RADIOSHACK 401(K) PLAN FIFTH AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT Dated July 1, 2006
RADIOSHACK
401(K) PLAN
FIFTH
AMENDED AND RESTATED
Dated
July 1, 2006
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS | 1 |
1.1
|
Account
of Accounts
|
1
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1.2
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Affiliated
Business
|
1
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1.3
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Beneficiary
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2
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1.4
|
Code
|
3
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1.5
|
Committee
|
3
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1.6
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Company
|
3
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1.7
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Company
Stock
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3
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1.8
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Compensation
|
3
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1.9
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Computation
Period
|
3
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1.10
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Disabled
Participant
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4
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1.11
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Effective
Date
|
4
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1.12
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Eligible
Employee
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4
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1.13
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Employee
|
4
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1.14
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Employer
|
5
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1.15
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Employer
Contribution
|
5
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1.16
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Employment
Date
|
5
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1.17
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ERISA
|
5
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1.18
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ESOP
|
5
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1.20
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Highly
Compensated Employee
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5
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1.21
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Hour
of Service
|
6
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1.22
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Inactive
Participant
|
6
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1.23
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Investment
Fund
|
6
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1.24
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Leased
Employee
|
6
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1.25
|
Normal
Retirement Date
|
7
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1.26
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One
Year Break in Service
|
7
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1.27
|
Participant
|
8
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1.28
|
Plan
|
8
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1.29
|
Plan
Year
|
8
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1.30
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Qualified
Election
|
8
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1.31
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Qualified
Election Period
|
9
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1.32
|
Qualified
Participant
|
9
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1.33
|
Retired
Participant
|
10
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1.34
|
Spouse
|
10
|
1.36
|
Totally
and Permanently Disabled
|
10
|
1.37
|
Trust
and Trust Fund
|
10
|
1.38
|
Valuation
Date
|
10
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1.39
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Year
of Service
|
10
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ARTICLE II ADMINISTRATION | 11 |
2.1
|
Appointment
of Administrative Committee
|
11
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2.2
|
Term
of Office of Committee Members
|
11
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2.3
|
Powers
and Duties
|
11
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2.4
|
Organization
and Operation of the Committee
|
12
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2.5
|
Records
|
13
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2.6
|
Immunity
from Liability
|
13
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ARTICLE III ELIGIBILITY | 13 |
3.1
|
Conditions of
Eligibility
|
13
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3.2
|
Resumption of
Service with the Employer
|
13
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3.3
|
Change in
Employment Status
|
15
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3.4
|
Employment by
Employer; Service with Newly Acquired Entities; Records of
Employer
|
15
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3.5
|
Application
for Participation
|
16
|
ARTICLE IV CONTRIBUTIONS | 16 |
4.1
|
Salary
Reductions
|
16
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4.2
|
Matching
