PENSION SPECIALISTS, INC. PROFIT SHARING/401(k) PROTOTYPE PLAN AND TRUST SPONSORED BY PENSION SPECIALISTS, INC. PROFIT SHARING/401(k) PROTOTYPE BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT #02 ARTICLE 1 PLAN ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION
PENSION
SPECIALISTS, INC.
SPONSORED
BY
PENSION
SPECIALISTS, INC.
PROFIT
SHARING/401(k) PROTOTYPE BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT #02
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
ARTICLE
1 PLAN ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION
1.1
Eligibility for Plan Participation
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1
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1.2
Excluded Employees
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1
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(a)
Independent contractors
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1
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(b)
Leased Employees
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1
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1.3
Employees of Related Employers
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2
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(a)
Nonstandardized Agreement
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2
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(b)
Standardized Agreement
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2
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1.4
Minimum Age and Service Conditions
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2
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(a)
Maximum permissible age and service conditions
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2
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(b)
Year of Service
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2
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(c)
Eligibility Computation Periods
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2
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(d)
Application of eligibility rules
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3
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(e)
Amendment of age and service requirements
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3
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1.5
Entry Dates
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3
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(a)
Entry Date requirements
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4
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(b)
Single annual Entry Date
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4
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1.6
Eligibility Break in Service Rules
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4
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(a)
Rule of Parity Break in Service
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4
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(b)
One-year Break in Service rule for Plans using a two Years
of Service
eligibility condition
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4
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(c)
One-year holdout Break in Service rule
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4
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1.7
Eligibility upon Reemployment
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5
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1.8
Operating Rules for Employees Excluded by Class
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5
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(a)
Eligible Participant becomes part of an excluded class
of
Employees
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5
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(b)
Excluded Employee becomes part of an eligible class of
Employee
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5
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1.9
Relationship to Accrual of Benefits
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6
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1.10
Waiver of Participation
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6
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ARTICLE
2 EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS AND ALLOCATIONS
2.1
Amount of Employer Contributions
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7
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(a)
Limitation on Employer Contributions
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7
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(b)
Limitation on Included Compensation
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7
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(c)
Contribution of property
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7
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(d)
Frozen Plan
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7
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2.2
Profit Sharing Plan Contribution and Allocations
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7
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(a)
Amount of Employer Contribution
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7
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(b)
Allocation formula for Employer Contributions
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8
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(c)
Special rules for determining Included Compensation
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11
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2.3
401(k) Plan Contributions and Allocations
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11
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(a)
Section 401(k) Deferrals
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12
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(b)
Employer Matching Contributions
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12
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(c)
Qualified Matching Contributions (QMACs)
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13
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(d)
Employer Nonelective Contributions
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13
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(e)
Qualified Nonelective Contributions (QNECs)
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13
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(f)
Safe Harbor Contributions
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14
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(g)
Prior SIMPLE 401(k) plan
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14
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2.4
Money Purchase Plan Contribution and Allocations
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14
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2.5
Target Benefit Plan Contribution
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14
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2.6
Allocation Conditions
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14
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(a)
Safe harbor allocation condition
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15
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(b)
Application of last day of employment rule for money purchase
and target
benefit Plans in year of termination
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15
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(c)
Elapsed Time Method
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15
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(d)
Special allocation condition for Employer Matching Contributions
under
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement
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15
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(e)
Application to designated period
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15
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(f)
Safe harbor allocation condition
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17
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(g)
Elapsed Time Method
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17
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2.7
Fail-Safe Coverage Provision
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17
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(a)
Top-Heavy Plans
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18
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(b)
Category 1 Employees Otherwise Eligible Participants (who
are Nonhighly
Compensated Employees) who are still employed by the Employer
on the last
day of the Plan Year but who failed to satisfy the Plan's
Hours of Service
condition
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18
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(c)
Category 2 Employees Otherwise Eligible Participants (who
are Nonhighly
Compensated Employees) who terminated employment during
the Plan Year with
more than 500 Hours of Service
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18
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(d)
Special Fail-Safe Coverage Provision
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18
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2.8
Deductible Employee Contributions
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19
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ARTICLE
3 EMPLOYEE AFTER-TAX CONTRIBUTIONS, ROLLOVER CONTRIBUTIONS AND
TRANSFERS
3.1
Employee After-Tax Contributions
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20
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3.2
Rollover Contributions
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20
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3.3
Transfer of Assets
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20
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(a)
Protection of Protected Benefits
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21
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(b)
Transferee plan
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21
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(c)
Transfers from a Defined Benefit Plan, money purchase plan
or 401(k)
plan
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21
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(d)
Qualified Transfer
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22
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(e)
Trustee's right to refuse transfer
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23
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ARTICLE
4 PARTICIPANT VESTING
4.1
In General
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24
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(a)
Attainment of Normal Retirement Age
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24
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(b)
Vesting upon death, becoming Disabled, or attainment of
Early Retirement
Age
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24
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(c)
Addition of Employer Nonelective Contribution or Employer
Matching
Contribution
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24
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(d)
Vesting upon merger, consolidation or transfer
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24
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4.2
Vesting Schedules
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24
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(a)
Full and immediate vesting schedule
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24
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(b)
7-year graded vesting schedule
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25
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(c)
6-year graded vesting schedule
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25
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(d)
5-year cliff vesting schedule
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25
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(e)
3-year cliff vesting schedule
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25
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(f)
Modified vesting schedule
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25
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4.3
Shift to/from Top-Heavy Vesting Schedule
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25
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4.4
Vesting Computation Period
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25
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(a)
Anniversary Years
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25
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(b)
Measurement on same Vesting Computation Period
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25
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4.5
Crediting Years of Service for Vesting Purposes
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25
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(a)
Calculating Hours of Service
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26
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(b)
Excluded service
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26
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4.6
Vesting Break in Service Rules
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26
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(a)
One-year holdout Break in Service
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26
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(b)
Five-Year Forfeiture Break in Service
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26
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(c)
Rule of Parity Break in Service
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26
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4.7
Amendment of Vesting Schedule
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27
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4.8
Special Vesting Rule - In-Service Distribution When Account
Balance Less
than 100% Vested
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27
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ARTICLE
5 FORFEITURES
5.1
In General
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28
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5.2
Timing of Forfeiture
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28
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(a)
Cash-Out Distribution
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28
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(b)
Five-Year Forfeiture Break in Service
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28
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(c)
Lost Participant or Beneficiary
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28
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(d)
Forfeiture of Employer Matching Contributions
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28
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5.3
Forfeiture Events
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28
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(a)
Cash-Out Distribution
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28
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(b)
Five-Year Forfeiture Break in Service
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30
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(c)
Lost Participant or Beneficiary
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31
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(d)
Forfeiture of Employer Matching Contributions
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31
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5.4
Timing of Forfeiture Allocation
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31
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5.5
Method of Allocating Forfeitures
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31
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(a)
Reallocation of forfeitures
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31
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(b)
Reduction of contributions
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31
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(c)
Payment of Plan expenses
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32
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ARTICLE
6 SPECIAL SERVICE CREDITING PROVISIONS
6.1
Year of Service - Eligibility
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33
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(a)
Selection of Hours of Service
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33
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(b)
Use of Equivalency Method
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33
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(c)
Use of Elapsed Time Method
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33
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6.2
Eligibility Computation Period
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33
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6.3
Year of Service - Vesting
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33
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(a)
Selection of Hours of Service
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33
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(b)
Equivalency Method
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34
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(c)
Elapsed Time Method
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34
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6.4
Vesting Computation Period
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34
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6.5
Definitions
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34
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(a)
Equivalency Method
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34
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(b)
Elapsed Time Method
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34
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6.6
Switching Crediting Methods
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35
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(a)
Shift from crediting Hours of Service to Elapsed Time Method
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35
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(b)
Shift from Elapsed Time Method to an Hours of Service method
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35
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6.7
Service with Predecessor Employers
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35
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ARTICLE
7 LIMITATION ON PARTICIPANT ALLOCATIONS
7.1
Annual Additions Limitation - No Other Plan Participation
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36
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(a)
Annual Additions Limitation
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36
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(b)
Using estimated Total Compensation
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36
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(c)
Disposition of Excess Amount
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36
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7.2
Annual Additions Limitation - Participation in Another
Plan
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37
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(a)
In general
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37
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(b)
This Plan's Annual Addition Limitation
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37
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(c)
Annual Additions reduction
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37
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(d)
No Annual Additions permitted
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37
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(e)
Using estimated Total Compensation
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38
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(f)
Excess Amounts
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38
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(g)
Disposition of Excess Amounts
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38
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7.3
Modification of correction procedures
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38
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7.4
Definitions Relating to the Annual Additions Limitation
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38
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(a)
Annual Additions
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38
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(b)
Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation
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39
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(c)
Employer
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39
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(d)
Excess Amount
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39
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(e)
Limitation Year
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39
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(f)
Maximum Permissible Amount
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39
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(g)
Total Compensation
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40
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7.5
Participation in a Defined Benefit Plan
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40
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(a)
Repeal of rule
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40
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(b)
Special definitions relating to Section 7.5
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40
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ARTICLE
8 PLAN DISTRIBUTIONS
8.1
Distribution Options
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43
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8.2
Amount Eligible for Distribution
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43
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8.3
Distributions After Termination of Employment
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43
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(a)
Account Balance exceeding $5,000
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43
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(b)
Account Balance not exceeding $5,000
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44
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(c)
Permissible distribution events under a 401(k) plan
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44
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(d)
Disabled Participant
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44
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(e)
Determining whether vested Account Balance exceeds $5,000
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44
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(f)
Effective date of $5,000 vested Account Balance Rule
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45
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8.4
Distribution upon the Death of the Participant
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45
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(a)
Post-retirement death benefit
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45
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(b)
Pre-retirement death benefit
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45
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(c)
Determining a Participant's Beneficiary
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46
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8.5
Distributions Prior to Termination of Employment
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47
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(a)
Employee After-Tax Contributions, Rollover Contributions,
and
transfers
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47
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(b)
Employer Contributions
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47
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(c)
Section 401(k) Deferrals, Qualified Nonelective Contributions,
Qualified
Matching Contributions, and Safe Harbor Contributions
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48
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(d)
Corrective distributions
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48
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8.6
Hardship Distribution
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48
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(a)
Immediate and heavy financial need
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48
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(b)
Conditions for taking a Hardship withdrawal
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49
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(c)
Amount available for distribution
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49
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8.7
Participant Consent
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49
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(a)
Participant notice
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49
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(b)
Special rules
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50
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8.8
Direct Rollovers
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50
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(a)
Eligible Rollover Distribution
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50
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(b)
Eligible Retirement Plan
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51
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(c)
Direct Rollover
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51
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(d)
Direct Rollover notice
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51
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(e)
Special rules for Hardship withdrawals of Section 401(k)
Deferrals
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51
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8.9
Sources of Distribution
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51
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(a)
Exception for Hardship Withdrawals
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51
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8.10
In kind distributions
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52
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ARTICLE
9 JOINT AND SURVIVOR ANNUITY REQUIREMENTS
9.1
Applicability
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53
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(a)
Election to have requirements apply
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53
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(b)
Election to have requirements not apply
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53
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(c)
Accumulated deductible employee contributions
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53
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9.2
Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity (QJSA)
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53
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9.3
Qualified Preretirement Survivor Xxxxxxx (QPSA)
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53
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9.4
Definitions
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54
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(a)
Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity (QJSA)
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54
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(b)
Qualified Preretirement Survivor Xxxxxxx (QPSA)
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54
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(c)
Distribution Commencement Date
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54
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(d)
Qualified Election
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54
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(e)
QPSA Election Period
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55
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(f)
Pre-Age 35 Waiver
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55
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9.5
Notice Requirements
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55
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(a)
QJSA
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55
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(b)
QPSA
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55
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9.6
Exception to the Joint and Survivor Annuity Requirements
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55
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9.7
Transitional Rules
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55
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(a)
Automatic joint and survivor annuity
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56
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(b)
Election of early survivor annuity
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56
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(c)
Qualified Early Retirement Age
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56
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ARTICLE
10 REQUIRED DISTRIBUTIONS
10.1
Required Distributions Before Death
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57
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(a)
Deferred distributions
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57
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(b)
Required minimum distributions
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57
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10.2
Required Distributions After Death
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57
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(a)
Distribution beginning before death
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57
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(b)
Distribution beginning after death
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57
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(c)
Treatment of trust beneficiaries as Designated Beneficiaries
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58
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(d)
Trust beneficiary qualifying for marital deduction
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58
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10.3
Definitions
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59
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(a)
Required Beginning Date
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59
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(b)
Five-Percent Owner
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59
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(c)
Designated Beneficiary
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59
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(d)
Applicable Life Expectancy
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59
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(e)
Life Expectancy
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60
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(f)
Distribution Calendar Year
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60
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(g)
Participant's Benefit
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60
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10.4
GUST Elections
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60
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(a)
Distributions under Old-Law Required Beginning Date rules
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60
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(b)
Option to postpone distributions
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61
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(c)
Election to stop minimum required distributions
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61
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10.5
Transitional Rule
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62
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ARTICLE
11 PLAN ADMINISTRATION AND SPECIAL OPERATING RULES
11.1
Plan Administrator
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63
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(a)
Acceptance of responsibility by designated Plan Administrator
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63
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(b)
Resignation of designated Plan Administrator
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63
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(c)
Named Fiduciary
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63
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11.2
Duties and Powers of the Plan Administrator
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63
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(a)
Delegation of duties and powers
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63
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(b)
Specific duties and powers
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63
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11.3
Employer Responsibilities
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64
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11.4
Plan Administration Expenses
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64
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11.5
Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs)
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64
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(a)
In general
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64
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(b)
Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)
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64
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(c)
Recognition as a QDRO
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65
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(d)
Contents of QDRO
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65
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(e)
Impermissible QDRO provisions
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65
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(f)
Immediate distribution to Alternate Payee
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65
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(g)
No fee for QDRO determination
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65
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(h)
Default QDRO procedure
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65
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11.6
Claims Procedure
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67
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(a)
Filing a claim
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67
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(b)
Notification of Plan Administrator's decision
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67
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(c)
Review procedure
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67
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(d)
Decision on review
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67
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(e)
Default claims procedure
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67
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11.7
Operational Rules for Short Plan Years
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68
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11.8
Operational Rules for Related Employer Groups
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68
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ARTICLE
12 TRUST PROVISIONS
12.1
Creation of Trust
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69
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12.2
Trustee
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69
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(a)
Discretionary Trustee
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69
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(b)
Directed Trustee
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69
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12.3
Trustee's Responsibilities Regarding Administration of
Trust
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69
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12.4
Trustee's Responsibility Regarding Investment of Plan Assets
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70
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12.5
More than One Person as Trustee
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71
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12.6
Annual Valuation
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71
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12.7
Reporting to Plan Administrator and Employer
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71
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12.8
Reasonable Compensation
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72
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12.9
Resignation and Removal of Trustee
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72
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12.10
Indemnification of Trustee
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72
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12.11
Appointment of Custodian
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73
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ARTICLE
13 PLAN ACCOUNTING AND INVESTMENTS
13.1
Participant Accounts
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74
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13.2
Value of Participant Accounts
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74
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(a)
Periodic valuation
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74
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(b)
Daily valuation
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74
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13.3
Adjustments to Participant Accounts
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74
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(a)
Distributions and forfeitures from a Participant's Account
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74
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(b)
Life insurance premiums and dividends
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74
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(c)
Contributions and forfeitures allocated to a Participant's
Account
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74
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(d)
Net income or loss
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74
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13.4
Procedures for Determining Net Income or Loss
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74
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(a)
Net income or loss attributable to General Trust Account
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74
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(b)
Net income or loss attributable to a Directed Account
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75
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(c)
Share or unit accounting
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76
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(d)
Suspense accounts
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76
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13.5
Investments under the Plan
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76
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(a)
Investment options
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76
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(b)
Limitations on the investment in Qualifying Employer Securities
and
Qualifying Employer Real Property
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76
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(c)
Participant direction of investments
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77
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ARTICLE
14 PARTICIPANT LOANS
14.1
Default Loan Policy
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79
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14.2
Administration of Loan Program
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79
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14.3
Availability of Participant Loans
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79
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14.4
Reasonable Interest Rate
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79
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14.5
Adequate Security
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80
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14.6
Periodic Repayment
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80
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(a)
Unpaid leave of absence
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80
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(b)
Military leave
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80
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14.7
Loan Limitations
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80
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14.8
Segregated Investment
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81
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14.9
Spousal Consent
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81
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14.10
Procedures for Loan Default
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81
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14.11
Termination of Employment
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82
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(a)
Offset of outstanding loan
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82
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(b)
Direct Rollover
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82
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(c)
Modified loan policy
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82
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ARTICLE
15 INVESTMENT IN LIFE INSURANCE
15.1
Investment in Life Insurance
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83
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15.2
Incidental Life Insurance Rules
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83
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(a)
Ordinary life insurance policies
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83
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(b)
Life insurance policies other than ordinary life
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83
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(c)
Combination of ordinary and other life insurance policies
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83
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(d)
Exception for certain profit sharing and 401(k) plans
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83
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(e)
Exception for Employee After-Tax Contributions and Rollover
Contributions
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83
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15.3
Ownership of Life Insurance Policies
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83
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15.4
Evidence of Insurability
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84
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15.5
Distribution of Insurance Policies
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84
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15.6
Discontinuance of Insurance Policies
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84
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15.7
Protection of Insurer
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84
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15.8
No Responsibility for Act of Insurer
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84
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ARTICLE
16 TOP-HEAVY PLAN REQUIREMENTS
16.1
In General
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85
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16.2
Top-Heavy Plan Consequences
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85
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(a)
Minimum allocation for Non-Key Employees
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85
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(b)
Special Top-Heavy Vesting Rules
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87
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16.3
Top-Heavy Definitions
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87
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(a)
Determination Date
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87
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(b)
Determination Period
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87
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(c)
Key Employee
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87
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(d)
Permissive Aggregation Group
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88
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(e)
Present Value
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88
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(f)
Required Aggregation Group
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88
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(g)
Top-Heavy Plan
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88
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(h)
Top-Heavy Ratio
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88
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(i)
Total Compensation
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89
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(j)
Valuation Date
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89
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ARTICLE
17 401(k) PLAN PROVISIONS
17.1
Limitation on the Amount of Section 401(k) Deferrals
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90
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(a)
In general
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90
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(b)
Correction of Code ?402(g) Violation
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90
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17.2
Nondiscrimination Testing of Section 401(k) Deferrals -
ADP
Test
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91
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(a)
ADP Test testing methods
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91
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(b)
Special rule for first Plan Year
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92
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(c)
Use of QMACs and QNECs under the ADP Test
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92
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(d)
Correction of Excess Contributions
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93
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(e)
Adjustment of deferral rate for Highly Compensated Employees
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94
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17.3
Nondiscrimination Testing of Employer Matching Contributions
and Employee
After Tax Contributions ACP Test
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94
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(a)
ACP Test testing methods
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94
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(b)
Special rule for first Plan Year
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95
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(c)
Use of Section 401(k) Deferrals and QNECs under the ACP
Test
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95
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(d)
Correction of Excess Aggregate Contributions
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96
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(e)
Adjustment of contribution rate for Highly Compensated
Employees
|
97
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17.4
Multiple Use Test
|
97
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(a)
Aggregate Limit
|
97
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(b)
Correction of the Multiple Use Test
|
98
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17.5
Special Testing Rules
|
98
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(a)
Special rule for determining ADP and ACP of Highly Compensated
Employee
Group
|
98
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(b)
Aggregation of plans
|
98
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(c)
Disaggregation of plans
|
98
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(d)
Special rules for the Prior Year Testing Method
|
99
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17.6
Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan Provisions
|
99
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(a)
Safe harbor conditions
|
99
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(b)
Deemed compliance with ADP Test
|
104
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(c)
Deemed compliance with ACP Test
|
104
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(d)
Rules for applying the ACP Test
|
105
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(e)
Aggregated plans
|
105
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(f)
First year of plan
|
105
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17.7
Definitions
|
105
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(a)
ACP - Average Contribution Percentage
|
105
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(b)
ADP - Average Deferral Percentage
|
105
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(c)
Excess Aggregate Contributions
|
105
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(d)
Excess Contributions
|
106
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(e)
Highly Compensated Employee Group
|
106
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(f)
Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group
|
106
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(g)
QMACs - Qualified Matching Contribution
|
106
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(h)
QNECs - Qualified Nonelective Contributions
|
106
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(i)
Testing Compensation
|
106
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ARTICLE
18
PLAN AMENDMENTS AND TERMINATION
18.1
Plan Amendments
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108
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(a)
Amendment by the Prototype Sponsor
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108
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(b)
Amendment by the Employer
|
108
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(c)
Protected Benefits
|
109
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18.2
Plan Termination
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109
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(a)
Full and immediate vesting
|
109
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(b)
Distribution procedures
|
109
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(c)
Termination upon merger, liquidation or dissolution of
the
Employer
|
110
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18.3
Merger or Consolidation
|
110
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ARTICLE
19 MISCELLANEOUS
19.1
Exclusive Benefit
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111
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19.2
Return of Employer Contributions
|
111
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(a)
Mistake of fact
|
111
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(b)
Disallowance of deduction
|
111
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(c)
Failure to initially qualify
|
111
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19.3
Alienation or Assignment
|
111
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19.4
Participants' Rights
|
111
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19.5
Military Service
|
111
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19.6
Paired Plans
|
111
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19.7
Annuity Contract
|
112
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19.8
Use of IRS compliance programs
|
112
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19.9
Loss of Prototype Status
|
112
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19.10
Governing Law
|
112
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19.11
Waiver of Notice
|
112
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19.12
Use of Electronic Media
|
112
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19.13
Severability of Provisions
|
112
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19.14
Binding Effect
|
112
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ARTICLE
20 GUST ELECTIONS AND EFFECTIVE DATES
20.1
GUST Effective Dates
|
113
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20.2
Highly Compensated Employee Definition
|
113
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(a)
Top-Paid Group Test
|
113
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(b)
Calendar Year Election
|
113
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(c)
Old-Law Calendar Year Election
|
114
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20.3
Required Minimum Distributions
|
114
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20.4
$5,000 Involuntary Distribution Threshold
|
114
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20.5
Repeal of Family Aggregation for Allocation Purposes
|
114
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20.6
ADP/ACP Testing Methods
|
114
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20.7
Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan
|
114
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ARTICLE
21 PARTICIPATION BY RELATED EMPLOYERS (CO-SPONSORS)
21.1
Co-Sponsor Adoption Page
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116
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21.2
Participation by Employees of Co-Sponsor
|
116
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21.3
Allocation of Contributions and Forfeitures
|
116
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21.4
Co-Sponsor No Longer a Related Employer
|
116
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(a)
Xxxxxx of discontinuing participation
|
116
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(b)
Multiple employer plan
|
116
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21.5
Special rules for Standardized Agreements
|
117
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(a)
New Related Employer
|
117
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(b)
Former Related Employer
|
117
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ARTICLE
22 PLAN DEFINITIONS
22.1
Account
|
118
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22.2
Account Balance
|
118
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22.3
Accrued Benefit
|
118
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22.4
ACP -- Average Contribution Percentage
|
118
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22.5
ACP Test -- Actual Contribution Percentage Test
|
118
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22.6
Actual Hours Crediting Method
|
118
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22.7
Adoption Agreement
|
118
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22.8
ADP -- Average Deferral Percentage
|
118
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22.9
ADP Test -- Actual Deferral Percentage Test
|
118
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22.10
Agreement
|
118
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22.11
Aggregate Limit
|
118
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22.12
Alternate Payee
|
118
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22.13
Anniversary Year Method
|
118
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22.14
Anniversary Years
|
119
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22.15
Annual Additions
|
119
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22.16
Annual Additions Limitation
|
119
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22.17
Annuity Starting Date
|
119
|
22.18
Applicable Life Expectancy
|
119
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22.19
Applicable Percentage
|
119
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22.20
Average Compensation
|
119
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22.21
Averaging Period
|
119
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22.22
Balance Forward Method
|
119
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22.23
Basic Plan Document
|
119
|
22.24
Beneficiary
|
119
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22.25
BPD
|
119
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22.26
Break-in-Service - Eligibility
|
119
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22.27
Break-in-Service - Vesting
|
119
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22.28
Calendar Year Election
|
119
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22.29
Cash-Out Distribution
|
119
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22.30
Code
|
120
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22.31
Code ?415 Safe Harbor Compensation
|
120
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22.32
Compensation Dollar Limitation
|
120
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22.33
Co-Sponsor
|
120
|
22.34
Co-Sponsor Adoption Page
|
120
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22.35
Covered Compensation
|
120
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22.36
Cumulative Disparity Limit
|
120
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22.37
Current Year Testing Method
|
120
|
22.38
Custodian
|
120
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22.39
Xxxxx-Xxxxx Act Service
|
120
|
22.40
Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contribution Formula
|
121
|
22.41
Defined Benefit Plan
|
121
|
22.42
Defined Benefit Plan Fraction
|
121
|
22.43
Defined Contribution Plan
|
121
|
22.44
Defined Contribution Plan Dollar Limitation
|
121
|
22.45
Defined Contribution Plan Fraction
|
121
|
22.46
Designated Beneficiary
|
121
|
22.47
Determination Date
|
121
|
22.48
Determination Period
|
121
|
22.49
Determination Year
|
121
|
22.50
Directed Account
|
121
|
22.51
Directed Trustee
|
121
|
22.52
Direct Rollover
|
121
|
22.53
Disabled
|
121
|
22.54
Discretionary Trustee
|
121
|
22.55
Distribution Calendar Year
|
121
|
22.56
Distribution Commencement Date
|
121
|
22.57
Early Retirement Age
|
122
|
22.58
Earned Income
|
122
|
22.59
Effective Date
|
122
|
22.60
Elapsed Time Method
|
122
|
22.61
Elective Deferrals
|
122
|
22.62
Eligibility Computation Period
|
122
|
22.63
Eligible Participant
|
122
|
22.64
Eligible Rollover Distribution
|
123
|
22.65
Eligible Retirement Plan
|
123
|
22.66
Employee
|
123
|
22.67
Employee After-Tax Contribution Account
|
123
|
22.68
Employee After-Tax Contributions
|
123
|
22.69
Employer
|
123
|
22.70
Employer Contribution Account
|
123
|
22.71
Employer Contributions
|
123
|
22.72
Employer Matching Contribution Account
|
123
|
22.73
Employer Matching Contributions
|
123
|
22.74
Employer Nonelective Contributions
|
123
|
22.75
Employment Commencement Date
|
124
|
22.76
Employment Period
|
124
|
22.77
Entry Date
|
124
|
22.78
Equivalency Method
|
124
|
22.79
ERISA
|
124
|
22.80
Excess Aggregate Contributions
|
124
|
22.81
Excess Amount
|
124
|
22.82
Excess Compensation
|
124
|
22.83
Excess Contributions
|
124
|
22.84
Excess Deferrals
|
124
|
22.85
Excluded Employee
|
124
|
22.86
Fail-Safe Coverage Provision
|
124
|
22.87
Favorable IRS Letter
|
124
|
22.88
Five-Percent Owner
|
124
|
22.89
Five-Year Forfeiture Break in Service
|
124
|
22.90
Flat Benefit
|
124
|
22.91
Flat Excess Benefit
|
124
|
22.92
Flat Offset Benefit
|
124
|
22.93
Former Related Employer
|
125
|
22.94
Four-Step Formula
|
125
|
22.95
General Trust Account
|
125
|
22.96
GUST Legislation
|
125
|
22.97
Hardship
|
125
|
22.98
Highest Average Compensation
|
125
|
22.99
Highly Compensated Employee
|
125
|
(a)
Definition
|
125
|
(b)
Other Definitions
|
125
|
22.100
Highly Compensated Employee Group
|
126
|
22.101
Hour of Service
|
126
|
(a)
Performance of duties
|
126
|
(b)
Nonperformance of duties
|
126
|
(c)
Back pay award
|
126
|
(d)
Related Employers/Leased Employees
|
126
|
(e)
Maternity/paternity leave
|
126
|
22.102
Included Compensation
|
126
|
22.103
Insurer
|
127
|
22.104
Integrated Benefit Formula
|
127
|
22.105
Integration Level
|
127
|
22.106
Investment Manager
|
127
|
22.107
Key Employee
|
127
|
22.108
Leased Employee
|
127
|
22.109
Life Expectancy
|
128
|
22.110
Limitation Year
|
128
|
22.111
Lookback Year
|
128
|
22.112
Maximum Disparity Percentage
|
128
|
22.113
Maximum Offset Percentage
|
128
|
22.114
Maximum Permissible Amount
|
128
|
22.115
Measuring Period
|
128
|
22.116
Multiple Use Test
|
128
|
22.117
Named Fiduciary
|
128
|
22.118
Net Profits
|
128
|
22.119
New Related Employer
|
128
|
22.120
Nonhighly Compensated Employee
|
128
|
22.121
Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group
|
128
|
22.122
Nonintegrated Benefit Formula
|
128
|
22.123
Non-Key Employee
|
128
|
22.124
Nonresident Alien Employees
|
128
|
22.125
Nonstandardized Agreement
|
128
|
22.126
Normal Retirement Age
|
128
|
22.127
Offset Compensation
|
129
|
22.128
Offset Benefit Formula
|
129
|
22.129
Old-Law Calendar Year Election
|
129
|
22.130
Old-Law Required Beginning Date
|
129
|
22.131
Owner-Employee
|
129
|
22.132
Paired Plans
|
129
|
22.133
Participant
|
129
|
22.134
Period of Severance
|
129
|
22.135
Permissive Aggregation Group
|
129
|
22.136
Permitted Disparity Method
|
129
|
22.137
Plan
|
129
|
22.138
Plan Administrator
|
129
|
22.139
Plan Year
|
129
|
22.140
Pre-Age 35 Waiver
|
129
|
22.141
Predecessor Employer
|
129
|
22.142
Predecessor Plan
|
129
|
22.143
Present Value
|
130
|
22.144
Present Value Stated Benefit
|
130
|
22.145
Prior Year Testing Method
|
130
|
22.146
Pro Rata Allocation Method
|
130
|
22.147
Projected Annual Benefit
|
130
|
22.148
Protected Benefit
|
130
|
22.149
Prototype Plan
|
130
|
22.150
Prototype Sponsor
|
130
|
22.151
QDRO -- Qualified Domestic Relations Order
|
130
|
22.152
QJSA -- Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity
|
130
|
22.153
QMAC Account
|
130
|
22.154
QMACs -- Qualified Matching Contributions
|
130
|
22.155
QNEC Account
|
130
|
22.156
QNECs -- Qualified Nonelective Contributions
|
130
|
22.157
QPSA -- Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity
|
130
|
22.158
QPSA Election Period
|
130
|
22.159
Qualified Election
|
130
|
22.160
Qualified Transfer
|
130
|
22.161
Qualifying Employer Real Property
|
130
|
22.162
Qualifying Employer Securities
|
131
|
22.163
Reemployment Commencement Date
|
131
|
22.164
Related Employer
|
131
|
22.165
Required Aggregation Group
|
131
|
22.166
Required Beginning Date
|
131
|
22.167
Reverse QNEC Method
|
131
|
22.168
Rollover Contribution Account
|
131
|
22.169
Rollover Contribution
|
131
|
22.170
Rule of Parity Break in Service
|
131
|
22.171
Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan
|
131
|
22.172
Safe Harbor Contribution
|
131
|
22.173
Safe Harbor Matching Contribution Account
|
131
|
22.174
Safe Harbor Matching Contributions
|
131
|
22.175
Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution Account
|
131
|
22.176
Safe Harbor Nonelective Contributions
|
131
|
22.177
Salary Reduction Agreement
|
131
|
22.178
Section 401(k) Deferral Account
|
132
|
22.179
Section 401(k) Deferrals
|
132
|
22.180
Self-Employed Individual
|
132
|
22.181
Shareholder-Employee
|
132
|
22.182
Shift-to-Plan-Year Method
|
132
|
22.183
Short Plan Year
|
132
|
22.184
Social Security Retirement Age
|
132
|
22.185
Standardized Agreement
|
132
|
22.186
Stated Benefit
|
132
|
22.187
Straight Life Annuity
|
132
|
22.188
Successor Plan
|
132
|
22.189
Taxable Wage Base
|
132
|
22.190
Testing Compensation
|
132
|
22.191
Theoretical Reserve
|
132
|
22.192
Three Percent Method
|
132
|
22.193
Top-Paid Group
|
132
|
22.194
Top-Paid Group Test
|
133
|
22.195
Top-Heavy Plan
|
133
|
22.196
Top-Heavy Ratio
|
133
|
22.197
Total Compensation
|
133
|
(a)
W-2 Wages
|
133
|
(b)
Withholding Wages
|
133
|
(c)
Code ?415 Safe Harbor Compensation
|
133
|
22.198
Transfer Account
|
134
|
22.199
Trust
|
134
|
22.200
Trustee
|
134
|
22.201
Two-Step Formula
|
134
|
22.202
Union Employee
|
134
|
22.203
Unit Benefit
|
134
|
22.204
Unit Excess Benefit
|
134
|
22.205
Unit Offset Benefit
|
134
|
22.206
Valuation Date
|
134
|
22.207
Vesting Computation Period
|
134
|
22.208
W-2 Wages
|
134
|
22.209
Withholding Wages
|
134
|
22.210
Year of Participation
|
134
|
22.211
Year of Service
|
134
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ARTICLE
1
PLAN ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION
This
Article contains the rules for determining when an Employee becomes
eligible to
participate in the Plan. Part 1 and Part 2 of the Agreement contain
specific
elections for applying these Plan eligibility and participation rules.
Article 6
of this BPD and Part 7 of the Agreement contain special service crediting
elections to override the default provisions under this Article.
1.1
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Eligibility
for Plan Participation. An Employee who satisfies the Plan's
minimum age
and service conditions (as elected in Part 1, #5 of the
Agreement) is
eligible to participate in the Plan beginning on the Entry
Date selected
in Part 2 of the Agreement, unless he/she is specifically
excluded from
participation under Part 1, #4 of the Agreement. An Employee
who has
satisfied the Plan's minimum age and service conditions
and is employed on
his/her Entry Date is referred to as an Eligible Participant.
(See Section
1.7 below for the rules regarding an Employee who terminates
employment
prior to his/her Entry Date.) An Employee who is excluded
from
participation under Part 1, #4 of the Agreement is referred
to as an
Excluded Employee.
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1.2
|
Excluded
Employees. Unless specifically excluded under Part 1, #4
of the Agreement,
all Employees of the Employer are entitled to participate
under the Plan
upon becoming an Eligible Participant. Any Employee who
is excluded under
Part 1, #4 of the Agreement may not participate under the
Plan, unless
such Excluded Employee subsequently becomes a member of
an eligible class
of Employees. (See Section 1.8(b) of this Article for rules
regarding an
Excluded Employee's entry into the Plan if he/she subsequently
becomes a
member of an eligible class of Employees.)
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The
Employer may elect under Part 1, #4 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement to
exclude different groups of Employees for Section 401(k) Deferrals,
Employer
Matching Contributions, and Employer Nonelective Contributions. Unless
provided
otherwise under Part 1, #4.f. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement, for purposes of determining the Excluded Employees, any
selection
made with respect to Section 401(k) Deferrals also will apply to
any Employee
After-Tax Contributions and any Safe Harbor Contributions; any selections
made
with respect to Employer Matching Contributions also will apply to
any Qualified
Matching Contributions (QMACs); and any selections made with respect
to Employer
Nonelective Contributions also will apply to any Qualified Nonelective
Contributions (QNECs).
(a)
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Independent
contractors. Any individual who is an independent contractor,
or who
performs services with the Employer under an agreement
that identifies the
individual as an independent contractor, is specifically
excluded from the
Nonstandardized plan. In the event the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS)
retroactively reclassifies such an individual as an Employee,
the
reclassified Employee will become an Eligible Participant
on the date the
IRS issues a final determination regarding his/her employment
status (or
the individual's Entry Date, if later), unless the individual
is otherwise
excluded from participation under Part 1, #4 of the Agreement.
For periods
prior to the date of such final determination, the reclassified
Employee
will not have any rights to accrued benefits under the
Plan, except as
agreed to by the Employer and the IRS, or as set forth
in an amendment
adopted by the Employer.
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(b)
|
Leased
Employees. If an individual is a Leased Employee, such
individual is
treated as an Employee of the Employer and may participate
under the Plan
upon satisfying the Plan's minimum age and service conditions,
unless the
Employer elects to exclude Leased Employees from participation
under Part
1, #4.d. of the Nonstandardized Agreement.
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(1)
|
Definition
of Leased Employee. Effective for Plan Years beginning
after December 31,
1996, a Leased Employee, as defined in Code ?414(n), is
an individual who
performs services for the Employer on a substantially full
time basis for
a period of at least one year pursuant to an agreement
between the
Employer and a leasing organization, provided such services
are performed
under the primary direction or control of the recipient
Employer. For Plan
Years beginning before January 1, 1997, the definition
of Leased Employee
is as defined under Code ?414(n), as in effect for such
years.
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(2)
|
Credit
for benefits. If a Leased Employee receives contributions
or benefits
under a plan maintained by the leasing organization that
are attributable
to services performed for the Employer, such contributions
or benefits
shall be treated as provided by the Employer.
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(3)
|
Safe
harbor plan. A Leased Employee will not be considered an
Employee of the
Employer if such Leased Employee is covered by a money
purchase plan of
the leasing organization which provides: (i) a nonintegrated
employer
contribution of at least 10% of compensation, (ii) immediate
participation, and (iii) full and immediate vesting. For
this paragraph to
apply, Leased Employees must not constitute more than 20%
of the total
Nonhighly Compensated Employees of the Employer.
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1.3
|
Employees
of Related Employers. Employees of the Employer that executes
the
Signature Page of the Agreement and Employees of any Related
Employer that
executes a Co-Sponsor Adoption Page under the Agreement
are eligible to
participate in this Plan.
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(a)
|
Nonstandardized
Agreement. In a Nonstandardized Agreement, a Related Employer
is not
required to execute a Co-Sponsor Adoption Page. However,
Employees of a
Related Employer that does not execute a Co-Sponsor Adoption
Page are not
eligible to participate in the Plan.
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(b)
|
Standardized
Agreement. In a Standardized Agreement, Employees of all
Related Employers
are eligible to participate under the Plan upon satisfying
any required
minimum age and/or service conditions (unless otherwise
excluded under
Part 1, #4 of the Agreement). All Related Employers (who
have Employees
who may be eligible under the Plan) must execute a Co-Sponsor
Adoption
Page under the Agreement, so the Employees of such Related
Employers are
eligible to become Participants in the Plan. (See Article
21 for
applicable rules if a Related Employer does not sign the
Co-Sponsor
Adoption Page and the effect of an acquisition or disposition
transaction
that is described in Code ?410(b)(6)(C).)
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1
1.4
|
Minimum
Age and Service Conditions. Part 1, #5 of the Agreement
contains specific
elections as to the minimum age and service conditions
which an Employee
must satisfy prior to becoming eligible to participate
under the Plan. An
Employee may be required to attain a specific age or to
complete a certain
amount of service with the Employer prior to commencing
participation
under the Plan. If no minimum age or service conditions
apply to a
particular contribution (i.e., the Employer elects "None"
under Part 1,
#5.a. of the Agreement), an Employee is treated as satisfying
the Plan's
eligibility requirements on the individual's Employment
Commencement Date.
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Different
age and service conditions may be selected under Part 1, #5 of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement for Section 401(k) Deferrals, Employer Matching
Contributions, and Employer Nonelective Contributions. For purposes
of applying
the eligibility conditions under Part 1, #5, any selection made with
respect to
Section 401(k) Deferrals also will apply to any Employee After-Tax
Contributions; any selections made with respect to Employer Matching
Contributions also will apply to any Qualified Matching Contributions
(QMACs);
and any selections made with respect to Employer Nonelective Contributions
also
will apply to any Qualified Nonelective Contributions (QNECs), unless
otherwise
provided under Part 1, #5.f. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement. In addition, any eligibility conditions selected with
respect to
Section 401(k) Deferrals also will apply to any Safe Harbor Contributions
designated under Part 4E of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement,
unless
otherwise provided under Part 4E, #30.d. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement.
If different conditions apply for different contributions, the rules
in this
Article for determining when an Employee is an Eligible Participant
are applied
separately with respect to each set of eligibility conditions.
(a)
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Maximum
permissible age and service conditions. Code ?410(a) provides
limits on
the maximum permissible age and service conditions that
may be required
prior to Plan participation. The Employer may not require
an Employee, as
a condition of Plan participation, to attain an age older
than age 21. The
Employer also may not require an Employee to complete more
than one Year
of Service, unless the Employer elects full and immediate
vesting under
Part 6 of the Agreement, in which case the Employer may
require an
Employee to complete up to two Years of Service. (The Employer
may not
require an Employee to complete more than one Year of Service
to be
eligible to make Section 401(k) Deferrals under the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement.)
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(b)
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Year
of Service. Unless the Employer elects otherwise under
Part 7, #23 of the
Agreement [Part 7, #41 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement],
an
Employee will earn one Year of Service for purposes of
applying the
eligibility rules under this Article if the Employee completes
at least
1,000 Hours of Service with the Employer during an Eligibility
Computation
Period (as defined in subsection (c) below). An Employee
will receive
credit for a Year of Service, as of the end of the Eligibility
Computation
Period, if the Employee completes the required Hours of
Service during
such period, even if the Employee is not employed for the
entire period.
In calculating an Employee's Hours of Service for purposes
of applying the
eligibility rules under this Article, the Employer will
use the Actual
Hours Crediting Method, unless elected otherwise under
Part 7 of the
Agreement. (See Article 6 of this BPD for a description
of alternative
service crediting methods.)
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(c)
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Eligibility
Computation Periods. For purposes of determining Years
of Service under
this Article, an Employee's initial Eligibility Computation
Period is the
12-month period beginning on the Employee's Employment
Commencement Date.
If one Year of Service is required for eligibility, and
the Employee is
not credited with a Year of Service for the first Eligibility
Computation
Period, subsequent Eligibility Computation Periods are
calculated under
the Shift-to-Plan-Year Method,
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unless
the Employer elects under Part 7, #24.a. of the Agreement [Part 7,
#42.a. of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to use the Anniversary Year Method.
If two
Years of Service are required for eligibility, subsequent Eligibility
Computation Periods are measured on the Anniversary Year Method,
unless the
Employer elects under Part 7, #24.b. of the Agreement [Part 7, #42.b.
of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to use the Shift-to-Plan-Year Method.
In the
case of a Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement in which a two Years of
Service
eligibility condition is used for either Employer Matching Contributions
or
Employer Nonelective Contributions, the method used to determine
Eligibility
Computation Periods for the two Years of Service condition also will
apply to
any one Year of Service eligibility condition used with respect to
any other
contributions under the Plan.
(1)
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Shift-to-Plan-Year
Method. Under the Shift-to-Plan-Year Method, after the
initial Eligibility
Computation Period, subsequent Eligibility Computation
Periods are
measured using the Plan Year. In applying the Shift-to-Plan-Year
Method,
the first Eligibility Computation Period following the
shift to the Plan
Year is the first Plan Year that commences after the Employee's
Employment
Commencement Date. See Section 11.7 for rules that apply
if there is a
short Plan Year.
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(2)
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Anniversary
Year Method. Under the Anniversary Year Method, after the
initial
Eligibility Computation Period, each subsequent Eligibility
Computation
Period is the 12-month period commencing with the anniversary
of the
Employee's Employment Commencement Date.
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(d)
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Application
of eligibility rules.
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(1)
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General
rule - Effective Date. All Employees who have satisfied
the conditions for
being an Eligible Participant (and have reached their Entry
Date (as
determined under Part 2 of the Agreement)) as of the Effective
Date of the
Plan are eligible to participate in the Plan as of the
Effective Date
(provided the Employee is employed on such date and is
not otherwise
excluded from participation under Part 1, #4 of the Agreement).
If an
Employee has satisfied all the conditions for being an
Eligible
Participant as of the Effective Date of the Plan, except
the Employee has
not yet reached his/her Entry Date, the Employee will become
an Eligible
Participant on the appropriate Entry Date in accordance
with this Article.
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(2)
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Dual
eligibility provision. The Employer may modify the rule
described in
subsection (1) above by electing under Part 1, #6.a. of
the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 1, #6 of the Standardized
Agreement] to
treat all Employees employed on the Effective Date of the
Plan as Eligible
Participants as of such date. Alternatively, the Employer
may elect under
Part 1, #6.b. of the Nonstandardized Agreement to apply
the dual
eligibility provision as of a specified date. Any Employee
employed as of
a date designated under Part 1, #6 will be deemed to be
an Eligible
Participant as of the later of such date or the Effective
Date of this
Plan, whether or not the Employee has otherwise satisfied
the eligibility
conditions designated under Part 1, #4 and whether or not
the Employee has
otherwise reached his/her Entry Date (as designated under
Part 2 of the
Agreement). Thus, all eligible Employees employed on the
date designated
under Part 1, #6 will commence participating under the
Plan as of the
appropriate date.
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(e)
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Amendment
of age and service requirements. If the Plan's minimum
age and service
conditions are amended, an Employee who is an Eligible
Participant
immediately prior to the effective date of the amendment
is deemed to
satisfy the amended requirements. This provision may be
modified under the
special Effective Date provisions under Appendix A of the
Agreement.
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1.5
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Entry
Dates. Part 2 of the Agreement contains specific elections
regarding the
Entry Dates under the Plan. An Employee's Entry Date is
the date as of
which he/she is first considered an Eligible Participant.
Depending on the
elections in Part 2 of the Agreement, the Entry Date may
be the exact date
on which an Employee completes the Plan's age and service
conditions, or
it might be some date that occurs before or after such
conditions are
satisfied. If an Employee is excluded from participation
under Part 1, #4
of the Agreement, see the rules under Section 1.8 of this
Article.
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The
Employer may elect under Part 2 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement
to apply
different Entry Dates for Section 401(k) Deferrals, Employer Matching
Contributions, and Employer Nonelective Contributions. Unless provided
otherwise
in Part 2, #8.f. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement,
the
Entry Date chosen for Section 401(k) Deferrals also applies to any
Employee
After-Tax Contributions and to any Safe Harbor Contributions designated
under
Part 4E of the Agreement; the Entry Date chosen for Employer Matching
Contributions also applies to any Qualified Matching Contributions
(QMACs); and
the Entry Date chosen for Employer Nonelective Contributions also
applies to any
Qualified Nonelective Contributions (QNECs).
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(a)
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Entry
Date requirements. Except as provided under Section 1.4(d)(2)
above, an
Employee (other than an Excluded Employee) commences participation
under
the Plan (i.e., becomes an Eligible Participant) as of
the Entry Date
selected in Part 2 of the Agreement, provided the individual
is employed
by the Employer on that Entry Date. (See Section 1.7 below
for the rules
applicable to Employees who are not employed on the Entry
Date.) In no
event may an Eligible Participant's Entry Date be later
than: (1) the
first day of the Plan Year beginning after the date on
which the Eligible
Participant satisfies the maximum permissible minimum age
and service
conditions described in Section 1.4, or (2) six months
after the date the
Eligible Participant satisfies such age and service conditions.
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(b)
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Single
annual Entry Date. If the Employer elects a single annual
Entry Date under
Part 2, #8 of the Agreement, the maximum permissible age
and service
conditions described in Section 1.4 above are reduced by
one-half (1/2)
year, unless: (1) the Employer elects under Part 2, #7.c.
of the Agreement
to use the Entry Date nearest the date the Employee satisfies
the Plan's
minimum age and service conditions and the Entry Date is
the first day of
the Plan Year or (2) the Employer elects under Part 2,
#7.d. of the
Agreement to use the Entry Date preceding the date the
Employee satisfies
the Plan's minimum age and service conditions.
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1.6
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Eligibility
Break in Service Rules. For purposes of eligibility to
participate, an
Employee is credited with all Years of Service earned with
the Employer,
except as provided under the following Break in Service
rules. In applying
these Break in Service rules, Years of Service and Breaks
in Service (as
defined in Section 22.26) are measured on the same Eligibility
Computation
Period as defined in Section 1.4(c) above.
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(a)
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Rule
of Parity Break in Service. This Break in Service rule
applies only to
Participants who are totally nonvested (i.e., 0% vested)
in their Employer
Contribution Account and Employer Matching Contribution
Account, as
applicable. Under this Break in Service rule, if a nonvested
Participant
incurs a period of consecutive one-year Breaks in Service
which equals or
exceeds the greater of five (5) or the Participant's aggregate
number of
Years of Service with the Employer, all service earned
prior to the
consecutive Break in Service period will be disregarded
and the
Participant will be treated as a new Employee for purposes
of determining
eligibility under the Plan. The Employer may elect under
Part 7, #27 of
the Agreement [Part 7, #45 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] not to
apply the Rule of Parity Break in Service rule.
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(1)
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Previous
application of the Rule of Parity Break in Service rule.
In determining a
Participant's aggregate Years of Service for purposes of
applying the Rule
of Parity Break in Service, any Years of Service otherwise
disregarded
under a previous application of this rule are disregarded.
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(2)
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Application
to the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement. The Rule of Parity
Break in
Service rule applies only to determine the individual's
right to resume as
an Eligible Participant with respect to his/her Employer
Contribution
Account and/or Employer Matching Contribution Account.
In determining
whether a Participant is totally nonvested for purposes
of applying the
Rule of Parity Break in Service rule, the Participant's
Section 401(k)
Deferral Account, Employee After-Tax Contribution Account,
QMAC Account,
QNEC Account, Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution Account,
Safe Harbor
Matching Contribution Account, and Rollover Contribution
Account are
disregarded.
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(b)
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One-year
Break in Service rule for Plans using a two Years of Service
eligibility
condition. If the Employer elects to use the two Years
of Service
eligibility condition under Part 1, #5.e. of the Agreement,
any Employee
who incurs a one-year Break in Service before satisfying
the two Years of
Service eligibility condition will not be credited with
service earned
before such one-year Break in Service.
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(c)
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One-year
holdout Break in Service rule. The one-year holdout Break
in Service rule
will not apply unless the Employer specifically elects
in Part 7, #27.b.
of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 7, #45.b. of the
Nonstandardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to have it apply. If the
one-year holdout
Break in Service rule is elected, an Employee who has a
one-year Break in
Service will not be credited for eligibility purposes with
any Years of
Service earned before such one-year Break in Service until
the Employee
has completed a Year of Service after the one-year Break
in Service. (The
one-year holdout Break in Service rule does not apply under
the
Standardized Agreements.)
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(1)
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Operating
rules. An Employee who is precluded from receiving Employer
Contributions
(other than Section 401(k) Deferrals) as a result of the
one-year holdout
Break in Service
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rule,
and
who completes a Year of Service following the Break in Service, is
reinstated as
an Eligible Participant as of the first day of the 12-month measuring
period
(determined under subsection (2) or (3) below) during which the Employee
completes the Year of Service. Unless otherwise selected under Part
7,
#45.b.(1)(b) of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement,
the
one-year holdout Break in Service rule does not apply to preclude
an otherwise
Eligible Participant from making Section 401(k) Deferrals to the
Plan. If the
Employer elects under Part 7, #45.b.(1)(b) of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement to have the one-year holdout Break in Service
rule
apply to Section 401(k) Deferrals, an Employee who is precluded from
making
Section 401(k) Deferrals as a result of this Break in Service rule
is
re-eligible to make Section 401(k) Deferrals immediately upon completing
1,000
Hours of Service with the Employer during a subsequent measuring
period (as
determined under subsection (2) or (3) below). No corrective action
need be
taken by the Employer as a result of the failure to retroactively
permit the
Employee to make Section 401(k) Deferrals.
(2)
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Plans
using the Shift-to-Plan-Year Method. If the Plan uses the
Shift-to-Plan-Year Method (as defined in Section 1.4(c)(1))
for measuring
Years of Service, the period for determining whether an
Employee completes
a Year of Service following the one-year Break in Service
is the 12-month
period commencing on the Employee's Reemployment Commencement
Date and, if
necessary, subsequent Plan Years beginning with the Plan
Year which
includes the first anniversary of the Employee's Reemployment
Commencement
Date.
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(3)
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Plans
using Anniversary Year Method. If the Plan uses the Anniversary
Year
Method (as defined in Section 1.4(c)(2)) for measuring
Years of Service,
the period for determining whether an Employee completes
a Year of Service
following the one-year Break in Service is the 12-month
period which
commences on the Employee's Reemployment Commencement Date
and, if
necessary, subsequent 12-month periods beginning on anniversaries
of the
Employee's Reemployment Commencement Date.
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1.7
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Eligibility
upon Reemployment. Subject to the Break in Service rules
under Section
1.6, a former Employee is reinstated as an Eligible Participant
immediately upon rehire if the Employee had satisfied the
Plan's minimum
age and service conditions prior to termination of employment,
regardless
of whether the Employee was actually employed on his/her
Entry Date,
unless the Employee is an Excluded Employee upon his/her
return to
employment. This requirement is deemed satisfied if a rehired
Employee is
permitted to commence making Section 401(k) Deferrals as
of the beginning
of the first payroll period commencing after the Employee's
Reemployment
Commencement Date.
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If
an
Employee is reemployed prior to his/her Entry Date, the Employee
does not become
an Eligible Participant under the Plan until such Entry Date. A rehired
Employee
who had not satisfied the Plan's minimum age and service conditions
prior to
termination of employment is eligible to participate in the Plan
on the
appropriate Entry Date following satisfaction of the eligibility
requirements
under this Article.
1.8
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Operating
Rules for Employees Excluded by Class.
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(a)
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Eligible
Participant becomes part of an excluded class of Employees.
If an Eligible
Participant becomes part of an excluded class of Employees,
his/her status
as an Eligible Participant ceases immediately. As provided
in subsection
(b) below, such Employee's status as an Eligible Participant
will resume
immediately upon his/her returning to an eligible class
of Employees,
regardless of whether such date is a normal Entry Date
under the Plan,
subject to the application of any Break in Service rules
under Section 1.6
and the special rule for Section 401(k) Deferrals under
subsection
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(b)
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below.
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(c)
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Excluded
Employee becomes part of an eligible class of Employee.
If an Excluded
Employee becomes part of an eligible class of Employees,
the following
rules apply. If the Entry Date that otherwise would have
applied to such
Employee following his/her completion of the Plan's minimum
age and
service conditions has already passed, then the Employee
becomes an
Eligible Participant on the date he/she becomes part of
the eligible class
of Employees, regardless of whether such date is a normal
Entry Date under
the Plan. This requirement is deemed satisfied if the Employee
is
permitted to commence making Section 401(k) Deferrals as
of the beginning
of the first payroll period commencing after the Employee
becomes part of
an eligible class of Employees. If the Entry Date that
would have applied
to such Employee has not passed, then the Employee becomes
an Eligible
Participant on such Entry Date. If the Employee has not
satisfied the
Plan's minimum age and service conditions, the Employee
will become an
Eligible Participant on the appropriate Entry Date following
satisfaction
of the eligibility requirements under this Article.
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1.9
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Relationship
to Accrual of Benefits. An Eligible Participant is entitled
to accrue
benefits in the Plan but will not necessarily do so in
every Plan Year
that he/she is an Eligible Participant. Whether an Eligible
Participant's
Account receives an allocation of Employer Contributions
depends on the
requirements set forth in Part 4 of the Agreement. If an
Employee is an
Eligible Participant for purposes of making Section 401(k)
Deferrals under
the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement, such Employee is treated
as an
Eligible Participant under the Plan regardless of whether
he/she actually
elects to make Section 401(k) Deferrals.
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1.10
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Waiver
of Participation. Unless the Employer elects otherwise
under Part 13, #57
of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 13, #75 of the Nonstandardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], an Eligible Participant
may not waive
participation under the Plan. For this purpose, a failure
to make Section
401(k) Deferrals or Employee After-Tax Contributions under
a 401(k) plan
is not a waiver of participation. The Employer may elect
under Part 13,
#57 of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 13, #75 of the
Nonstandardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to permit Employees to
make a one-time
irrevocable election to not participate under the Plan.
Such election must
be made upon inception of the Plan or at any time prior
to the time the
Employee first becomes eligible to participate under any
plan maintained
by the Employer. An Employee who makes a one-time irrevocable
election not
to participate may not subsequently elect to participate
under the Plan.
An Employee may not waive participation under a Standardized
Agreement.
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An
Employee who elects not to participate under this Section 1.10 is
treated as a
nonbenefiting Employee for purposes of the minimum coverage requirements
under
Code ?410(b). However, an Employee who makes a one-time irrevocable
election not
to participate, as described in the preceding paragraph, is not an
Eligible
Participant for purposes of applying the ADP Test or ACP Test under
the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement. See Section 17.7(e) and (f). A waiver of
participation
must be filed in the manner, time and on the form required by the
Plan
Administrator.
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ARTICLE
2
EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS AND ALLOCATIONS
This
Article describes how Employer Contributions are made to and allocated
under the
Plan. The type of Employer Contributions that may be made under the
Plan and the
method for allocating such contributions will depend on the type
of Plan
involved. Section 2.2 of this BPD provides specific rules regarding
contributions and allocations under a profit sharing plan and Section
2.3
provides the rules for a 401(k) plan. Part 4 of the Agreement contains
the
elective provisions for the Employer to specify the amount and type
of Employer
Contributions it will make under the Plan and to designate any limits
on the
amount it will contribute to the Plan each year. Employee After-Tax
Contributions, Rollover Contributions and transfers to the Plan are
discussed in
Article 3 and the allocation of forfeitures is discussed in Article
5. Part 3 of
the Agreement contains elective provisions for determining an Employee's
Included Compensation for allocation purposes.
2.1
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Amount
of Employer Contributions. The Employer shall make Employer
Contributions
to the Trust as determined under the contribution formula
elected in Part
4 of the Agreement. If this Plan is a 401(k) plan, Employer
Contributions
include Section 401(k) Deferrals, Employer Nonelective
Contributions,
Employer Matching Contributions, QNECs, QMACs, and Safe
Harbor
Contributions, to the extent such contributions are elected
under the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement. The Employer has the responsibility
for
determining the amount and timing of Employer Contributions
under the
terms of the Plan.
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(a)
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Limitation
on Employer Contributions. Employer Contributions are subject
to the
Annual Additions Limitation described in Article 7 of this
BPD. If
allocations to a Participant exceed (or will exceed) such
limitation, the
excess will be corrected in accordance with the rules under
Article 7. In
addition, the Employer must comply with the special contribution
and
allocation rules for Top-Heavy Plans under Article 16.
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(b)
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Limitation
on Included Compensation. For purposes of determining a
Participant's
allocation of Employer Contributions under this Article,
the Included
Compensation taken into account for any Participant for
a Plan Year may
not exceed the Compensation Dollar Limitation under Section
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(c)
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Contribution
of property. Subject to the consent of the Trustee, the
Employer may make
its contribution to the Plan in the form of property, provided
such
contribution does not constitute a prohibited transaction
under the Code
or ERISA. The decision to make a contribution of property
is subject to
the general fiduciary rules under XXXXX.
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(d)
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Frozen
Plan. The Employer may designate under Part 4, #12 of the
Agreement [#3 of
the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] that the Plan is a
frozen Plan. As a
frozen Plan, the Employer will not make any Employer Contributions
with
respect to Included Compensation earned after the date
identified in the
Agreement, and if the Plan is a 401(k) Plan, no Participant
will be
permitted to make Section 401(k) Deferrals or Employee
After-Tax
Contributions to the Plan for any period following the
effective date
identified in the Agreement.
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2.2
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Profit
Sharing Plan Contribution and Allocations. This Section
2.2 sets forth
rules for determining the amount of any Employer Contributions
under the
profit sharing plan Agreement. This Section 2.2 also applies
for purposes
of determining any Employer Nonelective Contributions under
the Profit
Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement. In applying this Section
2.2 to the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement, the term Employer Contribution
refers solely to
Employer Nonelective Contributions. Any reference to the
Agreement under
this Section 2.2 is a reference to the profit sharing plan
Agreement or
Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement (as applicable).
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(a)
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Amount
of Employer Contribution. The Employer must designate under
Part 4, #12 of
the profit sharing plan Agreement the amount it will contribute
as an
Employer Contribution under the Plan. If the Employer adopts
the Profit
Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement and elects to make Employer
Nonelective
Contributions under Part 4C of the Agreement, the Employer
must complete
Part 4C, #20 of the Agreement, unless the only Employer
Nonelective
Contribution authorized under the Plan is a QNEC under
Part 4C, #22. An
Employer Contribution authorized under this Section may
be totally within
the Employer's discretion or may be a fixed amount determined
as a uniform
percentage of each Eligible Participant's Included Compensation
or as a
fixed dollar amount for each Eligible Participant. An Employer
Contribution under this Section will be allocated to the
Eligible
Participants' Employer Contribution Account in accordance
with the
allocation formula selected under Part 4, #13 of the Agreement
[Part 4C,
#21 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
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(1)
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Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Contribution Formula. The Employer may elect a Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Contribution
Formula under Part 4, #12.d. of the Nonstandardized Agreement
[Part 4C,
#20.d. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
Under the
Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contribution Formula, the Employer will provide
an Employer
Contribution for each Eligible
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Participant
who performs Xxxxx-Xxxxx Act Service. For this purpose, Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Act Service
is any service performed by an Employee under a public contract subject
to the
Xxxxx-Xxxxx Act or to any other federal, state or municipal prevailing
wage law.
Each such Eligible Participant will receive a contribution based
on the hourly
contribution rate for the Participant's employment classification,
as designated
on Schedule A of the Agreement. Schedule A is incorporated as part
of the
Agreement.
In
applying the Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contribution Formula under this subsection
(1), the
following default rules will apply. The Employer may modify these
default rules
under Part 4, #12.d.(2) of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4C,
#20.d.(2) of
the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
(i)
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Eligible
Employees. Highly Compensated Employees are Excluded Employees
for
purposes of receiving an Employer Contribution under the
Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Contribution Formula.
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(ii)
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Minimum
age and service conditions. No minimum age or service conditions
will
apply for purposes of determining an Employee's eligibility
under the
Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contribution Formula.
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(iii)
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Entry
Date. For purposes of applying the Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contribution
Formula, an
Employee becomes an Eligible Participant on his/her Employment
Commencement Date.
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(iv)
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Allocation
conditions. No allocation conditions (as described in Section
2.6) will
apply for purposes of determining an Eligible Participant's
allocation
under the Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contribution Formula.
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(v)
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Vesting.
Employer Contributions made pursuant to the Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Contribution
Formula are always 100% vested.
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(vi)
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Offset
of other Employer Contributions. The contributions under
the Xxxxx Xxxxx
Contribution Formula will not offset any other Employer
Contributions
under the Plan. However, the Employer may elect under Part
4, #12.d.(1) of
the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4C, #20.d.(1) of the
Nonstandardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to offset any other Employer
Contributions made under the Plan by the contributions
a Participant
receives under the Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contribution Formula. Under
the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement, the
Employer may
elect under Part 4C, #20.d.(1) to apply the offset under
this subsection
to Employer Nonelective Contributions, Employer Matching
Contributions, or
both.
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(2)
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Net
Profits. The Employer may elect under Part 4, #12 of the
Agreement [Part
4B, #16 and Part 4C, #20 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement],
to limit
any Employer Contribution under the Plan to Net Profits.
Unless modified
in the Agreement, Net Profits means the Employer's net
income or profits
determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles,
without any reduction for taxes based upon income, or the
contributions
made by the Employer under this Plan or any other qualified
plan. Unless
specifically elected otherwise under Part 4, #12.e.(2)
of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4C, #20.e.(2) of the Nonstandardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], this limit will not apply
to any
Employer Contributions made under a Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contribution
Formula.
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(3)
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Multiple
formulas. If the Employer elects more than one Employer
Contribution
formula, each formula is applied separately. The Employer's
aggregate
Employer Contribution for a Plan Year will be the sum of
the Employer
Contributions under all such formulas.
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(b)
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Allocation
formula for Employer Contributions. The Employer must elect
a definite
allocation formula under Part 4, #13 of the profit sharing
plan Agreement
that determines how much of the Employer Contribution is
allocated to each
Eligible Participant. If the Employer adopts the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
plan Agreement and elects to make an Employer Nonelective
Contribution
(other than a QNEC) under Part 4C, #20 of the Agreement,
Part 4C, #21 also
must be completed designating the allocation formula under
the Plan. An
Eligible Participant is only entitled to an allocation
if such Participant
satisfies the allocation conditions described in Part 4,
#15 of the
Agreement [Part 4C, #24 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
See
Section 2.6.
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(1)
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Pro
Rata Allocation Method. If the Employer elects the Pro
Rata Allocation
Method, a pro rata share of the Employer Contribution is
allocated to each
Eligible Participant's Employer Contribution Account. A
Participant's pro
rata share is determined based on the ratio such Participant's
Included
Compensation bears to the total of all Eligible Participants'
Included
Compensation. However, if the Employer elects under Part
4, #12.c. of the
Agreement [Part 4C, #20.c. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to
contribute a uniform dollar amount for each Eligible Participant,
the pro
rata allocation method allocates that uniform dollar amount
to each
Eligible Participant. If the Employer elects a Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Contribution
Formula under Part 4, #12.d. of the Nonstandardized Agreement
[Part 4C,
#20.d. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement],
the
Employer Contributions made pursuant to such formula will
be allocated to
each Eligible Participant based on his/her Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Act Service in
accordance with the employment classifications identified
under Schedule A
of the Agreement.
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(2)
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Permitted
Disparity Method. If the Employer elects the Permitted
Disparity Method,
the Employer Contribution is allocated to Eligible Participants
under the
Two-Step Formula or the Four-Step Formula (as elected under
the
Agreement). The Permitted Disparity Method only may apply
if the Employer
elects under the Agreement to make a discretionary contribution.
