula or formulas elected in the Adoption Agreement. | ||
(b) | The Employer shall also make Matching, Top-Heavy minimum contributions and any other Employer contribution for the benefit of Participants who are covered by USERRA. Employer Matching Contributions under USERRA shall be made in the Plan Year for which the Participant exercises his or her right to make-up Elective Deferrals and/or other Employee contributions for prior years. Top-Heavy minimum contributions and other Employer contributions for USERRA protected Service shall be made during the Plan Year in which the individual returns to employment with the Employer. | ||
Employer contributions required under USERRA are not increased or decreased with respect to Plan investment earnings for the period to which such contributions relate. The Employer’s contribution for any Plan Year shall be subject to the limitations on allocations contained in Article X. |
(a) | SIMPLE 401(k) Matching Contribution Formula - For each Plan Year, the Employer shall contribute and allocate to each Eligible Employee’s account an amount equal to the Employee’s Elective Deferral contribution up to a limit of 3% of the Employee’s Compensation for the full Plan Year. If the Employer elects in the Adoption Agreement to make the Non-Elective Contribution as specified in paragraph 3.2(b) below, this Matching Contribution will not be made. | ||
(b) | SIMPLE 401(k) Non-Elective Contribution Formula - For any Plan Year, the Employer may elect to contribute a Non-Elective Contribution of 2% of Compensation for the full Plan Year for each Eligible Employee who received at least $5,000 of Compensation (or such lesser amount as elected by the Employer in the SIMPLE 401(k) Plan Adoption Agreement) for the Plan Year. The allocation thereof shall be unrelated to any Participant Elective Deferral contributions made hereunder. If the Employer elects in the Adoption Agreement to make the Non-Elective Contribution for a Plan Year, the Employer shall not make the Matching Contribution described in paragraph 3.2(a) above with respect to the same Plan Year. The Employer shall notify Eligible Employees within a reasonable period of time (before the sixtieth day) prior to the beginning of each Plan Year of its election to make the 2% Non-Elective Contribution in lieu of the Matching Contribution. | ||
(c) | The provisions of the Plan implementing the limitations of Code Section 415 apply to contributions made pursuant to paragraphs 3.2(a) and (b). | ||
(d) | In the event that the contribution and allocation formula above results in an Excess Annual Addition, such excess shall be corrected as provided for at paragraph 10.2 of the Basic Plan Document #01. The Employer’s contribution for any Plan Year shall be subject to the overall limitations on allocations contained in Article X. |
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(e) | No other Employer or Employee contributions may be made to the SIMPLE 401(k) Plan for the Plan Year other than Elective Deferrals described in paragraph 4.8, Matching or Non-Elective Contributions described in paragraphs 3.2(a) and (b), and Rollover Contributions described in Regulations Section 1.402(c)-2, Q&A1 (a). | ||
(f) | In the event the deduction of a contribution made by the Employer is disallowed under Code Section 404, such contribution (to the extent disallowed) must be returned to the Employer within one year of the disallowance of the deduction. | ||
(g) | All benefits attributable to contributions described in paragraphs 3.2(a) and (b) are nonforfeitable at all times, and all previous contributions made under the Plan provisions are nonforfeitable as of the beginning of the Plan Year the SIMPLE 401(k) provisions apply. |
(a) | Any contribution forwarded to the Trustee or Custodian due to a mistake of fact, provided that the contribution is returned to the Employer within one year of the date of the contribution. The Trustee will not increase the amount of the Employer contribution returnable under this paragraph 3.3 for any earnings attributable to the contribution but the Trustee will reduce the amount returned to the Employer for any losses incurred attributable to the excess contribution. | ||
(b) | In the event that the Commissioner of Internal Revenue determines that the Plan is not initially qualified under the Internal Revenue Code, any contribution dependent on the initial qualification by the Employer must be returned to the Employer within one year after the date the initial qualification is denied, but only if the application for the qualification is made 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 as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. | ||
(c) | Contributions forwarded to the Trustee or Custodian are presumed to be deductible and are conditioned on their deductibility. Contributions which are determined by the Internal Revenue Service to not be deductible will be returned to the Employer. |
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When the transferor plan is a profit-sharing, stock bonus or cash or deferred arrangement [401(k) plan] which included the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity provisions but was not required to do so, upon the transfer of those assets, the transferee plan may be amended to entirely eliminate the annuity option. |
(a) | In a Plan established under a standardized Adoption Agreement, a Participant who is employed on the last day of the Plan Year will share in the allocation of the Employer contribution and that Plan Year without regard to the Participant’s Hours of Service. | ||
In a Plan established under a standardized Adoption Agreement, a Participant who completed more than five hundred (500) Hours of Service or three (3) consecutive calendar months under the Elapsed Time method will share in the allocation of Employer contributions for the Plan Year, regardless of whether employed on the last day of the Plan Year. | |||
(b) | In a Plan established under a Nonstandardized Adoption Agreement, the Employer will elect in the Adoption Agreement whether any Employer contribution will be allocated to any Participant who |
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does not complete the necessary Hours of Service or consecutive calendar months requirement elected in the Adoption Agreement, subject to the Top Heavy minimum contribution requirements, if applicable. | |||
In a Plan established under a Nonstandardized Adoption Agreement, the Employer will elect in the Adoption Agreement whether a Participant will receive an allocation of the Employer’s contribution if not employed on the last day of the Plan Year. | |||
(c) | The Employer may elect in the standardized or Nonstandardized Adoption Agreement any other conditions a Participant must meet to receive an allocation under the Plan. |
(1) | Initial Theoretical Reserve. A Participant’s Theoretical Reserve as of the last day of the Participant’s first year of Projected Participation (year 1) is zero. However, if this Plan is a Prior Safe Harbor Plan with a Stated Benefit Formula that takes into account Plan Years prior to the first Plan Year and this Plan satisfies the safe harbor in Regulations Section 1.401(a)(4)-8(b)(3)(C), the Initial Theoretical Reserve is determined as follows: |
(i) | Calculate as of the last day of the Plan Year immediately preceding year 1, the present value of the stated benefit using the actuarial assumptions, the provisions of the Plan, and the Participant’s Compensation as of such date. For a Participant who is beyond Normal Retirement Age during year 1, the stated benefit will be determined using the actuarial assumptions, the provisions of the Plan, and the Participant’s Compensation as of such date, except that the straight life annuity factor used in that determination will be the factor applicable for the Participant’s Normal Retirement Age. | ||
(ii) | Calculate as of the last day of the Plan Year immediately preceding year 1 the present value of future Employer contributions, i.e., the contributions due each Plan Year using the actuarial assumptions, the provisions of the Plan, (disregarding those provisions of the Plan providing for the limitations of Code Section 415 or the minimum contributions under Code Section 416), and the Participant’s Compensation as of such date, beginning with year 1 through the end of the Plan Year in which the Participant attains Normal Retirement Age. | ||
(iii) | Subtract the amount determined in (ii) from the amount determined in (i). |
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(2) | Accumulate the Initial Theoretical Reserve determined in (1) and the Employer contribution (as limited by Code Section 415, without regard to any required minimum contributions under Code Section 416) for each Plan Year beginning in year 1 up through the last day of the current Plan Year (excluding contributions, if any, for the current Plan Year) using the Plan’s interest assumption in effect for each such year. In any Plan Year following the Plan Year in which the Participant attains Normal Retirement Age, the accumulation is calculated assuming an interest rate of 0%. |
For purposes of determining the level of annual Employer contribution necessary to fund the stated benefit, the calculations in (1) and (2) above will be made as of the last day of each Plan Year, on the basis of the Participant’s age on the Participant’s last birthday, using the interest rate in effect on the last day of the prior year. | |||
(c) | Step 3: Unfunded Amount — The excess, if any, of the amount determined in Step 1 over the amount determined in Step 2. | ||
(d) | Step 4: Contribution — Amortize the result in Step 3 by multiplying it by the applicable factor from Table II. For the Plan Year in which the Participant attains Normal Retirement Age and for any subsequent Plan Year, the applicable factor is 1.0. |
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(a) | the amount distributed to the Participant/Employee is deposited to the Plan no later than the sixtieth day after such distribution was received by the Participant/Employee, | ||
(b) | the amount distributed is not one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments made for the life (or life expectancy) of the Participant/Employee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the Participant/Employee and the Participant’s/Employee’s Beneficiary, or for a specified period of ten (10) years or more, | ||
(c) | the amount distributed is not a required minimum distribution under Code Section 401(a)(9), |
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(d) | if the amount distributed included property, such property is rolled over only upon the Trustee, Custodian and/or Employer’s approval, or if sold, the proceeds of such property may be rolled over, |
(f) | the amount rolled over does not include any amounts contributed on an after-tax basis by the Participant to the Qualified Plan. |
(a) | If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, a Participant or an Employee may arrange for the direct transfer of his or her entire benefit from another Qualified Plan to the Plan established hereunder. Such transfer shall be made for any reason and may be in cash and/or in-kind. The Employer and/or the Trustee/Custodian in their sole discretion shall have the right to refuse to accept a transfer for any reason including but not limited to if such assets do not comply operationally, would result in a prohibited transaction, are not readily marketable or are not compatible with the Employer’s investment policy objectives. If necessary, for accounting and recordkeeping purposes, Transfer Contributions shall be treated in the same manner as Rollover Contributions. | ||
(b) | The Employer may arrange for the direct transfer of a Participant’s/Employee’s benefit from a Qualified Plan to this Plan. If necessary, for accounting and recordkeeping purposes, Transfer Contributions shall be treated in the same manner as Rollover Contributions. | ||
(c) | In the event the Employer accepts a Transfer Contribution from a Plan in which the Participant/Employee was directing the investment of his or her account, the Employer may, if the Employer determines that it is appropriate and not in violation of the nondiscrimination rules under Regulation Section 1.401(a)(4)-4, permit the Employee to continue to direct his or her investments in accordance with paragraph 12.7 with respect only to such Transfer Contribution. | ||
(d) | Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, to the extent that any optional form of benefit under the Plan established hereunder permits a distribution prior to the Employee’s 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(1), 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 Voluntary After-tax Contributions). |
(a) | The plan from which the benefits are transferred must provide that the transfer is conditioned upon a voluntary, fully informed election by the Participant to transfer his or her entire benefit to another qualified Defined Contribution Plan. As an alternative to the transfer, the Participant must be offered the opportunity to retain the Participant’s Code Section 411(d)(6) protected benefits |
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under the Plan [or if the Plan is terminating, to receive any optional form of benefit for which the Participant is eligible under the Plan as required by Code Section 411(d)(6)]. | |||
(b) | The transferring plan must be the same plan type as the Plan sponsored by the Employer. When benefits are being transferred from a qualified cash or deferred arrangement under Code Section 401(k), the benefits must be transferred to a qualified cash or deferred arrangement under Code Section 401(k). Money purchase pension plans must be transferred to money purchase pension plans. Benefits transferred from a profit-sharing plan other than a 401(k) plan or employee stock ownership plan may be transferred to any type of Defined Contribution Plan, even if the event is not one that allows a distribution. | ||
(c) | The transfer must be made in connection with certain corporate transactions such as an asset or stock acquisition, merger or other similar transaction involving a change in Employer of the Employees of a trade or business [i.e., an acquisition or disposition within the meaning of Regulation Section 1.410(b)-2(f)] or in connection with the Participant’s transfer of employment to a different job for which Service does not result in additional allocations under the transferor plan. | ||
(d) | This type of elective transfer is only available for transfers made on or after September 6, 2000, even if the transaction or change of employment occurred prior to that date. | ||
(e) | If the conditions outlined in (a), (b), (c) and (d) above are met, the Employer’s Plan is not required to protect optional forms of benefits available under the prior plan with respect to any benefit transferred [except as required by the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements under Code Sections 401(a)(11) and 417]. Such a transfer is not a protected optional form of benefit, but rather is a “right or feature” under Regulation Section 1.401(a)(4)-4(e). |
A Participant may enter into a Salary Deferral Agreement with the Employer authorizing the Employer to withhold a portion of such Participant’s Compensation not to exceed the dollar limit under Code Section 402(g), as adjusted under Code Section 415(d), for the Applicable Calendar Year, or the percentage or dollar amount of Compensation specified in the Adoption Agreement. | |||
Any Salary Deferral Agreement may not be effective earlier than the latest date of the following: |
(1) | The date of the Participant’s entry (or reentry) into the Plan; | ||
(2) | the execution of the Participant’s Salary Deferral Agreement; | ||
(3) | the date the Employer adopts the 401(k) Plan by executing the Adoption Agreement; | ||
(4) | the Effective Date of the Elective Deferral provisions as specified in the Adoption Agreement. |
Any such contribution shall be credited to the Employee’s Elective Deferral account. A Participant may terminate deferrals at any time. A Participant may amend his or her Salary Deferral Agreement to increase or decrease his or her deferral percentage upon notice in accordance with the provisions in the Adoption Agreement or such other uniform and nondiscriminatory procedures. The Employer shall determine the permitted frequency of such changes which shall be no less frequently than once each calendar year. Any such election will be effective as soon as practicable following the receipt of the notification by the Employer in accordance with uniform and nondiscriminatory procedures established and communicated to the Participants. The Participant shall notify the Employer of any change in his or her deferral election in writing or in such other form or manner as permitted. The Employer may, notwithstanding any limit to the contrary in the Adoption Agreement, limit the maximum deferral |
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percentage for Highly Compensated Employees. If a Participant terminates his or her agreement, such Participant shall be permitted to put a new Salary Deferral Agreement into effect as provided in the Adoption Agreement or any other uniform and nondiscriminatory procedures established. The Employer may also amend or terminate said agreement on notice to the affected Participant, if required to maintain the qualified status of the Plan. | |||
(d) | If permitted by the Employer, when a Participant who has not authorized the Employer to withhold the maximum annual deferral amount pursuant to Code Section 402(g) and desires to increase the total amount withheld for a Plan Year, the Participant may authorize the Employer to withhold a supplemental amount up to 100% of his or her Compensation for one or more pay periods. In no event may the amounts withheld under the Salary Deferral Agreement plus any additional amount deferred exceed the lesser of 25% of a Participant’s Compensation or any other limitation elected in the Adoption Agreement by the Employer. | ||
(e) | If the Plan permits Voluntary After-tax Contributions and the Employer has elected in the Adoption Agreement, all or any portion of amounts previously withheld under any Salary Deferral Agreement may be recharacterized as Voluntary After-tax Contributions within the Plan Year. | ||
(f) | Elective Deferrals shall be deposited in the Plan’s Trust as soon as administratively feasible after being withheld from the Participant’s Compensation at the earliest date on which the contributions can reasonably be segregated from the Employer’s general assets, but no later than the time prescribed by the Code, ERISA or by applicable Treasury or Department of Labor Regulations. |
(a) | An Eligible Employee may enter into a Salary Deferral Agreement with the Employer authorizing the Employer to withhold a portion of such Eligible Employee’s Compensation, not to exceed $6,000 per calendar year, as adjusted to reflect any annual cost-of-living increases announced by the Internal Revenue Service. No Eligible Employee shall be permitted to make Elective Deferrals under this Plan, or any other Qualified Plan maintained by the Employer, during any taxable year in excess of the dollar limitation contained in Code Section 402(g) in effect in at the beginning of such taxable year. The $6,000 limit may be reduced if an Eligible Employee contributes pre-tax contributions to Qualified Plans of other employers. | ||
(b) | In addition to any other election periods provided, each Participant may make or modify his Salary Deferral Agreement during the sixty (60) day election period immediately preceding each January 1. | ||
(c) | For the Plan Year in which an Eligible Employee becomes eligible to make Elective Deferrals under the SIMPLE 401(k) Plan provisions, the sixty (60) day election period requirement of paragraph 4.8(b) above is deemed satisfied if the Eligible Employee may make or modify a Salary Deferral Agreement election during a sixty (60) day period that includes either the date the Employee becomes eligible, or the day before. | ||
(d) | An Eligible Employee may amend his or her Salary Deferral Agreement to increase or decrease the percentage upon proper and timely notice to the Employer. The Employer shall determine the permitted frequency of such changes. An Eligible Employee may terminate his or her Salary Deferral Agreement at any time during the Plan Year upon notice to the Employer. If an Eligible Employee terminates his or her Salary Deferral Agreement, such Eligible Employee will be permitted to execute a new Salary Deferral Agreement in accordance with the provisions elected in the Adoption Agreement or any other uniform and nondiscriminatory procedure. The Employer may also amend or terminate any Salary Deferral Agreement on notice to the affected Eligible Employee, if required to maintain the qualified status of the Plan. |
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(e) | If permitted by the Employer, a Participant who has not authorized the Employer to withhold at the maximum annual deferral amount and desires to increase the total amount withheld for a Plan Year, such Participant may authorize the Employer to withhold an amount up to 100% of his or her Compensation for one or more pay periods. | ||
(f) | Elective Deferrals shall be deposited in the Plan’s Trust as soon as administratively feasible after being withheld from the Participant’s Compensation at the earliest date on which the contributions can reasonable be segregated from the Employer’s general assets but no later than the time prescribed by the Code, ERISA or by applicable Treasury or Department of Labor Regulations. | ||
(g) | The Employer will notify each Eligible Employee prior to the sixty (60) day election period described in paragraph 4.8(b) that he or she can make an Elective Deferral or modify a prior election during that period. | ||
(h) | The notification described in this subparagraph 4.8(h) will indicate whether the Employer will provide a Matching Contribution described in paragraph 3.2(a) or a 2% Non-Elective Contribution described in paragraph 3.2(b). | ||
(i) | The Plan is not treated as a Top-Heavy Plan under Code Section 416 for any Plan Year for which the SIMPLE 401(k) Plan provisions apply. |
(a) | If the Employer so elects in the Adoption Agreement, each Employee eligible under the Employer’s Code Section 401(k) cash or deferred arrangement shall automatically become a Participant in the Plan as of the first Entry Date after satisfying the Plan’s eligibility requirements. The Employer may elect on the Adoption Agreement to apply the automatic enrollment provisions to current Employees and Participants or only to Employees hired on or after the Effective Date of the adoption of or the amendment to the Plan providing for the automatic enrollment provisions. If the Employer elects the provision to apply to current Employees, the Employer will apply the automatic enrollment provision to Employees and Participants who are deferring at less than the amount elected on the Adoption Agreement on or after the Effective Date of the adoption of or the amendment to the Plan, except for those Employees and Participants who make an affirmative election to receive the Compensation in cash. | ||
(b) | After satisfying the Plan’s eligibility requirements, each Employee will have his or her Compensation automatically reduced by the percentage elected in the Adoption Agreement. These amounts will be contributed to the Plan. An election by the Employee not to make Elective Deferrals or to contribute a different percentage may be made at any time. The election is effective for the first pay period and subsequent pay periods (until superseded by a subsequent election) if filed when the Employee is hired, or within a reasonable period thereafter ending before the Compensation for the first pay period is currently made available. In the event an Employee has Elective Deferrals withheld pursuant to this provision and no investment directive has been received, any cash received shall be invested as provided for in paragraph 13.8 herein. If an Employee elects to receive cash in lieu of Elective Deferrals and the election is made when the Employee is hired or within a reasonable period thereafter ending before the Compensation is currently available, then no Elective Deferrals for the first pay period or subsequent pay periods are made on the Employee’s behalf to the Plan until the Employee makes a subsequent affirmative election to reduce his or her Compensation. Elections filed at a later date are effective for payroll periods beginning in the month next following the date the election is filed. | ||
(c) | For those current Participants who are deferring at a percentage or dollar amount less than the amount elected on the Adoption Agreement, the Employer will in the first payroll period after the effective date of the amendment reduce the Participant’s Compensation by the difference between the Participant’s current deferral election and the election as stated on the Adoption Agreement. |
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(d) | At the time an Employee is hired, the Plan Administrator shall provide the Employee a notice that explains the automatic enrollment provision. This notice will also explain the Employee’s right to elect to have no such Elective Deferrals made to the Plan or to alter the amount of those contributions. This notice will include the procedure for exercising the right and the timing for implementation of any such election. The Plan Administrator shall provide each Participant in the Plan with an annual notice of his or her Elective Deferral percentage and each Participant’s right to change the percentage, including the procedure for exercising that right and the timing for implementation of any such election. Prior to an Employee’s automatic enrollment becoming effective, the Plan Administrator will provide such Employee with appropriate guidance as to the procedures then in effect, for the Employee to make alternative elections referenced above. Each Employee deferring Compensation pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed to have consented to an Elective Deferral contribution in the amount specified by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, unless he/she has filed an election to the contrary with the Plan Administrator pursuant to the Plan’s administrative procedures. |
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(1) | Non Safe-Harbor Matching Contribution Formula 1 Contributions | ||
(2) | Non Safe-Harbor Matching Contribution Formula 2 Contributions | ||
(3) | Qualified Matching Contributions | ||
(4) | Qualified Non-Elective Contributions | ||
(5) | Discretionary Contributions | ||
(6) | Safe Harbor Matching Contributions | ||
(7) | Safe Harbor Non-Elective Contributions | ||
(8) | Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contributions | ||
(9) | Target Benefit Contributions | ||
(10) | SIMPLE 401(k) Matching Contributions | ||
(11) | SIMPLE 401(k) Non-Elective Contributions | ||
Money Purchase Pension Plan Contributions |
(b) | Employee contributions: |
(1) | Voluntary After-tax Contributions | ||
(2) | Qualified Voluntary Contributions | ||
(3) | Elective Deferrals | ||
(4) | Required After-tax Contributions | ||
Rollover Contributions | |||
Transfer Contributions | |||
Elective Deferrals in a SIMPLE 401(k) Plan |
(a) | Plan Administrators utilizing a daily valuation system for Participant recordkeeping purposes shall process any contributions, distributions, investment income or loss, any appreciation or depreciation, investment transactions (including a purchase or sale of an investment alternative) and any other transactions which affect a Participant on each business day that securities are traded on the New York Stock Exchange or any other national securities market. Individual Participant recordkeeping accounts are updated in accordance with paragraph 5.3 hereof as of each |
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Valuation Date specified in the Adoption Agreement or such other date as elected by the Plan Administrator. | |||
(b) | Plan Administrators utilizing a balance forward valuation system for Participant recordkeeping purposes will process contributions, distributions, investment income or loss, investment transactions (including a purchase or sale of an investment alternative) and any other transactions at the Plan level on the Valuation Date and those other Valuation Dates as specified in the Adoption Agreement or any other date(s) as the determined by the Plan Administrator. Individual Participant recordkeeping accounts will be updated within the allocation period on the date or dates determined by the Plan Administrator with respect to contributions and distributions. Investment earnings will be allocated at the end of the valuation period. Any other transactions which affect Participant accounts will be posted or allocated to individual Participant accounts on the next following Valuation Date unless the Plan Administrator elects, in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, to allocate such transactions as they occur. The Employer may utilize a daily valuation system for a portion of the Plan and a balance forward valuation system for the balance of the Plan. |
(a) | the Participant’s share of the Employer’s contribution and forfeitures as determined in the Adoption Agreement, | ||
(b) | any Employee contributions, | ||
(c) | any repayment of amounts previously distributed to a Participant upon a separation from Service and repaid by the Participant since the last Allocation Date, | ||
(d) | the Participant’s proportionate share of any investment earnings and increase in the fair market value of the Trust since the last Allocation Date, and | ||