Contributions
|
17
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4.3
|
Payment of
Contributions
|
17
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4.4
|
Transfers
From Qualified Plans
|
18
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4.5
|
Limitations
on Annual Additions
|
19
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4.6
|
Discrimination
Test Allocation Limit
|
21
|
4.7
|
Disposition
of Excess Deferrals and Contributions
|
24
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4.8
|
Distribution
of Excess Aggregate Contributions
|
26
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4.9
|
Forfeiture or
Distribution of Contributions When Excess Deferral or Excess
Contribution Occurs
|
27
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4.10
|
Conclusiveness
of Determination of Contributions
|
27
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4.11
|
Reversion and
Diversion
|
27
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4.12
|
Employee
Stock Ownership Plan
|
28
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4.13
|
ESOP
Nondiscrimination Requirement Provision
|
28
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4.14
|
ESOP
Nondiscrimination Requirement Provision
|
28
|
ARTICLE V ACCOUNTS AND VALUATION | 29 |
5.1
|
Participant’s
Accounts
|
29
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5.2
|
Valuation of
Accounts
|
29
|
5.3
|
Accounts and
Investments
|
30
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5.4
|
Valuation of
the Trust Fund and Reports
|
31
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5.5
|
Election and
Allocation of Cash Dividends on Company Stock
|
31
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5.6
|
Diversification
of Investments
|
32
|
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ARTICLE VI VESTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS | 32 |
6.1
|
General
Provisions
|
32
|
6.2
|
Vested
Percentage in Accounts
|
32
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6.3
|
[Intentionally
left blank]
|
33
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6.4
|
Retirement
|
33
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6.5
|
Timing of
Valuation of Participant’s Account
|
33
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6.6
|
Distribution
Upon Withdrawal From the Plan During Employment
|
33
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6.7
|
Withdrawal
From The Plan Because of Termination of Employment
|
36
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6.8
|
Date of
Payment
|
38
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6.9
|
Limitations
on Timing
|
38
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6.10
|
Loans to
Participants
|
42
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6.11
|
Distribution
Limitations Applicable to Deferred Salary Contributions
|
44
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6.12
|
Right to Have
Accounts Transferred
|
45
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6.13
|
Forfeitures
|
46
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6.14
|
Duty to
Provide Forms and Proofs
|
47
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6.15
|
Duty to
Provide Mailing Address
|
47
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6.16
|
Benefit
Payments in the Event of Incapacity
|
47
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6.17
|
Unclaimed
Amounts
|
47
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ARTICLE VII TRUST AND TRUSTEE | 47 |
7.1
|
Establishment
and Acceptance of Trust
|
47
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7.2
|
Powers of the
Trustee
|
48
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7.3
|
Investment of
the Trust Fund
|
50
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7.4
|
Payments from
the Fund
|
50
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7.5
|
Fees and
Expenses of the Trustee
|
51
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7.6
|
Accounting
|
51
|
7.7
|
Direction by
RadioShack or the Committee and Authorization to Protect The
Trustee
|
52
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7.8
|
Removal and
Resignation: Successor Trustee
|
53
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7.9
|
Voting and
Exercise of Other Rights
|
53
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7.10
|
Appointment
of Investment Managers
|
56
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7.11
|
Insurance
Contracts
|
57
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7.12
|
Payment of
Taxes
|
58
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7.13
|
Indemnification
|
58
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7.14
|
Notice of
Agreement
|
59
|
ARTICLE VII AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION | 59 |
8.1
|
Amendment
|
59
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8.2
|
Termination
|
60
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ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS | 61 |
9.1
|
Notices and
Forms
|
61
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9.2
|
Plan Not an
Employment Contract
|
61
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9.3
|
Non
Assignability
|
61
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9.4
|
Qualified
Domestic Relations Order
|
61
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9.5
|
Immunity from
Liability
|
62
|
9.6
|
Multiple
Copies
|
62
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9.7
|
Gender and
Number
|
62
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9.8
|
Construction
of Agreement
|
62
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9.9
|
Claims
Procedures
|
62
|