The
Employer may not elect the Permitted Disparity Method under
the Plan if
another qualified plan of the Employer, which covers any
of the same
Employees, uses permitted disparity in determining the
allocation of
contributions or the accrual of benefits under the plan.
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For
purposes of applying the Permitted Disparity Method, Excess Compensation
is the
portion of an Eligible Participant's Included Compensation that exceeds
the
Integration Level. The Integration Level is the Taxable Wage Base,
unless the
Employer designates a different amount under Part 4, #14.b.(2) of
the Agreement
[Part 4C, #23.b.(2) of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
(i)
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Two-Step
Formula. If the Employer elects the Two-Step Formula, the
following
allocation method applies. However, the Employer may elect
under Part 4,
#14.b.(1) of the Agreement [Part 4C, #23.b.(1) of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to have the Four-Step Method,
as described in
subsection (ii) below, automatically apply for any Plan
Year in which the
Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan.
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(A)
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Step
One. The Employer Contribution is allocated to each Eligible
Participant's
Account in the ratio that each Eligible Participant's Included
Compensation plus Excess Compensation for the Plan Year
bears to the total
Included Compensation plus Excess Compensation of all Eligible
Participants for the Plan Year. The allocation under this
Step One, as a
percentage of each Eligible Participant's Included Compensation
plus
Excess Compensation, may not exceed the Applicable Percentage
under the
following table:
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Integration
Level Applicable (as
a
% of the Taxable Wage Base) Percentage
100% 5.7%
More
than
80% but less than 100% 5.4%
More
than
20% and not more than 80% 4.3%
20%
or
less 5.7%
(B)
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Step
Two. Any Employer Contribution remaining after Step One
will be allocated
in the ratio that each Eligible Participant's Included
Compensation for
the Plan Year bears to the total Included Compensation
of all Eligible
Participants for the Plan Year.
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(ii)
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Four-Step
Formula. If the Employer elects the Four-Step Formula,
or if the Plan is a
Top-Heavy Plan and the Employer elects under the Agreement
to have the
Four-Step Formula apply for any Plan Year that the Plan
is a Top-Heavy
Plan, the following allocation method applies. The allocation
under this
Four-Step Formula may be modified if the Employer maintains
a Defined
Benefit Plan and elects under Part 13, #54.b. of the Agreement
[Part 13,
#72.b. of the Profit
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Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to provide a greater top-heavy minimum contribution. See
Section
16.2(a)(5)(ii).
(A)
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Step
One. The Employer Contribution is allocated to each Eligible
Participant's
Account in the ratio that each Eligible Participant's Total
Compensation
for the Plan Year bears to all Eligible Participants' Total
Compensation
for the Plan Year, but not in excess of 3% of each Eligible
Participant's
Total Compensation.
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For
any
Plan Year for which the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan, an allocation will
be made
under this subsection (A) to any Non-Key Employee who is an Eligible
Participant
(and is not an Excluded Employee) if such individual is employed
as of the last
day of the Plan Year, even if such individual fails to satisfy any
minimum Hours
of Service allocation condition under Part 4, #15 of the Agreement
[Part 4C, #24
of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. If the Plan is a Top-Heavy
401(k) Plan,
an allocation also will be made under this subsection (A) to any
Employee who is
an Eligible Participant for purposes of making Section 401(k) Deferrals
under
the Plan, even if the individual has not satisfied the minimum age
and service
conditions under Part 1, #5 of the Agreement applicable to any other
contribution types.
(B)
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Step
Two. Any Employer Contribution remaining after the allocation
in Step One
will be allocated to each Eligible Participant's Account
in the ratio that
each Eligible Participant's Excess Compensation for the
Plan Year bears to
the Excess Compensation of all Eligible Participants for
the Plan Year,
but not in excess of 3% of each Eligible Participant's
Included
Compensation.
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(C)
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Step
Three. Any Employer Contribution remaining after the allocation
in Step
Two will be allocated to each Eligible Participant's Account
in the ratio
that the sum of each Eligible Participant's Included Compensation
and
Excess Compensation bears to the sum of all Eligible Participants'
Included Compensation and Excess Compensation. The allocation
under this
Step Three, as a percentage of each Eligible Participant's
Included
Compensation plus Excess Compensation, may not exceed the
Applicable
Percentage under the following table:
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Integration
Level Applicable (as
a
% of the Taxable Wage Base) Percentage
100% 2.7%
More
than
80% but less than 100% 2.4%
More
than
20% and not more than 80% 1.3%
20%
or
less 2.7%
(D)
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Step
Four. Any remaining Employer Contribution will be allocated
to each
Eligible Participant's Account in the ratio that each Eligible
Participant's Included Compensation for the Plan Year bears
to all
Eligible Participants' Included Compensation for that Plan
Year.
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(3)
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Uniform
points allocation. The Employer may elect under Part 4,
#13.c. of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4C, #21.c. of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to allocate the Employer Contribution
under a
uniform points allocation formula. Under this formula,
the allocation for
each Eligible Participant is determined based on the Eligible
Participant's total points for the Plan Year, as determined
under the
Nonstandardized Agreement. An Eligible Participant's allocation
of the
Employer Contribution is determined by multiplying the
Employer
Contribution by a fraction, the numerator of which is the
Eligible
Participant's total points for the Plan Year and the denominator
of which
is the sum of the points for all Eligible Participants
for the Plan Year.
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An
Eligible Participant will receive points for each year(s) of age
and/or each
Year(s) of Service designated under Part 4, #13.c. of the Nonstandardized
Agreement [Part 4C,
10
#21.c.
of
the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. In addition,
an Eligible
Participant also may receive points based on his/her Included Compensation,
if
the Employer so elects under the Nonstandardized Agreement. Each
Eligible
Participant will receive the same number of points for each designated
year of
age and/or service and the same number of points for each designated
level of
Included Compensation. An Eligible Participant must receive points
for either
age or service, or may receive points for both age and service. If
the Employer
also provides points based on Included Compensation, an Eligible
Participant
will receive points for each level of Included Compensation designated
under
Part 4, #13.c.(3) of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4C, #21.c.(3)
of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. For this purpose,
the Employer
may not designate a level of Included Compensation that exceeds $200.
To
satisfy the nondiscrimination safe harbor under Treas. Reg. ?1.401(a)(4)-2,
the
average of the allocation rates for Highly Compensated Employees
in the Plan
must not exceed the average of the allocation rates for the Nonhighly
Compensated Employees in the Plan. For this purpose, the average
allocation
rates are determined in accordance with Treas. Reg. ?1.401(a)(4)-2(b)(3)(B).
(c)
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Special
rules for determining Included Compensation.
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(1)
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Applicable
period for determining Included Compensation. In determining
an Eligible
Participant's allocation under Part 4, #13 of the Agreement
[Part 4C, #21
of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the Participant's
Included
Compensation is determined separately for each period designated
under
Part 4, #14.a.(1) of the Agreement [Part 4C, #23.a.(1)
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. If the Employer elects the Permitted
Disparity
Method under Part 4, #13.b. of the Agreement [Part 4C,
#21.b. of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the period designated
must be the Plan
Year. If the Employer elects the Pro Rata Allocation Method
or the uniform
points allocation formula, and elects a period other than
the Plan Year, a
Participant's allocation of Employer Contributions will
be determined
separately for each period based solely on Included Compensation
for such
period. The Employer need not actually make the Employer
Contribution
during the designated period, provided the total Employer
Contribution for
the Plan Year is allocated based on the proper Included
Compensation.
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(2)
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Partial
period of participation. If an Employee is an Eligible
Participant for
only part of a Plan Year, the Employer Contribution formula(s)
will be
applied based on such Employee's Included Compensation
for the period
he/she is an Eligible Participant. However, the Employer
may elect under
Part 4, #14.a.(2) of the Agreement [Part 4C, #23.a.(2)
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to base the Employer Contribution
formula(s) on
the Employee's Included Compensation for the entire Plan
Year, including
the portion of the Plan Year during which the Employee
is not an Eligible
Participant. In applying this subsection (2) to the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement, an Employee's status as an Eligible Participant
is determined
solely with respect to the Employer Nonelective Contribution
under Part 4C
of the Agreement.
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(3)
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Measurement
period. Except as provided in subsection (2) above, for
purposes of
determining an Eligible Participant's allocation of Employer
Contributions, Included Compensation is measured on the
Plan Year, unless
the Employer elects under Part 4, #14.a.(3) of the Nonstandardized
Agreement [Part 3, #11.b. of the Nonstandardized Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to measure Included Compensation on the calendar
year ending in
the Plan Year or on the basis of any other 12-month period
ending in the
Plan Year. If the Employer elects to measure Included Compensation
on the
calendar year or other 12-month period ending in the Plan
Year, the
Included Compensation of any Employee whose Employment
Commencement Date
is less than 12 months before the end of such period must
be measured on
the Plan Year or such Employee's period of participation,
as determined
under subsection (2) above.
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2.3
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Profit
Sharing/401(k) Plan Contributions and Allocations. This
Section 2.3
applies if the Employer has adopted the Profit Sharing/401(k)
plan
Agreement. The Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement is a profit
sharing plan
with a 401(k) feature. The Employer may elect to maintain
the profit
sharing plan only or the Employer may elect to maintain
the profit sharing
plan with a 401(k) feature. Any reference to the Agreement
under this
Section 2.3 is a reference to the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement. The
Employer must designate under Part 4 of the Agreement the
amount and type
of Employer Contributions it will make under the Plan.
Employer
Contributions under a 401(k) plan are generally subject
to special limits
and nondiscrimination rules. (See Article 17 for a discussion
of the
special rules that apply to the Employer Contributions
under a 401(k)
plan.) The Employer may make any (or all) of the following
contributions
under the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement.
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(a)
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Section
401(k) Deferrals. If so elected under Part 4A of the Agreement,
an
Eligible Participant may enter into a Salary Reduction
Agreement with the
Employer authorizing the Employer to withhold a specific
dollar amount or
a specific percentage from the Participant's Included Compensation
and to
deposit such amount into the Participant's Section 401(k)
Deferral Account
under the Plan. An Eligible Participant may defer with
respect to Included
Compensation that exceeds the Compensation Dollar Limitation,
provided the
deferrals otherwise satisfy the limitations under Code
?402(g) and any
other limitations under the Plan. A Salary Reduction Agreement
may only
relate to Included Compensation that is not currently available
at the
time the Salary Reduction Agreement is completed. An Employer
may elect
under Part 4A, #15 of the Agreement to provide a special
effective date
solely for Section 401(k) Deferrals under the Plan.
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An
Employee's Section 401(k) Deferrals are treated as Employer Contributions
for
all purposes under this Plan, except as otherwise provided under
the Code or
Treasury regulations. If the Employer adopts the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement and does not elect to allow Section 401(k)
Deferrals
under Part 4A of the Agreement, the only contributions an Eligible
Participant
may make to the Plan are Employee After-Tax Contributions as authorized
under
Article 3 of this BPD and Part 4D of the Nonstandardized Agreement,
to the
extent authorized under the Agreement. In either case, an Eligible
Participant
may also receive Employer Nonelective Contributions and/or Employer
Matching
Contributions under the Plan, to the extent authorized under the
Agreement. (The
Employee may not make Employee After-Tax Contributions under the
Standardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement.)
(1)
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Change
in deferral election. At least once a year, an Eligible
Participant may
enter into a new Salary Reduction Agreement, or may change
his/her
elections under an existing Salary Reduction Agreement,
at the time and in
the manner prescribed by the Plan Administrator on the
Salary Reduction
Agreement form (or other written procedures). The Salary
Reduction
Agreement may also provide elections as to the investment
funds into which
the Section 401(k) Deferrals will be contributed and the
time and manner a
Participant may change such elections.
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(2)
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Automatic
deferral election. If elected under Part 4A, #14 of the
Agreement, the
Employer will automatically withhold the amount designated
under Part 4A,
#14 from Eligible Participants' Included Compensation for
payroll periods
starting with such Participants' Entry Date, unless the
Eligible
Participant completes a Salary Reduction Agreement electing
a different
deferral amount (including a zero deferral amount). The
Employer must
designate in Part 4A, #14 of the Agreement the date as
of which an
Employee's deferral election will be taken into account
to override the
automatic deferral election under this subparagraph (2).
This automatic
deferral election does not apply to any Eligible Participant
who has
elected to defer an amount equal to or greater than the
automatic deferral
amount designated in Part 4A, #14 of the Agreement. The
Employer may elect
under Part 4A, #14.b. of the Agreement to apply the automatic
deferral
election only to Employees who become Eligible Participants
after a
specified date. The Plan Administrator will deposit all
amounts withheld
pursuant to this automatic deferral election into the appropriate
Participant's Section 401(k) Deferral Account.
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Prior
to
the time an automatic deferral election first goes into effect, an
Eligible
Participant must receive written notice concerning the effect of
the automatic
deferral election and his/her right to elect a different level of
deferral under
the Plan, including the right to elect not to defer. After receiving
the notice,
an Eligible Participant must have a reasonable time to enter into
a new Salary
Reduction Agreement before any automatic deferral election goes into
effect.
(b)
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Employer
Matching Contributions. If so elected under Part 4B of
the Agreement, the
Employer will make an Employer Matching Contribution, in
accordance with
the matching contribution formula(s) selected in Part 4B,
#16, to Eligible
Participants who satisfy the allocation conditions under
Part 4B, #19 of
the Agreement. See Section 2.6. Any Employer Matching Contribution
determined under Part 4B, #16 will be allocated to the
Eligible
Participant's Employer Matching Contribution Account.
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(1)
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Applicable
contributions. The Employer must elect under the Nonstandardized
Agreement
whether the matching contribution formula(s) applies to
Section 401(k)
Deferrals, Employee After-Tax Contributions, or both. Under
the
Standardized Agreement, Employer Matching Contributions
apply only to
Section 401(k) Deferrals. The contributions eligible for
an Employer
Matching Contribution are referred to under this Section
as "applicable
contributions." If a matching formula applies to both Section
401(k)
Deferrals
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and
Employee After-Tax Contributions, such contributions are aggregated
to determine
the Employer Matching Contribution allocated under the formula.
(2)
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Multiple
formulas. If the Employer elects more than one matching
contribution
formula under Part 4B, #16 of the Agreement, each formula
is applied
separately. An Eligible Participant's aggregate Employer
Matching
Contributions for a Plan Year will be the sum of the Employer
Matching
Contributions the Participant is entitled to under all
such formulas.
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(3)
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Applicable
contributions taken into account under the matching contribution
formula.
The Employer must elect under Part 4B, #17.a. of the Agreement
the period
for which the applicable contributions are taken into account
in applying
the matching contribution formula(s) and in applying any
limits on the
amount of such contributions that may be taken into account
under the
formula(s). In applying the matching contribution formula(s),
applicable
contributions (and Included Compensation) are determined
separately for
each designated period and any limits on the amount of
applicable
contributions taken into account under the matching contribution
formula(s) are applied separately for each designated period.
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(4)
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Partial
period of participation. In applying the matching contribution
formula(s)
under the Plan to an Employee who is an Eligible Participant
for only part
of the Plan Year, the Employer may elect under Part 4B,
#17.b. of the
Agreement to take into account Included Compensation for
the entire Plan
Year or only for the portion of the Plan Year during which
the Employee is
an Eligible Participant. Alternatively, the Employer may
elect under Part
4B, #17.b.(3) of the Agreement to take into account Included
Compensation
only for the period that the Employee actually makes applicable
contributions under the Plan. In applying this subsection
(4), an
Employee's status as an Eligible Participant is determined
solely with
respect to the Employer Matching Contribution under Part
4B of the
Agreement.
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(c)
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Qualified
Matching Contributions (QMACs). If so elected under Part
4B, #18 of the
Agreement, the Employer may treat all (or a portion) of
its Employer
Matching Contributions as QMACs. If an Employer Matching
Contribution is
designated as a QMAC, it must satisfy the requirements
for a QMAC (as
described in Section 17.7(g)) at the time the contribution
is made to the
Plan and must be allocated to the Participant's QMAC Account.
To the
extent an Employer Matching Contribution is treated as
a QMAC under Part
4B, #18, such contribution will be 100% vested, regardless
of any
inconsistent elections under Part 6 of the Agreement relating
to Employer
Matching Contributions. (See Sections 17.2(d)(2) and 17.3(d)(2)
for the
ability to make QMACs to correct an ADP or ACP failure
without regard to
any election under Part 4B, #18 of the Agreement.)
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Under
Part 4B, #18, the Employer may designate all Employer Matching Contributions
as
QMACs or may designate only those Employer Matching Contributions
under specific
matching contribution formula(s) to be QMACs. Alternatively, the
Employer may
authorize a discretionary QMAC, in addition to the Employer Matching
Contributions designated under Part 4B, #16, to be allocated uniformly
as a
percentage of Section 401(k) Deferrals made during the Plan Year.
The Employer
may elect under the Agreement to allocate the discretionary QMAC
only to
Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees or
to all Eligible
Participants. If the Employer elects both a discretionary Employer
Matching
Contribution formula and a discretionary QMAC formula, the Employer
must
designate, in writing, the extent to which any matching contribution
is intended
to be an Employer Matching Contribution or a QMAC.
(d)
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Employer
Nonelective Contributions. If so elected under Part 4C
of the Agreement,
the Employer may make Employer Nonelective Contributions
on behalf of each
Eligible Participant under the Plan who has satisfied the
allocation
conditions described in Part 4C, #24 of the Agreement.
See Section 2.6.
The Employer must designate under Part 4C, #20 of the Agreement
the amount
of any Employer Nonelective Contributions it wishes to
make under the
Plan. The amount of any Employer Nonelective Contributions
authorized
under the Plan and the method of allocating such contributions
is
described in Section 2.2 of this Article.
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(e)
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Qualified
Nonelective Contributions (QNECs). The Employer may elect
under Part 4C,
#22 of the Agreement to permit discretionary QNECs under
the Plan. A QNEC
must satisfy the requirements for a QNEC (as described
in Section 17.7(h))
at the time the contribution is made to the Plan and must
be allocated to
the Participant's QNEC Account. If the Plan authorizes
the Employer to
make both a discretionary Employer Nonelective Contribution
and a
discretionary QNEC, the Employer must designate, in writing,
the extent to
which any contribution is intended to be an Employer Nonelective
Contribution or a QNEC. To the extent an Employer Nonelective
Contribution
is treated as a QNEC under Part 4C, #22, such contribution
will be 100%
vested,
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regardless
of any inconsistent elections under Part 6 of the Agreement relating
to Employer
Nonelective Contributions. (See Sections 17.2(d)(2) and 17.3(d)(2)
for the
ability to make QNECs to correct an ADP or ACP failure without regard
to any
election under Part 4C, #22 of the Agreement.)
If
the
Employer makes a QNEC for the Plan Year, it will be allocated to
Participants'
QNEC Account based on the allocation method selected by the Employer
under Part
4C, #22 of the Agreement. An Eligible Participant will receive a
QNEC allocation
even if he/she has not satisfied any allocation conditions designated
under Part
4C, #24 of the Agreement, unless the Employer elects otherwise under
the Part
4C, #22.c. of the Agreement.
(1)
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Pro
Rata Allocation Method. If the Employer elects the Pro
Rata Allocation
Method under Part 4C, #22.a. of the Agreement, any Employer
Nonelective
Contribution properly designated as a QNEC will be allocated
as a uniform
percentage of Included Compensation to all Eligible Participants
who are
Nonhighly Compensated Employees or to all Eligible Participants,
as
specified under Part 4C, #22.a.
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(2)
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Bottom-up
QNEC method. If the Employer elects the Bottom-up QNEC
method under Part
4C, #22.b. of the Agreement, any Employer Nonelective Contribution
properly designated as a QNEC will be first allocated to
the Eligible
Participant with the lowest Included Compensation for the
Plan Year for
which the QNEC is being allocated. To receive an allocation
of the QNEC
under this subsection (2), the Eligible Participant must
be a Nonhighly
Compensated Employee for the Plan Year for which the QNEC
is being
allocated.
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The
QNEC
will be allocated to the Eligible Participant with the lowest Included
Compensation until all of the QNEC has been allocated or until the
Eligible
Participant has reached his/her Annual Additions Limitation, as described
in
Article 7. For this purpose, if two or more Eligible Participants
have the same
Included Compensation, the QNEC will be allocated equally to each
Eligible
Participant until all of the QNEC has been allocated, or until each
Eligible
Participant has reached his/her Annual Additions Limitation. If any
QNEC remains
unallocated, this process is repeated for the Eligible Participant(s)
with the
next lowest level of Included Compensation in accordance with the
provisions
under this subsection (2), until all of the QNEC is allocated.
The
Bottom-up QNEC method can only be used to the extent permitted by
law.
(f)
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Safe
Harbor Contributions. If so elected under Part 4E of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement, the Employer may elect to treat
this Plan as a
Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan. To qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k)
Plan, the
Employer must make a Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
or a Safe Harbor
Matching Contribution under the Plan. Such contributions
are subject to
special vesting and distribution restrictions and must
be allocated to the
Eligible Participants' Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
Account or
Safe Harbor Matching Contribution Account, as applicable.
Section 17.6
describes the requirements that must be met to qualify
as a Safe Harbor
401(k) Plan and the method for calculating the amount of
the Safe Harbor
Contribution that must be made under the Plan.
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(g)
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Prior
SIMPLE 401(k) plan. If this Agreement is being used to
amend or restate a
401(k) plan which complied with the SIMPLE 401(k) plan
provisions under
Code ?401(k)(11), any provision in this Agreement which
is inconsistent
with the SIMPLE 401(k) plan provisions is not effective
for any Plan Year
during which the plan complied with the SIMPLE 401(k) plan
provisions.
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2.4
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Money
Purchase Plan Contribution and Allocations. The Employer
may not make
money purchase pension plan contributions hereunder.
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2.5
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Target
Benefit Plan Contribution. The Employer may not make target
benefit plan
contributions hereunder.
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2.6
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Allocation
Conditions. In order to receive an allocation of Employer
Contributions
(other than Section 401(k) Deferrals and Safe Harbor Contributions),
an
Eligible Participant must satisfy any allocation conditions
designated
under Part 4, #15 of the Agreement with respect to such
contributions.
(Similar allocation conditions apply under Part 4B, #19
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement for Employer Matching Contributions
and Part 4C,
#24 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement for Employer
Nonelective
Contributions.) Under the Nonstandardized Agreements, the
imposition of an
allocation condition may cause the Plan to fail the minimum
coverage
requirements under Code ?410(b), unless the only allocation
condition
under the Plan is a safe harbor allocation condition. (Under
the
Standardized Agreements, the only
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allocation
condition permitted is a safe harbor allocation condition. But see
(b) below for
a special rule upon plan termination.)
(a)
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Safe
harbor allocation condition. Under the safe harbor allocation
condition
under Part 4, #15.b. of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part
4B, #19.b. and
Part 4C, #24.b. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement],
the Employer may elect to require an Eligible Participant
to be employed
on the last day of the Plan Year or to complete more than
a specified
number of Hours of Service (not to exceed 500) during the
Plan Year to
receive an allocation of Employer Contributions (other
than Section 401(k)
Deferrals or Safe Harbor Contributions) under the Plan.
Under this safe
harbor allocation condition, an Eligible Participant whose
employment
terminates before he/she completes the designated Hours
of Service is not
entitled to an allocation of Employer Contributions subject
to such
allocation condition. However, if an Eligible Participant
completes at
least the designated Hours of Service during a Plan Year,
the Participant
is eligible for an allocation of such Employer Contributions,
even if the
Participant's employment terminates during the Plan Year.
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The
imposition of the safe harbor allocation condition will not cause
the Plan to
fail the minimum coverage requirements under Code ?410(b) because
Participants
who are excluded from participation solely as a result of the safe
harbor
allocation condition are excluded from the coverage test. Except
as provided
under subsection (b) below, the safe harbor allocation condition
is the only
allocation condition that may be used under the Standardized Agreement.
(b)
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Reserved.
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(c)
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Elapsed
Time Method. The Employer may elect under Part 4, #15.e.
of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.e. and Part 4C,
#24.e. of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to apply
the allocation
conditions using the Elapsed Time Method. Under the Elapsed
Time Method,
instead of requiring the completion of a specified number
of Hours of
Service, the Employer may require an Employee to be employed
with the
Employer for a specified number of consecutive days.
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(1)
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Safe
harbor allocation condition. The Employer may elect under
Part 4,
#15.e.(1) of the Agreement [Part 4B, #19.e.(1) and/or Part
4C, #24.e.(1)
of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
to apply the safe
harbor allocation condition (as described in subsection
(a) above) using
the Elapsed Time Method. Under the safe harbor Elapsed
Time Method, a
Participant who terminates employment with less than a
specified number of
consecutive days of employment (not more than 91 days)
during the Plan
Year will not be entitled to an allocation of the designated
Employer
Contributions. The use of the safe harbor allocation condition
under the
Elapsed Time Method provides the same protection from coverage
as
described in subsection (a) above.
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(2)
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Service
condition. Alternatively, the Employer may elect under
Part 4, #15.e.(2)
of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.e.(2) and/or
Part 4C,
#24.e.(2) of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to
require an Employee to complete a specified number of consecutive
days of
employment (not exceeding 182) to receive an allocation
of the designated
Employer Contributions.
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(d)
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Special
allocation condition for Employer Matching Contributions
under
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement. The Employer
may elect
under Part 4B, #19.f. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement to require as a condition for receiving an Employer
Matching
Contribution that a Participant not withdraw the underlying
applicable
contributions being matched prior to the end of the period
for which the
Employer Matching Contribution is being made. Thus, for
example, if the
Employer elects under Part 4B, #17.a. of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement to apply the matching contribution
formula on the
basis of the Plan Year quarter, a Participant would not
be entitled to an
Employer Matching Contribution with respect to any applicable
contributions contributed during a Plan Year quarter to
the extent such
applicable contributions are withdrawn prior to the end
of the Plan Year
quarter during which they are contributed. A Participant
could take a
distribution of applicable contributions that were contributed
for a prior
period without losing eligibility for a current Employer
Matching
Contribution. This subsection (d) will not prevent a Participant
from
receiving an Employer Matching Contribution merely because
the Participant
takes a loan (as permitted under Article 14) from matched
contributions.
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(e)
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Application
to designated period. The Employer may elect under Part
4, #15.f. of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.g. and Part 4C,
#24.f. of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to apply
any allocation
condition(s) selected under the Agreement on the basis
of the period
designated under Part 4, #14.a.(1) of the Nonstandardized
Agreement [Part
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4B,
#17.a. or Part 4C, #23.a.(1) of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement]. If this subsection (e) applies to any allocation condition(s)
under
the Plan, the following procedural rules apply. (See subsection (3)
for rules
applicable to the Standardized Agreements.)
(1)
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Last
day of employment requirement. If the Employer elects under
Part 4, #15.f.
of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.g. or Part
4C, #24.f. of
the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to
apply the
allocation conditions on the basis of designated periods
and the Employer
elects to apply a last day of employment condition under
Part 4, #15.c. of
the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.c. or Part
4C, #24.c. of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], an Eligible
Participant
will be entitled to receive an allocation of Employer Contributions
for
the period designated under Part 4, #14.a.(1) of the Nonstandardized
Agreement [Part 4B, #17.a. or Part 4C, #23.a.(1) of the
Nonstandardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] only if the Eligible Participant
is
employed with the Employer on the last day of such period.
If an Eligible
Participant terminates employment prior to end of the designated
period,
no Employer Contribution will be allocated to that Eligible
Participant
for such period. Nothing in this subsection (1) will cause
an Eligible
Participant to lose Employer Contributions that were allocated
for a
period prior to the period in which the individual terminates
employment.
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(2)
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Hours
of Service condition. If the Employer elects to apply the
allocation
conditions on the basis of specified periods under Part
4, #15.f. of the
Agreement [Part 4B, #19.g. or Part 4C, #24.f. of the Nonstandardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], and elects to apply an
Hours of Service
condition under Part 4, #15.d. of the Nonstandardized Agreement
[Part 4B,
#19.d. or Part 4C, #24.d. of the Nonstandardized Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement], an Eligible Participant will be entitled to
receive an
allocation of Employer Contributions for the period designated
under Part
4, #14.a.(1) of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B,
#17.a. or Part 4C,
#23.a.(1) of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] only if
the Eligible Participant completes the required Hours of
Service before
the last day of such period. In applying the fractional
method under
subsection (i) or the period-by-period method under subsection
(ii), an
Eligible Participant who completes a sufficient number
of Hours of Service
for the Plan Year to earn a Year of Service under the Plan
will be
entitled to a full contribution for the Plan Year, as if
the Eligible
Participant satisfied the Hours of Service condition for
each designated
period. A catch-up contribution may be required for such
Participants.
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(i)
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Fractional
method. The Employer may elect under Part 4, #15.f.(1)
of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.g.(1) or Part 4C,
#24.f.(1) of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to apply
the Hours of
Service condition on the basis of specified period using
the fractional
method. Under the fractional method, the required Hours
of Service for any
period are determined by multiplying the Hours of Service
required under
Part 4, #15.d. of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B,
#19.d. or Part
4C, #24.d. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] by a
fraction, the numerator of which is the total number of
periods completed
during the Plan Year (including the current period) and
the denominator of
which is the total number of periods during the Plan Year.
Thus, for
example, if the Employer applies a 1,000 Hours of Service
condition to
receive an Employer Matching Contribution and elects to
apply such
condition on the basis of Plan Year quarters, an Eligible
Participant
would have to complete 250 Hours of Service by the end
of the first Plan
Year quarter [1/4 x 1,000], 500 Hours of Service by the
end of the second
Plan Year quarter [2/4 x 1,000], 750 Hours of Service by
the end of the
third Plan Year quarter [3/4 x 1,000] and 1,000 Hours of
Service by the
end of the Plan Year [4/4 x 1,000] to receive an allocation
of the
Employer Matching Contribution for such period. If an Eligible
Participant
does not complete the required Hours of Service for any
period during the
Plan Year, no Employer Contribution will be allocated to
that Eligible
Participant for such period. However, if an Eligible Participant
completes
the required Hours of Service under Part 4, #15.d. for
the Plan Year, such
Participant will receive a full contribution for the Plan
Year as if the
Participant satisfied the Hours of Service conditions for
each period
during the year. Nothing in this subsection (i) will cause
an Eligible
Participant to lose Employer Contributions that were allocated
for a
period during which the Eligible Participant completed
the required Hours
of Service for such period.
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(ii)
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Period-by-period
method. The Employer may elect under Part 4, #15.f.(2)
of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.g.(2) or Part 4C,
#24.f.(2) of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to apply
the Hours of
Service condition on the basis of specified period using
the
period-by-period method.
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Under
the
period-by-period method, the required Hours of Service for any period
are
determined separately for such period. The Hours of Service required
for any
specific period are determined by multiplying the Hours of Service
required
under Part 4, #15.d. of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.d.
or Part
4C, #24.d. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
by a
fraction, the numerator of which is one (1) and the denominator of
which is the
total number of periods during the Plan Year. Thus, for example,
if the Employer
applies a 1,000 Hours of Service condition to receive an Employer
Matching
Contribution and elects to apply such condition on the basis of Plan
Year
quarters, an Eligible Participant would have to complete 250 Hours
of Service in
each Plan Year quarter [1/4 x 1,000] to receive an allocation of
the Employer
Matching Contribution for such period. If an Eligible Participant
does not
complete the required Hours of Service for any period during the
Plan Year, no
Employer Contribution will be allocated to that Eligible Participant
for such
period. However, if an Eligible Participant completes the required
Hours of
Service under Part 4, #15.d. for the Plan Year, such Participant
will receive a
full contribution for the Plan Year as if the Participant satisfied
the Hours of
Service conditions for each period during the year. Nothing in this
subsection
(ii) will cause an Eligible Participant to lose Employer Contributions
that were
allocated for a period during which the Eligible Participant completed
the
required Hours of Service for such period.
(f)
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Safe
harbor allocation condition. If the Employer elects to
apply the
allocation conditions on the basis of specified periods
under Part 4,
#15.f. of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.g.
or Part 4C,
#24.f. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
and elects
to apply the safe harbor allocation condition under Part
4, #15.b. of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.b. or Part 4C,
#24.b. of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the rules
under
subsection (1) above will apply, without regard to the
rules under
subsection (2) above. Thus, an Eligible Employee who terminates
during a
period designated under Part 4, #14.a.(1) of the Nonstandardized
Agreement
[Part 4B, #17.a. or Part 4C, #23.a.(1) of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] will not receive an allocation
of Employer
Contributions for such period if the Eligible Participant
has not
completed the Hours of Service designated under Part 4,
#15.b. of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.b. or Part 4C,
#24.b. of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. Nothing
in this
subsection (3) will cause an Eligible Participant to lose
Employer
Contributions that were allocated for a period prior to
the period in
which the individual terminates employment. (This subsection
(3) also
applies if the Employer elects to apply the safe harbor
allocation
condition on the basis of specified periods under Part
4, #15.c. of the
Standardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.c. or Part 4C, #22.c.
of the
Standardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement.])
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(g)
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Elapsed
Time Method. The election to apply the allocation conditions
on the basis
of specified periods does not apply to the extent the Elapsed
Time Method
applies under Part 4, #15.e. of the Nonstandardized Agreement
[Part 4B,
#19.e. or Part 4C, #24.e. of the Nonstandardized Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement]. If an Employer elects to apply the allocation
conditions on
the basis of specified periods and elects to apply the
Elapsed Time
Method, an Eligible Employee will be entitled to an allocation
of Employer
Contributions if such Eligible Participant is employed
as of the last day
of such period, without regard to the number of consecutive
days in such
period. Thus, in effect, the Elapsed Time Method will only
apply to
prevent an allocation of Employer Contributions for the
last designated
period in the Plan Year, if the Eligible Participant has
not completed the
consecutive days required under Part 4, #15.e. of the Nonstandardized
Agreement [Part 4B, #19.e. or Part 4C, #24.e. of the Nonstandardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] by the end of the Plan
Year. The last day
of employment rules subsection (1) above still may apply
(to the extent
applicable) for periods during which the Eligible Participant
terminates
employment.
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2.7
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Fail-Safe
Coverage Provision. If the Employer has elected to apply
a last day of the
Plan Year allocation condition and/or an Hours of Service
allocation
condition under a Nonstandardized Agreement, the Employer
may elect under
Part 13, #56 of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 13,
#74 of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to apply
the Fail-Safe
Coverage Provision. Under the Fail-Safe Coverage Provision,
if the Plan
fails to satisfy the ratio percentage coverage requirements
under Code
?410(b) for a Plan Year due to the application of a last
day of the Plan
Year allocation condition and/or an Hours of Service allocation
condition,
such allocation condition(s) will be automatically eliminated
for the Plan
Year for certain otherwise Eligible Participants, under
the process
described in subsections (a) through
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(d)
below, until enough Eligible Participants are benefiting under the
Plan so that
the ratio percentage test of Treasury Regulation ?1.410(b)-2(b)(2)
is satisfied.
If
the
Employer elects to have the Fail-Safe Coverage Provision apply, such
provision
automatically applies for any Plan Year for which the Plan does not
satisfy the
ratio percentage coverage test under Code ?410(b). (Except as provided
in the
following paragraph, the Plan may not use the average benefits test
to comply
with the minimum coverage requirements if the Fail-Safe Coverage
Provision is
elected.) The Plan satisfies the ratio percentage test if the percentage
of the
Nonhighly Compensated Employees under the Plan is at least 70% of
the percentage
of the Highly Compensated Employees who benefit under the Plan. An
Employee is
benefiting for this purpose only if he/she actually receives an allocation
of
Employer Contributions or forfeitures or, if testing coverage of
a 401(m)
arrangement (i.e., a Plan that provides for Employer Matching Contributions
and/or Employee After-Tax Contributions), the Employee would receive
an
allocation of Employer Matching Contributions by making the necessary
contributions or the Employee is eligible to make Employee After-Tax
Contributions. To determine the percentage of Nonhighly Compensated
Employees or
Highly Compensated Employees who are benefiting, the following Employees
are
excluded for purposes of applying the ratio percentage test: (i)
Employees who
have not satisfied the Plan's minimum age and service conditions
under Section
1.4; (ii) Nonresident Alien Employees; (iii) Union Employees; and
(iv)
Employees who terminate employment during the Plan Year with less
than 501 Hours
of Service and do not benefit under the Plan.
Under
the
Fail-Safe Coverage Provision, certain otherwise Eligible Participants
who are
not benefiting for the Plan Year as a result of a last day of the
Plan Year
allocation condition or an Hours of Service allocation condition
will
participate under the Plan based on whether such Participants are
Category 1
Employees or Category 2 Employees. Alternatively, the Employer may
elect under
Part 13, #56.b.(2) of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 13, #74.b.(2)
of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to apply the special
Fail-Safe
Coverage Provision described in (d) below which eliminates the allocation
conditions for otherwise Eligible Participants with the lowest Included
Compensation. If after applying the Fail-Safe Coverage Provision,
the Plan does
not satisfy the ratio percentage coverage test, the Fail-Safe Coverage
Provision
does not apply, and the Plan may use any other available method (including
the
average benefit test) to satisfy the minimum coverage requirements
under Code
?410(b).
(a)
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Top-Heavy
Plans. Unless provided otherwise under Part 13, #56.b.(1)
of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 13, #74.b.(1) of the Nonstandardized
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], if the Plan is a Top-Heavy
Plan, the
Hours of Service allocation condition will be eliminated
for all Non-Key
Employees who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees, prior
to applying the
Fail-Safe Coverage Provisions under subsections (b) and
(c) or (d) below.
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(b)
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Category
1 Employees - Otherwise Eligible Participants (who are
Nonhighly
Compensated Employees) who are still employed by the Employer
on the last
day of the Plan Year but who failed to satisfy the Plan's
Hours of Service
condition. The Hours of Service allocation condition will
be eliminated
for Category 1 Employees (who did not receive an allocation
under the Plan
due to the Hours of Service allocation condition) beginning
with the
Category 1 Employee(s) credited with the most Hours of
Service for the
Plan Year and continuing with the Category 1 Employee(s)
with the next
most Hours of Service until the ratio percentage test is
satisfied. If two
or more Category 1 Employees have the same number of Hours
of Service, the
allocation condition will be eliminated for those Category
1 Employees
starting with the Category 1 Employee(s) with the lowest
Included
Compensation. If the Plan still fails to satisfy the ratio
percentage test
after all Category 1 Employees receive an allocation, the
Plan proceeds to
Category 2 Employees.
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(c)
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Category
2 Employees - Otherwise Eligible Participants (who are
Nonhighly
Compensated Employees) who terminated employment during
the Plan Year with
more than 500 Hours of Service. The last day of the Plan
Year allocation
condition will then be eliminated for Category 2 Employees
(who did not
receive an allocation under the Plan due to the last day
of the Plan Year
allocation condition) beginning with the Category 2 Employee(s)
who
terminated employment closest to the last day of the Plan
Year and
continuing with the Category 2 Employee(s) with a termination
of
employment date that is next closest to the last day of
the Plan Year
until the ratio percentage test is satisfied. If two or
more Category 2
Employees terminate employment on the same day, the allocation
condition
will be eliminated for those Category 2 Employees starting
with the
Category 2 Employee(s) with the lowest Included Compensation.
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(d)
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Special
Fail-Safe Coverage Provision. Instead of applying the Fail-Safe
Coverage
Provision based on Category 1 and Category 2 Employees,
the Employer may
elect under Part 13, #56.b.(2) of the Nonstandardized Agreement
[Part 13,
#74.b.(2) of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to
eliminate the allocation conditions beginning with the
otherwise Eligible
Participant(s) (who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees
and who did not
terminate employment during the Plan Year with 500 Hours
of Service or
less) with the lowest Included Compensation and continuing
with such
otherwise Eligible Participants with the next lowest
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Included
Compensation until the ratio percentage test is satisfied. If two
or more
otherwise Eligible Participants have the same Included Compensation,
the
allocation conditions will be eliminated for all such individuals.
2.8
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Deductible
Employee Contributions. The Plan Administrator will not
accept deductible
employee contributions that are made for a taxable year
beginning after
December 31, 1986. Contributions made prior to that date
will be
maintained in a separate Account which will be nonforfeitable
at all
times. The Account will share in the gains and losses under
the Plan in
the same manner as described in Section 13.4. No part of
the deductible
voluntary contribution Account will be used to purchase
life insurance.
Subject to the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements
under Article 9 (if
applicable), the Participant may withdraw any part of the
deductible
voluntary contribution Account by making a written application
to the Plan
Administrator.
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ARTICLE
3
EMPLOYEE AFTER-TAX CONTRIBUTIONS, ROLLOVER CONTRIBUTIONS AND TRANSFERS
This
Article provides the rules regarding Employee After-Tax Contributions,
Rollover
Contributions and transfers that may be made under this Plan. The
Trustee has
the authority under Article 12 to accept Rollover Contributions under
this Plan
and to enter into transfer agreements concerning the transfer of
assets from
another qualified retirement plan to this Plan, if so directed by
the Plan
Administrator.
3.1
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Employee
After-Tax Contributions. The Employer may elect under Part
4D of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement to allow
Eligible
Participants to make Employee After-Tax Contributions under
the Plan.
Employee After-Tax Contributions may only be made under
the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement. Any Employee
After-Tax
Contributions made under this Plan are subject to the ACP
Test outlined in
Section 17.3. (Nothing under this Section precludes the
holding of
Employee After-Tax Contributions under a profit sharing
plan or money
purchase plan that were made prior to the adoption of this
Prototype
Plan.)
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The
Employer may elect under Part 4D, #25 of the Nonstandardized Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement to impose a limit on the maximum amount
of Included
Compensation an Eligible Participant may contribute as an Employee
After-Tax
Contribution. The Employer may also elect under Part 4D, #26 of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement to impose a minimum
amount that
an Eligible Participant may contribute to the Plan during any payroll
period.
Employee
After-Tax Contributions must be held in the Participant's Employee
After-Tax
Contribution Account, which is always 100% vested. A Participant
may withdraw
amounts from his/her Employee After-Tax Contribution Account at any
time, in
accordance with the distribution rules under Section 8.5(a), except
as
prohibited under Part 10 of the Agreement. No forfeitures will occur
solely as a
result of an Employee's withdrawal of Employee After-Tax Contributions.
3.2
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Rollover
Contributions. An Employee may make a Rollover Contribution
to this Plan
from another "qualified retirement plan" or from a "conduit
IRA," if the
acceptance of rollovers is permitted under Part 12 of the
Agreement or if
the Plan Administrator adopts administrative procedures
regarding the
acceptance of Rollover Contributions. Any Rollover Contribution
an
Employee makes to this Plan will be held in the Employee's
Rollover
Contribution Account, which is always 100% vested. A Participant
may
withdraw amounts from his/her Rollover Contribution Account
at any time,
in accordance with the distribution rules under Section
8.5(a), except as
prohibited under Part 10 of the Agreement.
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For
purposes of this Section 3.2, a "qualified retirement plan" is any
tax qualified
retirement plan under Code ?401(a) or any other plan from which distributions
are eligible to be rolled over into this Plan pursuant to the Code,
regulations,
or other IRS guidance. A "conduit IRA" is an IRA that holds only
assets that
have been properly rolled over to that IRA from a qualified retirement
plan
under Code ?401(a). To qualify as a Rollover Contribution under this
Section,
the Rollover Contribution must be transferred directly from the qualified
retirement plan or conduit IRA in a Direct Rollover or must be transferred
to
the Plan by the Employee within sixty (60) days following receipt
of the amounts
from the qualified plan or conduit IRA.
If
Rollover Contributions are permitted, an Employee may make a Rollover
Contribution to the Plan even if the Employee is not an Eligible
Participant
with respect to any or all other contributions under the Plan, unless
otherwise
prohibited under separate administrative procedures adopted by the
Plan
Administrator. An Employee who makes a Rollover Contribution to this
Plan prior
to becoming an Eligible Participant shall be treated as a Participant
only with
respect to such Rollover Contribution Account, but shall not be treated
as an
Eligible Participant until he/she otherwise satisfies the eligibility
conditions
under the Plan.
The
Plan
Administrator may refuse to accept a Rollover Contribution if the
Plan
Administrator reasonably believes the Rollover Contribution (a) is
not being
made from a proper plan or conduit IRA; (b) is not being made within
sixty (60)
days from receipt of the amounts from a qualified retirement plan
or conduit
IRA; (c) could jeopardize the tax-exempt status of the Plan; or (d)
could create
adverse tax consequences for the Plan or the Employer. Prior to accepting
a
Rollover Contribution, the Plan Administrator may require the Employee
to
provide satisfactory evidence establishing that the Rollover Contribution
meets
the requirements of this Section.
The
Plan
Administrator may apply different conditions for accepting Rollover
Contributions from qualified retirement plans and conduit IRAs. Any
conditions
on Rollover Contributions must be applied uniformly to all Employees
under the
Plan.
3.3
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Transfer
of Assets. The Plan Administrator may direct the Trustee
to accept a
transfer of assets from another qualified retirement plan
on behalf of any
Employee, even if such Employee is not eligible to receive
other
contributions under the Plan. If a transfer of assets is
made on behalf of
an Employee prior to the
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Employee's
becoming an Eligible Participant, the Employee shall be treated as
a Participant
for all purposes with respect to such transferred amount. Any assets
transferred
to this Plan from another plan must be accompanied by written instructions
designating the name of each Employee for whose benefit such amounts
are being
transferred, the current value of such assets, and the sources from
which such
amounts are derived. The Plan Administrator will deposit any transferred
assets
in the appropriate Participant's Transfer Account. The Transfer Account
will
contain any sub-Accounts necessary to separately track the sources
of the
transferred assets. Each sub-Account will be treated in the same
manner as the
corresponding Plan Account.
The
Plan
Administrator may direct the Trustee to accept a transfer of assets
from another
qualified plan of the Employer in order to comply with the qualified
replacement
plan requirements under Code ?4980(d) (relating to the excise tax
on reversions
from a qualified plan) without affecting the status of this Plan
as a Prototype
Plan. A transfer made pursuant to Code ?4980(d) will be allocated
as Employer
Contributions either in the Plan Year in which the transfer occurs,
or over a
period of Plan Years (not exceeding the maximum period permitted
under Code
?4980(d)), as provided in the applicable transfer agreement. To the
extent a
transfer described in this paragraph is not totally allocable in
the Plan Year
in which the transfer occurs, the portion which is not allocable
will be
credited to a suspense account until allocated in accordance with
the transfer
agreement.
The
Plan
Administrator may refuse to accept a transfer of assets if the Plan
Administrator reasonably believes the transfer (a) is not being made
from a
proper qualified plan; (b) could jeopardize the tax-exempt status
of the Plan;
or (c) could create adverse tax consequences for the Plan or the
Employer. Prior
to accepting a transfer of assets, the Plan Administrator may require
evidence
documenting that the transfer of assets meets the requirements of
this Section.
The Trustee will have no responsibility to determine whether the
transfer of
assets meets the requirements of this Section; to verify the correctness
of the
amount and type of assets being transferred to the Plan; or to perform
any due
diligence review with respect to such transfer.
(a)
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Protection
of Protected Benefits. Except in the case of a Qualified
Transfer (as
defined in subsection (d) below), a transfer of assets
is initiated at the
Plan level and does not require Participant or spousal
consent. If the
Plan Administrator directs the Trustee to accept a transfer
of assets to
this Plan, the Participant on whose behalf the transfer
is made retains
all Protected Benefits that applied to such transferred
assets under the
transferor plan.
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(b)
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Transferee
plan. Except in the case of a Qualified Transfer (as defined
in subsection
(d)), if the Plan Administrator directs the Trustee to
accept a transfer
of assets from another plan which is subject to the Joint
and Survivor
Annuity requirements under Code ?401(a)(11), the amounts
so transferred
continue to be subject to such requirements, as provided
in Article 9. If
this Plan is not otherwise subject to the Qualified Joint
and Survivor
Annuity requirements (as determined under Part 11, #41.a.
of the Agreement
[Part 11, #59.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]),
the Qualified
Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements apply only to the
amounts under
the Transfer Account which are attributable to the amounts
which were
subject to the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements
under the
transferor plan. The Employer may override this default
rule by checking
Part 11, #41.b. of the Agreement [Part 11, #59.b. of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] thereby subjecting the entire
Plan to the
Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity Requirements.
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(c)
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Transfers
from a Defined Benefit Plan, money purchase plan or 401(k)
plan.
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(1)
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Defined
Benefit Plan. The Plan Administrator will not direct the
Trustee to accept
a transfer of assets from a Defined Benefit Plan unless
such transfer
qualifies as a Qualified Transfer (as defined in subsection
(d) below) or
the assets transferred from the Defined Benefit Plan are
in the form of
paid-up annuity contracts which protect all the Participant's
Protected
Benefits under the Defined Benefit Plan. (However, see
the special rule
under the second paragraph of Section 3.3 above regarding
transfers
authorized under Code ?4980(d).)
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(2)
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Money
purchase plan. If this Plan is a profit sharing plan or
a 401(k) plan and
the Plan Administrator directs the Trustee to accept a
transfer of assets
from a money purchase plan (other than as a Qualified Transfer
as defined
in subsection (d) below), the amounts transferred (and
any gains
attributable to such transferred amounts) continue to be
subject to the
distribution restrictions applicable to money purchase
plan assets under
the transferor plan. Such amounts may not be distributed
for reasons other
than death, disability, attainment of Normal Retirement
Age, or
termination of employment, regardless of any distribution
provisions under
this Plan that would otherwise permit a distribution prior
to such events.
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(3)
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401(k)
plan. If the Plan Administrator directs the Trustee to
accept a transfer
of Section 401(k) Deferrals, QMACs, QNECs, or Safe Harbor
Contributions
from a 401(k) plan, such amounts retain their character
under this Plan
and such amounts (including any allocable gains or losses)
remain subject
to the distribution restrictions applicable to such amounts
under the
Code.
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(d)
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Qualified
Transfer. The Plan may eliminate certain Protected Benefits
(as provided
under subsection (3) below) related to plan assets that
are received in a
Qualified Transfer from another plan. A Qualified Transfer
is a
plan-to-plan transfer of a Participant's benefits that
meets the
requirements under subsection (1) or (2) below.
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(1)
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Elective
transfer. A plan-to-plan transfer of a Participant's benefits
from another
qualified plans is a Qualified Transfer if such transfer
satisfies the
following requirements.
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(A)
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The
Participant must have the right to receive an immediate
distribution of
his/her benefits under the transferor plan at the time
of the Qualified
Transfer. For transfers that occur on or after January
1, 2002, the
Participant must not be eligible at the time of the Qualified
Transfer to
take an immediate distribution of his/her entire benefit
in a form that
would be entirely eligible for a Direct Rollover.
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(B)
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The
Participant on whose behalf benefits are being transferred
must make a
voluntary, fully informed election to transfer his/her
benefits to this
Plan.
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(C)
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The
Participant must be provided an opportunity to retain the
Protected
Benefits under the transferor plan. This requirement is
satisfied if the
Participant is given the option to receive an annuity that
protects all
Protected Benefits under the transferor plan or the option
of leaving
his/her benefits in the transferor plan.
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(D)
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The
Participant's spouse must consent to the Qualified Transfer
if the
transferor plan is subject to the Joint and Survivor Annuity
requirements
under Article 9. The spouse's consent must satisfy the
requirements for a
Qualified Election under Section 9.4(d).
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(E)
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The
amount transferred (along with any contemporaneous Direct
Rollover) must
not be less than the value of the Participant's vested
benefit under the
transferor plan.
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(F)
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The
Participant must be fully vested in the transferred benefit.
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(2)
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Transfer
upon specified events. For transfers that occur on or after
September 6,
2000, a plan-to-plan transfer of a Participant's entire
benefit (other
than amounts the Plan accepts as a Direct Rollover) from
another Defined
Contribution Plan that is made in connection with an asset
or stock
acquisition, merger, or other similar transaction involving
a change in
the Employer or is made in connection with a Participant's
change in
employment status that causes the Participant to become
ineligible for
additional allocations under the transferor plan, is a
Qualified Transfer
if such transfer satisfies the following requirements:
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(A)
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The
Participant need not be eligible for an immediate distribution
of his/her
benefits under the transferor plan.
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(B)
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The
Participant on whose behalf benefits are being transferred
must make a
voluntary, fully informed election to transfer his/her
benefits to this
Plan.
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(C)
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The
Participant must be provided an opportunity to retain the
Protected
Benefits under the transferor plan. This requirement is
satisfied if the
Participant is given the option to receive an annuity that
protects all
Protected Benefits under the transferor plan or the option
of leaving
his/her benefits in the transferor plan.
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(D)
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The
benefits must be transferred between plans of the same
type. To satisfy
this requirement, the transfer must satisfy the following
requirements.
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(I)
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To
accept a Qualified Transfer under this subsection (2) from
a money
purchase plan, this Plan also must be a money purchase
plan.
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(II)
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To
accept a Qualified Transfer under this subsection (2) from
a 401(k) plan,
this Plan also must be a 401(k) plan.
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(III)
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To
accept a Qualified Transfer under this subsection (2) from
a profit
sharing plan, this Plan may be any type of Defined Contribution
Plan.
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(3)
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Treatment
of Qualified Transfer.
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(A)
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Rollover
Contribution Account. If the Plan Administrator directs
the Trustee to
accept on behalf of a Participant a transfer of assets
that qualifies as a
Qualified Transfer, the Plan Administrator will treat such
amounts as a
Rollover Contribution and will deposit such amounts in
the Participant's
Rollover Contribution Account. A Qualified Transfer may
include benefits
derived from Employee After-Tax Contributions.
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(B)
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Elimination
of Protected Benefits. If the Plan accepts a Qualified
Transfer, the Plan
does not have to protect any Protected Benefits derived
from the
transferor plan. However, if the Plan accepts a Qualified
Transfer that
meets the requirements for a transfer under subsection
(2) above, the Plan
must continue to protect the QJSA benefit if the transferor
plan is
subject to the QJSA requirements.
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(e)
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Trustee's
right to refuse transfer. If the assets to be transferred
to the Plan
under this Section 3.3 are not susceptible to proper valuation
and
identification or are of such a nature that their valuation
is
incompatible with other Plan assets, the Trustee may refuse
to accept the
transfer of all or any specific asset, or may condition
acceptance of the
assets on the sale or disposition of any specific asset.
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ARTICLE
4PARTICIPANT VESTING
This
Article contains the rules for determining the vested (nonforfeitable)
amount of
a Participant's Account Balance under the Plan. Part 6 of the Agreement
contains
specific elections for applying these vesting rules. Part 7 of the
Agreement
contains special service crediting elections to override the default
provisions
under this Article.
4.1
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In
General. A Participant's vested interest in his/her Employer
Contribution
Account and Employer Matching Contribution Account is determined
based on
the vesting schedule elected in Part 6 of the Agreement.
A Participant is
always fully vested in his/her Section 401(k) Deferral
Account, Employee
After-Tax Contribution Account, QNEC Account, QMAC Account,
Safe Harbor
Nonelective Contribution Account, Safe Harbor Matching
Contribution
Account, and Rollover Contribution Account.
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(a)
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Attainment
of Normal Retirement Age. Regardless of the Plan's vesting
schedule, a
Participant's right to his/her Account Balance is fully
vested upon the
date he/she attains Normal Retirement Age, provided the
Participant is an
Employee on or after such date.
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(b)
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Vesting
upon death, becoming Disabled, or attainment of Early Retirement
Age. If
elected by the Employer in Part 6, #21 of the Agreement
[Part 6, #39 of
the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], a Participant will
become fully
vested in his/her Account Balance if the Participant dies,
becomes
Disabled, or attains Early Retirement Age while employed
by the Employer.
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(c)
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Addition
of Employer Nonelective Contribution or Employer Matching
Contribution. If
the Plan is a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan as defined in Section
17.6, all
amounts allocated to the Participant's Safe Harbor Nonelective
Contribution Account and/or Safe Harbor Matching Contribution
Account are
always 100% vested. If a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan is amended
to add a
regular Employer Nonelective Contribution or Employer Matching
Contribution, a Participant's vested interest in such amounts
is
determined in accordance with the vesting schedule selected
under Part 6
of the Agreement. The addition of a vesting schedule under
Part 6 for such
contributions is not considered an amendment of the vesting
schedule under
Section 4.7 below merely because the Participant was fully
vested in
his/her Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution Account or
Safe Harbor
Matching Contribution Account.
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(d)
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Vesting
upon merger, consolidation or transfer. No accelerated
vesting will be
required solely because a Defined Contribution Plan is
merged with another
Defined Contribution Plan, or because assets are transferred
from a
Defined Contribution Plan to another Defined Contribution
Plan. Thus, for
example, Participants will not automatically become 100%
vested in their
Employer Contribution Account(s) solely on account of a
merger of a money
purchase plan with a profit sharing or 401(k) Plan or a
transfer of assets
between such Plans.
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4.2
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Vesting
Schedules. The Plan's vesting schedule will determine an
Employee's vested
percentage in his/her Employer Contribution Account and/or
Employer
Matching Contribution Account. The vested portion of a
Participant's
Employer Contribution Account and/or Employer Matching
Contribution
Account is determined by multiplying the Participant's
vesting percentage
determined under the applicable vesting schedule by the
total amount under
the applicable Account.
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The
Employer must elect a normal vesting schedule and a Top-Heavy Plan
vesting
schedule under Part 6 of the Agreement. The Top-Heavy Plan vesting
schedule will
apply for any Plan Year in which the plan is a Top-Heavy Plan. If
this Plan is a
401(k) plan, the Employer must elect a normal and Top-Heavy Plan
vesting
schedule for both Employer Nonelective Contributions and Employer
Matching
Contributions, but only to the extent such contributions are authorized
under
Part 4B and/or Part 4C of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement.
The
Employer may choose any of the following vesting schedules as the
normal vesting
schedule under Part 6 of the Agreement. For the Top-Heavy Plan vesting,
the
Employer may only choose the full and immediate, 6-year graded, 3-year
cliff, or
modified vesting schedule, as described below.
(a)
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Full
and immediate vesting schedule. Under the full and immediate
vesting
schedule, the Participant is always 100% vested in his/her
Account
Balance.
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(b)
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7-year
graded vesting schedule. Under the 7-year graded vesting
schedule, an
Employee vests in his/her Employer Contribution Account
and/or Employer
Matching Contribution Account in the following manner:
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After
3
Years of Service - 20% vesting
After
4
Years of Service - 40% vesting
After
5
Years of Service - 60% vesting
After
6
Years of Service - 80% vesting
After
7
Years of Service - 100% vesting
(c)
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6-year
graded vesting schedule. Under the 6-year graded vesting
schedule, an
Employee vests in his/her Employer Contribution Account
and/or Employer
Matching Contribution Account in the following manner:
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After
2
Years of Service - 20% vesting
After
3
Years of Service - 40% vesting
After
4
Years of Service - 60% vesting
After
5
Years of Service - 80% vesting
After
6
Years of Service - 100% vesting
(d)
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5-year
cliff vesting schedule. Under the 5-year cliff vesting
schedule, an
Employee is 100% vested after 5 Years of Service. Prior
to the fifth Year
of Service, the vesting percentage is zero.
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(e)
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3-year
cliff vesting schedule. Under the 3-year cliff vesting
schedule, an
Employee is 100% vested after 3 Years of Service. Prior
to the third Year
of Service, the vesting percentage is zero.
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(f)
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Modified
vesting schedule. For the normal vesting schedule, the
Employer may elect
a modified vesting schedule under which the vesting percentage
for each
Year of Service is not less than the percentage that would
be required for
each Year of Service under the 7-year graded vesting schedule,
unless 100%
vesting occurs after no more than 5 Years of Service. For
the Top-Heavy
Plan vesting schedule, the Employer may elect a modified
vesting schedule
under which the vesting percentage for each Year of Service
is not less
than the percentage that would be required for each Year
of Service under
the 6-year graded vesting schedule, unless 100% vesting
occurs after no
more than 3 Years of Service.
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4.3
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Shift
to/from Top-Heavy Vesting Schedule. For a Plan Year in
which the Plan is a
Top-Heavy Plan, the Plan automatically shifts to the Top-Heavy
Plan
vesting schedule. Once a Plan uses a Top-Heavy Plan vesting
schedule, that
schedule will continue to apply for all subsequent Plan
Years. The
Employer may override this default provision under Part
6, #22 of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 6, #40 of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. The rules under Section 4.7
will apply when a
Plan shifts to or from a Top-Heavy Plan vesting schedule.
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4.4
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Vesting
Computation Period. For purposes of computing a Participant's
vested
interest in his/her Employer Contribution Account and/or
Employer Matching
Contribution Account, an Employee's Vesting Computation
Period is the
12-month period measured on a Plan Year basis, unless the
Employer elects
under Part 7, #26 of the Agreement [Part 7, #44 of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to measure Vesting Computation
Periods using
Anniversary Years. The Employer may designate an alternative
12-month
period under Part 7, #26.b. of the Nonstandardized Agreement
[Part 7,
#44.b. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
Any
Vesting Computation Period designated under Part 7, #26.b.
or #44.b., as
applicable, must be a 12-consecutive month period and must
apply uniformly
to all Participants.
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(a)
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Anniversary
Years. If the Employer elects to measure Vesting Computation
Periods using
Anniversary Years, the Vesting Computation Period is the
12-month period
commencing on the Employee's Employment Commencement Date
(or Reemployment
Commencement Date) and each subsequent 12-month period
commencing on the
anniversary of such date.
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(b)
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Measurement
on same Vesting Computation Period. The Plan will measure
Years of Service
and Breaks in Service (if applicable) for purposes of vesting
on the same
Vesting Computation Period.
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4.5
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Crediting
Years of Service for Vesting Purposes. Unless the Employer
elects
otherwise under Part 7, #25 of the Agreement [Part 7, #43
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], an Employee will earn one Year
of Service for
purposes of applying the vesting rules if the Employee
completes 1,000
Hours of Service with the Employer during a Vesting Computation
Period. An
Employee will receive credit for a Year of Service as of
the end of the
Vesting Computation Period, if the Employee completes the
required Hours
of Service during such period, even if the Employee is
not employed for
the entire period.
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(a)
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Calculating
Hours of Service. In calculating an Employee's Hours of
Service for
purposes of applying the vesting rules under this Article,
the Employer
will use the Actual Hours Crediting Method, unless the
Employer elects
otherwise under Part 7, #25 of the Agreement [Part 7, #43
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. (See Article 6 of this Plan
for a description
of the alternative service crediting methods.)
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(b)
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Excluded
service. Unless the Employer elects to exclude certain
service with the
Employer under Part 6, #20 of the Agreement [Part 6, #38
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], all service with the Employer
is counted for
vesting purposes.
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(1)
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Service
before the Effective Date of the Plan. Under Part 6, #20.a.
of the
Agreement [Part 6, #38.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement], the
Employer may elect to exclude service during any period
for which the
Employer did not maintain the Plan or a Predecessor Plan.
For this
purpose, a Predecessor Plan is a qualified plan maintained
by the Employer
that is terminated within the 5-year period immediately
preceding or
following the establishment of this Plan. A Participant's
service under a
Predecessor Plan must be counted for purposes of determining
the
Participant's vested percentage under this Plan.
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(2)
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Service
before a certain age. Under Part 6, #20.b. of the Agreement
[Part 6,
#38.b.of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the Employer
may elect to
exclude service before an Employee attains a certain age.
For this
purpose, the Employer may not designate an age greater
than 18. An
Employee will be credited with a Year of Service for the
Vesting
Computation Period during which the Employee attains the
requisite age,
provided the Employee satisfies all other conditions required
for a Year
of Service.
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4.6
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Vesting
Break in Service Rules. Except as provided under Section
4.5(b), in
determining a Participant's vested percentage, a Participant
is credited
with all Years of Service earned with the Employer, subject
to the
following Break in Service rules. In applying these Break
in Service
rules, Years of Service and Breaks in Service (as defined
in Section
22.27) are measured on the same Vesting Computation Period
as defined in
Section 4.4 above.
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(a)
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One-year
holdout Break in Service. The one-year holdout Break in
Service rule will
not apply unless the Employer specifically elects in Part
7, #27.b. of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 7, #45.b. of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to have it apply. If the one-year
holdout Break
in Service rule is elected, an Employee who has a one-year
Break in
Service will not be credited for vesting purposes with
any Years of
Service earned before such one-year Break in Service until
the Employee
has completed a Year of Service after the one-year Break
in Service. The
one-year holdout rule does not apply under the Standardized
Agreement.
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(b)
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Five-Year
Forfeiture Break in Service. In the case of a Participant
who has five (5)
consecutive one-year Breaks in Service, all Years of Service
after such
Breaks in Service will be disregarded for the purpose of
vesting in the
portion of the Participant's Employer Contribution Account
and/or Employer
Matching Contribution Account that accrued before such
Breaks in Service,
but both pre-break and post-break service will count for
purposes of
vesting in the portion of such Accounts that accrues after
such breaks.
The Participant will forfeit the nonvested portion of his/her
Employer
Contribution Account and/or Employer Matching Contribution
Account accrued
prior to incurring five consecutive Breaks in Service,
in accordance with
Section 5.3(b).
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In
the
case of a Participant who does not have five consecutive one-year
Breaks in
Service, all Years of Service will count in vesting both the pre-break
and
post-break Account Balance derived from Employer Contributions.