(e) | loan repayments of principal and interest. |
(f) | any withdrawals or payments made from the Participant’s account since the last Allocation Date, | ||
(g) | the Participant’s proportionate share of any decrease in the fair market value of the Trust since the last allocation Date, and | ||
(h) | the Participant’s proportionate share of any fees and expenses paid from the Plan. |
(a) | The Employer must specify in the Adoption Agreement the manner in which the Employer’s contribution shall be allocated to Participants including any minimum contribution for Top-Heavy Plans. Employer contributions shall be allocated to all Participants eligible to receive a contribution as provided in the Adoption Agreement. | ||
(b) | Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, Participants will accrue the right to share in allocations of Employer contributions with respect to periods of qualified military service as provided in Code Section 414(u). |
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(c) | At the end of each Plan Year the Plan Administrator shall redetermine any Matching Contribution for each Participant based on his or her eligible annual Compensation in accordance with the Matching Contribution formula elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement. Any Participant for whom any Matching Contribution has not been sufficiently made in accordance with the Matching Contribution formula elected by the Employer shall receive an additional Matching Contribution so that the total annual deferrals (whether pre-tax or after-tax) reflected as a percentage of eligible annual Compensation are matched in accordance with the Matching Contribution formula (“true-up” of Matching Contributions) selected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement. If no election is made on the Adoption Agreement, no true-up of Matching Contributions will occur. |
(a) | The value of a Participant’s account invested in a mutual fund (Registered Investment Company) will equal the value of a share in such fund multiplied by the number of shares credited to the Participant’s account. | ||
(b) | In the case of any pooled investment vehicle, earnings, gains or losses on the pooled investment vehicle will be allocated among the Participant’s accounts in proportion to the value of each Participant’s account invested in that investment vehicle immediately prior to the Valuation Date. The gain or loss attributed to each investment vehicle will be credited to or charged against the Participants’ account. Alternatively, the Plan Administrator or his designate may establish unit values for each pooled investment vehicle offered under the Plan in accordance with uniform procedures established by the Plan Administrator for this purpose. The value of the portion of a Participant’s account invested in a pooled investment vehicle will equal the value of a unit in such investment vehicle multiplied by the number of units credited to the account. | ||
(c) | In the case of any investment that is held specifically for a Participant’s account, any gain or loss on such investment will be charged or credited to that Participant’s account. |
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(a) | If a Participant terminates employment prior to Normal Retirement Age, such Participant shall be entitled to receive the vested balance held in his or her account payable at Normal Retirement Age in the normal form, or if elected, in one of the other forms of payment provided hereunder. If applicable, the Early Retirement benefit provisions may be elected. Notwithstanding the preceding, a former Participant may, if allowed in the Adoption Agreement, make application to the Employer requesting early payment of any deferred vested and nonforfeitable benefit due. |
(c) | For purposes of this Article, if the value of a Participant’s Vested Account Balance is zero, the Participant shall be deemed to have received a distribution of such Vested Account Balance immediately following termination. If the Participant is reemployed prior to incurring five (5) consecutive one (1) year Breaks in Service or Periods of Severance, he or she will be deemed to have immediately repaid such distribution. Notwithstanding the above, if the Employer maintains or has maintained a policy of not distributing any amounts until the Participant’s Normal Retirement Age, the Employer can continue to uniformly apply such policy. | ||
(d) | If a Participant terminates employment with a Vested Account Balance greater than $5,000, and elects (with his or her Spouse’s consent, if required) to receive 100% of the value of his or her Vested Account Balance in a lump sum, the nonvested portion will be treated as a forfeiture. The Participant (and his or her Spouse, if required) must consent to any distribution when the Vested Account Balance described above exceeds $5,000. | ||
(e) | If a Participant who is not 100% vested receives or is deemed to receive a distribution pursuant to this paragraph and resumes employment covered under this Plan, the Participant shall have the right to repay to the Plan the full amount of the distribution attributable to both Employer contributions and Elective Deferrals on or before the earlier of the date the Participant incurs five (5) consecutive one (1) year Breaks in Service following the date of distribution or five (5) years |
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after the first date on which the Participant is subsequently reemployed. In such event, the Participant’s account shall be restored to the value thereof at the time the distribution was made. The account may be further increased by the Plan’s income and investment gains and/or losses on the undistributed amount from the date of the distribution to the date of repayment. | |||
(f) | If the Participant’s Vested Account Balance is greater than $5,000, a Participant shall have the option to postpone payment of his or her Plan benefits until his or her Required Beginning Date. If elected in the Adoption Agreement, any balance in a Participant’s account resulting from his or her Employee contributions listed at paragraph 5.1(b), hereof, not previously withdrawn, may be withdrawn by the Participant immediately following separation from Service. | ||
(g) | If a Participant ceases to be an active Employee as a result of a Disability, such Participant shall have the right to make an application for a disability retirement benefit payment. The Participant’s account balance will be deemed “immediately distributable” as set forth in paragraph 6.4, and will be fully vested pursuant to paragraph 9.2. | ||
(h) | If elected in the Adoption Agreement, when a terminating Participant or Employee does not make a timely election with respect to the cash out distribution of amounts greater than $1,000 but less than or equal to $5,000, pursuant to Code Sections 411(a)(7), 411(a)(11) and 417(e)(7), the Plan Administrator will make a direct rollover into an individual retirement account or annuity (“IRA”). The Plan Administrator will select the IRA trustee or custodian, establish the IRA and make the initial IRA investment selection. |
(a) | An account balance is immediately distributable if any part of the account balance could be distributed to the Participant (or Surviving Spouse) before the Participant attains (or would have attained if not deceased) the later of the Normal Retirement Age or age sixty-two (62). |
(c) | If payment in the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity is not required with respect to a Participant and the value of a Participant’s Vested Account Balance exceeds $5,000, and the account balance is immediately distributable, only the Participant must consent to any distribution of such account balance. | ||
(d) | The consent of the Participant and/or the Spouse shall be obtained in writing or in such other form accepted by the Plan Administrator within the ninety (90) day period ending on the Annuity Starting Date, which is the first day of the first period for which an amount is paid as an annuity or in any other form. The Plan Administrator shall notify the Participant and the Participant’s Spouse of the right to defer any distribution until the Participant’s account balance is no longer immediately distributable. Such notification shall include a general description of the material features, and an explanation of the relative values of, the optional forms of benefit available under the Plan in a manner that would satisfy the notice requirements of Code Section 417(a)(3), and shall be provided no less than thirty (30) days and no more than ninety (90) days prior to the Annuity Starting Date. | ||
(e) | If the distribution is one to which Code Sections 401(a)(11) and 417 do not apply, such distribution may commence less than thirty (30) days after the notice required under Regulation Section 1.411(a)-11(c) is given provided that: |
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(1) | the Plan Administrator clearly informs the Participant that the Participant has the 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. |
If a distribution is one to which Code Section 417 does apply, the distribution may commence less than thirty (30) days, but not less than seven (7) days after the notice required under Regulations Section 1.411(a)-11(c) is given, provided that the conditions of sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) above are satisfied with regard to both the Participant and the Participant’s Spouse. | |||
(f) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, only the Participant need consent to the commencement of a distribution in the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity while the account balance is immediately distributable. Furthermore, if payment in the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity is not required with respect to the Participant pursuant to paragraph 8.7 of the Plan, only the Participant need consent to the distribution of an account balance that is immediately distributable. Neither the consent of the Participant nor the Participant’s Spouse shall be required to the extent that a distribution is required to satisfy Code Section 401(a)(9) or Code Section 415 or constitutes Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions or Excess Aggregate Contributions. In addition, upon termination of this Plan if the Plan does not offer an annuity option (purchased from a commercial provider), the Participant’s account balance may, without the Participant’s consent, be distributed to the Participant or transferred to another Defined Contribution Plan [other than an employee stock ownership plan as defined in Code Section 4975(e)(7)] within the same controlled group. |
(a) | The normal form of payment for a profit sharing, 401(k) or SIMPLE 401(k) plan satisfying the requirements of paragraph 8.7 herein shall be a lump sum. | ||
A Plan other than a money purchase pension plan, a target benefit plan or a profit-sharing plan required to provide a Joint and Survivor benefit may be amended to eliminate or restrict optional payment forms provided that a single lump sum payment options remains available, that is an otherwise identical distribution form to the eliminated or restricted option, except with respect to the timing of payments after commencement. The form must have the same (or less restrictive) timing of distribution, medium of distribution and eligibility conditions that were available for the eliminated forms of payment, and any such amendment will not be effective until the earlier of ninety (90) days after the date that Plan Participants are provided with the written notice of the Plan amendment in the form of a summary of material modification (SMM) or the first day of the second Plan Year after the Plan Year in which the amendment is adopted. | |||
Each optional form of benefit provided under a standardized or non-standardized safe-harbor plan (other than any that have been prospectively eliminated) must be currently available to all Employees benefiting under the Plan. This is the case regardless of whether a particular form of benefit is the actuarial equivalent of any other optional form of benefit under the Plan. Code Section 411(d)(6) prevents a Plan from being amended to eliminate or restrict optional forms of benefits and any other Code Section 411(d)(6) protected benefits with respect to benefits attributable to Service before the amendments except as expressly provided under the Regulations Section 1.411(d)-4. | |||
For money purchase and target benefit plans, the normal form of payment hereunder shall be a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity as provided under Article VIII. Effective January 1, 2002, the Employer may elect in the Adoption Agreement to eliminate any periodic payment options |
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that are not required by the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity rules such as but
not limited to installment payments. The normal form of payment shall be automatic, unless the Participant files a written request with the Employer prior to the date on which the benefit is automatically payable, electing another option available under the Plan. |
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A Participant whose Vested Account Balance exceeds $5,000 shall (with the consent of his or her spouse, if applicable) have the right to receive his or her benefit in a single lump sum or in installment payments. Installment payments need not be equal or substantially equal until such time as the individual reaches his or her Required Beginning Date. Installment payments which are intended to be equal or substantially equal can be made monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually based on any period not extending beyond the Joint and Survivor life expectancy of the Participant and his or her Beneficiary. | |||
Benefits payable under the Plan may be distributed in cash or in-kind as elected in the Adoption Agreement. | |||
The Employer may elect on the Adoption Agreement to limit a Participant’s right to receive distributions in the form of marketable securities (other than Employer securities) and to require distributions in the form of cash only. Only the right to receive a distribution in the form of cash, Employer securities and/or other property that is not marketable is protected. Any such amendment to the Plan will not be effective until the earlier of ninety (90) days after the date that Plan Participants are provided with the written notice of the Plan amendment in the form of a summary of material modification (SMM) or the first day of the second Plan Year after the Plan Year in which the amendment is adopted. | |||
A Plan that permits its Participants to receive in-kind distributions may limit the available in-kind distributions to the investments listed in the Adoption Agreement and only to the extent the investments are held in the Participant’s account at the time of the distribution. A Plan may be amended to limit the investments which will be distributed in-kind. The amendment must include all investments (other than marketable securities for which cash may be substituted) that are held in a Participant’s account at the time of the amendment and for which the Plan, prior to such amendment, allowed for distribution of those investments in kind. The right to an in-kind distribution for investments held at the time of the distribution would only have to be protected to the extent such investment was in the Participant’s account at the time the amendment was adopted or effective, if later. Any such amendment will not be effective until the earlier of ninety (90) days after the date that Plan Participants are provided with the written notice of the Plan amendment in the form of a summary of material modification (SMM) or the first day of the second Plan Year after the Plan Year in which the amendment is adopted. | |||
Promissory notes of Participants may be distributed in-kind pursuant to the Employer’s loan policy document. | |||
Distribution of benefits payable in the form of installments shall be paid in cash. | |||
The propriety, amount, and form of any distribution made under the terms of this Plan shall be determined by the Plan Administrator. Upon such determination, the Plan Administrator shall direct the Trustee or Custodian in writing or by any such other means as expressly agreed upon, to make such a distribution. |
(a) | Unless the Participant elects otherwise, distribution of benefits will begin no later than the sixtieth day after the close of the Plan Year in which the latest of the following events occurs: |
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(1) | the Participant attains age sixty-five (65) (or Normal Retirement Age if earlier), | ||
(2) | the tenth anniversary of the year in which the Participant commenced participation in the Plan, or | ||
(3) | the Participant terminates Service with the Employer. |
(b) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, the failure of a Participant and Spouse (if necessary) to consent to a distribution while a benefit is immediately distributable within the meaning of paragraph 6.4 hereof, shall be deemed an election to defer commencement of payment of any benefit sufficient to satisfy this paragraph. | ||
(c) | If elected in the Adoption Agreement, if a terminating Participant or Employee does not make a timely election with respect to the cash-out distribution pursuant to Code Sections 411(a)(7), 411(a)(11) and 417(e)(1), the Plan Administrator will make a direct rollover into an individual retirement account or annuity (IRA). The Plan Administrator will select the IRA trustee or custodian, establish the IRA account and make the initial IRA investment selection. |
(a) | Distributions Subject To Code Section 417 — If payments in the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity are required with regard to a Participant, the rules in this sub-paragraph 6.7(a) are substituted for the rule in the first sentence of paragraph 6.4(b). If the value of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance exceeds $5,000 (or at the time of any distribution (1) in Plan Years beginning before August 6, 1997, exceeded $3,500 or (2) in Plan Years beginning after August 5, 1997, exceeded $5,000), and the account balance is immediately distributable, the Participant and the Participant’s Spouse (or where either the Participant or the Spouse has died, the survivor) must consent to any distribution of such account balance. | ||
(b) | Distributions Not Subject To Code Section 417 — If payment in the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity is not required with respect to a Participant, the rules in this subparagraph 6.7(b) are substituted for the rules in paragraph 6.4(c). | ||
If the value of a Participant’s Vested Account Balance derived from Employer and Employee contributions: |
(1) | for Plan Years beginning before August 6, 1997, exceeds $3,500 (or exceeded $3,500 at the time of any prior distribution), | ||
(2) | for Plan Years beginning after August 5, 1997, exceeds $3,500 (or exceeded $3,500 at the time of any prior distribution), | ||
(3) | for Plan Years beginning after August 5, 1997 and for a distribution made after March 21, 1999, that either exceeds $5,000 or is a remaining payment under a selected optional form of payment that exceeded $5,000 at the time the selected payment began, and the account balance is immediately distributable, the Participant and the Participant’s Spouse (or where either the Participant or the Spouse had died, the survivor) must consent to any distribution of such account balance. |
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(a) | An Participant may withdraw all or any part of the fair market value of his or her Voluntary or Required After-tax Contributions as described in Article IV, other than Elective Deferrals, upon request to the Plan Administrator unless indicated otherwise on the Adoption Agreement. No amount will be forfeited solely as a result of a Participant’s withdrawal of an amount pursuant to this paragraph 6.8. Employee Rollover and Transfer Contributions and the income allocable to each may be withdrawn at any time unless indicated otherwise on the Adoption Agreement. | ||
(b) | Subject to Article VIII, Joint and Survivor Annuity Requirements (if applicable) and pursuant to the Employer’s election in the Adoption Agreement, a Participant may be eligible to withdraw any part of his or her Qualified Voluntary Contribution account by making application to the Plan Administrator. A request to withdraw amounts pursuant to this paragraph must be consented to by the Participant’s Spouse unless the Plan satisfies the safe harbor under paragraph 8.7 hereof. Spousal consent, if required, shall comply with the requirements of paragraph 6.4 relating to immediate distributions. | ||
(c) | A Participant may withdraw all or any part of the fair market value of his or her pre-1987 Voluntary Contributions with or without withdrawing the earnings attributable thereto. Post-1986 Voluntary Contributions may only be withdrawn along with a portion of the earnings thereon. The amount of the earnings to be withdrawn is determined by using the formula: DA [1-(V ÷ V+E)], where DA is the distribution amount, V is the amount of Voluntary Contributions and V+E is the amount of Voluntary Contributions plus the earnings attributable thereto. The aggregate value of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance derived from Employer and Employee contributions (including Rollovers), whether vested before or upon death, includes the proceeds of insurance contracts, if any, on the Participant’s life. The provisions of this Article shall apply to a Participant who is vested in amounts attributable to Employer contributions, Employee contributions (or both) at the time of death or distribution. | ||
(d) | Under a Profit Sharing Plan to the extent that the Employer elects in the Adoption Agreement, one of the following conditions is required to withdraw all or any part of the vested Non-Safe Harbor Matching Contributions and discretionary contributions. |
(1) | An Employee who has been a Participant in the Plan for at least five (5) years may, prior to separating from Service with the Employer, elect to withdraw all or any part of the vested Non-Safe Harbor Matching Contributions, and discretionary contributions. | ||
(2) | An Employee who has been a Participant in the Plan for at least two (2) years may, prior to separating from Service with the Employer, elect to withdraw all or any part of the vested Non-Safe Harbor Matching Contributions and discretionary contributions. | ||
(3) | A Participant who had attained age 591/2 may, prior to separation from Service, elect to withdraw all of any part of the vested Non-Safe Harbor Matching Contributions and discretionary contributions. |
(e) | Unless otherwise elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, Elective Deferrals, Qualified Non-Elective Contributions, Safe Harbor Matching and Non-Elective Contributions, and Qualified Matching Contributions, and income allocable to each, are not distributable to a Participant earlier than upon separation from Service, death, or Disability. Such amounts may also be distributed upon: |
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(1) | termination of the Plan without the establishment of another Defined Contribution Plan other than an employee stock ownership plan [as defined in Code Section 4975(e)(7)] or a Simplified Employee Pension Plan [as defined in Code Section 408(k)], or a SIMPLE IRA plan [as defined in Code Section 408(p)], | ||
(2) | the disposition by a corporation to an unrelated corporation of substantially all of the assets [within the meaning of Code Section 409(d)(2)] used in a trade or business of such corporation if such corporation continues to maintain this Plan after the disposition, but only with respect to Employees who continue employment with the corporation acquiring such assets, | ||
(3) | the disposition by a corporation to an unrelated entity of such corporation’s interest in a subsidiary [within the meaning of Code Section 409(d)(3)] if such corporation continues to maintain this Plan, but only with respect to Employees who continue employment with such subsidiary, | ||
the attainment of age 591/2, or | |||
the hardship of a Participant as described in paragraph 6.9. |
(f) | An in-service withdrawal shall not be eligible for redeposit to the Trust. A withdrawal under this paragraph shall not prohibit such Participant from sharing in any future Employer contribution he or she would otherwise be eligible to receive. | ||
(g) | Money purchase pension plans and target benefit plans may not allow in-service withdrawals prior to attainment of the Normal Retirement Age as specified in the Adoption Agreement. | ||
(h) | Notwithstanding any provisions of the Plan to the contrary, to the extent that any optional form of benefit under this Plan permits a distribution prior to the Participant’s retirement, death, Disability, or separation from Service, and prior to Plan termination, the optional form of benefits 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 Voluntary After-tax Contributions). | ||
(i) | A Participant may withdraw any amount attributable to profit-sharing contributions, Elective Deferrals, Matching Contributions, Rollover and Transfer Contributions, not in excess of the vested amount of such contributions, if the withdrawal is made after the Participant attains age 591/2, as elected in the Adoption Agreement. | ||
(j) | Partially Vested Participants - If a distribution is made at a time when a Participant has a nonforfeitable right to less than 100% of the account balance derived from Employer contributions and the Participant may increase the nonforfeitable percentage in the account: |
(1) | a separate account will be established for the Participant’s interest in the Plan as of the time of the distribution, and | ||
(2) | at any relevant time the Participant’s nonforfeitable portion of the separate account will be equal to an amount (“X”) determined by the formula: |
For purposes of applying the formula: “P” is the nonforfeitable percentage at the relevant time, “AB” is the account balance at the relevant time, “D” is the amount of the distribution. |
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(a) | Administrative Requirements — A distribution will be considered as necessary to satisfy an immediate and heavy financial need of the Participant only if: |
(1) | The Participant has obtained all distributions, other than Hardship distributions, and all nontaxable loans under all plans maintained by the Employer. | ||
(2) | The Participant’s Elective Deferrals, Voluntary After-tax Contributions and Required After-tax Contributions will be suspended for all plans maintained by the Employer (other than benefits under Code Section 125 plans) for twelve (12) months after the receipt of the Hardship distribution. | ||
(3) | The distribution is not in excess of the amount of the immediate and heavy financial need described at paragraph (b) including amounts necessary to pay any Federal, state or local income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the distribution. | ||
(4) | All plans maintained by the Employer must provide that a 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 taxable year, less the amount of such Participant’s Elective Deferrals for the taxable year during which the Hardship distribution was received. |
(b) | Exclusive Reasons For Hardship Withdrawal — An immediate and heavy financial need exists when the Hardship withdrawal will be used to pay the following: |
(2) | the cost directly related to the purchase (excluding mortgage payments) of the principal residence of the Participant, | ||
(3) | payment of tuition and related educational expenses (including but not limited to expenses associated with room and board) for the next twelve (12) months of post-secondary education for the Participant, his or her Spouse, children or other dependents, or | ||
(4) | the need to prevent eviction of the Participant from, or a foreclosure on the mortgage of, the Participant’s principal residence. |
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(c) | If a request for a Hardship withdrawal is approved by the Plan Administrator, funds shall be withdrawn from the contribution sources as elected in the Adoption Agreement unless provided otherwise by the Plan Administrator in an administrative procedure. Liquidation of a Participant’s assets for the purpose of a Hardship withdrawal will be allocated on a pro-rata basis across all the investment alternatives in a Participant’s account, unless otherwise provided by administrative procedure or by a directive from the Plan Administrator or by the Plan Participant. |
(b) | If the entire Vested Account Balance is not eligible for a Direct Rollover of benefits as described in (a) above, the Participant may either make an elective transfer of the entire Vested Account Balance pursuant to the procedure described at paragraph 4.5 or a direct rollover of the portion which can be rolled over as described in (a) above and an elective transfer of the rest as described in paragraph 4.5 herein. | ||
(c) | After December 31, 2001, the elective transfer of distributable benefits will be available only if the direct rollover provisions of Code Section 401(a)(31) would not be available to transfer the Participant’s entire Vested Account Balance to the transferee plan. This elective transfer option will only be available in the following circumstances; |
(d) | Distributions that consist of the Participant’s entire account balance which is entirely eligible for rollover treatment will be transferred as a direct rollover rather than an elective transfer. |
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the life of the Participant, |