ARTICLE X ADOPTION OF THE PLAN BY AFFILIATED AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES | 64 |
10.1
|
Method of
Adoption
|
64
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10.2
|
Transfer of
Employees to Other Savings Plans
|
65
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10.3
|
Transfer of
Funds to Acquired Company’s Plans
|
65
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10.4
|
Receipt of
Funds from Acquired Company’s Plans
|
65
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10.5
|
Merger or
Consolidation
|
65
|
ARTICLE XI TOP HEAVY PLANS PROVISIONS | 66 |
11.1
|
Top Heavy
Test
|
66
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11.2
|
Key
Employees
|
66
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11.3
|
Top Heaviness
Determination
|
66
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11.4
|
Aggregation
of Plans
|
67
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11.5
|
Employer
Contributions
|
67
|
11.6
|
Multiple Plan
Fractions
|
68
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11.7
|
Vesting if
Plan is Top-Heavy
|
68
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ARTICLE XII CHANGE IN CONTROL | 68 |
12.1
|
Termination
or Amendment
|
68
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12.2
|
Change in
Control
|
69
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12.3
|
Article XII
Amendment
|
71
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12.4
|
Successors
and Assigns
|
71
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12.5
|
Severability
|
71
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12.6
|
Contrary
Provisions
|
71
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RadioShack
401(k) Plan
AGREEMENT
made as of January 1, 1996, March 31, 1997, August 1, 1999, May 18, 2000, August
28, 2001, February 21, 2002; December 31, 2003 and May 1, 2004 between
RADIOSHACK CORPORATION, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws
of the State of Delaware, with its principal place of business at Fort Worth,
Tarrant County, Texas, hereinafter called “RadioShack”, and Xxxxxx Fiduciary
Trust Company, hereinafter called “Trustee”;
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
RadioShack has established a fund to be managed as a trust for the purpose of
paying certain benefits, as set out hereinafter, to its eligible employees who
become participating members of a contributory profit sharing plan as described
in Section 401(a)(27) of the Code (as defined below), hereinafter the
“RadioShack 401(k) Plan” or the “Plan”; and
WHEREAS,
RadioShack desires to expand the portion of the Plan designed to constitute an
employee stock ownership plan as described in Section 4975(e)(7) of the Code (as
defined below), update the Plan for certain legal purposes, and make certain
changes to the Plan to reflect the current administration and operation of the
Plan.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the promises and covenants
hereinafter contained and for the purposes herein stated, the parties hereto do
hereby agree as follows:
The
words “Section” and “Article” are used interchangeably in this
Agreement.
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
For
purposes of this Plan, unless the context requires otherwise, the following
words and phrases shall have the meanings indicated:
1.1 Account
or Accounts. “Account” or
“Accounts” shall mean the Deferred Salary Account, Company Account, Voluntary
Account, Matching Account, Rollover Account, the TIP Company Account, the TIP
Employee Account (the immediately two preceding accounts also being collectively
the “TIP Accounts”), the USERRA Matching Account or the USERRA Deferred Salary
Account or the combination thereof, as the context requires.
1.2 Affiliated
Business. “Affiliated
Business” shall mean any entity (other than RadioShack) which, considered with
RadioShack, constitutes either (a) a controlled group of corporations (within
the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Code), (b) a group of trades or businesses
under
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common
control (within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Code), or (c) an affiliated
service group (within the meaning of Section 414(m) of the Code), or (d) any
other entity required to be aggregated under Section 414(o) of the
Code. For purposes of applying Sections 414(b) and 414(c) of the Code
to Section 4.5, the phrase “more than 50 percent” shall be substituted for the
phrase “at least 80 percent” each place it appears in Section 1563(a)(1) of the
Code.
1.3 Beneficiary. “Beneficiary”
shall mean the person or entity described in Sections 1.3(a) through
(d).
(a) Person or
Entity Designated by the Participant. If a Participant is
unmarried, or if a Participant is married and there is a Qualified Election with
respect to a Participant, then “Beneficiary” shall mean any person or entity
designated by the Participant, in the form and manner as the Committee may
prescribe.
(b) Spouse. If
a Participant is married and there is not a Qualified Election with respect to
the Participant, then “Beneficiary” shall mean the Participant’s
Spouse. Except as provided otherwise in a qualified domestic
relations order (as defined in Section 414(p) of the Code), a Participant shall
be treated as unmarried (as provided in Question and Answer 25(b)(2) of Treasury
Regulations Section 1.401(a) 20) if, at the time of his death, such Participant
has not been married to his Spouse throughout the one year period ending on the
earlier of (i)
the date of the Participant’s death or (ii)
the date on which any distribution is made to the Participant pursuant to
Article VI (other than pursuant to Section 6.6).