(c)
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Rule
of Parity Break in Service. This Break in Service rule
applies only to
Participants who are totally nonvested (i.e., 0% vested)
in their Employer
Contribution Account and Employer Matching Contribution
Account. If an
Employee is vested in any portion of his/her Employer Contribution
Account
or Employer Matching Contribution Account, the Rule of
Parity does not
apply. Under this Break in Service rule, if a nonvested
Participant incurs
a period of consecutive one-year Breaks in Service which
equals or exceeds
the greater of five (5) or the Participant's aggregate
number of Years of
Service with the Employer, all service earned prior to
the consecutive
Break in Service period will be disregarded and the Participant
will be
treated as a new Employee for purposes of determining vesting
under the
Plan. The Employer may elect under Part 7, #27.a. of the
Agreement [Part
7, #45.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] not to
apply the Rule of
Parity Break in Service rule.
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(1)
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Previous
application of the Rule of Parity Break in Service rule.
In determining a
Participant's aggregate Years of Service for purposes of
applying the Rule
of Parity Break
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in
Service rule, any Years of Service otherwise disregarded under a
previous
application of this rule are not counted.
(2)
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Application
to the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement. The Rule of Parity
Break in
Service rule applies only to determine the individual's
vesting rights
with respect to his/her Employer Contribution Account and
Employer
Matching Contribution Account. In determining whether a
Participant is
totally nonvested for purposes of applying the Rule of
Parity Break in
Service rule, the Participant's Section 401(k) Deferral
Account, Employee
After-Tax Contribution Account, QMAC Account, QNEC Account,
Safe Harbor
Nonelective Contribution Account, Safe Harbor Matching
Contribution
Account, and Rollover Contribution Account are disregarded.
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4.7
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Amendment
of Vesting Schedule. If the Plan's vesting schedule is
amended (or is
deemed amended by an automatic change to or from a Top-Heavy
Plan vesting
schedule), each Participant with at least three (3) Years
of Service with
the Employer, as of the end of the election period described
in the
following paragraph, may elect to have his/her vested interest
computed
under the Plan without regard to such amendment or change.
For this
purpose, a Plan amendment, which in any way directly or
indirectly affects
the computation of the Participant's vested interest, is
considered an
amendment to the vesting schedule. However, the new vesting
schedule will
apply automatically to an Employee, and no election will
be provided, if
the new vesting schedule is at least as favorable to such
Employee, in all
circumstances, as the prior vesting schedule.
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The
period during which the election may be made shall commence with
the date the
amendment is adopted or is deemed to be made and shall end on the
latest of:
(a)
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60
days after the amendment is adopted;
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(b)
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60
days after the amendment becomes effective; or
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(c)
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60
days after the Participant is issued written notice of
the amendment by
the Employer or Plan Administrator.
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Furthermore,
if the vesting schedule of the Plan is amended, in the case of an
Employee who
is a Participant as of the later of the date such amendment is adopted
or
effective, the vested percentage of such Employee's Account Balance
derived from
Employer Contributions (determined as of such date) will not be less
than the
percentage computed under the Plan without regard to such amendment.
4.8
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Special
Vesting Rule - In-Service Distribution When Account Balance
Less than 100%
Vested. If amounts are distributed from a Participant's
Employer
Contribution Account or Employer Matching Contribution
Account at a time
when the Participant's vested percentage in such amounts
is less than 100%
and the Participant may increase the vested percentage
in the Account
Balance:
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(a)
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A
separate Account will be established for the Participant's
interest in the
Plan as of the time of the distribution, and
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(b)
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At
any relevant time the Participant's vested portion of the
separate Account
will be equal to an amount ("X") determined by the formula:
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X
= P (AB
+ D) - D
Where:
P
is the
vested percentage at the relevant time;
AB
is the
Account Balance at the relevant time; and
D
is the
amount of the distribution.
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ARTICLE
5
FORFEITURES
This
Article contains the rules relating to the timing and disposition
of forfeitures
of the nonvested portion of a Participant's Account Balance. Part
8 of the
Agreement provides elections on the allocation of forfeitures. The
rules for
determining the vested portion of a Participant's Account Balance
are contained
in Article 4 of this BPD.
5.1
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In
General. The Plan Administrator has the responsibility
to determine the
amount of a Participant's forfeiture based on the application
of the
vesting provisions of Article 4. Until an amount is forfeited
pursuant to
this Article, nonvested amounts will be held in the Account
of the
Participant and will share in gains and losses of the Trust
(as determined
under Article 13).
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5.2
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Timing
of Forfeiture. The forfeiture of all or a portion of a
Participant's
nonvested Account Balance occurs upon any of the events
listed below:
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(a)
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Cash-Out
Distribution. The date the Participant receives a total
Cash-Out
Distribution as defined in Section 5.3(a).
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(b)
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Five-Year
Forfeiture Break in Service. The last day of the Vesting
Computation
Period in which the Participant incurs a Five-Year Forfeiture
Break in
Service as defined in Section 5.3(b).
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(c)
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Lost
Participant or Beneficiary. The date the Plan Administrator
determines
that a Participant or Beneficiary cannot be located to
receive a
distribution from the Plan. See Section 5.3(c).
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(d)
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Forfeiture
of Employer Matching Contributions. With respect to Employer
Matching
Contributions under a 401(k) plan, the date a distribution
is made as
described in Section 5.3(d).
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5.3
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Forfeiture
Events.
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(a)
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Cash-Out
Distribution. If a Participant receives a total distribution
upon
termination of his/her participation in the Plan (a "Cash-Out
Distribution"), the nonvested portion (if any) of the Participant's
Account Balance is forfeited in accordance with the provisions
of this
Article. If a Participant has his/her nonvested Account
Balance forfeited
as a result of a Cash-Out Distribution, such Participant
must be given the
right to "buy-back" the forfeited benefit, as provided
in subsection (2)
below. (See Article 8 for the rules regarding the availability
and timing
of Plan distributions and the consent requirements applicable
to such
distributions.)
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(1)
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Amount
of forfeiture. The Cash-Out Distribution rules under this
subsection (a)
apply only if the Participant is less than 100% vested
in his/her Employer
Contribution Account and/or Employer Matching Contribution
Account. If the
Participant is 100% vested in his/her entire Account Balance,
no
forfeiture of benefits will occur solely as a result of
the Cash-Out
Distribution.
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(i)
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Total
Cash-Out Distribution. If a Participant receives a Cash-Out
Distribution
of his/her entire vested Account Balance, the Participant
will immediately
forfeit the entire nonvested portion of his/her Account
Balance, as of the
date of the distribution (as determined under subsection
(A) or (B) below,
whichever applies). The forfeited amounts will be used
in the manner
designated under Part 8 of the Agreement.
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(A)
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No
further allocations. If the terminated Participant is not
entitled to any
further allocations under the Plan for the Plan Year in
which the
Participant terminates employment, the Cash-Out Distribution
occurs on the
day the Participant receives a distribution of his/her
entire vested
Account Balance. The Participant's nonvested benefit is
immediately
forfeited on such date, in accordance with the provisions
under Section
5.5.
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(B)
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Additional
allocations. If the terminated Participant is entitled
to an additional
allocation under the Plan for the Plan Year in which the
Participant
terminates employment, a Cash-Out Distribution is deemed
to occur when the
Participant receives a distribution of his/her entire vested
Account
Balance, including any amounts that are still to be allocated
under the
Plan. Thus, a Participant who is entitled to an additional
allocation
under the Plan will not have a total Cash-Out Distribution
until such
additional amounts are distributed, regardless of
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whether
the Participant takes a complete distribution of his/her vested Account
Balance
before receiving the additional allocation.
(C)
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Modification
of default cash-out rules. The Employer may override the
default cash-out
rules under subsections (A) and (B) above by electing under
Part 8, #32 of
the Agreement [Part 8, #50 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to have
the Cash-Out Distribution and related forfeiture occur
immediately upon a
distribution of the terminated Participant's entire vested
Account
Balance, without regard to whether the Participant is entitled
to an
additional allocation under the Plan.
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(ii)
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Deemed
Cash-Out Distribution. If a Participant terminates employment
with the
Employer with a vested Account Balance of zero in his/her
Employer
Contribution Account and/or Employer Matching Contribution
Account, the
Participant is treated as receiving a "deemed" Cash-Out
Distribution from
the Plan. Upon a deemed Cash-Out, the nonvested portion
of the
Participant's Account Balance will be forfeited in accordance
with
subsection (A) or (B) below.
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(A)
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No
further allocations. If the Participant is not entitled
to any further
allocations under the Plan for the Plan Year in which the
Participant
terminates employment, the deemed Cash-Out Distribution
is deemed to occur
on the day the employment terminates. The Participant's
nonvested benefit
is immediately forfeited on such date, in accordance with
the provisions
under Section 5.5.
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(B)
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Additional
allocations. If the Participant is entitled to an additional
allocation
under the Plan for the Plan Year in which the Participant
terminates
employment, the deemed Cash-Out Distribution is deemed
to occur on the
first day of the Plan Year following the Plan Year in which
the
termination occurs.
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(C)
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Modification
of default cash-out rules. The Employer may override the
default cash-out
rules under subsections (A) and (B) above by electing under
Part 8, #32 of
the Agreement [Part 8, #50 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to have
the Cash-Out Distribution and related forfeiture occur
immediately upon a
distribution of the terminated Participant's entire vested
Account
Balance, without regard to whether the Participant is entitled
to an
additional allocation under the Plan.
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(iii)
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Other
distributions. If the Participant receives a distribution
of less than the
entire vested portion of his/her Employer Contribution
Account and
Employer Matching Contribution Account (including any additional
amounts
to be allocated under subsections (i)(B) above), the total
Cash-Out
Distribution rule under subsection (i) above does not apply
until the
Participant receives a distribution of the remainder of
the vested portion
of his/her Account Balance. Until the Participant receives
a distribution
of the remainder of the vested portion of his/her Account
Balance, the
special vesting rule described in Section 4.8 applies to
determine the
vested percentage of the Participant's Employer Contribution
Account and
Employer Matching Account (as applicable). The nonvested
portion of such
Accounts will not be forfeited until the earlier of: (A)
the occurrence of
a Five-Year Forfeiture Break in Service described in Section
5.3(b) or (B)
the date the Participant receives a total Cash-Out Distribution
of the
remaining vested portion of his/her Account Balance.
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(2)
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Buy-back/restoration.
If a Participant receives (or is deemed to receive) a Cash-Out
Distribution that results in a forfeiture under subsection
(1) above, and
the Participant subsequently resumes employment covered
under this Plan,
the Participant may "buy-back" the forfeited portion of
his/her Account(s)
by repaying to the Plan the full amount of the Cash-Out
Distribution from
such Account(s).
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(i)
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Buy-back
opportunity. A Participant may buy-back the portion of
his/her benefit
that is forfeited as a result of a Cash-Out Distribution
(or a deemed
Cash-Out Distribution) by repaying the amount of such Cash-Out
Distribution to the Plan before the earlier of:
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(A)
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five
(5) years after the first date on which the Participant
is subsequently
re-employed by the Employer, or
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(B)
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the
date a Five-Year Forfeiture Break in Service occurs (as
defined in Section
5.3(b)).
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If
a
Participant receives a deemed Cash-Out Distribution pursuant to subsection
(1)(ii) above, and the Participant resumes employment covered under
this Plan
before the date the Participant incurs a Five-Year Forfeiture Break
in Service,
the Participant is deemed to have repaid the Cash-Out Distribution
immediately
upon his/her reemployment.
To
receive a restoration of the forfeited portion of his/her Employer
Contribution
Account and/or Employer Matching Contribution Account, a Participant
must repay
the entire Cash-Out Distribution that was made from the Participant's
Employer
Contribution Account and Employer Matching Contribution Account,
unadjusted for
any interest that might have accrued on such amounts after the distribution
date. For this purpose, the Cash-Out Distribution is the total value
of the
Participant's vested Employer Contribution Account and Employer Matching
Contribution Account that is distributed at any time following the
Participant's
termination of employment. If a Participant also received a distribution
from
other Accounts, the Participant need not repay such amounts to have
the
forfeited portion of his/her Employer Contribution Account and/or
Employer
Matching Contribution Account restored.
(ii)
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Restoration
of forfeited benefit. Upon a Participant's proper repayment
of a Cash-Out
Distribution in accordance with subsection (i) above, the
forfeited
portion of the Participant's Employer Contribution Account
and Employer
Matching Contribution Account (as applicable) will be restored,
unadjusted
for any gains or losses on such amount. For this purpose,
a Participant
who received a deemed Cash-Out Distribution is automatically
treated as
having made a proper repayment and his/her forfeited benefit
will be
restored in accordance with this subsection (ii) if the
Participant
returns to employment with the Employer prior to incurring
a Five-Year
Forfeiture Break in Service. A Participant is not entitled
to restoration
under this subsection (ii) if the Participant returns to
employment after
incurring a Five-Year Forfeiture Break in Service.
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The
forfeited portion of the Participant's Account(s) will be restored
no later than
the end of the Plan Year following the Plan Year in which the Participant
repays
the Cash-Out Distribution in accordance with subsection (i) above.
Although the
Plan Administrator may permit a Participant to make a partial repayment
of a
Cash-Out Distribution, no portion of the Participant's forfeited
benefit will be
restored until the Participant repays the entire Cash-Out Distribution
in
accordance with subsection (i) above. If a Participant received a
deemed
Cash-Out Distribution, the Participant's forfeited benefit will be
restored no
later than the end of the Plan Year following the Plan Year in which
the
Participant returns to employment with the Employer.
If
a
Participant's forfeited benefit is required to be restored under
this subsection
(ii), the restoration of such benefit will occur from the following
sources. If
the following sources are not sufficient to completely restore the
Participant's
benefit, the Employer must make an additional contribution to the
Plan.
(A)
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Any
forfeitures that have not been allocated to Participants'
Accounts for the
Plan Year in which the Employer is restoring the Participant's
benefit in
accordance with this subsection (ii).
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(B)
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If
Participants are not permitted to self-direct investments
under the Plan,
any Trust earnings which have not been allocated to Participants'
Accounts
for the Plan Year in which the Employer is restoring the
Participant's
benefit in accordance with this subsection (ii).
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(C)
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If
the Employer makes a discretionary contribution to the
Plan, it may
designate all or any part of such discretionary contribution
as a
restoration contribution under this subsection (ii).
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(b)
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Five-Year
Forfeiture Break in Service. In the case of a Participant
who has five (5)
consecutive one-year Breaks in Service, the nonvested portion
of the
Participant's Account Balance will be forfeited as of the
end of the
Vesting Computation Period in which the Participant incurs
his/her fifth
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consecutive
Break in Service. See Section 4.6(b) for more information on the
Five-Year
Forfeiture Break in Service.
(c)
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Lost
Participant or Beneficiary.
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(1)
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Inability
to locate Participant or Beneficiary. If the Plan Administrator,
after a
reasonable effort and time, is unable to locate a Participant
or a
Beneficiary in order to make a distribution otherwise required
by the
Plan, the distributable amount may be forfeited, as permitted
under
applicable laws and regulations. In determining what is
a reasonable
effort and time, the Plan Administrator may follow any
applicable guidance
provided under statute, regulation, or other IRS or DOL
guidance of
general applicability. The Plan Administrator may charge
to the Account of
a lost Participant the reasonable expenses incurred in
attempting to
locate such Participant.
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(2)
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Restoration
of forfeited amounts. If, after the distributable amount
is forfeited, the
Participant or Beneficiary is located, the Plan will restore
the forfeited
amount (unadjusted for gains or losses) to such Participant
or Beneficiary
within a reasonable time. The method of restoring a forfeited
benefit
under subsection (a)(2)(ii) above applies to any restoration
required
under this subsection (2).
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(3)
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Other
available methods. The Plan Administrator may take any
other reasonable
action with respect to the Account of a lost Participant
or Beneficiary,
including a direct rollover of such amounts to an IRA established
in the
name of the Participant or Beneficiary, or any other method
permitted by
statute, regulation, or other IRS or DOL guidance of general
applicability.
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(d)
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Forfeiture
of Employer Matching Contributions. This subsection (d)
only applies if
the Plan is a 401(k) Plan.
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(1)
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Correction
of ACP Test. If a Participant receives a corrective distribution
of Excess
Aggregate Contributions to correct the ACP Test, the portion
of such
corrective distribution which relates to nonvested Employer
Matching
Contributions, including any allocable income or loss,
will be forfeited
(as permitted under Section 17.3(d)(1)) in the Plan Year
in which the
corrective distribution is made from the Plan.
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(2)
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Excess
Deferrals, Excess Contributions, and Excess Aggregate Contributions.
If a
Participant receives a distribution of Excess Deferrals,
Excess
Contributions, or Excess Aggregate Contributions, the Employer
will
forfeit the portion of his/her Employer Matching Contribution
Account
(whether vested or not) which is attributable to such distributed
amounts
(except to the extent such amount has been distributed
as Excess
Contributions or Excess Aggregate Contributions, pursuant
to Article 17).
A forfeiture of Employer Matching Contributions under this
subsection (2)
occurs in the Plan Year in which the Participant receives
the distribution
of Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions, and/or Excess
Aggregate
Contributions.
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5.4
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Timing
of Forfeiture Allocation. Pursuant to the elections under
Part 8 of the
Agreement, forfeitures are allocated in either the same
Plan Year in which
the forfeitures occur or in the Plan Year following the
Plan Year in which
the forfeitures occur.
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5.5
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Method
of Allocating Forfeitures. Forfeitures will be allocated
in accordance
with the method chosen by the Employer under Part 8 of
the Agreement. In
no event, however, will a Participant receive an allocation
of forfeitures
arising from his/her own Account. If no method of allocation
is selected
under Part 8 of the Agreement, any forfeitures will be
used to reduce the
Employer's contributions for the Plan Year following the
Plan Year in
which the forfeiture occurs as described under (b) below.
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(a)
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Reallocation
of forfeitures. If the Employer elects to reallocate forfeitures
as
additional contributions, the forfeitures will be added
to other
contributions made by the Employer (as designated under
Part 8 of the
Agreement) for the Plan Year designated under Part 8, #29
of the Agreement
[Part 8, #47 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], and
such amounts
will be allocated to Eligible Participants under the allocation
method
chosen under Part 4 of the Agreement with respect to such
contributions.
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(b)
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Reduction
of contributions. If the Employer elects under Part 8 of
the Agreement to
use forfeitures to reduce its contributions under the Plan,
the Employer
may adjust its contribution deposits in any manner, provided
the total
Employer Contributions made for the Plan Year properly
take into account
the forfeitures that are to be used to reduce such contributions
for that
Plan Year. If the contributions are allocated over multiple
allocation
periods, the Employer may reduce its
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contribution
for any allocation periods within the Plan Year in which the forfeitures
are to
be allocated so that the total amount allocated for the Plan Year
is proper.
(c)
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Payment
of Plan expenses. If the Employer elects under Part 8,
#31 of the
Agreement [Part 8, #49 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement],
forfeitures will first be used to pay Plan expenses for
the Plan Year in
which the forfeitures would otherwise be allocated. This
subsection (c)
applies only if the Plan otherwise would pay such expenses
as authorized
under Section 11.4. If any forfeitures remain after the
payment of Plan
expenses under this subsection, the remaining forfeitures
will be
allocated as selected under Part 8 of the Agreement.
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ARTICLE
6SPECIAL SERVICE CREDITING PROVISIONS
This
Article contains special service crediting rules that apply for purposes
of
determining an Employee's eligibility to participate and the vested
percentage
in his/her Account Balance under the Plan. This Article 6 and Part
7 of the
Agreement permit the Employer to override the general service crediting
rules
under Articles 1 and 4 with respect to eligibility and vesting and
to apply
special service crediting rules, such as the Equivalency Method and
the Elapsed
Time Method for crediting service. Section 6.7 of this Article and
Part 13, #53
of the Agreement [Part 13, #71 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
contain
special rules for crediting service with Predecessor Employers.
6.1
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Year
of Service - Eligibility. Section 1.4(b) defines a Year
of Service for
eligibility purposes. Generally, an Employee earns a Year
of Service for
eligibility purposes upon the completion of 1,000 Hours
of Service during
an Eligibility Computation Period. For this purpose, Hours
of Service are
calculated using the Actual Hours Crediting Method. Part
7, #23 of the
Agreement [Part 7, #41 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
permits the
Employer to modify these default provisions for determining
a Year of
Service for eligibility purposes.
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(a)
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Selection
of Hours of Service. The Employer may elect to modify the
requirement that
an Employee complete 1,000 Hours of Service during an Eligibility
Computation Period to earn a Year of Service. Under Part
7, #23.a. of the
Agreement [Part 7, #41.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement], the
Employer may designate a specific number of Hours of Service
(which cannot
exceed 1,000) that an Employee must complete during the
Eligibility
Computation Period to earn a Year of Service. Any Hours
of Service
designated in accordance with this subsection (a) will
be determined using
the Actual Hours Crediting Method, unless the Employer
elects to use the
Equivalency Method under Part 7, #23.b. of the Agreement
[Part 7, #41.b.
of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
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(b)
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Use
of Equivalency Method. The Employer may elect under Part
7, #23.b. of the
Agreement [Part 7, #41.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to use
the Equivalency Method (as defined in Section 6.5(a)) instead
of the
Actual Hours Crediting Method in determining whether an
Employee has
completed the required Hours of Service to earn a Year
of Service.
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(c)
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Use
of Elapsed Time Method. The Employer may elect under Part
7, #23.c. of the
Agreement [Part 7, #41.c. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to use
the Elapsed Time Method (as defined in Section 6.5(b))
instead of counting
Hours of Service in applying the eligibility conditions
under Article 1.
The Elapsed Time Method may not be selected if the Employer
elects to
apply a designated Hours of Service requirement under Part
7, #23.a. of
the Agreement [Part 7, #41.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement].
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6.2
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Eligibility
Computation Period. Section 1.4(c) defines the Eligibility
Computation
Period used to determine whether an Employee has earned
a Year of Service
for eligibility purposes. Generally, if one Year of Service
is required
for eligibility, the Eligibility Computation Period is
determined using
the Shift-to-Plan-Year Method (as defined in Section 1.4(c)(1)).
Part 7,
#24 of the Agreement [Part 7, #42 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement]
permits the Employer to use the Anniversary Year Method
(as defined in
Section 1.4(c)(2)) for determining Eligibility Computation
Periods under
the Plan. If the Employer selects two Years of Service
eligibility
condition (under Part 1, #5.e. of the Agreement), the Anniversary
Year
Method applies, unless the Employer elects to use the Shift-to-Plan-Year
Method. In the case of a 401(k) plan in which a two Years
of Service
eligibility condition is used for either Employer Matching
Contributions
or Employer Nonelective Contributions, the method used
to determine
Eligibility Computation Periods for the two Years of Service
condition
also will apply to any one Year of Service eligibility
condition used with
respect to any other contributions.
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6.3
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Year
of Service - Vesting. Section 4.5 defines a Year of Service
for vesting
purposes. Generally, an Employee earns a Year of Service
for vesting
purposes upon the completion of 1,000 Hours of Service
during a Vesting
Computation Period. For this purpose, Hours of Service
are calculated
using the Actual Hours Crediting Method. Part 7, #25 of
the Agreement
[Part 7, #43 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] permits
the Employer
to modify these default provisions for determining a Year
of Service for
vesting purposes.
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(a)
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Selection
of Hours of Service. The Employer may elect to modify the
requirement that
an Employee complete 1,000 Hours of Service during a Vesting
Computation
Period to earn a Year of Service. Under Part 7, #25.a.
of the Agreement
[Part 7, #43.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement],
the Employer may
designate a specific number of Hours of Service (which
cannot exceed
1,000) that an Employee must complete during the Vesting
Computation
Period to earn a Year of Service. Any Hours of Service
designated in
accordance with this subsection (a) will be determined
using the Actual
Hours Crediting Method, unless the Employer elects to use
the
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Equivalency
Method under Part 7, #25.b. of the Agreement [Part 7, #43.b. of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
(b)
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Equivalency
Method. The Employer may elect under Part 7, #25.b. of
the Agreement [Part
7, #43.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to use
the Equivalency
Method (as defined in Section 6.5(a)) instead of the Actual
Hours
Crediting Method in determining whether an Employee has
completed the
required Hours of Service to earn a Year of Service.
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(c)
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Elapsed
Time Method. The Employer may elect under Part 7, #25.c.
of the Agreement
[Part 7, #43.c. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
to use the Elapsed
Time Method (as defined in Section 6.5(b)) instead of counting
Hours of
Service in applying the vesting provisions under Article
4. The Elapsed
Time Method may not be selected if the Employer elects
to apply a
designated Hours of Service requirement under Part 7, #25.a.
of the
Agreement [Part 7, #43.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement].
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6.4
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Vesting
Computation Period. Section 4.4 defines the Vesting Computation
Period
used to determine whether an Employee has earned a Year
of Service for
vesting purposes. Generally, the Vesting Computation Period
is the Plan
Year. Part 7, #26 of the Agreement [Part 7, #44 of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] permits the Employer to elect
to use Anniversary
Years (see Section 4.4(a)) or, under the Nonstandardized
Agreement, any
other 12-consecutive month period as the Vesting Computation
Period.
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6.5
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Definitions.
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(a)
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Equivalency
Method. Under the Equivalency Method, an Employee is credited
with 190
Hours of Service for each calendar month during the Eligibility
Computation Period or Vesting Computation Period, as applicable,
for which
the Employee completes at least one Hour of Service. Instead
of applying
the Equivalency Method on the basis of months worked, the
Employer may
elect to apply different equivalencies under Part 7, #28
of the Agreement
[Part 7, #46 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. The
Employer may
credit Employees with 10 Hours of Service for each day
worked, 45 Hours of
Service for each week worked, or 95 Hours of Service for
each semi-monthly
payroll period worked during the Eligibility Computation
Period or Vesting
Computation Period, as applicable. For this purpose, an
Employee will
receive credit for the appropriate Hours of Service if
the Employer
completes at least one Hour of Service during the applicable
period.
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(b)
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Elapsed
Time Method. Under the Elapsed Time Method, an Employee
receives credit
for the aggregate of all periods of service commencing
with the Employee's
Employment Commencement Date (or Reemployment Commencement
Date) and
ending on the date the Employee begins a Period of Severance
(as defined
in subsection (2) below) which lasts at least 12 consecutive
months. In
calculating an Employee's aggregate period of service,
an Employee
receives credit for any Period of Severance that lasts
less than 12
consecutive months. If an Employee's aggregate period of
service includes
fractional years, such fractional years are expressed as
days.
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(1)
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Year
of Service. For purposes of determining whether an Employee
has earned a
Year of Service under the Elapsed Time Method, an Employee
is credited
with a Year of Service for each 12-month period of service
the Employee
completes under the above paragraph, whether or not such
period of service
is consecutive.
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(2)
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Period
of Severance. For purposes of applying the Elapsed Time
Method, a Period
of Severance is any continuous period of time during which
the Employee is
not employed by the Employer. A Period of Severance begins
on the date the
Employee retires, quits or is discharged, or if earlier,
the 12-month
anniversary of the date on which the Employee is first
absent from service
for a reason other than retirement, quit or discharge.
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In
the
case of an Employee who is absent from work for maternity or paternity
reasons,
the 12-consecutive month period beginning on the first anniversary
of the first
date of such absence shall not constitute a Period of Severance.
For purposes of
this paragraph, an absence from work for maternity or paternity reasons
means an
absence (i) by reason of the pregnancy of the Employee, (ii) by reason
of the
birth of a child of the Employee, (iii) by reason of the placement
of a child
with the Employee in connection with the adoption of such child by
the Employee,
or (iv) for purposes of caring for a child of the Employee for a
period
beginning immediately following the birth or placement of such child.
(3)
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Break
in Service rules. The Break in Service rules described
in Sections 1.6 and
4.6 also apply under the Elapsed Time Method. For purposes
of applying the
Break in Service rules under the Elapsed Time Method, a
Break in Service
is any Period of Severance of at least 12 consecutive months.
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6.6
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Switching
Crediting Methods. The following rules apply if the service
crediting
method is changed in a manner described below.
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(a)
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Shift
from crediting Hours of Service to Elapsed Time Method.
If the service
crediting method under the Plan is changed from a method
that uses Hours
of Service to a method using Elapsed Time, each Employee's
period of
service under the Elapsed Time Method is the sum of the
amounts under
subsections (1) and (2) below.
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(1)
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The
number of Years of Service credited under the Hours of
Service method for
the period ending immediately before the computation period
during which
the change to the Elapsed Time Method occurs.
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(2)
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For
the computation period in which the change occurs, the
Plan Administrator
will determine the greater
of: (i) the period of service that would be credited under
the Elapsed
Time Method for the Employee's service from the first day
of that
computation period through the date of the change, or (ii)
the service
that would be taken into account under the Hours of Service
method for
that computation period through the date of the change.
If
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(i)
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is
greater, then Years of Service are credited under the Elapsed
Time Method
beginning with the first day of the computation period
during which the
change to the Elapsed Time Method occurs. If (ii) is greater,
then Years
of Service are credited under the Hours of Service method
for the
computation period during which the change to the Elapsed
Time Method
occurs and under the Elapsed Time Method beginning with
the first day of
the computation period that follows
the computation period in which the change occurs. If the
change occurs as
of the first day of a computation period, treat subsection
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(1)
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as
applicable for purposes of applying the rule in this paragraph.
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(2)
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below.
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(b)
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Shift
from Elapsed Time Method to an Hours of Service method.
If the service
crediting method changes from the Elapsed Time Method to
an Hours of
Service method, each Employee's Years of Service under
the Hours of
Service method is the sum
of
the amounts under subsections (1) and
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(1)
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The
number of Years of Service credited under the Elapsed Time
Method as of
the date of the change.
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(2)
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For
the computation period in which the change to the Hours
of Service method
occurs, the portion of that computation period in which
the Elapsed Time
Method was in effect is converted into an equivalent number
of Hours of
Service, using the Equivalency Method described in Section
6.5(a). For the
remainder of the computation period, actual Hours of Service
are counted,
unless the Equivalency Method has been elected in Part
7 of the Agreement.
The Hours of Service deemed credited for the portion of
the computation
period in which the Elapsed Time Method was in effect are
added to the
actual Hours of Service credited for the remaining portion
of the
computation period to determine if the Employee has a Year
of Service for
that computation period. If the change to the Hours of
Service method
occurs as of the first
day
of
a computation period, then the determination as to whether
an Employee has
completed a Year of Service for the first computation period
that the
change is in effect is based solely on the Hours of Service
method.
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6.7
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Service
with Predecessor Employers. If the Employer maintains the
plan of a
Predecessor Employer, any service with such Predecessor
Employer is
treated as service with the Employer for purposes of applying
the
provisions of this Plan. If the Employer maintains the
Plan of a
Predecessor Employer, the Employer may complete Part 13,
#53 of the
Agreement [Part 13, #71 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
to
identify the Predecessor Employer and to specify that service
with such
Predecessor Employer will be credited for all purposes
under the Plan. The
failure to complete Part 13, #53 of the Agreement [Part
13, #71 of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] with respect to service
of a Predecessor
Employer where the Employer is maintaining a Plan of such
Predecessor
Employer will not override the requirement that such predecessor
service
be counted for all purposes under the Plan.
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If
the
Employer does not maintain the plan of a Predecessor Employer, service
with such
Predecessor Employer does not count under this Plan, unless the Employer
specifically designates under Part 13, #53 of the Agreement [Part
13, #71 of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to include service with such Predecessor
Employer. If the Employer elects to credit service with a Predecessor
Employer
under this paragraph, the Employer must designate the purpose for
which it is
crediting Predecessor Employer service. If the Employer will treat
service with
multiple Predecessor Employers differently, the Employer should complete
an
additional election for each Predecessor Employer for which service
is being
credited differently. If the Employer is not crediting service with
any
Predecessor Employers, Part 13, #53 of the Agreement [Part 13, #71
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] need not be completed.
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ARTICLE
7LIMITATION ON PARTICIPANT ALLOCATIONS
This
Article provides limitations on the amount a Participant may receive
as an
allocation under the Plan for a Limitation Year. The limitation on
allocations
(referred to herein as the Annual Additions Limitation) applies in
the aggregate
to all plans maintained by the Employer. Part 13, #54.c. of the Agreement
[Part
13, #72.c. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] permits the Employer
to
specify how the Plan will comply with the Annual Additions Limitation
where the
Employer maintains a plan (or plans) in addition to this Plan.
7.1
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Annual
Additions Limitation - No Other Plan Participation.
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(a)
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Annual
Additions Limitation. If the Participant does not participate
in, and has
never participated in another qualified retirement plan,
a welfare benefit
fund (as defined under Code ?419(e)), an individual medical
account (as
defined under Code ?415(l)(2)), or a SEP (as defined under
Code ?408(k))
maintained by the Employer, then the amount of Annual Additions
which may
be credited to the Participant's Account for any Limitation
Year will not
exceed the lesser of the Maximum Permissible Amount or
any other
limitation contained in this Plan.
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Generally,
if an Employer Contribution that would otherwise be contributed or
allocated to
a Participant's Account will cause that Participant's Annual Additions
for the
Limitation Year to exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount, the amount
to be
contributed or allocated to such Participant will be reduced so that
the Annual
Additions allocated to such Participant's Account for the Limitation
Year will
equal the Maximum Permissible Amount. However, if a contribution
or allocation
to a Participant's Account will exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount
due to a
correctable event described in subsection (c) below, the Excess Amount
may be
contributed or allocated to such Participant and corrected in accordance
with
the correction procedures outlined in subsection (c).
(b)
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Using
estimated Total Compensation. Prior to determining the
Participant's
actual Total Compensation for the Limitation Year, the
Employer may
determine the Maximum Permissible Amount for a Participant
on the basis of
a reasonable estimation of the Participant's Total Compensation
for the
Limitation Year, uniformly determined for all Participants
similarly
situated.
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As
soon
as administratively feasible after the end of the Limitation Year,
the Employer
will determine the Maximum Permissible Amount for the Limitation
Year on the
basis of the Participant's actual Total Compensation for the Limitation
Year.
(c)
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Disposition
of Excess Amount. If, as a result of the use of estimated
Total
Compensation, the allocation of forfeitures, a reasonable
error in
determining the amount of Section 401(k) Deferrals that
may be made under
this Article 7, or other reasonable error in applying the
Annual Additions
Limitation, an Excess Amount arises, the excess will be
disposed of as
follows:
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(1)
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Any
Employee After-Tax Contributions (plus attributable earnings),
to the
extent such contributions would reduce the Excess Amount,
will be returned
to the Participant. The Employer may elect not to apply
this subsection
(1) if the ACP Test (as defined in Section 17.3) has already
been
performed and the distribution of Employee After-Tax Contributions
to
correct the Excess Amount will cause the ACP Test to fail
or will change
the amount of corrective distributions required under Section
17.3(d)(1)
of this BPD.
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If
Employer Matching Contributions were allocated with respect to Employee
After-Tax Contributions for the Limitation Year, the Employee After-Tax
Contributions and Employer Matching Contributions will be corrected
together.
Employee After-Tax Contributions will be distributed under this subsection
(1)
only to the extent the Employee After-Tax Contributions, plus the
Employer
Matching Contributions allocated with respect to such Employee After-Tax
Contributions, reduce the Excess Amount. Thus, after correction under
this
subsection (1), each Participant should have the same level of Employer
Matching
Contribution with respect to the remaining Employee After-Tax Contributions
as
provided under Part 4B of the Agreement. Any Employer Matching Contributions
identified under this subsection (1) will be treated as an Excess
Amount
correctable under subsections (3) and (4) below. If Employer Matching
Contributions are allocated to both Employee After-Tax Contributions
and to
Section 401(k) Deferrals, this subsection (1) is applied by treating
Employer
Matching Contributions as allocated first to Section 401(k) Deferrals.
(2)
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If,
after the application of subsection (1), an Excess Amount
still exists,
any Section 401(k) Deferrals (plus attributable earnings),
to the extent
such deferrals would reduce the
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Excess
Amount, will be distributed to the Participant. The Employer may
elect not to
apply this subsection (2) if the ADP Test (as defined in Section
17.2) has
already been performed and the distribution of Section 401(k) Deferrals
to
correct the Excess Amount will cause the ADP Test to fail or will
change the
amount of corrective distributions required under Section 17.2(d)(1)
of this
BPD.
If
Employer Matching Contributions were allocated with respect to Section
401(k)
Deferrals for the Limitation Year, the Section 401(k) Deferrals and
Employer
Matching Contributions will be corrected together. Section 401(k)
Deferrals will
be distributed under this subsection (2) only to the extent the Section
401(k)
Deferrals, plus Employer Matching Contributions allocated with respect
to such
Section 401(k) Deferrals, reduce the Excess Amount. Thus, after correction
under
this subsection (2), each Participant should have the same level
of Employer
Matching Contribution with respect to the remaining Section 401(k)
Deferrals as
provided under Part 4B of the Agreement. Any Employer Matching Contributions
identified under this subsection (2) will be treated as an Excess
Amount
correctable under subsection (3) or (4) below.
(3)
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If,
after the application of subsection (2), an Excess Amount
still exists,
the Excess Amount is allocated to a suspense account and
is used in the
next Limitation Year (and succeeding Limitation Years,
if necessary) to
reduce Employer Contributions for all Participants under
the Plan. The
Excess Amounts are treated as Annual Additions for the
Limitation Year in
which such amounts are allocated from the suspense account.
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(4)
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If
a suspense account is in existence at any time during a
Limitation Year
pursuant to this Article 7, such suspense account will
not participate in
the allocation of investment gains and losses, unless otherwise
provided
in uniform valuation procedures established by the Plan
Administrator. If
a suspense account is in existence at any time during a
particular
Limitation Year, all amounts in the suspense account must
be allocated to
Participants' Accounts before the Employer makes any Employer
Contributions, or any Employee After-Tax Contributions
are made, for that
Limitation Year.
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7.2
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Annual
Additions Limitation - Participation in Another Plan.
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(a)
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In
general. This Section 7.2 applies if, in addition to this
Plan, the
Participant receives an Annual Addition during any Limitation
Year from
another Defined Contribution Plan, a welfare benefit fund
(as defined
under Code ?419(e)), an individual medical account (as
defined under Code
?415(l)(2)), or a SEP (as defined under Code ?408(k)) maintained
by the
Employer. If the Employer maintains, or at any time maintained,
a Defined
Benefit Plan (other than a Paired Plan) covering any Participant
in this
Plan, see Section 7.5.
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(b)
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This
Plan's Annual Addition Limitation. The Annual Additions
that may be
credited to a Participant's Account under this Plan for
any Limitation
Year will not exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount reduced
by the Annual
Additions credited to a Participant's Account under any
other Defined
Contribution Plan, welfare benefit fund, individual medical
account, or
SEP maintained by the Employer for the same Limitation
Year.
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(c)
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Annual
Additions reduction. If the Annual Additions with respect
to the
Participant under any other Defined Contribution Plan,
welfare benefit
fund, individual medical account, or SEP maintained by
the Employer are
less than the Maximum Permissible Amount and the Annual
Additions that
would otherwise be contributed or allocated to the Participant's
Account
under this Plan would exceed the Annual Additions Limitation
for the
Limitation Year, the amount contributed or allocated will
be reduced so
that the Annual Additions under all such Plans and funds
for the
Limitation Year will equal the Maximum Permissible Amount.
However, if a
contribution or allocation to a Participant's Account will
exceed the
Maximum Permissible Amount due to a correctable event described
in Section
7.1(c), the Excess Amount may be contributed or allocated
to such
Participant and corrected in accordance with the correction
procedures
outlined in Section 7.1(c).
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(d)
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No
Annual Additions permitted. If the Annual Additions with
respect to the
Participant under such other Defined Contribution Plan(s),
welfare benefit
fund(s), individual medical account(s), or SEP(s) in the
aggregate are
equal to or greater than the Maximum Permissible Amount,
no amount will be
contributed or allocated to the Participant's Account under
this Plan for
the Limitation Year. However, if a contribution or allocation
to a
Participant's Account will exceed the Maximum Permissible
Amount due to a
correctable event described in Section 7.1(c), the Excess
Amount may be
contributed or allocated to such Participant and corrected
in accordance
with the correction procedures outlined in Section 7.1(c).
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(e)
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Using
estimated Total Compensation. Prior to determining the
Participant's
actual Total Compensation for the Limitation Year, the
Employer may
determine the Maximum Permissible Amount for a Participant
in the manner
described in Section 7.1(b). As soon as administratively
feasible after
the end of the Limitation Year, the Maximum Permissible
Amount for the
Limitation Year will be determined on the basis of the
Participant's
actual Total Compensation for the Limitation Year.
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(f)
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Excess
Amounts. If, as a result of the use of estimated Total
Compensation, an
allocation of forfeitures, a reasonable error in determining
the amount of
Section 401(k) Deferrals that may be made under this Article
7, or other
reasonable error in applying the Annual Additions Limitation,
a
Participant's Annual Additions under this Plan and such
other plans or
funds would result in an Excess Amount for a Limitation
Year, the Excess
Amount will be deemed to consist of the Annual Additions
last allocated,
except that Annual Additions attributable to a SEP will
be deemed to have
been allocated first, followed by Annual Additions to a
welfare benefit
fund or individual medical account, regardless of the actual
allocation
date.
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(1)
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Same
allocation date. If an Excess Amount is allocated to a
Participant on an
allocation date of this Plan that coincides with an allocation
date of
another plan, such Excess Amount will be attributed to
the following types
of plan(s) in the order listed, until the entire Excess
Amount is
allocated.
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(i)
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First,
to any 401(k) plan(s) maintained by the Employer.
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(ii)
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Then,
to any profit sharing plan(s) maintained by the Employer.
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(iii)
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Then,
to any money purchase plan(s) maintained by the Employer.
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(iv)
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Finally,
to any target benefit plan(s) maintained by the Employer.
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If
an
amount is allocated to the same type of Plan on the same allocation
date, the
Excess Amount will be allocated to each plan in accordance with the
pro rata
allocation method outlined in the following paragraph.
(2)
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Alternative
methods. The Employer may elect under Part 13, #54.c. of
the Agreement
[Part 13, #72.c. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
to modify the
default rules under this subsection (f). For example, the
Employer may
elect to attribute any Excess Amount which is allocated
on the same date
to this Plan and to another plan maintained by the Employer
by designating
the specific plan to which the Excess Amount is allocated
or by using a
pro rata allocation method. Under the pro rata allocation
method, the
Excess Amount attributed to this Plan is the product of:
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(i)
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the
total Excess Amount allocated as of such date, times
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(ii)
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the
ratio of (A) the Annual Additions allocated to the Participant
for the
Limitation Year as of such date under this Plan to (B)
the total Annual
Additions allocated to the Participant for the Limitation
Year as of such
date under this and all other Defined Contribution Plans.
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(g)
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Disposition
of Excess Amounts. Any Excess Amount attributed to this
Plan will be
disposed in the manner described in Section 7.1(c).
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7.3
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Modification
of correction procedures. The Employer may elect under
Part 13, #51.c. of
the Agreement [Part 13, #69.c. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to
modify any of the corrective provisions under Section 7.1
of this BPD. The
provisions in Section 7.2 may be modified under Part 13,
#54.c. of the
Agreement [Part 13, #72.c. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement].
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7.4
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Definitions
Relating to the Annual Additions Limitation.
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(a)
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Annual
Additions: The sum of the following amounts credited to
a Participant's
Account for the Limitation Year:
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(1)
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Employer
Contributions, including Section 401(k) Deferrals;
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(2)
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Employee
After-Tax Contributions;
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(3)
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forfeitures;
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(4)
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amounts
allocated to an individual medical account (as defined
in Code
?415(l)(2)), which is part of a pension or annuity plan
maintained by the
Employer, are treated as Annual Additions to a Defined
Contribution Plan.
Also, amounts derived from contributions paid or accrued
after December
31, 1985, in taxable years ending after such date, which
are attributable
to post-retirement medical benefits allocated to the separate
account of a
key employee (as defined in Code ?419A(d)(3)) under a welfare
benefit fund
(as defined in Code ?419(e)) maintained by the Employer
are treated as
Annual Additions to a Defined Contribution Plan; and
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(5)
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allocations
under a SEP (as defined in Code ?408(k)).
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For
this
purpose, any Excess Amount applied under Sections 7.1(c) or 7.2(f)
in the
Limitation Year to reduce Employer Contributions will be considered
Annual
Additions for such Limitation Year.
An
Annual
Addition is credited to a Participant's Account for a particular
Limitation Year
if such amount is allocated to the Participant's Account as of any
date within
that Limitation Year. An Annual Addition will not be deemed credited
to a
Participant's Account for a particular Limitation Year unless such
amount is
actually contributed to the Plan no later than 30 days after the
time prescribed
by law for filing the Employer's income tax return (including extensions)
for
the taxable year with or within which the Limitation Year ends. In
the case of
Employee After-Tax Contributions, such amount shall not be deemed
credited to a
Participant's Account for a particular Limitation Year unless the
contributions
are actually contributed to the Plan no later than 30 days after
the close of
that Limitation Year.
(b)
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Defined
Contribution Dollar Limitation: $30,000, as adjusted under
Code ?415(d).
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(c)
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Employer.
For purposes of this Article 7, Employer shall mean the
Employer that
adopts this Plan, and all members of a controlled group
of corporations
(as defined in ?414(b) of the Code as modified by ?415(h)),
all commonly
controlled trades or businesses (as defined in ?414(c)
of the Code as
modified by ?415(h)) or affiliated service groups (as defined
in ?414(m))
of which the adopting Employer is a part, and any other
entity required to
be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to regulations
under ?414(o) of
the Code.
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(d)
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Excess
Amount: The excess of the Participant's Annual Additions
for the
Limitation Year over the Maximum Permissible Amount.
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(e)
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Limitation
Year: The Plan Year, unless the Employer elects another
12-consecutive
month period under Part 13, #51.a. of the Agreement [Part
13, #69.a. of
the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. All qualified retirement
plans under
Code ?401(a) maintained by the Employer must use the same
Limitation Year.
If the Limitation Year is amended to a different 12-consecutive
month
period, the new Limitation Year must begin on a date within
the Limitation
Year in which the amendment is made. If the Plan has an
initial Plan Year
that is less than 12 months, the Limitation Year for such
first Plan Year
is the 12-month period ending on the last day of that Plan
Year, unless
otherwise specified in Part 13, #51.c. of the Agreement
[Part 13, #69.c.
of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
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(f)
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Maximum
Permissible Amount: The maximum Annual Additions that may
be contributed
or allocated to a Participant's Account under the Plan
for any Limitation
Year shall not exceed the lesser of:
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(1)
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the
Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation, or
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(2)
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25
percent of the Participant's Total Compensation for the
Limitation Year.
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The
Total
Compensation limitation referred to in (2) shall not apply to any
contribution
for medical benefits (within the meaning of Code ?401(h) or ?419A(f)(2))
which
is otherwise treated as an Annual Addition under Code ?415(l)(1)
or ?419A(d)(2).
If
a
short Limitation Year is created because of an amendment changing
the Limitation
Year to a different 12-consecutive month period, the Maximum Permissible
Amount
will not exceed the Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation multiplied
by the
following fraction:
Number
of months in the short Limitation Year 12
If
a
short Limitation Year is created because the Plan has an initial
Plan Year that
is less than 12 months, no proration of the Defined Contribution
Dollar
Limitation is required, unless provided
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otherwise
under Part 13, #51.c. of the Agreement [Part 13, #69.c. of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. (See subsection (e) above for the rule
allowing the
use of a full 12-month Limitation Year for the first year of the
Plan, thereby
avoiding the need to prorate the Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation.)
(g)
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Total
Compensation: The amount of compensation as defined under
Section 22.197,
subject to the Employer's election under Part 3, #9 of
the Agreement.
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(1)
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Self-Employed
Individuals. For a Self-Employed Individual, Total Compensation
is such
individual's Earned Income.
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(2)
|
Total
Compensation actually paid or made available. For purposes
of applying the
limitations of this Article 7, Total Compensation for a
Limitation Year is
the Total Compensation actually paid or made available
to an Employee
during such Limitation Year. However, the Employer may
include in Total
Compensation for a Limitation Year amounts earned but not
paid in the
Limitation Year because of the timing of pay periods and
pay days, but
only if these amounts are paid during the first few weeks
of the next
Limitation Year, such amounts are included on a uniform
and consistent
basis with respect to all similarly-situated Employees,
and no amounts are
included in Total Compensation in more than one Limitation
Year. The
Employer need not make any formal election to include accrued
Total
Compensation described in the preceding sentence.
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(3)
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Disabled
Participants. Total Compensation does not include any imputed
compensation
for the period a Participant is Disabled. However, the
Employer may elect
under Part 13, #51.b. of the Agreement [Part 13, #69.b.
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], to include under the definition
of Total
Compensation, the amount a terminated Participant who is
permanently and
totally Disabled (as defined in Section 22.53) would have
received for the
Limitation Year if the Participant had been paid at the
rate of Total
Compensation paid immediately before becoming permanently
and totally
Disabled. If the Employer elects under Part 13, #51.b.
of the Agreement
[Part 13, #69.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
to include
imputed compensation for a Disabled Participant, a Disabled
Participant
will receive an allocation of any Employer Contribution
the Employer makes
to the Plan based on the Employee's imputed compensation
for the Plan
Year. Any Employer Contributions made to a Disabled Participant
under this
subsection (3) are fully vested when made. For Limitation
Years beginning
before January 1, 1997, imputed compensation for a Disabled
Participant
may be taken into account only if the Participant is not
a Highly
Compensated Employee for such Plan Year.
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(4)
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Special
rule for Limitation Years beginning before January 1, 1998.
For Limitation
Years beginning before January 1, 1998, for purposes of
applying the
limitations of this Article 7 and for determining the minimum
top-heavy
contribution required under Section 16.2(a), Total Compensation
paid or
made available during such Limitation Year shall not include
any Elective
Deferrals, or 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 ?125 or ?457.
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7.5
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Participation
in a Defined Benefit Plan. If the Employer maintains, or
at any time
maintained, a Defined Benefit Plan (other than a Paired
Plan) covering any
Participant in this Plan, the sum of the Participant's
Defined Benefit
Plan Fraction and Defined Contribution Plan Fraction will
not exceed 1.0
in any Limitation Year. If the sum of the Defined Benefit
Plan Fraction
and the Defined Contribution Plan Fraction exceeds 1.0
in any Limitation
Year, the Plan will satisfy the 1.0 limitation by reducing
a Participant's
Projected Annual Benefit under the Defined Benefit Plan.
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(a)
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Repeal
of rule. The limitations under this Section 7.5 do not
apply for
Limitation Years beginning on or after January 1, 2000.
However, the
Employer may have continued to apply rules consistent with
this Section
7.5 for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1999 and
before the
Employer first adopted a plan to comply with the GUST Legislation.
If the
Employer is adopting this Plan as a restatement of a prior
plan to comply
with the GUST Legislation, the provisions of the prior
plan control for
purposes of applying the combined limitation rules under
Code ?415(e) for
Limitation Years beginning before the Effective Date of
this Plan. For
Limitation Years beginning on or after the Effective Date
of this Plan,
the provisions of this Section 7.5 apply. If for any Limitation
Year
beginning prior to the date this Plan is adopted as a GUST
restatement,
the Employer did not comply in operation with the provisions
under this
Section 7.5 or the provisions of the prior plan, as applicable,
the
Employer may document under Appendix B-4 of the Agreement
how the Plan was
operated to comply with the combined limitation rules under
Code ?415(e).
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(b)
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Special
definitions relating to Section 7.5.
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(1)
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Defined
Benefit Plan Fraction: A fraction, the numerator of which
is the sum of
the Participant's Projected Annual Benefit under all the
Defined Benefit
Plans (whether or not terminated) maintained by the Employer,
and the
denominator of which is the lesser of 125 percent of the
dollar limitation
determined for the Limitation Year under Code ??415(b)
and (d) or 140
percent of the Participant's Highest Average Compensation,
including any
adjustments under Code ?415(b).
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Notwithstanding
the above, if the Participant was a Participant as of the first day
of the first
Limitation Year beginning after December 31, 1986, in one or more
Defined
Benefit Plans maintained by the Employer which were in existence
on May 6, 1986,
the denominator of this fraction will not be less than 125 percent
of the sum of
the annual benefits under such plans which the Participant had accrued
as of the
close of the last Limitation Year beginning before January 1, 1987,
disregarding
any changes in the terms and conditions of the plans after May 5,
1986. The
preceding sentence applies only if the Defined Benefit Plans individually
and in
the aggregate satisfied the requirements of Code ?415 for all Limitation
Years
beginning before January 1, 1987.
If
the
Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan for any Plan Year, 100% will be substituted
for 125% in
the prior paragraph, unless in Part 13, #54.b. of the Agreement [Part
13, #72.b.
of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the Employer provides an
extra minimum
top-heavy allocation or benefit in accordance with Code ?416(h) and
the
regulations thereunder. In any event, if the Top-Heavy Ratio exceeds
90%, then
100% will always be substituted for 125% in the prior paragraph.
(2)
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Defined
Contribution Plan Fraction: A fraction, the numerator of
which is the sum
of the Annual Additions to the Participant's Account under
all the Defined
Contribution Plans (whether or not terminated) maintained
by the Employer
for the current and all prior Limitation Years including
the Annual
Additions attributable to the Participant's Employee After-Tax
Contributions to all Defined Benefit Plans, whether or
not terminated,
maintained by the Employer, and the Annual Additions attributable
to all
welfare benefit funds (as defined under Code ?419(e)),
individual medical
accounts (as defined under Code ?415(l)(2)), and SEPs (as
defined under
Code ?408(k)) maintained by the Employer, and the denominator
of which is
the sum of the maximum aggregate amount for the current
and all prior
Limitation Years during which the Participant performed
service with the
Employer (regardless of whether a Defined Contribution
Plan was maintained
by the Employer during such years). The maximum aggregate
amount in any
Limitation Year is the lesser of: (i) 125 percent of the
Defined
Contribution Dollar Limitation in effect under Code ?415(c)(l)(A)
(as
determined under Code ??415(b) and (d)) for such Limitation
Year or (ii)
35 percent of the Participant's Total Compensation for
such Limitation
Year.
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If
the
Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan for any Plan Year, 100% will be substituted
for 125%
unless in Part 13, #54.b. of the Agreement [Part 13, #72.b. of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the Employer provides an extra minimum
top-heavy
allocation or benefit in accordance with Code ?416(h) and the regulations
thereunder. In any event, if the Top-Heavy Ratio exceeds 90%, then
100% will
always be substituted for 125%.
If
the
Employee was a Participant as of the end of the first day of the
first
Limitation Year beginning after December 31, 1986, in one or more
Defined
Contribution Plans maintained by the Employer which were in existence
on May 6,
1986, the numerator of this fraction will be adjusted if the sum
of this
fraction and the Defined Benefit Plan Fraction would otherwise exceed
1.0 under
the terms of this Plan. Under the adjustment, an amount equal to
the product of
(i) the excess of the sum of the fractions over 1.0 times
(ii)
the
denominator of this fraction, will be permanently subtracted from
the numerator
of this fraction. The adjustment is calculated using the fractions
as they would
be computed as of the end of the last Limitation Year beginning before
January
1, 1987, and disregarding any changes in the terms and conditions
of the Plan
made after May 5, 1986, but using the Code ?415 limitation applicable
to the
first Limitation Year beginning on or after January 1, 1987.
The
Annual Additions for any Limitation Year beginning before January
1, 1987 shall
not be recomputed to treat all Employee After-Tax Contributions as
Annual
Additions.
(3)
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Highest
Average Compensation: The average Total Compensation for
the three
consecutive years of service with the Employer that produces
the highest
average.
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(4)
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Projected
Annual Benefit: The annual retirement benefit (adjusted
to an actuarially
equivalent straight life annuity if such benefit is expressed
in a form
other than a straight life annuity or Qualified Joint and
Survivor
Annuity) to which the Participant would be entitled under
the terms of the
Plan assuming:
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(A)
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the
Participant will continue employment until Normal Retirement
Age under the
Plan (or current age, if later), and
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(B)
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the
Participant's Total Compensation for the current Limitation
Year and all
other relevant factors used to determine benefits under
the Plan will
remain constant for all future Limitation Years.
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ARTICLE
8PLAN DISTRIBUTIONS
Except
as
provided under Article 9 (Joint and Survivor Annuity Requirements),
this Article
8 governs all distributions to Participants under the Plan. Sections
8.1 and 8.2
set forth the available distribution options under the Plan and the
amount
available for distribution. Section 8.3 sets forth the Participants'
distribution options following termination of employment, Section
8.4 discusses
the distribution options upon a Participant's death, and Sections
8.5 and 8.6
set forth the in-service distribution options under the Plan, including
the
conditions for receiving a Hardship distribution. Parts 9 and 10
of the
Agreement contain the elective provisions for the Employer to identify
the
timing of distributions and the permitted distribution events under
the Plan.
8.1
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Distribution
Options. A Participant who terminates employment with the
Employer may
receive a distribution of his/her vested Account Balance
at the time and
in the manner designated under Part 9 of the Agreement.
A Participant may
receive an in-service distribution prior to his/her termination
of
employment with the Employer only to the extent permitted
under Part 10 of
the Agreement.
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Distributions
from the Plan will be made in the form of a lump sum of the Participant's
entire
vested Account Balance, a single sum distribution of a portion of
the
Participant's vested Account Balance, installments, annuity payments,
or other
form as selected under Part 11 of the Agreement. Unless provided
otherwise under
Part 11 of the Agreement, a Participant may select any combination
of the
available distribution forms.
If
the
Employer elects to permit a single sum distribution of a portion
of the
Participant's vested Account Balance, the Employer may limit the
availability or
frequency of subsequent withdrawals under Part 11, #40.f. of the
Nonstandardized
Agreement [Part 11, #58.f. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement]. If the Employer elects under Part 11 of the Agreement
to permit
installment payments as an optional form of distribution, the Participant
(and
spouse, if applicable) may elect to receive installments in monthly,
quarterly,
semi-annual, or annual payments over a period not exceeding the Life
Expectancy
of the Participant and his/her Designated Beneficiary. The Participant
may elect
at any time to accelerate the payment of all, or any portion, of
an installment
distribution. If the Employer elects under Part 11 of the Agreement
to permit
annuity payments, such annuity payments may not be in a form that
will provide
for payments over a period extending beyond either the life of the
Participant
(or the lives of the Participant and his/her designated Beneficiary)
or the life
expectancy of the Participant (or the life expectancy of the Participant
and
his/her designated Beneficiary). The Employer may restrict the availability
of
installment payments or annuity payments under Part 11, #40.f. of
the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 11, #58.f. of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
If
the
Plan is subject to the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements under
Article 9,
the Plan must make distribution in the form of a QJSA (as defined
in Section
9.4(a)) unless the Participant (and spouse, if the Participant is
married)
elects an alternative distribution form in accordance with Section
9.4(d). (See
Section
9.1
for
the rules regarding the application of the Joint and Survivor Annuity
requirements.)
8.2
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Amount
Eligible for Distribution. For purposes of determining
the amount a
Participant may receive as a distribution from the Plan,
a Participant's
Account Balance is determined as of the Valuation Date
(as specified in
Part 12 of the Agreement) which immediately precedes the
date the
Participant receives his/her distribution from the Plan.
For this purpose,
the Participant's Account Balance must be increased for
any contributions
allocated to the Participant's Account since the most recent
Valuation
Date and must be reduced for any distributions the Participant
received
from the Plan since the most recent Valuation Date. A Participant
does not
share in any allocation of gains or losses attributable
to the period
between the Valuation Date and the date of the distribution
under the
Plan, unless provided otherwise under Part 12 of the Agreement
or under
uniform funding and valuation procedures established by
the Plan
Administrator. In the case of a Participant-directed Account,
the
determination of the value of the Participant's Account
for distribution
purposes is subject to the funding and valuation procedures
applicable to
such directed Account.
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8.3
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Distributions
After Termination of Employment. Subject to the required
minimum
distribution provisions under Article 10, a Participant
whose employment
with the Employer is terminated for any reason, other than
death, is
entitled to receive a distribution of his/her vested Account
Balance in
accordance with this Section
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8.3
as of
the date selected in Part 9 of the Agreement. If a Participant dies
while
employed by the Employer, or dies before distribution of his/her
vested Account
Balance is completed, distribution will be made in accordance with
Section 8.4.
(a)
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Account
Balance exceeding $5,000. If a Participant's entire vested
Account Balance
exceeds $5,000 at the time of distribution, the Participant
may elect to
receive a distribution of his/her vested Account Balance
in any form
permitted under Part 11 of the Agreement at the time indicated
under Part
9, #33 of the Agreement [Part 9, #51 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement]. The Participant must receive proper notice
and must consent in
writing, in accordance with Section 8.7, prior to receiving
a distribution
from the Plan. If the Participant does not consent to a
distribution upon
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terminating
employment with the Employer, distribution will be made in accordance
with
Article 10. (Also see Section 8.8 for additional notice requirements.)
(b)
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Account
Balance not exceeding $5,000. If a Participant's entire
vested Account
Balance does not exceed $5,000 at the time of distribution,
the Plan
Administrator will distribute the Participant's entire
vested Account
Balance in a single lump sum at the time indicated under
Part 9, #34 of
the Agreement [Part 9, #52 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement].
Although the Participant need not consent to receive a
distribution under
this subsection (b), the Participant must receive the notice
described in
Section 8.8 (if applicable) prior to receiving the distribution
from the
Plan. The Employer may modify the rule under this subsection
(b) by
electing under Part 9, #37.a. of the Agreement [Part 9,
#55.a. of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to require Participant
consent prior to a
distribution from the Plan, without regard to whether the
Participant's
vested Account Balance exceeds $5,000 at the time of distribution.
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(c)
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Permissible
distribution events under a 401(k) plan. A Participant
may not receive a
distribution of Section 401(k) Deferrals, QNECs, QMACs
and Safe Harbor
Contributions under this Section 8.3 unless the Participant
satisfies one
of the following conditions:
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(1)
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The
Participant has a "separation from service" with the Employer.
For this
purpose, a separation from service occurs when an Employee
terminates
employment with the Employer. If a Participant changes
jobs as a result of
the Employer's liquidation, merger, consolidation, or other
similar
transaction, a distribution may be made to the Participant
if the Plan
Administrator determines the Participant has incurred a
separation from
service in accordance with rules promulgated under the
Code or
regulations, or by reason of a ruling or other published
guidance from the
IRS. A Participant may not receive a distribution by reason
of separation
from service, or continue to receive an installment distribution
based on
separation from service, if prior to the time the distribution
is made
from the Plan, the Participant returns to employment with
the Employer.
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(2)
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The
Employer is a corporation and the Employer sells substantially
all of the
assets of a trade or business (within the meaning of ?409(d)(2)
of the
Code) to an unrelated corporation, provided the purchaser
does not
continue to maintain the Plan with respect to the Participant
after the
sale and the Participant becomes employed by the unrelated
corporation as
a result of the sale and the distribution is made by the
end of the second
calendar year after the year of the sale. For this purpose,
an Employer is
deemed to have sold substantially all of the assets of
a trade or business
if it sells 85% or more of the total assets of such trade
or business.
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(3)
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The
Employer is a corporation and the Employer sells a subsidiary
to an
unrelated corporation, provided the purchaser does not
continue to
maintain the Plan with respect to the Participant after
the sale and the
Participant continues to be employed by the unrelated corporation
after
the sale and the distribution is made by the end of the
second calendar
year after the year of the sale.
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(d)
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Disabled
Participant. A terminated Employee who is Disabled at the
time of
termination, or who becomes Disabled after terminating
employment with the
Employer, generally is entitled to a distribution in the
time and manner
specified in Part 9 of the Agreement. However, if so elected
in Part 9,
#35 of the Agreement [Part 9, #53 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement],
a terminated Employee who is Disabled at the time of termination,
or who
becomes Disabled after terminating employment with the
Employer, is
entitled to a distribution in the time and manner specified
in Part 9, #35
of the Agreement [Part 9, #53 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement], to
the extent such election will result in an earlier distribution
than would
otherwise be available under Part 9 of the Agreement.
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(e)
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Determining
whether vested Account Balance exceeds $5,000. For distributions
made on
or after October 17, 2000, the determination of whether
a Participant's
vested Account Balance exceeds $5,000 is based on the value
of the
Participant's Account as of the most recent Valuation Date.
In determining
the value of a Participant's Account for distributions
made before October
17, 2000, the "lookback rule" may apply. If the lookback
rule applies, the
Participant's vested Account Balance is deemed to exceed
$5,000 for
purposes of applying the provisions under this Article
8 and Article 9.
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For
distribution made after March 21, 1999 and before October 17, 2000,
the
"lookback rule" is applicable to a distribution to a Participant
if the
Participant previously received a distribution when his/her vested
Account
Balance exceeded $5,000, and either subsection (1) or (2) applies.
(1)
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The
distribution is subject to the Joint and Survivor Annuity
requirements of
Article 9.
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(2)
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The
distribution is not subject to the Joint and Survivor Annuity
requirements
of Article 9, but a periodic distribution method (e.g.,
an installment
distribution) is currently in effect with respect to the
Participant's
vested Account Balance, at least one scheduled payment
still remains, and
when the first periodic payment was made under such election,
the vested
Account Balance exceeded $5,000.
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For
distributions made before March 21, 1999, the lookback rule applies
to all
distributions, without regard to subsections (1) and (2) above. However,
the
Plan does not fail to satisfy the requirements of this subsection
(e) if, prior
to the adoption of this Plan, the lookback rule was applied to all
distributions
(without regard to the limitations described in subsections (1) and
(2) above),
or if the limitations described in subsections (1) and (2) above
were applied to
distributions made before March 22, 1999 but in a Plan Year beginning
after
August 5, 1997.
(f)
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Effective
date of $5,000 vested Account Balance rule. The provisions
under this
Article 8 and Article 9 which refer to a $5,000 vested
Account Balance are
effective for Plan Years beginning after August 5, 1997,
unless a later
effective date is specified in the GUST provisions under
Appendix B-3.a.
of the Agreement. For plan years beginning prior to August
6, 1997 (or any
later effective date specified in Appendix B-3.a. of the
Agreement) any
reference under this Article 8 or Article 9 to a $5,000
vested Account
Balance should be applied by replacing $5,000 with $3,500.