the life of the Participant and their Beneficiary, | ||
a period certain not extending beyond the life expectancy of the Participant, or | ||
a period certain not extending beyond the joint and last survivor life expectancy of the Participant and their Beneficiary. |
(a) | If a Participant’s benefit is to be distributed over (i) a period not extending beyond the life expectancy of the Participant or the joint life and last survivor expectancy of the Participant and the Participant’s Beneficiary or (ii) a period not extending beyond the life expectancy of the Beneficiary, the amount required to be distributed for each calendar year, beginning with distributions for the First Distribution Calendar Year, must at least equal the sum obtained by dividing the Participant’s benefit by the Applicable Life Expectancy. | ||
(b) | For calendar years beginning before January 1, 1988, if the Participant’s Spouse is not the designated Beneficiary, the method of distribution selected must assure that at least 50% of the Present Value of the amount available for the distribution is paid within the life expectancy of the Participant. | ||
(c) | For calendar years beginning after December 31, 1989, the amount to be distributed each year beginning with distributions for the First Distribution Calendar Year, shall not be less than the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant’s Benefit by the lesser of (i) the Applicable Life Expectancy or (ii) if the Participant’s Spouse is not the Beneficiary, the applicable divisor determined from the table set forth in Q&A-4 of Regulations Section 1.401(a)(9)-2. Distributions after the death of the Participant shall be distributed using the Applicable Life Expectancy as the relevant divisor without regard to Regulations Section 1.401(a)(9)-2. | ||
(d) | The minimum distribution required for the Participant’s First Distribution Calendar Year must be made on or before the Participant’s Required Beginning Date. The minimum distribution for other calendar years, including the minimum distribution for the Distribution Calendar Year in which |
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the Participant’s Required Beginning Date occurs, must be made on or before December 31 of that Distribution Calendar Year. | |||
(e) | If the Participant’s Benefit is distributed in the form of an annuity, distributions thereunder shall be made in accordance with the requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) and the Regulations thereunder. | ||
(f) | Distributions made to a Participant and the Participant’s Beneficiary shall be made in accordance with the incidental death benefit requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) and the Regulations issued thereunder. | ||
(g) | For purposes of determining the amount of the required distribution for each Distribution Calendar Year, the account balance to be used is the account balance determined as of the last Valuation Date preceding the Distribution Calendar Year. This balance will be increased by the amount of any contributions or forfeitures allocated to the account balance after the Valuation Date in such preceding calendar year. Such balance will also be decreased by distributions made after the Valuation Date in such preceding Calendar Year. | ||
(h) | For purposes of paragraph 7.4(g), if any portion of the minimum distribution for the First Distribution Calendar Year is made in the second Distribution Calendar Year on or before the Required Beginning Date, the amount of the minimum distribution made in the second Distribution Calendar Year shall be treated as if it had been made in the immediately preceding Distribution Calendar Year. |
The Required Beginning Date for a Participant who is a 5% owner with respect to the Plan Year ending in the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 701/2 is the April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 701/2. Once distributions have begun to a 5% owner under this paragraph, they must continue to be distributed even if the Participant ceases to be a 5% owner in any subsequent year. | |||
Unless the Employer has elected to continue to operate the provisions of the minimum required distribution in accordance with the provisions prior to the enactment of the SBJPA, or if elected otherwise in the Adoption Agreement or by operation of the Plan, the Required Beginning Date for a Participant who is not a 5% owner is no later than the April 1 of the calendar year following the later of the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 701/2 or the calendar year in which the Participant retires. | |||
If the Employer has elected to continue under the prior provisions of the law, then except as provided below, the Required Beginning Date is the April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which a Participant attains age 701/2. |
(1) | A Participant who: |
(i) | is not a 5% owner, | ||
(ii) | has not had a Separation from Service, | ||
had attained age 701/2 prior to 1997, and | |||
had previously commenced required minimum distributions under the distribution rules (as then in effect) may elect to discontinue receiving |
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distributions under the Plan. A Participant who makes such an election to discontinue distributions must establish a new Annuity Starting Date when benefits recommence under the Plan. A married Participant who is subject to the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity provisions of 8.9 must obtain spousal consent to discontinue his or her distributions if distributions are in the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity and to recommence benefits in a form other than a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity. Any such election will be made pursuant to the uniform and nondiscriminatory procedures established by the Plan Administrator. |
A Participant who: |
(iii) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Participant who is not a more than 5% owner, has not had a separation from service, and is currently in benefit payment status because of attainment of age 701/2 in 1997 or in a later year (or attained age 701/2 in 1996) may elect to discontinue receiving distributions under the Plan and recommence payments by April 1 of the calendar year in which the Participant retires. A Participant who makes such an election to discontinue distributions must establish a new Annuity Starting Date when benefits recommence under the Plan. A married Participant who is subject to the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity provisions of paragraph 8.9 must obtain spousal consent to discontinue his or her distributions if distributions are in the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity and to recommence benefits in the form other than a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity. Any such election will be made pursuant to the uniform and nondiscriminatory procedures established by the Plan Administrator. |
The Required Beginning Date for a Participant who: | |||
had attained age 701/2 prior to January 1, 1998, and |
(ii) | was not a 5% owner at any time during the Plan Year ending with or within the calendar year in which the Participant attained age 661/2 or any subsequent Plan Year, is April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant retires. |
Except as provided above, the Required Beginning Date for a Participant who was a 5% owner at any time during the five (5) Plan Year period ending in the calendar year in which the Participant attained age 701/2 is April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant attained age 701/2. For a Participant who became a 5% owner during any Plan Year after the calendar year in which the Participant attained age 701/2, the Required Beginning Date is April 1 of the calendar year in which such subsequent Plan Year ends. |
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(1) | the distribution by the Trust is one which would not have disqualified such Trust under Code Section 401(a)(9) as in effect prior to amendment by the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, | ||
(2) | the distribution is in accordance with a method of distribution designated by the Participant whose interest in the Trust is being distributed or, if the Participant is deceased, by a Beneficiary of such Participant, | ||
(3) | such designation was in writing, was signed by the Participant or the Beneficiary, and was made before January 1, 1984, | ||
(4) | the Participant had accrued a benefit under the Plan as of December 31, 1983, and | ||
(5) | 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. |
(b) | A distribution upon death will not be covered by this transitional rule 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. | ||
(c) | 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 subparagraphs (a)(1) through (5) above. | ||
(d) | 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 Code Section 242(b)(2) election of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. For calendar years beginning after 1988, such distributions must meet the minimum distribution incidental benefit requirements in Section 1.401(a)(9)-2 of the Income Tax Regulations. 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). In the case in which an amount is transferred or rolled over from one plan to another plan, the rules in Q&A J-2 and Q&A J-3 of the Regulations shall apply. |
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For purposes of the Plan, a Beneficiary is the person or persons designated as such in accordance with Code Section 401(a)(9) and the Regulations thereunder by the Participant or by the Participant’s surviving Spouse if the Participant’s surviving Spouse is entitled to receive distributions under the Plan. Such a designation by the Participant’s surviving Spouse, however, shall relate solely to the distributions to be made under the Plan after the death of both the Participant and the surviving Spouse. A Beneficiary designation shall be communicated to the Plan Administrator on a form or other type of communication acceptable to the Plan Administrator for use in connection with the Plan, signed by the designating person, and subject to the last sentence of this subparagraph (a), filed with the Plan Administrator in accordance with this paragraph 7.8 not later than thirty (30) days after the designating person’s death. The form may name individuals, trusts or estates to take upon the contingency of survival and may specify or limit the manner of distribution thereto. In the event a Participant or the Participant’s surviving Spouse, as the case may be, fails to properly designate a Beneficiary (including, as improper, a designation to which the Participant’s surviving Spouse did not properly consent) or in the event that no properly designated Beneficiary survives the Participant or the Participant’s surviving Spouse, as applicable, then the Beneficiary of such person shall be his surviving Spouse or, if none, his issue per stirpes or, if no issue, the Participant’s surviving parents in equal shares, or if no surviving parents, then to the Participant’s estate. | |||
The Beneficiary designation last accepted by the Plan Administrator during the designating person’s lifetime before such distribution is to commence shall be controlling and, whether or not fully dispositive of the vested portion of the account of the Participant involved, thereupon shall revoke all such forms previously filed by that person. | |||
Notwithstanding subparagraph (a) of this paragraph 7.8, the designation by a married Participant of any Beneficiary other than the Participant’s Spouse, or the change of any such Beneficiary to a new Beneficiary other than the Participant’s Spouse, shall not be valid unless made in writing and consented to by the Participant’s Spouse. The Spouse’s consent to such designation must be made in the manner described in this paragraph 7.8. | |||
Any Beneficiary designation made and in effect under a Qualified Plan immediately prior to that Plan’s amendment and continuation in the form of this Plan shall be deemed to be a valid Beneficiary designation filed under this Plan to the extent consistent with this Plan. If such Beneficiary designation was made with respect to a Qualified Plan that permitted the Participant to designate without spousal consent a Beneficiary to receive 50% of the Participant’s account balance in the event of the Participant’s death, with respect to such Beneficiary designation under this Plan, paragraph 7.8 shall be applied by application of 50% of the vested portion of the Participant’s account toward the purchase of a Qualified Pre-Retirement Survivor Annuity and the balance of the Participant’s account shall be paid to the designated Beneficiary pursuant to the provisions of Article VIII. In such event, the amount of Voluntary After-tax Contributions applied to the purchase of the annuity shall be in the same proportion as the Voluntary After-tax Contributions bear to the entire Participant’s account. |
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if any portion of the Participant’s interest is payable to a Beneficiary, distributions may be made over the life or over a period certain not greater than the life expectancy of the Beneficiary commencing on or before December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Participant died; | |||
if the Beneficiary is the Participant’s surviving Spouse, the date distributions are required to begin in accordance with (a) above shall not be earlier than the later of (i) December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Participant died or (ii) December 31 of the calendar year in which the Participant would have attained age 701/2. |
(a) | No Participant shall be permitted to defer under this Plan with respect to a calendar year more than the maximum dollar amount permitted under Code Section 402(g), as indexed, for such calendar year. If a Participant defers more than the maximum allowed due to mistake of fact, such Excess Elective Deferrals shall be distributed to the Participant no later than April 15 following the calendar year to which the excess is attributable. If a Participant who participates in this Plan and in another plan which permits Elective Deferrals defers more than the Code Section 402(g) maximum, such Participant shall have the right to notify one or both plans by March 1 of the calendar year following the year to which the excess is attributable requesting a distribution of the Excess Elective Deferral. A Participant is deemed to notify the Plan Administrator of any Excess Elective Deferrals that arise by taking into account only those Elective Deferrals made to the Plan of the Employer. If distribution is requested, the applicable plan(s) shall make distribution of the Excess Elective Deferrals, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, no later than April 15 following the calendar year to which the excess is attributable. Excess Elective Deferrals which are distributed on a timely basis shall not be considered Annual Additions for the Limitation Year during which such amounts are deferred. |
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(b) | Excess Elective Deferrals shall be adjusted for any income or loss up to the date of distribution. The income or loss allocable to Excess Elective Deferrals is the sum of (1) income or loss allocable to the Participant’s Elective Deferral account for the taxable year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is such Participant’s Excess Elective Deferrals for the year and the denominator is the Participant’s account balance attributable to Elective Deferrals without regard to any income or loss occurring during such taxable year; and (2) ten percent (10%) of the amount determined under (1) multiplied by the number of whole calendar months between the end of the Participant’s taxable year and the date of the distribution, counting the month of the distribution if the distribution occurs after the fifteenth (15th) of such month. | ||
(c) | The amount a Participant receives as a distribution of his or her Excess Elective Deferrals is includible in income with respect to the taxable year to which the excess is attributable. | ||
(d) | Any income attributable to the Excess Elective Deferrals determined in (b) above shall be includible in income with respect to the taxable year in which the excess is distributed. |
(a) | Excess Contributions plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, shall be distributed to affected Participants no later than the last day of the Plan Year following the Plan Year to which the Excess Contributions are attributable. Excess Contributions are allocated to the Highly Compensated Employees with the largest amounts of Employer contributions taken into account in calculating the ADP Test for the year in which the excess arose beginning with the Highly Compensated Employee with the largest amount of such Employer contributions and continuing in descending order until all the Excess Contributions have been allocated. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the “largest amount” is determined after distribution of any Excess Contributions. If such Excess Contributions are distributed more than two and one-half (21/2) months after the last day of the Plan Year to which the Excess Contributions are attributable, a 10% excise tax will be imposed on the Employer maintaining the Plan with respect to the principal amount of the excess. | ||
(b) | Excess Contributions, including any amount recharacterized as a Voluntary After-tax Contribution, shall be treated as Annual Additions with respect to the Plan Year to which the excess is attributable. | ||
(c) | Excess Contributions shall be adjusted for any income or loss up to the date of distribution. The income or loss allocable to Excess Contributions allocated to each Participant is the sum of (1) income or loss allocable to the Participant’s Elective Deferral account (and, if applicable, the Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account or the Qualified Matching Contribution Account or both) for the Plan Year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is such Participant’s Excess Contributions for the year and the denominator is the Participant’s account balance attributable to Elective Deferrals (and Qualified Nonelective Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions, or both, if any of such contributions are included in the ADP test) without regard to any income or loss occurring during such Plan Year; and (2) ten percent (10%) of the amount determined under (1) multiplied by the number of whole calendar months between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution, counting the month of distribution if the distribution occurs after the fifteenth (15th) of such month. | ||
(d) | Excess Contributions shall be distributed from the Participant’s Elective Deferral account and Qualified Matching Contribution account (if applicable) in proportion to the Participant’s Elective Deferrals and Qualified Matching Contributions (to the extent used in the ADP Test) for the test year. Excess Contributions shall be distributed from the Participant’s Qualified Non-Elective Contribution account only to the extent that such Excess Contributions exceed the Participant’s Elective Deferrals and Qualified Matching Contributions account for the applicable test year. |
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(e) | The return of an Excess Contribution under a Plan established under a Xxxxx-Xxxxx Adoption Agreement will be reported as additional wages paid to the affected Participant. |
(a) | Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Plan, Excess Aggregate Contributions, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, shall be forfeited, if forfeitable or if not forfeitable, distributed no later than the last day of each Plan Year to Participants to whose accounts such Excess Aggregate Contributions were allocated for the preceding Plan Year. Excess Aggregate Contributions are allocated to the Highly Compensated Employees with the largest Contribution Percentage Amounts taken into account in calculating the ACP test for the year in which the excess arose, beginning with the Highly Compensated Employee with the largest amount of such Contribution Percentage and continuing in descending order until all the Excess Aggregate Contributions have been allocated. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the “largest amount” is determined after distribution of any Excess Aggregate Contributions. | ||
(b) | If such Excess Aggregate Contributions are distributed more than two and one-half (21/2) months after the last day of the Plan Year in which such excess amount arose, a 10% excise tax will be imposed on the Employer maintaining the Plan with respect to those amounts. Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be treated as Annual Additions for purposes of Article X, Limitations On Allocations. | ||
(c) | Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be adjusted for any income or loss up to the date of the distribution. The income or loss allocable to the Excess Aggregate Contributions allocated to each Participant is the sum of (1) income or loss allocable to each Participant’s Employee Contribution account, Matching Contribution account, Qualified Matching Contribution account (if any, and if all amounts therein are not used in the ADP test) and, if applicable, Qualified Nonelective Contribution account and the Elective Deferral account of the Plan Year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is such Participant’s Excess Aggregate Contributions for the year end the denominator is the Participant’s account balance(s) attributable to Contribution Percentage amounts without regard to any income or loss occurring during such Plan Year; and (2) ten percent (10%) of the amount determined under (1) multiplied by the number of whole calendar months between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution, counting the month of distribution if distribution occurs after the fifteenth (15th) of such month. | ||
(d) | Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be forfeited if forfeitable, or distributed on a pro-rata basis, from the Participant’s Voluntary After-tax Contribution account, Required After-tax Contribution account, Matching Contribution account and Qualified Matching Contribution account (and if applicable the Participant’s Qualified Matching Contribution account, and/or Elective Deferral account, or both). | ||
(e) | Forfeitures of Excess Aggregate Contributions may be reallocated to the accounts of other Participants or applied to reduce Employer contributions, or as otherwise elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement. |
(a) | If elected on the Adoption Agreement, the default form of payment will be a direct rollover into an individual retirement account or annuity for any cash out distribution of amounts greater than $1,000 but less than or equal to $5,000 made pursuant to Code Sections 411(a)(7), 411(a)(11) and 417(e)(1). If an individual retirement account or annuity is established, no amounts contributed to |
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these accounts may be forfeited under the Plan. | |||
(b) | The Plan Administrator shall notify Participants or Beneficiaries by certified or registered mail sent to his or her last known address of record with the Employer when their benefits become distributable as provided at paragraph 6.11 hereof. If a Participant or Beneficiary does not respond to the notice within ninety (90) days of the date of the notice, the Plan Administrator may take reasonable steps to locate the Participant or Beneficiary including, but not limited to, requesting assistance from the Employer, Employees, Social Security Administration and/or the Internal Revenue Service. | ||
(c) | If the Participant cannot be located after a period of twelve (12) months, or such other period determined in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner by the Plan Administrator, the Plan Administrator shall treat the benefit as a forfeiture pursuant to paragraph 9.8. The forfeiture provisions of this subparagraph 7.15(c) apply only to the Participant’s or Beneficiary’s account balance which is less than $5,000. If the Employer does not make a contribution for the Plan Year during which the forfeiture takes place, such amount shall first be applied to pay Plan expenses and, if there are no such expenses, it shall then be allocated to eligible Participant accounts as if the amount were the Employer’s contribution for such Plan Year. | ||
(d) | If a Participant or Beneficiary later makes a claim for such benefit, the Plan Administrator shall validate such claim and provide the Participant or Beneficiary with all notices and other information necessary for the Participant or Beneficiary to perfect the claim. If the Plan Administrator validates the claim for benefits, the Participant’s account balance shall be restored to the benefit amount treated as a forfeiture. Such benefit shall not be adjusted for investment earnings or losses during the period beginning on the date of forfeiture and ending on the date of restoration. The funds necessary to restore the Participant’s account will first be taken from amounts eligible for reallocation or other disposition as forfeitures with respect to the Plan Year. If such funds do not exist or if such funds are insufficient, the Employer will make a contribution prior to the date on which the benefit is payable to restore such Participant’s account. Such benefit shall be paid or commence to be paid in the same manner as if the benefit was eligible for distribution on the date the claim for benefit is validated. | ||
(e) | The Plan Administrator shall follow the same procedure in locating and subsequently treating as a forfeiture the benefit of a Participant or Beneficiary whose benefit has been properly paid under Plan terms but where the Participant or Beneficiary has not negotiated the benefit check(s). | ||
(f) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Plan Administrator in his discretion may establish alternative procedures for locating and administering the benefits of missing Plan Participants. |
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(a) | the period beginning with the first day of the Plan Year in which the Participant attains age thirty-two (32) and ending with the close of the Plan Year preceding the Plan Year in which the Participant attains age thirty-five (35), | ||
(b) | a reasonable period ending after the individual becomes a Participant, or | ||
(c) | a reasonable period ending after this article first applies to the Participant. | ||
(d) | Notwithstanding the foregoing, notice must be provided within a reasonable period ending after separation from Service in the case of a Participant who separates from Service before attaining age thirty-five (35). If such a Participant subsequently returns to employment with the Employer, the applicable period for such Participant shall be redetermined. |
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(d) | If a Plan is otherwise exempt from the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements, the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements are not triggered unless the Participant in the Plan actually elects a life annuity as a distribution option. | ||
(e) | These safe harbor rules shall not be applicable to a Participant in a profit-sharing or 401(k) plan if the Plan is the recipient of a merger of assets from a plan which was subject to the survivor annuity requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(11) and 417, and would therefore have a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity as its normal form of benefit, unless separate accounts or separate accounting was monitored for the assets of the merged plan. | ||
(f) | Money purchase and target benefit plans are required to include the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity option. These Plans may eliminate any periodic payment options that are not required by the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity rules such as installment payments. | ||
(g) | The Participant may waive the spousal death benefit described in this paragraph at any time provided that no such waiver shall be effective unless it satisfies the conditions (described in paragraph 8.4) that would apply to the Participant’s waiver of the Qualified Pre-Retirement Survivor Annuity. | ||
(h) | Profit Sharing Plans satisfying all of the requirements of this paragraph for a Participant such that the Plan is not required to provide a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity for the Participant, but that do provide such annuity (even if the annuity is the normal form), may replace the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity with payment in a single-sum distribution form that is otherwise identical to such annuity in accordance with the requirements under the Regulations Section 1.411(d)-4. | ||
(i) | If this paragraph 8.7 is operative, then all other provisions of this Article VIII other than paragraph 8.8 are inoperative. |
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(a) | If benefits in the form of a life annuity become payable to a married Participant who: |
(1) | begins to receive payments under the Plan on or after Normal Retirement Age, or | ||
(2) | dies on or after Normal Retirement Age while still working for the Employer, or | ||
(3) | begins to receive payments on or after the Qualified Early Retirement Age, or | ||