(c) Contingent
Beneficiary
. If
the Beneficiary described in Section 1.3(a) or (b) does not survive the member,
then “Beneficiary” shall mean:
(i) Any
person or entity designated by the Participant, in the form and manner as the
Committee may prescribe; or
(ii) In the
absence of an effective designation under Paragraph (i), the Participant’s
estate.
(d) Lack of
Designation
. If
an unmarried Participant, or a Participant treated as unmarried under Section
1.3(b), fails to designate a Beneficiary pursuant to Section 1.3(a), then
“Beneficiary” shall mean the Participant’s estate.
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1.4 Code. “Code”
shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and any successor act,
law, or statute subsequently enacted to supersede said Code.
1.5 Committee. “Committee”
shall mean the administrative committee appointed pursuant to Section 2.1 to act
as plan administrator.
1.6 Company. “Company”
shall mean RadioShack and all Affiliated Businesses.
1.7 Company
Stock. “Company
Stock” shall mean any qualifying employer security as defined in Section
407(d)(5) of ERISA, provided; however, for purposes of the ESOP, Company Stock
shall only mean shares of common stock issued by RadioShack (or a corporation
which is a member of the same controlled group) which are readily tradeable on
an established securities market.
1.8 Compensation. “Compensation,”
for purposes other than Section 1.19, Section 4.5, and Section 4.6, shall mean base
pay, bonuses, and commissions paid in cash, and subject to income tax
withholding and
those items set forth in Section 415(c)(3)(D) of the Code; provided, however,
that Compensation shall not exceed $200,000, as adjusted for cost-of-living
increases in accordance with Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Code. The
cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to the Plan Year
that begins with or within such calendar year. Compensation
specifically does not include any Company contributions made under the
RadioShack Stock Plan and/or the RadioShack Employees Supplemental Stock Program
which are used to purchase stock for a Participant and are subject to income tax
withholding. Compensation
specifically does not include (either at the time of deferral or at the time of
distribution) (a) any compensation deferred under the RadioShack Corporation
Executive Deferred Compensation Plan, the RadioShack Corporation Executive
Deferred Stock Plan, or any nonqualified agreements between the Company or any
Employee which provides for the deferral of compensation (collectively, the
“Deferred Compensation Plans”) and (b) any Company contributions made under the
Deferred Compensation Plans. For purposes of Section 1.19, Section 4.5, and
Section 4.6, Compensation shall mean compensation as defined in Treasury
Regulation Section 1.415-2(d)(11)(i) and shall also include those items set
forth in Section 415(c)(3)(D) of the Code. For purposes of Section
4.6, Compensation shall not include any compensation an individual earns prior
to becoming a Participant in the Plan.
1.9 Computation
Period. The
initial Computation Period for determining when an Employee may become a
Participant is the 12 consecutive month period beginning on the Employee’s
Employment Date. Subsequent Computation Periods begin on the first
day of each month following the Employee's Employment Date. However,
if the Employee incurs a One Year Break in Service (he fails to perform 500
Hours of Service) following a Computation Period during which the Employee did
not perform enough Hours of Service to become a Participant but did not incur a
One Year
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Break
in Service (he performs 500 or more Hours of Service but less than 1,000 Hours
of Service), then subsequent Computation Periods begin on the first day the
Employee performs an Hour of Service after the One Year Break in
Service. Purely for exemplary purposes, assume an Employee is hired
on January 1, 2006. The Employee performs 750 Hours of Service during
his first year and hence does not become eligible to participate in the Plan,
but does not incur a One Year Break in Service. If in 2007 he
performs 250 Hours of Service, he has now incurred a One Year Break in
Service. If the Employee does not work during the period running from
January 1, 2008 to February 29, 2008, but performs an Hour of Service on March
1, 2008, his new Computation Period begins on March 1, 2008. Under
the rule as previously stated at the beginning of this Section 1.9, his new
Computation Period would have begun on January 1, 2008, absent the exception
provided in this Section 1.9. For purposes of
Section 11.7, the Computation Period shall begin on the Employee's Employment
Date and each anniversary thereof.