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8.4
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Distribution
upon the Death of the Participant. The death benefit payable
with respect
to a deceased Participant depends on whether the Participant
dies after
distribution of his Account Balance has commenced (see
subsection (a)
below) or before distribution commences (see subsection
(b) below).
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(a)
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Post-retirement
death benefit. If a Participant dies after commencing distribution
of
his/her benefit under the Plan, the death benefit is the
benefit payable
under the form of payment that has commenced. If a Participant
commences
distribution prior to death only with respect to a portion
of his/her
Account Balance, then the rules in subsection (b) apply
to the rest of the
Account Balance.
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(b)
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Pre-retirement
death benefit. If a Participant dies before commencing
distribution of
his/her benefit under the Plan, the death benefit that
is payable depends
on whether the value of the death benefit exceeds $5,000
and whether the
Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements of Article 9 apply.
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If
there
is both a QPSA death benefit and a non-QPSA death benefit, each death
benefit is
valued separately to determine whether it exceeds $5,000. For death
benefits
distributed before the $5,000 rule described in Section 8.3(f) is
effective,
substitute $3,500 for $5,000.
(1)
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Death
benefit not exceeding $5,000. If the value of the pre-retirement
death
benefit does not exceed $5,000, it shall be paid in a single
sum as soon
as administratively feasible after the Participant's death.
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(2)
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Death
benefit that exceeds $5,000. If the value of the pre-retirement
death
benefit exceeds $5,000, the payment of the death benefit
will depend on
whether the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements apply.
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(i)
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If
the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements do not apply.
In this case,
the entire death benefit is payable in the form and at
the time described
below in subsection (ii)(B).
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(ii)
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If
the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements apply. In this
case, the death
benefit consists of a QPSA death benefit (see Section 9.3)
and, if the
QPSA is defined to be less than 100% of the Participant's
vested Account
Balance, a non-QPSA death benefit. The QPSA death benefit
is payable in
accordance with subsection (A) below, unless the Participant
has waived
such death benefit under the waiver procedures described
in Section
9.4(d). In the event there is a proper waiver of the QPSA
death benefit,
then such portion of the death benefit is payable in the
same manner as
the non-QPSA death benefit. The non-QPSA death benefit
is payable in the
form and at the time described below in subsection (B).
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(A)
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QPSA
death benefit. If the pre-retirement death benefit is payable
in the QPSA
form, then it shall be paid in accordance with Article
9. If the QPSA
death benefit has not been waived, but the surviving spouse
elects a
different form of payment, then distribution of the QPSA
death benefit is
made in accordance with the form of payment elected by
the spouse,
provided such form of payment is available under Section
8.1.
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The
surviving spouse may request the payment of the QPSA death benefit
(in the QPSA
form or in the form elected by the surviving spouse) as soon as administratively
feasible after the death of the Participant. However, payment of
the death
benefit will not commence without the consent of the surviving spouse
prior to
the date the Participant would have reached Normal Retirement Age
(or age 62, if
later). If the QPSA death benefit has been waived, in accordance
with the
procedures in Article 9, then the portion of the Participant's vested
Account
Balance that would have been payable as a QPSA death benefit in the
absence of
such a waiver is treated as a death benefit payable under subsection
(B).
(B)
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Non-QPSA
death benefits. Any pre-retirement death benefit not described
in
subsection (A) is payable under this paragraph. Such death
benefit is
payable in lump sum as soon as administratively feasible
after the
Participant's death. However, the death benefit may be
payable in a
different form if prescribed by the Participant's Beneficiary
designation,
or if the Beneficiary, before a lump sum payment of the
benefit is made,
requests an election as to the form of payment. An alternative
form of
payment must be one that is available under Section 8.1.
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(3)
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Minimum
distribution requirements. In no event will any death benefit
be paid in a
manner that is inconsistent with the minimum distribution
requirements of
Section 10.2. In addition, the Beneficiary of any pre-retirement
death
benefit described above in subsection (2) may postpone
the commencement of
the death benefit to a date that is not later than the
latest commencement
date permitted under Section 10.2, unless such election
is prohibited in
Part 9, #37.b. of the Agreement [Part 9, #55.b. of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
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(c)
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Determining
a Participant's Beneficiary. A Participant may designate
a Beneficiary to
receive the death benefits described in this Section 8.4.
Any Beneficiary
designation is subject to the rules under subsections (1)
- (4) below. A
Participant may change or revoke a Beneficiary designation
at any time by
filing a new designation with the Plan Administrator. Any
new Beneficiary
designation is subject to the spousal consent rules described
below,
unless the spouse specifically waives such right under
a general consent
as authorized under Section 9.4(d). Unless specified otherwise
in the
Participant's designated beneficiary election form, if
a Beneficiary does
not predecease the Participant but dies before distribution
of the death
benefit is made to the Beneficiary, the death benefit will
be paid to the
Beneficiary's estate.
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The
Plan
Administrator may request proper proof of the Participant's death
and may
require the Beneficiary to provide evidence of his/her right to receive
a
distribution from the Plan in any form or manner the Plan Administrator
may deem
appropriate. The Plan Administrator's determination of the Participant's
death
and of the right of a Beneficiary to receive payment under the Plan
shall be
conclusive. If a distribution is to be made to a minor or incompetent
Beneficiary, payments may be made to the person's legal guardian,
conservator,
or custodian in accordance with the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act or
similar law
as permitted under the laws of the state where the Beneficiary resides.
The Plan
Administrator or Trustee will not be liable for any payments made
in accordance
with this subsection (c) and are not required to make any inquiries
with respect
to the competence of any person entitled to benefits under the Plan.
If
a
Participant designates his/her spouse as Beneficiary and subsequent
to such
Beneficiary designation, the Participant and spouse are divorced
or legally
separated, the designation of the spouse as Beneficiary under the
Plan is
automatically rescinded unless specifically provided otherwise under
a divorce
decree or QDRO, or unless the Participant enters into a new Beneficiary
designation naming the prior spouse as Beneficiary.
(1)
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Spousal
consent to Beneficiary designation: post-retirement death
benefit. If a
Participant is married at the time distribution commences
to the
Participant, the Beneficiary of any post-retirement death
benefit is the
Participant's surviving spouse, regardless of whether the
Joint and
Survivor Annuity requirements under Article 9 apply, unless
there is no
surviving spouse or the spouse has consented to the Beneficiary
designation in a manner that is consistent with the requirements
for a
Qualified Election under Section 9.4(d), or makes a valid
disclaimer of
the benefit. If the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements
apply, the
spouse is determined as of the Distribution Commencement
Date for purposes
of this spousal consent requirement. If the Joint and Survivor
Annuity
requirements do not apply, the spouse is determined as
of the
Participant's date of death for purposes of this spousal
consent
requirement.
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(2)
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Spousal
consent to Beneficiary designation: pre-retirement death
benefit. The
rules for spousal consent depend on whether the Joint and
Survivor Annuity
requirements in Article 9 apply.
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(i)
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If
the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements apply. In this
case, the QPSA
death benefit will be payable in accordance with Section
9.3. The QPSA
death benefit may be payable to a non-spouse Beneficiary
only if the
spouse consents to the Beneficiary designation, pursuant
to the Qualified
Election requirements under Section 9.4(d), or makes a
valid disclaimer.
The non-QPSA death benefit, if any, is payable to the person
named in the
Beneficiary designation, without regard to whether spousal
consent is
obtained for such designation. If a spouse does not properly
consent to a
Beneficiary designation, the QPSA waiver is invalid, and
the QPSA death
benefit is still payable to the spouse, but the Beneficiary
designation
remains valid with respect to any non-QPSA death benefit.
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(ii)
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If
the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements do not apply.
In this case,
the surviving spouse (determined at the time of the Participant's
death),
if any, must be treated as the sole Beneficiary, regardless
of any
contrary Beneficiary designation, unless there is no surviving
spouse, or
the spouse has consented to the Beneficiary designation
in a manner that
is consistent with the requirements for a Qualified Election
under Section
9.4(d) or makes a valid disclaimer.
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(3)
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Default
beneficiaries. To the extent a Beneficiary has not been
named by the
Participant (subject to the spousal consent rules discussed
above) and is
not designated under the terms of this Plan to receive
all or any portion
of the deceased Participant's death benefit, such amount
shall be
distributed to the Participant's surviving spouse (if the
Participant was
married at the time of death). If the Participant does
not have a
surviving spouse at the time of death, distribution will
be made to the
Participant's surviving children, in equal shares. If the
Participant has
no surviving children, distribution will be made to the
Participant's
estate. The Employer may modify the default beneficiary
rules described in
this subparagraph under Part 9, #37.c. of the Nonstandardized
Agreement
[Part 9, #55.c. of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement].
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(4)
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One-year
marriage rule. The Employer may elect under Part 11, #41.c.
of the
Agreement [Part 11, #59.c. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement], for
purposes of applying the provisions of this Section 8.4,
that an
individual will not be considered the surviving spouse
of the Participant
if the Participant and the surviving spouse have not been
married for the
entire one-year period ending on the date of the Participant's
death.
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8.5
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Distributions
Prior to Termination of Employment.
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(a)
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Employee
After-Tax Contributions, Rollover Contributions, and transfers.
A
Participant may withdraw at any time, upon written request,
all or any
portion of his/her Account Balance attributable to Employee
After-Tax
Contributions or Rollover Contributions. Any amounts transferred
to the
Plan pursuant to a Qualified Transfer (as defined in Section
3.3(d)) also
may be withdrawn at any time pursuant to a written request.
No forfeiture
will occur solely as a result of an Employer's withdrawal
of Employee
After-Tax Contributions. The Employer may elect in Part
10, #39.d. of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 10, #57.d. of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to modify the availability of
in-service
withdrawals of Employee After-Tax Contributions, Rollover
Contributions,
or Qualified Transfers.
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With
respect to transfers (other than Qualified Transfers) and subject
to the
restrictions on distributions of transferred assets under Section
3.3, a
Participant may request a distribution of all or any portion of his/her
Transfer
Account only as permitted under this Article with respect to contributions
of
the same type as are being withdrawn.
(b)
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Employer
Contributions. Except as provided in Section 14.10 dealing
with defaulted
Participant loans, a Participant may receive a distribution
of all or any
portion of his/her vested Account Balance attributable
to Employer
Contributions prior to termination of employment only as
permitted under
Part 10 of the Agreement. If the Joint and Survivor Annuity
requirements
under Article 9 apply to the Participant, the Participant's
spouse (if the
Participant is married at the time of distribution) must
consent to a
distribution in accordance with Section 9.2.
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The
Employer may elect under the profit sharing or Profit Sharing/401(k)
plan
Agreement to permit in-service distributions of Employer Contributions
(other
than Section 401(k) Deferrals, QMACs,
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QNECs,
and Safe Harbor Contributions) upon the occurrence of a specified
event or upon
the completion of a certain number of years. In no case, however,
may a
distribution that is made solely on account of the completion of
a designated
number of years be made with respect to Employer Contributions that
have been
accumulated in the Plan for less than 2 years. This rule does not
apply if the
Participant has been an Eligible Participant in the Plan for at least
5 years.
An in-service distribution may be made on account of a specified
event (other
than the completion of a designated number of years) at any time,
if authorized
under Part 10 of the Agreement.
If
a
Participant with a partially vested benefit receives an in-service
distribution
under the Plan, the special vesting schedule under Section 4.8 must
be applied
to determine the Participant's vested percentage in his/her remaining
Account
Balance. This special vesting schedule will not apply if the Employer
limits the
availability of in-service distributions under Part 10 of the Agreement
to
Participants who are 100% vested.
(c)
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Section
401(k) Deferrals, Qualified Nonelective Contributions,
Qualified Matching
Contributions, and Safe Harbor Contributions. If the Employer
has adopted
the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement, a Participant may
receive an
in-service distribution of all or any portion of his/her
Section 401(k)
Deferral Account, QMAC Account, QNEC Account, Safe Harbor
Matching
Contribution Account and Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
Account only
as permitted under Part 10 of the Agreement. No provision
in this Plan or
in Part 10 of the Agreement may be interpreted to permit
a Participant to
receive a distribution of such amounts prior to the occurrence
of one of
the following events:
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(1)
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the
Participant becoming Disabled;
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(2)
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the
Participant's attainment of age 59?;
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(3)
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the
Participant's Hardship (as defined in Section 8.6).
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(d)
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Corrective
distributions. Nothing in this Article 8 precludes the
Plan Administrator
from making a distribution to a Participant, to the extent
such
distribution is made to correct a qualification defect
in accordance with
the corrective procedures under the IRS' voluntary compliance
programs.
Thus, for example, nothing in this Article 8 would preclude
the Plan from
making a corrective distribution to an Employee who received
contributions
under the Plan prior to becoming an Eligible Participant.
Any such
distribution must be made in accordance with the correction
procedures
applicable under the IRS' voluntary correction programs.
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8.6
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Hardship
Distribution. To the extent permitted under Part 10 of
the Agreement, a
Participant may receive an in-service distribution on account
of a
Hardship. The Employer may elect under Part 10, #38.c.
of the Agreement
[Part 10, #56.c. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
to permit a
Hardship distribution only if the Participant satisfies
the safe harbor
Hardship requirements under subsection (a) below. Alternatively,
the
Employer may elect under Part 10, #38.d. of the Agreement
[Part 10, #56.d.
of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to permit a Hardship
distribution
of Employer Contributions (other than Section 401(k) Deferrals)
in
accordance with the requirements of subsection (b) below.
A Hardship
distribution of Section 401(k) Deferrals must meet the
requirements of a
safe harbor Hardship as described under subsection (a)
below. A Hardship
distribution under this Section 8.6 is not available for
QNECs, QMACs or
Safe Harbor Contributions.
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(a)
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Safe
harbor Hardship distribution. To qualify for a safe harbor
Hardship, a
Participant must demonstrate an immediate and heavy financial
need, as
described in subsection (1), and must satisfy the conditions
described in
subsection (2).
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(1)
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Immediate
and heavy financial need. To be considered an immediate
and heavy
financial need, the Hardship distribution must be made
on account of one
of the following events:
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(i)
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the
incurrence of medical expenses (as described in ?213(d)
of the Code), of
the Participant, the Participant's spouse or dependents;
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(ii)
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the
purchase (excluding mortgage payments) of a principal residence
for the
Participant;
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(iii)
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payment
of tuition and related educational fees (including room
and board) for the
next 12 months of post-secondary education for the Participant,
the
Participant's spouse, children or dependents;
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(iv)
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to
prevent the eviction of the Participant from, or a foreclosure
on the
mortgage of, the Participant's principal residence; or
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(v)
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any
other event that the IRS recognizes as a safe harbor Hardship
distribution
event under ruling, notice or other guidance of general
applicability.
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A
Participant must provide the Plan Administrator with a written request
for a
Hardship distribution. The Plan Administrator may require written
documentation,
as it deems necessary, to sufficiently document the existence of
a proper
Hardship event.
(b)
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Conditions
for taking a Hardship withdrawal. A Participant may receive
a safe harbor
Hardship withdrawal only if all of the following conditions
are satisfied.
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(1)
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The
Participant has obtained all available distributions, other
than Hardship
distributions, and all nontaxable loans under the Plan
and all other
qualified plans maintained by the Employer.
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(2)
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The
Participant is suspended from making any Section 401(k)
Deferrals (and any
Employee After-Tax Contributions) under the Plan or any
other plans (other
than welfare benefit plans) maintained by the Employer
for 12 months after
the receipt of the Hardship distribution.
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(3)
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The
distribution is not in excess of the amount of the immediate
and heavy
financial need (including amounts necessary to pay any
federal, state or
local income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated
to result from the
distribution).
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(4)
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The
limitation on Elective Deferrals under Code ?402(g) for
the Participant
for the taxable year immediately following the taxable
year of the
Hardship distribution is reduced by the amount of any Elective
Deferrals
the Participant made during the taxable year of the Hardship
distribution,
to the extent required by law.
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(c)
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Amount
available for distribution. A Participant may receive a
Hardship
distribution of any portion of his/her vested Employer
Contribution
Account or Employer Matching Contribution Account (including
earnings
thereon), as permitted under Part 10 of the Agreement.
A Participant may
receive a Hardship distribution of any portion of his/her
Section 401(k)
Deferral Account, if permitted under Part 10 of the Agreement,
provided
such distribution, when added to other Hardship distributions
from Section
401(k) Deferrals, does not exceed the total Section 401(k)
Deferrals the
Participant has made to the Plan (increased by income allocable
to such
Section 401(k) Deferrals that was credited by the later
of December 31,
1988 or the end of the last Plan Year ending before July
1, 1989). A
Participant may not receive a Hardship distribution from
his/her QNEC
Account, QMAC Account, Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
Account or
Safe Harbor Matching Contribution Account.
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8.7
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Participant
Consent. If the value of a Participant's entire vested
Account Balance
exceeds $5,000 (as determined in accordance with Section
8.3(e)), the
Participant must consent to any distribution of such Account
Balance prior
to his/her Required Beginning Date (as defined in Section
10.3(a)). The
Employer may modify this provision under Part 9, #37.b.
of the Agreement
[Part 9, #55.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
to provide for
automatic distribution to a terminated Participant (or
Beneficiary) as of
the date the Participant attains (or would have attained
if not deceased)
the later of Normal Retirement Age or age
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62.
A
Participant must consent in writing to a distribution under this
Section 8.7
within the 90-day period ending on the Distribution Commencement
Date (as
defined in Section 22.56). If the Participant is subject to the Joint
and
Survivor Annuity requirements under Article 9 of this Plan, the Participant's
spouse (if the Participant is married at the time of the distribution)
also must
consent to the distribution in accordance with Section 9.2. If the
distribution
is an Eligible Rollover Distribution, the Participant must also direct
the Plan
Administrator as to whether he/she wants a Direct Rollover and if
so, the name
of the Eligible Retirement Plan to which the distribution will be
made. (See
Section 8.8 for more information regarding the Direct Rollover rules.)
(a)
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Participant
notice. Prior to receiving a distribution from the Plan,
the Participant
must be notified of his/her right to defer any distribution
from the Plan
in accordance with the provisions under Article 10 of this
BPD. The
notification shall include a general description of the
material features
and the relative values of the optional forms of benefit
available under
the Plan (consistent with the requirements under Code ?417(a)(3)).
The
notice must be provided no less than 30 days and no more
than 90 days
prior to the Participant's Distribution Commencement Date.
However,
distribution may commence less than 30 days after the notice
is given, if
the Participant is clearly informed of his/her right to
take 30 days after
receiving the notice to decide whether or not to elect
a distribution
(and, if applicable, a particular distribution option),
and the
Participant, after receiving
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the
notice, affirmatively elects to receive the distribution prior to
the expiration
of the 30-day minimum period. (But see Section 9.5(a) for the rules
regarding
the timing of distributions when the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements
apply.) The notice requirements described in this paragraph may be
satisfied by
providing a summary of the required information, so long as the conditions
described in applicable regulations for the provision of such a summary
are
satisfied, and the full notice is also provided (without regard to
the 90-day
period described in this subsection).
(b)
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Special
rules. The consent rules under this Section 8.7 apply to
distributions
made after the Participant's termination of employment
and to
distributions made prior to the Participant's termination
of employment.
However, the consent of the Participant (and the Participant's
spouse, if
applicable) shall not be required to the extent that a
distribution is
made:
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(1)
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to
satisfy the required minimum distribution rules under Article
10;
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(2)
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to
satisfy the requirements of Code ?415, as described in
Article 7;
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(3)
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to
correct Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions or Excess
Aggregate
Contributions, as described in Article 17.
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In
addition, if distributions are being made on account of the termination
of the
Plan, and an annuity option is not available under the Plan, the
Participant's
Account Balance will, without the Participant's consent, be distributed
to the
Participant, without regard to the value of the Participant's vested
Account
Balance, unless the Employer (or any Related Employer) maintains
another Defined
Contribution Plan (other than an employee stock ownership plan as
defined in
Code ?4975(e)(7)). If the Employer or any Related Employer maintains
another
Defined Contribution Plan (other than an employee stock ownership
plan), then
the Participant's Account Balance will be transferred, without the
Participant's
consent, to the other plan, if the Participant does not consent to
an immediate
distribution (to the extent consent to an immediate distribution
is otherwise
required under this Section 8.7).
8.8
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Direct
Rollovers. This Section 8.8 applies to distributions made
on or after
January 1, 1993. Notwithstanding any provision in the Plan
to the
contrary, a Participant may elect to have all or any portion
of an
Eligible Rollover Distribution paid directly to an Eligible
Retirement
Plan in a Direct Rollover. If a Participant elects a Direct
Rollover of
only a portion of an Eligible Rollover Distribution, the
Plan
Administrator may require that the amount being rolled
over equals at
least $500.
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For
purposes of this Section 8.8, a Participant includes a Participant
or former
Participant. In addition, this Section applies to any distribution
from the Plan
made to a Participant's surviving spouse or to a Participant's spouse
or former
spouse who is the Alternate Payee under a QDRO, as defined in Section
22.151.
If
it is
reasonable to expect (at the time of the distribution) that the total
amount the
Participant will receive as a distribution during the calendar year
will total
less than $200, the Employer need not offer the Participant a Direct
Rollover
option with respect to such distribution.
(a)
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Eligible
Rollover Distribution. An Eligible Rollover Distribution
is any
distribution of all or any portion of a Participant's Account
Balance,
except for the following distributions:
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(1)
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any
distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal
periodic
payments (not less frequently than annually) made for the
life (or Life
Expectancy) of the Participant or the joint lives (or joint
Life
Expectancies) of the Participant and the Participant's
Beneficiary, or for
a specified period of ten years or more;
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(2)
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any
distribution to the extent such distribution is a required
minimum
distribution under Article 10;
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(3)
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the
portion of any distribution that is not includible in gross
income
(determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized
appreciation with respect to Employer securities);
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(4)
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an
in-service Hardship withdrawal of Section 401(k) Deferrals,
as described
in subsection (e)below; and
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(5)
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a
distribution made to satisfy the requirements of Code ?415,
as described
in Article 7, or a distribution to correct Excess Deferrals,
Excess
Contributions or Excess Aggregate Contributions, as described
in Article
17.
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(b)
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Eligible
Retirement Plan. An Eligible Retirement Plan is:
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(1)
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an
individual retirement account described in ?408(a) of the
Code;
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(2)
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an
individual retirement annuity described in ?408(b) of the
Code;
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(3)
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an
annuity plan described in ?403(a) of the Code; or
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(4)
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a
qualified plan described in ?401(a) of the Code.
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However,
in the case of an Eligible Rollover Distribution to a surviving spouse,
an
Eligible Retirement Plan is only an individual retirement account
or individual
retirement annuity.
(c)
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Direct
Rollover. A Direct Rollover is a payment made directly
from the Plan to
the Eligible Retirement Plan specified by the Participant.
The Plan
Administrator may develop reasonable procedures for accommodating
Direct
Rollover requests.
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(d)
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Direct
Rollover notice. A Participant entitled to an Eligible
Rollover
Distribution must receive a written explanation of his/her
right to a
Direct Rollover, the tax consequences of not making a Direct
Rollover,
and, if applicable, any available special income tax elections.
The notice
must be provided within the same 30 - 90 day timeframe
applicable to the
Participant consent notice under Section 8.7(a). The Direct
Rollover
notice must be provided to all Participants, unless the
total amount the
Participant will receive as a distribution during the calendar
year is
expected to be less than $200.
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If
a
Participant terminates employment with a total vested Account Balance
of $5,000
or less (as determined under Section 8.3(e)) and the Participant
does not
respond to the Direct Rollover notice indicating whether a Direct
Rollover is
desired and the name of the Eligible Retirement Plan to which the
Direct
Rollover is to be made, the Plan Administrator will distribute the
Participant's
entire vested Account Balance (in accordance with Section 8.3(b))
no earlier
than 30 days and no later than 90 days following the provision of
the notice
under Section 8.7. The notice will describe the procedures for making
a default
distribution under this paragraph, including any rules for making
a default
Direct Rollover to an IRA. Any default provisions described under
the notice
must be applied uniformly and in a nondiscriminatory manner. If the
notice
provides for a default Direct Rollover, the default distribution
will be made as
a Direct Rollover to the IRA designated under the notice. The notice
must
contain pertinent information regarding the Direct Rollover, including
the name,
address, and telephone number of the IRA trustee and information
regarding IRA
maintenance and withdrawal fees and how the IRA funds will be invested.
The
notice will describe the timing of the Direct Rollover and the Participant's
ability to affirmatively opt out of the Direct Rollover. The selection
of an IRA
trustee, custodian or issuer and the selection of IRA investments
for purposes
of a default Direct Rollover constitutes a fiduciary act subject
to the general
fiduciary standards and prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA.
(e)
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Special
rules for Hardship withdrawals of Section 401(k) Deferrals.
A Hardship
withdrawal of Section 401(k) Deferrals (as described in
Code
?401(k)(2)(B)(i)(IV)) is not an Eligible Rollover Distribution
to the
extent such withdrawal is made after December 31, 1998
or, if later, the
first day (but not later than January 1, 2000) that the
Plan Administrator
begins to treat such Hardship withdrawals as ineligible
for rollover.
Subject to any contrary pronouncement under statute, regulation
or IRS
guidance, the Employer may treat a Hardship withdrawal
of Section 401(k)
Deferrals as an Eligible Rollover Distribution if the Participant
otherwise satisfies a non-Hardship distribution event described
in Code
?401(k)(2) or (10) at the time of the withdrawal, regardless
of whether
the Plan's procedures characterizes such distribution as
a Hardship
withdrawal.
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8.9
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Sources
of Distribution. Unless provided otherwise in separate
administrative
provisions adopted by the Plan Administrator, in applying
the distribution
provisions under this Article 8, distributions will be
made on a pro rata
basis from all Accounts from which a distribution is permitted
under this
Article. Alternatively, the Plan Administrator may permit
Participants to
direct the Plan Administrator as to from which Account
the distribution is
to be made. Regardless of a Participant's direction as
to the source of
any distribution, the tax effect of such a distribution
will be governed
by Code ?72 and the regulations thereunder.
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(a)
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Exception
for Hardship withdrawals. If the Plan permits a Hardship
withdrawal from
both Section 401(k) Deferrals and Employer Contributions,
a Hardship
distribution will first be treated as having been made
from a
Participant's Employer Contribution Account and then from
the Employer's
Matching Contribution Account, to the extent such Hardship
distribution is
available with respect to such Accounts. Only when all
available amounts
have been exhausted under the Participant's Employer Contribution
Account
and/or Employer Matching Contribution Account will a Hardship
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distribution
be made from a Participant's Section 401(k) Deferral Account. The
Plan
Administrator may modify this provision in separate administrative
procedures.
8.10
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In-kind
distributions. Nothing in this Article precludes the Plan
Administrator
from making a distribution in the form of property, or
other in-kind
distribution
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ARTICLE
9JOINT AND SURVIVOR ANNUITY REQUIREMENTS
This
Article provides rules concerning the application of the Joint and
Survivor
Annuity requirements under this Plan. Part 11, #41.b. of the Agreement
[Part 11,
#59.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] permits the Employer
to apply the
Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements to all Participants under
the Plan. If
the Employer does not elect to apply the Joint and Survivor Annuity
requirements
to all Participants, the Plan is only subject to the Joint and Survivor
Annuity
requirements to the extent required under Section 9.1(b) of this
Article.
9.1
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Applicability.
Regardless of whether this Plan is a profit sharing plan
or a 401(k) plan,
the following rules apply.
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(a)
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Election
to have requirements apply. If the Employer elects under
Part 11, #41.b.
of the profit sharing plan Agreement or Part 11, #59.b.
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement to apply the Joint and Survivor
Annuity
requirements, then this Article 9 applies to any distribution
received by
a Participant under the profit sharing plan or the 401(k)
plan, except as
provided in Section 9.6, below.
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(b)
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Election
to have requirements not apply. If the Employer elects
under Part 11,
#41.a. of the profit sharing plan Agreement or Part 11,
#59.a. of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement not to apply the Joint
and Survivor
Annuity requirements, this Article 9 generally will not
apply to
distributions from the Plan. However, the rules of this
Article 9 will
apply to a Participant under the following conditions:
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(1)
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the
Participant elects to receive his/her benefit in the form
of a life
annuity (if a life annuity is a permissible distribution
option under Part
11 of the Agreement); or
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(2)
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the
Participant has received a direct or indirect transfer
of benefits (other
than a Qualified Transfer as defined in Section 3.3(d))
from any plan
which was subject to the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements
at the
time of the transfer (but only to such transferred benefits);
or
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(3)
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the
Participant's benefits under the Plan are used to offset
the benefits
under another plan of the Employer that is subject to the
Joint and
Survivor Annuity requirements.
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Nothing
in this subsection (b) prohibits a Plan Administrator from developing
administrative procedures that apply the spousal consent requirements
outlined
in this Article 9 to a Plan that is not otherwise subject to the
Joint and
Survivor Annuity requirements. For example, the Plan Administrator
may require
under separate administrative procedures to require spousal consent
to
Participant distributions or may in a separate loan procedure require
spousal
consent prior to granting a Participant loan, without subjecting
the Plan to the
Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements.
(c)
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Reserved.
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9.2
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Qualified
Joint and Survivor Annuity (QJSA). If the Joint and Survivor
Annuity
requirements apply to a Participant, any distribution from
the Plan to
that Participant must be in the form of a QJSA (as defined
in Section
9.4(a)), unless the Participant (and the Participant's
spouse, if the
Participant is married) elects to receive the distribution
in an
alternative form, as authorized under Part 11 of the Agreement.
Any
election of an alternative form of distribution must be
pursuant to a
Qualified Election. Only the Participant needs consent
(pursuant to
Section 8.7) to the commencement of a distribution in the
form of a QJSA.
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9.3
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Qualified
Preretirement Survivor Xxxxxxx (QPSA). If the Joint and
Survivor Annuity
requirements apply to a Participant who dies before the
Distribution
Commencement Date, the spouse of that Participant is entitled
to receive a
QPSA (as defined in Section 9.4(b)), unless the Participant
and spouse
have waived the QPSA pursuant to a Qualified Election.
The Employer may
elect under Part 11, #41.c. of the Agreement [Part 11,
#59.c. of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] that a surviving spouse
is not entitled
to a QPSA benefit if the Participant and surviving spouse
were not married
throughout the one year period ending on the date of the
Participant's
death. Any portion of a Participant's vested Account Balance
that is not
payable to the surviving spouse as a QPSA (or other form
elected by the
surviving spouse) constitutes a non-QPSA death benefit
and is payable
under the rules described in Section 8.4.
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9.4
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Definitions.
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(a)
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Qualified
Joint and Survivor Annuity (QJSA). A QJSA is an immediate
annuity payable
over the life of the Participant with a survivor annuity
payable over the
life of the spouse. If the Participant is not married as
of the
Distribution Commencement Date, the QJSA is an immediate
annuity payable
over the life of the Participant. The survivor annuity
must provide for
payments to the surviving spouse equal to 50% of the payments
that the
Participant is entitled under the annuity during the joint
lives of the
Participant and the spouse. The Employer may elect under
Part 11, #41.b.
of the Agreement [Part 11, #59.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement]
to make payments to the surviving spouse equal to 100%,
75% or 66-2/3%
(instead of 50%) of the payments the Participant is entitled
to under the
annuity.
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(b)
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Qualified
Preretirement Survivor Xxxxxxx (QPSA). A QPSA is an annuity
payable over
the life of the surviving spouse that is purchased using
50% of the
Participant's vested Account Balance as of the date of
death. The Employer
may elect under Part 11, #41.b. of the Agreement [Part
11, #59.b. of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to provide a QPSA equal
to 100% (instead
of 50%) of the Participant's vested Account Balance. The
remaining vested
Account Balance will be distributed in accordance with
the death
distribution provisions under Section 8.4. To the extent
the Participant's
vested Account Balance is derived from Employee After-Tax
Contributions,
the QPSA will share in the Employee After-Tax Contributions
in the same
proportion as the Employee After-Tax Contributions bear
to the total
vested Account Balance of the Participant.
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The
surviving spouse may elect to have the QPSA distributed at any time
following
the Participant's death (subject to the required minimum distribution
rules
under Article 10) and may elect to receive distribution in any form
permitted
under Section 8.1 of the Plan. If the surviving spouse fails to elect
distribution upon the Participant's death, the QPSA benefit will
be distributed
in accordance with Section 8.4.
(c)
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Distribution
Commencement Date. The Distribution Commencement Date is
the date an
Employee commences distributions from the Plan. If a Participant
commences
distribution with respect to a portion of his/her Account
Balance, a
separate Distribution Commencement Date applies to any
subsequent
distribution. If distribution is made in the form of an
annuity, the
Distribution Commencement Date is the first day of the
first period for
which annuity payments are made.
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(d)
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Qualified
Election. A Participant (and the Participant's spouse)
may waive the QJSA
or QPSA pursuant to a Qualified Election. If it is established
to the
satisfaction of a plan representative that there is no
spouse or that the
spouse cannot be located, any waiver signed by the Participant
is deemed
to be a Qualified Election. For this purpose, a Participant
will be deemed
to not have a spouse if the Participant is legally separated
or has been
abandoned and the Participant has a court order to such
effect. However, a
former spouse of the Participant will be treated as the
spouse or
surviving spouse and any current spouse will not be treated
as the spouse
or surviving spouse to the extent provided under a QDRO.
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A
Qualified Election is a written election signed by both the Participant
and the
Participant's spouse (if applicable) that specifically acknowledges
the effect
of the election. The spouse's consent must be witnessed by a plan
representative
or notary public. In the case of a waiver of the QJSA, the election
must
designate an alternative form of benefit payment that may not be
changed without
spousal consent (unless the spouse enters into a general consent
agreement
expressly permitting the Participant to change the form of payment
without any
further spousal consent). In the case of a waiver of the QPSA, the
election must
be made within the QPSA Election Period and the election must designate
a
specific alternate Beneficiary, including any class of Beneficiaries
or any
contingent Beneficiaries, which may not be changed without spousal
consent
(unless the spouse enters into a general consent agreement expressly
permitting
the Participant to change the Beneficiary designation without any
further
spousal consent).
Any
consent by a spouse under a Qualified Election (or a determination
that the
consent of a spouse is not required) shall be effective only with
respect to
such spouse. If the Qualified Election permits the Participant to
change a
payment form or Beneficiary designation without any further consent
by the
spouse, the Qualified Election must acknowledge that the spouse has
the right to
limit consent to a specific form of benefit or a specific Beneficiary,
as
applicable, and that the spouse voluntarily elects to relinquish
either or both
of such rights. A Participant or spouse may revoke a prior waiver
of the QPSA
benefit at any time before the commencement of benefits. Spousal
consent is not
required for a Participant to revoke a prior QPSA waiver. No consent
obtained
under this provision shall be valid unless the Participant has received
notice
as provided in Section 9.5 below.
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(e)
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QPSA
Election Period. A Participant (and the Participant's spouse)
may waive
the QPSA at any time during the QPSA Election Period. The
QPSA Election
Period is the period beginning on the first day of the
Plan Year in which
the Participant attains age 35 and ending on the date of
the Participant's
death. If a Participant separates from service prior to
the first day of
the Plan Year in which age 35 is attained, with respect
to the Account
Balance as of the date of separation, the QPSA Election
Period begins on
the date of separation.
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(f)
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Pre-Age
35 Waiver. A Participant who has not yet attained age 35
as of the end of
a Plan Year may make a special Qualified Election to waive,
with spousal
consent, the QPSA for the period beginning on the date
of such election
and ending on the first day of the Plan Year in which the
Participant will
attain age 35. Such election is not valid unless the Participant
receives
the proper notice required under Section 9.5 below. QPSA
coverage is
automatically reinstated as of the first day of the Plan
Year in which the
Participant attains age 35. Any new waiver on or after
such date must
satisfy all the requirements for a Qualified Election.
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9.5
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Notice
Requirements.
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(a)
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QJSA.
In the case of a QJSA, the Plan Administrator shall provide
each
Participant with a written explanation of: (1) the terms
and conditions of
the QJSA; (2) the Participant's right to make and the effect
of an
election to waive the QJSA form of benefit; (3) the rights
of the
Participant's spouse; and (4) the right to make, and the
effect of, a
revocation of a previous election to waive the QJSA. The
notice must be
provided to each Participant under the Plan no less than
30 days and no
more than 90 days prior to the Distribution Commencement
Date.
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A
Participant may commence receiving a distribution in a form other
than a QJSA
less than 30 days after receipt of the written explanation described
in the
preceding paragraph provided: (1) the Participant has been provided
with
information that clearly indicates that the Participant has at least
30 days to
consider whether to waive the QJSA and elect (with spousal consent)
a form of
distribution other than a QJSA; (2) the Participant is permitted
to revoke any
affirmative distribution election at least until the Distribution
Commencement
Date or, if later, at any time prior to the expiration of the 7-day
period that
begins the day after the explanation of the QJSA is provided to the
Participant;
and (3) the Distribution Commencement Date is after the date the
written
explanation was provided to the Participant. For distributions on
or after
December 31, 1996, the Distribution Commencement Date may be a date
prior to the
date the written explanation is provided to the Participant if the
distribution
does not commence until at least 30 days after such written explanation
is
provided, subject to the waiver of the 30-day period.
(b)
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QPSA.
In the case of a QPSA, the Plan Administrator shall provide
each
Participant within the applicable period for such Participant
a written
explanation of the QPSA in such terms and in such manner
as would be
comparable to the explanation provided for the QJSA in
subsection (a)
above. The applicable period for a Participant is whichever
of the
following periods ends last: (1) the period beginning with
the first day
of the Plan Year in which the Participant attains age 32
and ending with
the close of the Plan Year preceding the Plan Year in which
the
Participant attains age 35; (2) a reasonable period ending
after the
individual becomes a Participant; or (3) a reasonable period
ending after
the joint and survivor annuity requirements first apply
to the
Participant. 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 35.
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For
purposes of applying the preceding paragraph, a reasonable period
ending after
the enumerated events described in (2) and (3) is the end of the
two-year period
beginning one year prior to the date the applicable event occurs,
and ending one
year after that date. In the case of a Participant who separates
from service
before the Plan Year in which age 35 is attained, notice shall be
provided
within the two-year period beginning one year prior to separation
and ending one
year after separation. If such a Participant thereafter returns to
employment
with the employer, the applicable period for such Participant shall
be
redetermined.
9.6
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Exception
to the Joint and Survivor Annuity Requirements. Except
as provided in
Section 9.7, this Article 9 does not apply to any Participant
who has not
earned an Hour of Service with the Employer on or after
August 23, 1984.
In addition, if, as of the Distribution Commencement Date,
the
Participant's vested Account Balance (for pre-death distributions)
or the
value of the QPSA death benefit (for post-death distributions)
does not
exceed $5,000, the Participant or surviving spouse, as
applicable, will
receive a lump sum distribution pursuant to Section 8.4(b)(1),
in lieu of
any QJSA or QPSA benefits. (See Section 8.3(e) for special
rules for
calculating the value of a Participant's vested Account
Balance.)
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9.7
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Transitional
Rules. Any living Participant not receiving benefits on
August 23, 1984,
who would otherwise not receive the benefits prescribed
under this Article
9 must be given the opportunity to elect to have the
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preceding
provisions of this Article 9 apply if such Participant is credited
with at least
one Hour of Service under this Plan or a predecessor plan in a Plan
Year
beginning on or after January 1, 1976, and such Participant had at
least 10
years of vesting service when he or she separated from service. The
Participant
must be given the opportunity to elect to have this Article 9 apply
during the
period commencing on August 23, 1984, and ending on the date benefits
would
otherwise commence to such Participant. A Participant described in
this
paragraph who has not elected to have this Article 9 apply is subject
to the
rules in this Section 9.7 instead. Also, a Participant who does not
qualify to
elect to have this Article 9 apply because such Participant does
not have at
least 10 Years of Service for vesting purposes is subject to the
rules of this
Section 9.7.
Any
living Participant not receiving benefits on August 23, 1984, who
was credited
with at least one Hour of Service under this Plan or a predecessor
plan on or
after September 2, 1974, and who is not otherwise credited with any
service in a
Plan Year beginning on or after January 1, 1976, must be given the
opportunity
to have his/her benefits paid in accordance with the following paragraph.
The
Participant must be given the opportunity to elect to have this Section
9.7
apply (other than the first paragraph of this Section) during the
period
commencing on August 23, 1984, and ending on the date benefits would
otherwise
commence to such Participant.
If,
under
either of the preceding two paragraphs, a Participant is subject
to this Section
9.7, the following rules apply.
(a)
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Automatic
joint and survivor annuity. If benefits in the form of
a life annuity
become payable to a married Participant who:
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(1)
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begins
to receive payments under the Plan on or after Normal Retirement
Age;
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(2)
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dies
on or after Normal Retirement Age while still working for
the Employer;
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(3)
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begins
to receive payments on or after the Qualified Early Retirement
Age; or
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(4)
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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;
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then
such
benefits will be received under this plan in the form of a QJSA,
unless the
Participant has elected otherwise during the election period. For
this purpose,
the election period must begin at least 6 months before the participant
attains
Qualified Early Retirement Age and end not more than 90 days before
the
commencement of benefits. Any election hereunder will be in writing
and may be
changed by the Participant at any time.
(b)
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Election
of early survivor annuity. 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 that would have
been made to
the spouse under the QJSA 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. For this
purpose, the
election period begins on the later of (1) the 90th 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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(c)
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Qualified
Early Retirement Age. The Qualified Early Retirement Age
is the latest of:
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(1)
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the
earliest date, under the plan, on which the Participant
may elect to
receive retirement benefits,
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(2)
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the
first day of the 120th month beginning before the Participant
reaches
Normal Retirement Age, or
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(3)
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the
date the Participant begins participation under the Plan.
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ARTICLE
10 REQUIRED DISTRIBUTIONS
This
Article provides for the required commencement of distributions upon
certain
events. In addition, this Article places limitations on the period
over which
distributions may be made to a Participant or Beneficiary. To the
extent the
distribution provisions of this Plan, particularly Articles 8 and
9, are
inconsistent with the provisions of this Article 10, the provisions
of this
Article control. Part 13 of the Agreement contains specific elections
for
applying the rules under this Article 10.
10.1
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Required
Distributions Before Death.
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(a)
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Deferred
distributions. A Participant must be permitted to receive
a distribution
from the Plan no later than the 60th day after the latest
of the close of
the Plan Year in which:
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(1)
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the
Participant attains age 65 (or Normal Retirement Age, if
earlier);
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(2)
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occurs
the 10th anniversary of the year in which the Participant
commenced
participation in the Plan; or,
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(3)
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the
Participant terminates service with the Employer.
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(b)
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Required
minimum distributions. The entire interest of a Participant
must be
distributed or begin to be distributed no later than the
Participant's
Required Beginning Date (as defined in Section 10.3(a))
over one of the
following periods (or a combination thereof):
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(1)
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the
life of the Participant,
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(2)
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the
life of the Participant and a Designated Beneficiary,
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(3)
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a
period certain not extending beyond the Life Expectancy
of the
Participant, or
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(4)
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a
period certain not extending beyond the joint and last
survivor Life
Expectancy of the Participant and a Designated Beneficiary.
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f
the
Participant's interest is to be distributed over a period designated
under
subsection (3) or (4) above, the amount required to be distributed
for each
calendar year must at least equal the quotient obtained by dividing
the
Participant's Benefit (as determined under Section 10.3(g)) by the
lesser of (i)
the Applicable Life Expectancy or (ii) if the Participant's Designated
Beneficiary is not his/her spouse, the minimum distribution incidental
benefit
factor set forth in Q&A-4 of Prop. Treas. Reg. ?401(a)(9)-2. Distributions
after the death of the Participant shall be determined using the
Applicable Life
Expectancy as the relevant divisor regardless of the Participant's
Designated
Beneficiary.
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 Distribution Calendar Years, including
the
minimum distribution for the Distribution Calendar Year in which
the
Participant's Required Beginning Date occurs, must be made on or
before December
31 of that Distribution Calendar Year.
If
a
Participant receives a distribution in the form of an annuity purchased
from an
insurance company, distributions thereunder shall be made in accordance
with the
requirements of Code ?401(a)(9) and the regulations thereunder. For
calendar
years beginning before January 1, 1989, if the Participant's spouse
is not the
Designated Beneficiary, the method of distribution selected must
ensure that at
least 50% of the Present Value of the amount available for distribution
is paid
within the life expectancy of the Participant.
10.2
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Required
Distributions After Death.
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(a)
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Distribution
beginning before death. If the Participant dies after he/she
has begun
receiving distributions under Section 10.1(b), the remaining
portion of
the Participant's vested Account Balance shall continue
to be distributed
at least as rapidly as under the method of distribution
being used prior
to the Participant's death.
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(b)
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Distribution
beginning after death. Subject to the rules under Section
8.4(b), if the
Participant dies before receiving distributions under Section
10.1(b),
distribution of the Participant's entire vested Account
Balance shall be
completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing
the
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fifth
anniversary of the Participant's death, except to the extent an election
is made
to receive distributions in accordance with subsection (1) or (2)
below.
(1)
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To
the extent any portion of the Participant's vested Account
Balance is
payable to a Designated Beneficiary, distributions may
be made over the
life of the Designated Beneficiary or over a period certain
not greater
than the Life Expectancy of the Designated Beneficiary,
provided such
distributions begin on or before December 31 of the calendar
year
immediately following the calendar year in which the Participant
died.
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(2)
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If
the Designated Beneficiary is the Participant's surviving
spouse, he/she
may delay the distribution under subsection (1) until December
31 of the
calendar year in which the Participant would have attained
age 70-1/2, if
such date is later than the date described in subsection
(1).
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If
the
Participant has not made an election pursuant to this subsection
(b) by the time
of his/her death, the Participant's Designated Beneficiary must elect
the method
of distribution no later than the earlier of (1) December 31 of the
calendar
year in which distributions would be required to begin under this
subsection
(b), or (2) December 31 of the calendar year which contains the fifth
anniversary of the date of death of the Participant. If the Participant
has no
Designated Beneficiary, or if the Designated Beneficiary does not
elect a method
of distribution, distribution of the Participant's entire interest
must be
completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth
anniversary
of the Participant's death.
For
purposes of this subsection (b), if the surviving spouse dies after
the
Participant, but before payments to such spouse begin, the provisions
of this
subsection (b), with the exception of subsection (2) above, shall
be applied as
if the surviving spouse were the Participant.
(c)
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Treatment
of trust beneficiaries as Designated Beneficiaries. If
a trust is properly
named as a Beneficiary under the Plan, the beneficiaries
of the trust will
be treated as the Designated Beneficiaries of the Participant
solely for
purposes of determining the distribution period under this
Article 10 with
respect to the trust's interests in the Participant's vested
Account
Balance. The beneficiaries of a trust will be treated as
Designated
Beneficiaries for this purpose only if, as of the later
of the date the
trust is named as a Beneficiary of the Participant or the
Participant's
Required Beginning Date (and as of all subsequent periods
during which the
trust is named as a Beneficiary of the Participant), the
following
requirements are met:
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(1)
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the
trust is a valid trust under state law, or would be but
for the fact there
is no corpus;
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(2)
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the
trust is irrevocable or will, by its terms, become irrevocable
upon the
death of the Participant;
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(3)
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the
beneficiaries of the trust who are beneficiaries with respect
to the
trust's interests in the Participant's vested Account Balance
are
identifiable from the trust instrument; and
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(4)
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the
Plan Administrator receives the documentation described
in Question D-7 of
Proposed Treas. Reg. ?1.401(a)(9)-1, as subsequently amended
or finally
adopted.
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If
the
foregoing requirements are satisfied and the Plan Administrator receives
such
additional information as it may request, the Plan Administrator
may treat such
beneficiaries of the trust as Designated Beneficiaries.
(d)
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Trust
beneficiary qualifying for marital deduction. If a Beneficiary
is a trust
(other than an estate marital trust) that is intended to
qualify for the
federal estate tax marital deduction under Code ?2056 ("marital
trust"),
then:
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(1)
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in
no event will the annual amount distributed from the Plan
to the marital
trust be less than the greater of:
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(i)
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all
fiduciary accounting income with respect to such Beneficiary's
interest in
the Plan, as determined by the trustee of the marital trust,
or
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(ii)
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the
minimum distribution required under this Article 10;
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(2)
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the
trustee of the marital trust (or the trustee's legal representative)
shall
be responsible for calculating the amount to be distributed
under
subsection (1) above and shall instruct the Plan Administrator
in writing
to distribute such amount to the marital trust;
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(3)
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the
trustee of the marital trust may from time to time notify
the Plan
Administrator in writing to accelerate payment of all or
any part of the
portion of such Beneficiary's interest that remains to
be distributed, and
may also notify the Plan Administrator to change the frequency
of
distributions (but not less often than annually); and
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(4)
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the
trustee of the marital trust shall be responsible for characterizing
the
amounts so distributed form the Plan as income or principle
under
applicable state laws.
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10.3
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Definitions.
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(a)
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Required
Beginning Date. A Participant's Required Beginning Date
is the date
designated under subsection (1)(i) or (ii) below, as applicable,
unless
the Employer elects under Part 13, #52 of the Agreement
[Part 13, #70 of
the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to apply the Old-Law
Required
Beginning Date, as described in subsection (2) below. If
the Employer does
not select the Old-Law Required Beginning Date under Part
13, #52 of the
Agreement [Part 13, #70 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement],
the
Required Beginning Date rules under subsection (1) below
apply. (But see
Section 10.4 for special rules dealing with operational
compliance with
the GUST Legislation.)
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(1)
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"New-law"
Required Beginning Date. If the Employer does not elect
to apply the
Old-Law Required Beginning Date under Part 13, #52 of the
Agreement [Part
13, #70 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], a Participant's
Required
Beginning Date under the Plan is:
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(i)
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For
Five-Percent Owners. April 1 that follows the end of the
calendar year in
which the Participant attains age 70-1/2.
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(ii)
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For
Participants other than Five-Percent Owners. April 1 that
follows the end
of the calendar year in which the later of the following
two events
occurs:
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(A)
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the
Participant attains age 70-1/2 or
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(B)
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the
Participant retires.
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If
a
Participant is not a Five-Percent Owner for the Plan Year that ends
with or
within the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 70-1/2,
and the
Participant has not retired by the end of such calendar year, his/her
Required
Beginning Date is April 1 that follows the end of the first subsequent
calendar
year in which the Participant becomes a Five-Percent Owner or retires.
A
Participant may begin in-service distributions prior to his/her Required
Beginning Date only to the extent authorized under Article 10 and
Part 9 of the
Agreement. However, if this Plan were amended to add the Required
Beginning Date
rules under this subsection (1), a Participant who attained age 70-1/2
prior to
January 1, 1999 (or, if later, January 1 following the date the Plan
is first
amended to contain the Required Beginning Date rules under this subsection
(1))
may receive in-service minimum distributions in accordance with the
terms of the
Plan in existence prior to such amendment.
(2)
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Old-Law
Required Beginning Date. If the Old-Law Required Beginning
Date is elected
under Part 13, #52 of the Agreement [Part 13, #70 of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the Required Beginning Date
for all
Participants will be determined under subsection (1)(i)
above, without
regard to the rule in subsection (1)(ii). The Required
Beginning Date for
all Participants under the Plan will be April 1 of the
calendar year
following attainment of age 70-1/2.
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(b)
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Five-Percent
Owner. A Participant is a Five-Percent Owner for purposes
of this Section
if such Participant is a Five-Percent Owner (as defined
in Section 22.88)
at any time during the Plan Year ending with or within
the calendar year
in which the Participant attains age 70-1/2. Once distributions
have begun
to a Five-Percent Owner under this Article, they must continue
to be
distributed, even if the Participant ceases to be a Five-Percent
Owner in
a subsequent year.
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(c)
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Designated
Beneficiary. A Beneficiary designated by the Participant
(or the Plan),
whose Life Expectancy may be taken into account to calculate
minimum
distributions, pursuant to Code ?401(a)(9) and the regulations
thereunder.
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(d)
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Applicable
Life Expectancy. The determination of the Applicable Life
Expectancy
depends on whether the term certain method or the recalculation
method is
being use to adjust the Life
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Expectancy
in each Distribution Calendar Year. The recalculation method may
only be used to
determine the Life Expectancy of the Participant and/or the Participant's
spouse. The recalculation method is not available with respect to
a nonspousal
Designated Beneficiary.
If
the
Designated Beneficiary is the Participant's spouse, or if the Participant's
(or
surviving spouse's) single life expectancy is the Applicable Life
Expectancy,
the term certain method is used unless the recalculation method is
elected by
the Participant (or by the surviving spouse). If the Designated Beneficiary
is
not the Participant's spouse, the term certain method is used to
determine the
Life Expectancy of both the Participant and the Designated Beneficiary,
unless
the recalculation method is elected by the Participant with respect
to his/her
Life Expectancy. The term certain method will always apply for purposes
of
determining the Applicable Life Expectancy of a nonspousal Designated
Beneficiary. An election to recalculate Life Expectancy (or the failure
to elect
recalculation) shall be irrevocable as of the Participant's Required
Beginning
Date as to the Participant (or spouse) and shall apply to all subsequent
years.
If
the
term certain method is being used, the Life Expectancy determined
for the first
Distribution Calendar Year is reduced by one for each subsequent
Distribution
Year. If the recalculation method is used, the following rules apply:
(1)
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If
the Life Expectancy is the Participant's (or surviving
spouse's) single
Life Expectancy, the Applicable Life Expectancy is redetermined
for each
Distribution Year based on the Participant's (or surviving
spouse's) age
on his/her birthday which falls in such year.
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(2)
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If
the Life Expectancy is a joint and last survivor Life Expectancy
based on
the ages of the Participant and the Participant's spouse,
and the
recalculation method is elected with respect to both the
Participant and
his/her spouse, the Applicable Life Expectancy is redetermined
for each
Distribution Year based on the ages of the individuals
on their birthdays
that fall in such year.
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(3)
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If
the Life Expectancy is a joint and last survivor Life Expectancy
based on
the ages of the Participant and the Participant's spouse,
and the
recalculation method is elected with respect to only one
such individual,
or if the Life Expectancy is a joint and last survivor
Life Expectancy
based on the ages of the Participant and a nonspousal Designated
Beneficiary, and the recalculation method is elected with
respect to the
Participant, the Applicable Life Expectancy is determined
in accordance
with the procedures outlined in Prop. Treas. Reg. ?1.401(a)(9)-1,
E-8(b),
or other applicable guidance.
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(e)
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Life
Expectancy. For purposes of determining a Participant's
required minimum
distribution amount, Life Expectancy and joint and last
survivor Life
Expectancy are computed using the expected return multiples
in Tables V
and VI of ?1.72-9 of the Income Tax Regulations.
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(f)
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Distribution
Calendar Year. A calendar year for which a minimum distribution
is
required. For distributions beginning before the Participant's
death, the
first Distribution Calendar Year is the calendar year immediately
preceding the calendar year that contains the Participant's
Required
Beginning Date. For distributions beginning after the Participant's
death,
the first Distribution Calendar Year is the calendar year
in which
distributions are required to begin pursuant to Section
10.2.
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(g)
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Participant's
Benefit. For purposes of determining a Participant's required
minimum
distribution, the Participant's Benefit is determined based
on his/her
Account Balance as of the last Valuation Date in the calendar
year
immediately preceding the Distribution Calendar Year increased
by the
amount of any contributions or forfeitures allocated to
the Account
Balance as of dates in the Distribution Calendar Year after
the Valuation
Date and decreased by distributions made in the Distribution
Calendar Year
after the Valuation Date.
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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.
10.4
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GUST
Elections. If this Plan is being restated to comply with
the GUST
Legislation (as defined in Section 22.96), Appendix B-2
of the Agreement
permits the Employer to designate how it operated this
Plan in compliance
with the required minimum distribution rules for years
prior to the date
the Plan is adopted.
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(a)
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Distributions
under Old-Law Required Beginning Date rules. Unless the
Employer
specifically elects to apply the Old-Law Required Beginning
Date rule
under Part 13, #52 of the Agreement [Part 13, #70 of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the Required Beginning Date
rules (as
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described
in Section 10.3(a)(1)) apply. However, if prior to the adoption of
this
Prototype Plan, the terms of the Plan reflected the Old-Law Required
Beginning
Date rules, minimum distributions for such years are required to
be calculated
in accordance with that Old-Law Required Beginning Date, except to
the extent
any operational elections described in subsection (b) or (c) below
applied.
(b)
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Option
to postpone distributions. For calendar years beginning
after December 31,
1996 and prior to the restatement of this Plan to comply
with the GUST
changes, the Plan may have permitted Participants (other
than Five-Percent
Owners) who would otherwise have begun receiving minimum
distributions
under the terms of the Plan in effect for such years to
postpone receiving
their minimum distributions until the Required Beginning
Date under
Section 10.3(a)(1), even though the terms of the Plan (prior
to the
restatement) did not permit such an election. Appendix
B-2.a. of the
Agreement permits the Employer to specify the years during
which
Participants were permitted to postpone receiving minimum
distributions
under the Plan. Appendix B-2 need not be completed if Participants
were
not provided the option to postpone receiving minimum distributions,
either because the Plan used the "Old-Law" Required Beginning
Date rules
or because the Plan made distributions under the "New-Law"
Required
Beginning Date rules and contained other optional forms
of benefit under
its general elective distribution provisions that preserved
the optional
forms of benefit under the "Old Law Required Beginning
Date" rules.
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(c)
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Election
to stop minimum required distributions. A Participant (other
than a
Five-Percent Owner) who began receiving minimum distributions
in
accordance with the Old-Law Required Beginning Date rules
under the Plan
prior to the date the Plan was amended to comply with the
GUST changes
generally must continue to receive such minimum distributions,
even if the
Participant is still employed with the Employer. However,
prior to the
restatement of this Plan to comply with the GUST changes,
the Plan may
have permitted Participants to stop minimum distributions
if they had not
reached the Required Beginning Date described in Section
10.3(a)(1), even
though the terms of the Plan did not permit such an election.
Under
Appendix B-2.b. of the Agreement, the Employer may designate
the year in
which Participants were permitted to stop receiving minimum
distributions
in accordance with this subsection (c). A Participant must
recommence
minimum distributions as required under the Required Beginning
Date rules
applicable under this restated Plan.
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A
Participant's election to stop and recommence distributions is subject
to the
spousal consent requirements under Article 9 (if the Plan is otherwise
subject
to the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements) and is subject to
the terms of
any applicable QDRO. The manner in which the Plan must comply with
the spousal
consent requirements depends on whether or not the Employer elects
under
Appendix B-2.c. of the Agreement to have the recommencement of benefits
constitute a new Distribution Commencement Date. If the Plan is not
otherwise
subject to the Joint and Survivor Annuity requirements, Appendix
B-2.c. need not
be completed.
(1)
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New
Distribution Commencement Date. If the Employer elects
under Appendix
B-2.c.(1) of the Agreement that recommencement of benefits
will create a
new Distribution Commencement Date, no spousal consent
is required for a
Participant to elect to stop distributions, except where
such
distributions are being paid in the form of a QJSA. Where
such
distributions are being paid in the form of a QJSA, in
order to comply
with this subsection (1), the person who was the Participant's
spouse on
the original Distribution Commencement Date must consent
to the election
to stop distributions and the spouse's consent must acknowledge
the effect
of the election. Because there is a new Distribution Commencement
Date
upon recommencement of benefits, the Plan, in order to
satisfy this
subsection (1), must comply with all of the requirements
of Article 9 upon
such recommencement, including payment of a QPSA (as defined
in Section
9.4(b)) if the Participant dies before the new Distribution
Commencement
Date.
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(2)
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No
new Distribution Commencement Date. If the Employer elects
under Appendix
B-2.c.(2) of the Agreement that recommencement of benefits
will not create
a new Distribution Commencement Date, no spousal consent
is required for
the Participant to elect to stop required minimum distributions
prior to
retirement. In addition, no spousal consent is required
when payments
recommence to the Participant if:
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(i)
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payments
recommence to the Participant with the same Beneficiary
and in a form of
benefit that is the same but for the cessation of distributions;
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(ii)
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the
individual who was the Participant's spouse on the Distribution
Commencement Date executed a general consent within the
meaning of
?1.401(a)-20, A-31 of the regulations; or
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(iii)
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the
individual who was the Participant's spouse on the Distribution
Commencement Date executed a specific consent to waive
a QJSA within the
meaning of ?1.401(a)-20, A-31, and the Participant is
not married to that
individual when benefits recommence.
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To
qualify under this subsection (2), consent of the individual who
was the
Participant's spouse on the Distribution Commencement Date is required
prior to
recommencement of distributions if the Participant chooses to recommence
benefits in a different form than the form in which benefits were
being
distributed prior to the cessation of distributions or with a different
Beneficiary. Consent of the Participant's spouse is also required
if the
original form of distribution was a QJSA (as defined in Section
9.4(a)) or the
spouse originally executed a specific consent to waive the QJSA
within the
meaning of ?1.401(a)-20, A-31, of the regulations, and the Participant
is still
married to that individual when benefits recommence.
10.5
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Transitional
Rule:
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The
minimum distribution requirements in Section 10.2 do not apply
if distribution
of the Participant's Account Balance is subject to a TEFRA ?242(b)(2)
election.
A TEFRA ?242(b) election overrides the minimum required distribution
rules only
if the following requirements are satisfied.
(a)
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The
distribution by the Plan is one that would not have disqualified
the Plan
under ?401(a)(9) of the Code as in effect prior to amendment
by the
Deficit Reduction Act of 1984.
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(b)
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The
distribution is in accordance with a method of distribution
designated by
the Participant whose interest in the Plan is being distributed
or, if the
Participant is deceased, by a Beneficiary of such Participant.
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(c)
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Such
designation was in writing, was signed by the Participant
or the
Beneficiary, and was made before January 1, 1984.
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(d)
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The
Participant had accrued a benefit under the Plan as of
December 31, 1983.
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(e)
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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.
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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.
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 subsections (a) and (e) above.
If
a
designation is revoked any subsequent distribution must satisfy
the requirements
of Code ?401(a)(9) and the proposed 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 ?401(a)(9)
and the
proposed regulations thereunder, but for the TEFRA ?242(b)(2) election.
For
calendar years beginning after December 31, 1988, such distributions
must meet
the minimum distribution incidental benefit requirements in ?1.401(a)(9)-2
of
the proposed regulations (or other applicable 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 Questions J-2 and J-3 of ?1.401(a)(9)-1 of the
proposed
regulations (or other applicable regulations) shall apply.
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ARTICLE
11 PLAN
ADMINISTRATION AND SPECIAL OPERATING RULES
This
Article describes the duties and responsibilities of the Plan Administrator.
In
addition, this Article sets forth default QDRO procedures and benefit
claims
procedures, as well as special operating rules when an Employer
is a member of a
Related Employer group and when there is a Short Plan Year. Provisions
related
to Plan accounting and investments are contained in Article 13.
11.1
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Plan
Administrator. The Employer is the Plan Administrator,
unless the Employer
designates in writing another person or persons as the
Plan Administrator.
The Employer may designate the Plan Administrator by
name, by reference to
the person or group of persons holding a certain position,
by reference to
a procedure under which the Plan Administrator is designated,
or by
reference to a person or group of persons charged with
the specific
responsibilities of Plan Administrator. If any Related
Employer has
executed a Co-Sponsor Adoption Page, the Employer referred
to in this
Section is the Employer that executes the Signature Page
of the Agreement.
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(a)
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Acceptance
of responsibility by designated Plan Administrator. If
the Employer
designates a Plan Administrator other than itself, the
designated Plan
Administrator must accept its responsibilities in writing.
The designated
Plan Administrator will serve in a manner and for the
time period as
agreed upon with the Employer. If more than one person
has the
responsibility of Plan Administrator, the group shall
act by majority
vote, but may designate specific persons to act on the
Plan
Administrator's behalf.
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(b)
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Resignation
of designated Plan Administrator. A designated Plan Administrator
may
resign by delivering a written resignation to the Employer.
The Employer
may remove a designated Plan Administrator by delivering
a written notice
of removal. If a designated Plan Administrator resigns
or is removed, and
no new Plan Administrator is designated, the Employer
is the Plan
Administrator.
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(c)
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Named
Fiduciary. The Plan Administrator is the Plan's Named
Fiduciary, unless
the Plan Administrator specifically names another person
as Named
Fiduciary and the designated person accepts its responsibilities
as Named
Fiduciary in writing.
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11.2
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Duties
and Powers of the Plan Administrator. The Plan Administrator
will
administer the Plan for the exclusive benefit of the
Plan Participants and
Beneficiaries, and in accordance with the terms of the
Plan. To the extent
the terms of the Plan are unclear, the Plan Administrator
may interpret
the Plan, provided such interpretation is consistent
with the rules of
ERISA and Code ?401 and is performed in a uniform and
nondiscriminatory
manner. This right to interpret the Plan is an express
grant of
discretionary authority to resolve ambiguities in the
Plan document and to
make discretionary decisions regarding the interpretation
of the Plan's
terms, including who is eligible to participate under
the Plan, and the
benefit rights of a Participant or Beneficiary. The Plan
Administrator
will not be held liable for any interpretation of the
Plan terms or
decision regarding the application of a Plan provision
provided such
interpretation or decision is not arbitrary or capricious.
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(a)
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Delegation
of duties and powers. To the extent provided for in an
agreement with the
Employer, the Plan Administrator may delegate its duties
and powers to one
or more persons. Such delegation must be in writing and
accepted by the
person or persons receiving the delegation.