(4) | separates from Service on or after attaining Normal Retirement Age (or the Qualified Early Retirement Age) and after satisfying the eligibility requirements for the payment of benefits under the Plan and thereafter dies before beginning to receive such benefits, such benefits will be received under this Plan in the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity, unless the Participant has elected otherwise during the Election Period. The Election Period must begin at least six (6) months before the Participant attains Qualified Early Retirement Age and end not more than ninety (90) days before the commencement of benefits. Any election will be in writing and may be changed by the Participant at any time. |
(b) | A Participant who is employed after attaining the Qualified Early Retirement Age will be given the opportunity to elect, during the Election Period, to have a survivor annuity payable on death. If the Participant elects the survivor annuity, payments under such annuity must not be less than the payments which would have been made to the Spouse under the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity if the Participant had retired on the day before his or her death. Any election under this provision will be in writing and may be changed by the Participant at any time. The Election Period begins on the later of: |
(1) | the ninetieth day before the Participant attains the Qualified Early Retirement Age, or | ||
(2) | the date on which participation begins, and ends on the date the Participant terminates employment. |
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(a) | sixty (60) days after the amendment is adopted, | ||
(b) | sixty (60) days after the amendment becomes effective, or |
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(d) | The amendment provides a single sum distribution form that is otherwise identical to the optional form of benefit restricted. For purposes of this condition, a single-sum distribution form is otherwise identical only if it 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. | ||
(e) | The amendment is not effective unless it provides that the amendment shall not apply to any distribution with an Annuity Starting Date earlier than the earlier of (i) the ninetieth (90th) day after the date the Participant receiving the distribution has been furnished a summary that reflects the amendment and that satisfies the ERISA requirements at 29 CFR 2520.104b-3 relating to a summary of material modifications or (ii) the first day of the second Plan Year following the Plan Year in which the amendment is adopted. |
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(c) | Elective Deferrals plus the investment earnings thereon shall be returned to the Participant to the extent they would reduce the excess. | ||
(d) | Simultaneously with the return of the Elective Deferrals (plus attributable earnings), any associated Employer Matching Contribution(s) plus the investment earnings thereon that relate to the returned Elective Deferrals, to the extent they would reduce the excess, will be either held unallocated in a suspense account or forfeited in accordance with the “spillover method” as elected in the Adoption Agreement. | ||
(e) | If, after the application of subparagraphs (a) through (d), an excess still exists, the excess will be held either unallocated in a suspense account or forfeited in accordance with the “spillover method” as elected in the Adoption Agreement. | ||
(f) | When the suspense account method is used, and the Participant is not covered by the Plan at the end of the Limitation Year, the Plan Administrator will apply the suspense account to reduce future Employer contributions for all remaining Participants in the next Limitation Year, and each succeeding Limitation Year until the Excess Annual Addition is eliminated. If a suspense account is in existence at any time during a Limitation Year, all amounts in the suspense account must be allocated to Participant accounts before any Employer contributions or any Employee contributions may be made to the Plan for that Limitation Year. If a suspense account is in |
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(1) | the Annual Additions allocated to the Participant for the Limitation Year as of such date under this Plan, to | ||
(2) | the total Annual Additions allocated to the Participant for the Limitation Year as of such date under this and all the other qualified Master or Prototype Defined Contribution Plans. |
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(1) | The ADP for the Plan Year for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year shall not exceed the Prior Plan Year’s ADP for Participants who were Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Prior Plan Year multiplied by 1.25; or | ||
(2) | The ADP for a Plan Year for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year shall not exceed the Prior Year’s ADP for Participants who were Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Prior Plan Year multiplied by 2.0, provided that the ADP for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees does not exceed the ADP for Participants who were Non-Highly Compensated Employees in the Prior Plan Year by more than two (2) percentage points. |
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(a) | A Participant is a Highly Compensated Employee for a particular Plan Year if he or she meets the definition of a Highly Compensated Employee in effect for that Plan Year. Similarly, a Participant is a Non-Highly Compensated Employee for a particular Plan Year if he or she does not meet the definition of a Highly Compensated Employee in effect for that Plan Year. | ||
(b) | The Actual Deferral Percentage for any Participant who is a Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year and who is eligible to have Elective Deferrals (and Qualified Non-Elective Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions, or both, if treated as Elective Deferrals for purposes of the ADP Test) allocated to his or her accounts under two (2) or more arrangements described in Code Section 401(k), that are maintained by the Employer, shall be determined as if such Elective Deferrals (and, if applicable, such Qualified Non-Elective Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions, or both) were made under a single arrangement. If a Highly Compensated Employee participates in two (2) or more cash or deferred arrangements that have different Plan Years, all 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 Regulations issued under Code Section 401(k). | ||
(c) | In the event that this Plan satisfies the requirements of Code Sections 401(k), 401(a)(4), or 410(b) only if aggregated with one (1) or more other plans, or if one (1) 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 Actual Deferral Percentage of Participants as if all such plans were a single plan. Any adjustments to the Non-Highly Compensated Employee ADP for the Prior Plan Year will be made in accordance with IRS Notice 98-1 and any superseding guidance, unless the Employer has elected in the Adoption Agreement 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. | ||
(d) | The Employer shall maintain records sufficient to demonstrate satisfaction of the ADP Test and the amount of Qualified Non-Elective Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions, or both, used in such test. | ||
(e) | For purposes of the ADP Test, Elective Deferrals, Qualified Non-Elective Contributions and Qualified Matching Contributions must be made before the end of the twelve (12) month period immediately following the Plan Year to which the contributions relate. |
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(a) | A QNEC or QMAC used in the ADP Test may not also be included in the ACP Test. | ||
(b) | If testing is done on the basis of current Plan Year data, QNECs and/or QMACs must be made and credited to Participant accounts not later than the last day of the twelve (12) consecutive month period following the end of the Plan Year being tested. | ||
(c) | If testing is done on the basis of Prior Plan Year data for Non-Highly Compensated Employees, QNECs and/or QMACs for such Employees must be contributed not later than the last day of the Plan Year being tested. | ||
(d) | If the Employer makes Non-Elective Contributions which are not designated as Qualified Non-Elective Contributions at the time of the contribution to the Plan, the Plan Administrator may redesignate such contributions as Qualified Non-Elective Contributions if the contributions otherwise satisfy the requirements of a Qualified Non-Elective Contribution. | ||
(e) | The Employer’s contribution will be allocated to a group of Non-Highly Compensated Participants designated by the Plan Administrator. The allocation will be the lesser of the amount required to pass the ADP/ACP Test, or the maximum permitted under Code Section 415. |
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(a) | Prior Year Testing — If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, the ACP for a Plan Year for eligible Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for each Plan Year and the prior Plan Year’s ACP for eligible Participants who were Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Prior Plan Year must satisfy one of the following tests: |
(1) | The ACP for a Plan Year for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year shall not exceed the prior Plan Year’s ACP for eligible Participants who were Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Prior Plan Year multiplied by 1.25; or | ||
(2) | The ACP for a Plan Year for Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year shall not exceed the prior year’s ACP for eligible Participants who were Non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Prior Plan Year multiplied by 2.0, provided that the ACP for eligible Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees does not exceed the ACP for eligible Participants who were Non-Highly Compensated Employees in the Prior Plan Year by more than two (2) percentage points. |
(b) | For the first Plan Year of a Plan, where this Plan permits any eligible Participant to make Employee contributions, provides for Matching Contributions, or both, and the Plan is not a successor Plan, for purposes of the foregoing limits, the Prior Plan Year’s Non-Highly Compensated Employees’ ACP shall be 3% unless the Employer has elected in the Adoption Agreement to use the current Plan Year’s ACP for these Participants. | ||
(c) | Current Year Testing — If no election is made by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, the ACP limits in (1) and (2), above, will be applied by comparing the current Plan Year’s ACP for eligible Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year with the current Plan Year’s ACP for eligible Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees. This election can only be changed if the Plan meets the requirements for changing to Prior Plan Year testing set forth in IRS Notice 98-1 (or superseding guidance). |
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(a) | The Employer may elect in a cash or deferred adoption agreement to apply the safe harbor plan provisions found in paragraphs 11.10 through 11.17. Except as otherwise permitted, an Employer must elect the Safe Harbor Plan provisions and must satisfy the notice requirements of paragraph 11.16 prior to the beginning of the Plan Year to which the Safe Harbor provisions will be applied. The Employer must apply the Safe Harbor provisions for the entire Plan Year, including any short Plan Year. An Employer who elects in the Adoption Agreement and operationally satisfies the Safe Harbor provisions of paragraphs 11.10 through 11.17 is not subject to the nondiscrimination requirements of 11.2. An Employer who elects to provide additional Matching Contributions as set forth in paragraph 11.14 will be subject to the nondiscrimination provisions of paragraph 11.6, unless the additional Matching Contributions satisfy the ACP test safe harbor provisions in paragraph 11.14. |
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(b) | The Employer may elect in the Adoption Agreement either to make a Safe Harbor Non-Elective Contribution on behalf of each eligible Employee who is eligible to participate in the Plan, or to make a Safe Harbor Matching Contribution on behalf of each eligible Employee who is eligible to participate in the Plan and who is making Elective Deferrals. | ||
(c) | The Safe Harbor Non-Elective Contribution will be made on behalf of each eligible Employee who is eligible to participate in the Plan equal to at least 3% of the Employee’s Compensation. | ||
(d) | The Safe Harbor Matching Contribution shall be made under the Basic Matching Formula or an Enhanced Matching Formula as described below. | ||
(e) | A Plan intending to satisfy the requirements of Code Sections 401(k)(12) and 401(m)(11) [a “Safe Harbor CODA”] generally must satisfy such requirements, including the notice requirement, for the entire Plan Year. See Notice 98-52, 1988-46 I.R.B. 16, Notice 2000-3, 2000-4 I.R.B. 413, and Revenue Procedure 2000-29, 2000-6 I.R.B. 553. |
(1) | Basic Matching Contribution Formula — The Basic Matching Formula provides a Matching Contribution on behalf of each eligible Employee who is making Elective Deferrals to the Plan in an amount equal to 100% of the amount of the Employee’s Elective Deferrals that do not exceed 3% of the Employee’s Compensation and 50% of the amount of the Employee’s Elective Deferrals that exceed 3% of the Employee’s Compensation but do not exceed 5% of the Employee’s Compensation. A Plan satisfying the ADP Safe Harbor using the Basic Matching Formula automatically satisfies the ACP Test, if no After-tax or other Matching Contribution is made under the Plan. | ||
(2) | Enhanced Matching Formula — The Enhanced Matching Formula provides a Matching Contribution on behalf of each Eligible Employee who is making Elective Deferrals to the Plan under a formula, that, at any rate of Elective Deferrals, provides an aggregate amount of Matching Contributions at least equal to the aggregate amount of Matching Contributions that would have been provided under the Basic Matching Formula. In no event shall the aggregate amount of Matching Contributions under an Enhanced Matching Formula exceed 6% of an eligible Employee’s Compensation. Under the Enhanced Matching Formula, the rate of Matching Contributions may not increase as a Participant’s rate of Elective Deferrals increases. A Plan satisfying the ADP Safe Harbor using the Enhanced Matching Formula under which Matching Contributions made with respect to Elective Deferrals are not made in excess of 6% of the eligible Employee’s Compensation, automatically satisfies the ACP Test if no other Matching Contribution is made under the Plan. | ||
(3) | Additional Discretionary Matching Contribution — An Employer may elect in the Adoption Agreement for Plan Years [beginning after January 1, 2000] to provide an additional discretionary Matching Contribution. Any such contribution cannot exceed 4% of a Participant’s Compensation. This is a limit on the total Matching Contribution formula, and is not a limit on the percentage of Compensation which is deferred and taken into account under the matching formula. | ||
(4) | Limitation On Matching Contributions To Highly Compensated Employees — The Matching Contribution requirement will not be satisfied if, at any rate of Elective Deferrals, the rate of Matching Contributions that would apply with respect to any Highly Compensated Employee who is making Elective Deferrals under the Plan is greater than the rate of Matching Contributions that would apply with respect to any Non-Highly Compensated Employee who is making Elective Deferrals to the Plan and who has the same rate of Elective Deferrals. |
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(a) | Safe Harbor Matching Contributions and Safe Harbor Non-Elective Contributions are Matching and Non-Elective Contributions respectively, that are: |
(1) | nonforfeitable within the meaning of Treasury Regulations Section 1.401(k)-1(c), | ||
(2) | are subject to the distribution restrictions of Code Section 401(k)(2)(B) and Treasury Regulations Section 1.401(k)-1(d), and | ||
(3) | used to satisfy the Safe Harbor Contribution requirements. |
(b) | Pursuant to Code Section 401(k)(2)(B) and Treasury Regulations Section 1.401(k)-1(d), such contributions (and earnings thereon) must not be distributable earlier than separation from Service, death, Disability, an event described in Code Section 401(k)(10), or in the case of a profit-sharing or stock bonus plan, the attainment of age 591/2. Pursuant to Code Section 401(k)(2)(B) and Treasury Regulations Section 1.401(k)-1(d)(2)(ii), these contributions shall not be eligible for distribution for reasons of Hardship. A Plan electing to use either of the Safe Harbor Matching or the Non-Elective Contribution provisions shall not require that an Employee be employed on the last day of the Plan Year or impose an hourly requirement in order for the Employee to be eligible to receive a Safe Harbor Non-Elective Contribution or a Safe Harbor Matching Contribution. |
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(d) | Safe Harbor Matching or Non-Elective Contributions cannot be used to satisfy the Safe Harbor Contribution requirements with respect to more than one (1) Plan. | ||
(e) | A Plan will fail to satisfy the ADP Test Safe Harbor or the ACP Test Safe Harbor for a Plan Year unless the Plan Year is twelve (12) months in duration or in the case of the first Plan Year of a newly established Plan (other than a successor Plan), the Plan Year is at least three (3) months in duration (or any shorter period in the case of a newly established Employer that establishes the Plan as soon as administratively feasible after the Employer came into existence). If the Employer amends an existing Defined Contribution Plan to offer the Safe Harbor provisions, the 401(k) arrangement of the Plan must be at least three (3) months in duration. | ||
(f) | If the Safe Harbor provisions are an amendment and restatement of an existing Plan, any contributions made prior to the adoption of the Safe Harbor provisions which are subject to a vesting schedule will continue to vest according to the vesting schedule in effect prior to the amendment or restatement of the Plan. |
(b) | Notwithstanding the requirement in (a) above that the Employer make the ADP Test Safe Harbor Contributions to the Defined Contribution Plan indicated in the Adoption Agreement, such contributions will not be made to this Plan unless the requirements of paragraph 11.17 are met. |
(a) | no Matching Contribution may be made with respect to a Participant’s Elective Deferrals and/or Voluntary After-tax Contributions which exceed 6% of Compensation; | ||
the amount of any discretionary Matching Contribution made after the 1999 Plan Year may not exceed 4% of the Participant’s Compensation; | |||
(c) | the rate of Matching Contributions made to the Plan may not increase as the rate of Elective Deferrals increase; | ||
(d) | no Highly Compensated Employee may receive a greater rate of match than a | ||
Non-Highly Compensated Employee; and | |||
(e) | the Employer must elect in the Adoption Agreement the vesting schedule distribution restrictions and eligibility to receive an allocation of these additional Matching Contributions. |
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how to make cash or deferred elections, including any administrative requirements that apply to such elections;
(a) | General Requirements - A Safe Harbor Matching or Non-Elective Contribution may be made to this Plan or to another Defined Contribution Plan maintained by the Employer that satisfies Code Sections 401(a) or 403(a). The Employer electing this option shall do so by identifying the plan that makes the Safe Harbor Contribution in the Adoption Agreement. If the Safe Harbor Contributions are made to another Defined Contribution Plan, the Safe Harbor Contribution requirements must be satisfied in the same manner as if the contributions were being made to this Plan. A Safe Harbor Contribution made to another Defined Contribution Plan shall not satisfy this Safe Harbor requirement unless each Employee eligible to participate in this Plan is eligible to participate in the other Defined Contribution Plan under the same terms and conditions. | ||
(b) | Same Plan Year Requirement — In order to satisfy the Safe Harbor Contribution requirements, this Plan and the other Defined Contribution Plan to which the Safe Harbor Contribution is to be made must have the same Plan Year. | ||
(c) | Aggregation And Disaggregation Rules - The rules that apply for purposes of aggregating and disaggregating cash or deferred arrangement and Plans under Code Sections 401(k) and 401(m) |
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(m) | the right to employ others, including legal counsel who may, but need not, be counsel to the Employer, to render advice regarding any questions which may arise with respect to its rights, duties and responsibilities under the Plan, and may rely upon the opinions or certificates of any such person. |
(a) | The Employer and the Plan Administrator shall cooperate with each other in all respects, including the provision to each other of records and other information relating to the Plan, as may be necessary or appropriate for the proper operation of the Plan or as may be required under the Code or ERISA. | ||
(b) | The Plan Administrator may delegate in writing all or any part of the Plan Administrator’s responsibilities under the Plan to agents or others by written agreement communicated to the delegate and to the Employer or, if the Employer is no longer in existence, to such person or persons selected following the approach in paragraph 12.2 and, in the same manner, may revoke any such delegation of responsibility. Any action of a delegate in the exercise of such delegated responsibilities shall have the same force and effect for all purposes as if such action had been taken by the Plan Administrator. The delegate shall have the right, in such person’s sole discretion, by written instrument delivered to the Plan Administrator, to reject and refuse to exercise any such delegated authority. The Trustee/Custodian need not act on instructions of such a delegate despite any knowledge of such delegation, but may require the Plan Administrator to give the Trustee/Custodian all instructions necessary under the Plan. |
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(a) | The Plan Administrator shall administer the program. | ||
(b) | At the time an Employee becomes eligible for the Plan, he or she shall provide the Plan Administrator an investment designation stating the percentage of his or her contributions to be invested in the available investments. | ||
(c) | A Participant may change his or her election with respect to future contributions by notifying the Employer, Trustee/Custodian or other Service Provider, as they shall mutually agree, in accordance with the procedures established by the Plan Administrator. | ||
(d) | A Participant may transfer or exchange his or her balance from one investment alternative to another by notifying the Employer, Trustee/Custodian or other Service Provider, as they shall mutually agree, in accordance with the procedures established by the Plan Administrator. | ||
(e) | The investment alternatives offered under the Plan may be limited in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner. Investments may be restricted to specific investment alternatives selected, including but not limited to, certain mutual funds, investment contracts, collective funds or deposit accounts. If investments outside the alternatives selected are permitted, Participants may not direct that investments be made in collectibles other than U.S. Government or state issued gold and silver coins. | ||
(f) | The Plan Administrator may permit, in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, a Beneficiary of a deceased Participant or alternate payee under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order [as defined in Code Section 414(p)] to individually direct their account in accordance with this paragraph. | ||
(g) | Investment directions will be processed as soon as administratively practicable after proper investment directions are received from the Participant. The Employer, Plan Administrator, Service Provider, Trustee and/or Custodian cannot provide any guarantee of the timing of processing of any investment directive. The Employer, Plan Administrator, Service Provider, Trustee and/or Custodian reserve the right not to value an investment alternative or a Participant’s account on any given Valuation Date for any reason deemed appropriate by the Employer or Plan |
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(a) | No loan, when aggregated with any outstanding loan(s) to the Participant, shall exceed the lesser of (i) $50,000 reduced by the excess, if any, of the Participant’s highest outstanding balance of all loans on any day during the one (1) year period ending on the day before the loan is made, over the outstanding balance of loans from the Plan on the date the Participant’s loan is made or (ii) one-half of the fair market value of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance consisting of contributions as specified in the loan policy. An election may be made in the loan policy, that if the Participant’s Vested Account Balance is $20,000 or less, the maximum loan shall not exceed the lesser of $10,000 or 100% of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance. For the purpose of the above limitation, all loans from all plans of the Employer and other members of a group of employers described in Code Sections 414(b), 414(c), and 414(m) are aggregated. An assignment or pledge of any portion of the Participant’s interest in the Plan and a loan, pledge, or assignment with respect to any insurance contract purchased under the Plan, will be treated as a loan under this paragraph. | ||
(b) | All applications must be in accordance with procedures adopted by the Plan Administrator. | ||
(c) | Any loan shall bear interest at a rate reasonable at the time of application, considering the purpose of the loan and the rate being charged by representative commercial banks in the local area for a similar loan unless the Plan Administrator sets forth a different method for determining loan interest rates in its written loan procedures. The loan agreement shall also provide that the payment of principal and interest be amortized in level payments not less frequently than quarterly. | ||
(d) | The term of such loan shall not exceed a period of five (5) years except in the case of a loan for the purpose of acquiring any house, apartment, condominium, or mobile home that is used or is to be used within a reasonable time as the principal residence of the Participant. The Plan Administrator in accordance with the Plan’s loan policy shall determine the term of such loan. | ||
(e) | The principal and interest paid by a Participant on his or her loan shall be credited to the Plan in the same manner as for any other Plan investment. Unless otherwise provided in the loan policy, loans will be treated as segregated investments of the individual Participant on whose behalf the loan was made. This provision is not available if its election will result in discrimination in the operation of the Plan. | ||
(f) | If the Plan Administrator approves a Participant’s loan request, it shall be evidenced by a note, loan agreement, and assignment of up to 50% of his or her interest in the Trust as collateral for the loan. The Participant, except in the case of a profit-sharing plan satisfying the requirements of paragraph 8.7, must obtain the consent of his or her Spouse, if any, within the ninety (90) day period before the time his or her account balance is used as security for the loan. A new consent is required if the account balance is used for any renegotiation, extension, renewal or other revision of the loan, including an increase in the loan amount. The consent must be written, must acknowledge the effect of the loan, and must be witnessed by a Plan representative or notary public. Such consent shall subsequently be binding with respect to the consenting Spouse or any subsequent Spouse. | ||
(g) | If a valid Spousal consent has been obtained in accordance with (f), then, notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, the portion of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance used as a security interest held by the Plan by reason of a loan outstanding to the Participant shall be taken into account for purposes of determining the amount of the account balance payable at the time of death or distribution, but only if the reduction is used as repayment of the loan. If less than 100% of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance (determined without regard to the preceding sentence) is payable to the surviving Spouse, then the account balance shall be adjusted by first reducing the Vested Account Balance by the amount of the security used as repayment of the loan, and then determining the benefit payable to the surviving Spouse. |
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(h) | Any loan made hereunder shall be subject to the provisions of a loan agreement, promissory note, security agreement, payroll withholding authorization and, if applicable, financial disclosure. Such documentation may contain additional loan terms and conditions not specifically itemized in this section provided that such terms and conditions do not conflict with this section. Such additional terms and conditions may include, but are not limited to, procedures regarding default, a grace period for missed payments, and acceleration of a loan’s maturity date on specific events such as termination of employment. |
(j) | Liquidation of a Participant’s assets for the purpose of the loan will be allocated on a pro-rata basis across all the investment alternatives in a Participant’s account, unless otherwise specified by the Participant, Plan Administrator, or the Plan’s loan policy. | ||