1.10 Disabled
Participant. “Disabled
Participant” shall mean any Participant who is Totally and Permanently
Disabled.
1.11 Effective
Date. “Effective
Date” of the Plan as originally enacted shall mean January 1, 1996 and the
“Effective Date” of this amendment of the Plan shall mean May 1, 2004 except as
provided herein.
1.12 Eligible
Employee. “Eligible
Employee” shall mean any Employee except the following
individuals: (a) any Employee who is included in a unit of employees
covered by an agreement that the Secretary of Labor finds to be a collective
bargaining agreement between employee representatives (within the meaning of
Section 7701(a)(46) of the Code) and one or more Employers if retirement
benefits were the subject of good faith bargaining between such parties, unless
the collective bargaining agreement expressly provided for the inclusion of such
employees as Eligible Employees under this Plan, (b) a nonresident alien who
receives no earned income within the meaning of Section 911(d)(2) of the Code,
(c) any Employee who is a Leased Employee, and (d) any person who is not a
United States citizen and who is employed outside the United States or (e) any
person who (i) is a nonresident alien and (ii) receives no earned income (within
the meaning of Section 911(d)(2) of the Code) from an Employer which constitutes
income from sources within the United States (within the meaning of Section
861(a)(3) of the Code).
1.13 Employee. “Employee”
shall mean any individual 18 years of age or older who is employed by an
Employer, is on an Employer’s payroll, and whose wages are subject to FICA
withholding. The term “Employee” shall also include any Leased
Employee 18 years of age or older and any person 18 years of age or older who,
with respect to an Employer, is treated as an employee of such Employer pursuant
to Section 406 of the Code. The term
“Employee” excludes any person who serves only as a
director. Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, the
term “Employee” shall not include any individual who is retained by the Company
to perform services for the Company (for either a definite or indefinite
duration) and who is characterized by the Company as a fee-for-service worker or
independent contractor or
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in a
similar capacity (rather than in the capacity of an employee), regardless of
such individual’s status under common law. The exclusion in the
preceding sentence shall apply, without limitation, to any individual who is or
who has been determined by a third party, including, without limitation, a
governmental agency or board or court or arbitrator, to be an employee of the
Company for any purpose, including, without limitation, for purpose of any
employee benefit plan of the Company (including this Plan) or for purpose of
federal, state or local tax withholding, employment tax or employment
law.
1.14 Employer. “Employer”
shall mean RadioShack and any Affiliated Business adopting the Plan in
accordance with the Plan’s requirements.
1.15 Employer
Contribution. “Employer
Contribution” shall mean payments to the Trustee by the Employer pursuant to
Plan Sections 4.2, 4.6, and Article XI.
1.16 Employment
Date. “Employment
Date” shall mean the date an Employee first performs an Hour of
Service.
1.17 ERISA. “ERISA”
shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
1.18 ESOP. “ESOP”
shall mean the employee stock ownership plan portion of this Plan which shall
consist of the Company Stock ESOP Fund, as described in Section 4.12 below, for
each Participant and Beneficiary.
1.19 Exempt
Loan. “Exempt Loan” shall mean:
(a) A
loan to the Plan by a disqualified person (as defined in Code Section 4975);
or
(b) A
loan to the Plan that is guaranteed by a disqualified person (as defined in Code
Section 4975), which loan is primarily for the benefit of Participants and
Beneficiaries of the Plan, is at a reasonable rate of interest, and any
collateral which is given to a disqualified person consists only of Company
Stock.
1.20 Highly Compensated
Employee. “Highly
Compensated Employee” shall mean:
(a) an
Employee who is a 5% owner, as defined in Section 416(i)(1)(A)(iii)
of the Code, at any time during the determination year or the look-back year;
or
(b) an
Employee who receives compensation in excess of $80,000 (as adjusted in
accordance with Section 414(q)(1) of the Code) during the look-back
year.