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(b)
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Specific
duties and powers. The Plan Administrator has the general
responsibility
to control and manage the operation of the Plan. This
responsibility
includes, but is not limited to, the following:
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(1)
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To
construe and enforce the terms of the Plan, including
those related to
Plan eligibility, vesting and benefits;
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(2)
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To
develop separate procedures, consistent with the terms
of the Plan, to
assist in the administration of the Plan, including the
adoption of
separate or modified loan policy procedures (see Article
14), procedures
for direction of investment by Participants (see Section
13.5(c)),
procedures for determining whether domestic relations
orders are QDROs
(see Section 11.5), and procedures for the proper determination
of
investment earnings to be allocated to Participants'
Accounts (see Section
13.4);
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(3)
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To
communicate with the Trustee and other responsible persons
with respect to
the crediting of Plan contributions, the disbursement
of Plan
distributions and other relevant matters;
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(4)
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To
maintain all necessary records which may be required
for tax and other
administration purposes;
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(5)
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To
furnish and to file all appropriate notices, reports
and other information
to Participants, Beneficiaries, the Employer, the Trustee
and government
agencies (as necessary);
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(6)
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To
answer questions Participants and Beneficiaries may have
relating to the
Plan and their benefits;
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(7)
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To
review and decide on claims for benefits under the Plan;
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(8)
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To
retain the services of other persons, including Investment
Managers,
attorneys, consultants, advisers and others, to assist
in the
administration of the plan;
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(9)
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To
correct any defect or error in the administration of
the Plan;
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(10)
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To
establish a "funding policy and method" for the Plan
for purposes of
ensuring the Plan is satisfying its financial objectives
and is able to
meet its liquidity needs; and
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(11)
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To
suspend contributions, including Section 401(k) Deferrals
and/or Employee
After-Tax Contributions, on behalf of any or all Highly
Compensated
Employees, if the Plan Administrator reasonably believes
that such
contributions will cause the Plan to discriminate in
favor of Highly
Compensated Employees. See Sections 17.2(e) and 17.3(e).
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11.3
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Employer
Responsibilities. The Employer will provide in a timely
manner all
appropriate information necessary for the Plan Administrator
to perform
its duties. This information includes, but is not limited
to, Participant
compensation data, Employee employment, service and termination
information, and other information the Plan Administrator
may require. The
Plan Administrator may rely on the accuracy of any information
and data
provided by the Employer.
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The
Employer will provide to the Trustee written notification of the
appointment of
any person or persons as Plan Administrator, Investment Manager,
or other Plan
fiduciary, and the names, titles and authorities of any individuals
who are
authorized to act on behalf of such persons. The Trustee shall
be entitled to
rely upon such information until it receives written notice of
a change in such
appointments or authorizations.
11.4
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Plan
Administration Expenses. All reasonable expenses related
to plan
administration will be paid from Plan assets, except
to the extent the
expenses are paid (or reimbursed) by the Employer. For
this purpose, Plan
expenses include all reasonable costs, charges and expenses
incurred by
the Trustee in connection with the administration of
the Trust (including
such reasonable compensation to the Trustee as may be
agreed upon from
time to time between the Employer or Plan Administrator
and the Trustee
and any fees for legal services rendered to the Trustee).
All reasonable
additional administrative expenses incurred to effect
investment elections
made by Participants and Beneficiaries under Section
13.5(c) shall be paid
from the Trust and, as elected by the Plan Administrator,
shall either be
charged (in accordance with such reasonable nondiscriminatory
rules as the
Plan Administrator deems appropriate under the circumstances)
to the
Account of the individual making such election or treated
as a general
expense of the Trust. All transaction-related expenses
incurred to effect
a specific investment for an individually-directed Account
(such as
brokerage commissions and other transfer expenses) shall,
as elected by
the Plan Administrator, either be paid from or otherwise
charged directly
to the Account of the individual providing such direction
or treated as a
general Trust expense. In addition, unless specifically
prohibited under
statute, regulation or other guidance of general applicability,
the Plan
Administrator may charge to the Account of an individual
Participant a
reasonable charge to offset the cost of making a distribution
to the
Participant, Beneficiary, or Alternate Payee. If liquid
assets of the
Trust are insufficient to cover the fees of the Trustee
or the Plan
Administrator, then Trust assets shall be liquidated
to the extent
necessary for such fees. In the event any part of the
Trust becomes
subject to tax, all taxes incurred will be paid from
the Trust.
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11.5
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Qualified
Domestic Relations Orders (QDROs).
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(a)
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In
general. The Plan Administrator must develop written
procedures for
determining whether a domestic relations order is a QDRO
and for
administering distributions under a QDRO. For this purpose,
the Plan
Administrator may use the default QDRO procedures set
forth in subsection
(h) below or may develop separate QDRO procedures.
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(b)
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Qualified
Domestic Relations Order (QDRO). A QDRO is a domestic
relations order that
creates or recognizes the existence of an Alternate Payee's
right to
receive, or assigns to an Alternate Payee the right to
receive, all or a
portion of the benefits payable with respect to a Participant
under the
Plan. (See Code ?414(p).) The QDRO must contain certain
information and
meet other requirements described in this Section 11.5.
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(c)
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Recognition
as a QDRO. To be recognized as a QDRO, an order must
be a "domestic
relations order" that relates to the provision of child
support, alimony
payments, or marital property rights for the benefit
of an Alternate
Payee. The Plan Administrator is not required to determine
whether the
court or agency issuing the domestic relations order
had jurisdiction to
issue an order, whether state law is correctly applied
in the order,
whether service was properly made on the parties, or
whether an individual
identified in an order as an Alternate Payee is a proper
Alternate Payee
under state law.
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(1)
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Domestic
relations order. A domestic relations order is a judgment,
decree, or
order (including the approval of a property settlement)
that is made
pursuant to state domestic relations law (including community
property
law).
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(2)
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Alternate
Payee. An Alternate Payee must be a spouse, former spouse,
child, or other
dependent of a Participant.
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(d) Contents
of QDRO. A QDRO must contain the following information:
(1)
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the
name and last known mailing address of the Participant
and each Alternate
Payee;
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(2)
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the
name of each plan to which the order applies;
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(3)
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the
dollar amount or percentage (or the method of determining
the amount or
percentage) of the benefit to be paid to the Alternate
Payee; and
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(4)
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the
number of payments or time period to which the order
applies.
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(e) Impermissible
QDRO provisions.
(1)
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The
order must not require the Plan to provide an Alternate
Payee or
Participant with any type or form of benefit, or any
option, not otherwise
provided under the Plan;
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(2)
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The
order must not require the Plan to provide for increased
benefits
(determined on the basis of actuarial value);
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(3)
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The
order must not require the Plan to pay benefits to an
Alternate Payee that
are required to be paid to another Alternate Payee under
another order
previously determined to be a QDRO; and
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(4)
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The
order must not require the Plan to pay benefits to an
Alternate Payee in
the form of a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity for
the lives of the
Alternate Payee and his or her subsequent spouse.
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(f)
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Immediate
distribution to Alternate Payee. Even if a Participant
is not eligible to
receive an immediate distribution from the Plan, an Alternate
Payee may
receive a QDRO benefit immediately in a lump sum, provided
such
distribution is consistent with the QDRO provisions.
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(g)
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No
fee for QDRO determination. The Plan Administrator shall
not condition the
making of a QDRO determination on the payment of a fee
by a Participant or
an Alternate Payee (either directly or as a charge against
the
Participant's Account).
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(h)
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Default
QDRO procedure. If the Plan Administrator chooses this
default QDRO
procedure or if the Plan Administrator does not establish
a separate QDRO
procedure, this Section 11.5(h) will apply as the procedure
the Plan
Administrator will use to determine whether a domestic
relations order is
a QDRO. This default QDRO procedure incorporates the
requirements set
forth under Sections 11.5(a) through (g).
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(1)
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Access
to information. The Plan Administrator will provide access
to Plan and
Participant benefit information sufficient for a prospective
Alternate
Payee to prepare a QDRO. Such information might include
the summary plan
description, other relevant plan documents, and a statement
of the
Participant's benefit entitlements. The disclosure of
this information is
conditioned on the prospective Alternate Payee providing
to the Plan
Administrator information sufficient to reasonably establish
that the
disclosure request is being made in connection with a
domestic relations
order.
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(2)
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Notifications
to Participant and Alternate Payee. The Plan Administrator
will promptly
notify the affected Participant and each Alternate Payee
named in the
domestic relations order of the receipt of the order.
The Plan
Administrator will send the notification to the
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address
included in the domestic relations order. Along with the notification,
the Plan
Administrator will provide a copy of the Plan's procedures for
determining
whether a domestic relations order is a QDRO.
(3)
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Alternate
Payee representative. The prospective Alternate Payee
may designate a
representative to receive copies of notices and Plan
information that are
sent to the Alternate Payee with respect to the domestic
relations order.
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(4)
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Evaluation
of domestic relations order. Within a reasonable period
of time, the Plan
Administrator will evaluate the domestic relations order
to determine
whether it is a QDRO. A reasonable period will depend
on the specific
circumstances. The domestic relations order must contain
the information
described in Section 11.5(c). If the order is only deficient
in a minor
respect, the Plan Administrator may supplement information
in the order
from information within the Plan Administrator's control
or through
communication with the prospective Alternate Payee.
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(i)
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Separate
accounting. Upon receipt of a domestic relations order,
the Plan
Administrator will separately account for and preserve
the amounts that
would be payable to an Alternate Payee until a determination
is made with
respect to the status of the order. During the period
in which the status
of the order is being determined, the Plan Administrator
will take
whatever steps are necessary to ensure that amounts that
would be payable
to the Alternate Payee, if the order were a QDRO, are
not distributed to
the Participant or any other person. The separate accounting
requirement
may be satisfied, at the Plan Administrator's discretion,
by a segregation
of the assets that are subject to separate accounting.
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(ii)
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Separate
accounting until the end of "18 month period." The Plan
Administrator will
continue to separately account for amounts that are payable
under the QDRO
until the end of an "18-month period." The "18-month
period" will begin on
the first date following the Plan's receipt of the order
upon which a
payment would be required to be made to an Alternate
Payee under the
order. If, within the "18-month period," the Plan Administrator
determines
that the order is a QDRO, the Plan Administrator must
pay the Alternate
Payee in accordance with the terms of the QDRO. If, however,
the Plan
Administrator determines within the "18-month period"
that the order is
not a QDRO, or if the status of the order is not resolved
by the end of
the "18-month period," the Plan Administrator may pay
out the amounts
otherwise payable under the order to the person or persons
who would have
been entitled to such amounts if there had been no order.
If the order is
later determined to be a QDRO, the order will apply only
prospectively;
that is, the Alternate Payee will be entitled only to
amounts payable
under the order after the subsequent determination.
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(iii)
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Preliminary
review. The Plan Administrator will perform a preliminary
review of the
domestic relations order to determine if it is a QDRO.
If this preliminary
review indicates the order is deficient in some manner,
the Plan
Administrator will allow the parties to attempt to correct
any deficiency
before issuing a final decision on the domestic relations
order. The
ability to correct is limited to a reasonable period
of time.
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(iv)
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Notification
of determination. The Plan Administrator will notify
in writing the
Participant and each Alternate Payee of the Plan Administrator's
decision
as to whether a domestic relations order is a QDRO. In
the case of a
determination that an order is not a QDRO, the written
notice will contain
the following information:
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(A)
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references
to the Plan provisions on which the Plan Administrator
based its decision;
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(B)
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an
explanation of any time limits that apply to rights available
to the
parties under the Plan (such as the duration of any protective
actions the
Plan Administrator will take); and
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(C)
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a
description of any additional material, information,
or modifications
necessary for the order to be a QDRO and an explanation
of why such
material, information, or modifications are necessary.
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(v)
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Treatment
of Alternate Payee. If an order is accepted as a QDRO,
the Plan
Administrator will act in accordance with the terms of
the QDRO as if it
were a part of the Plan. An Alternate Payee will be considered
a
Beneficiary under the Plan and be afforded the same rights
as a
Beneficiary. The Plan Administrator will provide any
appropriate
disclosure information relating to the Plan to the Alternate
Payee.
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11.6
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Claims
Procedure. Unless the Plan uses the default claims procedure
under
subsection (e) below, the Plan Administrator shall establish
a procedure
for benefit claims consistent with the requirements of
ERISA Reg.
?2560.503-1. The Plan Administrator is authorized to
conduct an
examination of the relevant facts to determine the merits
of a
Participant's or Beneficiary's claim for Plan benefits.
The claims
procedure must incorporate the following guidelines:
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(a)
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Filing
a claim. The claims procedure will set forth a reasonable
means for a
Participant or Beneficiary to file a claim for benefits
under the Plan.
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(b)
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Notification
of Plan Administrator's decision. The Plan Administrator
must provide a
claimant with written notification of the Plan Administrator's
decision
relating to a claim within a reasonable period of time
(not more than 90
days unless special circumstances require an extension
to process the
claim) after the claim was filed. If the claim is denied,
the notification
must set forth the reasons for the denial, specific reference
to pertinent
Plan provisions on which the denial is based, a description
of any
additional information necessary for the claimant to
perfect the claim,
and the steps the claimant must take to submit the claim
for review.
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(c)
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Review
procedure. The claims procedure will provide a claimant
a reasonable
opportunity to have a full and fair review of a denied
claim. Such
procedure shall allow a review upon a written application,
for the
claimant to review pertinent documents, and to allow
the claimant to
submit written comments to the Plan Administrator. The
procedure may
establish a limited period (not less than 60 days after
the claimant
receives written notification of the denial of the claim)
for the claimant
to request a review of the claim denial.
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(d)
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Decision
on review. If a claimant requests a review, the Plan
Administrator must
respond promptly to the request. Unless special circumstances
exist (such
as the need for a hearing), the Plan Administrator must
respond in writing
within 60 days of the date the claimant submitted the
review application.
The response must explain the Plan Administrator's decision
on review.
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(e)
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Default
claims procedure. If the Plan Administrator chooses this
default claims
procedure or if the Plan Administrator does not establish
a separate
claims procedure, the following will apply.
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(1)
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A
person may submit to the Plan Administrator a written
claim for benefits
under the Plan.
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(2)
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The
Plan Administrator will evaluate the claim to determine
if benefits are
payable to the Participant or Beneficiary under the terms
of the Plan. The
Plan Administrator may solicit additional information
from the claimant if
necessary to evaluate the claim.
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(3)
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If
the Plan Administrator determines the claim is valid,
the Participant or
Beneficiary will receive in writing from the Plan Administrator
a
statement describing the amount of benefit, the method
or methods of
payment, the timing of distributions and other information
relevant to the
payment of the benefit.
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(4)
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If
the Plan Administrator denies all or any portion of the
claim, the
claimant will receive, within 90 days after receipt of
the claim form, a
written explanation setting forth the reasons for the
denial, specific
reference to pertinent Plan provisions on which the denial
is based, a
description of any additional information necessary for
the claimant to
perfect the claim, and the steps the claimant must take
to submit the
claim for review.
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(5)
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The
claimant has 60 days from the date the claimant received
the denial of
claim to appeal the adverse decision of the Plan Administrator.
The
claimant may review pertinent documents and submit written
comments to the
Plan Administrator. The Plan Administrator will submit
all relevant
documentation to the Employer. The Employer may hold
a hearing or seek
additional information from the claimant and the Plan
Administrator.
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(6)
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Within
60 days (or such longer period due to the circumstances)
of the request
for review, the Employer will render a written decision
on the claimant's
appeal. The Employer shall explain the decision, in terms
that are
understandable to the claimant and by specific references
to the Plan
document provisions.
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11.7
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Operational
Rules for Short Plan Years. The following operational
rules apply if the
Plan has a Short Plan Year. A Short Plan Year is any
Plan Year that is
less than a 12-month period, either because of the amendment
of the Plan
Year, or because the Effective Date of a new Plan is
less than 12 months
prior to the end of the first Plan Year.
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(a)
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If
the Plan is amended to create a Short Plan Year, and
an Eligibility
Computation Period or Vesting Computation Period is based
on the Plan
Year, the applicable computation period begins on the
first day of the
Short Plan Year, but such period ends on the day which
is 12 months from
the first day of such Short Plan Year. Thus, the computation
period that
begins on the first day of the Short Plan Year overlaps
with the
computation period that starts on the first day of the
next Plan Year.
This rule applies only to an Employee who has at least
one Hour of Service
during the Short Plan Year.
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If
a Plan
has an initial Short Plan Year, the rule in the above paragraph
applies only for
purposes of determining an Employee's Vesting Computation Period
and only if the
Employer elects under Part 6, #20.a. of the Agreement [Part 6,
#38.a. of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to exclude service earned prior
to the adoption
of the Plan. For eligibility and vesting (where service prior to
the adoption of
the Plan is not ignored), if the Eligibility Computation Period
or Vesting
Computation Period is based on the Plan Year, the applicable computation
period
will be determined on the basis of the Plan's normal Plan Year,
without regard
to the initial short Plan Year.
(b)
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If
Employer Contributions are allocated for a Short Plan
Year, any allocation
condition under Part 4 of the Agreement that requires
an Eligible
Participant to complete a specified number of Hours of
Service to receive
an allocation of such Employer Contributions will not
be prorated as a
result of such Short Plan Year unless otherwise specified
in Part 4 of the
Agreement.
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(c)
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If
the Permitted Disparity Method is used to allocate any
Employer
Contributions made for a Short Plan Year, the Integration
Level will be
prorated to reflect the number of months (or partial
months) included in
the Short Plan Year.
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(d)
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The
Compensation Dollar Limitation, as defined in Section
22.32, will be
prorated to reflect the number of months (or partial
months) included in
the Short Plan Year unless the compensation used for
such Short Plan Year
is a period of 12 months.
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In
all
other respects, the Plan shall be operated for the Short Plan Year
in the same
manner as for a 12-month Plan Year, unless the context requires
otherwise. If
the terms of the Plan are ambiguous with respect to the operation
of the Plan
for a Short Plan Year, the Plan Administrator has the authority
to make a final
determination on the proper interpretation of the Plan.
11.8
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Operational
Rules for Related Employer Groups. If an Employer has
one or more Related
Employers, the Employer and such Related Employer(s)
constitute a Related
Employer group. In such case, the following rules apply
to the operation
of the Plan.
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(a)
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If
the term "Employer" is used in the context of administrative
functions
necessary to the operation, establishment, maintenance,
or termination of
the Plan, only the Employer executing the Signature Page
of the Agreement,
and any Co-Sponsor of the Plan, is treated as the Employer.
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(b)
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Hours
of Service are determined by treating all members of
the Related Employer
group as the Employer.
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(c)
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The
term Excluded Employee is determined by treating all
members of the
Related Employer group as the Employer, except as specifically
provided in
the Plan.
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(d)
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Compensation
is determined by treating all members of the Related
Employer group as the
Employer, except as specifically provided in the Plan.
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(e)
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An
Employee is not treated as separated from service or
terminated from
employment if the Employee is employed by any member
of the Related
Employer group.
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(f)
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The
Annual Additions Limitation described in Article 7 and
the Top-Heavy Plan
rules described in Article 16 are applied by treating
all members of the
Related Employer group as the Employer.
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In
all
other contexts, the term "Employer" generally means a reference
to all members
of the Related Employer group, unless the context requires otherwise.
If the
terms of the Plan are ambiguous with respect to the treatment of
the Related
Employer group as the Employer, the Plan Administrator has the
authority to make
a final determination on the proper interpretation of the Plan.
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ARTICLE
12
TRUST
PROVISIONS
This
Article sets forth the creation of the Plan's Trust (or, in the
case of an
amendment of the Plan, the amended terms of the Trust) and the
duties and
responsibilities of the Trustee under the Plan. By executing the
Trustee
Declaration under the Agreement, the Trustee agrees to be bound
by the duties,
responsibilities and liabilities imposed on the Trustee under the
Plan and to
act in accordance with the terms of this Plan. The Employer may
act as Trustee
under the Plan by executing the Trustee Declaration.
12.1
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Creation
of Trust. By adopting this Plan, the Employer creates
a Trust to hold the
assets of the Plan (or, in the event that this Plan document
represents an
amendment of the Plan, the Employer hereby amends the
terms of the Trust
maintained in connection with the Plan). The Trustee
is the owner of the
Plan assets held by the Trust. The Trustee is to hold
the Plan assets for
the exclusive benefit of Plan Participants and Beneficiaries.
Plan
Participants and Beneficiaries do not have ownership
interests in the
assets held by the Trust.
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12.2
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Trustee.
The Trustee identified in the Trustee Declaration under
the Agreement
shall act either as a Discretionary Trustee or as a Directed
Trustee, as
identified under the Agreement.
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(a)
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Discretionary
Trustee. A Trustee is a Discretionary Trustee to the
extent the Trustee
has exclusive authority and discretion with respect to
the investment,
management or control of Plan assets. Notwithstanding
a Trustee's
designation as a Discretionary Trustee, a Trustee's discretion
is limited,
and the Trustee shall be considered a Directed Trustee,
to the extent the
Trustee is subject to the direction of the Plan Administrator,
the
Employer, a properly appointed Investment Manager, or
a Named Fiduciary
under an agreement between the Plan Administrator and
the Trustee. A
Trustee also is considered a Directed Trustee to the
extent the Trustee is
subject to investment direction of Plan Participants.
(See Section 13.5(c)
for a discussion of the Trustee's responsibilities with
regard to
Participant-directed investments.)
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(b)
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Directed
Trustee. A Trustee is a Directed Trustee with respect
to the investment of
Plan assets to the extent the Trustee is subject to the
direction of the
Plan Administrator, the Employer, a properly appointed
Investment Manager,
a Named Fiduciary, or Plan Participant. To the extent
the Trustee is a
Directed Trustee, the Trustee does not have any discretionary
authority
with respect to the investment of Plan assets. In addition,
the Trustee is
not responsible for the propriety of any directed investment
made pursuant
to this Section and shall not be required to consult
or advise the
Employer regarding the investment quality of any directed
investment held
under the Plan.
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The
Trustee shall be advised in writing regarding the retention of
investment powers
by the Employer or the appointment of an Investment Manager or
other Named
Fiduciary with power to direct the investment of Plan assets. Any
such
delegation of investment powers will remain in force until such
delegation is
revoked or amended in writing. The Employer is deemed to have retained
investment powers under this subsection to the extent the Employer
directs the
investment of Participant Accounts for which affirmative investment
direction
has not been received pursuant to Section 13.5(c).
The
Employer is a Named Fiduciary for investment purposes if the Employer
directs
investments pursuant to this subsection. Any investment direction
shall be made
in writing by the Employer, Investment Manager, or Named Fiduciary,
as
applicable. A Directed Trustee must act solely in accordance with
the direction
of the Plan Administrator, the Employer, any employees or agents
of the
Employer, a properly appointed Investment Manager or other fiduciary
of the
Plan, a Named Fiduciary, or Plan Participants. (See Section 13.5(c)
for a
discussion of the Trustee's responsibilities with regard to Participant
directed
investments.)
The
Employer may direct the Trustee to invest in any media in which
the Trustee may
invest, as described in Section 12.4. However, the Employer may
not borrow from
the Trust or pledge any of the assets of the Trust as security
for a loan to
itself; buy property or assets from or sell property or assets
to the Trust;
charge any fee for services rendered to the Trust; or receive any
services from
the Trust on a preferential basis.
12.3
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Trustee's
Responsibilities Regarding Administration of Trust. This
Section outlines
the Trustee's powers, rights and duties under the Plan
with respect to the
administration of the investments held in the Plan. The
Trustee's
administrative duties are limited to those described
in this Section 12.3;
the Employer is responsible for any other administrative
duties required
under the Plan or by applicable law.
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(a)
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The
Trustee will receive all contributions made under the
terms of the Plan.
The Trustee is not obligated in any manner to ensure
that such
contributions are correct in amount or that such
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contributions
comply with the terms of the Plan, the Code or ERISA. In addition,
the Trustee
is under no obligation to request that the Employer make contributions
to the
Plan. The Trustee is not liable for the manner in which such amounts
are
deposited or the allocation between Participant's Accounts, to
the extent the
Trustee follows the written direction of the Plan Administrator
or Employer.
(b)
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The
Trustee will make distributions from the Trust in accordance
with the
written directions of the Plan Administrator or other
authorized
representative. To the extent the Trustee follows such
written direction,
the Trustee is not obligated in any manner to ensure
a distribution
complies with the terms of the Plan, that a Participant
or Beneficiary is
entitled to such a distribution, or that the amount distributed
is proper
under the terms of the Plan. If there is a dispute as
to a payment from
the Trust, the Trustee may decline to make payment of
such amounts until
the proper payment of such amounts is determined by a
court of competent
jurisdiction, or the Trustee has been indemnified to
its satisfaction.
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(c)
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The
Trustee may employ agents, attorneys, accountants and
other third parties
to provide counsel on behalf of the Plan, where the Trustee
deems
advisable. The Trustee may reimburse such persons from
the Trust for
reasonable expenses and compensation incurred as a result
of such
employment. The Trustee shall not be liable for the actions
of such
persons, provided the Trustee acted prudently in the
employment and
retention of such persons. In addition, the Trustee will
not be liable for
any actions taken as a result of good faith reliance
on the advice of such
persons.
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12.4
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Trustee's
Responsibility Regarding Investment of Plan Assets.
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In
addition to the powers, rights and duties enumerated under this
Section, the
Trustee has whatever powers are necessary to carry out its duties
in a prudent
manner. The Trustee's powers, rights and duties may be supplemented
or limited
by a separate trust agreement, investment policy, funding agreement,
or other
binding document entered into between the Trustee and the Plan
Administrator
which designates the Trustee's responsibilities with respect to
the Plan. A
separate trust agreement must be consistent with the terms of this
Plan and must
comply with all qualification requirements under the Code and regulations.
To
the extent the exercise of any power, right or duty is subject
to discretion,
such exercise by a Directed Trustee must be made at the direction
of the Plan
Administrator, the Employer, an Investment Manager, a Named Fiduciary,
or Plan
Participant.
(a)
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The
Trustee shall be responsible for the safekeeping of the
assets of the
Trust in accordance with the provisions of this Plan.
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(b)
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The
Trustee may invest, manage and control the Plan assets
in a manner that is
consistent with the Plan's funding policy and investment
objectives. The
Trustee may invest in any investment, as authorized under
Section 13.5,
which the Trustee deems advisable and prudent, subject
to the proper
written direction of the Plan Administrator, the Employer,
a properly
appointed Investment Manager, a Named Fiduciary or a
Plan Participant. The
Trustee is not liable for the investment of Plan assets
to the extent the
Trustee is following the proper direction of the Plan
Administrator, the
Employer, a Participant, an Investment Manager, or other
person or persons
duly appointed by the Employer to provide investment
direction. In
addition, the Trustee does not guarantee the Trust in
any manner against
investment loss or depreciation in asset value, or guarantee
the adequacy
of the Trust to meet and discharge any or all liabilities
of the Plan.
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(c)
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The
Trustee may retain such portion of the Plan assets in
cash or cash
balances as the Trustee may, from time to time, deem
to be in the best
interests of the Plan, without liability for interest
thereon.
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(d)
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The
Trustee may collect and receive any and all moneys and
other property due
the Plan and to settle, compromise, or submit to arbitration
any claims,
debts, or damages with respect to the Plan, and to commence
or defend on
behalf of the Plan any lawsuit, or other legal or administrative
proceedings.
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(e)
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The
Trustee may hold any securities or other property in
the name of the
Trustee or in the name of the Trustee's nominee, and
may hold any
investments in bearer form, provided the books and records
of the Trustee
at all times show such investment to be part of the Trust.
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(f)
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The
Trustee may exercise any of the powers of an individual
owner with respect
to stocks, bonds, securities or other property, including
the right to
vote upon such stocks, bonds or securities; to give general
or special
proxies or powers of attorney; to exercise or sell any
conversion
privileges, subscription rights, or other options; to
participate in
corporate reorganizations, mergers, consolidations, or
other changes
affecting corporate securities (including those in which
it or its
affiliates are interested as Trustee); and to make any
incidental payments
in connection with such
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stocks,
bonds, securities or other property. Unless specifically agreed
upon in writing
between the Trustee and the Employer, the Trustee shall not have
the power or
responsibility to vote proxies with respect to any securities of
the Employer or
a Related Employer or with respect to any Plan assets that are
subject to the
investment direction of the Employer or for which the power to
manage, acquire,
or dispose of such Plan assets has been delegated by the Employer
to one or more
Investment Managers or Named Fiduciaries in accordance with ERISA
?403. With
respect to the voting of Employer securities, or in the event of
any tender or
other offer with respect to shares of Employer securities held
in the Trust, the
Trustee will follow the direction of the Employer or other responsible
fiduciary
or, to the extent voting and similar rights have been passed through
to
Participants, of each Participant with respect to shares allocated
to his/her
Account.
(g)
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The
Trustee may borrow or raise money on behalf of the Plan
in such amount,
and upon such terms and conditions, as the Trustee deems
advisable. The
Trustee may issue a promissory note as Trustee to secure
the repayment of
such amounts and may pledge all, or any part, of the
Trust as security.
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(h)
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The
Trustee, upon the written direction of the Plan Administrator,
is
authorized to enter into a transfer agreement with the
Trustee of another
qualified retirement plan and to accept a transfer of
assets from such
retirement plan on behalf of any Employee of the Employer.
The Trustee is
also authorized, upon the written direction of the Plan
Administrator, to
transfer some or all of a Participant's vested Account
Balance to another
qualified retirement plan on behalf of such Participant.
A transfer
agreement entered into by the Trustee does not affect
the Plan's status as
a Prototype Plan.
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(i)
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The
Trustee is authorized to execute, acknowledge and deliver
all documents of
transfer and conveyance, receipts, releases, and any
other instruments
that the Trustee deems necessary or appropriate to carry
out its powers,
rights and duties hereunder.
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(j)
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If
the Employer maintains more than one Plan, the assets
of such Plans may be
commingled for investment purposes. The Trustee must
separately account
for the assets of each Plan. A commingling of assets,
as described in this
paragraph, does not cause the Trusts maintained with
respect to the
Employer's Plans to be treated as a single Trust, except
as provided in a
separate document authorized in the first paragraph of
this Section 12.4.
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(k)
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The
Trustee is authorized to invest Plan assets in a common/collective
trust
fund, or in a group trust fund that satisfies the requirements
of IRS
Revenue Ruling 81-100. All of the terms and provisions
of any such
common/collective trust fund or group trust into which
Plan assets are
invested are incorporated by reference into the provisions
of the Trust
for this Plan.
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(l)
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If
the Trustee is a bank or similar financial institution,
the Trustee is
authorized to invest in any type of deposit of the Trustee
(including its
own money market fund) at a reasonable rate of interest.
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(m)
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The
Trustee must be bonded as required by applicable law.
The bonding
requirements shall not apply to a bank, insurance company,
or similar
financial institution that satisfies the requirements
of ?412(a)(2) of
ERISA.
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12.5
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More
than One Person as Trustee. If the Plan has more than
one person acting as
Trustee, the Trustees may allocate the Trustee responsibilities
by mutual
agreement and Trustee decisions will be made by a majority
vote (unless
otherwise agreed to by the Trustees) or as otherwise
provided in a
separate trust agreement or other binding document.
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12.6
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Annual
Valuation. The Plan assets will be valued at least on
an annual basis. The
Employer may designate more frequent valuation dates
under Part 12,
#45.b.(2) of the Agreement [Part 12, #63.b.(2) of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. Notwithstanding any election
under Part 12,
#45.b.(2) of the Agreement [Part 12, #63.b.(2) of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the Trustee and Plan Administrator
may agree to
value the Trust on a more frequent basis, and/or to perform
an interim
valuation of the Trust pursuant to Section 13.2(a).
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12.7
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Reporting
to Plan Administrator and Employer. Within ninety (90)
days following the
end of each Plan Year, and within ninety (90) days following
its removal
or resignation, the Trustee will file with the Employer
an accounting of
its administration of the Trust from the date of its
last accounting. The
accounting will include a statement of cash receipts,
disbursements and
other transactions effected by the Trustee since the
date of its last
accounting, and such further information as the Trustee
and/or Employer
deems appropriate. Upon receipt of such information,
the Employer must
promptly notify the Trustee of its approval or disapproval
of the
information. If the Employer does not provide a written
disapproval within
ninety (90) days following the receipt of the information,
including a
written description of the items in question, the Trustee
is forever
released and discharged from any liability with respect
to all matters
reflected in such information.
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The
Trustee shall have sixty (60) days following its receipt of a written
disapproval from the Employer to provide the Employer with a written
explanation
of the terms in question. If the Employer again disapproves of
the accounting,
the Trustee may file its accounting with a court of competent jurisdiction
for
audit and adjudication.
All
assets contained in the Trust accounting will be shown at their
fair market
value as of the end of the Plan Year or as of the date of resignation
or
removal. The value of marketable investments shall be determined
using the most
recent price quoted on a national securities exchange or over-the-counter
market. The value of non-marketable securities shall, except as
provided
otherwise herein, be determined in the sole judgment of the Trustee,
which
determination shall be binding and conclusive. The value of investments
in
securities or obligations of the Employer in which there is no
market will be
determined by an independent appraiser at least once annually and
the Trustee
shall have no responsibility with respect to the valuation of such
assets.
12.8
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Reasonable
Compensation. The Trustee shall be paid reasonable compensation
in an
amount agreed upon by the Plan Administrator and Trustee.
The Trustee also
will be reimbursed for any reasonable expenses or fees
incurred in its
function as Trustee. An individual Trustee who is already
receiving
full-time pay as an Employee of the Employer may not
receive any
additional compensation for services as Trustee. The
Plan will pay the
reasonable compensation and expenses incurred by the
Trustee, pursuant to
Section 11.4, unless the Employer pays such compensation
and expenses. Any
compensation or expense paid directly by the Employer
to the Trustee is
not an Employer Contribution to the Plan.
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12.9
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Resignation
and Removal of Trustee. The Trustee may resign at any
time by delivering
to the Employer a written notice of resignation at least
thirty (30) days
prior to the effective date of such resignation, unless
the Employer
consents in writing to a shorter notice period. The Employer
may remove
the Trustee at any time, with or without cause, by delivering
written
notice to the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the effective
date of such
removal. The Employer may remove the Trustee upon a shorter
written notice
period if the Employer reasonably determines such shorter
period is
necessary to protect Plan assets. Upon the resignation,
removal, death or
incapacity of a Trustee, the Employer may appoint a successor
Trustee
which, upon accepting such appointment, will have all
the powers, rights
and duties conferred upon the preceding Trustee. In the
event there is a
period of time following the effective date of a Trustee's
removal or
resignation before a successor Trustee is appointed,
the Employer is
deemed to be the Trustee. During such period, the Trust
continues to be in
existence and legally enforceable, and the assets of
the Plan shall
continue to be protected by the provisions of the Trust.
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12.10
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Indemnification
of Trustee. Except to the extent that it is judicially
determined that the
Trustee has acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct,
the
Employer shall indemnify the Trustee (whether or not
the Trustee has
resigned or been removed) against any liabilities, losses,
damages, and
expenses, including attorney, accountant, and other advisory
fees,
incurred as a result of:
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(a)
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any
action of the Trustee taken in good faith in accordance
with any
information, instruction, direction, or opinion given
to the Trustee by
the Employer, the Plan Administrator, Investment Manager,
Named Fiduciary
or legal counsel of the Employer, or any person or entity
appointed by any
of them and authorized to give any information, instruction,
direction, or
opinion to the Trustee;
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(b)
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the
failure of the Employer, the Plan Administrator, Investment
Manager, Named
Fiduciary or any person or entity appointed by any of
them to make timely
disclosure to the Trustee of information which any of
them or any
appointee knows or should know if it acted in a reasonably
prudent manner;
or
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(c)
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any
breach of fiduciary duty by the Employer, the Plan Administrator,
Investment Manager, Named Fiduciary or any person or
entity appointed by
any of them, other than such a breach which is caused
by any failure of
the Trustee to perform its duties under this Trust.
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The
duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be limited to those
expressly
imposed upon it by this instrument or subsequently agreed upon
by the parties.
Responsibility for administrative duties required under the Plan
or applicable
law not expressly imposed upon or agreed to by the Trustee shall
rest solely
with the Employer.
The
Employer agrees that the Trustee shall have no liability with regard
to the
investment or management of illiquid Plan assets transferred from
a prior
Trustee, and shall have no responsibility for investments made
before the
transfer of Plan assets to it, or for the viability or prudence
of any
investment made by a prior Trustee, including those represented
by assets now
transferred to the custody of the Trustee, or for any dealings
whatsoever with
respect to Plan assets before the transfer of such assets to the
Trustee. The
Employer shall indemnify and hold the Trustee harmless for any
and all claims,
actions or causes of action for loss or damage, or any liability
whatsoever
relating to the assets of the Plan transferred to the Trustee by
any prior
Trustee of the Plan, including any liability arising out of or
related to any
act or event, including prohibited transactions, occurring prior
to the date the
Trustee accepts such assets, including all claims,
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actions,
causes of action, loss, damage, or any liability whatsoever arising
out of or
related to that act or event, although that claim, action, cause
of action,
loss, damage, or liability may not be asserted, may not have accrued,
or may not
have been made known until after the date the Trustee accepts the
Plan assets.
Such indemnification shall extend to all applicable periods, including
periods
for which the Plan is retroactively restated to comply with any
tax law or
regulation.
12.11
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Appointment
of Custodian. The Plan Administrator may appoint a Custodian
to hold all
or any portion of the Plan assets. A Custodian has the
same powers, rights
and duties as a Directed Trustee. The Custodian will
be protected from any
liability with respect to actions taken pursuant to the
direction of the
Trustee, Plan Administrator, the Employer, an Investment
Manager, a Named
Fiduciary or other third party with authority to provide
direction to the
Custodian.
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ARTICLE
13 PLAN ACCOUNTING AND INVESTMENTS
This
Article contains the procedures for valuing Participant Accounts
and allocating
net income and loss to such Accounts. Part 12 of the Agreement
permits the
Employer to document its administrative procedures with respect
to the valuation
of Participant Accounts. Alternatively, the Plan Administrator
may adopt
separate investment procedures regarding the valuation and investment
of
Participant Accounts.
13.1
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Participant
Accounts. The Plan Administrator will establish and maintain
a separate
Account for each Participant to reflect the Participant's
entire interest
under the Plan. To the extent applicable, the Plan Administrator
may
establish and maintain for a Participant any (or all)
of the following
separate sub-Accounts: Employer Contribution Account,
Section 401(k)
Deferral Account, Employer Matching Contribution Account,
QMAC Account,
QNEC Account, Employee After-Tax Contribution Account,
Safe Harbor
Matching Contribution Account, Safe Harbor Nonelective
Contribution
Account, Rollover Contribution Account, and Transfer
Account. The Plan
Administrator also may establish and maintain other sub-Accounts
as it
deems appropriate.
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13.2
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Value
of Participant Accounts. The value of a Participant's
Account consists of
the fair market value of the Participant's share of the
Trust assets. A
Participant's share of the Trust assets is determined
as of each Valuation
Date under the Plan.
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(a)
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Periodic
valuation. The Trustee must value Plan assets at least
annually. The
Employer may elect under Part 12, #45.b.(2) of the Agreement
[Part 12,
#63.b.(2) of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] or
may elect
operationally to value assets more frequently than annually.
The Plan
Administrator may request the Trustee to perform interim
valuations,
provided such valuations do not result in discrimination
in favor of
Highly Compensated Employees.
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(b)
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Daily
valuation. If the Employer elects daily valuation under
Part 12, #44 of
the Agreement [Part 12, #62 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] or, if
in operation, the Employer elects to have the Plan daily
valued, the Plan
Administrator may adopt reasonable procedures for performing
such
valuations. Unless otherwise set forth in the written
procedures, a daily
valued Plan will have its assets valued at the end of
each business day
during which the New York Stock Exchange is open. The
Plan Administrator
has authority to interpret the provisions of this Plan
in the context of a
daily valuation procedure. This includes, but is not
limited to, the
determination of the value of the Participant's Account
for purposes of
Participant loans, distribution and consent rights, and
corrective
distributions under Article 17.
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13.3
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Adjustments
to Participant Accounts. As of each Valuation Date under
the Plan, each
Participant's Account is adjusted in the following manner.
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(a)
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Distributions
and forfeitures from a Participant's Account. A Participant's
Account will
be reduced by any distributions and forfeitures from
the Account since the
previous Valuation Date.
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(b)
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Life
insurance premiums and dividends. A Participant's Account
will be reduced
by the amount of any life insurance premium payments
made for the benefit
of the Participant since the previous Valuation Date.
The Account will be
credited with any dividends or credits paid on any life
insurance policy
held by the Trust for the benefit of the Participant.
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(c)
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Contributions
and forfeitures allocated to a Participant's Account.
A Participant's
Account will be credited with any contribution or forfeiture
allocated to
the Participant since the previous Valuation Date.
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(d)
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Net
income or loss. A Participant's Account will be adjusted
for any net
income or loss in accordance with the provisions under
Section 13.4.
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13.4
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Procedures
for Determining Net Income or Loss. The Plan Administrator
may establish
any reasonable procedures for determining net income
or loss under Section
13.3(d). Such procedures may be reflected in a funding
agreement governing
the applicable investments under the Plan.
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(a)
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Net
income or loss attributable to General Trust Account.
To the extent a
Participant's Account is invested as part of a General
Trust Account, such
Account is adjusted for its allocable share of net income
or loss
experienced by the General Trust Account using the Balance
Forward Method.
Under the Balance Forward Method, the net income or loss
of the General
Trust Account is allocated to the Participant Accounts
that are invested
in the General Trust Account, in the ratio that each
Participant's Account
bears to all Accounts, based on the value of each Participant's
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Account
as of the prior Valuation Date, reduced for the adjustments described
in Section
13.3(a) and 13.3(b) above.
(1)
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Inclusion
of certain contributions. In applying the Balance Forward
Method for
allocating net income or loss, the Employer may elect
under Part 12,
#45.b.(3) of the Agreement [Part 12, #63.b.(3) of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] or under separate administrative
procedures to
adjust each Participant's Account Balance (as of the
prior Valuation Date)
for the following contributions made since the prior
Valuation Date (the
"valuation period") which were not reflected in the Participant's
Account
on such prior Valuation Date: (1) Section 401(k) Deferrals
and Employee
After-Tax Contributions that are contributed during the
valuation period
pursuant to the Participant's contribution election,
(2) Employer
Contributions (including Employer Matching Contributions)
that are
contributed during the valuation period and allocated
to a Participant's
Account during the valuation period, and (3) Rollover
Contributions.
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(2)
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Methods
of valuing contributions made during valuation period.
In determining
Participants' Account Balances as of the prior Valuation
Date, the
Employer may elect to apply a weighted average method
that credits each
Participant's Account with a portion of the contributions
based on the
portion of the valuation period for which such contributions
were
invested, or an adjusted percentage method, that increases
each
Participant's Account by a specified percentage of such
contributions. The
Employer may designate under Part 12, #45.b.(3)(c) of
the Agreement [Part
12, #63.b.(3)(c) of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
to apply the
special allocation rules to only particular types of
contributions or may
designate any other reasonable method for allocating
net income and loss
under the Plan.
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(i)
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Weighted
average method. The Employer may elect under Part 12,
#45.b.(3)(a) of the
Agreement [Part 12, #63.b.(3)(a) of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement]
or under separate administrative procedures to apply
a weighted average
method in determining net income or loss. Under the weighted
average
method, a Participant's Account Balance as of the prior
Valuation Date is
adjusted to take into account a portion of the contributions
made during
the valuation period so that the Participant may receive
an allocation of
net income or loss for the portion of the valuation period
during which
such contributions were invested under the Plan. The
amount of the
adjustment to a Participant's Account Balance is determined
by multiplying
the contributions made to the Participant's Account during
the valuation
period by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number
of months
during the valuation period that such contributions were
invested under
the Plan and the denominator is the total number of months
in the
valuation period. The Plan's investment procedures may
designate the
specific type(s) of contributions eligible for a weighted
allocation of
net income or loss and may designate alternative methods
for determining
the weighted allocation, including the use of a uniform
weighting period
other than months.
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(ii)
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Adjusted
percentage method. The Employer may elect under Part
12, #45.b.(3)(b) of
the Agreement [Part 12, #63.b.(3)(b) of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] or under separate investment procedures to
apply an adjusted
percentage method of allocating net income or loss. Under
the adjusted
percentage method, a Participant's Account Balance as
of the prior
Valuation Date is increased by a percentage of the contributions
made to
the Participant's Account during the valuation period.
The Plan's
investment procedures may designate the specific type(s)
of contributions
eligible for an adjusted percentage allocation and may
designate
alternative procedures for determining the amount of
the adjusted
percentage allocation.
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(b)
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Net
income or loss attributable to a Directed Account. If
the Participant (or
Beneficiary) is entitled to direct the investment of
all or part of
his/her Account (see Section 13.5(c)), the Account (or
the portion of the
Account which is subject to such direction) will be maintained
as a
Directed Account, which reflects the value of the directed
investments as
of any Valuation Date. The assets held in a Directed
Account may be (but
are not required to be) segregated from the other investments
held in the
Trust. Net income or loss attributable to the investments
made by a
Directed Account is allocated to such Account in a manner
that reasonably
reflects the investment experience of such Directed Account.
Where a
Directed Account reflects segregated investments, the
manner of allocating
net income or loss shall not result in a Participant
(or Beneficiary)
being entitled to distribution from the Directed Account
that exceeds the
value of such Account as of the date of distribution.
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(c)
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Share
or unit accounting. The Plan's investment procedures
may provide for share
or unit accounting to reflect the value of Accounts,
if such method is
appropriate for the investments allocable to such Accounts.
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(d)
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Suspense
accounts. The Plan's investment procedures also may provide
for special
valuation procedures for suspense accounts that are properly
established
under the Plan.
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13.5
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Investments
under the Plan.
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(a)
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Investment
options. The Trustee or other person(s) responsible for
the investment of
Plan assets is authorized to invest Plan assets in any
prudent investment
consistent with the funding policy of the Plan and the
requirements of
ERISA. Investment options include, but are not limited
to, the following:
common and preferred stock or other equity securities
(including stock
bought and sold on margin); Qualifying Employer Securities
and Qualifying
Employer Real Property (to the extent permitted under
subsection (b)
below), corporate bonds; open-end or closed-end mutual
funds (including
funds for which the Prototype Sponsor, Trustee, or their
affiliates serve
as investment advisor or in any other capacity); money
market accounts;
certificates of deposit; debentures; commercial paper;
put and call
options; limited partnerships; mortgages; U.S. Government
obligations,
including U.S. Treasury notes and bonds; real and personal
property having
a ready market; life insurance or annuity policies; commodities;
savings
accounts; notes; and securities issued by the Trustee
and/or its
affiliates, as permitted by law. Plan assets may also
be invested in a
common/collective trust fund, or in a group trust fund
that satisfies the
requirements of IRS Revenue Ruling 81-100. All of the
terms and provisions
of any such common/collective trust fund or group trust
into which Plan
assets are invested are incorporated by reference into
the provisions of
the Trust for this Plan. No portion of any voluntary,
tax deductible
Employee contributions being held under the Plan (or
any 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.
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(b)
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Limitations
on the investment in Qualifying Employer Securities and
Qualifying
Employer Real Property. The Trustee may invest in Qualifying
Employer
Securities and Qualifying Employer Real Property up to
certain limits. Any
such investment 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 a funding policy,
statement of
investment policy, or other separate procedures or documents
governing the
investment of Plan assets. In any conflicts between the
Plan document and
a separate investment trust agreement, the Plan document
shall prevail.
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(1)
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Reserved.
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(2)
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Profit
sharing plan other than a 401(k) plan. In the case of
a profit sharing
plan other than a 401(k) plan, no limit applies to the
percentage of Plan
assets invested in Qualifying Employer Securities and
Qualifying Employer
Real Property, except as provided in a funding policy,
statement of
investment policy, or other separate procedures or documents
governing the
investment of Plan assets.
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(3)
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401(k)
plan. For Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1998,
with respect to
the portion of the Plan consisting of amounts attributable
to Section
401(k) Deferrals, no more than 10% of the fair market
value of Plan assets
attributable to Section 401(k) Deferrals may be invested
in Qualifying
Employer Securities and Qualifying Employer Real Property
if the Employer,
the Trustee, or a person other than the Participant requires
any portion
of the Section 401(k) Deferrals and attributable earnings
to be invested
in Qualifying Employer Securities or Qualifying Employer
Real Property.
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(i)
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Exceptions
to Limitation. The limitation in this subsection (3)
shall not apply if
any one of the conditions in subsections (A), (B) or
(C) applies.
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(A)
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Investment
of Section 401(k) Deferrals in Qualifying Employer Securities
or
Qualifying Real Property is solely at the discretion
of the Participant.
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(B)
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As
of the last day of the preceding Plan Year, the fair
market value of
assets of all profit sharing plans and 401(k) plans of
the Employer was
not more than 10% of the fair market value of all assets
under plans
maintained by the Employer.
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(C)
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The
portion of a Participant's Section 401(k) Deferrals required
to be
invested in Qualifying Employer Securities and Qualifying
Employer Real
Property for the Plan Year does not exceed 1% of such
Participant's
Included Compensation.
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(ii)
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Plan
Years Beginning Prior to January 1, 1999. For Plan Years
beginning before
January 1, 1999, the limitations in this subsection (3)
do not apply and a
401(k) plan is treated like any other profit sharing
plan.
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(iii)
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No
application to other contributions. The limitation in
this subsection (3)
has no application to Employer Matching Contributions
or Employer
Nonelective Contributions. Instead, the rules under subsection
(2) above
apply for such contributions.
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(c)
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Participant
direction of investments. If the Plan (by election in
Part 12, #43 of the
Agreement [Part 12, #61 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] or by the
Plan Administrator's administrative election) permits
Participant
direction of investments, the Plan Administrator must
adopt investment
procedures for such direction. The investment procedures
should set forth
the permissible investment options available for Participant
direction,
the timing and frequency of investment changes, and any
other procedures
or limitations applicable to Participant direction of
investment. In no
case may Participants direct that investments be made
in collectibles,
other than U.S. Government or State issued gold and silver
coins. The
investment procedures adopted by the Plan Administrator
are incorporated
by reference into the Plan. If Participant investment
direction is limited
to specific investment options (such as designated mutual
funds or common
or collective trust funds), it shall be the sole and
exclusive
responsibility of the Employer or Plan Administrator
to select the
investment options, and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for selecting
or monitoring such investment options, unless the Trustee
has otherwise
agreed in writing.
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The
Employer may elect under Part 12, #43.b.(1) of the Agreement [Part
12, #61.b.(1)
of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] or under the separate investment
procedures to limit Participant direction of investment to specific
types of
contributions. The investment procedures adopted by the Plan Administrator
may
(but need not) allow Beneficiaries under the Plan to direct investments.
(See
Section 13.4(b) for rules regarding allocation of net income or
loss to a
Directed Account.)
If
Participant direction of investments is permitted, the Employer
will designate
how accounts will be invested in the absence of proper affirmative
direction
from the Participant. Except as otherwise provided in this Plan,
neither the
Trustee, the Employer, nor any other fiduciary of the Plan will
be liable to the
Participant or Beneficiary for any loss resulting from action taken
at the
direction of the Participant.
(1)
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Trustee
to follow Participant direction. To the extent the Plan
allows Participant
direction of investment, the Trustee is authorized to
follow the
Participant's written direction (or other form of direction
deemed
acceptable by the Trustee). A Directed Account will be
established for the
portion of the Participant's Account that is subject
to Participant
direction of investment. The Trustee may decline to follow
a Participant's
investment direction to the extent such direction would:
(i) result in a
prohibited transaction; (ii) cause the assets of the
Plan to be maintained
outside the jurisdiction of the U.S. courts; (iii) jeopardize
the Plan's
tax qualification; (iv) be contrary to the Plan's governing
documents; (v)
cause the assets to be invested in collectibles within
the meaning of Code
?408(m); (vi) generate unrelated business taxable income;
or (vii) result
(or could result) in a loss exceeding the value of the
Participant's
Account. The Trustee will not be responsible for any
loss or expense
resulting from a failure to follow a Participant's direction
in accordance
with the requirements of this paragraph.
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Participant
directions will be processed as soon as administratively practicable
following
receipt of such directions by the Trustee. The Trustee, Plan Administrator,
or
Employer will not be liable for a delay in the processing of a
Participant
direction that is caused by a legitimate business reason (including,
but not
limited to, a failure of computer systems or programs, failure
in the means of
data transmission, the failure to timely receive values or prices,
or other
unforeseen problems outside of the control of the Trustee, Plan
Administrator,
or Employer).
(2)
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ERISA
?404(c) protection. If the Plan (by Employer election
under Part 12,
#43.b.(2) of the Agreement [Part 12, #61.b.(2) of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] or pursuant to the Plan's investment
procedures)
is intended to comply with ERISA ?404(c), the Participant
investment
direction program adopted by the Plan Administrator should
comply with
applicable Department of Labor regulations. Compliance
with ERISA ?404(c)
is not
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required
for plan qualification purposes. The following information is provided
solely as
guidance to assist the Plan Administrator in meeting the requirements
of ERISA
?404(c). Failure to meet any of the following safe harbor requirements
does not
impose any liability on the Plan Administrator (or any other fiduciary
under the
Plan) for investment decisions made by Participants, nor does it
mean that the
Plan does not comply with ERISA ?404(c). Nothing in this Plan shall
impose any
greater duties upon the Trustee with respect to the implementation
of ERISA
?404(c) than those duties expressly provided for in procedures
adopted by the
Employer and agreed to by the Trustee.
(i)
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Disclosure
requirements. The Plan Administrator (or other Plan fiduciary
who has
agreed to perform this activity) shall provide, or shall
cause a person
designated to act on his behalf to provide, the following
information to
Participants:
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(A)
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Mandatory
disclosures. To satisfy the requirements of ERISA ?404(c),
the
Participants must receive certain mandatory disclosures,
including
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(I)
an
explanation that the Plan is intended to be an ERISA ?404(c) plan;
(II) a
description of the investment options under the Plan; (III) the
identity of any
designated Investment Managers that may be selected by the Participant;
(IV) any
restrictions on investment selection or transfers among investment
vehicles; (V)
an explanation of the fees and expenses that may be charged in
connection with
the investment transactions; (VI) the materials relating to voting
rights or
other rights incidental to the holding of an investment; (VII)
the most recent
prospectus for an investment option which is subject to the Securities
Act of
1933.
(B)
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Disclosures
upon request. In addition, a Participant must be able
to receive upon
request (I) the current value of the Participant's interest
in an
investment option; (II) the value and investment performance
of investment
alternatives available under the Plan; (III) the annual
operating expenses
of a designated investment alternative; and (IV) copies
of any
prospectuses, or other material, relating to available
investment options.
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(ii)
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Diversified
investment options. The investment procedure must provide
at least three
diversified investment options that offer a broad range
of investment
opportunity. Each of the investment opportunities must
have materially
different risk and return characteristics. The procedure
may allow
investment under a segregated brokerage account.
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(iii)
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Frequency
of investment instructions. The investment procedure
must provide the
Participant with the opportunity to give investment instructions
as
frequently as is appropriate to the volatility of the
investment. For each
investment option, the frequency can be no less than
quarterly.
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ARTICLE
14 PARTICIPANT LOANS
This
Article contains rules for providing loans to Participants under
the Plan. This
Article applies if: (1) the Employer elects under Part 12 of the
Agreement to
provide loans to Participants or (2) if Part 12 does not specify
whether
Participant loans are available, the Plan Administrator decides
to implement a
Participant loan program. Any Participant loans will be made pursuant
to the
default loan policy prescribed by this Article 14 unless the Plan
Administrator
adopts a separate written loan policy or modifies the default loan
policy in
this Article 14 by adopting modified loan provisions. If the Employer
adopts a
separate written loan policy or written modifications to the default
loan
program in this Article, the terms of such loan policy or written
modifications
will control over the terms of this Plan with respect to the administration
of
any Participant loans.
14.1
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Default
Loan Policy. Loans are available under this Article only
if such loans:
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(a)
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are
available to Participants on a reasonably equivalent
basis (see Section
14.3);
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(b)
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are
not available to Highly Compensated Employees in an amount
greater than
the amount that is available to other Participants;
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(c)
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bear
a reasonable rate of interest (as determined under Section
14.4) and are
adequately secured (as determined under Section 14.5);
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(d)
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provide
for periodic repayment within a specified period of time
(as determined
under Section 14.6); and
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(e)
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do
not exceed, for any Participant, the amount designated
under Section 14.7.
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A
separate written loan policy may not modify the requirements under
subsections
(a) through (e) above, except as permitted in the referenced Sections
of this
Article.
14.2
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Administration
of Loan Program. A Participant loan is available under
this Article only
if the Participant makes a request for such a loan in
accordance with the
provisions of this Article or in accordance with a separate
written loan
policy. To receive a Participant loan, a Participant
must sign a
promissory note along with a pledge or assignment of
the portion of the
Account Balance used for security on the loan. Except
as provided in a
separate loan policy or in a written modification to
the default loan
policy in this Article, any reference under this Article
14 to a
Participant means a Participant or Beneficiary who is
a party in interest
(as defined in ERISA ?3(14)).
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In
the
case of a restated Plan, if any provision of this Article 14 is
more restrictive
than the terms of the Plan (or a separate written loan policy)
in effect prior
to the adoption of this Prototype Plan, such provision shall apply
only to loans
finalized after the adoption of this Prototype Plan, even if the
restated
Effective Date indicated in the Agreement predates the adoption
of the Plan.
14.3
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Availability
of Participant Loans. Participant loans must be made
available to
Participants in a reasonably equivalent manner. The Plan
Administrator may
refuse to make a loan to any Participant who is determined
to be not
creditworthy. For this purpose, a Participant is not
creditworthy if,
based on the facts and circumstances, it is reasonable
to believe that the
Participant will not repay the loan. A Participant who
has defaulted on a
previous loan from the Plan and has not repaid such loan
(with accrued
interest) at the time of any subsequent loan will not
be treated as
creditworthy until such time as the Participant repays
the defaulted loan
(with accrued interest). A separate written loan policy
or written
modification to this loan policy may prescribe different
rules for
determining creditworthiness and to what extent creditworthiness
must be
determined.
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No
Participant loan will be made to any Shareholder-Employee or Owner-Employee
unless a prohibited transaction exemption for such loan is obtained
from the
Department of Labor or the prohibition against loans to such individuals
is
formally withdrawn by statute or by action of the Treasury or the
Department of
Labor. The prohibition against loans to Shareholder-Employees and
Owner-Employees outlined in this paragraph may not be modified
by a separate
written loan policy.
14.4
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Reasonable
Interest Rate. A Participant must be charged a reasonable
rate of interest
for any loan he/she receives. For this purpose, the interest
rate charged
on a Participant loan must be commensurate with the interest
rates charged
by persons in the business of lending money for loans
under similar
circumstances. The Plan Administrator will determine
a reasonable rate of
interest by reviewing the interest rates charged by a
sample of third
party lenders in the same geographical region as the
Employer. The Plan
Administrator must periodically review its interest rate
assumptions to
ensure the interest rate charged on Participant loans
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is
reasonable. A separate written loan policy or written modifications
to this loan
policy may prescribe an alternative means of establishing a reasonable
interest
rate.
14.5
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Adequate
Security. All Participant loans must be adequately secured.
The
Participant's vested Account Balance shall be used as
security for a
Participant loan provided the outstanding balance of
all Participant loans
made to such Participant does not exceed 50% of the Participant's
vested
Account Balance, determined immediately after the origination
of each
loan, and if applicable, the spousal consent requirements
described in
Section 14.9 have been satisfied. The Plan Administrator
(with the consent
of the Trustee) may require a Participant to provide
additional collateral
to receive a Participant loan if the Plan Administrator
determines such
additional collateral is required to protect the interests
of Plan
Participants. A separate loan policy or written modifications
to this loan
policy may prescribe alternative rules for obtaining
adequate security.
However, the 50% rule in this paragraph may not be replaced
with a greater
percentage.
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14.6
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Periodic
Repayment. A Participant loan must provide for level
amortization with
payments to be made not less frequently than quarterly.
A Participant loan
must be payable within a period not exceeding five (5)
years from the date
the Participant receives the loan from the Plan, unless
the loan is for
the purchase of the Participant's principal residence,
in which case the
loan must be payable within a reasonable time commensurate
with the
repayment period permitted by commercial lenders for
similar loans. Loan
repayments must be made through payroll withholding,
except to the extent
the Plan Administrator determines payroll withholding
is not practical
given the level of a Participant's wages, the frequency
with which the
Participant is paid, or other circumstances.
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(a)
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Unpaid
leave of absence. A Participant with an outstanding Participant
loan may
suspend loan payments to the Plan for up to 12 months
for any period
during which the Participant is on an unpaid leave of
absence. Upon the
Participant's return to employment (or after the end
of the 12-month
period, if earlier), the Participant's outstanding loan
will be
reamortized over the remaining period of such loan to
make up for the
missed payments. The reamortized loan may extend beyond
the original loan
term so long as the loan is paid in full by whichever
of the following
dates comes first: (1) the date which is five (5) years
from the original
date of the loan (or the end of the suspension, if sooner),
or (2) the
original loan repayment deadline (or the end of the suspension
period, if
later) plus the length of the suspension period.
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(b)
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Military
leave. A Participant with an outstanding Participant
loan also may suspend
loan payments for any period such Participant is on military
leave, in
accordance with Code ?414(u)(4). Upon the Participant's
return from
military leave (or the expiration of five years from
the date the
Participant began his/her military leave, if earlier),
loan payments will
recommence under the amortization schedule in effect
prior to the
Participant's military leave, without regard to the five-year
maximum loan
repayment period. Alternatively, the loan may be reamortized
to require a
different level of loan payment, as long as the amount
and frequency of
such payments are not less than the amount and frequency
under the
amortization schedule in effect prior to the Participant's
military leave.
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A
separate loan policy or written modification to this loan policy
may (1) modify
the time period for repaying Participant loans, provided Participant
loans are
required to be repaid over a period that is not longer than the
periods
described in this Section; (2) specify the frequency of Participant
loan
repayments, provided the payments are required at least quarterly;
(3) modify
the requirement that loans be repaid through payroll withholding;
or (4) modify
or eliminate the leave of absence and/or military leave rules under
this
Section.
14.7
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Loan
Limitations. A Participant loan may not be made to the
extent such loan
(when added to the outstanding balance of all other loans
made to the
Participant) exceeds the lesser of:
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(a)
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$50,000
(reduced by the excess, if any, of the Participant's
highest outstanding
balance of loans from the Plan during the one-year period
ending on the
day before the date on which such loan is made, over
the Participant's
outstanding balance of loans from the Plan as of the
date such loan is
made) or
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(b)
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one-half
(?) of the Participant's vested Account Balance, determined
as of the
Valuation Date coinciding with or immediately preceding
such loan,
adjusted for any contributions or distributions made
since such Valuation
Date.
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A
Participant may not receive a Participant loan of less than $1,000
nor may a
Participant have more than one Participant loan outstanding at
any time. A
Participant may renegotiate a loan without violating the one outstanding
loan
requirement to the extent such renegotiated loan is a new loan
(i.e., the
renegotiated loan separately satisfies the reasonable interest
rate requirement
under Section 14.4, the adequate security requirement under Section
14.5, and
the periodic repayment requirement under Section 14.6). and the
renegotiated
loan does not exceed the limitations under (a) or (b) above, treating
both the
replaced loan and the renegotiated loan as outstanding at the same
time.
However, if the term of the renegotiated loan does
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not
end
later than the original term of the replaced loan, the replaced
loan may be
ignored in applying the limitations under (a) and (b) above.
In
applying the limitations under this Section, all plans maintained
by the
Employer are aggregated and treated as a single plan. In addition,
any
assignment or pledge of any portion of the Participant's interest
in the Plan
and any loan, pledge, or assignment with respect to any insurance
contract
purchased under the Plan will be treated as loan under this Section.
A
separate written loan policy or written modifications to this loan
policy may
(1) modify the limitations on the amount of a Participant loan;
(2) modify or
eliminate the minimum loan amount requirement; (3) permit a Participant
to have
more than one loan outstanding at a time; (4) prescribe limitations
on the
purposes for which loans may be required; or (5) prescribe rules
for
reamortization, consolidation, renegotiation, or refinancing of
loans.
14.8
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Segregated
Investment. A Participant loan is treated as a segregated
investment on
behalf of the individual Participant for whom the loan
is made. The Plan
Administrator may adopt separate administrative procedures
for determining
which type or types of contributions (and the amount
of each type of
contribution) may be used to provide the Participant
loan. If the Plan
Administrator does not adopt procedures designating the
type of
contributions from which the Participant loan will be
made, such loan is
deemed to be made on a proportionate basis from each
type of contribution.
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Unless
requested otherwise on the Participant's loan application, a Participant
loan
will be made equally from all investment funds in which the applicable
contributions are held. A Participant or Beneficiary may direct
the Trustee, on
his/her loan application, to withdraw the Participant loan amounts
from a
specific investment fund or funds. A Participant loan will not
violate the
requirements of this default loan policy merely because the Plan
Administrator
does not permit the Participant to designate the contributions
or funds from
which the Participant loan will be made. Each payment of principal
and interest
paid by a Participant on his/her Participant loan shall be credited
proportionately to such Participant's Account(s) and to the investment
funds
within such Account(s).
A
separate loan policy or written modifications to this loan policy
may modify the
rules of this Section without limitation, including prescribing
different rules
for determining the source of a loan with respect to contribution
types and
investment funds.