(k) | If a request for a loan is approved by the Plan Administrator, funds shall be withdrawn from the recordkeeping subaccounts specified by the Participant or in the absence of such a specification, from the recordkeeping subaccounts in the order specified in the loan policy. | ||
(l) | If a Plan permits loans to Participants, the Trustee/Custodian may appoint the Employer as its agent, and if the Employer accepts such appointment, agree to hold all notes and other evidence of any loans made to Participants. If provided in the loan policy, the Plan Administrator may also require additional collateral in order to adequately secure the loan. The Employer shall hold such notes and evidence under such conditions of safekeeping as is prudent and as required by ERISA. The Trustee/Custodian may account for all loans in the aggregate so that all Participant loans will be shown collectively as a single asset of the Plan. | ||
(m) | Unless otherwise elected in the Adoption Agreement, loan payments will be suspended under this Plan as permitted under Code Section 414(u). |
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(j) | If this Plan is funded by individual contracts that provide a Participant’s benefit under the Plan, such individual contracts shall constitute the Participant’s account balance. If this Plan is funded by group contracts, under the group annuity or group insurance contract, premiums or other consideration received by the insurance company must be allocated to Participants’ accounts under the Plan. | ||
(k) | For Plans funded with individual or group annuity contracts, no Trustee or Custodian is required to hold the assets of the Plan. Accordingly, any references to the Trust, the Trust fund or the fund collectively refers to any contracts issued by an insurance company to fund a Plan established under this document. |
(a) | The name and last known mailing address (if any) of the Participant and of each alternate payee covered by the QDRO. However, if the QDRO does not specify the current mailing address of the alternate payee, but the Plan Administrator has independent knowledge of that address, the QDRO will still be valid. | ||
(b) | The dollar amount or percentage of the Participant’s benefit to be paid by the Plan to each alternate payee, or the manner in which the amount or percentage will be determined. | ||
(c) | The number of payments or period for which the order applies. | ||
(d) | The specific Plan (by name) to which the domestic relations order applies. |
(e) | any type or form of benefit or any option not already provided for in the Plan; | ||
(f) | increased benefits or benefits in excess of the Participant’s vested rights; | ||
(g) | payment of a benefit earlier than allowed by the Plan’s earliest retirement provisions or, in the case of a profit-sharing or 401(k) plan, prior to the first date on which an in-service withdrawal is allowed; or | ||
(h) | payment of benefits to an alternate payee which are required to be paid to another alternate payee under another QDRO. |
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(a) | The Employer shall appoint within the Adoption Agreement who may be the Sponsor (or an affiliate) of this Basic Plan Document #01 or an individual(s), institution or other party, to serve as Trustee or Custodian (if applicable) of the Plan. The Employer shall also have the right, but is not required, to appoint a Custodian in the Adoption Agreement to have custody of the Plan’s assets. The Employer may execute a separate trust or custodial agreement outlining the Trustee’s or Custodian’s duties and responsibilities which shall be incorporated by reference and made part of this Basic Plan Document #01. No such ancillary agreement may conflict with any provision(s) of this document. Any provision which would jeopardize the tax-qualified status of this Plan shall be null and void. Unless otherwise elected in the Adoption Agreement, the Trust and/or Custodial provisions of this Article XIII and Article XII, as applicable, of the Basic Plan Document #01 together with any such ancillary agreement shall be operative. If the Sponsor is a bank, trust company or other financial organization, a person or institution other than the Sponsor or its affiliate may not serve as Trustee or Custodian of the Plan without the express written consent of the Sponsor. If a financial organization is the Sponsor, and is not named Trustee, the Sponsor may serve as Custodian under the Plan as provided at paragraph 13.13 herein. The Trustee shall invest the Trust Fund in any of the investment alternatives as provided in paragraph 13.8. If a Custodian is appointed, the Trust Fund shall be invested in accordance with paragraph 13.14. | ||
(b) | The Employer establishes with the Trustee a Trust which shall consist of all money and property received under Articles III and IV of this document, increased by any income on or increment in such value of assets and decreased by any investment loss, expense, benefit payment, withdrawal or other distribution by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of the Plan. The Trustee/Custodian shall hold the Trust fund without distinction between principal and income. The Trust fund will be held, invested, reinvested and administered by the Trustee in accordance with this Article and any ancillary documents as provided for in this Article. |
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(a) | Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan to the contrary, the provisions of this paragraph shall apply if one (1) or more individuals are named as Trustee(s) in the Adoption Agreement and shall not apply to any institutional Trustee named in the Adoption Agreement. | ||
(b) | If there shall be more than one individual acting in the capacity of Trustee, they shall act by a majority of their number, unless they unanimously decide that one (1) or more of them may act on the matter or category of matters involved without the approval of the others and they may authorize in writing that one (1) or more of them shall act on their behalf including but not limited to executing documents and authorizing distributions on behalf of the Trustees. | ||
(c) | Any person may rely, without having to make further inquiry, upon instructions appearing to be genuine instructions from any individual serving as Trustee as being the will, intent and action of all individuals so serving if no allocation of duties has been made. | ||
(d) | The Trustee shall be paid such reasonable compensation for services as shall from time to time be agreed upon in writing by the Employer and the Trustee, provided that an individual serving as Trustee who already receives full-time Compensation from the Employer shall not receive compensation for serving as such from the Plan. |
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such investments are prudent under ERISA, as amended, and the Regulations thereunder, | |||
(b) | such investments are sufficiently diversified to minimize the risk of large losses, | ||
(c) | such investments are made in accordance with the provisions of this Plan and Trust document, and | ||
(d) | such investments are made with the care, skill, prudence and diligence under the circumstances then prevailing that a prudent man acting in a like capacity and familiar with such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character with like aims. |
(a) | receiving contributions under the terms of the Plan; | ||
(b) | implementing an investment program based on the Employer’s investment policy statement, funding policy, investment objectives and ERISA, as amended; | ||
(c) | invest the Trust in any form of property, including common and preferred stocks, exchange-traded covered put and call options, bonds, money market instruments, mutual funds (including funds for which the Sponsor, Trustee or its affiliates receive compensation for providing investment advisory, custody, transfer agency or other services), savings accounts, plan loans, certificates of deposit, securities issued by the U.S. government or by governmental agencies, insurance policies and contracts, or in any other property, real or personal, having a ready market, including securities issued by the Trustee and/or affiliates of the Trustee as permitted by law. The Trustee may invest in time deposits (including, if applicable, its own or those of affiliates) which bear a reasonable interest rate. No portion of any Qualified Voluntary Contribution, or the earnings thereon, may be invested in life insurance contracts or, as with any Participant-directed investment, in tangible personal property characterized by the IRS as a collectible; | ||
(d) | invest any assets of the Trust in a group or collective trust fund established to permit the pooling of funds of separate pension and profit-sharing trusts, provided the Internal Revenue Service has ruled such group or collective trust to be qualified under Code Section 401(a) and exempt under Code Section 501(a) (or the applicable corresponding provision of any other Revenue Act) or to any other common, collective, or commingled trust fund which has been or may hereafter be established and maintained by the Trustee, affiliate(s) of the Trustee, the Custodian or investment manager. Such commingling of assets of the Trust with assets of other qualified trusts is specifically authorized, and to the extent of the investment of the Trust in such a group or collective trust, the terms of the instrument establishing the group or collective trust shall be a part hereof as though set forth herein. The name of the group or collective trust fund shall be specified in an addendum to the Adoption Agreement. The Employer expressly understands and agrees that any such collective fund may provide for the lending of its securities by the collective fund trustee |
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(f) | invest up to 100% of the Trust in the common stock, debt obligations, or any other security issued by the Employer or by an affiliate of the Employer within the limitations provided under ERISA Sections 406, 407, and 408, as amended, and further provided that such investment does not constitute a prohibited transaction under Code Section 4975. Any such investment in Employer securities shall only be made upon written direction of the Employer who shall be solely responsible for the propriety of such investment. Additional directives regarding the purchase, sale, retention or valuing of such securities may be addressed in an investment management or trust agreement, which is incorporated by reference. If there are any conflicts between this document and the above referenced agreements, this document shall govern; | ||
(g) | hold cash uninvested and deposit the same with any banking or savings institution, including its own banking department or the banking department of an affiliate; | ||
(h) | utilize a general disbursement account, i.e., in the form of a demand deposit account and/or time deposit account, for distributions from the Trust, without incurring any liability for payment of interest thereon, notwithstanding the Trustee’s receipt of income with respect to float involving the disbursement account; | ||
(i) | hold contributions in an omnibus account, i.e., in the form of a demand deposit and/or time deposit account, maintained by the Trustee for up to three (3) business days (or such longer period as may result due to circumstances beyond the Trustee’s control), without liability for interest thereon. (The Employer acknowledges that any float earnings associated with the assets held in such omnibus account are retained by the Trustee as part of its compensation for performing services with respect to the allocation of contributions to Participants’ accounts); | ||
(j) | join in or oppose the reorganization, recapitalization, consolidation, sale or merger of corporations or properties, including those in which it or its affiliates are interested as Trustee, upon such terms as it deems advisable; | ||
(k) | hold investments in nominee or bearer form; | ||
(l) | exercise all ownership rights including the voting of proxies and the exercise of tender offers but only with respect to assets over which the Trustee has investment management responsibility; | ||
(m) | to hold, manage and control all property forming part of the Trust Fund and to sell, convey, transfer, exchange and otherwise dispose of the same from time to time; | ||
(n) | to apply for and procure from an insurance company as an investment of the Trust such annuity, or other contracts on the life of any Participant as the Plan Administrator shall deem proper; to exercise, at any time or from time to time, whatever rights and privileges may be granted under such annuity, or other contracts; to collect, receive, and settle for the proceeds of any such annuity, or other contracts as and when entitled to do so under the provisions thereof; | ||
(o) | unless otherwise provided by a directive as described by paragraph 13.6, the Employer will pass through shareholder rights (including voting rights) on Employer securities to Plan Participants. If no directive is provided, the Trustee shall exercise any shareholder rights (including voting rights) |
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(p) | to retain and employ such attorneys, agents and servants as may be necessary or desirable, in the opinion of the Trustee, in the administration of the Plan, and to pay them such reasonable compensation for their services as may be agreed upon as an expense of administration of the Plan, including power to employ and retain counsel upon any matter of doubt as to the meaning or interpretation to be placed upon this Plan or any provisions thereof with reference to any question arising in the administration of the Plan or pertaining to the rights and liabilities of the Trustee hereunder. The Trustee in any such event, any act in reliance upon the advice, opinions, records, statements and computations of any attorneys and agents and on the records, statements and computations of any servants so selected by it in good faith and shall be released and exonerated of and from all liability to anyone in so doing (except to the extent that liability is imposed under ERISA); | ||
(q) | to institute, prosecute and maintain, or to defend, any proceeding at law or in equity concerning the Plan or the assets thereof or any claims thereto, or the interests of Participants and Beneficiaries hereunder at the sole cost and expense of the Plan or at the sole cost and expense of the Participant that may be concerned therein or that may be affected thereby, as, in its opinion, shall be fair and equitable in each case, and to compromise, settle and adjust all claims and liabilities asserted by or against the Plan or asserted by or against it, or such terms as it, in each such case, shall deem reasonable and proper. The Trustee shall be under no duty or obligation to institute, prosecute, maintain or defend any suit, action or other legal proceeding unless it shall be indemnified to its satisfaction against all expenses and liabilities (including without limitation, legal and other professional fees) which it may sustain or anticipate by reason thereof; and | ||
(r) | the Trustee is expressly authorized to the fullest extent permitted by law to (1) retain the services of any broker-dealer, registered investment advisor or other financial services entity (including the Trustee and any of its affiliates) and any future successors in interest thereto collectively, for the purposes of this paragraph referred to as the “Affiliated Entities”), to provide services to assist or facilitate the purchase or sale of investments in the Trust, (2) acquire as assets of the Trust shares of mutual funds to which Affiliated Entities provide, for a fee, services in any capacity and (3) acquire in the Trust any other services or products of any kind or nature from the Affiliated Entities regardless of whether the same or dissimilar services or products are available from other institutions. The Trust may pay directly or indirectly (through mutual funds fees and charges for example) pay management fees, transaction fees and other commissions to the Affiliated Entities for the services or products provided to the Trust and/or such mutual funds at such Affiliated Entities’ standard or published rates without offset (unless required by law) from any fees charged by the Trustee for its services as Trustee. The Trustee may also deal directly with the Affiliated Entities regardless of the capacity in which it is then acting, to purchase, sell, exchange or transfer assets of the Trust even though the Affiliated Entities are receiving compensation or otherwise profiting from such transaction or are acting as principal in such transaction. Each of the Affiliated Entities is authorized to effect transactions on national securities exchanges for the Trust as directed by the Trustee, and retain any transactional fees related thereto, consistent with Section 11(a)(1) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and related Rule 11a2-2(T). Included specifically, but not by way of limitation in the transactions authorized by this provision, are transactions in which any of the Affiliated Entities is serving as an underwriting or member of an underwriting syndicate for a security being purchased or is purchasing or selling a security for |
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(b) | The Employer actually pays such expenses directly. Any and all reasonable additional administrative expenses incurred to effect investment directives made by the Participants and by each Beneficiary under this Plan shall be paid by the Trust and as determined by the Employer shall either be charged (in accordance with such reasonable nondiscriminatory rules as the Employer deems appropriate under the circumstances) to the account of the individual issuing such directive, or treated as a general expense of the Trust. If charged to a Participant’s account and if the assets of such account are insufficient to satisfy such charges, the Employer shall pay any deficit to the Trustee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this section shall prevent the Employer from paying the administrative expenses of the Plan directly. |
(g) | Any investment gain or loss of the Trust that is not directly attributable to the investment of the account of any Participant (including, but not limited to, for example, any “float” earned on the disbursement account established for the Plan and not treated as part of the compensation of the Trustee or paying agent for the Plan, and any 12b-1 or similar fees paid to the Plan) will be applied to pay administrative expenses of the Plan, with any excess remaining at the close of the |
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(h) | Without limiting any provision in the prior paragraph, the Employer expressly agrees to indemnify the Trustee/Custodian against any liability or claim (including attorney’s fees and expenses in defending against such liabilities or claims) arising as a result of any act taken or failure to act, in accordance with the directions received from the Employer, Plan Administrator, investment manager, Participant, or a designee specified by the Employer directly or transmitted by a designated Service Provider to the Plan and without limitation by specification. | ||
(i) | The Trustee/Custodian will take all reasonable steps to assure the security of any data received from the Employer in connection with services provided to the Plan. The Employer will be responsible for retaining duplicate copies of any such data or materials it forwards to the Trustee/Custodian and for taking all other reasonable and necessary precautions in event such data or materials are lost or destroyed, regardless of cause, or in the event reprocessing is needed for any reason. The Trustee/Custodian will maintain records in connection with the performance of services hereunder for the applicable period as required by law, or if no period is required, for such period as is reasonable under the law. | ||
(j) | No waiver of any breach of this agreement shall constitute a waiver of any other breach, whether of the same or any other covenant, term or condition. The subsequent performance of any of the terms, covenants and conditions of this Article shall not constitute a waiver of any preceding breach, nor shall any delay or omission of any party’s exercise of any rights arising from any default effect or impair the party’s rights as to the same or future default. | ||
(k) | Neither the Trustee or the Custodian shall be responsible in any way for any actions taken, or failure to act, by a prior trustee/custodian. The Employer shall indemnify and hold harmless the Trustee/Custodian for such prior trustee/custodian’s acts or inactions for any periods applicable, including periods for which the Plan must retroactively comply with any tax law or regulations thereunder. | ||
(l) | A fiduciary with respect to the Plan shall not be liable for a breach of fiduciary responsibility of another fiduciary with respect to the Plan except to the extent that: |
(1) | it participates knowingly in, or knowingly undertakes to conceal, an act or omission of such other fiduciary, knowing such act or omission is a breach; |
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(2) | by its failure to comply with ERISA Section 404(a)(1) in the administration of its specific responsibilities which give rise to its status as a fiduciary, it has enabled such other fiduciary to commit a breach; or | ||
(3) | it has knowledge of a breach by such other fiduciary, unless it makes reasonable efforts under the circumstances to remedy the breach. |
(m) | If the assets of the Plan are held by two (2) or more Trustees, each Trustee will use reasonable care to prevent a co-Trustee from committing a breach of duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and they shall jointly manage and control the assets of the Plan; provided however, that such co-Trustee shall be authorized to allocate specific responsibilities, obligations or duties among the co-Trustees pursuant to a written agreement. If co-Trustees do enter into such an agreement, then a Trustee to whom certain responsibilities, obligations or duties have not been allocated shall not be liable either individually or as Trustee for any loss resulting to the Plan arising from the acts or omissions on the part of another Trustee to which such responsibilities, obligations or duties have been allocated. |
(a) | receiving contributions under the terms of the Plan, but not determining the amount or enforcing the payment thereof, | ||
(b) | making distributions from the Plan in accordance with instructions received from the Plan Administrator or an authorized representative of the Employer, | ||
(c) | keeping records reflecting its administration of the Trust or the custodial account and making such records, statements and reports available to the Employer for review and audit at such times as agreed to between the Custodian, Plan Administrator, and the Employer, and | ||
(d) | retaining and employing such attorneys, agents and servants as may be necessary or desirable, in the opinion of the Custodian, in the administration of the Plan, and to pay them such reasonable compensation for their services as may be agreed upon as an expense of administration of the Plan, including power to employ and retain counsel upon any matter of doubt as to the meaning or interpretation to be placed upon this Plan or any provisions thereof with reference to any question arising in the administration of the Plan or pertaining to the rights and liabilities of the Trustee hereunder. The Custodian in any such event, any act in reliance upon the advice, opinions, records, statements and computations of any attorneys and agents and on the records, statements and computations of any servants so selected by it in good faith shall be released and exonerated of and from all liability to anyone in so doing (except to the extent that liability is imposed under XXXXX). |
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(a) | The Custodian shall hold any or all assets received from the Trustee or its agents. If the Custodian holds title to Plan assets and such ownership requires action on the part of the registered owner, such action will be taken by the Custodian only upon receipt of specific instructions from the Trustee, or its designated agents or the Named Investment Fiduciary. Proxies shall be voted by or pursuant to the express direction of the Trustee its’ authorized agent or the Named Investment Fiduciary. The Custodian shall not render any investment advice, including any opinion on the prudence of directed investments. The Employer and Trustee and its agents thereof assume all responsibility for adherence to fiduciary standards under ERISA, as amended, and the Regulations issued thereunder. | ||
(b) | Where the Sponsor serves as Custodian, the Trust shall only be invested in investment alternatives the Custodian makes available in the ordinary course of business unless the Custodian is directed otherwise by the Employer, the Trustee or any properly designated agent thereof. The Custodian under applicable Federal or state laws, may limit the investment alternatives including but not limited to savings accounts, savings certificates, or in other savings instruments offered by the Sponsor or its affiliates. Such investments shall be made at the direction of the Employer or Trustee(s) or other Named Investment Fiduciary and the Custodian shall have no responsibility for the propriety of such investments. |
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(a) | In any Limitation Year prior to January 1, 2000, if the Employer maintains or maintained a Defined Benefit Plan which is not paired, the provisions of the “Limitations on Allocations” section of the Adoption Agreement shall apply. | ||
(b) | Each Participant who is employed by the Employer on the last day of the Plan Year shall be entitled to receive an allocation of the Employer’s minimum contribution for such Plan Year. The minimum allocation applies even though under other Plan provisions the Participant would not otherwise be entitled to receive an allocation, or would have received a lesser allocation for the year because the Participant fails to make required contributions to the Plan, the Participant’s Compensation is less than a stated amount, or the Participant fails to complete one-thousand (1,000) Hours of Service (or such lesser number designated by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement) during the Plan Year. A paired profit-sharing Plan designated to provide the Top-Heavy minimum contribution must do so regardless of profits. An Employer may elect in the Adoption Agreement by resolution or by Plan amendment whether the Top-Heavy minimum Contribution will be made to all Participants or just non-Key Employees. |
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(a) | the Participant otherwise is entitled under the Plan to a distribution of that portion of the Vested Account Balance, or |
(d) | In connection with the disposition by an Employer of less than 85% of the assets used by the Employer in a trade or business to an unrelated entity, distribution of the entire Vested Account Balance of an Participant who continues employment with the acquirer will, if so agreed to by the Employer, be made to the Participant in a single lump sum. This paragraph shall apply if the acquirer does not maintain the Plan after disposition and only if such Employee’s change in employment status constitutes a “separation from Service” within the meaning of Code Section 401(k)(2)(b)(i)(I). |
(a) | In the case of any merger or consolidation of the Employer’s Plan with, or transfer of assets or liabilities of the Employer’s Plan to any other plan, Participants in the Employer’s Plan shall be entitled to receive benefits immediately after the merger, consolidation, or transfer which are equal to or greater than the benefits they would have been entitled to receive immediately before the merger, consolidation, or transfer if the Plan had then terminated. | ||
(b) | Any corporation into which the Trustee, Custodian or any successor thereto may be merged or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Trustee, Custodian or any successor thereto may be a party, or any corporation to which all or substantially all the business of the Trustee, Custodian or any successor thereto may be transferred, shall automatically be the successor without the filing of any instrument or performance of any further act, before any court. |
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1. | Paragraph 1.16 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Compensation”, under the paragraph entitled “Limitation on Compensation” is amended effective for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001, by the addition of the following three sentences at the end of the paragraph: | |
“The annual Compensation of each Participant taken into account in determining allocations for any Plan Year beginning after December 31, 2001, shall not exceed $200,000, as adjusted for cost-of-living increases in accordance with Code Section 401(a)(17)(B). Annual Compensation means Compensation during the Plan Year or such other consecutive 12-month period over which Compensation is otherwise determined under the Plan (the determination period). The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to annual Compensation for the determination period that begins with or within such calendar year.” | ||
2. | Paragraph 1.55 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Key Employee”, is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001: | |