For
purposes of this Section, "determination year" shall mean the Plan Year for
which the determination of who is highly compensated is made and "look-back
year" shall mean the Plan Year immediately preceding the determination year;
and
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"compensation"
shall mean compensation within the meaning of Code Section 415(c)(3), including
elective or salary reduction contributions to a cafeteria plan, cash or deferral
arrangement, or tax-sheltered annuity.
1.21 Hour of
Service. “Hour
of Service” shall mean:
(a) Each
hour for which an Employee is directly or indirectly paid or entitled to payment
of compensation by the Company for the performance of duties. These
hours shall be credited to the Employee for the Plan Year(s) or Computation
Period(s) in which the duties are performed;
(b) Each
hour for which an Employee is directly or indirectly paid or entitled to payment
of compensation by the Company 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 or other similar reason. These hours
shall be calculated and credited pursuant to Section 2530.200b-2 of the
Department of Labor Regulations which are incorporated herein by reference;
and
(c) Each
hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, has been either
awarded or agreed to by the Company. The same hours shall not be
credited under both Section 1.20(a) or Section 1.20(b), as the case may be, and
under this Section 1.20(c). These hours shall be credited to the
Employee for the Plan Year(s) to which the award or agreement pertains rather
than the Plan Year or Computation Period in which the award, agreement or
payment is made.
(d) For
Employees paid on other than an hourly basis, Hours of Service shall be credited
for each payroll period of the Employee for which the Employee receives or is
entitled to receive compensation according to the provisions of Section
2530.200b-3 of the Department of Labor Regulations.
1.22 Inactive
Participant. “Inactive
Participant” shall mean a Participant who ceases to be an Eligible Employee but
remains in the service of the Company. An Inactive Participant has
all the rights of an active Participant (including the right to take a loan
pursuant to Section 6.10), except that an Inactive Participant shall not have
the right to defer compensation, pursuant to the Plan, or receive future
Employer Contributions, pursuant to the Plan.
1.23 Investment
Fund. “Investment
Fund” shall mean the portion of the Trust Fund designated from time to time by
the Committee pursuant to Section 7.3 hereof, that is invested in such assets of
the Trust Fund (including, but not limited to, interests in common trust funds,
qualified pooled trusts or mutual funds) as the Committee selects from time to
time.
1.24 Leased
Employee. A
“Leased Employee” means each person who is not an employee of the Employer, but
who performs services for the Employer pursuant to an agreement (oral or
written) between the Employer and any leasing organization,
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provided
that (a) such person has performed such services for the Employer or for related
persons (within the meaning of Section 144(a)(3) of the Code) on a substantial
full time basis for a period of at least one year and (b) such services are
performed under the primary direction or control of the Employer.
1.25 Normal Retirement
Date. “Normal
Retirement Date” shall mean the date on which a Participant reaches age
65.
1.26 One Year Break in
Service. “One
Year Break in Service” shall mean the period described in Section 1.25(a),
subject to the terms of Sections 1.25(b) and (c).
(a) General
Definition. “One
Year Break in Service” shall mean any Computation Period during which an
Employee does not complete more than 500 Hours of Service.
(b) Maternity or Paternity
Absences.
.
(i) In the
case of an Employee who is absent from work for any period
(A) Because
of the Employee’s pregnancy,
(B) Because
of the birth of the Employee’s child,
(C) Because
of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with the adoption of
the child by the Employee,
(D) To care
for such a child for a period beginning immediately following birth or
placement, then Hours of Service described in Paragraph (ii) shall be counted as
Hours of Service solely for the purpose of determining whether a One Year Break
in Service has occurred. No more than 501 Hours of Service shall be
credited to an Employee under the terms of this Paragraph (i).
(ii) The
Hours of Service described in this Paragraph are:
(A) The
Hours of Service which otherwise would normally have been credited to the
Employee but for the absence described in Paragraph (i), or
(B) If the
Hours of Service described in Subparagraph (A) cannot be determined, eight Hours
of Service for each normal workday of absence.