14.9
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Spousal
Consent. If this Plan is subject to the Joint and Survivor
Annuity
requirements under Article 9, a Participant may not use
his/her Account
Balance as security for a Participant loan unless the
Participant's
spouse, if any, consents to the use of such Account Balance
as security
for the loan. The spousal consent must be made within
the 90-day period
ending on the date the Participant's Account Balance
is to be used as
security for the loan. Spousal consent is not required,
however, if the
value of the Participant's total vested Account Balance
(as determined
under Section 8.3(e)) does not exceed $5,000 ($3,500
for loans made before
the time the $5,000 rules becomes effective under Section
8.3). If the
Plan is not subject to the Joint and Survivor Annuity
requirements under
Article 9, a spouse's consent is not required to use
a Participant's
Account Balance as security for a Participant loan, regardless
of the
value of the Participant's Account Balance.
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Any
spousal consent required under this Section must be in writing,
must acknowledge
the effect of the loan, and must be witnessed by a plan representative
or notary
public. Any such consent to use the Participant's Account Balance
as security
for a Participant loan is binding with respect to the consenting
spouse and with
respect to any subsequent spouse as it applies to such loan. A
new spousal
consent will be required if the Account Balance is subsequently
used as security
for a renegotiation, extension, renewal, or other revision of the
loan. A new
spousal consent also will be required only if any portion of the
Participant's
Account Balance will be used as security for a subsequent Participant
loan.
A
separate loan policy or written modifications to this loan policy
may not
eliminate the spousal consent requirement where it would be required
under this
Section, but may impose spousal consent requirements that are not
prescribed by
this Section.
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Procedures
for Loan Default. A Participant will be considered to
be in default with
respect to a loan if any scheduled repayment with respect
to such loan is
not made by the end of the calendar quarter following
the calendar quarter
in which the missed payment was due.
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If
a
Participant defaults on a Participant loan, the Plan may not offset
the
Participant's Account Balance until the Participant is otherwise
entitled to an
immediate distribution of the portion of the Account Balance which
will be
offset and such amount being offset is available as security on
the loan,
pursuant to Section 14.5. For this purpose, a loan default is treated
as an
immediate distribution event to the extent the law does not prohibit
an actual
distribution of the type of contributions which would be offset
as a result of
the loan default (determined without regard to the consent requirements
under
Articles 8 and 9, so long as spousal consent
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was
properly obtained at the time of the loan, if required under Section
14.9). The
Participant may repay the outstanding balance of a defaulted loan
(including
accrued interest through the date of repayment) at any time.
Pending
the offset of a Participant's Account Balance following a defaulted
loan, the
following rules apply to the amount in default.
(a)
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Interest
continues to accrue on the amount in default until the
time of the loan
offset or, if earlier, the date the loan repayments are
made current or
the amount is satisfied with other collateral.
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(b)
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A
subsequent offset of the amount in default is not reported
as a taxable
distribution, except to the extent the taxable portion
of the default
amount was not previously reported by the Plan as a taxable
distribution.
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(c)
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The
post-default accrued interest included in the loan offset
is not reported
as a taxable distribution at the time of the offset.
A separate loan
policy or written modifications to this loan policy may
modify the
procedures for determining a loan default.
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14.11
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Termination
of Employment.
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(a)
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Offset
of outstanding loan. A Participant loan becomes due and
payable in full
immediately upon the Participant's termination of employment.
Upon a
Participant's termination, the Participant may repay
the entire
outstanding balance of the loan (including any accrued
interest) within a
reasonable period following termination of employment.
If the Participant
does not repay the entire outstanding loan balance, the
Participant's
vested Account Balance will be reduced by the remaining
outstanding
balance of the loan (without regard to the consent requirements
under
Articles 8 and 9, so long as spousal consent was properly
obtained at the
time of the loan, if required under Section 14.9), to
the extent such
Account Balance is available as security on the loan,
pursuant to Section
14.5, and the remaining vested Account Balance will be
distributed in
accordance with the distribution provisions under Article
8. If the
outstanding loan balance of a deceased Participant is
not repaid, the
outstanding loan balance shall be treated as a distribution
to the
Participant and shall reduce the death benefit amount
payable to the
Beneficiary under Section 8.4.
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(b)
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Direct
Rollover. Upon termination of employment, a Participant
may request a
Direct Rollover of the loan note (provided the distribution
is an Eligible
Rollover Distribution as defined in Section 8.8(a)) to
another qualified
plan which agrees to accept a Direct Rollover of the
loan note. A
Participant may not engage in a Direct Rollover of a
loan to the extent
the Participant has already received a deemed distribution
with respect to
such loan. (See the rules regarding deemed distributions
upon a loan
default under Section 14.10.)
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(c)
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Modified
loan policy. A separate loan policy or written modifications
to this loan
policy may modify this Section 14.11, including, but
not limited to: (1) a
provision to permit loan repayments to continue beyond
termination of
employment; (2) to prohibit the Direct Rollover of a
loan note; and (3) to
provide for other events that may accelerate the Participant's
repayment
obligation under the loan.
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ARTICLE
15 INVESTMENT IN LIFE INSURANCE
This
Article provides special rules for Plans that permit investment
in life
insurance on the life of the Participant, the Participant's spouse,
or other
family members. The Employer may elect in Part 12 of the Agreement
to permit
life insurance investments in the Plan, or life insurance investments
may be
permitted, prohibited, or restricted under the Plan through separate
investment
procedures or a separate funding policy. If the Plan prohibits
investments in
life insurance, this Article does not apply.
15.1
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Investment
in Life Insurance. A group or individual life insurance
policy purchased
by the Plan may be issued on the life of a Participant,
a Participant's
spouse, a Participant's child or children, a family member
of the
Participant, or any other individual with an insurable
interest. A life
insurance policy includes any type of policy, including
a second-to-die
policy, provided that the holding of a particular type
of policy is not
prohibited under rules applicable to qualified plans.
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Any
premiums on life insurance held for the benefit of a Participant
will be charged
against such Participant's vested Account Balance. Unless directed
otherwise,
the Plan Administrator will reduce each of the Participant's Accounts
under the
Plan equally to pay premiums on life insurance held for such Participant's
benefit. Any premiums paid for life insurance policies must satisfy
the
incidental life insurance rules under Section 15.2.
15.2
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Incidental
Life Insurance Rules. Any life insurance purchased under
the Plan must
meet the following requirements:
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(a)
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Ordinary
life insurance policies. The aggregate premiums paid
for ordinary life
insurance policies (i.e., policies with both nondecreasing
death benefits
and nonincreasing premiums) for the benefit of a Participant
shall not at
any time exceed 49% of the aggregate amount of Employer
Contributions
(including Section 401(k) Deferrals) and forfeitures
that have been
allocated to the Account of such Participant.
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(b)
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Life
insurance policies other than ordinary life. The aggregate
premiums paid
for term, universal or other life insurance policies
(other than ordinary
life insurance policies) for the benefit of a Participant
shall not at any
time exceed 25% of the aggregate amount of Employer Contributions
(including Section 401(k) Deferrals) and forfeitures
that have been
allocated to the Account of such Participant.
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(c)
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Combination
of ordinary and other life insurance policies. The sum
of one-half (1/2)
of the aggregate premiums paid for ordinary life insurance
policies plus
all the aggregate premiums paid for any other life insurance
policies for
the benefit of a Participant shall not at any time exceed
25% of the
aggregate amount of Employer Contributions (including
Section 401(k)
Deferrals) and forfeitures which have been allocated
to the Account of
such Participant.
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(d)
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Exception
for certain profit sharing and 401(k) plans. If the Plan
is a profit
sharing plan or a 401(k) plan, the limitations in this
Section do not
apply to the extent life insurance premiums are paid
only with Employer
Contributions and forfeitures that have been accumulated
in the
Participant's Account for at least two years or are paid
with respect to a
Participant who has been an Eligible Participant for
at least five years.
For purposes of applying this special limitation, Employer
Contributions
do not include any Section 401(k) Deferrals, QMACs, QNECs
or Safe-Harbor
Contributions under a 401(k) plan.
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(e)
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Exception
for Employee After-Tax Contributions and Rollover Contributions.
The Plan
Administrator also may invest, with the Participant's
consent, any portion
of the Participant's Employee After-Tax Contribution
Account or Rollover
Contribution Account in a group or individual life insurance
policy for
the benefit of such Participant, without regard to the
incidental life
insurance rules under this Section.
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15.3
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Ownership
of Life Insurance Policies. The Trustee is the owner
of any life insurance
policies purchased under the Plan in accordance with
the provisions of
this Article 15. Any life insurance policy purchased
under the Plan must
designate the Trustee as owner and beneficiary under
the policy. The
Trustee will pay all proceeds of any life insurance policies
to the
Beneficiary of the Participant for whom such policy is
held in accordance
with the distribution provisions under Article 8 and
the Joint and
Survivor Annuity requirements under Article 9. In no
event shall the
Trustee retain any part of the proceeds from any life
insurance policies
for the benefit of the Plan.
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15.4
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Evidence
of Insurability. Prior to purchasing a life insurance
policy, the Plan
Administrator may require the individual whose life is
being insured to
provide evidence of insurability, such as a physical
examination, as may
be required by the Insurer.
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15.5
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Distribution
of Insurance Policies. Life insurance policies under
the Plan which are
held on behalf of a Participant must be distributed to
the Participant or
converted to cash upon the later of the Participant's
Distribution
Commencement Date (as defined in Section 22.56) or termination
of
employment. Any life insurance policies that are held
on behalf of a
terminated Participant must continue to satisfy the incidental
life
insurance rules under Section 15.2. If a life insurance
policy is
purchased on behalf of an individual other than the Participant,
and such
individual dies, the Participant may withdraw any or
all life insurance
proceeds from the Plan, to the extent such proceeds exceed
the cash value
of the life insurance policy determined immediately before
the death of
the insured individual.
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15.6
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Discontinuance
of Insurance Policies. Investments in life insurance
may be discontinued
at any time, either at the direction of the Trustee or
other fiduciary
responsible for making investment decisions. If the Plan
provides for
Participant direction of investments, life insurance
as an investment
option may be eliminated at any time by the Plan Administrator.
Where life
insurance investment options are being discontinued,
the Plan
Administrator, in its sole discretion, may offer the
sale of the insurance
policies to the Participant, or to another person, provided
that the
prohibited transaction exemption requirements prescribed
by the Department
of Labor are satisfied.
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15.7
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Protection
of Insurer. An Insurer that issues a life insurance policy
under the terms
of this Article, shall not be responsible for the validity
of this Plan
and shall be protected and held harmless for any actions
taken or not
taken by the Trustee or any actions taken in accordance
with written
directions from the Trustee or the Employer (or any duly
authorized
representatives of the Trustee or Employer). An Insurer
shall have no
obligation to determine the propriety of any premium
payments or to
guarantee the proper application of any payments made
by the insurance
company to the Trustee.
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The
Insurer is not and shall not be considered a party to this Agreement
and is not
a fiduciary with respect to the Plan solely as a result of the
issuance of life
insurance policies under this Article 15.
15.8
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No
Responsibility for Act of Insurer. Neither the Employer,
the Plan
Administrator nor the Trustee shall be responsible for
the validity of the
provisions under a life insurance policy issued under
this Article 15 or
for the failure or refusal by the Insurer to provide
benefits under such
policy. The Employer, the Plan Administrator and the
Trustee are also not
responsible for any action or failure to act by the Insurer
or any other
person which results in the delay of a payment under
the life insurance
policy or which renders the policy invalid or unenforceable
in whole or in
part.
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ARTICLE
16 TOP-HEAVY PLAN REQUIREMENTS
This
Article contains the rules for determining whether the Plan is
a Top-Heavy Plan
and the consequences of having a Top-Heavy Plan. Part 6 of the
Agreement
provides for elections relating to the vesting schedule for a Top-Heavy
Plan.
Part 13 of the Agreement allows the Employer to elect to satisfy
the Top-Heavy
Plan allocation requirements under another plan.
16.1
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In
General. If the Plan is or becomes a Top-Heavy Plan in
any Plan Year, the
provisions of this Article 16 will supersede any conflicting
provisions in
the Plan or Agreement. However, this Article 16 will
no longer apply if
Code ?416 is repealed.
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16.2
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Top-Heavy
Plan Consequences.
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(a)
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Minimum
allocation for Non-Key Employees. If the Plan is a Top-Heavy
Plan for any
Plan Year, except as otherwise provided in subsections
(4) and (5) below,
the Employer Contributions and forfeitures allocated
for the Plan Year on
behalf of any Eligible Participant who is a Non-Key Employee
must not be
less than a minimum percentage of the Participant's Total
Compensation (as
defined in Section 16.3(i)). If any Non-Key Employee
who is entitled to
receive a top-heavy minimum contribution pursuant to
this Section 16.2(a)
fails to receive an appropriate allocation, the Employer
will make an
additional contribution on behalf of such Non-Key Employee
to satisfy the
requirements of this Section. The Employer may elect
under Part 4 of the
Agreement [Part 4C of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
to make the
top-heavy contribution to all Eligible Participants.
If the Employer
elects under the Agreement to provide the top-heavy minimum
contribution
to all Eligible Participants, the Employer also will
make an additional
contribution on behalf of any Key Employee who is an
Eligible Participant
and who did not receive an allocation equal to the top-heavy
minimum
contribution.
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(1)
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Determining
the minimum percentage. The minimum percentage that must
be allocated
under subsection (a) above is the lesser of: (i) three
(3) percent of
Total Compensation for the Plan Year or (ii) the highest
contribution rate
for any Key Employee for the Plan Year. The highest contribution
rate for
a Key Employee is determined by taking into account the
total Employer
Contributions and forfeitures allocated to each Key Employee
for the Plan
Year, as a percentage of the Key Employee's Total Compensation.
A Key
Employee's contribution rate includes Section 401(k)
Deferrals made by the
Key Employee for the Plan Year (except as provided by
regulation or
statute). If this Plan is aggregated with a Defined Benefit
Plan to
satisfy the requirements of Code ?401(a)(4) or Code ?410(b),
the minimum
percentage is three (3) percent, without regard to the
highest Key
Employee contribution rate. See subsection (5) below
if the Employer
maintains more than one plan.
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(2)
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Determining
whether the Non-Key Employee's allocation satisfies the
minimum
percentage. To determine if a Non-Key Employee's allocation
of Employer
Contributions and forfeitures is at least equal to the
minimum percentage,
the Employee's Section 401(k) Deferrals for the Plan
Year are disregarded.
In addition, Matching Contributions allocated to the
Employee's Account
for the Plan Year are disregarded, unless: (i) the Plan
Administrator
elects to take all or a portion of the Matching Contributions
into
account, or (ii) Matching Contributions are taken into
account by statute
or regulation. The rule in (i) does not apply unless
the Matching
Contributions so taken into account could satisfy the
nondiscrimination
testing requirements under Code ?401(a)(4) if tested
separately. Any
Employer Matching Contributions used to satisfy the Top-Heavy
Plan minimum
allocation may not be used in the ACP Test (as defined
in Section 17.3),
except to the extent permitted under statute, regulation
or other guidance
of general applicability.
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(3)
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Certain
allocation conditions inapplicable. The Top-Heavy Plan
minimum allocation
shall be made even though, under other Plan provisions,
the Non-Key
Employee would not otherwise be entitled to receive an
allocation, or
would have received a lesser allocation for the Plan
Year because of:
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(i)
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the
Participant's failure to complete 1,000 Hours of Service
(or any
equivalent provided in the Plan),
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(ii)
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the
Participant's failure to make Employee After-Tax Contributions
to the
Plan, or
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(iii)
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Total
Compensation is less than a stated amount.
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The
minimum allocation also is determined without regard to any Social
Security
contribution or whether an Eligible Participant fails to make Section
401(k)
Deferrals for a Plan Year in which the Plan includes a 401(k) feature.
(4)
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Participants
not employed on the last day of the Plan Year. The minimum
allocation
requirement described in this subsection (a) does not
apply to an Eligible
Participant who was not employed by the Employer on the
last day of the
applicable Plan Year.
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(5)
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Participation
in more than one Top-heavy Plan. The minimum allocation
requirement
described in this subsection (a) does not apply to an
Eligible Participant
who is covered under another plan maintained by the Employer
if, pursuant
to Part 13, #54 of the Agreement [Part 13, #72 of the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the other Plan will satisfy
the minimum
allocation requirement.
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(i)
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More
than one Defined Contribution Plans. If the Employer
maintains more than
one top-heavy Defined Contribution Plan (including Paired
Plans), the
Employer may designate in Part 13, #54.a. of the Agreement
[Part 13,
#72.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] which
plan will provide the
top-heavy minimum contribution to Non-Key Employees.
Alternatively, under
Part 13, #54.a.(3) of the Agreement [Part 13, #72.a.(3)
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the Employer may designate
another means of
complying with the top-heavy requirements. If Part 13,
#54 of the
Agreement [Part 13, #72 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] is not
completed and the Employer maintains more than one Defined
Contribution
Plan, the Employer will be deemed to have selected this
Plan under Part
13, #54.a. of the Agreement [Part 13, #72.a. of the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] as the Plan under which the top-heavy minimum
contribution will
be provided.
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If
an
Employee is entitled to a top-heavy minimum contribution but has
not satisfied
the minimum age and/or service requirements under the Plan designated
to provide
the top-heavy minimum contribution, the Employee may receive a
top-heavy minimum
contribution under the designated Plan. Thus, for example, if the
Employer
maintains both a 401(k) plan and a non-401(k) plan, a Non-Key Employee
who has
not satisfied the minimum age and service conditions under Part
1, #5 of the
non-401(k) plan Agreement is eligible for a top-heavy minimum allocation
under
the non-401(k) plan (if so provided under Part 13, #54.a. of the
Agreement [Part
13, #72.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]) if such Employee
has
satisfied the eligibility conditions for making Section 401(k)
Deferrals under
the 401(k) plan. The provision of a top-heavy minimum contribution
under this
paragraph will not cause the Plan to fail the minimum coverage
or
nondiscrimination rules. The Employer may designate an alternative
method of
providing the top-heavy minimum contribution to such Employees
under Part 13,
#54.a.(3) of the Agreement [Part 13, #72.a.(3) of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement].
(ii)
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Defined
Contribution Plan and a Defined Benefit Plan. If the
Employer maintains
both a top-heavy Defined Contribution Plan (under this
BPD) and a
top-heavy Defined Benefit Plan, the Employer must designate
the manner in
which the plans will comply with the Top-Heavy Plan requirements.
Under
Part 13, #54.b. of the Agreement [Part 13, #72.b. of
the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement], the Employer may elect to
provide the top-heavy
minimum benefit to Non-Key Employees who participate
in both Plans (A) in
the Defined Benefit Plan; (B) in the Defined Contribution
Plan (but
increasing the minimum allocation from 3% to 5%); or
(C) under any other
acceptable method of compliance. If a Non-Key Employee
participates only
under the Defined Benefit Plan, the top-heavy minimum
benefit will be
provided under the Defined Benefit Plan. If a Non-Key
Employee
participates only under the Defined Contribution Plan,
the top-heavy
minimum benefit will be provided under the Defined Contribution
Plan
(without regard to this subsection (ii)). If Part 13,
#54.b. of the
Agreement [Part 13, #72.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] is not
completed and the Employer maintains a Defined Benefit
Plan, the Employer
will be deemed to have selected this Plan under Part
13, #54.b.(1) of the
Agreement [Part 13, #72.b.(1) of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] as
the plan under which the top-heavy minimum contribution
will be provided.
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If
the
Employer maintains more than one Defined Contribution Plan in addition
to a
Defined Benefit Plan, the Employer may use Part 13, #54.b.(3) of
the
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Agreement
[Part 13, #72.b.(3) of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to
designate which
Defined Contribution Plan will provide the top-heavy minimum contribution.
If
the
Employer is using the Four-Step Permitted Disparity Method (as
described in
Section 2.2(b)(ii)) and elects under Part 13, #54.b.(1) of the
Agreement [Part
13, #72.b.(1) of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to provide
a 5% top-heavy
minimum contribution, the 3% minimum allocation under Step One
is increased to
5%. The 3% allocation under Step Two will also be increased to
the lesser of
(A)
5% or
(B) the amount determined under Step Three (increased by 3 percentage
points).
If an additional allocation is to be made under Step Three, the
Applicable
Percentage under Section 2.2(b)(ii)(C) must be reduced by 2 percentage
points
(but not below zero).
(6)
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No
forfeiture for certain events. The minimum top-heavy
allocation (to the
extent required to be nonforfeitable under Code ?416(b))
may not be
forfeited under the suspension of benefit rules of Code
?411(a)(3)(B) or
the withdrawal of mandatory contribution rules of Code
?411(a)(3)(D).
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(b)
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Special
Top-Heavy Vesting Rules.
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(1)
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Minimum
vesting schedules. For any Plan Year in which this Plan
is a Top-Heavy
Plan, the Top-Heavy Plan vesting schedule elected in
Part 6, #19 of the
Agreement [Part 6, #37 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]
will
automatically apply to the Plan. The Top-Heavy Plan vesting
schedule will
apply to all benefits within the meaning of Code ?411(a)(7)
except those
attributable to Employee After-Tax Contributions, including
benefits
accrued before the effective date of Code ?416 and benefits
accrued before
the Plan became a Top-Heavy Plan. No decrease in a Participant's
nonforfeitable percentage may occur in the event the
Plan's status as a
Top-Heavy Plan changes for any Plan Year. However, this
subsection does
not apply to the Account Balance of any Employee who
does not have an Hour
of Service after a Top-Heavy Plan vesting schedule becomes
effective.
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(2)
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Shifting
Top-Heavy Plan status. If the vesting schedule under
the Plan shifts in or
out of the Top-Heavy Plan vesting schedule for any Plan
Year because of a
change in Top-Heavy Plan status, such shift is an amendment
to the vesting
schedule and the election in Section 4.7 of the Plan
applies.
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16.3
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Top-Heavy
Definitions.
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(a)
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Determination
Date: For any Plan Year subsequent to the first Plan
Year, the
Determination Date is the last day of the preceding Plan
Year. For the
first Plan Year of the Plan, the Determination Date is
the last day of
that first Plan Year.
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(b)
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Determination
Period: The Plan Year containing the Determination Date
and the four (4)
preceding Plan Years.
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(c)
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Key
Employee: Any Employee or former Employee (and the Beneficiaries
of such
Employee) is a Key Employee for a Plan Year if, at any
time during the
Determination Period, the individual was:
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(1)
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an
officer of the Employer with annual Total Compensation
in excess of 50
percent of the dollar limitation under Code ?415(b)(1)(A),
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(2)
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an
owner (or considered an owner under Code ?318) of one
of the ten largest
interests in the Employer with annual Total Compensation
in excess of 100
percent of the dollar limitation under Code ?415(c)(1)(A);
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(3)
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a
Five-Percent Owner (as defined in Section 22.88),
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(4)
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a
more than 1-percent owner of the Employer with an annual
Total
Compensation of more than $150,000.
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The
Key
Employee determination will be made in accordance with Code ?416(i)(1)
and the
regulations thereunder.
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(d)
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Permissive
Aggregation Group: The Required Aggregation Group of
plans plus any other
plan or plans of the Employer which, when considered
as a group with the
Required Aggregation Group, would continue to satisfy
the requirements of
Code ??401(a)(4) and 410.
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(e)
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Present
Value: The present value based on the interest and mortality
rates
specified in the relevant Defined Benefit Plan. In the
event that more
than one Defined Benefit Plan is included in a Required
Aggregation Group
or Permissive Aggregation Group, a uniform set of actuarial
assumptions
must be applied to determine present value. The Employer
may specify in
Part 13, #54.b.(3) of the Agreement [Part 13, #72.b.(3)
of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] the actuarial assumptions that
will apply if the
Defined Benefit Plans do not specify a uniform set of
actuarial
assumptions to be used to determine if the plans are
Top-Heavy.
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(f)
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Required
Aggregation Group:
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(1)
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Each
qualified plan of the Employer in which at least one
Key Employee
participates or participated at any time during the Determination
Period
(regardless of whether the plan has terminated), and
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(2)
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any
other qualified plan of the Employer that enables a plan
described in (l)
to meet the coverage or nondiscrimination requirements
of Code ??410(b) or
401(a)(4).
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(g)
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Top-Heavy
Plan: For any Plan Year, this Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan
if any of the
following conditions exist:
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(1)
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The
Plan is not part of any Required Aggregation Group or
Permissive
Aggregation Group of plans, and the Top-Heavy Ratio for
the Plan exceeds
60 percent.
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(2)
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The
Plan is part of a Required Aggregation Group of plans,
but not part of a
Permissive Aggregation Group, and the Top-Heavy Ratio
for the Required
Aggregation Group of plans exceeds 60 percent.
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(3)
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The
Plan is 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 percent.
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(h)
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Top-Heavy
Ratio:
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(1)
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Defined
Contribution Plans only. This paragraph applies if the
Employer maintains
one or more Defined Contribution Plans (including any
SEP described under
Code ?408(k)) and the Employer has not maintained any
Defined Benefit Plan
that during the Determination Period has or has had Accrued
Benefits. The
Top-Heavy Ratio for this Plan alone, or for the Required
Aggregation Group
or Permissive Aggregation Group, as appropriate, is a
fraction, the
numerator of which is the sum of the Account Balances
of all Key Employees
as of the Determination Date(s) and the denominator of
which is the sum of
all Account Balances, both computed in accordance with
Code ?416 and the
regulations thereunder.
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(2)
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Defined
Contribution Plan and Defined Benefit Plan. This paragraph
applies if the
Employer maintains one or more Defined Contribution Plans
(including a SEP
described under Code ?408(k)) and the Employer maintains
or has maintained
one or more Defined Benefit Plans which during the Determination
Period
has or has had any Accrued Benefits. The Top-Heavy Ratio
for any Required
Aggregation Group or Permissive Aggregation Group, as
appropriate, is a
fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of Account
Balances under the
aggregated Defined Contribution Plan(s) for all Key Employees,
and the
Present Value of Accrued Benefits under the aggregated
Defined Benefit
Plan(s) 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(s) for all Participants
and the
Present Value of Accrued Benefits under the Defined Benefit
Plan(s) for
all Participants as of the Determination Date(s), all
determined in
accordance with Code ?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 distributions of
an accrued benefit made in the five-year period ending
on the
Determination Date.
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(3)
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Applicable
Valuation Dates. For purposes of subsections (1) and
(2) above, the value
of Account Balances and the Present Value of Accrued
Benefits will be
determined as of the most recent Valuation Date that
falls within or ends
with the 12-month period ending on
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the
Determination Date, except as provided in Code ?416 and the regulations
thereunder for the first and second Plan Years of a Defined Benefit
Plan. 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.
(4)
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Valuation
of benefits. Determining a Participant's Account Balance
or Accrued
Benefit. 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 ?416 and the regulations
thereunder. For
purposes of subsections (1) and (2) above, the Account
Balance and/or
Accrued Benefit of each Participant is adjusted as provided
under
subsections (i) and (ii) below.
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(i)
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Increase
for prior distributions. In applying the Top-Heavy Ratio,
a Participant's
Account Balance and/or Accrued Benefit is increased for
any distributions
made from the Plan during the Determination Period.
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(ii)
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Increase
for future contributions. Both the numerator and denominator
of the
Top-Heavy Ratio are increased to reflect any contribution
to a Defined
Contribution Plan not actually made as of the Determination
Date, but
which is required to be taken into account on that date
under Code ?416
and the regulations thereunder.
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(iii)
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Exclusion
of certain benefits. The Account Balance and/or Accrued
Benefit of a
Participant (and any distribution during the Determination
Period with
respect to such Participant's Account Balance or Accrued
Benefit) is
disregarded from the Top-Heavy Ratio if: (A) the Participant
is a Non-Key
Employee who was a Key Employee in a prior year, or (B)
the Participant
has not been credited with at least one Hour of Service
during the
Determination Period. 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 ?416 and
the regulations
thereunder.
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(iv)
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Calculation
of Accrued Benefit. The Accrued Benefit of a Participant
other than a Key
Employee shall be determined under: (A) the method, if
any, that uniformly
applies for accrual purposes under all Defined Benefit
Plans maintained by
the Employer; or (B) 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 ?411(b)(1)(C).
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(i)
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Total
Compensation. For purposes of determining the minimum
top-heavy
contribution under 16.2(a), Total Compensation is determined
using the
definition under Section 7.4(f), including the special
rule under Section
7.4(f)(4) for years beginning before January 1, 1998.
For this purpose,
Total Compensation is subject to the Compensation Dollar
Limitation as
defined in Section 22.32.
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(j)
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Valuation
Date. The date as of which Account Balances are valued
for purposes of
calculating the Top-Heavy Ratio.
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ARTICLE
17 401(k) PLAN PROVISIONS
This
Article sets forth the special testing rules applicable to Section
401(k)
Deferrals, Employer Matching Contributions, and Employee After-Tax
Contributions
that may be made under the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement and
the requirements
to qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan. Section 17.1 provides
limits on the
amount of Elective Deferrals an Employee may defer into the Plan
during a
calendar year. Sections 17.2 and 17.3 set forth the rules for running
the ADP
Test and ACP Test with respect to contributions under the 401(k)
plan and
Section 17.4 discusses the requirements for applying the Multiple
Use Test.
Section 17.5 prescribes special testing rules for performing the
ADP Test and
the ACP Test. Section 17.6 sets forth the requirements that must
be met to
qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan. Unless otherwise stated,
any reference to
the Agreement under this Article 17 is a reference to the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement.
17.1
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Limitation
on the Amount of Section 401(k) Deferrals.
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(a)
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In
general. An Eligible Participant's total Section 401(k)
Deferrals under
this Plan, or any other qualified plan of the Employer,
for any calendar
year may not exceed the lesser of:
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(1)
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the
percentage of Included Compensation designated under
Part 4A, #12 of the
Agreement;
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(2)
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the
dollar limitation under Code ?402(g); or
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(3)
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the
amount permitted under the Annual Additions Limitation
described in
Article 7.
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Maximum
deferral limitation. If the Employer elects to impose a maximum
deferral
limitation under Part 4A, #12 of the Agreement, it must designate
under Part 4A,
#12.a. the period for which such limitation applies. Regardless
of any
limitation designated under Part 4A, #12 of the Agreement, the
Employer may
provide for alternative limitations in the Salary Reduction Agreement
with
respect to designated types of Included Compensation, such as bonus
payments. If
no maximum percentage is designated under Part 4A, #12 of the Agreement,
the
only limit on a Participant's Section 401(k) Deferrals under this
Plan is the
dollar limitation under Code ?402(g) and the Annual Additions Limitation.
(b)
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Correction
of Code ?402(g) Violation. A Participant may not make
Section 401(k)
Deferrals that exceed the dollar limitation under Code
?402(g). The dollar
limitation under Code ?402(g) applicable to a Participant's
Section 401(k)
Deferrals under this Plan is reduced by any Elective
Deferrals the
Participant makes under any other plan maintained by
the Employer. If a
Participant makes Section 401(k) Deferrals that exceed
the Code ?402(g)
limit, the Employer may correct the Code ?402(g) violation
in the
following manner.
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(1)
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Suspension
of Section 401(k) Deferrals. The Employer may suspend
a Participant's
Section 401(k) Deferrals under the Plan for the remainder
of the calendar
year when the Participant's Section 401(k) Deferrals
under this Plan, in
combination with any Elective Deferrals the Participant
makes during the
calendar year under any other plan maintained by the
Employer, equal or
exceed the dollar limitation under Code ?402(g).
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(2)
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Distribution
of Excess Deferrals. If a Participant makes Section 401(k)
Deferrals under
this Plan during a calendar year which exceed the dollar
limitation under
Code ?402(g), the Participant will receive a corrective
distribution from
the Plan of the Excess Deferrals (plus allocable income)
no later than
April 15 of the following calendar year. The amount which
must be
distributed as a correction of Excess Deferrals for a
calendar year equals
the amount of Elective Deferrals the Participant contributes
in excess of
the dollar limitation under Code ?402(g) during the calendar
year to this
Plan, and any other plan maintained by the Employer,
reduced by any
corrective distribution of Excess Deferrals the Participant
receives
during the calendar year from this Plan or other plan(s)
maintained by the
Employer. Excess Deferrals that are distributed after
April 15 are
includible in the Participant's gross income in both
the taxable year in
which deferred and the taxable year in which distributed.
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(i)
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Allocable
gain or loss. A corrective distribution of Excess Deferrals
must include
any allocable gain or loss for the calendar year in which
the Excess
Deferrals are made. For this purpose, allocable gain
or loss on Excess
Deferrals may be determined in any reasonable manner,
provided the manner
used to determine allocable gain or loss is applied uniformly
and in a
manner that is
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reasonably
reflective of the method used by the Plan for allocating income
to Participants'
Accounts.
(ii)
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Coordination
with other provisions. A corrective distribution of Excess
Deferrals made
by April 15 of the following calendar year may be made
without consent of
the Participant or the Participant's spouse, and without
regard to any
distribution restrictions applicable under Article 8
or Article 9. A
corrective distribution of Excess Deferrals made by the
appropriate April
15 also is not treated as a distribution for purposes
of applying the
required minimum distribution rules under Article 10.
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(iii)
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Coordination
with corrective distribution of Excess Contributions.
If a Participant for
whom a corrective distribution of Excess Deferrals is
being made received
a previous corrective distribution of Excess Contributions
to correct the
ADP Test for the Plan Year beginning with or within the
calendar year for
which the Participant made the Excess Deferrals, the
previous corrective
distribution of Excess Contributions is treated first
as a corrective
distribution of Excess Deferrals to the extent necessary
to eliminate the
Excess Deferral violation. The amount of the corrective
distribution of
Excess Contributions which is required to correct the
ADP Test failure is
reduced by the amount treated as a corrective distribution
of Excess
Deferrals.
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(3)
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Correction
of Excess Deferrals under plans not maintained by the
Employer. The
correction provisions under subsections (1) and (2) above
apply only if a
Participant makes Excess Deferrals under plans maintained
by the Employer.
However, if a Participant has Excess Deferrals because
the total Elective
Deferrals for a calendar year under all plans in which
he/she
participates, including plans that are not maintained
by the Employer,
exceed the dollar limitation under Code ?402(g), the
Participant may
assign to this Plan any portion of the Excess Deferrals
made during the
calendar year. The Participant must notify the Plan Administrator
in
writing on or before March 1 of the following calendar
year of the amount
of the Excess Deferrals to be assigned to this Plan.
Upon receipt of a
timely notification, the Excess Deferrals assigned to
this Plan will be
distributed (along with any allocable income or loss)
to the Participant
in accordance with the corrective distribution provisions
under subsection
(2) above. A Participant is deemed to notify the Plan
Administrator of
Excess Deferrals to the extent such Excess Deferrals
arise only under this
Plan and any other plan maintained by the Employer.
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17.2
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Nondiscrimination
Testing of Section 401(k) Deferrals - ADP Test. Except
as provided under
Section
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17.6
for
Safe Harbor 401(k) Plans, the Section 401(k) Deferrals made by
Highly
Compensated Employees must satisfy the Actual Deferral Percentage
Test ("ADP
Test") for each Plan Year. The Plan Administrator shall maintain
records
sufficient to demonstrate satisfaction of the ADP Test, including
the amount of
any QNECs or QMACs included in such test, pursuant to subsection
(c) below. If
the Plan fails the ADP Test for any Plan Year, the corrective provisions
under
subsection (d) below will apply.
(a)
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ADP
Test testing methods. For Plan Years beginning on or
after January 1,
1997, the ADP Test will be performed using the Prior
Year Testing Method
or Current Year Testing Method, as selected under Part
4F, #31 of the
Agreement. If the Employer does not select a testing
method under Part 4F,
#31 of the Agreement, the Plan will use the Current Year
Testing Method.
Unless specifically precluded under statute, regulations
or other IRS
guidance, the Employer may amend the testing method designated
under Part
4F for a particular Plan Year (subject to the requirements
under
subsection (2) below) at any time through the end of
the 12-month period
following the Plan Year for which the amendment is effective.
(For Plan
Years beginning before January 1, 1997, the Current Year
Testing Method is
deemed to have been in effect.)
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(1)
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Prior
Year Testing Method. Under the Prior Year Testing Method,
the Average
Deferral Percentage ("ADP") of the Highly Compensated
Employee Group (as
defined in Section 17.7(e)) for the current Plan Year
is compared with the
ADP of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group (as defined
in Section
17.7(f)) for the prior Plan Year. If the Employer elects
to use the Prior
Year Testing Method under Part 4F of the Agreement, the
Plan must satisfy
one of the following tests for each Plan Year:
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(i)
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The
ADP of the Highly Compensated Employee Group for the
current Plan Year
shall not exceed 1.25 times the ADP of the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee
Group for the prior Plan Year.
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(ii)
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The
ADP of the Highly Compensated Employee Group for the
current Plan Year
shall not exceed the percentage (whichever is less) determined
by (A)
adding 2
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percentage
points to the ADP of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group for
the prior Plan
Year or (B) multiplying the ADP of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee
Group for
the prior Plan Year by 2.
(2)
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Current
Year Testing Method. Under the Current Year Testing Method,
the ADP of the
Highly Compensated Employee Group for the current Plan
Year is compared to
the ADP of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group for
the current Plan
Year. If the Employer elects to use the Current Year
Testing Method under
Part 4F of the Agreement, the Plan must satisfy the ADP
Test, as described
in subsection (1) above, for each Plan Year, but using
the ADP of the
Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group for the current
Plan Year instead of
for the prior Plan Year. If the Employer elects to use
the Current Year
Testing Method, it may switch to the Prior Year Testing
Method only if the
Plan satisfies the requirements for changing to the Prior
Year Testing
Method as set forth in IRS Notice 98-1 (or superseding
guidance).
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(b)
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Special
rule for first Plan Year. For the first Plan Year that
the Plan permits
Section 401(k) Deferrals, the Employer may elect under
Part 4F, #32.a. of
the Agreement to apply the ADP Test using the Prior Year
Testing Method,
by assuming the ADP for the Nonhighly Compensated Employee
Group is 3%.
Alternatively, the Employer may elect in Part 4F, #32.b.
of the Agreement
to use the Current Year Testing Method using the actual
data for the
Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group in the first Plan
Year. This first
Plan Year rule does not apply if this Plan is a successor
to a plan (as
described in IRS Notice 98-1 or subsequent guidance)
that included a
401(k) arrangement or the Plan is aggregated for purposes
of applying the
ADP Test with another plan that included a 401(k) arrangement
in the prior
Plan Year. For subsequent Plan Years, the testing method
selected under
Part 4F, #31 will apply.
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(c)
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Use
of QMACs and QNECs under the ADP Test. The Plan Administrator
may take
into account all or any portion of QMACs and QNECs (see
Sections 17.7(g)
and (h)) for purposes of applying the ADP Test. QMACs
and QNECs may not be
included in the ADP Test to the extent such amounts are
included in the
ACP Test for such Plan Year. QMACs and QNECs made to
another qualified
plan maintained by the Employer may also be taken into
account, so long as
the other plan has the same Plan Year as this Plan. To
include QNECs under
the ADP Test, all Employer Nonelective Contributions,
including the QNECs,
must satisfy Code ?401(a)(4). In addition, the Employer
Nonelective
Contributions, excluding any QNECs used in the ADP Test
or ACP Test, must
also satisfy Code ?401(a)(4).
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(1)
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Timing
of contributions. In order to be used in the ADP Test
for a given Plan
Year, QNECs and QMACs must be made before the end of
the 12-month period
immediately following the Plan Year for which they are
allocated. If the
Employer is using the Prior Year Testing Method (as described
in
subsection (a)(1) above), QMACs and QNECs taken into
account for the
Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group must be allocated
for the prior Plan
Year, and must be made no later than the end of the 12-month
period
immediately following the end of such prior Plan Year.
(See Section 7.4(a)
for rules regarding the appropriate Limitation Year for
which such
contributions will be applied for purposes of the Annual
Additions
Limitation under Code ?415.)
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(2)
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Double-counting
limits. This paragraph applies if, in any Plan Year beginning
after
December 31, 1998, the Prior Year Testing Method is used
to run the ADP
Test and, in the prior Plan Year, the Current Year Testing
Method was used
to run the ADP Test. If this paragraph applies, the following
contributions are disregarded in calculating the ADP
of the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group for the prior Plan Year:
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(i) All
QNECs
that were included in either the ADP Test or ACP Test for the prior
Plan Year.
(ii) All
QMACs, regardless of how used for testing purposes in the prior
Plan Year.
(iii)
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Any
Section 401(k) Deferrals that were included in the ACP
Test for the prior
Plan Year.
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For
purposes of applying the double-counting limits, if actual data
of the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group is used for a first Plan Year described
in subsection
(b) above, the Plan is still considered to be using the Prior Year
Testing
Method for that first Plan Year. Thus, the double-counting limits
do not apply
if the Prior Year Testing Method is used for the next Plan Year.
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(3)
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Testing
flexibility. The Plan Administrator is expressly granted
the full
flexibility permitted by applicable Treasury regulations
to determine the
amount of QMACs and QNECs used in the ADP Test. QMACs
and QNECs taken into
account under the ADP Test do not have to be uniformly
determined for each
Eligible Participant, and may represent all or any portion
of the QMACs
and QNECs allocated to each Eligible Participant, provided
the conditions
described above are satisfied.
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(d)
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Correction
of Excess Contributions. If the Plan fails the ADP Test
for a Plan Year,
the Plan Administrator may use any combination of the
correction methods
under this Section to correct the Excess Contributions
under the Plan.
(See Section 17.7(d) for the definition of Excess Contributions.)
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(1)
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Corrective
distribution of Excess Contributions. If the Plan fails
the ADP Test for a
Plan Year, the Plan Administrator may, in its discretion,
distribute
Excess Contributions (including any allocable income
or loss) no later
than the last day of the following Plan Year to correct
the ADP Test
violation. If the Excess Contributions are distributed
more than 2? months
after the last day of the Plan Year in which such excess
amounts arose, a
10-percent excise tax will be imposed on the Employer
with respect to such
amounts.
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(i)
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Amount
to be distributed. In determining the amount of Excess
Contributions to be
distributed to a Highly Compensated Employee under this
Section, Excess
Contributions are first allocated equally to the Highly
Compensated
Employee(s) with the largest dollar amount of contributions
taken into
account under the ADP Test for the Plan Year in which
the excess occurs.
The Excess Contributions allocated to such Highly Compensated
Employee(s)
reduce the dollar amount of the contributions taken into
account under the
ADP Test for such Highly Compensated Employee(s) until
all of the Excess
Contributions are allocated or until the dollar amount
of such
contributions for the Highly Compensated Employee(s)
is reduced to the
next highest dollar amount of such contributions for
any other Highly
Compensated Employee(s). If there are Excess Contributions
remaining, the
Excess Contributions continue to be allocated in this
manner until all of
the Excess Contributions are allocated.
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(ii)
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Allocable
gain or loss. A corrective distribution of Excess Contributions
must
include any allocable gain or loss for the Plan Year
in which the excess
occurs. For this purpose, allocable gain or loss on Excess
Contributions
may be determined in any reasonable manner, provided
the manner used is
applied uniformly and in a manner that is reasonably
reflective of the
method used by the Plan for allocating income to Participants'
Accounts.
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(iii)
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Coordination
with other provisions. A corrective distribution of Excess
Contributions
made by the end of the Plan Year following the Plan Year
in which the
excess occurs may be made without consent of the Participant
or the
Participant's spouse, and without regard to any distribution
restrictions
applicable under Article 8 or Article 9. Excess Contributions
are treated
as Annual Additions for purposes of Code ?415 even if
distributed from the
Plan. A corrective distribution of Excess Contributions
is not treated as
a distribution for purposes of applying the required
minimum distribution
rules under Article 10.
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If
a
Participant has Excess Deferrals for the calendar year ending with
or within the
Plan Year for which the Participant receives a corrective distribution
of Excess
Contributions, the corrective distribution of Excess Contributions
is treated
first as a corrective distribution of Excess Deferrals. The amount
of the
corrective distribution of Excess Contributions that must be distributed
to
correct an ADP Test failure for a Plan Year is reduced by any amount
distributed
as a corrective distribution of Excess Deferrals for the calendar
year ending
with or within such Plan Year.
(iv)
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Accounting
for Excess Contributions. Excess Contributions are distributed
from the
following sources and in the following priority:
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(A)
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Section
401(k) Deferrals that are not matched;
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(B)
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proportionately
from Section 401(k) Deferrals not distributed under (A)
and related QMACs
that are included in the ADP Test;
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(C)
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QMACs
included in the ADP Test that are not distributed under
(B); and
(D)
QNECs included in the ADP Test.
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(2)
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Making
QMACs or QNECs. Regardless of any elections under Part
4B, #18 or Part 4C,
#22 of the Agreement, the Employer may make additional
QMACs or QNECs to
the Plan on behalf of the Nonhighly Compensated Employees
in order to
correct an ADP Test violation. QMACs or QNECs may only
be used to correct
an ADP Test violation if the Current Year Testing Method
is selected under
Part 4F, #31.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement.
Any QMACs
contributed under this subsection (2) which are not specifically
authorized under Part 4B, #18 of the Agreement will be
allocated to all
Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees
as a uniform
percentage of Section 401(k) Deferrals made during the
Plan Year. Any
QNECs contributed under this subsection (2) which are
not specifically
authorized under Part 4C, #22 of the Agreement will be
allocated to all
Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees
as a uniform
percentage of Included Compensation. See Sections 2.3(c)
and (e), as
applicable.
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(3)
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Recharacterization.
If Employee After-Tax Contributions are permitted under
Part 4D of the
Agreement, the Plan Administrator, in its sole discretion,
may permit a
Participant to treat any Excess Contributions that are
allocated to that
Participant as if he/she received the Excess Contributions
as a
distribution from the Plan and then contributed such
amounts to the Plan
as Employee After-Tax Contributions. Any amounts recharacterized
under
this subsection (3) will be 100% vested at all times.
Amounts may not be
recharacterized by a Highly Compensated Employee to the
extent that such
amount in combination with other Employee After-Tax Contributions
made by
that Participant would exceed any limit on Employee After-Tax
Contributions under Part 4D of the Agreement.
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Recharacterization
must occur no later than 2? months after the last day of the Plan
Year in which
such Excess Contributions arise and is deemed to occur no earlier
than the date
the last Highly Compensated Employee is informed in writing of
the amount
recharacterized and the consequences thereof. Recharacterized amounts
will be
taxable to the Participant for the Participant's taxable year in
which the
Participant would have received such amounts in cash had he/she
not deferred
such amounts into the Plan.
(e)
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Adjustment
of deferral rate for Highly Compensated Employees. The
Employer may
suspend (or automatically reduce the rate of) Section
401(k) Deferrals for
the Highly Compensated Employee Group, to the extent
necessary to satisfy
the ADP Test or to reduce the margin of failure. A suspension
or reduction
shall not affect Section 401(k) Deferrals already contributed
by the
Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year. As of
the first day of the
subsequent Plan Year, Section 401(k) Deferrals shall
resume at the levels
stated in the Salary Reduction Agreements of the Highly
Compensated
Employees.
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17.3
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Nondiscrimination
Testing of Employer Matching Contributions and Employee
After-Tax
Contributions - ACP Test. Except as provided under Section
17.6 for Safe
Harbor 401(k) Plans, if the Employer elects to provide
Employer Matching
Contributions under Part 4B of the Agreement or to permit
Employee
After-Tax Contributions under Part 4D of the Agreement,
the Employer
Matching Contributions (including QMACs that are not
included in the ADP
Test) and/or Employee After-Tax Contributions made for
Highly Compensated
Employees must satisfy the Actual Contribution Percentage
Test ("ACP
Test") for each Plan Year. The Plan Administrator shall
maintain records
sufficient to demonstrate satisfaction of the ACP Test,
including the
amount of any Section 401(k) Deferrals or QNECs included
in such test,
pursuant to subsection (c) below. If the Plan fails the
ACP Test for any
Plan Year, the correction provisions under subsection
(d) below will
apply.
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(a)
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ACP
Test testing methods. For Plan Years beginning on or
after January 1,
1997, the ACP Test will be performed using the Prior
Year Testing Method
or the Current Year Testing Method, as selected under
Part 4F, #31 of the
Agreement. If the Employer does not select a testing
method under Part 4F,
#31 of the Agreement, the Plan will be deemed to use
the Current Year
Testing Method. For Plan Years beginning before January
1, 1997, the
Current Year Testing Method is deemed to have been in
effect. If the Plan
is a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan, as designated under Part
4E of the
Agreement, the Current Year Testing Method must be selected.
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(1)
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Prior
Year Testing Method. Under the Prior Year Testing Method,
the Average
Contribution Percentage ("ACP") of the Highly Compensated
Employee Group
(as defined in Section 17.7(e)) for the current Plan
Year is compared with
the ACP of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group (as
defined in Section
17.7(f)) for the prior Plan Year. If the Employer elects
to use the Prior
Year Testing Method under Part 4F of the Agreement, the
Plan must satisfy
one of the following tests for each Plan Year:
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(i)
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The
ACP of the Highly Compensated Employee Group for the
current Plan Year
shall not exceed 1.25 times the ACP of the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee
Group for the prior Plan Year.
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(ii)
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The
ACP of the Highly Compensated Employee Group for the
current Plan Year
shall not exceed the percentage (whichever is less) determined
by (A)
adding 2 percentage points to the ACP of the Nonhighly
Compensated
Employee Group for the prior Plan Year or (B) multiplying
the ACP of the
Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group for the prior Plan
Year by 2.
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(2)
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Current
Year Testing Method. Under the Current Year Testing Method,
the ACP of the
Highly Compensated Employee Group for the current Plan
Year is compared to
the ACP of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group for
the current Plan
Year. If the Employer elects to use the Current Year
Testing Method under
Part 4F of the Agreement, the Plan must satisfy the ACP
Test, as described
in subsection (1) above, for each Plan Year, but using
the ACP of the
Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group for the current
Plan Year instead of
for the prior Plan Year. If the Employer elects to use
the Current Year
Testing Method, it may switch to the Prior Year Testing
Method only if the
Plan satisfies the requirements for changing to the Prior
Year Testing
Method as set forth in IRS Notice 98-1 (or superseding
guidance).
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(b)
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Special
rule for first Plan Year. For the first Plan Year that
the Plan includes
either an Employer Matching Contribution formula or permits
Employee
After-Tax Contributions, the Employer may elect under
Part 4F, #33.a. of
the Agreement to apply the ACP Test using the Prior Year
Testing Method,
by assuming the ACP for the Nonhighly Compensated Employee
Group is 3%.
Alternatively, the Employer may elect in Part 4F, #33.b.
of the Agreement
to use the Current Year Testing Method using the actual
data for the
Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group in the first Plan
Year. This first
Plan Year rule does not apply if this Plan is a successor
to a plan that
was subject to the ACP Test or if the Plan is aggregated
for purposes of
applying the ACP Test with another plan that was subject
to the ACP test
in the prior Plan Year. For subsequent Plan Years, the
testing method
selected under Part 4F, #31 will apply.
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(c)
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Use
of Section 401(k) Deferrals and QNECs under the ACP Test.
The Plan
Administrator may take into account all or any portion
of Section 401(k)
Deferrals and QNECs (see Section 17.7(h)) made to this
Plan, or to another
qualified plan maintained by the Employer, for purposes
of applying the
ACP Test. QNECs may not be included in the ACP Test to
the extent such
amounts are included in the ADP Test for such Plan Year.
Section 401(k)
Deferrals and QNECs made to another qualified plan maintained
by the
Employer may also be taken into account, so long as the
other plan has the
same Plan Year as this Plan. To include Section 401(k)
Deferrals under the
ACP Test, the Plan must satisfy the ADP Test taking into
account all
Section 401(k) Deferrals, including those used under
the ACP Test, and
taking into account only those Section 401(k) Deferrals
not included in
the ACP Test. To include QNECs under the ACP Test, all
Employer
Nonelective Contributions, including the QNECs, must
satisfy Code
?401(a)(4). In addition, the Employer Nonelective Contributions,
excluding
any QNECs used in the ADP Test or ACP Test, must also
satisfy Code
?401(a)(4). QNECs may only be used to correct an ACP
Test violation if the
Current Year Testing Method is selected under Part 4F,
#31.b. of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement.
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(1)
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Timing
of contributions. In order to be used in the ACP Test
for a given Plan
Year, QNECs must be made before the end of the 12-month
period immediately
following the Plan Year for which they are allocated.
If the Employer is
using the Prior Year Testing Method (as described in
subsection (a)(1)
above), QNECs taken into account for the Nonhighly Compensated
Employee
Group must be allocated for the prior Plan Year, and
must be made no later
than the end of the 12-month period immediately following
such Plan Year.
(See Section 7.4(a) for rules regarding the appropriate
Limitation Year
for which such contributions will be applied for purposes
of the Annual
Additions Limitation under Code ?415.)
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(2)
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Double-counting
limits. This paragraph applies if, in any Plan Year beginning
after
December 31, 1998, the Prior Year Testing Method is used
to run the ACP
Test and, in the prior Plan Year, the Current Year Testing
Method was used
to run the ACP Test. If this paragraph applies, the following
contributions are disregarded in calculating the ACP
of the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group for the prior Plan Year:
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(i)
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All
QNECs that were included in either the ADP Test or ACP
Test for the prior
Plan Year.
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(ii)
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All
Section 401(k) Deferrals, regardless of how used for
testing purposes in
the prior Plan Year.
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(iii)
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Any
QMACs that were included in the ADP Test for the prior
Plan Year.
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For
purposes of applying the double-counting limits, if actual data
of the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group is used for a first Plan Year described
in subsection
(b) above, the Plan is still considered to be using the Prior Year
Testing
Method for that first Plan Year. Thus, the double-counting limits
do not apply
if the Prior Year Testing Method is used for the next Plan Year.
(3)
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Testing
flexibility. The Plan Administrator is expressly granted
the full
flexibility permitted by applicable Treasury regulations
to determine the
amount of Section 401(k) Deferrals and QNECs used in
the ACP Test. Section
401(k) Deferrals and QNECs taken into account under the
ACP Test do not
have to be uniformly determined for each Eligible Participant,
and may
represent all or any portion of the Section 401(k) Deferrals
and QNECs
allocated to each Eligible Participant, provided the
conditions described
above are satisfied. For Plan Years beginning after the
first Plan Year.
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(d)
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Correction
of Excess Aggregate Contributions. If the Plan fails
the ACP Test for a
Plan Year, the Plan Administrator may use any combination
of the
correction methods under this Section to correct the
Excess Aggregate
Contributions under the Plan. (See Section 17.7(c) for
the definition of
Excess Aggregate Contributions.)
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(1)
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Corrective
distribution of Excess Aggregate Contributions. If the
Plan fails the ACP
Test for a Plan Year, the Plan Administrator may, in
its discretion,
distribute Excess Aggregate Contributions (including
any allocable income
or loss) no later than the last day of the following
Plan Year to correct
the ACP Test violation. Excess Aggregate Contributions
will be distributed
only to the extent they are vested under Article 4, determined
as of the
last day of the Plan Year for which the contributions
are made to the
Plan. To the extent Excess Aggregate Contributions are
not vested, the
Excess Aggregate Contributions, plus any income and minus
any loss
allocable thereto, shall be forfeited in accordance with
Section
5.3(d)(1). If the Excess Aggregate Contributions are
distributed more than
2? months after the last day of the Plan Year in which
such excess amounts
arose, a 10-percent excise tax will be imposed on the
Employer with
respect to such amounts.
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(i)
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Amount
to be distributed. In determining the amount of Excess
Aggregate
Contributions to be distributed to a Highly Compensated
Employee under
this Section, Excess Aggregate Contributions are first
allocated equally
to the Highly Compensated Employee(s) with the largest
dollar amount of
contributions taken into account under the ACP Test for
the Plan Year in
which the excess occurs. The Excess Aggregate Contributions
allocated to
such Highly Compensated Employee(s) reduce the dollar
amount of the
contributions taken into account under the ACP Test for
such Highly
Compensated Employee(s) until all of the Excess Aggregate
Contributions
are allocated or until the dollar amount of such contributions
for the
Highly Compensated Employee(s) is reduced to the next
highest dollar
amount of such contributions for any other Highly Compensated
Employee(s).
If there are Excess Aggregate Contributions remaining,
the Excess
Aggregate Contributions continue to be allocated in this
manner until all
of the Excess Aggregate Contributions are allocated.
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(ii)
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Allocable
gain or loss. A corrective distribution of Excess Aggregate
Contributions
must include any allocable gain or loss for the Plan
Year in which the
excess occurs. For this purpose, allocable gain or loss
on Excess
Aggregate Contributions may be determined in any reasonable
manner,
provided the manner used is applied uniformly and in
a manner that is
reasonably reflective of the method used by the Plan
for allocating income
to Participants' Accounts.
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(iii)
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Coordination
with other provisions. A corrective distribution of Excess
Aggregate
Contributions made by the end of the Plan Year following
the Plan Year in
which the excess occurs may be made without consent of
the Participant or
the Participant's spouse, and without regard to any distribution
restrictions applicable under Article 8 or Article 9.
Excess Aggregate
Contributions are treated as Annual Additions for purposes
of Code ?415
even if distributed from the Plan. A corrective distribution
of Excess
Aggregate Contributions is not
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treated
as a distribution for purposes of applying the required minimum
distribution
rules under Article 10.
(iv)
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Accounting
for Excess Aggregate Contributions. Excess Aggregate
Contributions are
distributed from the following sources and in the following
priority:
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(A)
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Employee
After-Tax Contributions that are not matched;
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(B)
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proportionately
from Employee After-Tax Contributions not distributed
under (A) and
related Employer Matching Contributions that are included
in the ACP Test;
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(C)
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Employer
Matching Contributions included in the ACP Test that
are not distributed
under (B);
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(D)
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Section
401(k) Deferrals included in the ACP Test that are not
matched;
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(E)
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proportionately
from Section 401(k) Deferrals included in the ACP Test
that are not
distributed under (D) and related Employer Matching Contributions
that are
included in the ACP Test and not distributed under (B)
or (C); and
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(F)
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QNECs
included in the ACP Test.
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(2)
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Making
QMACs or QNECs. Regardless of any elections under Part
4B, #18 or Part 4C,
#22 of the Agreement, the Employer may make additional
QMACs and/or QNECs
to the Plan on behalf of the Nonhighly Compensated Employees
in order to
correct an ACP Test violation to the extent such amounts
are not used in
the ADP Test. Any QMACs contributed under this subsection
(2) which are
not specifically authorized under Part 4B, #18 of the
Agreement will be
allocated to all Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly
Compensated
Employees as a uniform percentage of Section 401(k) Deferrals
made during
the Plan Year. Any QNECs contributed under this subsection
(2) which are
not specifically authorized under Part 4C, #22 of the
Agreement will be
allocated to all Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly
Compensated
Employees as a uniform percentage of Included Compensation.
See Sections
2.3(c) and (e), as applicable.
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(e)
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Adjustment
of contribution rate for Highly Compensated Employees.
The Employer may
suspend (or automatically reduce the rate of) Employee
After-Tax
Contributions for the Highly Compensated Employee Group,
to the extent
necessary to satisfy the ACP Test or to reduce the margin
of failure. A
suspension or reduction shall not affect Employee After-Tax
Contributions
already contributed by the Highly Compensated Employees
for the Plan Year.
As of the first day of the subsequent Plan Year, Employee
After-Tax
Contributions shall resume at the levels elected by the
Highly Compensated
Employees.
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17.4
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Multiple
Use Test. If both an ADP Test and an ACP Test are run
for the Plan Year,
and the Plan does not pass the 1.25 test under either
the ADP Test or the
ACP Test, the Plan must satisfy a special Multiple Use
Test, unless such
Multiple Use Test is repealed or modified by statute,
or other IRS
guidance.
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(a)
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Aggregate
Limit. Under the Multiple Use Test, the sum of the ADP
and the ACP for the
Highly Compensated Employee Group may not exceed the
Plan's Aggregate
Limit. For this purpose, the ADP and ACP of the Highly
Compensated
Employees are determined after any corrections required
to meet the ADP
and ACP tests and are deemed to be the maximum permitted
under such tests
for the Plan Year. In applying the Multiple Use Test,
the Plan's Aggregate
Limit is the sum of (1) and (2):
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(1)
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1.25
times the greater of: (i) the ADP of the Nonhighly Compensated
Employee
Group or (ii) the ACP of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee
Group; and
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(2)
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the
lesser of 2 times or 2 plus the lesser of: (i) the ADP
of the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group or (ii) the ACP of the Nonhighly
Compensated
Employee Group.
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Alternatively,
if it results in a larger amount, the Aggregate Limit is the sum
of (3) and (4):
(3)
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1.25
times the lesser of: (i) the ADP of the Nonhighly Compensated
Employee
Group or (ii) the ACP of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee
Group; and
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(4)
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the
lesser of 2 times or 2 plus the greater of: (i) the ADP
of the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group or (ii) the ACP of the Nonhighly
Compensated
Employee Group.
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The
Aggregate Limit is calculated using the ADP and ACP of the Nonhighly
Compensated
Employee Group that is used in performing the ADP Test and ACP
Test for the Plan
Year. Thus, if the Prior Year Testing Method is being used, the
Aggregate Limit
is calculated by using the applicable percentage of the Nonhighly
Compensated
Employee Group for the prior Plan Year. If the Current Year Testing
Method is
being used, the Aggregate Limit is calculated by using the applicable
percentage
of the Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group for the current Plan
Year.
(b)
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Correction
of the Multiple Use Test. If the Multiple Use Test is
not passed, the
following corrective action will be taken.
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(1)
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Corrective
distributions. The Plan will make corrective distributions
(or additional
corrective distributions, if corrective distributions
are already being
made to correct a violation of the ADP Test or ACP Test),
to the extent
other corrective action is not taken or such other action
is not
sufficient to completely eliminate the Multiple Use Test
violation. Such
corrective distributions may be determined as if they
were being made to
correct a violation of the ADP Test or a violation of
the ACP Test, or a
combination of both, as determined by the Plan Administrator.
Any
corrective distribution that is treated as if it were
correcting a
violation of the ADP Test will be determined under the
rules described in
Section 17.2(d). Any corrective distribution that is
treated as if it were
correcting a violation of the ACP Test will be determined
under the rules
described in Section 17.3(d).
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(2)
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Making
QMACs or QNECs. Regardless of any elections under Part
4B, #18 or Part 4C,
#22 of the Agreement, the Employer may make additional
QMACs or QNECs, so
that the resulting ADP and/or ACP of the Nonhighly Compensated
Employee
Group is increased to the extent necessary to satisfy
the Multiple Use
Test. Any QMACs contributed under this subsection (2)
which are not
specifically authorized under Part 4B, #18 of the Agreement
will be
allocated to all Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly
Compensated
Employees as a uniform percentage of Section 401(k) Deferrals
made during
the Plan Year. Any QNECs contributed under this subsection
(2) which are
not specifically authorized under Part 4C, #22 of the
Agreement will be
allocated to all Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly
Compensated
Employees as a uniform percentage of Included Compensation.
See Sections
2.3(c) and (e), as applicable.
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17.5
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Special
Testing Rules. This Section describes special testing
rules that apply to
the ADP Test or the ACP Test. In some cases, the special
testing rule is
optional, in which case, the election to use such rule
is solely within
the discretion of the Plan Administrator.
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(a)
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Special
rule for determining ADP and ACP of Highly Compensated
Employee Group.
When calculating the ADP or ACP of the Highly Compensated
Employee Group
for any Plan Year, a Highly Compensated Employee's Section
401(k)
Deferrals, Employee After-Tax Contributions, and Employer
Matching
Contributions under all qualified plans maintained by
the Employer are
taken into account as if such contributions were made
to a single plan. If
the plans have different Plan Years, the contributions
made in all Plan
Years that end in the same calendar year are aggregated
under this
paragraph. This aggregation rule does not apply to plans
that are required
to be disaggregated under Code ?410(b).
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(b)
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Aggregation
of plans. When calculating the ADP Test and the ACP Test,
plans that are
permissively aggregated for coverage and nondiscrimination
testing
purposes are treated as a single plan. This aggregation
rule applies to
determine the ADP or ACP of both the Highly Compensated
Employee Group and
the Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group. Any adjustments
to the ADP of
the Nonhighly Compensated Employee Group for the prior
year will be made
in accordance with Notice 98-1 and any superseding guidance,
unless the
Employer has elected in Part 4F, #31.b. of the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement to use the Current Year Testing Method. Aggregation
described in
this paragraph is not permitted unless all plans being
aggregated have the
same Plan Year and use the same testing method for the
applicable test.
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(c)
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Disaggregation
of plans.
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(1)
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Plans
covering Union Employees and non-Union Employees. If
the Plan covers Union
Employees and non-Union Employees, the Plan is mandatorily
disaggregated
for purposes of applying the ADP Test and the ACP Test
into two separate
plans, one covering the Union Employees and one covering
the non-Union
Employees. A separate ADP Test must be applied for each
disaggregated
portion of the Plan in accordance with applicable Treasury
regulations. A
separate ACP Test must be applied to the
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disaggregated
portion of the Plan that covers the non-Union Employees. The disaggregated
portion of the Plan that includes the Union Employees is deemed
to pass the ACP
Test.
(2)
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Otherwise
excludable Employees. If the minimum coverage test under
Code ?410(b) is
performed by disaggregating "otherwise excludable Employees"
(i.e.,
Employees who have not satisfied the maximum age 21 and
one Year of
Service eligibility conditions permitted under Code ?410(a)),
then the
Plan is treated as two separate plans, one benefiting
the otherwise
excludable Employees and the other benefiting Employees
who have satisfied
the maximum age and service eligibility conditions. If
such disaggregation
applies, the following operating rules apply to the ADP
Test and the ACP
Test.
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(i)
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For
Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1999, the ADP
Test and the ACP Test
are applied separately for each disaggregated plan. If
there are no Highly
Compensated Employees benefiting under a disaggregated
plan, then no ADP
Test or ACP Test is required for such plan.