“1.55 Key Employee Key Employee means any Employee or former Employee (including any deceased Employee) who at any time during the Plan Year that includes the determination date was an officer of the Employer having annual Compensation greater than $130,000 [as adjusted under Code Section 416(i)(1) for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2002], a five percent (5%) owner of the Employer, or a one percent (1%) owner of the Employer having annual Compensation of more than $150,000. For this purpose, annual Compensation means Compensation within the meaning of Code Section 415(c)(3). The determination of who is a Key Employee will be made in accordance with Code Section 416(i)(1) and the applicable Regulations and other guidance of general applicability issued thereunder.” |
3. Paragraph 4.4 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Rollover Contributions”, is amended by the addition of the following paragraph (g) which shall read as follows: |
“(g) | If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, the Plan will accept Participant Rollover Contributions and/or Direct Rollovers of distributions made after December 31, 2001, from the types of plans specified in the Adoption Agreement, beginning on the Effective Date specified in the Adoption Agreement.” |
4. | Paragraph 4.7 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Elective Deferrals in a 401(k) Plan”, is amended by the addition of two new paragraphs (g) and (h) which shall read as follows: |
“(g) | No Participant shall be permitted to have Elective Deferrals made under this Plan, or any other Qualified Plan maintained by the Employer during any taxable year, in excess of the dollar limitation contained in Code Section 402(g) in effect for such taxable year, except to the extent permitted under subparagraph (h) below and Code Section 414(v), if applicable. | ||
If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, all Employees who are eligible to make Elective Deferrals under this Plan and who have attained age fifty (50) before the close of the Plan Year shall be eligible to make catch-up contributions in accordance with, and subject to the limitations of, Code Section 414(v). Such catch-up contributions shall not be taken into account for purposes of the provisions of the Plan implementing the required limitations of Code Sections 402(g) and 415. The Plan shall not be treated as failing to satisfy the provisions of the Plan implementing the requirements of Code Sections 401(k)(3), 401(k)(11), 401(k)(12), 410(b), or 416, as applicable, by reason of the making of such catch-up contributions. |
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Paragraph 4.8 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Elective Deferrals in a SIMPLE 401(k) Plan” is amendment by the addition of two new paragraphs (j) and (k) which shall read as follows: |
“(j) | Except to the extent permitted under subparagraph (k) below, the Adoption Agreement, EGTRRA §631 and Code Section 414(v), the maximum salary reduction contribution that can be made to this Plan is the amount determined under Code Section 408(p)(2)(A)(ii) for the calendar year. | ||
(k) | If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, all Employees who are eligible to make Elective Deferrals under this Plan and who have attained age fifty (50) before the close of the Plan Year shall be eligible to make catch-up contributions in accordance with, and subject to the limitations of, Code Section 414(v). Such catch-up contributions shall not be taken into account for purposes of the provisions of the Plan implementing the required limitations of Code Sections 401(k)(11), 408(p)(2)(A)(ii), 410(b) and 415(c) as applicable, by reason of the making of such catch-up contributions.” |
Effective as of the date set forth in the Adoption Agreement Section entitled “Distribution Upon Severance from Employment”, paragraph 6.3 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Benefits on Termination of Employment “ is amended by the addition of paragraphs (i) and (j) which shall read as follows: |
“(i) | If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, this paragraph shall apply for distributions and severances from employment occurring after the dates specified in the Adoption Agreement. | ||
A Participant’s Elective Deferrals, Qualified Non-Elective Contributions, Qualified Matching Contributions, and earnings attributable to these contributions shall be distributed on account of the Participant’s severance from employment. However, such a distribution shall be subject to the other provisions of the Plan regarding distributions, other than provisions that require a separation from Service before such amounts may be distributed. | |||
(j) | If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, the value of a Participant’s nonforfeitable account balance shall be determined without regard to that portion of the account balance that is attributable to rollover contributions (and the earnings allocable thereto) within the meaning of Code Sections 402(c), 403(a)(4), 403(b)(8), 408(d)(3)(A)(ii) and 457(e)(16). If the value of the Participant‘s nonforfeitable account balance as so determined is $5,000 or less, the Plan shall immediately distribute the Participant’s entire nonforfeitable account balance.” |
7. | Effective as of the date set forth in the Adoption Agreement Section entitled “Distribution Upon Severance from Employment”, paragraph 6.6 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Commencement of Benefits”, is amended by the addition of paragraph (d) which shall read as follows: |
“(d) | If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, this paragraph shall apply for distributions and severances from employment occurring after the dates specified in the Adoption Agreement. | ||
A Participant’s Elective Deferrals, Qualified Non-Elective Contributions, Qualified Matching Contributions, and earnings attributable to these contributions shall be distributed on account of the Participant’s severance from employment. However, such a distribution shall be subject to the other provisions of the Plan regarding distributions, other than provisions that require a separation from Service before such amounts may be distributed.” |
8. | The following new paragraph (c) is added to paragraph 6.7 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Transitional Rules for Cash-Out Limits” and shall apply if elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement and be effective as specified in the Adoption Agreement. |
“(c) | If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, for purposes of this paragraph 6.7, the value of a Participant’s nonforfeitable account balance shall be determined without regard to that portion of the account balance that is attributable to Rollover Contributions (and the earnings allocable thereto) within the meaning of Code Sections 402(c), 403(a)(4), 403(b)(8), |
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408(d)(3)(A)(ii), and 457(e)(16). If the value of the Participant’s nonforfeitable account balance as so determined is $5,000 or less, the Plan shall immediately distribute the Participant’s entire nonforfeitable account balance.” |
9. | Paragraph 6.9 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Hardship Withdrawals”, is amended effective January 1, 2002 by the addition of the following paragraph (d): |
“(d) A Participant who receives a distribution after December 31, 2001, on account of Hardship shall be prohibited from making Elective Deferrals and Voluntary After-tax Contributions under this and all other Plans of the Employer for six (6) months after receipt of the distribution. A Participant who receives a distribution in calendar year 2001 on account of Hardship shall be prohibited from making Elective Deferrals and Voluntary After-tax Contributions under this and all other Plans of the Employer for the period specified by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement.” |
The Code Section 402(g) limit for 2002 does not have to be reduced with respect to a participant who has received a Hardship distribution in calendar year 2001. | ||
10. | Paragraph 6.10 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Direct Rollover of Benefits”, is amended effective January 1, 2002 by the addition of the following paragraph (e): |
“(e) This paragraph shall apply only to distributions made after December 31, 2001. For purposes of the Direct Rollover provisions in paragraph 6.10 of the Plan, an Eligible Retirement Plan shall also mean an annuity contract described in Code Section 403(b) and an eligible plan under Code Section 457(b) which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into such plan from this Plan. 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 Relations Order, as defined in Code Section 414(p). | |||
For purposes of the Direct Rollover provisions in paragraph 6.10 of the Plan, 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. | |||
For purposes of the Direct Rollover provisions in paragraph 6.10 of the Plan, a portion of the distribution shall not fail to be an Eligible Rollover Distribution merely because the portion consists of Voluntary After-tax Contributions which are not includible in gross income. However, such portion may be transferred only to an individual retirement account or annuity described in Code Section 408(a) or (b), or to a qualified Defined Contribution Plan described in Code Section 401(a) or 403(a) that agrees to separately account for amounts so transferred, including separately accounting for the portion of such distribution which is includible in gross income and the portion of such distribution which is not so includible.” |
11. | Article IX of Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “VESTING”, is hereby amended effective for the first Plan Year beginning after December 31, 2001, by adding a new paragraph 9.12 entitled “Vesting of Employer Matching Contributions” which shall read as follows: | |
“9.12 Vesting Of Employer Matching Contributions | ||
This section shall apply to Participants with an account balance derived from Employer Matching Contributions who complete an Hour of Service under the Plan in a Plan Year beginning after December 31, 2001. If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, this section shall also apply to all other Participants with an account balance derived from Employer Matching Contributions. | ||
A Participant’s account balance derived from Employer Matching Contributions shall vest as provided in Section XIII(E) of the Adoption Agreement if elected.” |
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12. | Article X of Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “LIMITATIONS ON ALLOCATIONS”, is amended by the addition of the following paragraph 10.6 entitled “Annual Additions” which shall read as follows: | |
“10.6 Annual Additions | ||
Except to the extent permitted under Section 4.7(h) of Basic Plan Document #01 and under Code Section 414(v), the Annual Addition that may be contributed or allocated to a Participant’s account under the Plan for any Limitation Year beginning after December 31, 2001 shall not exceed the lesser of: |
(a) | $40,000, as adjusted for increases in the cost-of-living under Code Section 415(d), or | ||
(b) | 100% of the Participant’s Compensation, within the meaning of Code Section 415(c)(3), for the Limitation Year. |
The Compensation limit referred to in (b) above shall not apply to any contribution for medical benefits after separation from Service [within the meaning of Code Section 401(h) or Code Section 419A(f)(2)] which is otherwise treated as an Annual Addition.” | ||
13. | Effective for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001, paragraph 11.7(b) of the Basic Plan Document #01 is amended by the deletion of this paragraph which outlines the multiple use test described in Treasury Regulations Section 1.401(m)-2. | |
14. | Paragraph 12.9 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Participant Loans” is amended effective January 1, 2001 by deleting the language at subsection (i) and replacing it with the following: |
“(i) | Effective for Plan loans made after December 31, 2001, Plan provisions prohibiting loans to any Owner-Employee or Shareholder Employee shall cease to apply.” |
15. | Paragraph 14.2 of the Basic Plan Document #01 entitled “Minimum Contribution” is amended for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001 by the addition of the following two new subparagraphs at the end of the paragraph which shall read as follows: | |
“Matching Contributions — Employer Matching Contributions shall be taken into account for purposes of satisfying the minimum contribution requirements of Code Section 416(c)(2). The preceding sentence shall apply with respect to Matching Contributions under the Plan or, if the Plan provides that the minimum contribution requirement shall be met in another plan, such other plan. Employer Matching Contributions that are used to satisfy the minimum contribution requirements shall be treated as Matching Contributions for purposes of the Actual Contribution Percentage Test and other requirements of Code Section 401(m). | ||
Contributions Under Other Plans — The Employer may provide in the Adoption Agreement that the minimum benefit requirement shall be met in another plan, including another plan that consists solely of a cash or deferred arrangement which meets the requirements of Code Section 401(k)(12) and Matching Contributions which meet the requirements of Code Section 401(m)(11).” | ||
16. | The Top-Heavy requirements of Code Section 416 and Article XIV of the Basic Plan Document #01 shall not apply in any Plan Year beginning after December 31, 2001, in which the Plan established under the Basic Plan Document #01 consists solely of a cash or deferred arrangement which meets the requirements of Code Section 401(k)(12) and Matching Contributions which meet the requirements of Code Section 401(m)(11). | |
This paragraph shall apply for purposes of determining whether the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan under Code Section 416(g) for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001, and whether the Plan satisfies the minimum benefits requirements of Code Section 416(c) for such years. This section amends Article XIV of the Basic Plan Document #01 by adding paragraph 14.7 entitled “Determination of Top-Heavy Status”. The paragraph shall read as follows: |
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“14.7 Determination Of Top-Heavy Status |
(a) | Determination of Present Values and Amounts — This paragraph 14.7 shall apply for purposes of determining the Present Values of accrued benefits and the amounts of account balances of Employees as of the Top-Heavy Determination Date. | ||
(b) | Distributions During the Plan Year Ending on the Top-Heavy Determination Date — The Present Value of accrued benefits and the amounts of account balances of an Employee as of the Top-Heavy Determination Date shall be increased by the distributions made with respect to the Employee under the Plan and any plan aggregated with this Plan under Code Section 416(g)(2) during the 1-year period ending on the Top-Heavy Determination Date. The preceding sentence shall also apply to distributions under a terminated plan which, had it not been terminated, would have been aggregated with this Plan under Code Section 416(g)(2)(A)(i). In the case of a distribution made for a reason other than separation from Service, death, or Disability, this provision shall be applied by substituting “5-year period” for “1-year period”. | ||
Employees Not Performing Services During the Plan Year Ending on the Top-Heavy Determination Date — The accrued benefits and accounts of any individual who has not performed services for the Employer during the 1 -year period ending on the Top-Heavy Determination Date shall not be taken into account.” |
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TO THE
PROTOTYPE DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT #01
MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS
(a) | If the Participant’s surviving Spouse is the Participant’s sole designated Beneficiary, then, except as provided in the Adoption Agreement, distributions to the surviving Spouse will begin by December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Participant died, or by December 31 of the calendar year in which the Participant would have attained age 701/2, if later. |
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(b) | If the Participant’s surviving Spouse is not the Participant’s sole designated Beneficiary, then, except as provided in the Adoption Agreement, distributions to the designated Beneficiary will begin by December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Participant died. | ||
(c) | If there is no designated Beneficiary as of September 30 of the year following the year of the Participant’s death, the Participant’s entire interest will be distributed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant’s death. | ||
(d) | 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 paragraph 17.7, other than paragraph 17.7(a), will apply as if the surviving Spouse were the Participant. |
(a) | the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant’s account balance by the distribution period in the Uniform Lifetime Table set forth in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury Regulations, using the Participant’s age as of the Participant’s birthday in the Distribution Calendar Year; or | ||
(b) | if the Participant’s sole designated Beneficiary for the distribution calendar year is the Participant’s Spouse, the quotient obtained by dividing the Participant’s account balance by the number in the Joint and Last Survivor Table set forth in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury Regulations, using the Participant’s and Spouse’s attained ages as of the Participant’s and Spouse’s birthdays in the Distribution Calendar Year. |
(a) | 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: |
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(1) | 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. | ||
(2) | 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. | ||
(3) | 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. |
(b) | 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. |
(a) | Participant Survived By Designated Beneficiary — Except as provided in the Adoption Agreement, 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 paragraph 17.11. | ||
(b) | 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. | ||
(c) | 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 paragraph 17.7(a), this paragraph 17.12 will apply as if the surviving Spouse were the Participant. |
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BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT #01
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FOR THE
PROTOTYPE DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN
BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT #01
DEEMED IRAs
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TRADITIONAL INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT PROVISIONS
(a) | the Applicable Deferral Amount as defined in Code Section 414(v)(2)(A), or | ||
(b) | the excess, if any, of the Individual’s Compensation (as defined in the Adoption Agreement) for the year, over any other Elective Deferrals made by the Individual for the year (other than Catch-Up Contributions). |
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Years | Maximum Annual Contribution Amount | |
2002 through 2004 | $3,000 | |
2005 through 2007 | $4,000 | |
2008 and thereafter | $5,000 |
(a) | Catch-Up Contributions - If, by December 31 of any taxable year, an Individual is age 50 or over, the Individual may make an additional contribution (a “Catch-Up Contribution”) to all of the Individual’s IRAs in the aggregate and, if the Individual is eligible, Xxxx IRAs up to the amounts listed below for each year: |
Years | Catch-Up Contribution | |
2002 through 2005 | $500 | |
2006 and thereafter | $1,000 |
(b) | Deductibility of Traditional IRA Contributions - |
(1) | In General. The Individual may fully deduct their Traditional IRA contributions, up to the total of the Individual’s Maximum Annual Contribution plus any Catch-Up Contributions, if: |
(i) | the Individual is single and the Individual is not an active Participant in a Retirement Plan, | ||
(ii) | the Individual is married, both the Individual and the Individual’s Spouse are not active Participants in a Retirement Plan, or | ||
(iii) | the Individual is not an active Participant in a Retirement Plan and the Individual’s Spouse is an active Participant, but the Individual and their Spouse’s |
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jointly filed adjusted gross income (“AGI”) does not exceed $150,000. If the Individual’s Spouse is an active Participant and the Individual is not, their ability to deduct their Traditional IRA contribution is phased out ratably if the Individual and their Spouse’s joint AGI is more than $150,000 but not more than $160,000. No deduction is permitted if the Individual and their Spouse’s joint AGI exceeds $160,000. |
(2) | Active Participants in Retirement Plan. If the Individual is an active Participant in a Retirement Plan, the Individual may deduct the Individual’s Traditional IRA contribution if the AGI of the Individual and if applicable, the Individual and the Individual’s Spouse, is less than the Threshold Amount (see below). If the AGI of the Individual, and if applicable the Individual and the Individual’s Spouse, equals or exceeds the Threshold Amount but is less than the Phaseout Amount (see below), the Individual’s ability to deduct their Traditional IRA contribution is reduced ratably, but not below $200. If the AGI of the Individual equals or exceeds the Phaseout Amount, the Individual may not deduct any Traditional IRA contributions. The AGI limits for active Participants vary depending upon the Tax Year and the Individual’s Federal filing status. The charts below illustrate the AGI limits for each filing status. |
Taxable | Year Threshold Amount | Phaseout Amount | ||||||
2002 |
$ | 54,000 | $ | 64,000 | ||||
2003 |
60,000 | 70,000 | ||||||
2004 |
65,000 | 75,000 | ||||||
2005 |
70,000 | 80,000 | ||||||
2006 |
75,000 | 85,000 | ||||||
2007 and thereafter |
80,000 | 100,000 |
If the Individual is single and an active Participant in a Plan and files using any non-married filing status: |
Taxable | Year Threshold Amount | Phaseout Amount | ||||||
2002 |
$ | 34,000 | $ | 44,000 | ||||
2003 |
40,000 | 50,000 | ||||||
2004 |
45,000 | 55,000 | ||||||
2005 |
50,000 | 60,000 | ||||||
2006 |
50,000 | 60,000 | ||||||
2007 and thereafter |
50,000 | 60,000 |
If the Individual is married but files separately, the Individual’s Threshold Amount is $0 and their Phaseout Amount is $10,000 for all Tax Years, $20,000 in the case of a joint tax return for tax years beginning after December 31, 2006. | |||
Saver’s Credit — The Saver’s Credit under Code Section 25B is a nonrefundable tax credit available to taxpayers whose AGI does not exceed certain limits. The credit is equal to a specified percentage of the taxpayer’s eligible contributions to IRAs or certain Employer-sponsored retirement plans for each taxable year from 2002 through 2006. |
(1) | Eligibility. The taxpayer must be age eighteen (18) or over before the end of the taxable year, may not be a full-time student and cannot be claimed as a dependent on another taxpayer’s Federal income tax return. | ||
(2) | Contributions Eligible for the Saver’s Credit. The maximum amount of annual contributions that may be taken into account is $2,000. Eligible contributions include annual contributions to Traditional and Xxxx IRAs and salary reduction contributions to Code Section 401(k) Plans, SIMPLEs [IRA or 401(k)], Code Section 403(b) Plans, |
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governmental Code Section 457 Plans or SARSEP plans. Voluntary After-Tax Contributions to an Employer’s Qualified Retirement Plan or a Code Section 403(b) plan are also eligible for the credit. | |||
(3) | Reduction of Eligible Contributions. The amount of a taxpayer’s eligible contributions for any taxable year will be reduced by any taxable distributions received by the taxpayer (or by the taxpayer’s Spouse if filing a joint return) from an IRA or a plan listed in (c)(2) above during the taxable year, during the two (2) preceding years or during the period from the end of the taxable year until the due date (with extensions) of the taxpayer’s Federal income tax return. | ||
(4) | Amount of Credit. The Saver’s Credit will be 50%, 20% or 10% (the “Applicable Percentage”) of eligible contributions based upon the taxpayer’s filing status and AGI as shown on the chart below: |
Adjusted Gross Income: |
Joint Return | Head of Household | All Others | % | |||||||||||||||||||||
Over | Not Over | Over | Not Over | Over | Not Over | |||||||||||||||||||
$ 0 |
$ | 30,000 | $ | 0 | $ | 22,500 | $ | 0 | $ | 15,000 | 50 | % | ||||||||||||
$30,000 |
$ | 32,500 | $ | 22,500 | $ | 24,375 | $ | 15,000 | $ | 16,250 | 20 | % | ||||||||||||
$32,500 |
$ | 50,000 | $ | 24,375 | $ | 37,500 | $ | 16,250 | $ | 25,000 | 10 | % | ||||||||||||
$50,000 |
$ | 37,500 | $ | 25,000 | 0 | % |
(a) | a single lump-sum payment, or | ||
(b) | equal or substantially equal monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual payments. The payments may be computed over any period of time but not longer than the Individual’s life expectancy or |
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the joint life expectancy of the Individual and the Individual’s designated Beneficiary. |
Installment payments will continue only so long as amounts remain in an IRA. Once an IRA is exhausted, payments will stop. If the Individual is receiving installment payments, the Individual may request distribution of all or any part of the remaining balance in the Individual’s IRA at any time upon written notice to the Sponsor. |
(a) | If the Individual’s surviving Spouse is the Individual’s sole designated Beneficiary, distributions to the surviving Spouse will begin by December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Individual died, or by December 31 of the calendar year in which the Individual would have attained age 701/2, if later. However, if the Individual dies before distributions begin and there is a designated Beneficiary, distribution to the designated Beneficiary may not be required to begin by the date specified in this paragraph, but instead, the Individual’s entire interest may be distributed to the designated Beneficiary by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth (5) anniversary of the Individual’s death. If the Individual’s surviving Spouse is the Individual’s sole designated Beneficiary and the surviving Spouse dies after the Individual but before distributions to either the Individual or the surviving Spouse begin, this election may apply as if the surviving Spouse were the Individual and may apply to all distributions or only to certain distributions as so designated by the Individual. This election will be deemed to have been made if such surviving Spouse makes a contribution to the IRA or fails to take a required distribution as a Beneficiary. |
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(b) | If the Individual’s surviving Spouse is not the Individual’s sole designated Beneficiary, distributions to the designated Beneficiary will begin by December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Individual died. However, Individuals or Beneficiaries may elect on an individual basis whether the five (5) year rule or the life expectancy rule in this paragraph 19.16 and 19.17 apply to distributions after the death of an Individual who has a designated Beneficiary. The election must be made no later than the earlier of September 30 of the calendar year in which distribution would be required to begin under paragraph 19.16, or by September 30 of the calendar year which contains the fifth anniversary of the Individual’s (or, if applicable, surviving Spouse’s) death as permitted under Regulations Section 1.401(a)(9). If neither the Individual nor Beneficiary makes an election under this paragraph, distributions will be made in accordance with paragraphs 19.16 and 19.17 herein and, if applicable, the elections in paragraph (a) above. | ||
(c) | If there is no designated Beneficiary as of September 30 of the year following the year of the Individual’s death, the Individual’s entire interest will be distributed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth (5) anniversary of the Individual’s death. | ||
(d) | If the Individual’s surviving Spouse is the Individual’s sole designated Beneficiary and the surviving Spouse dies after the Individual but before distributions to the surviving Spouse begin, this paragraph 19.16(d), other than paragraph 19.16(a), will apply as if the surviving Spouse were the Individual. |
For purposes of this paragraph and paragraphs 19.20 and 19.21, unless paragraph 19.16(d) applies, distributions are considered to begin on the Individual’s Required Beginning Date. If paragraph 19.16(d) applies, distributions are considered to begin on the date distributions are required to begin to the surviving Spouse under paragraph 19.16(a). A designated Beneficiary who is receiving payments under the five (5) year rule may make a new election to receive payments under the life expectancy rule until December 31, 2003, provided that all amounts that would have been required to be distributed under the life expectancy rule for all distribution calendar years before 2004 are distributed by the earlier of December 31, 2003 or the end of the five (5) year period. |