(iii) The
Hours of Service described in Paragraph (ii) shall be treated as Hours of
Service under this Section 1.25(b):
(A) Only in
the Plan Year or Computation Period in which the absence begins, if an Employee
would be prevented from incurring a One Year Break in Service in that 12 month
period solely because the absence is treated as Hours of Service under Paragraph
(i); or
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(B) In any
other case, in the immediately following Plan Year or Computation
Period.
(iv) No
Hours of Service will be counted as Hours of Service under this Section
1.25(b)(iv) unless the Employee furnishes to the Committee such timely
information as the Committee may reasonably require to establish:
(A) That
the absence is for the reasons described in Paragraph (i), and
(B) The
number of days for which there was such an absence.
(c) Certain Other
Absences. The
Employee’s service shall not be deemed to be broken during such period as the
Employee shall be:
(i) On
military leave; or
(ii) On
other leave of absence authorized by the Company for sickness, disability, or
other circumstances, granted in accordance with an established and uniformly
applied Company policy; or
(iii) Laid
off in order to effect a temporary reduction in personnel, provided such
Employee shall be re employed within three hundred sixty five (365) days after
such layoff.
1.27 Participant. “Participant”
shall mean each Eligible Employee who satisfies the requirements for
participation in the Plan as described in Article III.
1.28 Plan. “Plan”
shall mean the contributory profit sharing plan and trust known as the
RadioShack 401(k) Plan, as it may be amended from time to time.
1.29 Plan Year. The
Plan shall have a short Plan year for the period commencing January 1, 2006 and
ending June 30, 2006. Thereafter, each Plan Year shall commence on
July 1 and end on the immediately subsequent June 30. During the
short Plan Year the Plan shall in all instances be operated in connection with
the Plan Year transition rules of the Code and applicable Treasury and/or
Department of Labor regulations including the use of the eliminated Plan Year in
its entirety (i.e., 12
months) as a measurement period if required.
1.30 Qualified
Election.
(a) General
Rule. “Qualified
Election” shall mean an election by a married Participant to have the balance of
his Accounts paid, in the event of his death, to a Beneficiary other than his
Spouse.
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(b) Consent of
Spouse. The
election described in Section 1.29(a) will not constitute a Qualified Election
unless the Participant’s Spouse consents to the election in the manner described
in this Section 1.29(b):
(i) The
Spouse must consent to the election in writing;
(ii) The
election must designate a Beneficiary which may not be changed without the
Spouse’s consent (unless the Spouse’s consent expressly permits designations by
the Participant without any requirement of further consent by the Spouse);
and
(iii) The
Spouse’s consent acknowledges the effect of the election and is witnessed by a
Plan representative or a notary public.
(c) Special Rule Where There is
No Spouse or the Spouse Cannot be Located. The
consent requirements of Section 1.29(b) shall not apply if it is established to
the satisfaction of a Plan representative that the consent may not be obtained
because (i) there is no Spouse, (ii) the Spouse cannot be located, or (iii) of
the fulfillment of such other circumstances that the Secretary of the Treasury
or his designate may prescribe by regulations.
(d) Validity of
Consent.
(i) Consent
is Irrevocable. If a Spouse consents to a waiver in the manner
described in Section 1.29(b), then the Spouse may not subsequently revoke that
consent.
(ii) Application. Any
consent by a Spouse (or establishment that the consent of the Spouse need not be
obtained) is effective only with respect to that Spouse.
(iii) Revocation
of a waiver. A Participant may revoke his election without
obtaining another consent from his Spouse at any time before the beginning of
Plan benefit payments. The number of revocations shall not be
limited.
1.31 Qualified Election
Period. “Qualified
Election Period” shall mean the six (6) Plan Year period beginning with the
later of (a) the first Plan Year in which the individual first became a
Qualified Participant or (b) the first Plan Year beginning after December 31,
1986.