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(ii)
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For
Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1998, instead
of the rule under
subsection (i), only the disaggregated plan that benefits
the Employees
who have satisfied the maximum age and service eligibility
conditions
permitted under Code ?410(a) is subject to the ADP Test
and the ACP Test.
However, any Highly Compensated Employee who is benefiting
under the
disaggregated plan that includes the otherwise excludable
Employees is
taken into account in such tests. The Employer may elect
to apply the rule
in subsection (i) instead.
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(3)
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Corrective
action for disaggregated plans. Any corrective action
authorized by this
Article may be determined separately with respect to
each disaggregated
portion of the Plan. A corrective action taken with respect
to a
disaggregated portion of the Plan need not be consistent
with the method
of correction (if any) used for another disaggregated
portion of the Plan.
In the case of a Nonstandardized Agreement, to the extent
the Agreement
authorizes the Employer to make discretionary QNECs or
discretionary
QMACs, the Employer is expressly permitted to designate
such QNECs or
QMACs as allocable only to Eligible Participants in a
particular
disaggregated portion of the Plan.
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(d)
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Special
rules for the Prior Year Testing Method. If the Plan
uses the Prior Year
Testing Method, and an election made under subsection
(b) or (c) above is
inconsistent with the election made in the prior Plan
Year, the plan
coverage change rules described in IRS Notice 98-1 (or
other successor
guidance) will apply in determining the ADP and ACP for
the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group.
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17.6
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Safe
Harbor 401(k) Plan Provisions. For Plan Years beginning
after December 31,
1998, the ADP Test described in Section 17.2 is deemed
to be satisfied for
any Plan Year in which the Plan qualifies as a Safe Harbor
401(k) Plan. In
addition, if Employer Matching Contributions are made
for such Plan Year,
the ACP Test is deemed satisfied with respect to such
contributions if the
conditions of subsection (c) below are satisfied. To
qualify as a Safe
Harbor 401(k) Plan, the requirements under this Section
17.6 must be
satisfied for the entire Plan Year. This Section contains
the rules that
must be met for the Plan to qualify as a Safe Harbor
401(k) Plan.
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Part
4E
of the Agreement allows the Employer to designate the manner in
which it will
comply with the safe harbor requirements. If the Employer wishes
to designate
the Plan as a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan, it should complete Part
4E of the
Agreement. The safe harbor provisions described in this Section
are not
applicable unless the Plan is identified as a Safe Harbor 401(k)
Plan under Part
4E. The election under Part 4E to be a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan
is effective for
all Plan Years beginning with the Effective Date of the Plan (or
January 1,
1999, if later) unless the Employer elects otherwise under Appendix
B-5.b. of
the Agreement. In addition, to qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k)
Plan, the Current
Year Testing Method (as described in Section 17.3(a)(2)) must be
elected under
Part 4F, #31 of the Agreement. (See Section 20.7 for rules regarding
the
application of the Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan provisions for Plan
Years beginning
before the date this Plan is adopted.)
(a)
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Safe
harbor conditions. To qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k)
Plan, the Plan must
satisfy the requirements under subsections (1), (2),
(3) and (4) below.
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(1)
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Safe
Harbor Contribution. The Employer must provide a Safe
Harbor Matching
Contribution or a Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
under the Plan. The
Employer must designate the type and amount of the Safe
Harbor
Contribution under Part 4E of the Agreement. The Safe
Harbor Contribution
must be made to the Plan no later than 12
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months
following the close of the Plan Year for which it is being used
to qualify the
Plan as a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan.
The
Employer may elect under Part 4E, #30 of the Agreement to provide
the Safe
Harbor Contribution to all Eligible Participants or only to Eligible
Participants who are Nonhighly Compensated Employees. Alternatively,
the
Employer may elect under Part 4E, #30.c. to provide the Safe Harbor
Contribution
to all Nonhighly Compensated Employees who are Eligible Participants
and all
Highly Compensated Employees who are Eligible Participants but
who are not Key
Employees. This permits a Plan providing the Safe Harbor Nonelective
Contribution to use such amounts to satisfy the top-heavy minimum
contribution
requirements under Article 16.
In
determining who is an Eligible Participant for purposes of the
Safe Harbor
Contribution, the eligibility conditions applicable to Section
401(k) Deferrals
under Part 1, #5 of the Agreement apply. However, the Employer
may elect under
Part 4E, #30.d. to apply a one Year of Service (as defined in Section
1.4(b))
and an age 21 eligibility condition for the Safe Harbor Contribution,
regardless
of the eligibility conditions selected for Section 401(k) Deferrals
under Part
1, #5 of the Agreement. Unless elected otherwise under Part 2,
#8.f., column (1)
of the Nonstandardized Agreement, the special eligibility rule
under Part 4E,
#30.d. will be applied as if the Employer elected under Part 2,
#7.a., column
(1) and Part 2, #8.a., column (1) of the Agreement to use semi-annual
Entry
Dates following completion of the minimum age and service conditions.
The
Employer may further modify the eligibility conditions applicable
to Safe Harbor
Contributions under Part 1, #5.f., column (1) of the Nonstandardized
Agreement
so that the Safe Harbor Contribution is provided only under a properly
disaggregated portion of the Plan, as described in Section 17.5(c)(3).
(i)
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Safe
Harbor Matching Contribution. The Employer may elect
under Part 4E, #27 of
the Agreement to make the Safe Harbor Matching Contribution
with respect
to each Eligible Participant's applicable contributions.
For this purpose,
an Eligible Participant's applicable contributions are
the total Section
401(k) Deferrals and Employee After-Tax Contributions
the Eligible
Participant makes under the Plan. However, the Employer
may elect under
Part 4E, #27.d. to exclude Employee After-Tax Contributions
from the
definition of applicable contributions for purposes of
applying the Safe
Harbor Matching Contribution formula.
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The
Safe
Harbor Matching Contribution may be made under a basic formula
or an enhanced
formula. The basic formula under Part 4E, #27.a. provides an Employer
Matching
Contribution that equals:
(A)
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100%
of the amount of a Participant's applicable contributions
that do not
exceed 3% of the Participant's Included Compensation,
plus
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(B)
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50%
of the amount of a Participant's applicable contributions
that exceed 3%,
but do not exceed 5%, of the Participant's Included Compensation.
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The
enhanced formula under Part 4E, #27.b. provides an Employer Matching
Contribution that is not less, at each level of applicable contributions,
than
the amount required under the basic formula. Under the enhanced
formula, the
rate of Employer Matching Contributions may not increase as an
Employee's rate
of applicable contributions increase.
The
Plan
will not fail to be a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan merely because Highly
Compensated
Employees also receive a contribution under the Plan. However,
an Employer
Matching Contribution will not satisfy this Section if any Highly
Compensated
Employee is eligible for a higher rate of Employer Matching Contribution
than is
provided for any Nonhighly Compensated Employee who has the same
rate of
applicable contributions.
In
applying the Safe Harbor Matching Contribution formula under Part
4E, #27 of the
Agreement, the Employer may elect under Part 4E, #27.c.(1) to determine
the Safe
Harbor Matching Contribution on the basis of all applicable contributions
a
Participant makes during the Plan Year. Alternatively, the Employer
may elect
under Part 4E, #27.c.(2) - (4) to determine the Safe Harbor Matching
Contribution on a payroll, monthly, or quarterly basis. If the
Employer elects
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use
a
period other than the Plan Year, the Safe Harbor Matching Contribution
with
respect to a payroll period must be deposited into the Plan by
the last day of
the Plan Year quarter following the Plan Year quarter for which
the applicable
contributions are made.
In
addition to the Safe Harbor Matching Contribution, an Employer
may elect under
Part 4B of the Agreement to make Employer Matching Contributions
that are
subject to the normal vesting schedule and distribution rules applicable
to
Employer Matching Contributions. See subsection (c) below for a
discussion of
the effect of such additional Employer Matching Contributions on
the ACP Test.
The
Employer may amend the Plan during the Plan Year to reduce or eliminate
the Safe
Harbor Matching Contribution elected under Part 4B of the Agreement,
provided a
supplemental notice is given to all Eligible Participants explaining
the
consequences and effective date of the amendment, and that such
Eligible
Participants have a reasonable opportunity (including a reasonable
period) to
change their Section 401(k) Deferral and/or Employee After-Tax
Contribution
elections, as applicable. The amendment reducing or eliminating
the Safe Harbor
Matching Contribution must be effective no earlier than the later
of: (A) 30
days after Eligible Participants are given the supplemental notice
or (B) the
date the amendment is adopted. Eligible Participants must be given
a reasonable
opportunity (and reasonable period) prior to the reduction or elimination
of the
Safe Harbor Matching Contribution to change their Section 401(k)
Deferral or
Employee After-Tax Contribution elections, as applicable. If the
Employer amends
the Plan to reduce or eliminate the Safe Harbor Matching Contribution,
the Plan
is subject to the ADP Test and ACP Test for the entire Plan Year.
(ii)
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Safe
Harbor Nonelective Contribution. The Employer may elect
under Part 4E, #28
of the Agreement to make a Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
of at
least 3% of Included Compensation. The Employer may elect
under Part 4E,
#28.b. to retain discretion to increase the amount of
the Safe Harbor
Nonelective Contribution in excess of the percentage
designated under Part
4E, #28.
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In
addition, the Employer may provide for additional discretionary
Employer
Nonelective Contributions under Part 4C of the Agreement (in addition
to the
Safe Harbor Contribution under this Section) which are subject
to the normal
vesting schedule and distribution rules applicable to Employer
Nonelective
Contributions.
(A)
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Supplemental
notice. The Employer may elect under Part 4E, #28.a.
of the Agreement to
provide the Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution authorized
under Part 4E,
#28 only if the Employer provides a supplemental notice
to Participants
indicating its intention to provide such Safe Harbor
Nonelective
Contribution. If Part 4E, #28.a. is selected, to qualify
as a Safe Harbor
401(k) Plan under Part 4E, the Employer must notify its
Eligible Employees
in the annual notice described in subsection (4) below
that the Employer
may provide the Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
authorized under Part
4E, #28 of the Agreement and that a supplemental notice
will be provided
at least 30 days prior to the last day of the Plan Year
if the Employer
decides to make the Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution.
The supplemental
notice indicating the Employer's intention to make the
Safe Harbor
Nonelective Contribution must be provided no later than
30 days prior to
the last day of the Plan Year for the Plan to qualify
as a Safe Harbor
401(k) Plan. If the Employer selects Part 4E, #28.a.
of the Agreement but
does not provide the supplemental notice in accordance
with this
paragraph, the Employer is not obligated to make such
contribution and the
Plan does not qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan. The
Plan will qualify
as a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan for subsequent Plan Years
if the appropriate
notices are provided for such years.
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(B)
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Separate
Plan. The Employer may elect under Part 4E, #28.c. of
the Agreement to
provide the Employer Nonelective Contribution under another
Defined
Contribution Plan maintained by the Employer. The Employer
Nonelective
Contribution under such other plan must satisfy the conditions
under this
Section 17.6 for this Plan to qualify as a Safe Harbor
401(k) Plan. Under
the Standardized Agreement, the other plan
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designated
under Part 4E, #28.c. must be a Paired Plan as defined in Section
22.132.
(I)
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Profit
sharing plan Agreement. If the Plan designated under
Part 4E, #28.c. is a
profit sharing plan Agreement under a comparable Prototype
Plan, the
Employer must select Part 4, #12.f. under the profit
sharing plan
Nonstandardized Agreement or Part 4, #12.e. under the
profit sharing plan
Standardized Agreement, as applicable. The Employer may
elect to provide
other Employer Contributions under Part 4, #12 of the
profit sharing plan
Agreement, however, the first amounts allocated under
the profit sharing
plan Agreement will be the Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
required
under the Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement. Any Employer
Contributions
designated under Part 4, #12 of the profit sharing plan
Agreement are in
addition to the Safe Harbor Contribution required under
the Profit
Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement. (If the only Employer
Contribution to be
made under the profit sharing plan Agreement is the Safe
Harbor
Nonelective Contribution, no other selection need be
completed under Part
4 of the profit sharing plan Agreement (other than Part
4, #12.f. of the
Nonstandardized Agreement or Part 4, #12.e. of the Standardized
Agreement,
as applicable).)
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If
the
Employer elects to provide the Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
under the
profit sharing plan Agreement, the Employer must select either
the Pro Rata
Allocation Method under Part 4, #13.a. or the Permitted Disparity
Method under
Part 4, #13.b. of the profit sharing plan Agreement. If the Employer
elects the
Pro Rata Allocation Method, the first amounts allocated under the
Pro Rata
Allocation Method will be deemed to be the Safe Harbor Nonelective
Contribution
as required under the Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement. To
the extent
required under the Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement, such amounts
are
subject to the conditions for Safe Harbor Nonelective Contributions
described in
subsections (2) - (4) below, without regard to any contrary elections
under the
Agreement.
If
the
Employer elects the Permitted Disparity Method, the Safe Harbor
Nonelective
Contribution required under the Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement
will be
allocated before applying the Permitted Disparity Method of allocation.
To the
extent required under the Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement,
such amounts are
subject to the conditions for Safe Harbor Nonelective Contributions
described in
subsections (2) - (4) below without regard to any contrary elections
under the
Agreement. If additional amounts are contributed under the profit
sharing plan
Agreement, such amounts will be allocated under the Permitted Disparity
Method.
The Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution may not be taken into
account in
applying the Permitted Disparity Method of allocation.
Comparable
rules apply if the profit sharing plan is maintained under a Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement.
(II)
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Money
purchase plan Agreement. If the Plan designated under
Part 4E, #28.c. is a
money purchase plan Agreement under a comparable Prototype
Plan, the
Employer must select Part 4, #12.f. under the money purchase
plan
Nonstandardized Agreement or Part 4, #12.d. under the
money purchase plan
Standardized Agreement, as applicable. The Employer may
elect to provide
other Employer Contributions under Part 4, #12 of the
money purchase plan
Agreement, however, the first amounts allocated under
the money purchase
plan Agreement will be the Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
required
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under
the
Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement. Any Employer Contributions
designated
under Part 4, #12 of the money purchase plan Agreement are in addition
to the
Safe Harbor Contribution. (If the only Employer Contribution to
be made under
the money purchase plan Agreement is the Safe Harbor Nonelective
Contribution,
no other need be completed under Part 4 of the money purchase plan
Agreement
(other than Part 4, #12.f. of the Nonstandardized Agreement or
Part 4, #12.d. of
the Standardized Agreement, as applicable).)
If
the
Employer elects to make a Safe Harbor Contribution under the money
purchase plan
Agreement, the first amounts allocated under the Plan will be deemed
to be the
Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution as required under the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
plan Agreement. Such amounts will be allocated equally to all Eligible
Participants as defined under the Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement.
To the
extent required under the Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement,
such amounts are
subject to the conditions for Safe Harbor Nonelective Contributions
described in
subsections (2) - (4) below, without regard to any contrary elections
under the
Agreement. If the Employer elects the Permitted Disparity Method
of
contribution, the Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution required
under the Profit
Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement will be allocated before applying
the Permitted
Disparity Method. The Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution may
not be taken into
account in applying the Permitted Disparity Method of contribution.
(C)
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Elimination
of Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution. The Employer
may amend the Plan
during the Plan Year to reduce or eliminate the Safe
Harbor Nonelective
Contribution elected under Part 4C of the Agreement.
The Employer must
notify all Eligible Participants of the amendment and
must provide each
Eligible Participants with a reasonable opportunity (including
a
reasonable period) to change their Section 401(k) Deferral
and/or Employee
After-Tax Contribution elections, as applicable. The
amendment reducing or
eliminating the Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution
must be effective no
earlier than the later of: (A) 30 days after Eligible
Participants are
notified of the amendment or (B) the date the amendment
is adopted. If the
Employer reduces or eliminates the Safe Harbor Nonelective
Contribution
during the Plan Year, the Plan is subject to the ADP
Test (and ACP Test,
if applicable) for the entire Plan Year.
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(2)
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Full
and immediate vesting. The Safe Harbor Contribution under
subsection (1)
above must be 100% vested, regardless of the Employee's
length of service,
at the time the contribution is made to the Plan. Any
additional amounts
contributed under the Plan may be subject to a vesting
schedule.
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(3)
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Distribution
restrictions. Distributions of the Safe Harbor Contribution
under
subsection (1) must be restricted in the same manner
as Section 401(k)
Deferrals under Article 8, except that such contributions
may not be
distributed upon Hardship. See Section 8.6(c).
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(4)
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Annual
notice. Each Eligible Participant under the Plan must
receive a written
notice describing the Participant's rights and obligations
under the Plan,
including a description of: (i) the Safe Harbor Contribution
formula being
used under the Plan; (ii) any other contributions under
the Plan; (iii)
the plan to which the Safe Harbor Contributions will
be made (if different
from this Plan); (iv) the type and amount of Included
Compensation that
may be deferred under the Plan; (v) the administrative
requirements for
making and changing Section 401(k) Deferral elections;
and (vi) the
withdrawal and vesting provisions under the Plan. For
any Plan Year that
began in 1999, the notice requirements described in this
paragraph are
deemed satisfied if the notice provided satisfied a reasonable,
good faith
interpretation of the notice requirements under Code
?401(k)(12). (See
subsection (1)(ii) above for a special supplemental notice
that may need
to be provided to qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan.)
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Each
Eligible Participant must receive the annual notice within a reasonable
period
before the beginning of the Plan Year (or within a reasonable period
before an
Employee becomes an Eligible Participant, if later). For this purpose,
an
Employee will be deemed to have received the notice in a timely
manner if the
Employee receives such notice at least 30 days and no more than
90 days before
the beginning of the Plan Year. For an Employee who becomes an
Eligible
Participant during a Plan Year, the notice will be deemed timely
if it is
provided no more than 90 days prior to the date the Employee becomes
an Eligible
Participant. For Plan Years that began on or before April 1, 1999,
the notice
requirement under this subsection will be satisfied if the notice
was provided
by March 1, 1999. If an Employer first designates the Plan as a
Safe Harbor
401(k) Plan for a Plan Year that begins on or after January 1,
2000 and on or
before June 1, 2000, the notice requirement under this subsection
will be
satisfied if the notice was provided by May 1, 2000.
(b)
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Deemed
compliance with ADP Test. If the Plan satisfies all the
conditions under
subsection (a) above to qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k)
Plan, the Plan is
deemed to satisfy the ADP Test for the Plan Year. This
Plan will not be
deemed to satisfy the ADP Test for a Plan Year if an
Eligible Participant
is covered under another Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan maintained
by the
Employer which uses the provisions under this Section
to comply with the
ADP Test.
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(c)
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Deemed
compliance with ACP Test. If the Plan satisfies all the
conditions under
subsection (a) above to qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k)
Plan, the Plan is
deemed to satisfy the ACP Test for the Plan Year with
respect to Employer
Matching Contributions (including Employer Matching Contributions
that are
not used to qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan), provided
the following
conditions are satisfied. If the Plan does not satisfy
the requirements
under this subsection (c) for a Plan Year, the Plan must
satisfy the ACP
Test for such Plan Year in accordance with subsection
(d) below.
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(1)
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Only
Employer Matching Contributions are Safe Harbor Matching
Contributions
under basic formula. If the only Employer Matching Contribution
formula
provided under the Plan is a basic safe harbor formula
under Part 4E,
#27.a. of the Agreement, the Plan is deemed to satisfy
the ACP Test,
without regard to the conditions under subsections (2)
- (5) below.
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(2)
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Limit
on contributions eligible for Employer Matching Contributions.
If Employer
Matching Contributions are provided (other than just
Employer Matching
Contributions under a basic safe harbor formula) the
total Employer
Matching Contributions provided under the Plan (whether
or not such
Employer Matching Contributions are provided under a
Safe Harbor Matching
Contribution formula) must not apply to any Section 401(k)
Deferrals or
Employee After-Tax Contributions that exceed 6% of Included
Compensation.
If an Employer Matching Contribution formula applies
to both Section
401(k) Deferrals and Employee After-Tax Contributions,
then the sum of
such contributions that exceed 6% of Included Compensation
must be
disregarded under the formula.
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(3)
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Limit
on discretionary Employer Matching Contributions. For
Plan Years beginning
after December 31, 1999, the Plan will not satisfy the
ACP Safe Harbor if
the Employer elects to provide discretionary Employer
Matching
Contributions in addition to the Safe Harbor Matching
Contribution, unless
the Employer limits the aggregate amount of such discretionary
Employer
Matching Contributions under Part 4B, #16.b. to no more
than 4 percent of
the Employee's Included Compensation.
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(4)
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Rate
of Employer Matching Contribution may not increase. The
Employer Matching
Contribution formula may not provide a higher rate of
match at higher
levels of Section 401(k) Deferrals or Employee After-Tax
Contributions.
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(5)
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Limit
on Employer Matching Contributions for Highly Compensated
Employees. The
Employer Matching Contributions made for any Highly Compensated
Employee
at any rate of Section 401(k) Deferrals and/or Employee
After-Tax
Contributions cannot be greater than the Employer Matching
Contributions
provided for any Nonhighly Compensated Employee at the
same rate of
Section 401(k) Deferrals and/or Employee After-Tax Contributions.
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(6)
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Employee
After-Tax Contributions. If the Plan permits Employee
After-Tax
Contributions, such contributions must satisfy the ACP
Test, regardless of
whether the Employer Matching Contributions under Plan
are deemed to
satisfy the ACP Test under this subsection (c). The ACP
Test must be
performed in accordance with subsection (d) below.
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(d)
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Rules
for applying the ACP Test. If the ACP Test must be performed
under a Safe
Harbor 401(k) Plan, either because there are Employee
After-Tax
Contributions, or because the Employer Matching Contributions
do not
satisfy the conditions described in subsection (c) above,
the Current Year
Testing Method must be used to perform such test, even
if the Agreement
specifies that the Prior Year Testing Method applies.
In addition, the
testing rules provided in IRS Notice 98-52 (or any successor
guidance) are
applicable in applying the ACP Test.
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(e)
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Aggregated
plans. If the Plan is aggregated with another plan under
Section 17.5(a)
or (b), then the Plan is not a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan
unless the
conditions of this Section are satisfied on an aggregated
basis.
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(f)
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First
year of plan. To qualify as a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan,
the Plan Year must
be a 12-month period, except for the first year of the
Plan, in which case
the Plan may have a short Plan Year. In no case may the
Plan have a short
Plan Year of less than 3 months.
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If
the
Plan has an initial Plan Year that is less than 12 months, for
purposes of
applying the Annual Additions Limitation under Article 7, the Limitation
Year
will be the 12-month period ending on the last day of the short
Plan Year. Thus,
no proration of the Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation will
be required.
(See Section 7.4(e).) In addition, the Employer's Included Compensation
will be
determined for the 12-month period ending on the last day of the
short Plan
Year.
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Definitions.
The following definitions apply for purposes of applying
the provisions of
this Article 17.
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(a)
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ACP
- Average Contribution Percentage. The ACP for a group
is the average of
the contribution percentages calculated separately for
each Eligible
Participant in the group. An Eligible Participant's contribution
percentage is the ratio of the contributions made on
behalf of the
Participant that are included under the ACP Test, expressed
as a
percentage of the Participant's Testing Compensation
for the Plan Year.
For this purpose, the contributions included under the
ACP Test are the
sum of the Employee After-Tax Contributions, Employer
Matching
Contributions, and QMACs (to the extent not taken into
account for
purposes of the ADP test) made under the Plan on behalf
of the Participant
for the Plan Year. The ACP may also include other contributions
as
provided in Section 17.3(c), if applicable.
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(b)
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ADP
- Average Deferral Percentage. The ADP for a group is
the average of the
deferral percentages calculated separately for each Eligible
Participant
in the group. A Participant's deferral percentage is
the ratio of the
Participant's deferral contributions expressed as a percentage
of the
Participant's Testing Compensation for the Plan Year.
For this purpose, a
Participant's deferral contributions include any Section
401(k) Deferrals
made pursuant to the Participant's deferral election,
including Excess
Deferrals of Highly Compensated Employees (but excluding
Excess Deferrals
of Nonhighly Compensated Employees). The ADP may also
include other
contributions as provided in Section 17.2(c), if applicable.
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In
determining a Participant's deferral percentage for the Plan Year,
a deferral
contribution may be taken into account only if such contribution
is allocated to
the Participant's Account as of a date within the Plan Year. For
this purpose, a
deferral contribution may only be allocated to a Participant's
Account within a
particular Plan Year if the deferral contribution is actually paid
to the Trust
no later than the end of the 12-month period immediately following
that Plan
Year and
the
deferral contribution relates to Included Compensation that (1)
would otherwise
have been received by the Participant in that Plan Year or (2)
is attributable
to services performed in that Plan Year and would otherwise have
been received
by the Participant within 2? months after the close of that Plan
Year. No formal
election need be made by the Employer to use the 2?-month rule
described in the
preceding sentence. However, deferral contributions may only be
taken into
account for a single Plan Year.
(c)
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Excess
Aggregate Contributions. Excess Aggregate Contributions
for a Plan Year
are the amounts contributed on behalf of the Highly Compensated
Employees
that exceed the maximum amount permitted under the ACP
Test for such Plan
Year. The total dollar amount of Excess Aggregate Contributions
for a Plan
Year is determined by calculating the amount that would
have to be
distributed to the Highly Compensated Employees if the
distributions were
made first to the Highly Compensated Employee(s) with
the highest
contribution percentage until either:
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(1)
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the
adjusted ACP for the Highly Compensated Employee Group
would reach a
percentage that satisfies the ACP Test, or
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(2)
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the
contribution percentage of the Highly Compensated Employee(s)
with the
next highest contribution percentage would be reached.
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This
process is repeated until the adjusted ACP for the Highly Compensated
Employee
Group would satisfy the ACP Test. The total dollar amount so determined
is then
divided among the Highly Compensated Employee Group in the manner
described in
Section 17.3(d)(1) to determine the actual corrective distributions
to be made.
(d)
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Excess
Contributions. Excess Contributions for a Plan Year are
the amounts taken
into account in computing the ADP of the Highly Compensated
Employees that
exceed the maximum amount permitted under the ADP Test
for such Plan Year.
The total dollar amount of Excess Contributions for a
Plan Year is
determined by calculating the amount that would have
to be distributed to
the Highly Compensated Employees if the distributions
were made first to
the Highly Compensated Employee(s) with the highest deferral
percentage
until either:
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(1)
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the
adjusted ADP for the Highly Compensated Employee Group
would reach a
percentage that satisfies the ADP Test, or
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(2)
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the
deferral percentage of the Highly Compensated Employee(s)
with the next
highest deferral percentage would be reached.
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This
process is repeated until the adjusted ADP for the Highly Compensated
Employee
Group would satisfy the ADP test. The total dollar amount so determined
is then
divided among the Highly Compensated Employee Group in the manner
described in
Section 17.2(d)(1) to determine the actual corrective distributions
to be made.
(e)
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Highly
Compensated Employee Group. The Highly Compensated Employee
Group is the
group of Eligible Participants who are Highly Compensated
Employees for
the current Plan Year. An Employee who makes a one-time
irrevocable
election not to participate in accordance with Section
1.10 (if authorized
under Part 13, #75.a. of the Nonstandardized Agreement)
will not be
treated as an Eligible Participant.
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(f)
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Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group. The Nonhighly Compensated
Employee Group is
the group of Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly
Compensated Employees
for the applicable Plan Year. If the Prior Year Testing
Method is selected
under Part 4F of the Agreement, the Nonhighly Compensated
Employee Group
is the group of Eligible Participants in the prior Plan
Year who were
Nonhighly Compensated Employees for that year. If the
Current Year Testing
Method is selected under Part 4F of the Agreement, the
Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group is the group of Eligible Participants
who are
Nonhighly Compensated Employees for the current Plan
Year. An Employee who
makes a one-time irrevocable election not to participate
in accordance
with Section 1.10 (if authorized under Part 13, #75.a.
of the
Nonstandardized Agreement) will not be treated as an
Eligible Participant.
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(g)
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QMACs
- Qualified Matching Contribution. To the extent authorized
under Part 4B,
#18 of the Agreement, QMACs are Employer Matching Contributions
which are
100% vested when contributed to the Plan and are subject
to the
distribution restrictions applicable to Section 401(k)
Deferrals under
Article 8, except that no portion of a Participant's
QMAC Account may be
distributed from the Plan on account of Hardship. See
Section 8.6(c).
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(h)
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QNECs
- Qualified Nonelective Contributions. To the extent
authorized under Part
4C, #22 of the Agreement, QNECs are Employer Nonelective
Contributions
which are 100% vested when contributed to the Plan and
are subject to the
distribution restrictions applicable to Section 401(k)
Deferrals under
Article 8, except that no portion of a Participant's
QNEC Account may be
distributed from the Plan on account of Hardship. See
Section 8.6(c).
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(i)
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Testing
Compensation. In determining the Testing Compensation
used for purposes of
applying the ADP Test, the ACP Test, and the Multiple
Use Test, the Plan
Administrator is not bound by any elections made under
Part 3 of the
Agreement with respect to Total Compensation or Included
Compensation
under the Plan. The Plan Administrator may determine
on an annual basis
(and within its discretion) the components of Testing
Compensation for
purposes of applying the ADP Test, the ACP Test and the
Multiple Use Test.
Testing Compensation must qualify as a nondiscriminatory
definition of
compensation under Code ?414(s) and the regulations thereunder
and must be
applied consistently to all Participants. Testing Compensation
may be
determined over the Plan Year for which the applicable
test is being
performed or the calendar year ending within such Plan
Year. In
determining Testing Compensation, the Plan Administrator
may take into
consideration only the compensation received while the
Employee is an
Eligible Participant under the component of the Plan
being tested. In no
event may Testing Compensation for any Participant exceed
the Compensation
Dollar Limitation defined in Section 22.32. In determining
Testing
Compensation, the Plan Administrator may exclude amounts
paid to an
individual as severance
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pay
to
the extent such amounts are paid after the common-law employment
relationship
between the individual and the Employer has terminated, provided
such amounts
also are excluded in determining Total Compensation under 22.197.
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ARTICLE
18 PLAN AMENDMENTS AND TERMINATION
This
Article contains the rules regarding the ability of the Prototype
Sponsor or
Employer to make Plan amendments and the effect of such amendments
on the Plan.
This Article also contains the rules for administering the Plan
upon termination
and the effect of Plan termination on Participants' benefits and
distribution
rights.
18.1
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Plan
Amendments.
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(a)
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Amendment
by the Prototype Sponsor. The Prototype Sponsor may amend
the Prototype
Plan on behalf of each adopting Employer who is maintaining
the Plan at
the time of the amendment. An amendment by the Prototype
Sponsor to the
Basic Plan Document does not require consent of the adopting
Employers,
nor does an adopting Employer have to reexecute its Agreement
with respect
to such an amendment. The Prototype Sponsor will provide
each adopting
Employer a copy of the amended Basic Plan Document (either
by providing
substitute or additional pages, or by providing a restated
Basic Plan
Document). An amendment by the Prototype Sponsor to any
Agreement offered
under the Prototype Plan is not effective with respect
to an Employer's
Plan unless the Employer reexecutes the amended Agreement.
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If
the
Prototype Plan is amended by the mass submitter, the mass submitter
is treated
as the agent of the Prototype Sponsor. If the Prototype Sponsor
does not adopt
any amendments made by the mass submitter, the Prototype Plan will
no longer be
identical to or a minor modifier of the mass submitter Prototype
Plan.
(b)
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Amendment
by the Employer. The Employer shall have the right at
any time to amend
the Agreement in the following manner without affecting
the Plan's status
as a Prototype Plan. (The ability to amend the Plan as
authorized under
this Section applies only to the Employer that executes
the Signature Page
of the Agreement. Any amendment to the Plan by the Employer
under this
Section also applies to any Related Employer that participates
under the
Plan as a Co-Sponsor.)
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(1)
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The
Employer may change any optional selections under the
Agreement.
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(2)
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The
Employer may add additional language where authorized
under the Agreement,
including language necessary to satisfy Code ?415 or
Code ?416 due to the
aggregation of multiple plans.
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(3)
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The
Employer may change the administrative selections under
Part 12 of the
Agreement by replacing the appropriate page(s) within
the Agreement. Such
amendment does not require reexecution of the Signature
Page of the
Agreement.
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(4)
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The
Employer may add any model amendments published by the
IRS which
specifically provide that their adoption will not cause
the Plan to be
treated as an individually designed plan.
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(5)
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The
Employer may adopt any amendments that it deems necessary
to satisfy the
requirements for resolving qualification failures under
the IRS'
compliance resolution programs.
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(6)
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The
Employer may adopt an amendment to cure a coverage or
nondiscrimination
testing failure, as permitted under applicable Treasury
regulations.
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The
Employer may amend the Plan at any time for any other reason. However,
such an
amendment will cause the Plan to lose its status as a Prototype
Plan and become
an individually designed plan.
The
Employer's amendment of the Plan from one type of Defined Contribution
Plan
(e.g., a money purchase plan) into another type of Defined Contribution
Plan
(e.g., a profit sharing plan) will not result in a partial termination
or any
other event that would require full vesting of some or all Plan
Participants.
Any
amendment that affects the rights, duties or responsibilities of
the Trustee or
Plan Administrator may only be made with the Trustee's or Plan
Administrator's
written consent. Any amendment to the Plan must be in writing and
a copy of the
resolution (or similar instrument) setting forth such amendment
(with the
applicable effective date of such amendment) must be delivered
to the Trustee.
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No
amendment may authorize or permit any portion of the assets held
under the Plan
to be used for or diverted to a purpose other than the exclusive
benefit of
Participants or their Beneficiaries, except to the extent such
assets are used
to pay taxes or administrative expenses of the Plan. An amendment
also may not
cause or permit any portion of the assets held under the Plan to
revert to or
become property of the Employer.
(c)
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Protected
Benefits. Except as permitted under statute (such as
Code ?412(c)(8)),
regulations (such as Treas. Reg. ?1.411(d)-4), or other
IRS guidance of
general applicability, no Plan amendment (or other transaction
having the
effect of a Plan amendment, such as a merger, acquisition,
plan transfer,
or similar transaction) may reduce a Participant's Account
Balance or
eliminate or reduce a Protected Benefit to the extent
such Protected
Benefit relates to amounts accrued prior to the adoption
date (or
effective date, if later) of the Plan amendment. For
this purpose,
Protected Benefits include any early retirement benefits,
retirement-type
subsidies, and optional forms of benefit (as defined
under the
regulations). If the adoption of this Plan will result
in the elimination
of a Protected Benefit, the Employer may preserve such
Protected Benefit
by identifying the Protected Benefit under Part 13, #58
of the Agreement
[Part 13, #76 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
Failure to identify
Protected Benefits under the Agreement will not override
the requirement
that such Protected Benefits be preserved under this
Plan. The
availability of each optional form of benefit under the
Plan must not be
subject to Employer discretion.
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Effective
for amendments adopted and effective on or after September 6, 2000,
if the Plan
is a profit sharing plan or a 401(k) plan, the Employer may eliminate
all
annuity and installment forms of distribution (including the QJSA
form of
benefit to the extent the Plan is not required to offer such form
of benefit
under Article 9), provided the Plan offers a single-sum distribution
option that
is available at the same time as the annuity or installment options
that are
being eliminated. If the Plan is a money purchase plan or a target
benefit plan,
the Employer may not eliminate the QJSA form of benefit. However,
the Employer
may eliminate all other annuity and installment forms of distribution,
provided
the Plan offers a single-sum distribution option that is available
at the same
time as the annuity or installment options that are being eliminated.
Any
amendment eliminating an annuity or installment form of distribution
may not be
effective until the earlier of: (1) the date which is the 90th
day
following the date a summary of the amendment is furnished to the
Participant
which satisfies the requirements under DOL Reg. ?2520.104b-3 or
(2) the first
day of the second Plan Year following the Plan Year in which the
amendment is
adopted.
18.2
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Plan
Termination. The Employer may terminate this Plan at
any time by
delivering to the Trustee and Plan Administrator written
notice of such
termination.
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(a)
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Full
and immediate vesting. Upon a full or partial termination
of the Plan (or
in the case of a profit sharing plan, the complete discontinuance
of
contributions), all amounts credited to an affected Participant's
Account
become 100% vested, regardless of the Participant's vested
percentage
determined under Article 4. The Plan Administrator has
discretion to
determine whether a partial termination has occurred.
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(b)
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Distribution
procedures. Upon the termination of the Plan, the Plan
Administrator shall
direct the distribution of Plan assets to Participants
in accordance with
the provisions under Article 8. For this purpose, distribution
shall be
made to Participants with vested Account Balances of
$5,000 or less in
lump sum as soon as administratively feasible following
the Plan
termination, regardless of any contrary election under
Part 9, #34 of the
Agreement [Part 9, #52 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
For
Participants with vested Account Balances in excess of
$5,000,
distribution will be made through the purchase of deferred
annuity
contracts which protect all Protected Benefits under
the Plan, unless a
Participant elects to receive an immediate distribution
in any form of
payment permitted under the Plan. If an immediate distribution
is elected
in a form other than a lump sum, the distribution will
be satisfied
through the purchase of an immediate annuity contract.
Distributions will
be made as soon as administratively feasible following
the Plan
termination, regardless of any contrary election under
Part 9, #33 of the
Agreement [Part 9, #51 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
The
references in this paragraph to $5,000 shall be deemed
to mean $3,500,
prior to the time the $5,000 threshold becomes effective
under the Plan
(as determined in Section 8.3(f)).
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For
purposes of applying the provisions of this subsection (b), distribution
may be
delayed until the Employer receives a favorable determination letter
from the
IRS as to the qualified status of the Plan upon termination, provided
the
determination letter request is made within a reasonable period
following the
termination of the Plan.
(1)
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Special
rule for certain profit sharing plans. If this Plan is
a profit sharing
plan, distribution will be made to all Participants,
without consent, as
soon as administratively
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feasible
following the termination of the Plan, without regard to the value
of the
Participants' vested Account Balance. This special rule applies
only if the Plan
does not provide for an annuity option under Part 11 of the Agreement
and the
Employer does not maintain any other Defined Contribution Plan
(other than an
ESOP) at any time between the termination of the Plan and the distribution.
(2)
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Special
rule for 401(k) plans. Section 401(k) Deferrals, QMACs,
QNECs, Safe Harbor
Matching Contributions and Safe Harbor Nonelective Contributions
under a
401(k) plan (as well as transferred assets (see Section
3.3(c)(3)) which
are subject to the distribution restrictions applicable
to Section 401(k)
Deferrals) may be distributed in a lump sum upon Plan
termination only if
the Employer does not maintain a Successor Plan at any
time during the
period beginning on the date of termination and ending
12 months after the
final distribution of all Plan assets. For this purpose,
a Successor Plan
is any Defined Contribution Plan, other than an ESOP
(as defined in Code
?4975(e)(7)), a SEP (as defined in Code ?408(k)), or
a SIMPLE IRA (as
defined in Code ?408(p)). A plan will not be considered
a Successor Plan,
if at all times during the 24-month period beginning
12 months before the
Plan termination, fewer than 2% of the Eligible Participants
under the
401(k) plan are eligible under such plan. A distribution
of these
contributions may be made to the extent another distribution
event permits
distribution of such amounts.
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(3)
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Plan
termination not distribution event if assets are transferred
to another
Plan. If, pursuant to the termination of the Plan, the
Employer enters
into a transfer agreement to transfer the assets of the
terminated Plan to
another plan maintained by the Employer (or by a successor
employer in a
transaction involving the acquisition of the Employer's
stock or assets,
or other similar transaction), the termination of the
Plan is not a
distribution event and the distribution procedures above
do not apply.
Prior to the transfer of the assets, distribution of
a Participant's
Account Balance may be made from the terminated Plan
only to a Participant
(or Beneficiary, if applicable) who is otherwise eligible
for distribution
without regard to the Plan's termination. Otherwise,
benefits will be
distributed from the transferee plan in accordance with
the terms of that
plan (subject to the protection of any Protected Benefits
that must be
continued with respect to the transferred assets).
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(c)
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Termination
upon merger, liquidation or dissolution of the Employer.
The Plan shall
terminate upon the liquidation or dissolution of the
Employer or the death
of the Employer (if the Employer is a sole proprietor)
provided however,
that in any such event, arrangements may be made for
the Plan to be
continued by any successor to the Employer.
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18.3
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Merger
or Consolidation. In the event the Plan is merged or
consolidated with
another plan, each Participant must be entitled to a
benefit immediately
after such merger or consolidation that is at least equal
to the benefit
the Participant would have been entitled to had the Plan
terminated
immediately before such merger or consolidation. (See
Section 4.1(d) for
rules regarding vesting following a merger or consolidation.)
The Employer
may authorize the Trustee to enter into a merger agreement
with the
Trustee of another plan to effect such merger or consolidation.
A merger
agreement entered into by the Trustee is not part of
this Plan and does
not affect the Plan's status as a Prototype Plan. (See
Section 3.3 for the
applicable rules where amounts are transferred to this
Plan from another
plan.)
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ARTICLE
19 MISCELLANEOUS
This
Article contains miscellaneous provisions concerning the Employer's
and
Participants' rights and responsibilities under the Plan.
19.1
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Exclusive
Benefit. Except as provided under Section 19.2, no part
of the Plan assets
(including any corpus or income of the Trust) may revert
to the Employer
prior to the satisfaction of all liabilities under the
Plan nor will such
Plan assets be used for, or diverted to, a purpose other
than the
exclusive benefit of Participants or their Beneficiaries.
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19.2
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Return
of Employer Contributions. Upon written request by the
Employer, the
Trustee must return any Employer Contributions provided
that the
circumstances and the time frames described below are
satisfied. The
Trustee may request the Employer to provide additional
information to
ensure the amounts may be properly returned. Any amounts
returned shall
not include earnings, but must be reduced by any losses.
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(a)
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Mistake
of fact. Any Employer Contributions made because of a
mistake of fact must
be returned to the Employer within one year of the contribution.
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(b)
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Disallowance
of deduction. Employer Contributions to the Trust are
made with the
understanding that they are deductible. In the event
the deduction of an
Employer Contribution is disallowed by the IRS, such
contribution (to the
extent disallowed) must be returned to the Employer within
one year of the
disallowance of the deduction.
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(c)
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Failure
to initially qualify. Employer Contributions to the Plan
are made with the
understanding, in the case of a new Plan, that the Plan
satisfies the
qualification requirements of Code ?401(a) as of the
Plan's Effective
Date. In the event that the Internal Revenue Service
determines that the
Plan is not initially qualified under the Code, any Employer
Contributions
(and allocable earnings) made incident to that initial
qualification 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.
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19.3
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Alienation
or Assignment. Except as permitted under applicable statute
or regulation,
a Participant or Beneficiary may not assign, alienate,
transfer or sell
any right or claim to a benefit or distribution from
the Plan, and any
attempt to assign, alienate, transfer or sell such a
right or claim shall
be void, except as permitted by statute or regulation.
Any such right or
claim under the Plan shall not be subject to attachment,
execution,
garnishment, sequestration, or other legal or equitable
process. This
prohibition against alienation or assignment also applies
to the creation,
assignment, or recognition of a right to a benefit payable
with respect to
a Participant pursuant to a domestic relations order,
unless such order is
determined to be a QDRO pursuant to Section 11.5, or
any domestic
relations order entered before January 1, 1985.
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19.4
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Participants'
Rights. The adoption of this Plan by the Employer does
not give any
Participant, Beneficiary, or Employee a right to continued
employment with
the Employer and does not affect the Employer's right
to discharge an
Employee or Participant at any time. This Plan also does
not create any
legal or equitable rights in favor of any Participant,
Beneficiary, or
Employee against the Employer, Plan Administrator or
Trustee. Unless the
context indicates otherwise, any amendment to this Plan
is not applicable
to determine the benefits accrued (and the extent to
which such benefits
are vested) by a Participant or former Employee whose
employment
terminated before the effective date of such amendment,
except where
application of such amendment to the terminated Participant
or former
Employee is required by statute, regulation or other
guidance of general
applicability. Where the provisions of the Plan are ambiguous
as to the
application of an amendment to a terminated Participant
or former
Employee, the Plan Administrator has the authority to
make a final
determination on the proper interpretation of the Plan.
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19.5
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Military
Service. To the extent required under Code ?414(u), an
Employee who
returns to employment with the Employer following a period
of qualified
military service will receive any contributions, benefits
and service
credit required under Code ?414(u), provided the Employee
satisfies all
applicable requirements under the Code and regulations.
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19.6
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Paired
Plans. If the Employer adopts more than one Standardized
Agreement, each
of the Standardized Agreements are considered to be Paired
Plans, provided
the Employer completes Part 13, #54 of the Agreement
[Part 13, #72 of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] in a manner which ensures
the plans
together comply with the Annual Additions Limitation,
as described in
Article 7, and the Top-Heavy Plan rules, as described
in Article 16. If
the Employer adopts Paired Plans, each Plan must have
the same Plan Year.
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19.7
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Annuity
Contract. Any annuity contract distributed under the
Plan must be
nontransferable. In addition, the terms of any annuity
contract purchased
and distributed to a Participant or to a Participant's
spouse must comply
with all requirements under this Plan.
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19.8
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Use
of IRS compliance programs. Nothing in this Plan document
should be
construed to limit the availability of the IRS' voluntary
compliance
programs, including the IRS Administrative Policy Regarding
Self-Correction (APRSC) program. An Employer may take
whatever corrective
actions are permitted under the IRS voluntary compliance
programs, as is
deemed appropriate by the Plan Administrator or Employer.
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19.9
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Loss
of Prototype Status. If the Plan as adopted by the Employer
fails to
attain or retain qualification, such Plan will no longer
qualify as a
Prototype Plan and will be considered an individually-designed
plan.
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19.10
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Governing
Law. The provisions of this Plan shall be construed,
administered, and
enforced in accordance with the provisions of applicable
Federal Law and,
to the extent applicable, the laws of the state in which
the Employer has
its principal place of business. The foregoing provisions
of this Section
shall not preclude the Employer and the Trustee from
agreeing to a
different state law with respect to the construction,
administration and
enforcement of the Plan.
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19.11
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Waiver
of Notice. Any person entitled to a notice under the
Plan may waive the
right to receive such notice, to the extent such a waiver
is not
prohibited by law, regulation or other pronouncement.
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19.12
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Use
of Electronic Media. The Plan Administrator may use telephonic
or
electronic media to satisfy any notice requirements required
by this Plan,
to the extent permissible under regulations (or other
generally applicable
guidance). In addition, a Participant's consent to immediate
distribution,
as required by Article 8, may be provided through telephonic
or electronic
means, to the extent permissible under regulations (or
other generally
applicable guidance). The Plan Administrator also may
use telephonic or
electronic media to conduct plan transactions such as
enrolling
participants, making (and changing) salary reduction
elections, electing
(and changing) investment allocations, applying for Plan
loans, and other
transactions, to the extent permissible under regulations
(or other
generally applicable guidance).
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19.13
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Severability
of Provisions. In the event that any provision of this
Plan shall be held
to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason,
the remaining
provisions under the Plan shall be construed as if the
illegal, invalid or
unenforceable provisions had never been included in the
Plan.
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19.14
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Binding
Effect. The Plan, and all actions and decisions made
thereunder, shall be
binding upon all applicable parties, and their heirs,
executors,
administrators, successors and assigns.
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ARTICLE
20 GUST ELECTIONS AND EFFECTIVE DATES
The
provisions of this Plan are generally effective as of the Effective
Date
designated on the Signature Page of the Agreement. Appendix A of
the Agreement
also allows for special effective dates for specified provisions
of the Plan,
which override the general Effective Date under the Agreement.
If this Plan is
adopted as an amendment or restatement of a prior plan, the provisions
of this
Plan apply only to Employees who earn an Hour of Service on or
after the
Effective Date of this Plan. Any Employee who terminated before
the Effective
Date of this Plan (and who is not reemployed) is entitled to any
benefits only
as provided under the provisions of the prior plan as in existence
at the time
of the Employee's termination of employment.
Section
22.96 refers to a series of laws that have been enacted since 1994
as the GUST
Legislation, for which extended time (known as the remedial amendment
period)
was provided to Employers to conform their plan documents to such
laws. This
Article prescribes special effective date rules for conforming
plans to the GUST
Legislation.
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GUST
Effective Dates. If the Agreement is adopted within the
remedial amendment
period for the GUST Legislation, and the Plan has not
previously been
restated to comply with the GUST Legislation, then special
effective dates
apply to certain provisions. These special effective
dates apply to the
appropriate provisions of the Plan, even if such special
effective dates
are earlier than the Effective Date identified on the
Signature Page of
the Agreement. The Employer may specify in elections
provided in Appendix
B of the Agreement, how the Plan was operated to comply
with the GUST
Legislation. Appendix B need only be completed if the
Employer operated
this Plan in a manner that is different from the default
provisions
contained in this Plan or the elective choices made under
the Agreement.
If the Employer did not operate the Plan in a manner
that is different
from the default provisions or elective provisions of
the Plan or, if the
Plan is not being restated for the first time to comply
with the GUST
Legislation, and prior amendments or restatements of
the Plan satisfied
the requirement to amend timely to comply with the GUST
Legislation,
Appendix B need not be completed and may be removed from
the Agreement.
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If
one or
more qualified retirement plans have been merged into this Plan,
the provisions
of the merging plan(s) will remain in full force and effect until
the Effective
Date of the plan merger(s), unless provided otherwise under Appendix
A-13 of the
Agreement. If the merging plan(s) have not been amended to comply
with the
changes required under the GUST Legislation, the merging plan(s)
will be deemed
amended retroactively for such required changes by operation of
this Agreement.
The provisions required by the GUST Legislation (as provided under
this BPD and
related Agreements) will be effective for purposes of the merging
plan(s) as of
the same effective date that is specified for that GUST provision
in this BPD
and Appendix B of the Agreement (even if that date precedes the
general
Effective Date specified in the Agreement).
20.2
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Highly
Compensated Employee Definition. The definition of Highly
Compensated
Employee under Section 22.99 is modified effective for
Plan Years
beginning after December 31, 1996. Under the current
definition of Highly
Compensated Employee, the Employer must designate under
the Plan whether
it is using the Top-Paid Group Test and whether it is
using the Calendar
Year Election or, for the 1997 Plan Year, whether it
used the Old-Law
Calendar Year Election.
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(a)
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Top-Paid
Group Test. In determining whether an Employee is a Highly
Compensated
Employee, the Top-Paid Group Test under Section 22.99(b)(4)
does not apply
unless the Employer specifically elects under Part 13,
#50.a. of the
Agreement [Part 13, #68.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to have
the Top-Paid Group Test apply. The Employer's election
to use or not use
the Top-Paid Group Test generally applies for all years
beginning with the
Effective Date of the Plan (or the first Plan Year beginning
after
December 31, 1996, if later). However, because the Employer
may not have
operated the Plan consistent with this Top-Paid Group
Test election for
all years prior to the date this Plan restatement is
adopted, Appendix
B-1.a. of the Agreement also permits the Employer to
override the Top-Paid
Group Test election under this Plan for specified Plan
Years beginning
after December 31, 1996, and before the date this Plan
restatement is
adopted.
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(b)
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Calendar
Year Election. In determining whether an Employee is
a Highly Compensated
Employee, the Calendar Year Election under Section 22.99(b)(5)
does not
apply unless the Employer specifically elects under Part
13, #50.b. of the
Agreement [Part 13, #68.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to have
the Calendar Year Election apply. The Employer's election
to use or not
use the Calendar Year Election is generally effective
for all years
beginning with the Effective Date of this Plan (or the
first Plan Year
beginning after December 31, 1996, if later). However,
because the
Employer may not have operated the Plan consistent with
this Calendar Year
Election for all years prior to the date this Plan restatement
is adopted,
Appendix B-1.b. of the Agreement permits the Employer
to override the
Calendar Year Election under this Plan for
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specified
Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1996, and before the date
this Plan
restatement is adopted.
(c)
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Old-Law
Calendar Year Election. In determining whether an Employee
was a Highly
Compensated Employee for the Plan Year beginning in 1997,
a special
Old-Law Calendar Year Election was available. (See Section
22.99(b)(6) for
the definition of the Old-Law Calendar Year Election.)
Appendix B-1.c. of
the Agreement permits the Employer to designate whether
it used the
Old-Law Calendar Year Election for the 1997 Plan Year.
If the Employer did
not use the Old-Law Calendar Year Election, the election
in Appendix
B-1.c. need not be completed.
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20.3
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Required
Minimum Distributions. Appendix B-2 of the Agreement
permits the Employer
to designate how it complied with the GUST Legislation
changes to the
required minimum distribution rules. Section 10.4 describes
the
application of the GUST Legislation changes to the required
minimum
distribution rules.
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20.4
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$5,000
Involuntary Distribution Threshold. For Plan Years beginning
on or after
August 5, 1997, a Participant (and spouse, if the Joint
and Survivor
Annuity rules apply under Article 9) must consent to
a distribution from
the Plan if the Participant's vested Account Balance
exceeds $5,000. (See
Section 8.3(e) for the applicable rules for determining
the value of a
Participant's vested Account Balance.) For Plan Years
beginning before
August 5, 1997, the consent threshold was $3,500 instead
of $5,000.
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The
increase in the consent threshold to $5,000 is generally effective
for Plan
Years beginning on or after August 5, 1997. However, because the
Employer may
not have operated the Plan consistent with the $5,000 threshold
for all years
prior to the date this Plan restatement was adopted, Appendix B-3.a.
of the
Agreement permits the Employer to designate the Plan Year during
which it began
applying the higher $5,000 consent threshold. If the Employer began
applying the
$5,000 consent threshold for Plan Years beginning on or after August
5, 1997,
Appendix B-3.a. need not be completed. If the Employer did not
begin using the
$5,000 consent threshold until some later date, the Employer must
designate the
appropriate date in Appendix B-3.a.
20.5
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Repeal
of Family Aggregation for Allocation Purposes. For Plan
Years beginning on
or after January 1, 1997, the family aggregation rules
were repealed. For
Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1997, the family
aggregation rules
required that family members of a Five-Percent Owner
or one of the 10
Employees with the highest ownership interest in the
Employer were
aggregated as a single Highly Compensated Employee for
purposes of
determining such individuals' share of any contributions
under the Plan.
In determining the allocation for such aggregated individuals,
the
Compensation Dollar Limitation (as defined in Section
22.32) was applied
on an aggregated basis with respect to the Five-Percent
Owner or top-10
owner, his/her spouse, and his/her minor children (under
the age of 19).
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The
family aggregation rules were repealed effective for Plan Years
beginning on or
after January 1, 1997. However, because the Employer may not have
operated the
Plan consistent with the repeal of family aggregation for all years
prior to the
date this Plan restatement is adopted, Appendix B-3.b. of the Agreement
permits
the Employer to designate the Plan Year during which it repealed
family
aggregation for allocation purposes. If the Employer implemented
the repeal of
family aggregation for Plan Years beginning on or after January
1, 1997,
Appendix B-3.b. need not be completed. If the Employer did not
implement the
repeal of family aggregation until some later date, the Employer
must designate
the appropriate date in Appendix B-3.b.
20.6
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ADP/ACP
Testing Methods. The GUST Legislation modified the nondiscrimination
testing rules for Section 401(k) Deferrals, Employer
Matching
Contributions, and Employee After-Tax Contributions,
effective for Plan
Years beginning after December 31, 1996. For purposes
of applying the ADP
Test and ACP Test under the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement,
the Employer
must designate the testing methodology used for each
Plan Year. (See
Article 17 for the definition of the ADP Test and the
ACP Test and the
applicable testing methodology.)
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Part
4F
of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement contains elective provisions
for the
Employer to designate the testing methodology it will use in performing
the ADP
Test and the ACP Test. Appendix B-5.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement
contains elective provisions for the Employer to designate the
testing
methodology it used for Plan Years that began before the adoption
of the
Agreement.
20.7
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Safe
Harbor 401(k) Plan. Effective for Plan Years beginning
after December 31,
1998, the Employer may elect under Part 4E of the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement to apply the Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan provisions.
To qualify as a
Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan for a Plan Year, the Plan must
be identified as a
Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan for such year.
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If
the
Employer elects under Part 4E to apply the Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan
provisions,
the Plan generally will be considered a Safe Harbor Plan for all
Plan Years
beginning with the Effective Date of the Plan (or January 1, 1999,
if later).
Likewise, if the Employer does not elect to apply the Safe Harbor
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provisions,
the Plan generally will not be considered a Safe Harbor Plan for
such year.
However, because the Employer may have operated the Plan as a Safe
Harbor 401(k)
Plan for Plan Years prior to the Effective Date of this Plan or
may not have
operated the Plan consistent with its election under Part 4E to
apply (or to not
apply) the Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan provisions for all years prior
to the date
this Plan restatement is adopted, Appendix B-5.b. of the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement permits the Employer to designate any Plan Year in which
the Plan was
(or was not) a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan. Appendix B-5.b. should
only be completed
if the Employer operated this Plan prior to date it was actually
adopted in a
manner that is inconsistent with the election made under Part 4E
of the
Agreement.
If
the
Employer elects under Appendix B-5.b. of the Agreement to apply
the Safe Harbor
401(k) Plan provisions for any Plan Year beginning prior to the
date this Plan
is adopted, the Plan must have complied with the requirements under
Section 17.6
for such year. The type and amount of the Safe Harbor Contribution
for such Plan
Year(s) is the type and amount of contribution described in the
Participant
notice issued pursuant to Section 17.6(a)(4) for such Plan Year.
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ARTICLE
21 PARTICIPATION BY RELATED EMPLOYERS (CO-SPONSORS)
21.1
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Co-Sponsor
Adoption Page. A Related Employer may elect to participate
under this Plan
by executing a Co-Sponsor Adoption Page under the Agreement.
By executing
a Co-Sponsor Adoption Page, the Co-Sponsor adopts all
the provisions of
the Plan, including the elective choices made by the
Employer under the
Agreement. The Co-Sponsor is also bound by any amendments
made to the Plan
in accordance with Article 18. The Co-Sponsor agrees
to use the same
Trustee as is designated on the Trustee Declaration under
the Agreement,
except as provided in a separate trust agreement authorized
under Article
12.
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21.2
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Participation
by Employees of Co-Sponsor. A Related Employer may not
contribute to this
Plan unless it executes the Co-Sponsor Adoption Page.
(See Section 1.3 for
a discussion of the eligibility rules as they apply to
Employees of
Related Employers who do not execute a Co-Sponsor Adoption
Page.) However,
in applying the provisions of this Plan, Total Compensation
(as defined in
Section 22.197) includes amounts earned with a Related
Employer,
regardless of whether such Related Employer executes
a Co-Sponsor Adoption
Page. The Employer may elect under Part 3, #10.b.(7)
of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 3, #10.i. of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to exclude amounts earned with
a Related
Employer that does not execute a Co-Sponsor Page for
purposes of
determining an Employee's Included Compensation under
the Plan.
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21.3
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Allocation
of Contributions and Forfeitures. Unless selected otherwise
under the
Co-Sponsor Adoption Page, any contributions made by a
Co-Sponsor (and any
forfeitures relating to such contributions) will be allocated
to all
Eligible Participants employed by the Employer and Co-Sponsors
in
accordance with the provisions under this Plan. Under
a Nonstandardized
Agreement, a Co-Sponsor may elect under the Co-Sponsor
Page to allocate
its contributions (and forfeitures relating to such contributions)
only to
the Eligible Participants employed by the Co-Sponsor
making such
contributions. If so elected, Employees of the Co-Sponsor
will not share
in an allocation of contributions (or forfeitures relating
to such
contributions) made by any other Related Employer (except
in such
individual's capacity as an Employee of that other Related
Employer).
Where contributions are allocated only to the Employees
of a contributing
Co-Sponsor, the Plan Administrator will maintain a separate
accounting of
an Employee's Account Balance attributable to the contributions
of a
particular Co-Sponsor. This separate accounting is necessary
only for
contributions that are not 100% vested, so that the allocation
of
forfeitures attributable to such contributions can be
allocated for the
benefit of the appropriate Employees. An election to
allocate
contributions and forfeitures only to the Eligible Participants
employed
by the Co-Sponsor making such contributions will preclude
the Plan from
satisfying the nondiscrimination safe harbor rules under
Treas. Reg.
?1.401(a)(4)-2 and may require additional nondiscrimination
testing.
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21.4
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Co-Sponsor
No Longer a Related Employer. If a Co-Sponsor becomes
a Former Related
Employer because of an acquisition or disposition of
stock or assets, a
merger, or similar transaction, the Co-Sponsor will cease
to participate
in the Plan as soon as administratively feasible. If
the transition rule
under Code ?410(b)(6)(C) applies, the Co-Sponsor will
cease to participate
in the Plan as soon as administratively feasible after
the end of the
transition period described in Code ?410(b)(6)(C). If
a Co-Sponsor ceases
to be a Related Employer under this Section 21.4, the
following procedures
may be followed to discontinue the Co-Sponsor's participation
in the Plan.
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(a)
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Xxxxxx
of discontinuing participation. To document the cessation
of participation
by a Former Related Employer, the Former Related Employer
may discontinue
its participation as follows: (1) the Former Related
Employer adopts a
resolution that formally terminates active participation
in the Plan as of
a specified date, (2) the Employer that has executed
the Signature Page of
the Agreement reexecutes such page, indicating an amendment
by page
substitution through the deletion of the Co-Sponsor Adoption
Page executed
by the Former Related Employer, and (3) the Former Related
Employer
provides any notices to its Employees that are required
by law.
Discontinuance of participation means that no further
benefits accrue
after the effective date of such discontinuance with
respect to employment
with the Former Related Employer. The portion of the
Plan attributable to
the Former Related Employer may continue as a separate
plan, under which
benefits may continue to accrue, through the adoption
by the Former
Related Employer of a successor plan (which may be created
through the
execution of a separate Agreement by the Former Related
Employer) or by
spin-off of that portion of the Plan followed by a merger
or transfer into
another existing plan, as specified in a merger or transfer
agreement.
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(b)
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Multiple
employer plan. If, after a Co-Sponsor becomes a Former
Related Employer,
its Employees continue to accrue benefits under this
Plan, the Plan will
be treated as a multiple employer plan to the extent
required by law. So
long as the discontinuance procedures of this Section
are satisfied, such
treatment as a multiple employer plan will not affect
reliance on the
favorable IRS letter issued to the Prototype Sponsor
or any determination
letter issued on the Plan.
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21.5
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Special
rules for Standardized Agreements. As stated in Section
1.3(b) of this
BPD, under a Standardized Agreement each Related Employer
(who has
Employees who may be eligible to participate in the Plan)
is required to
execute a Co-Sponsor Adoption Page. If a Related Employer
fails to execute
a Co-Sponsor Adoption Page, the Plan will be treated
as an
individually-designed plan, except as provided in subsections
(a) and (b)
below. Nothing in this Plan shall be construed to treat
a Related Employer
as participating in the Plan in the absence of a Co-Sponsor
Adoption Page
executed by that Related Employer.
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(a)
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New
Related Employer. If an organization becomes a New Related
Employer after
the Effective Date of the Agreement by reason of an acquisition
or
disposition of stock or assets, a merger, or similar
transaction, the New
Related Employer must execute a Co-Sponsor Page no later
than the end of
the transition period described in Code ?410(b)(6)(C).
Participation of
the New Related Employer must be effective no later than
the first day of
the Plan Year that begins after such transition period
ends. If the
transition period in Code ?410(b)(6)(C) is not applicable,
the effective
date of the New Related Employer's participation in the
Plan must be no
later than the date it became a Related Employer.
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(b)
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Former
Related Employer. If an organization ceases to be a Related
Employer
(Former Related Employer), the provisions of Section
21.4, relating to
discontinuance of participation, apply.
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Under
the
Standardized Agreement, if the rules of subsections (a) or (b)
are followed, the
Employer may continue to rely on the favorable IRS letter issued
to the
Prototype Sponsor during any period in which a New Related Employer
is not
participating in the Plan or a Former Related Employer continues
to participate
in the Plan. If the rules of subsections (a) or (b) are not followed,
the Plan
is treated as an individually-designed plan for any period of such
noncompliance.
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ARTICLE
22 PLAN DEFINITIONS
This
Article contains definitions for common terms that are used throughout
the Plan.
All capitalized terms under the Plan are defined in this Article.
Where
applicable, this Article will refer to other Sections of the Plan
where the term
is defined.
22.1
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Account.
The separate Account maintained for each Participant
under the Plan. To
the extent applicable, a Participant may have any (or
all) of the
following separate sub-Accounts within his/her Account:
Employer
Contribution Account, Section 401(k) Deferral Account,
Employer Matching
Contribution Account, QMAC Account, QNEC Account, Employee
After-Tax
Contribution Account, Safe Harbor Matching Contribution
Account, Safe
Harbor Nonelective Contribution Account, Rollover Contribution
Account,
and Transfer Account. The Transfer Account also may have
any (or all) of
the sub-Accounts listed above. The Plan Administrator
may maintain other
sub-Accounts, if necessary, for proper administration
of the Plan.
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22.2
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Account
Balance. A Participant's Account Balance is the total
value of all
Accounts (whether vested or not) maintained for the Participant.
A
Participant's vested Account Balance includes only those
amounts for which
the Participant has a vested interest in accordance with
the provisions
under Article 4 and Part 6 of the Agreement. A Participant's
Section
401(k) Deferral Account, QMAC Account, QNEC Account,
Employee After-Tax
Contribution Account, Safe Harbor Matching Contribution
Account, Safe
Harbor Nonelective Contribution Account, and Rollover
Contribution Account
are always 100% vested.
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22.3
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Accrued
Benefit. If referred to in the context of a Defined Contribution
Plan, the
Accrued Benefit is the Account Balance. If referred to
in the context of a
Defined Benefit Plan, the Accrued Benefit is the benefit
accrued under the
benefit formula prescribed by the Defined Benefit Plan.