(a) | the quotient obtained by dividing the Individual’s account balance by the distribution period in the Uniform Lifetime Table set forth in Q&A-2 of Regulations Section 1.401(a)(9)-9, using the Individual’s age as of his or her birthday in the Distribution Calendar Year; or | ||
(b) | if the Individual’s sole designated Beneficiary for the distribution calendar year is the Individual’s Spouse, the quotient obtained by dividing the Individual’s account balance by the number in the Joint and Last Survivor Table set forth in Q&A-3 of Regulations Section 1.401(a)(9)-9, using the Individual’s and Spouse’s attained ages as of the Individual’s and Spouse’s birthdays in the Distribution Calendar Year. |
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(a) | If the designated Beneficiary is someone other than the Individual’s surviving Spouse, the remaining interest will be distributed over the remaining life expectancy of the designated Beneficiary, with such life expectancy determined using the Beneficiary’s age as of his or her birthday in the year following the year of the Individual’s death, or, if the distributions are being made over the period described in (c) below if longer. | ||
(b) | If the Individual’s sole designated Beneficiary is the Individual’s surviving Spouse, the remaining interest will be distributed over such Spouse’s life or over the period described in paragraph (c) below, if longer. Any interest remaining after such Xxxxxx’s death will be distributed over such Xxxxxx’s remaining life expectancy determined using the Spouse’s age as of his or her birthday in the year of the Spouse’s death, or, if the distributions are being made over the period described in paragraph (c) below, over such period. | ||
(c) | If there is no designated Beneficiary, or if applicable by operation of paragraph (a) or (b) above, the remaining interest will be distributed over the Individual’s remaining life expectancy determined in the year of the Individual’s death. | ||
(d) | The amount to be distributed each year under paragraph (a), (b) or (c), beginning with the calendar year following the calendar year of the Individual’s death, is the quotient obtained by dividing the value of the IRA as of the end of the preceding year by the remaining life expectancy specified in such paragraph. Life expectancy is determined using the Single Life Table in Q&A-1 of Regulations Section 1.401(a)-(9)-9. | ||
(e) | If distributions are being made to a surviving Spouse as the sole designated Beneficiary, such Spouse’s remaining life expectancy for a year is the number in the Single Life Table corresponding to the Beneficiary’s or Individual’s age in the year specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) and reduced by one (1) for each subsequent year. |
(a) | Individual Survived By Designated Beneficiary — If the Individual 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 Individual’s death is the quotient obtained by dividing the Individual’s account balance by the remaining life expectancy of the Individual’s designated Beneficiary, determined as provided in paragraph 19.20. | ||
(b) | No Designated Beneficiary — If the Individual dies before the date distributions begin and there is no designated Beneficiary as of September 30 of the year following the year of the Individual’s death, distribution of the Individual’s entire interest will be completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth (5) anniversary of the Individual’s death. | ||
(c) | Death Of Surviving Spouse Before Distributions To Surviving Spouse Are Required To Begin — If the Individual dies before the date distributions begin, the Individual’s surviving Spouse is the Individual’s sole designated Beneficiary, and the surviving Spouse dies before distributions are required to begin to the surviving Spouse under paragraph 19.16(a), this paragraph 19.21 will apply as if the surviving Spouse were the Individual. |
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(a) | setting up and maintaining an IRA in the Individual’s name; | ||
(b) | accepting contributions for deposit to the Individual’s IRA. The Trustee does not require the Individual to make annual contributions since they are voluntary. However, the Trustee is not permitted to accept contributions in excess of the Maximum Annual Contribution for any Tax Year unless it is a Rollover Contribution; | ||
(c) | investing the Individual’s contributions in accordance with the Individual’s direction; | ||
(d) | making payments or distributions from the Individual’s IRA in accordance with the Individual’s written instructions; | ||
preparing and mailing to the Individual an annual report of the Individual’s IRA for each Tax Year. The report will show the contributions received, the payments and distributions made, the investment earnings received, the market value of assets held in the Individual’s Account including gains and/or losses (if applicable) and the balance held in the Account at the end of the Tax Year; and | |||
preparing an annual calendar year statement concerning the status of the account and such information concerning required minimum distributions as is prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. |
(a) | determining the amount of the Individual’s annual contribution, if any. The Individual is also responsible to make the Individual’s contribution within the time limits set by the Internal Revenue Service; |
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(b) | authorizing any payment or distribution from the Individual’s Account; | ||
(c) | filing Form 5329, Return for Additional Taxes Attributable to Retirement Plans (including IRAs), Annuities and Modified Endowment Contracts, if the Individual owes an excise tax with respect to the Individual’s IRA; | ||
(d) | furnishing the Trustee with a written explanation of the intended use of any distribution prior to attainment of age 591/2; and | ||
(e) | furnishing the Trustee with any information the Trustee may need to complete any governmental report required at paragraph 19.27(f) above. If the Individual fails to furnish the Trustee with such information and documents the Trustee may reasonably require, the Trustee may in the Trustee’s sole discretion terminate the account and distribute to the Individual the lump sum payment, in an amount equal to the assets in the Account less an amount deemed reasonably necessary by the Trustee for the payment of all unpaid fees, expenses, charges, taxes or other liabilities of the account, whether or not liquidated. |
XXXX INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT
20.1 | Xxxx XXX |
20.2 | Individual Accounts |
20.3 | Age Requirements |
20.4 | Plan Year |
20.5 | Timing Of Contributions |
20.6 | Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) |
20.7 | Modified AGI |
20.8 | Applicable Dollar Amount |
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20.9 | Maximum Permissible Amount |
20.10 | Xxxx XXX Contributions |
(a) | Except in the case of a Qualified Rollover Contribution or a recharacterization [as defined in (f) below], no contribution will be accepted unless it is in cash and the total of such contribution to all the Individual’s Xxxx IRAs for a taxable year does not exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount described at paragraph 20.9. | ||
(b) | When determining the Maximum Permissible Amount, the applicable amount is determined under (i) or (ii) below: |
(i) | If the Individual is under age fifty (50), the applicable amount is $3,000 for any Taxable Year beginning in 2002 through 2004, $4,000 for any Taxable Year beginning in 2005 through 2007, and $5,000 for any Taxable Year beginning in 2008 and years thereafter. | ||
(ii) | If the Individual is age fifty (50) or older, the applicable amount is $3,500 for any Taxable Year beginning in 2002 through 2004, $4,500 for any Taxable Year beginning in 2005, $5,000 for any Taxable Year beginning in 2006 through 2007, and $6,000 for any Taxable Year beginning in 2008 and years thereafter. |
(c) | If (i) and/or (ii) below apply, the maximum Regular Contribution that can be made to all the Individuals’ Xxxx IRAs for a Taxable Year is the smaller amount determined under (i) or (ii). |
(i) | The maximum Regular Contribution is phased out ratably between certain levels of modified Adjusted Gross Income (“Modified AGI,”) in accordance with the following table: |
Filing Status | Full Contribution | Phase-Out Range | No Contribution | |||
Modified AGI | ||||||
Single or Head of Household |
$95,0000 or less | Between $95,000 and $110,000 | $110,000 or more | |||
Joint Return Or Qualifying Widow(er) |
$150,000 or less | Between $150,000 and $160,000 | $160,000 or more | |||
Married-Separate Return |
$0 | Between $0 and $10,000 | $10,000 or more |
(ii) | If the Individual makes Regular Contributions to both Xxxx and non-Xxxx IRAs for a Taxable Year, the maximum Regular Contribution that can be made to all the Individual’s Xxxx IRAs for the Taxable Year is reduced by the Regular Contributions made to the Individual’s non-Xxxx IRAs for the Taxable Year. |
(d) | A rollover from a non-Xxxx XXX cannot be made to this IRA if, for the year the amount is distributed from the non-Xxxx XXX (i) the Individual is married and files a separate return, (ii) the Individual |
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is not married and has Modified AGI in excess of $100,000 or (iii) the Individual is married and together the Individual and the Individual’s Spouse have Modified AGI in excess of $100,000. For purposes of the preceding sentence, a husband and wife are not treated as married for a Taxable Year if they have lived apart at all times during that Taxable Year and file separate returns for the Taxable Year. | |||
(e) | No contributions will be accepted under a SIMPLE IRA plan established by any Employer pursuant to Code Section 408(p). Additionally, no transfer or rollover of funds attributable to contributions made by a particular employer under its SIMPLE IRA plan will be accepted from an IRA used in conjunction with a SIMPLE IRA plan, prior to the expiration of the 2-year period beginning on the date the Individual first participated in that employer’s SIMPLE IRA plan. | ||
(f) | A Regular Contribution to a non-Xxxx XXX may be recharacterized pursuant to the rules in Regulations Section 1.408A-5 as a Regular Contribution to this IRA, subject to the limits in (c) above. | ||
(g) | For purposes of this paragraph, an Individual’s Modified AGI for a Taxable Year is defined in Code Section 408A(c)(3)(c)(i) and does not include any amount included in Adjusted Gross Income as a result of a rollover from a non-Xxxx XXX (a “conversion”). |
20.11 | Excess Contribution |
20.12 | Qualified Distributions |
(a) | the Individual having attained age 591/2, | ||
(b) | the Individual’s death, | ||
(c) | the Individual’s Disability, or | ||
(d) | a Qualified Special Purpose Distribution. |
If the entire Xxxx XXX account balance is distributed before any other Xxxx XXX contributions are made, the five (5) year holding period does not start over when future contributions are made. However, in the following situations, the five (5) year holding period will not be considered to have begun if: |
(e) | the initial Xxxx XXX contribution is revoked within the initial seven (7) day period; | ||
(f) | the initial Xxxx XXX contribution is recharacterized to a Traditional IRA; or |
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(g) | an excess contribution, plus earnings, is timely distributed in accordance with Code Section 408(d)(4), by the tax filing deadline (including extensions), unless other eligible contributions were made. |
20.13 | Qualified Special Purpose Distribution |
20.14 | Nonqualified Distributions |
20.15 | Form Of Payment |
20.16 | Rollover From A Qualified Retirement Plan |
20.17 | Life Expectancy |
20.18 | Distributions Commencing Prior To Death |
20.19 | Distributions After Death |
(a) | Upon the death of the Individual, distribution of the Individual’s entire interest shall be completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth (5) anniversary of the Individual’s death except to the extent that an election is made to receive distributions in accordance with (i) or (ii) below. |
(i) | If the Individual’s interest is payable to a Beneficiary, then the entire interest of the Individual may be distributed over the life or over a period certain not greater than the life expectancy of the Beneficiary commencing on or before December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Individual died. | ||
(ii) | If the Beneficiary is the Individual’s surviving Spouse, the date distributions are required to begin in accordance with (i) above shall not be earlier than the later of (A) December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Individual died or (B) December 31 of the calendar year in which the Individual would have attained age 701/2. |
(b) | If the Beneficiary is the Individual’s surviving Spouse, the Spouse may elect to treat the account as |
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his or her own Xxxx XXX. This election will be deemed to have been made if such surviving Spouse makes a regular contribution to the account, makes a rollover to or from such account, or fails to take distributions under (a) above. |
(c) | The amount required to be distributed each calendar year under (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above shall not be less than the quotient obtained by dividing the balance in the account as of the end of the preceding calendar year by the Beneficiary’s applicable life expectancy [as determined under 20.17 above]. |
20.20 | Ordering Rules Upon Death Of Individual |
20.21 | Minimum Payment |
20.22 | Duties Of Trustee |
(a) | setting up and maintaining a Xxxx XXX in the Individual’s name; | ||
(b) | accepting contributions for deposit to the Individual’s Xxxx XXX. The Trustee will not accept contributions in excess of $2,000 for any Taxable Year or contributions from a SIMPLE IRA unless such contribution is a rollover or direct transfer from another Xxxx XXX or Traditional or Regular IRA (other than a Conduit IRA); | ||
(c) | investing contributions in accordance with the investment options offered by the Trustee; | ||
(d) | making payments or distributions from this Xxxx XXX in accordance with written instructions issued by an authorized party hereunder; | ||
(e) | preparing and issuing an annual calendar year report of the Xxxx XXX for each Plan Year concerning the status of the status of the account and such information concerning required minimum distributions as is prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The report will show the contributions received, the payments and distributions made, the investment earnings received, the market value of assets held in the account and the balance held in the account at the end of the Plan Year, and such information concerning required minimum distributions as is prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue; and | ||
(f) | preparing any reports that may be required by the Internal Revenue Service or by any governmental unit or agency having authority to request reports. |
20.23 | Duties Of Individual |
(a) | determining the amount and timing of the annual contribution, if any; | ||
(b) | notifying the Trustee of any excess contribution made for a Taxable Year and directing the Trustee as to the disposition of such contribution plus the investment earnings thereon; | ||
(c) | authorizing any payment or distribution from the account; | ||
(d) | filing Form 5329, Return for Additional Taxes Attributable to Qualified Retirement Plans, if an excise tax is owed with respect to the Xxxx XXX; |
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(e) | furnishing the Trustee with a written explanation of the intended use of any distribution to the Individual prior to the attainment of age 591/2; and | ||
(f) | furnishing the Trustee with any information the Trustee may need to complete any governmental report required under applicable statutes or regulations. |
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TO THE
PROTOTYPE DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN
BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT #01
1. | By the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” wherever the words appear in sub-paragraph 1.1(f), paragraph 1.2 including sub-paragraph 1.2(c), sub-paragraph 1.39(g), sub-paragraph 1.44(c), paragraph 1.47, and paragraph 1.59. | |
2. | By the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the reference to [...“Code Section 402(g)(3)]” wherever the words appear in subparagraphs 1.16(a), (b) and (c) as well as the sub-paragraphs entitled “Annual Additions and Top-Heavy Rules” and “Definition of Compensation for Purposes of Safe-Harbor CODA Provisions”. | |
3. | By the addition of a comma and the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in paragraph 1.83. | |
4. | By the addition of a new paragraph 1.118 entitled “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” which shall read as follows: |
5. | By the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in sub-paragraph 2.1(d) and paragraph 2.13. |
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By the addition of a comma and the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in paragraph 2.3. |
7. | By the addition of a comma and the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in sub-paragraph 3.1(b). |
8. | By the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in paragraph 3.12. |
Article IV entitled “EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS” is amended as follows: |
9. | Paragraph 4.4 entitled “Rollover Contributions” is amended by the addition of the following paragraphs at the end thereof, which shall read as follows: |
A direct rollover of a distribution from a Xxxx 401(k) Deferral Account under this plan will only be made to another Xxxx 401(k) Deferral account under an applicable retirement plan described in Code Section 402A(e)(1) or to a Xxxx XXX described in Code Section 408A, and only to the extent the rollover is permitted under the rules of Code Section 402(c).
10. | By the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in sub-paragraphs 4.7(b)(4), 4.7(c), 4.8(f); after the first and third times the words appear in sub-paragraph 4.9(b), and after the words appear in paragraph 4.10. |
11. | By the addition of the words “and Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in sub-paragraph 4.7(f). |
12. | Paragraph 5.1 entitled “Separate Accounts” is amended by adding a new subparagraph 5.1(b)(8) entitled “Xxxx Elective Deferrals.” |
13. | By the addition of a new paragraph 5.9 entitled “Xxxx 401(k) Deferral Account” which shall read as follows: |
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14. | By the addition of two new sentences at sub-paragraph 6.5(k) which shall read as follows: |
15. | By the addition of the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals,” after the words “Elective Deferrals,” in sub-paragraphs 6.8(e) and (i). | |
By the addition of the words “and Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in sub-paragraphs 6.3(e) and 6.8(a), the second paragraph in paragraph 6.9, as well as sub-paragraphs 6.9(a)(2) and (4). | ||
17. | By the addition of a new sub-paragraph 6.8(k) which shall read as follows: | |
“(k) | Unless elected otherwise on the Adoption Agreement, the Plan Administrator may implement on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis an ordering rule for in-service withdrawals from a Participant’s account attributable to pre-tax Elective Deferrals or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals.” | |
18. | By the addition of a new sub-paragraph 6.9(d) which shall read as follows: | |
“(d) | The Plan Administrator may implement on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis an ordering rule for Hardship withdrawals from a Participant’s account attributable to pre-tax Elective Deferrals or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals.” | |
19. | By the addition of the following paragraph 6.10(f) which shall read as follows: | |
“(f) | The Plan Administrator and/or Trustee may pursuant to a uniform and nondiscriminatory policy, accept a Direct Rollover from another Xxxx 401(k) Deferral account under a retirement plan as described in Code Section 402A(e)(1). When a portion of a distribution is from a Xxxx 401(k) Deferral Account, the rollover of any such distribution pursuant to Code Section 402A(c)(3) must be accomplished through a Direct Rollover and can only be made to a plan qualified under Code Section 401(a) which agrees to separately account for the amount not includible in income. The transferring Plan shall report the amount of the investment in the contract (contributions as well as associated earnings) and the first year of the five (5) year period to the recipient plan so that the recipient plan will not need to rely on the information from the Plan Participant. For purposes of this paragraph, the five (5) taxable year period of Plan participation is the period of five (5) consecutive taxable years that begins with the first day of the first taxable year in which the Participant makes a designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferral Contribution to any designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferral account established for the Participant under the same plan and ends when five (5) consecutive taxable years have been completed. For this purpose, the first taxable year in which a Participant makes a designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferral Contribution is the year in which the amount is first includible in the Participant’s gross income. |
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By the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” where the words appear in paragraph 6.13. |
21. | By the addition of a new paragraph 6.13 entitled “Qualified Distribution of Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” to read as follows: |
(a) | the first taxable year for which the Participant made a Xxxx 401(k) Deferral to any designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferral account established for such Participant under the same applicable retirement plan, or | ||
(b) | if a Rollover Contribution was made to such designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferral account from a designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferral account previously established for such Participant under another applicable retirement plan, the first taxable year for which the Participant made a Xxxx 401(k) Deferral to such previously established account. |
22. | By the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in sub-paragraphs 7.11(a), (c) and (d). | |
23. | By the addition of the words “and Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in sub-paragraph 7.11(b). | |
24. | By the addition of a new sub-paragraph 7.11(e), which shall read as follows: | |
“Unless elected otherwise in the Adoption Agreement, Excess pre-tax Elective Deferrals shall be returned before Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals.” | ||
25. | By the addition of the words “and Xxxx 401(k) Deferral Account” after the words “Elective Deferral account” where they first appear in sub-paragraph 7.12(c) and by adding the words “and Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” where they next appear in sub-paragraph 7.12(c). |
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26. | By the addition of a comma and the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferral account” after the words “Elective Deferral account” where the words appear in sub-paragraph 7.12(d). | |
Article IX entitled “ VESTING” is amended as follows: | ||
27. | By the addition of the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” and a comma after the words “Elective Deferrals,” in paragraph 9.1. | |
Article X entitled “ LIMITATIONS ON ALLOCATIONS” is amended as follows: | ||
28. | By adding the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” where they first appear in paragraph 10.2. | |
29. | By adding a new second sentence to sub-paragraph 10.2(c), which shall read as follows: | |
“Unless elected otherwise in the Adoption Agreement, Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals will be returned next to the extent that they would reduce the excess.” | ||
30. | By adding the words “and Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in sub-paragraph 10.2(d). | |
Article XI entitled “ANTIDISCRIMINATION TESTING” is amended as follows: | ||
31. | Article XI is amended by adding the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals, where they first appear in sub-paragraphs 11.2(b) and 11.3(b). | |
32. | By the addition of the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” and a comma after the words “Elective Deferrals” in sub-paragraph 11.3(e). | |
33. | By the addition of a new sub-paragraph 11.4(c) entitled “Income On Corrective Distributions Of Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” and a new sub-paragraph 11.4(d) entitled “Distributions of Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” to paragraph 11.4 entitled “Calculation And Distribution Of Excess Contributions And Excess Aggregate Contributions”, which shall read as follows: |
“(c) | Income on Corrective Distributions of Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals — A distribution of Excess Contributions or Excess Aggregate Contributions or Excess Deferrals is not includible in gross income to the extent it represents a distribution of designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals. However, the income allocable to a corrective distribution of Excess Contributions, Excess Aggregate Contributions or Excess Deferrals that are designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals is included in gross income in the same manner as income allocable to a corrective distribution of Excess Contributions, Excess Aggregate Contributions or Excess Deferrals that are not designated as Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals. | ||
(d) | Distributions of Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals — Unless otherwise elected on the Adoption Agreement, the Plan Administrator may adopt a uniform written administrative policy that permits a Participant (including a Highly Compensated Employee) who has made Elective Deferrals for a year where such Elective Deferrals includes both pre-tax Elective Deferrals and Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals to elect whether the Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions, Excess Aggregate Contributions and Excess Annual Additions are to be attributed to pre-tax Elective Deferrals or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals or a combination of the two. In the event that no such administrative policy is adopted, Excess Contributions will be first attributed to pre-tax Elective Deferrals, and if such pre-tax contributions are not in an amount sufficient to make full correction, will then be attributed to Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals.” |
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34. | By the addition of a new third paragraph to sub-paragraph 11.8, which shall read as follows: |
35. | By the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals”, wherever the words appear in sub-paragraphs 11.10(b), (e)(1), (2) and (4), 11.11(e), (f) and (g) and 11.14(a) and (c). |
36. | By the addition of a new subparagraph 12.9(n) that shall read as follows: |
37. | By the addition of a comma and the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in the last paragraph of paragraph 14.2. | |
Article XV entitled “AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION” is amended as follows: |
38. | By the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in the first paragraph of paragraph 15.5. |
By | the addition of the words “or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in the amendment to Section 4, which adds sub-paragraphs 4.7(g) and (h). |
40. | By the addition of the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” and a comma after the words “Elective Deferrals” in the amendment to Section 5, which adds sub-paragraph 6.3(i). |
41. | By the addition of the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” in the amendment to Section 6, which adds sub-paragraph 6.6(d). | |
By the addition of a comma and the words “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” after the words “Elective Deferrals” in the amendment to Section 8, which adds sub-paragraph 6.9(d). |
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BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT #01
1. | Article I entitled “DEFINITIONS” is amended by the addition of a new paragraph 1.118 entitled “Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals” which shall read as follows: | |
“1.118 Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals |
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Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals are Elective Deferrals that (1) are designated irrevocably by the Participant at the time of the cash and deferred election as Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals, (2) are treated by the Employer as includible in the Participant’s income at the time the Participant would have received the amount in cash had the Participant not made the cash or deferred election, and (3) are accounted for separately under the Plan. Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals and pre-tax Elective Deferrals, as defined in paragraph 1.34, may not be reclassified as the other type of contribution. This paragraph shall not become operative unless the Employer adopts the Xxxx 401(k) Deferral Amendment to the Adoption Agreement. Except as set forth in this Paragraph, and as elected in the Xxxx 401(k) Deferral Amendment to the Adoption Agreement, Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals shall be treated in the same manner as a pre-tax Elective Deferral under the terms of the Plan. Unless otherwise elected in the Adoption Agreement, Employees shall have the effective opportunity to make (or change) an election to make Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals in the same manner as pre-tax Elective Deferrals. For purposes of interpreting the Plan and the elections made under the Adoption Agreement, as amended, the term Elective Deferral shall mean both pre-tax Elective Deferrals and Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals except in cases where the context is clearly in violation of the requirements of this paragraph.” | ||
2. | Article IV entitled “EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS” is amended by the addition of a new sentence that shall appear as the last sentence of subparagraph 4.7(f) entitled “Elective Deferrals In A 401(k) Plan” which shall read as follows: | |
“Employer Contributions generally may not be deemed as Elective Deferrals if they are deposited to the Trust before the payroll date associated with services rendered or before the services have been performed. An exception to the foregoing timing rule on deposits to the Trust is available where the earlier deposit of Elective Deferral amounts is on account of bona fide administrative considerations (as more fully described in the Income Tax regulations), and that the timing of such deposits is not made for the principal purpose of accelerating deductions.” | ||
3. | Article IV entitled “EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS” is further amended by the addition of a new subparagraph 4.9(e) entitled “Automatic Enrollment” which shall read as follows: |
“(e) | An Employer who has adopted the automatic enrollment provision may by administrative policy increase the default automatic amount each year of employee participation. Unless the Employer elects a different incremental amount, the default amount shall be no less than 3% in |
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the first year of a Participant’s participation in the plan increasing to no less than 4% in the second year, no less than 5% in the third year and no less than 6% in all subsequent years.” |
4. | Article VI entitled “RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND DISTRIBUTIONS” is amended by the addition of the following new text that shall appear immediately after the current last sentence of subparagraph 6.9(b) entitled “Exclusive Reasons for Hardship Withdrawal” which shall read as follows: | |
“The following reasons constituting an immediate and heavy financial need that permit a Hardship Withdrawal application shall apply for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2005: |
(5) | payments for burial or funeral expenses for the Participant’s deceased parent, Spouse, child or dependent [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)]; or | ||
(6) | 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).” |
5. | Article VI entitled “RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND DISTRIBUTIONS” is amended by the addition of a new subparagraph 6.9(d), which shall read as follows: |
“(d) | Special Rules For Hurricane-Related Hardship Distributions. The following provisions shall apply to distributions on account of financial hardship granted by Plan sponsors to qualified Plan Participants whose principal residence was in a federally proclaimed disaster area affected by Hurricane Xxxxxxx, Hurricane Xxxx or Hurricane Xxxxx, and as a result of any or all of such Hurricanes incurred an economic loss (a “Qualified Hurricane-related Distribution”). For purposes of these provisions, such rules will apply to Qualified Hurricane-related Distributions that took place at any time on or after August 25, 2005 and before January 1, 2007 with respect to Hurricane Xxxxxxx, at any time on or after September 23, 2005 and before January 1, 2007, with respect to Hurricane Xxxx, and at any time on or after October 23, 2005 and before January 1, 2007, with respect to Hurricane Xxxxx. |
(1) | Such Qualified Hurricane-related Distribution(s) on account of financial hardship from the Plan, when combined with all distributions obtained from all qualified plans maintained by the Employer or any other member of the Employer’s controlled group shall not exceed $100,000. Further, the aggregate amount of Qualified Hurricane-related Distribution(s) received by a Participant for any taxable year shall not exceed the excess of $100,000, over the aggregate amounts treated as Qualified Hurricane-related Distributions received by the Participant for all previous taxable years. | ||
(2) | Repayment Rights. A Participant-recipient of a Qualified Hurricane-related Distribution shall have the right at any time during a three-year period commencing as of the day after the date that the Qualified Hurricane-related Distribution is received to make a repayment or repayments of said distribution to the Plan (or another Eligible Retirement Plan) in an amount not exceeding the principal amount of the Qualified Hurricane-related Distribution. Further, a Participant-recipient of a Qualified Hurricane-related Distribution for the purchase of a principal residence may make a repayment or repayments of said distribution to the Plan (or another Eligible Retirement Plan) in an amount not exceeding the principal amount of the Qualified Hurricane-related Distribution if said repayment occurred during the period commencing on August 25, 2005 and ending February 28, 2006 with respect to a Hurricane Xxxxxxx-related distribution, during a period commencing on September 23, 2005 and ending February 28, 2006 with respect to a Hurricane Xxxx-related distribution, or during a period commencing on October 23, 2005 and ending February 28, 2006 with respect to a Hurricane Xxxxx-related distribution. |
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(3) | A Qualified Hurricane-related Distribution shall not be subject to the tax treatment that applies to an Eligible Rollover Distribution and shall be deemed to not violate the prohibitions on early distribution that apply to elective contributions made to Code Section 401(k) plans, Code Section 403(b) arrangements and eligible Code Section 457 plans. | ||
(4) | Additionally, the Plan could have provided for special hurricane–related distributions to Plan Participants who lived or worked in the Hurricane Xxxxxxx disaster area that qualified for individual relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Similar relief is not available for Hurricanes Xxxx and Xxxxx. These special distributions could also have been made available to Plan Participants residing outside the disaster area if they had a child, parent, grandparent or other dependent that lived or worked in the disaster area. In order to qualify for the special relief provided herein, the distribution had to be made by March 31, 2006. The six-month suspension on further deferrals is not applicable. These distributions were not restricted to the reasons specified in subparagraph 6.9(b). Plan Participants who received a distribution under this paragraph who themselves were not the victim of Hurricane Xxxxxxx may not take advantage of the special repayment rules provided at (2) immediately above. The increase in the withdrawal limit to $100,000 as specified in (1) above also did not apply to these withdrawals.” |
6. | Article XI entitled “ANTIDISCRIMINATION TESTING” is amended by the deletion in their entirety of current subparagraphs 11.4 and 11.5 and the insertion of new subparagraph 11.4, entitled “Calculation And Distribution Of Excess Contributions And Excess Aggregate Contributions”, a new subparagraph 11.5, entitled “Qualified Non-Elective And/Or Matching Contributions”, which shall read as follows: |
“11.4 | Calculation And Distribution Of Excess Contributions And Excess Aggregate Contributions |
(a) | Excess Contributions |
(1) | The average for Highly Compensated Employees is reduced on a step-by-step leveling basis beginning by reducing the Actual Deferral Percentage or the Actual Contribution Percentage for the Highly Compensated Employee with the highest percentage until the average is reduced to the maximum allowed or until the Actual Deferral Percentage or Actual Contribution Percentage for such Highly Compensated Employee is lowered to that of the Highly Compensated Employee with the next highest percentage. This process continues until the ADP and/or the ACP is lowered to the maximum allowed for the Plan Year. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, Excess Contributions plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, shall be distributed to affected Participants no later than the last day of the Plan Year following the Plan Year to which the Excess Contributions are attributable except to the extent such Excess Contributions are classified as Catch-Up Contributions. Excess Contributions are allocated to the Highly Compensated Employees with the largest amounts of Employer contributions taken into account in calculating the ADP Test for the year in which the excess arose, beginning with the Highly Compensated Employee with the largest amount of such Employer contributions and continuing in descending order until all the Excess Contributions have been allocated. To the extent a Highly Compensated Employee has not reached his or her Catch-Up Contribution limit under the Plan, Excess Contributions allocated to such Highly Compensated Employee are Catch-Up Contributions |
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and will not be treated as Excess Contributions. If such excess amounts (other than Catch-Up Contributions) are distributed more than two and one-half (21/2) months after the last day of the Plan Year to which the excess amounts are attributable, a 10% excise tax will be imposed on the Employer maintaining the Plan with respect to such amounts. | |||
(2) | Excess Contributions, including any amount recharacterized as a Voluntary After-tax Contribution, shall be treated as Annual Additions with respect to the Plan Year to which the excess is attributable, even if distributed. | ||
(3) | Excess Contributions shall be adjusted for any income or loss up to the date of distribution. The income or loss allocable to Excess Contributions allocated to each Participant is the sum of (1) income or loss allocable to the Participant’s Elective Deferral account (and, if applicable, the QNEC account or the QMAC account or both) for the Plan Year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is such Participant’s Excess Contributions for the year and the denominator is the Participant’s account balance attributable to Elective Deferrals (and QNECs or QMACs, or both, if any of such contributions are included in the ADP test) without regard to any income or loss occurring during such Plan Year; and (2) ten percent (10%) of the amount determined under (1) multiplied by the number of whole calendar months between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution, counting the month of distribution if the distribution occurs after the fifteenth (15th) of such month. A Plan may use any reasonable method for computing the income or loss allocable to Excess Contributions, provided such method is used consistently for all Participants and for all corrective distributions under the Plan for the Plan Year, and is used by the Plan for allocating income or loss to Participant’s accounts. | ||
(4) | Excess Contributions shall be distributed from the Participant’s Elective Deferral account and QMAC account (if applicable) in proportion to the Participant’s Elective Deferrals and QMACs (to the extent used in the ADP Test) for the test year. Excess Contributions shall be distributed from the Participant’s QNEC account only to the extent that such Excess Contributions exceed the Participant’s Elective Deferral and QMAC account for the applicable test year. | ||
(5) | The return of an Excess Contribution under a Plan established under a Xxxxx-Xxxxx Adoption Agreement will be reported as additional wages paid to the affected Participant. | ||
(6) | For Plan Years beginning after 2005, distribution of Elective Deferrals that are Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be made from the Participant’s pre-tax Elective Deferrals account before the Participant’s Xxxx Elective Deferral account, to the extent pre-tax Elective Deferrals were made for the year, unless the Participant specifies otherwise. |
(b) | Distribution Of Excess Aggregate Contributions |
(1) | Excess Contributions and Excess Aggregate Contributions are allocated to the Highly Compensated Employees with the largest amount of Employer contributions taken into account in calculating |
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the ADP or ACP Test for the year in which the excess arose, beginning with the Highly Compensated Employee with the largest amount of such Employer contributions and continuing in descending order until all the Excess Contributions and Excess Aggregate Contributions have been allocated. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Plan, Excess Aggregate Contributions, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, shall be forfeited, if forfeitable or if not forfeitable, distributed no later than the last day of each Plan Year to Participants to whose accounts such Excess Aggregate Contributions were allocated for the preceding Plan Year. Excess Aggregate Contributions are allocated to the Highly Compensated Employees with the largest Contribution Percentage Amounts taken into account in calculating the ACP Test for the year in which the excess arose, beginning with the Highly Compensated Employee with the largest amount of such Contribution Percentage and continuing in descending order until all the Excess Aggregate Contributions have been allocated. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the “largest amount” is determined after distribution of any Excess Aggregate Contributions. | |||
(2) | If such Excess Aggregate Contributions are distributed more than two and one-half (21/2) months after the last day of the Plan Year in which such excess amount arose, a 10% excise tax will be imposed on the Employer maintaining the Plan with respect to those amounts. Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be treated as Annual Additions for purposes of Article X, Limitations On Allocations, even if distributed. | ||
(3) | Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be adjusted for any income or loss up to the date of the distribution. The income or loss allocable to the Excess Aggregate Contributions allocated to each Participant is the sum of (1) income or loss allocable to each Participant’s Employee Contribution account, Matching Contribution account, QMAC account (if any, and if all amounts therein are not used in the ADP Test) and, if applicable, QNEC account and the Elective Deferral account for the Plan Year multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is such Participant’s Excess Aggregate Contributions for the year and the denominator is the Participant’s account balance(s) attributable to Contribution Percentage Amounts without regard to any income or loss occurring during such Plan Year; and (2) ten percent (10%) of the amount determined under (1) multiplied by the number of whole calendar months between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution, counting the month of distribution if distribution occurs after the fifteenth (15th) of such month. | ||
(4) | Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be forfeited, if forfeitable, or distributed on a pro-rata basis, from the Participant’s Voluntary After-tax Contribution account, Required After-tax Contribution account, Matching Contribution account and QMAC account (and if applicable the Participant’s QNEC account, and/or Elective Deferral account, or both). | ||
(5) | Forfeitures of Excess Aggregate Contributions may be reallocated to the accounts of other Participants or applied to reduce Employer contributions, or as otherwise elected by the Employer. |
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(6) | Notwithstanding paragraphs (b)(2)(vi)(A) and (B) of Regulations Section 1.401(m)-2, a distribution of Excess Aggregate Contributions is not includible in gross income to the extent it represents a distribution of Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals. However, the income allocable to a corrective distribution of Excess Aggregate Contributions that are Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals is taxed in the same manner as income allocable to a corrective distribution of Excess Aggregate Contributions that are not Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals. | ||
(7) | Employee Contributions shall mean any contribution (other than Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals) made to the Plan by or on behalf of a Participant that is included in the Participant’s gross income in the year in which made and that is maintained under a separate account to which earnings and losses are allocated. |
(c) | Income on Corrective Distributions of Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals — A distribution of Excess Contributions or Excess Aggregate Contributions or Excess Deferrals is not includible in gross income to the extent it represents a distribution of designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals. However, the income allocable to a corrective distribution of Excess Contributions, Excess Aggregate Contributions or Excess Deferrals that are designated Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals is included in gross income in the same manner as income allocable to a corrective distribution of Excess Contributions, Excess Aggregate Contributions or Excess Deferrals that are not designated as Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals. | ||
(d) | Distributions of Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals — Unless otherwise elected on the Adoption Agreement, the Plan Administrator may adopt a uniform written administrative policy that permits a Participant (including a Highly Compensated Employee) who has made Elective Deferrals for a year where such Elective Deferrals includes both pre-tax Elective Deferrals and Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals to elect whether the Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions, Excess Aggregate Contributions and Excess Annual Additions are to be attributed to pre-tax Elective Deferrals or Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals or a combination of the two. In the event that no such administrative policy is adopted, Excess Contributions will be first attributed to pre-tax Elective Deferrals, and if such pre-tax contributions are not in an amount sufficient to make full correction, will then be attributed to Xxxx 401(k) Deferrals. |
11.5 | Qualified Non-Elective And/Or Matching Contributions |
(a) | A QNEC or QMAC used in the ADP Test may not also be included in the ACP Test. | ||
(b) | If testing is done on the basis of current Plan Year data, QNECs and/or QMACs must be made and credited to Participant accounts not later than the last day of the twelve (12) consecutive month period following the end of the Plan Year being tested. | ||
(c) | If testing is done on the basis of Prior Plan Year data for Non-Highly Compensated Employees, QNECs and/or QMACs for such Employees must be contributed not later than the last day of the Plan Year being tested. | ||
(d) | If the Employer makes Non-Elective Contributions which are not designated as Qualified Non-Elective Contributions at the time of the contribution to the Plan, the Plan Administrator may redesignate such contributions as Qualified Non-Elective |
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Contributions if the contributions otherwise satisfy the requirements of a Qualified Non-Elective Contribution. | |||
(e) | The Employer’s contribution will be allocated to a group of Non-Highly Compensated Participants designated by the Plan Administrator. The allocation will be the lesser of the amount required to pass the ADP/ACP Test, or the maximum permitted under Code Section 415. | ||
(f) | Effective for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2006, Qualified Non-Elective Contributions made pursuant to any election on the Adoption Agreement cannot be taken into account for the ADP test for a Plan Year for an NHCE to the extent such contributions exceed the product of that NHCE’s Compensation and the greater of 5% or two times the Plan’s representative contribution rate for purposes of §1.401(m)-2(a)(6) (v)(B). The representative contribution rate is the lowest applicable contribution rate of any eligible NHCE among a group of eligible NHCEs that consist of half of all eligible NHCEs for the Plan Year (or if greater, the lowest applicable contribution rate of any eligible NHCE in the group of all eligible NHCEs for the Plan Year and who is employed by the Employer on the last day of the Plan Year.) | ||
If the Employer has elected in the Adoption Agreement to use the Current Year Testing method, in lieu of distributing Excess Contributions, or Excess Aggregate Contributions and to the extent elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, the Employer may make a QNEC on behalf of Participants that are sufficient to satisfy the ADP Test and the ACP Test. Such QNEC will be allocated either to all Participants or only to Participants who are Non-Highly Compensated Employees, as elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, in the ratio in which each such Participant’s Compensation for the Plan Year bears to the total Compensation of all such Participants for such Plan Year. | |||
Qualified Non-Elective Contributions that are made in connection with an Employer’s obligation to pay prevailing wages under the Xxxxx Xxxxx Act or similar legislation can be taken into account for a Plan Year for an NHCE to the extent such contributions do not exceed 10 % of that NHCEs Compensation. |
7. | Article XI entitled “ANTIDISCRIMINATION TESTING” is further amended by the addition of a new subparagraph 11.14(f) at the end of paragraph 11.14 entitled “ACP Test Safe Harbor”, which shall read as follows: |
“(f) | Effective as of the first day of the Plan’s 2006 Plan Year, if the Employer has specified other eligibility requirements pursuant to sub-paragraph (e) immediately above, the additional matching contributions may be subject to the testing requirements of paragraph 11.2 rather than the Safe-Harbor rules of paragraph 11.10. The testing requirements of paragraph 11.2 will apply in any year that a Non-Highly Compensated Employee fails to receive a full allocation of matching contributions, due to the imposition of the more restrictive eligibility requirements.” |
8. | Article XII entitled “ADMINISTRATION” is amended by the addition of a new subparagraph 12.9 (n) to subparagraph 12.9 entitled “Participant Loans”: |
“(n) | Special Rules for the application of the provisions of the Xxxxxxx Emergency Tax Relief Act of 2005 (XXXXX) and the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act of 2005 (XXXX) — If applicable, the Plan Sponsor is authorized to comply with the provisions of XXXXX, XXXX and any otherwise applicable IRS and DOL guidance and is deemed to have retroactively amended its Plan to comply with applicable law and regulation. The following provisions shall apply to participant loans made to qualified Plan Participants whose principal residence was in a federally proclaimed disaster area |
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affected by Hurricane Xxxxxxx, Hurricane Xxxx or Hurricane Xxxxx, and as a result of any or all of such Hurricanes incurred an economic loss. For purposes of these provisions, such rules will apply to participant loans that are granted at any time on or after August 25, 2005 and before December 31, 2006 with respect to Hurricane Xxxxxxx, at any time on or after December 21, 2005 and before December 31, 2006, with respect to Hurricane Xxxx, and at any time on or after December 21, 2005 and before December 31, 2006, with respect to Hurricane Xxxxx. |
(1) | For participant loans made to Plan Participants eligible for XXXXX or XXXX relief during the foregoing periods, the maximum permissible dollar limit for participant loans is increased from $50,000 to $100,000. | ||
(2) | In calculating the maximum available loan amount available for a Plan Participant eligible for XXXXX or XXXX relief, the entire present value of the Participant’s vested account balance under the Plan shall be used. | ||
(3) | In the event a Participant who is eligible for relief under XXXXX or XXXX had an outstanding participant loan as of August 25, 2005 with respect to Hurricane Xxxxxxx, September 23, 2005 with respect to Hurricane Xxxx, or October 23, 2005 with respect to Hurricane Xxxxx, and the current maturity date of such participant loan is on or before December 31, 2006, the applicable maturity date of such participant loan shall be extended for one (1) year. Repayment amounts of such affected participant loans shall be adjusted to take into account the extension and additional interest accruing during such extension. For purposes of this relief, the extension period shall be disregarded in determining the five-year period under Code Section 72. | ||
(4) | Additionally, the Plan could have provided for special hurricane–related loans to Plan Participants who lived or worked in the Hurricane Xxxxxxx disaster area that qualified for individual relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Similar relief is not available for Hurricanes Xxxx and Xxxxx. These special loans could also have been made available to Plan Participants residing outside the disaster area if they had a child, parent, grandparent or other dependent that lived or worked in the disaster area. These loans are subject to and must satisfy the requirements of Code Section 72(p). The increase in the loan limit to $100,000 as specified in (1) above did not apply to these loans.” |
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6.3 | (b) | When a Participant terminates employment and the value of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance is not greater than $5,000, the Participant may request a distribution of the value of the entire vested portion of such account balance, without the need for spousal consent, and the nonvested portion shall be treated as a forfeiture upon such distribution. | |
Unless elected otherwise in the Adoption Agreement, if the Participant does not elect to have such distribution paid directly to an Eligible Retirement Plan, as specified by the Participant, or does not elect to receive the distribution directly, the Plan Administrator may pay the distribution in a Direct Rollover to an Individual Retirement Plan that is designated by the Plan Administrator and is communicated to the Plan Participant. The extent to which rollover amounts will be included or excluded in determining the value of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance for purposes of the Plan’s involuntary cash-out rules will be governed by the existing Adoption Agreement provision. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, rollover amounts will always be considered in determining if the $1,000 threshold has been exceeded. | |||
Unless elected otherwise in the Adoption Agreement, if a Participant’s Vested Account Balance is $1,000 or less, such distribution shall be paid in a direct distribution to the Participant after complying with the federal tax withholding rules. Terminated Participants receiving an involuntary distribution of $200 or more must be notified of their right to have such amounts directly rolled-over to an IRA or qualified plan of their choosing. | |||
If elected in the Adoption Agreement, the Plan Administrator may suspend the processing of the automatic rollover provisions of this paragraph of amounts set forth in the adoption agreement but not greater than $5,000 from March 28, 2005 through December 31, 2005, or until such time as adequate administrative procedures are put in place to process an involuntary cash-out in accordance with the foregoing provisions. Any such automatic rollover, which has been suspended during this period, shall be completed no later than December 31, 2005. | |||
(h) | Reserved. |
6.6 | (c) | Reserved. |
7.15 | (c) | The number $5,000 is replaced by $1,000 where it appears in the second sentence of said paragraph. |
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(d) | Unless elected otherwise in the Adoption Agreement, if a terminated Participant cannot be located, the Participant’s Vested Account Balance is in excess of $1,000 but not greater than $5,000, and no Participant election has been made regarding the disposition of their Vested Account Balance, the automatic rollover provisions of Code Section 401(a)(31)(B) as contained at paragraph 6.3(b) shall be applied to said Account. | ||
(g) | In the event of a plan termination, the Plan Administrator shall apply such search methods for locating missing Participants as described in the Department of Labor Field Assistance Bulletin 2004-02 as it considers in its sole discretion appropriate under the circumstances. | ||
(h) | In making distributions from a terminating Plan on behalf of Participants who are either determined to be missing or who otherwise fail to elect a method of distribution in connection with the termination of the Plan, the Plan Administrator shall comply with the relevant requirements of proposed Treasury Regulation §2550.404a-2, without regard to the amount involved in the rollover distribution. |
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