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22.4
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ACP
-- Average Contribution Percentage. The average of the
contribution
percentages for the Highly Compensated Employee Group
and the Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group, which are tested for nondiscrimination
under
the ACP Test. See Section 17.7(a).
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22.5
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ACP
Test -- Actual Contribution Percentage Test. The special
nondiscrimination
test that applies to Employer Matching Contributions
and/or Employee
After-Tax Contributions under the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement. See
Section 17.3.
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22.6
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Actual
Hours Crediting Method. The Actual Hours Crediting Method
is a method for
counting service for purposes of Plan eligibility and
vesting. Under the
Actual Hours Crediting Method, an Employee is credited
with the actual
Hours of Service the Employee completes with the Employer
or the number of
Hours of Service for which the Employee is paid (or entitled
to payment).
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22.7
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Adoption
Agreement. See the definition for Agreement.
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22.8
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ADP
-- Average Deferral Percentage. The average of the deferral
percentages
for the Highly Compensated Employee Group and the Nonhighly
Compensated
Employee Group, which are tested for nondiscrimination
under the ADP Test.
See Section 17.7(b).
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22.9
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ADP
Test -- Actual Deferral Percentage Test. The special
nondiscrimination
test that applies to Section 401(k) Deferrals under the
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement. See Section 17.2.
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22.10
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Agreement.
The Agreement (sometimes referred to as the "Adoption
Agreement") contains
the elective provisions under the Plan that an Employer
completes to
supplement or modify the provisions under the BPD. Each
Employer that
adopts this Plan must complete and execute the appropriate
Agreement. An
Employer may adopt more than one Agreement under this
Prototype Plan. Each
executed Agreement is treated as a separate Plan and
Trust. For example,
if an Employer executes two Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreements,
the Employer
is treated as maintaining two separate Plans under this
Prototype Plan
document. An Agreement is treated as a single Plan, even
if there is one
or more executed Co-Sponsor Adoption Pages associated
with the Agreement.
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22.11
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Aggregate
Limit. The limit imposed under the Multiple Use Test
on amounts subject to
both the ADP Test and the ACP Test. See Section 17.4(a).
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22.12
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Alternate
Payee. A person designated to receive all or a portion
of the
Participant's benefit pursuant to a QDRO. See Section
11.5.
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22.13
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Anniversary
Year Method. A method for determining Eligibility Computation
Periods
after an Employee's initial Eligibility Computation Period.
See Section
1.4(c)(2) for more detailed discussion of the Anniversary
Year Method.
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22.14
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Anniversary
Years. An alternative period for measuring Vesting Computation
Periods.
See Section 4.4.
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22.15
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Annual
Additions. The amounts taken into account under a Defined
Contribution
Plan for purposes of applying the limitation on allocations
under Code
?415. See Section 7.4(a) for the definition of Annual
Additions.
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22.16
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Annual
Additions Limitation. The limit on the amount of Annual
Additions a
Participant may receive under the Plan during a Limitation
Year. See
Article 7.
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22.17
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Annuity
Starting Date. This Plan does not use the term Annuity
Starting Date. To
determine whether the notice and consent requirements
in Articles 8 and 9
are satisfied, the Distribution Commencement Date (see
Section 22.56) is
used, even for a distribution that is made in the form
of an annuity.
However, the payment made on the Distribution Commencement
Date under an
annuity form of payment may reflect annuity payments
that are calculated
with reference to an "annuity starting date" that occurs
prior to the
Distribution Commencement Date (e.g., the first day of
the month in which
the Distribution Commencement Date falls).
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22.18
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Applicable
Life Expectancy. The Life Expectancy used to determine
a Participant's
required minimum distribution under Article 10. See Section
10.3(d).
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22.19
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Applicable
Percentage. The maximum percentage of Excess Compensation
that may be
allocated to Eligible Participants under the Permitted
Disparity Method.
See Article 2.
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22.20
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Average
Compensation. The average of a Participant's annual Included
Compensation
during the Averaging Period used for target benefit plans.
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22.21
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Averaging
Period. The period used for determining an Employee's
Average Compensation
for target benefit plans.
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22.22
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Balance
Forward Method. A method for allocating net income or
loss to
Participants' Accounts based on the Account Balance as
of the most recent
Valuation Date under the Plan. See Section 13.4(a).
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22.23
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Basic
Plan Document. See the definition for BPD.
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22.24
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Beneficiary.
A person designated by the Participant (or by the terms
of the Plan) to
receive a benefit under the Plan upon the death of the
Participant. See
Section 8.4(c) for the applicable rules for determining
a Participant's
Beneficiaries under the Plan.
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BPD.
The BPD (sometimes referred to as the "Basic Plan Document")
is the
portion of the Plan that contains the non-elective provisions.
The
provisions under the BPD may be supplemented or modified
by elections the
Employer makes under the Agreement or by separate governing
documents that
are expressly authorized by the BPD.
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Break-in-Service
- Eligibility. Generally, an Employee incurs a Break-in-Service
for
eligibility purposes for each Eligibility Computation
Period during which
the Employee does not complete more than 500 Hours of
Service with the
Employer. However, if the Employer elects under Part
7 of the Agreement to
require less than 1,000 Hours of Service to earn a Year
of Service for
eligibility purposes, a Break in Service will occur for
any Eligibility
Computation Period during which the Employee does not
complete more than
one-half (1/2) of the Hours of Service required to earn
a Year of Service.
(See Section 1.6 for a discussion of the eligibility
Break-in-Service
rules. Also see Section 6.5(b) for rules applicable to
the determination
of a Break in Service when the Elapsed Time Method is
used.)
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Break-in-Service
- Vesting. Generally, an Employee incurs a Break-in-Service
for vesting
purposes for each Vesting Computation Period during which
the Employee
does not complete more than 500 Hours of Service with
the Employer.
However, if the Employer elects under Part 7 of the Agreement
to require
less than 1,000 Hours of Service to earn a Year of Service
for vesting
purposes, a Break in Service will occur for any Vesting
Computation Period
during which the Employee does not complete more than
one-half (1/2) of
the Hours of Service required to earn a Year of Service.
(See Section 4.6
for a discussion of the vesting Break-in-Service rules.
Also see Section
6.5(b) for rules applicable to the determination of a
Break in Service
when the Elapsed Time Method is used.)
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Calendar
Year Election. A special election used for determining
the Lookback Year
in applying the Highly Compensated Employee test under
Section 22.99.
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Cash-Out
Distribution. A total distribution made to a partially
vested Participant
upon termination of participation under the Plan. See
Section 5.3(a) for
the rules regarding the forfeiture of nonvested benefits
upon a Cash-Out
Distribution from the Plan.
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Code.
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
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Code
?415 Safe Harbor Compensation. An optional definition
of compensation used
to determine Total Compensation. This definition may
be selected under
Part 3, #9.c. of the Agreement. See Section 22.197(c)
for the definition
of Code ?415 Safe Harbor Compensation.
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Compensation
Dollar Limitation. The maximum amount of compensation
that can be taken
into account for any Plan Year for purposes of determining
a Participant's
Included Compensation (see Section 22.102) or Testing
Compensation (see
Section 22.190). For Plan Years beginning on or after
January 1, 1994, the
Compensation Dollar Limitation is $150,000, as adjusted
for increases in
the cost-of-living in accordance with Code ?401(a)(17)(B).
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In
determining the Compensation Dollar Limitation for any applicable
period for
which Included Compensation or Testing Compensation is being determined
(the
"determination period"), the cost-of-living adjustment in effect
for a calendar
year applies to any determination period beginning with or within
such calendar
year. If a determination period consists of fewer than 12 months,
the
Compensation Dollar Limitation for such period is an amount equal
to the
otherwise applicable Compensation Dollar Limitation multiplied
by a fraction,
the numerator of which is the number of months in the short determination
period, and the denominator of which is 12. A determination period
will not be
considered to be less than 12 months merely because compensation
is taken into
account only for the period the Employee is an Eligible Participant.
If Section
401(k) Deferrals, Employer Matching Contributions, or Employee
After-Tax
Contributions are separately determined for each pay period, no
proration of the
Compensation Dollar Limitation is required with respect to such
pay periods.
For
Plan
Years beginning on or after January 1, 1989, and before January
1, 1994, the
Compensation Dollar Limitation taken into account for determining
all benefits
provided under the Plan for any Plan Year shall not exceed $200,000.
This
limitation shall be adjusted by the Secretary at the same time
and in the same
manner as under Code ?415(d), except that the dollar increase in
effect on
January 1 of any calendar year is effective for Plan Years beginning
in such
calendar year and the first adjustment to the $200,000 limitation
is effective
on January 1, 1990.
If
compensation for any prior determination period is taken into account
in
determining a Participant's allocations for the current Plan Year,
the
compensation for such prior determination period is subject to
the applicable
Compensation Dollar Limitation in effect for that prior period.
For this
purpose, in determining allocations in Plan Years beginning on
or after January
1, 1989, the Compensation Dollar Limitation in effect for determination
periods
beginning before that date is $200,000. In addition, in determining
allocations
in Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1994, the Compensation
Dollar
Limitation in effect for determination periods beginning before
that date is
$150,000.
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Co-Sponsor.
A Related Employer that adopts this Plan by executing
the Co-Sponsor
Adoption Page under the Agreement. See Article 21 for
the rules applicable
to contributions and deductions for contributions made
by a Co-Sponsor.
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Co-Sponsor
Adoption Page. The execution page under the Agreement
that permits a
Related Employer to adopt this Plan as a Co-Sponsor.
See Article 21.
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Covered
Compensation. The average (without indexing) of the Taxable
Wage Bases in
effect for each calendar year during the 35-year period
ending with the
last day of the calendar year in which the Participant
attains (or will
attain) Social Security Retirement Age.
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Cumulative
Disparity Limit. A limit on the amount of permitted disparity
that may be
provided under a target benefit plan.
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Current
Year Testing Method. A method for applying the ADP Test
and/or the ACP
Test. See Section 17.2(a)(2) for a discussion of the
Current Year Testing
Method under the ADP Test and 17.3(a)(2) for a discussion
of the Current
Year Testing Method under the ACP Test.
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Custodian.
An organization that has custody of all or any portion
of the Plan assets.
See Section 12.10.
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Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Act Service. A Participant's service used to apply the
Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Contribution Formula under Part 4 of the Nonstandardized
Agreement [Part
4C of the Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
For this
purpose, Xxxxx-Xxxxx Act Service is any service performed
by an Employee
under a public contract subject to the Xxxxx-Xxxxx Act
or to any other
federal, state or municipal prevailing wage law. See
Section 2.2(a)(1).
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Xxxxx-Xxxxx
Contribution Formula. The Employer may elect under Part
4 of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4C of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to provide an Employer Contribution
for each
Eligible Participant who performs Xxxxx-Xxxxx Act Service.
(See Section
2.2(a)(1) (profit sharing plan and 401(k) plan) for special
rules
regarding the application of the Xxxxx-Xxxxx Contribution
Formula.)
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Defined
Benefit Plan. A plan under which a Participant's benefit
is based solely
on the Plan's benefit formula without the establishment
of separate
Accounts for Participants.
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Defined
Benefit Plan Fraction. A component of the combined limitation
test under
Code ?415(e) for Employers that maintain or ever maintained
both a Defined
Contribution and a Defined Benefit Plan. See Section
7.5 (b)(1).
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Defined
Contribution Plan. A plan that provides for individual
Accounts for each
Participant to which all contributions, forfeitures,
income, expenses,
gains and losses under the Plan are credited or deducted.
A Participant's
benefit under a Defined Contribution Plan is based solely
on the fair
market value of his/her vested Account Balance.
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Defined
Contribution Plan Dollar Limitation. The maximum dollar
amount of Annual
Additions an Employee may receive under the Plan. See
Section 7.4(b).
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Defined
Contribution Plan Fraction. A component of the combined
limitation test
under Code ?415(e) for Employers that maintain or ever
maintained both a
Defined Contribution and a Defined Benefit Plan. See
Section 7.5(b)(2).
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Designated
Beneficiary. A Beneficiary who is designated by the Participant
(or by the
terms of the Plan) and whose Life Expectancy is taken
into account in
determining minimum distributions under Code ?401(a)(9).
See Article 10.
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Determination
Date. The date as of which the Plan is tested to determine
whether it is a
Top-Heavy Plan. See Section 16.3(a).
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Determination
Period. The period during which contributions to the
Plan are tested to
determine if the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan. See Section
16.3(b).
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Determination
Year. The Plan Year for which an Employee's status as
a Highly Compensated
Employee is being determined. See Section 22.99(b)(1).
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Directed
Account. The Plan assets under a Trust which are held
for the benefit of a
specific Participant. See Section 13.4(b).
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Directed
Trustee. A Trustee is a Directed Trustee to the extent
that the Trustee's
investment powers are subject to the direction of another
person. See
Section 12.2(b).
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Direct
Rollover. A rollover, at the Participant's direction,
of all or a portion
of the Participant's vested Account Balance directly
to an Eligible
Retirement Plan. See Section 8.8.
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Disabled.
Except as modified under Part 13, #55 of the Agreement
[Part 13, #73 of
the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement], an individual is
considered Disabled
for purposes of applying the provisions of this Plan
if the individual is
unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity
by reason of a
medically determinable physical or mental impairment
that can be expected
to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected
to last for a
continuous period of not less than 12 months. The permanence
and degree of
such impairment shall be supported by medical evidence.
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Discretionary
Trustee. A Trustee is a Discretionary Trustee to the
extent the Trustee
has exclusive authority and discretion to invest, manage
or control the
Plan assets without direction from any other person.
See Section 12.2(a).
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Distribution
Calendar Year. A calendar year for which a minimum distribution
is
required. See Section 10.3(f).
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Distribution
Commencement Date. The date an Employee commences distribution
from the
Plan. If a Participant commences distribution with respect
to a portion of
his/her Account Balance, a separate Distribution Commencement
Date applies
to any subsequent distribution. If distribution is made
in the form of an
annuity, the Distribution Commencement Date may be treated
as the first
day of the first period for which annuity payments are
made.
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Early
Retirement Age. The age and/or Years of Service requirement
prescribed by
Part 5, #17 of the Agreement [Part 5, #35 of the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement]. Early Retirement Age may be used to determine
distribution
rights and/or vesting rights. The Plan is not required
to have an Early
Retirement Age.
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Earned
Income. Earned Income is the net earnings from self-employment
in the
trade or business with respect to which the Plan is established,
and for
which personal services of the individual are a material
income-producing
factor. Net earnings will be determined without regard
to items not
included in gross income and the deductions allocable
to such items. Net
earnings are reduced by contributions by the Employer
to a qualified plan
to the extent deductible under Code ?404. Net earnings
shall be determined
after the deduction allowed to the taxpayer by Code ?164(f).
If Included
Compensation is defined to exclude any items of Compensation
(other than
Elective Deferrals), then for purposes of determining
the Included
Compensation of a Self-Employed Individual, Earned Income
shall be
adjusted by multiplying Earned Income by the percentage
of Total
Compensation that is included for the Eligible Participants
who are
Nonhighly Compensated Employees. The percentage is determined
by
calculating the percentage of each Nonhighly Compensated
Eligible
Participant's Total Compensation that is included in
the definition of
Included Compensation and averaging those percentages.
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Effective
Date. The date this Plan, including any restatement or
amendment of this
Plan, is effective. Where the Plan is restated or amended,
a reference to
Effective Date is the effective date of the restatement
or amendment,
except where the context indicates a reference to an
earlier Effective
Date. If this Plan is retroactively effective, the provisions
of this Plan
generally control. However, if the provisions of this
Plan are different
from the provisions of the Employer's prior plan and,
after the
retroactive Effective Date of this Plan, the Employer
operated in
compliance with the provisions of the prior plan, the
provisions of such
prior plan are incorporated into this Plan for purposes
of determining
whether the Employer operated the Plan in compliance
with its terms,
provided operation in compliance with the terms of the
prior plan do not
violate any qualification requirements under the Code,
regulations, or
other IRS guidance.
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The
Employer may designate special effective dates for individual provisions
under
the Plan where provided in the Agreement or under Appendix A of
the Agreement.
If one or more qualified retirement plans have been merged into
this Plan, the
provisions of the merging plan(s) will remain in full force and
effect until the
Effective Date of the plan merger(s), unless provided otherwise
under Appendix
A-13 of the Agreement. See Section 20.1 for special effective date
provisions
relating to the changes required under the GUST Legislation.
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Elapsed
Time Method. The Elapsed Time Method is a special method
for crediting
service for eligibility, vesting or for applying the
allocation conditions
under Part 4 of the Agreement. To apply the Elapsed Time
Method for
eligibility or vesting, the Employer must elect the Elapsed
Time Method
under Part 7 of the Agreement. To apply the Elapsed Time
Method to
determine an Employee's eligibility for an allocation
under the Plan, the
Employer must elect the Elapsed Time Method under Part
4, #15.e. of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 4B, #19.e. and/or Part
4C, #24.e. of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. (See
Section 6.5(b) for
more information on the Elapsed Time Method of crediting
service for
eligibility and vesting and Section 2.6(c) for information
on the Elapsed
Time Method for allocation conditions.)
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Elective
Deferrals. Section 401(k) Deferrals, salary reduction
contributions to a
SEP described in Code ??408(k)(6) and 402(h)(1)(B) (sometimes
referred to
as a SARSEP), contributions made pursuant to a Salary
Reduction Agreement
to a contract, custodial account or other arrangement
described in Code
?403(b), and elective contributions made to a SIMPLE-IRA
plan, as
described in Code ?408(p). Elective Deferrals shall not
include any
amounts properly distributed as an Excess Amount under
?415 of the Code.
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Eligibility
Computation Period. The 12-consecutive month period used
for measuring
whether an Employee completes a Year of Service for eligibility
purposes.
An Employee's initial Eligibility Computation Period
always begins on the
Employee's Employment Commencement Date. Subsequent Eligibility
Computation Periods are measured under the Shift-to-Plan-Year
Method or
the Anniversary Year Method. See Section 1.4(c).
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Eligible
Participant. Except as provided under Part 1, #6 of the
Agreement, an
Employee (other than an Excluded Employee) becomes an
Eligible Participant
on the appropriate Entry Date (as selected under Part
2 of the Agreement)
following satisfaction of the Plan's minimum age and
service conditions
(as designated in Part 1 of the Agreement). See Article
1 for the rules
regarding participation under the Plan.
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For
purposes of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement, an Eligible Participant
is any
Employee (other than an Excluded Employee) who has satisfied the
Plan's minimum
age and service conditions designated in Part 1 of the Agreement
with respect to
a particular contribution. With respect to Section 401(k) Deferrals
or Employee
After-Tax Contributions, an Employee who has satisfied the eligibility
conditions under Part 1 of the Agreement for making Section 401(k)
Deferrals or
Employee After-Tax Contributions is an Eligible Participant with
respect to such
contributions, even if the Employee chooses not to actually make
any such
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contributions.
With respect to Employer Matching Contributions, an Employee who
has satisfied
the eligibility conditions under Part 1 of the Agreement for receiving
such
contributions is an Eligible Participant with respect to such contributions,
even if the Employee does not receive an Employer Matching Contribution
(including forfeitures) because of the Employee's failure to make
Section 401(k)
Deferrals or Employee After-Tax Contributions, as applicable.
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Eligible
Rollover Distribution. An amount distributed from the
Plan that is
eligible for rollover to an Eligible Retirement Plan.
See Section 8.8(a).
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Eligible
Retirement Plan. A qualified retirement plan or IRA that
may receive a
rollover contribution. See Section 8.8(b).
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Employee.
An Employee is any individual employed by the Employer
(including any
Related Employers). An independent contractor is not
an Employee. An
Employee is not eligible to participate under the Plan
if the individual
is an Excluded Employee under Section 1.2. (See Section
1.3 for rules
regarding coverage of Employees of Related Employers.)
For purposes of
applying the provisions under this Plan, a Self-Employed
Individual
(including a partner in a partnership) is treated as
an Employee. A Leased
Employee is also treated as an Employee of the recipient
organization, as
provided in Section 1.2(b).
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Employee
After-Tax Contribution Account. The portion of the Participant's
Account
attributable to Employee After-Tax Contributions.
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Employee
After-Tax Contributions. Employee After-Tax Contributions
are
contributions 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 Employee After-Tax
Contribution
Account to which earnings and losses are allocated. Employee
After-Tax
Contributions may only be made under the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement. See Section 3.1.
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Employer.
Except as otherwise provided, Employer means the Employer
(including a
Co-Sponsor) that adopts this Plan and any Related Employer.
(See Section
1.3 for rules regarding coverage of Employees of Related
Employers. Also
see Section 11.8 for operating rules when the Employer
is a member of a
Related Employer group, and Article 21 for rules that
apply to Related
Employers that execute a Co-Sponsor Adoption Page under
the Agreement.)
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Employer
Contribution Account. If this Plan is a profit sharing
plan (other than a
profit sharing plan or a 401(k) plan under the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement), the Employer Contribution Account is the
portion of the
Participant's Account attributable to contributions made
by the Employer.
If this is a profit sharing plan or a 401(k) plan under
the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement, the Employer Contribution Account
is the portion
of the Participant's Account attributable to Employer
Nonelective
Contributions, other than QNECs or Safe Harbor Nonelective
Contributions.
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Employer
Contributions. If this Plan is a profit sharing plan
(other than a profit
sharing plan or a 401(k) plan under the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement),
Employer Contributions are any contributions the Employer
makes pursuant
to Part 4 of the Agreement. If this Plan is a profit
sharing plan or a
401(k) plan under the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement,
Employer
Contributions include Employer Nonelective Contributions
and Employer
Matching Contributions, including QNECs, QMACs and Safe
Harbor
Contributions that the Employer makes under the Plan.
Employer
Contributions also include any Section 401(k) Deferrals
an Employee makes
under the Plan, unless the Plan expressly provides for
different treatment
of Section 401(k) Deferrals.
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Employer
Matching Contribution Account. The portion of the Participant's
Account
attributable to Employer Matching Contributions, other
than QMACs or Safe
Harbor Matching Contributions.
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Employer
Matching Contributions. Employer Matching Contributions
are contributions
made by the Employer on behalf of a Participant on account
of Section
401(k) Deferrals or Employee After-Tax Contributions
made by such
Participant, as designated under Parts 4B(b) of the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement. Employer Matching Contributions may only be
made under the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement. Employer Matching Contributions
also
include any QMACs the Employer makes pursuant to Part
4B, #18 of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement and any Safe Harbor Matching
Contributions
the Employer makes pursuant to Part 4E of the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement. See Section 2.3(b).
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Employer
Nonelective Contributions. Employer Nonelective Contributions
are
contributions made by the Employer on behalf of Eligible
Participants
under the profit sharing plan or the 401(k) plan, as
designated under Part
4C of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement. Employer Nonelective
Contributions also include any QNECs the Employer makes
pursuant to Part
4C, #22 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement and any
Safe Harbor
Nonelective Contributions the Employer makes pursuant
to Part 4E of the
Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement. See Section 2.3(d).
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Employment
Commencement Date. The date the Employee first performs
an Hour of Service
for the Employer. For purposes of applying the Elapsed
Time rules under
Section 6.5(b), an Hour of Service is limited to an Hour
of Service as
described in Section 22.101(a).
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Employment
Period. The period as defined under a target benefit
plan used to
determine an Employee's Average Compensation.
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Entry
Date. The date on which an Employee becomes an Eligible
Participant upon
satisfying the Plan's minimum age and service conditions.
See Section 1.5.
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Equivalency
Method. An alternative method for crediting Hours of
Service for purposes
of eligibility and vesting. To apply, the Employer must
elect the
Equivalency Method under Part 7 of the Agreement. See
Section 6.5(a) for a
more detailed discussion of the Equivalency Method.
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ERISA.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended.
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Excess
Aggregate Contributions. Amounts which are distributed
to correct the ACP
Test. See Section 17.7(c).
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Excess
Amount. Amounts which exceed the Annual Additions Limitation.
See Section
7.4(c).
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Excess
Compensation. The amount of Included Compensation which
exceeds the
Integration Level. Excess Compensation is used for purposes
of applying
the Permitted Disparity allocation formula under the
profit sharing or
Profit Sharing/401(k) plan Agreement (see Section 2.2(b)(2))
or under a
money purchase plan or for applying the Integration Formulas
under a
target benefit plan.
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Excess
Contributions. Amounts which are distributed to correct
the ADP Test. See
Section 17.7(d).
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Excess
Deferrals. Elective Deferrals that are includible in
a Participant's gross
income because they exceed the dollar limitation under
Code ?402(g).
Excess Deferrals made to this Plan shall be treated as
Annual Additions
under the Plan, unless such amounts are distributed no
later than the
first April 15 following the close of the Participant's
taxable year for
which the Excess Deferrals are made. See Section
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Excluded
Employee. An Employee who is excluded under Part 1, #4
of the Agreement.
See Section 1.2.
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Fail-Safe
Coverage Provision. A correction provision that permits
the Plan to
automatically correct a coverage violation resulting
from the application
of a last day of employment or Hours of Service allocation
condition. See
Section 2.7.
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Favorable
IRS Letter. A notification letter or opinion letter issued
by the IRS to a
Prototype Sponsor as to the qualified status of a Prototype
Plan. A
separate Favorable IRS Letter is issued with respect
to each Agreement
offered under the Prototype Plan. If the term is used
to refer to a letter
issued to an Employer with respect to its adoption of
this Prototype Plan,
such letter is a determination letter issued by the IRS.
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Five-Percent
Owner. An individual who owns (or is considered as owning
within the
meaning of Code ?318) more than 5 percent of the outstanding
stock of the
Employer or stock possessing more than 5 percent of the
total combined
voting power of all stock of the Employer. If the Employer
is not a
corporation, a Five-Percent Owner is an individual who
owns more than 5
percent of the capital or profits interest of the Employer.
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Five-Year
Forfeiture Break in Service. A Break in Service rule
under which a
Participant's nonvested benefit may be forfeited. See
Section 4.6(b).
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Flat
Benefit. A Nonintegrated Benefit Formula under a target
benefit plan that
provides for a Stated Benefit equal to a specified percentage
of Average
Compensation.
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Flat
Excess Benefit. An Integrated Benefit Formula under a
target benefit plan
that provides for a Stated Benefit equal to a specified
percentage of
Average Compensation plus a specified percentage of Excess
Compensation.
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Flat
Offset Benefit. An Integrated Benefit Formula under a
target benefit plan
that provides for a Stated Benefit equal to a specified
percentage of
Average Compensation which is offset by a specified percentage
of Offset
Compensation.
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Former
Related Employer. A Related Employer (as defined in Section
22.164) that
ceases to be a Related Employer because of an acquisition
or disposition
of stock or assets, a merger, or similar transaction.
See Section 21.4 for
the effect when a Co-Sponsor becomes a Former Related
Employer.
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Four-Step
Formula. A method for allocating certain Employer Contributions
under the
Permitted Disparity Method. See Section 2.2(b)(2)(ii).
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General
Trust Account. The Plan assets under a Trust which are
held for the
benefit of all Plan Participants as a pooled investment.
See Section
13.4(a).
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22.96
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GUST
Legislation. GUST Legislation refers to the Uruguay Round
Agreements Act
(GATT), the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment
Rights Act of
1994 (USERRA) the Small Business Job Protection Act of
1996 (SBJPA), the
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (TRA '97), and the Internal
Revenue Service
Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998. See Article 20
for special rules for
demonstrating compliance with the qualification changes
under the GUST
Legislation.
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22.97
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Hardship.
A heavy and immediate financial need which meets the
requirements of
Section 8.6.
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22.98
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Highest
Average Compensation. A term used to apply the combined
plan limit under
Code ?415(e). See Section 7.5(b)(3).
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22.99
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Highly
Compensated Employee. The definition of Highly Compensated
Employee under
this Section is effective for Plan Years beginning after
December 31,
1996. For Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1997,
Highly Compensated
Employees are determined under Code ?414(q) as in effect
at that time.
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(a)
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Definition.
An Employee is a Highly Compensated Employee for a Plan
Year if he/she:
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(1)
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is
a Five-Percent Owner (as defined in Section 22.88) at
any time during the
Determination Year or the Lookback Year; or
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(2)
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has
Total Compensation from the Employer for the Lookback
Year in excess of
$80,000 (as adjusted) and, if elected under Part 13,
#50.a. of the
Agreement [Part 13, #68.a. of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement], is in
the Top-Paid Group for the Lookback Year. If the Employer
does not
specifically elect to apply the Top-Paid Group Test,
the Highly
Compensated Employee definition will be applied without
regard to whether
an Employee is in the Top-Paid Group. The $80,000 amount
is adjusted at
the same time and in the same manner as under Code ?415(d),
except that
the base period is the calendar quarter ending September
30, 1996.
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(b)
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Other
Definitions. The following definitions apply for purposes
of determining
Highly Compensated Employee status under this Section
22.99.
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(1)
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Determination
Year. The Determination Year is the Plan Year for which
the Highly
Compensated Employee determination is being made.
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(2)
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Lookback
Year. Unless the Calendar Year Election (or Old-Law Calendar
Year
Election) applies, the Lookback Year is the 12-month
period immediately
preceding the Determination Year.
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(3)
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Total
Compensation. Total Compensation as defined under Section
22.197.
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(4)
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Top-Paid
Group. An Employee is in the Top-Paid Group for purposes
of applying the
Top-Paid Group Test if the Employee is one of the top
20% of Employees
ranked by Total Compensation. In determining the Top-Paid
Group, any
reasonable method of rounding or tie-breaking is permitted.
For purposes
of determining the number of Employees in the Top-Paid
Group for any year,
Employees described in Code ?414(q)(5) or applicable
regulations may be
excluded.
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Calendar
Year Election. If the Plan Year elected under the Agreement
is not the
calendar year, for purposes of applying the Highly Compensated
Employee
test under subsection (a)(2) above, the Employer may
elect under Part 13,
#50.b. of the Agreement [Part 13, #68.b. of the Profit
Sharing/401(k)
Agreement] to substitute for the Lookback Year the calendar
year that
begins in the Lookback Year. The Calendar Year Election
does not apply for
purposes of applying the Five-Percent Owner test under
subsection (a)(1)
above. If the Employer does not specifically elect to
apply the Calendar
Year Election, the
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Calendar
Year Election does not apply. The Calendar Year Election should
not be selected
if the Plan is using a calendar Plan Year.
(6)
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Old-Law
Calendar Year Election. A special election available
under section
1.414(q)-1T of the temporary Income Tax Regulations and
provided for in
Notice 97-45 for the Plan Year beginning in 1997 which
permitted the
Employer to substitute the calendar year beginning with
or within the Plan
Year for the Lookback Year in applying subsections (a)(1)
and (a)(2)
above. If the 1997 Plan Year was a calendar year, the
effect of the
Old-Law Calendar Year Election was to treat the Determination
Year and the
Lookback Year as the same 12-month period. The Employer
may elect to apply
the Old-Law Calendar Year Election under Appendix B-1.c.
of the Agreement.
See Section 20.2(c).
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(7)
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Application
of Highly Compensated Employee definition. In determining
whether an
Employee is a Highly Compensated Employee for years beginning
in 1997, the
amendments to Code ?414(q) as described above are treated
as having been
in effect for years beginning in 1996. In determining
an Employee's status
as a highly compensated former employee, the rules for
the applicable
Determination Year apply in accordance with section 1.414(q)-1T,
A-4 of
the temporary Income Tax Regulations and Notice 97-45.
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22.100
|
Highly
Compensated Employee Group. The group of Highly Compensated
Employees who
are included in the ADP Test and/or the ACP Test. See
Section 17.7(e).
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22.101
|
Hour
of Service. Each Employee will receive credit for each
Hour of Service as
defined in this Section
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22.101.
An Employee will not receive credit for the same Hour of Service
under more than
one category listed below.
(a)
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Performance
of duties. Hours of Service include each hour for which
an Employee is
paid, or entitled to payment, for the performance of
duties for the
Employer. These hours will be credited to the Employee
for the computation
period in which the duties are performed.
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(b)
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Nonperformance
of duties. Hours of Service include 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 501 hours of service will
be credited under
this paragraph for any single continuous period (whether
or not such
period occurs in a single computation period). Hours
under this paragraph
will be calculated and credited pursuant to ?2530.200b-2
of the Department
of Labor Regulations which is incorporated herein by
this reference.
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(c)
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Back
pay award. Hours of Service include 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 will not be credited
both under
subsection (a) or subsection (b), as the case may be,
and under this
subsection (c). These hours will be credited to the Employee
for the
computation period or periods to which the award or agreement
pertains
rather than the computation period in which the award,
agreement or
payment is made.
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(d)
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Related
Employers/Leased Employees. For purposes of crediting
Hours of Service,
all Related Employers are treated as a single Employer.
Hours of Service
will be credited for employment with any Related Employer.
Hours of
Service also include hours credited as a Leased Employee
for a recipient
organization.
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(e)
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Maternity/paternity
leave. Solely for purposes of determining whether a Break
in Service has
occurred in a computation period, an individual who is
absent from work
for maternity or paternity reasons will 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,
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 (1) by reason of the pregnancy of the individual,
(2) by reason
of a birth of a child of the individual, (3) by reason
of the placement of
a child with the individual in connection with the adoption
of such child
by such individual, or (4) 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 will be credited
(1) in the
computation period in which the absence begins if the
crediting is
necessary to prevent a Break in Service in that period,
or (2) in all
other cases, in the following computation period.
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22.102
|
Included
Compensation. Included Compensation is Total Compensation,
as modified
under Part 3, #10 of the Agreement, used to determine
allocations of
contributions and forfeitures.
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Under
the
Nonstandardized Agreement, Included Compensation generally includes
amounts an
Employee earns with a Related Employer that has not executed a
Co-Sponsor
Adoption Page under the Agreement. However, the Employer may elect
under Part 3,
#10.b.(7) of the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 3, #10.i. of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to exclude all
amounts earned
with a Related Employer that has not executed a Co-Sponsor Adoption
Page. Under
the Standardized Agreement, Included Compensation always includes
all
compensation earned with all Related Employers, without regard
to whether the
Related Employer executes the Co-Sponsor Adoption Page. (See Section
21.5.) In
no case may Included Compensation for any Participant exceed the
Compensation
Dollar Limitation as defined in Section 22.32. Included Compensation
does not
include any amounts earned while an individual is an Excluded Employee
(as
defined in Section 1.2 of this BPD).
The
Employer may select under Part 3, #10 of the Profit Sharing/401(k)
Agreement to
provide a different definition of Included Compensation for determining
Section
401(k) Deferrals, Employer Matching Contributions, and Employer
Nonelective
Contributions. Unless otherwise provided in Part 3, #10.j. of the
Nonstandardized Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement, the definition
of Included
Compensation chosen for Section 401(k) Deferrals also applies to
any Employee
After-Tax Contributions and to any Safe Harbor Contributions designated
under
Part 4E of the Agreement; the definition of Included Compensation
chosen for
Employer Matching Contributions also applies to any QMACs; and
the definition of
Included Compensation chosen for Employer Nonelective Contributions
also applies
to any QNECs.
The
Employer may elect to exclude from the definition of Included Compensation
any
of the amounts permitted under Part 3, #10 of the Agreement. However,
to use the
same definition of compensation for purposes of nondiscrimination
testing, the
definition of Included Compensation must satisfy the nondiscrimination
requirements of Code ?414(s). The definition of Included Compensation
will be
deemed to be nondiscriminatory under Code ?414(s) if the only amounts
excluded
are amounts under Part 3, #10.b.(1)
-
(3) of
the Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 3, #10.c. - e. of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. Any other exclusions could cause the
definition of
Included Compensation to fail to satisfy the nondiscrimination
requirements of
Code ?414(s). If the definition of Included Compensation fails
to satisfy the
nondiscrimination requirements of Code ?414(s), additional nondiscrimination
testing may have to be performed to demonstrate compliance with
the
nondiscrimination requirements. The definition of Included Compensation
under
the Standardized Agreements must satisfy the nondiscrimination
requirements
under Code ?414(s).
If
the
Plan uses a Permitted Disparity Method under Part 4 of the Agreement
or if the
Plan is a Safe Harbor 401(k) Plan, the definition of Included Compensation
must
satisfy the nondiscrimination requirements under Code ?414(s).
Therefore, any
exclusions from Included Compensation under Part 3, #10.b.(4) -
(8) of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 3, #10.f. - j. of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement] will apply only to Highly Compensated
Employees,
unless specifically provided otherwise under Part 3, #10.b.(8).
of the
Nonstandardized Agreement [Part 3, #10.j. of the Nonstandardized
Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement].
The
Employer may elect under Part 3, #10.b.(1) of the Agreement [Part
3, #10.c. of
the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement] to exclude Elective Deferrals,
pre-tax
contributions to a cafeteria plan or a Code ?457 plan, and qualified
transportation fringes under Code?132(f)(4). Generally, the exclusion
of
qualified transportation fringes is effective for Plan Years beginning
on or
after January 1, 2001. However, the Employer may elect an earlier
effective date
under Appendix B-3.c. of the Agreement.
22.103
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Insurer.
An insurance company that issues a life insurance policy
on behalf of a
Participant under the Plan in accordance with the requirements
under
Article 15.
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22.104
|
Integrated
Benefit Formula. A benefit formula under a target benefit
plan that takes
into account an Employee's Social Security benefits.
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22.105
|
Integration
Level. The amount used for purposes of applying the Permitted
Disparity
Method allocation formula (or the Integrated Benefit
Formulas under a
target benefit plan). The Integration Level is the Taxable
Wage Base,
unless the Employer designates a different amount under
Part 4 of the
Agreement.
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22.106
|
Investment
Manager. A person (other than the Trustee) who (a) has
the power to
manage, acquire, or dispose of Plan assets (b) is an
investment adviser, a
bank, or an insurance company as described in ?3(38)(B)
of ERISA, and (c)
acknowledges fiduciary responsibility to the Plan in
writing.
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22.107
|
Key
Employee. Employees who are taken into account for purposes
of determining
whether the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan. See Section 16.3(c).
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22.108
|
Leased
Employee. An individual who performs services for the
Employer pursuant to
an agreement between the Employer and a leasing organization,
and who
satisfies the definition of a Leased Employee
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under
Code ?414(n). See Section 1.2(b) for rules regarding the treatment
of a Leased
Employee as an Employee of the Employer.
22.109
|
Life
Expectancy. A Participant's and/or Designated Beneficiary's
life
expectancy used for purposes of determining required
minimum distributions
under the Plan. See Section 10.3(e).
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22.110
|
Limitation
Year. The measuring period for determining whether the
Plan satisfies the
Annual Additions Limitation under Section 7.4(d).
|
22.111
|
Lookback
Year. The 12-month period immediately preceding the current
Plan Year
during which an Employee's status as Highly Compensated
Employee is
determined. See Section 22.99(b)(2).
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22.112
|
Maximum
Disparity Percentage. The maximum amount by which the
designated
percentage of Excess Compensation under an Excess Benefit
formula under a
target benefit plan may exceed the designated percentage
of Average
Compensation.
|
22.113
|
Maximum
Offset Percentage. The maximum amount that may be designated
as the offset
percentage under an Offset Benefit formula under a target
benefit plan.
|
22.114
|
Maximum
Permissible Amount. The maximum amount that may be allocated
to a
Participant's Account within the Annual Additions Limitation.
See Section
7.4(e).
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22.115
|
Measuring
Period. The period for which Average Compensation or
Offset Compensation
is measured under a target benefit plan.
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22.116
|
Multiple
Use Test. A special nondiscrimination test that applies
when the Plan must
perform both the ADP Test and the ACP Test in the same
Plan Year. See
Section 17.4.
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22.117
|
Named
Fiduciary. The Plan Administrator or other fiduciary
named by the Plan
Administrator to control and manage the operation and
administration of
the Plan. To the extent authorized by the Plan Administrator,
a Named
Fiduciary may delegate its responsibilities to a third
party or parties.
The Employer shall also be a Named Fiduciary.
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22.118
|
Net
Profits. The Employer's net income or profits that may
be used to limit
the amount of Employer Contributions made under the Plan.
See Section
2.2(a)(2).
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22.119
|
New
Related Employer. An organization that becomes a Related
Employer (as
defined in Section 22.164) with the Employer by reason
of an acquisition
or disposition of stock or assets, a merger, or similar
transaction. See
Section 21.5 for special procedures under a Standardized
Agreement when
there is a New Related Employer.
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22.120
|
Nonhighly
Compensated Employee. Any Employee who is not a Highly
Compensated
Employee. See Section 22.99 for the definition of Highly
Compensated
Employee.
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22.121
|
Nonhighly
Compensated Employee Group. The group of Nonhighly Compensated
Employees
included in the ADP Test and/or the ACP Test. See Section
17.7(f).
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22.122
|
Nonintegrated
Benefit Formula. A benefit formula under a target benefit
plan that does
not take into account an Employee's Social Security benefits.
|
22.123
|
Non-Key
Employee. Any Employee who is not a Key Employee. (See
Section 16.3(c).)
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22.124
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Nonresident
Alien Employees. An Employee who is neither a citizen
of the United States
nor a resident of the United States for U.S. tax purposes
(as defined in
Code ?7701(b)), and who does not have any earned income
(as defined in
Code ?911) for the Employer that constitutes U.S. source
income (within
the meaning of Code ?861). If a Nonresident Alien Employee
has U.S. source
income, he/she is treated as satisfying this definition
if all of his/her
U.S. source income from the Employer is exempt from U.S.
income tax under
an applicable income tax treaty.
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22.125
|
Nonstandardized
Agreement. An Agreement under this Prototype Plan under
which an adopting
Employer may not rely on a Favorable IRS Letter issued
to the Prototype
Sponsor. In order to have reliance from the IRS that
the form of the Plan
as adopted by the Employer is qualified, the Employer
must request a
determination letter on the Plan.
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22.126
|
Normal
Retirement Age. The age selected under Part 5 of the
Agreement. If a
Participant's Normal Retirement Age is determined wholly
or partly with
reference to an anniversary of the date the Participant
commenced
participation in the Plan and/or the Participant's Years
of Service,
Normal Retirement Age is the
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Participant's
age when such requirements are satisfied. If the Employer enforces
a mandatory
retirement age, the Normal Retirement Age is the lesser of that
mandatory age or
the age specified in the Agreement.
22.127
|
Offset
Compensation. The average of a Participant's annual Included
Compensation
during the three (3) consecutive Measuring Periods designated
under a
target benefit plan.
|
22.128
|
Offset
Benefit Formula. A Flat Offset Benefit formula or a Unit
Offset Benefit
formula under a target benefit plan that provides for
a Stated Benefit
based on a percentage of Average Compensation offset
by a percentage of
Offset Compensation.
|
22.129
|
Old-Law
Calendar Year Election. A special election for determining
the Lookback
Year under the Highly Compensated Employee test that
was available only
for the 1997 Plan Year. See Section 22.99(b)(6).
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22.130
|
Old-Law
Required Beginning Date. If so elected under Part 13,
#52 of the Agreement
[Part 13, #70 of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement],
the date by which
minimum distributions must commence under the Plan, as
determined under
Section 10.3(a)(2).
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22.131
|
Owner-Employee.
A Self-Employed Individual (as defined in Section 22.180)
who is a sole
proprietor, or who is a partner owning more than 10 percent
of either the
capital or profits interest of the partnership.
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22.132
|
Paired
Plans. Two or more Standardized Agreements that are designated
as Paired
Plans. See Section
|
19.6.
22.133
|
Participant.
A Participant is an Employee or former Employee who has
satisfied the
conditions for participating under the Plan. A Participant
also includes
any Employee or former Employee who has an Account Balance
under the Plan,
including an Account Balance derived from a rollover
or transfer from
another qualified plan or IRA. A Participant is entitled
to share in an
allocation of contributions or forfeitures under the
Plan for a given year
only if the Participant is an Eligible Participant as
defined in Section
1.1, and satisfies the allocation conditions set forth
in Section 2.6 and
Part 4 of the Agreement.
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22.134
|
Period
of Severance. A continuous period of time during which
the Employee is not
employed by the Employer and which is used to determine
an Employee's
Participation under the Elapsed Time Method. See Section
6.5(b)(2).
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22.135
|
Permissive
Aggregation Group. Plans that are not required to be
aggregated to
determine whether the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan. See Section
16.3(d).
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22.136
|
Permitted
Disparity Method. A method for allocating certain Employer
Contributions
to Eligible Participants as designated under Part 4 of
the Agreement. See
Article 2.
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22.137
|
Plan.
The Plan is the retirement plan established or continued
by the Employer
for the benefit of its Employees under this Prototype
Plan document. The
Plan consists of the BPD and the elections made under
the Agreement. If
the Employer adopts more than one Agreement offered under
this Prototype
Plan, then each executed Agreement represents a separate
Plan, unless the
Agreement restates a previously executed Agreement.
|
22.138
|
Plan
Administrator. The Plan Administrator is the person designated
to be
responsible for the administration and operation of the
Plan. Unless
otherwise designated by the Employer, the Plan Administrator
is the
Employer. If any Related Employer has executed a Co-Sponsor
Adoption Page,
the Employer referred to in this Section is the Employer
that executes the
Signature Page of the Agreement.
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22.139
|
Plan
Year. The 12-consecutive month period for administering
the Plan, on which
the records of the Plan are maintained. The Employer
must designate the
Plan Year applicable to the Plan under the Agreement.
If the Plan Year is
amended, a Plan Year of less than 12 months may be created.
If this is a
new Plan, the first Plan Year begins on the Effective
Date of the Plan. If
the amendment of the Plan Year or the Effective Date
of a new Plan creates
a Plan Year that is less than 12 months long, there is
a Short Plan Year.
The existence of a Short Plan Year may be documented
under the Plan Year
definition on page 1 of the Agreement. See Section 11.7
for operating
rules that apply to Short Plan Years.
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22.140
|
Pre-Age
35 Waiver. A waiver of the QPSA before a Participant
reaches age 35. See
Section 9.4(f).
|
22.141
|
Predecessor
Employer. An employer that previously employed the Employees
of the
Employer. See Section 6.7 for the rules regarding the
crediting of service
with a Predecessor Employer.
|
22.142
|
Predecessor
Plan. A Predecessor Plan is a qualified plan maintained
by the Employer
that is terminated within the 5-year period immediately
preceding or
following the establishment of this Plan. A Participant's
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service
under a Predecessor Plan must be counted for purposes of determining
the
Participant's vested percentage under the Plan. See Section 4.5(b)(1).
22.143
|
Present
Value. The current single-sum value of an Accrued Benefit
under a Defined
Benefit Plan.
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22.144
|
Present
Value Stated Benefit. An amount used to determine the
Employer
Contribution under a target benefit plan.
|
22.145
|
Prior
Year Testing Method. A method for applying the ADP Test
and/or the ACP
Test. See Section 17.2(a)(1) for a discussion of the
Prior Year Testing
Method under the ADP Test and Section 17.3(a)(1) for
a discussion of the
Prior Year Testing Method under the ACP Test.
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22.146
|
Pro
Rata Allocation Method. A method for allocating certain
Employer
Contributions to Eligible Participants under the Plan.
See Article 2.
|
22.147
|
Projected
Annual Benefit. An amount used in the numerator of the
Defined Benefit
Plan Fraction. See Section 7.5(b)(4).
|
22.148
|
Protected
Benefit. A Participant's benefits which may not be eliminated
by Plan
amendment. Protected Benefits include early retirement
benefits,
retirement-type subsidies, and optional forms of benefit
(as defined under
the regulations). See Section 18.1(c).
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22.149
|
Prototype
Plan. A plan sponsored by a Prototype Sponsor the form
of which is the
subject of a Favorable IRS Letter from the Internal Revenue
Service which
is made up of a Basic Plan Document and an Adoption Agreement.
An Employer
may establish or continue a plan by executing an Adoption
Agreement under
this Prototype Plan.
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22.150
|
Prototype
Sponsor. The Prototype Sponsor is the entity that maintains
the Prototype
Plan for adoption by Employers. See Section 18.1(a) for
the ability of the
Prototype Sponsor to amend this Plan.
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22.151
|
QDRO
-- Qualified Domestic Relations Order. A domestic relations
order that
provides for the payment of all or a portion of the Participant's
benefits
to an Alternate Payee and satisfies the requirements
under Code ?414(p).
See Section 11.5.
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22.152
|
QJSA
-- Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity. A QJSA is an
immediate annuity
payable over the life of the Participant with a survivor
annuity payable
over the life of the spouse. If the Participant is not
married as of the
Distribution Commencement Date, the QJSA is an immediate
annuity payable
over the life of the Participant. See Section 9.2.
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22.153
|
QMAC
Account. The portion of a Participant's Account attributable
to QMACs.
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22.154
|
QMACs
-- Qualified Matching Contributions. An Employer Matching
Contribution
made by the Employer that satisfies the requirements
under Section
17.7(g).
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22.155
|
QNEC
Account. The portion of a Participant's Account attributable
to QNECs.
|
22.156
|
QNECs
-- Qualified Nonelective Contributions. An Employer Nonelective
Contribution made by the Employer that satisfies the
requirements under
Section 17.7(h).
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22.157
|
QPSA
-- Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity. A QPSA is
an annuity payable
over the life of the surviving spouse that is purchased
using 50% of the
Participant's vested Account Balance as of the date of
death. The Employer
may modify the 50% QPSA level under Part 11, #41.b. of
the Agreement [Part
11, #59.b. of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. See
Section 9.3.
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22.158
|
QPSA
Election Period. The period during which a Participant
(and the
Participant's spouse) may waive the QPSA under the Plan.
See Section
9.4(e).
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22.159
|
Qualified
Election. An election to waive the QJSA or QPSA under
the Plan. See
Section 9.4(d).
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22.160
|
Qualified
Transfer. A plan-to-plan transfer which meets the requirements
under
Section 3.3(d).
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Qualifying
Employer Real Property. Real property of the Employer
which meets the
requirements under XXXXX ?407(d)(4). See Section 13.5(b)
for limitations
on the ability of the Plan to invest in Qualifying Employer
Real Property.
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Qualifying
Employer Securities. An Employer security which is stock,
a marketable
obligation, or interest in a publicly traded partnership
as described in
ERISA ?407(d)(5). See Section 13.5(b) for limitations
on the ability of
the Plan to invest in Qualifying Employer Securities.
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Reemployment
Commencement Date. The first date upon which an Employee
is credited with
an Hour of Service following a Break in Service (or Period
of Severance,
if the Plan is using the Elapsed Time Method of crediting
service). For
purposes of applying the Elapsed Time rules under Section
6.5(b), an Hour
of Service is limited to an Hour of Service as described
in Section
22.101(a).
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Related
Employer. A Related Employer includes all members of
a controlled group of
corporations (as defined in Code ?414(b)), all commonly
controlled trades
or businesses (as defined in Code ?414(c)) or affiliated
service groups
(as defined in Code ?414(m)) of which the adopting Employer
is a part, and
any other entity required to be aggregated with the Employer
pursuant to
regulations under Code ?414(o). For purposes of applying
the provisions
under this Plan, the Employer and any Related Employers
are treated as a
single Employer, unless specifically stated otherwise.
See Section 11.8
for operating rules that apply when the Employer is a
member of a Related
Employer group.
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Required
Aggregation Group. Plans which must be aggregated for
purposes of
determining whether the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan. See
Section 16.3(f).
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Required
Beginning Date. The date by which minimum distributions
must commence
under the Plan. See Section 10.3(a).
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Reverse
QNEC Method. A method for allocating QNECs under the
Plan. See Section
2.3(e)(2).
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Rollover
Contribution Account. The portion of the Participant's
Account
attributable to a Rollover Contribution from another
qualified plan or
IRA.
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Rollover
Contribution. A contribution made by an Employee to the
Plan attributable
to an Eligible Rollover Distribution from another qualified
plan or IRA.
See Section 8.8(a) for the definition of an Eligible
Rollover
Distribution.
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Rule
of Parity Break in Service. A Break in Service rule used
to determine an
Employee's Participation under the Plan. See Section
1.6(a) for the effect
of the Rule of Parity Break in Service on eligibility
to participate under
the Plan and see Section 4.6(c) for the application for
the effect of the
Rule of Parity Break in Service Rule on vesting.
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Safe
Harbor 401(k) Plan. A 401(k) plan that satisfies the
conditions under
Section 17.6.
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Safe
Harbor Contribution. A contribution authorized under
Part 4E of the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement that allows the Plan to qualify
as a Safe Harbor
401(k) Plan. A Safe Harbor Contribution may be a Safe
Harbor Matching
Contribution or a Safe Harbor Nonelective Contribution.
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Safe
Harbor Matching Contribution Account. The portion of
a Participant's
Account attributable to Safe Harbor Matching Contributions.
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Safe
Harbor Matching Contributions. An Employer Matching Contribution
that
satisfies the requirements under Section 17.6(a)(1)(i).
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Safe
Harbor Nonelective Contribution Account. The portion
of a Participant's
Account attributable to Safe Harbor Nonelective Contributions.
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Safe
Harbor Nonelective Contributions. An Employer Nonelective
Contribution
that satisfies the requirements under Section 17.6(a)(1)(ii).
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Salary
Reduction Agreement. A Salary Reduction Agreement is
a written agreement
between an Eligible Participant and the Employer, whereby
the Eligible
Participant elects to reduce his/her Included Compensation
by a specific
dollar amount or percentage and the Employer agrees to
contribute such
amount into the 401(k) Plan. A Salary Reduction Agreement
may require that
an election be stated in specific percentage increments
(not greater than
1% increments) or in specific dollar amount increments
(not greater than
dollar increments that could exceed 1% of Included Compensation).
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A
Salary
Reduction Agreement may not be effective prior to the later of:
(a) the date the
Employee becomes an Eligible Participant; (b) the date the Eligible
Participant
executes the Salary Reduction Agreement; or (c) the date the 401(k)
plan is
adopted or effective. A Salary Reduction Agreement is valid even
though it is
executed by an Employee before he/she actually has qualified as
an Eligible
Participant, so long as the Salary Reduction Agreement is not effective
before
the date the Employee is an Eligible Participant. A
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Salary
Reduction Agreement may only apply to Included Compensation that
becomes
currently available to the Employee after the effective date of
the Salary
Reduction Agreement.
A
Salary
Reduction Agreement (or other written procedures) must designate
a uniform
period during which an Employee may change or terminate his/her
deferral
election under the Salary Reduction Agreement. An Eligible Participant's
right
to change or terminate a Salary Reduction Agreement may not be
available on a
less frequent basis than once per Plan Year.
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Section
401(k) Deferral Account. The portion of a Participant's
Account
attributable to Section 401(k) Deferrals.
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Section
401(k) Deferrals. Xxxxxxx contributed to the 401(k) Plan
at the election
of the Participant, in lieu of cash compensation, which
are made pursuant
to a Salary Reduction Agreement or other deferral mechanism,
and which are
not includible in the gross income of the Employee pursuant
to Code
?402(e)(3). Section 401(k) Deferrals do not include any
deferrals properly
distributed as excess Annual Additions pursuant to Section
7.1(c)(2).
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Self-Employed
Individual. An individual who has Earned Income (as defined
in Section
22.58) for the taxable year from the trade or business
for which the Plan
is established, or an individual who would have had Earned
Income but for
the fact that the trade or business had no Net Profits
for the taxable
year.
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Shareholder-Employee.
A Shareholder-Employee means an Employee or officer of
a subchapter S
corporation who owns (or is considered as owning within
the meaning of
Code ?318(a)(1)), on any day during the taxable year
of such corporation,
more than 5% of the outstanding stock of the corporation.
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Shift-to-Plan-Year
Method. The Shift-to-Plan-Year Method is a method for
determining
Eligibility Computation Periods, after an Employee's
initial computation
period. See Section 1.4(c)(1).
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Short
Plan Year. Any Plan Year that is less than 12 months
long, either because
of the amendment of the Plan Year, or because the Effective
Date of a new
Plan is less than 12 months prior to the end of the first
Plan Year. See
Section 11.7 for the operational rules that apply if
the Plan has a Short
Plan Year.
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Social
Security Retirement Age. An Employee's retirement age
as determined under
Section 230 of the Social Security Retirement Act.
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Standardized
Agreement. An Agreement under this Prototype Plan that
permits the
adopting Employer to rely under certain circumstances
on the Favorable IRS
Letter issued to the Prototype Sponsor without the need
for the Employer
to obtain a determination letter.
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Stated
Benefit. The amount determined in accordance with the
benefit formula
selected in a target benefit plan, payable annually as
a Straight Life
Annuity commencing at Normal Retirement Age (or current
age, if later).
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Straight
Life Annuity. An annuity payable in equal installments
for the life of the
Participant that terminates upon the Participant's death.
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Successor
Plan. A Successor Plan is any Defined Contribution Plan,
other than an
ESOP, SEP, or SIMPLE-IRA plan, maintained by the Employer
which prevents
the Employer from making a distribution to Participants
upon the
termination of a 401(k) plan. See Section 18.2(b)(2).
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Taxable
Wage Base. The maximum amount of wages that are considered
for Social
Security purposes. The Taxable Wage Base is used to determine
the
Integration Level for purposes of applying the Permitted
Disparity Method
allocation formula under the profit sharing or Profit
Sharing/401(k) plan
Agreement (see Section 2.2(b)(2)) or under a money purchase
plan or for
applying the Integrated Benefit Formulas under a target
benefit plan.
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Testing
Compensation. The compensation used for purposes of the
ADP Test, the ACP
Test, and the Multiple Use Test. See Section 17.7(i).
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Theoretical
Reserve. An amount used to determine the Employer Contribution
under a
target benefit plan.
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Three
Percent Method. A method for applying the ADP Test or
the ACP Test for a
new 401(k) Plan. See Section 17.2(b) for a discussion
of the ADP Test for
new plans and Section 17.3(b) for a discussion of the
ACP Test for new
plans.
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Top-Paid
Group. The top 20% of Employees ranked by Total Compensation
for purposes
of applying the Top-Paid Group Test. See Section 22.99(b)(4).
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Top-Paid
Group Test. An optional test the Employer may apply when
determining its
Highly Compensated Employees. See Section 22.99(a)(2).
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Top-Heavy
Plan. A Plan that satisfies the conditions under Section
16.3(g). A
Top-Heavy Plan must provide special accelerated vesting
and minimum
benefits to Non-Key Employees. See Section 16.2.
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Top-Heavy
Ratio. The ratio used to determine whether the Plan is
a Top-Heavy Plan.
See Section 16.3(h).
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Total
Compensation. Total Compensation is used to apply the
Annual Additions
Limitation under Section
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7.1
and
to determine the top-heavy minimum contribution under Section 16.2
(a). Total
Compensation is either W-2 Wages, Withholding Wages, or Code ?415
Safe Harbor
Compensation, as designated under Part 3 of the Agreement. For
a Self-Employed
Individual, each definition of Total Compensation means Earned
Income. Except as
otherwise provided under Sections 7.4(g)(4) and 16.3(i), each definition
of
Total Compensation (including Earned Income for Self-Employed Individuals)
is
increased to include Elective Deferrals (as defined in Section
22.61) and
elective contributions to a cafeteria plan under Code ?125 or to
an eligible
deferred compensation plan under Code ?457. For years beginning
on or after
January 1, 2001, each definition of Total Compensation also is
increased to
include elective contributions that are not includible in an Employee's
gross
income as a qualified transportation fringe under Code ?132(f)(4).
The Employer
may elect an earlier effective date under Appendix B-3.c. of the
Agreement.
Unless
modified under the Agreement, Total Compensation does not include
amounts paid
to an individual as severance pay to the extent such amounts are
paid after the
common-law employment relationship between the individual and the
Employer has
terminated. The Employer may modify the definition of Total Compensation
under
Part 13, #51.b. or c. of the Agreement [Part 13, #69.b. or c. of
the Profit
Sharing/401(k) Agreement]. The Employer may elect under #51.b.
or #69.b., as
applicable, to modify the definition of Total Compensation to include
imputed
compensation of Disabled Employees as permitted under Section 7.4(g)(3)
of this
BPD. Additional modifications may be made under #51.c. or #69.c.,
as applicable.
Any modification to the definition of Total Compensation must be
consistent with
the definition of compensation under Treas. Reg. ?1.415-2(d).
(a)
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W-2
Wages. Wages within the meaning of Code ?3401(a) and
all other payments of
compensation 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 ?6041(d),
6051(a)(3),
and 6052, determined without regard to any rules under
Code ?3401(a) that
limit the remuneration included in wages based on the
nature or location
of the employment or the services performed.
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(b)
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Withholding
Wages. Wages within the meaning of Code ?3401(a) for
the purposes of
income tax withholding at the source but 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.
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(c)
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Code
?415 Safe Harbor Compensation. A Participant's wages,
salaries, fees for
professional services and other amounts received for
personal services
actually rendered in the course of employment with the
Employer (without
regard to whether or not such amounts are paid in cash)
to the extent that
the amounts are includible in gross income. Such amounts
include, but are
not limited to, commissions, compensation for services
on the basis of a
percentage of profits, tips, bonuses, fringe benefits,
and reimbursements
or other expense allowances under a nonaccountable plan
(as described in
Treas. Reg. ?1.62-2(c)), and excluding the following:
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(1)
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Employer
contributions to a plan of deferred compensation which
are not includible
in the Employee's gross income for the taxable year in
which contributed,
or Employer contributions (other than Elective Deferrals)
under a SEP (as
described in Code ?408(k)), or any distributions from
a plan of deferred
compensation. For this purpose, Employer contributions
to a plan of
deferred compensation do not include Elective Deferrals
(as defined in
Section 22.61), elective contributions to a cafeteria
plan under Code ?125
or a deferred compensation plan under Code ?457 and,
for years beginning
on or after January 1, 2001, qualified transportation
fringes under Code
?132(f)(4)). The Employer may elect an earlier effective
date for
qualified transportation fringes under Appendix B-3.c.
of the Agreement.
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(2)
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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;
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(3)
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Amounts
realized from the sale, exchange or other disposition
of stock acquired
under a qualified stock option.
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(4)
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Other
amounts which received special tax benefits, or contributions
made by the
Employer (other than Elective Deferrals) towards the
purchase of an
annuity contract described in Code ?403(b) (whether or
not the
contributions are actually excludable from the gross
income of the
Employee).
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Transfer
Account. The portion of a Participant's Account attributable
to a direct
transfer of assets or liabilities from another qualified
retirement plan.
See Section 3.3 for the rules regarding the acceptance
of a transfer of
assets under this Plan.
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Trust.
The Trust is the separate funding vehicle under the Plan.
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Trustee.
The Trustee is the person or persons (or any successor
to such person or
persons) named in the Trustee Declaration under the Agreement.
The Trustee
may be a Discretionary Trustee or a Directed Trustee.
See Article 12 for
the rights and duties of a Trustee under this Plan.
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Two-Step
Formula. A method of allocating certain Employer Contributions
under the
Permitted Disparity Method. See Section 2.2(b)(2)(i).
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Union
Employee. An Employee who is included in a unit of Employees
covered by a
collective bargaining agreement between the Employer
and Employee
representatives and whose retirement benefits are subject
to good faith
bargaining. For this purpose, an Employee will not be
considered a Union
Employee for a Plan Year if more than two percent of
the Employees who are
covered pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement
are professionals
as defined in section 1.410(b)-9 of the regulations.
For this purpose, the
term "Employee representatives" does not include any
organization more
than half of whose members are Employees who are owners,
officers, or
executives of the Employer.
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Unit
Benefit. A Nonintegrated Benefit Formula under a target
benefit plan that
provides for a Stated Benefit equal to a specified percentage
of Average
Compensation multiplied by the Participant's projected
Years of
Participation with the Employer.
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Unit
Excess Benefit. An Integrated Benefit Formula under a
target benefit plan
that provides for a Stated Benefit equal to a specified
percentage of
Average Compensation plus a specified percentage of Excess
Compensation
multiplied by the Participant's projected Years of Participation.
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Unit
Offset Benefit. An Integrated Benefit Formula under a
target benefit plan
that provides for a Stated Benefit equal to a specified
percentage of
Average Compensation offset by a specified percentage
of Offset
Compensation multiplied by the Participant's projected
Years of
Participation.
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Valuation
Date. The date or dates selected under Part 12 of the
Agreement upon which
Plan assets are valued. If the Employer does not select
a Valuation Date
under Part 12, Plan assets will be valued as of the last
day of each Plan
Year. Notwithstanding any election under Part 12 of the
Agreement, the
Trustee and Plan Administrator may agree to value the
Trust on a more
frequent basis, and/or to perform an interim valuation
of the Trust. See
Sections 12.6 and 13.2.
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Vesting
Computation Period. The 12-consecutive month period used
for measuring
whether an Employee completes a Year of Service for vesting
purposes. See
Section 4.4.
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W-2
Wages. An optional definition of Total Compensation which
the Employer may
select under Part 3, #9.a. of the Agreement. See Section
22.197(a) for the
definition of W-2 Wages.
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Withholding
Wages. An optional definition of Total Compensation which
the Employer may
select under Part 3, #9.b. of the Agreement. See Section
22.197(b) for the
definition of Withholding Wages.
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Year
of Participation. Years of Participation are used to
determine a
Participant's Stated Benefit under a target benefit plan.
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Year
of Service. An Employee's Years of Service are used to
apply the
eligibility and vesting rules under the Plan. Unless
elected otherwise
under Part 7 of the Agreement, an Employee will earn
a Year of Service for
purposes of applying the eligibility rules if the Employee
completes 1,000
Hours of Service with the Employer during an Eligibility
Computation
Period. (See Section 1.4(b).) Unless elected otherwise
under Part 7 of the
Agreement, an Employee will earn a Year of Service for
purposes of
applying the vesting rules if the Employee completes
1,000 Hours of
Service with the Employer during a Vesting Computation
Period. (See
Section 4.5.)
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