1.32 Qualified
Participant. “Qualified
Participant” shall mean any Participant who has completed at least 10 years of
participation in the Plan and who has attained age 55.
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1.33 Retired
Participant. “Retired
Participant” shall mean any Participant who has qualified for retirement and the
receipt of benefits under the Plan and who has separated from service with the
Company.
1.34 Spouse. Subject
to Section 1.3(b), “Spouse” shall mean a Participant’s spouse (or surviving
spouse) and a Participant’s former spouse to the extent provided by a qualified
domestic relations order (as defined in Section 414(p) of the
Code).
1.35 Suspense
Account. “Suspense Account” shall
mean the Account which contains the unallocated shares of Company Stock acquired
with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan.
1.36 Totally and Permanently
Disabled. “Totally
and Permanently Disabled” shall mean a disability which would entitle the
Participant to long term disability benefits under the guidelines and
regulations promulgated by the United States of America Social Security
Administration.
1.37 Trust and Trust
Fund. “Trust”
shall mean the trust created under the Plan. “Trust Fund” shall mean
the cash, securities, life insurance contracts, annuity contracts, real estate,
shares of common trust funds and any other property held by the Trustee pursuant
to the Plan, together with income therefrom.
1.38 Valuation
Date. “Valuation
Date” shall mean every NYSE market trading day and any other dates the Committee
may designate in writing from time to time. If a Valuation Date would
otherwise occur on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday, then “Valuation Date” shall
mean the preceding NYSE market trading day.
1.39 Year of
Service.
(a) For
purposes of determining eligibility to participate in the Plan, a “Year of
Service” shall mean a Computation Period during which the Employee has not less
than one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service. In determining whether an
Employee earned one (1) Year of Service for purposes of eligibility to
participate in the Plan, there shall also be credited to an Employee or other
individual employed by the Employer as identified in Section 3.4, service
rendered by the Employee or individuals while employed by an Affiliated
Business. Years of Service shall include years of service required to
be included under Section 3.2 with respect to qualified military
service.
(b) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, prior to May 19, 2004, an Employee’s years of service for vesting
purposes shall be determined in accordance with this paragraph
(b). Vesting service shall be credited beginning with the Employee’s
Employment Date and ending on the date as of which vesting service is being
determined, excluding any Period of Severance. A “Period of
Severance” begins upon the Employee’s Severance from Service and ends upon his
or her reemployment by the Employer (if any). Notwithstanding the
foregoing, an Employee will receive credit for a Period of Severance which is
less than 12 consecutive months. For purposes of this Section 1.35,
the Employee’s “Severance from Service” is the earliest of the date
on
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which
an Employee ceases to be an Employee by reason of a quit, retirement, discharge
or death.
ARTICLE
II
ADMINISTRATION
2.1 Appointment of
Administrative Committee. The
Board of Directors of RadioShack shall appoint an Administrative Committee (the
“Committee”) to administer the Plan. This Committee shall consist of
three or more members who shall not necessarily be employees of the Company.
RadioShack shall advise the Trustee of the names of the members of the
Committee, and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely thereon until
similarly advised of a change in the membership of the Committee. The
Committee shall be the “plan administrator” of the Plan, as defined in Section
3(16)(A) of ERISA, and a “named fiduciary” within the meaning of Section 402(a)
of ERISA.
2.2 Term of Office of Committee
Members. Each
member of the Committee shall hold office until his death, disability,
resignation, removal from office, or, if the member is an employee of the
Company, upon his termination of employment. Any member of the
Committee may be removed by the Board of Directors of RadioShack at its
discretion. Any Committee member may resign by delivering his written
resignation to RadioShack and to the Committee. Any vacancies in the
Committee arising from any cause whatsoever shall be filled by the Board of
Directors of RadioShack. Until such vacancy is filled, the other
members of the Committee may continue to act.
2.3 Powers and
Duties. The
Committee, in its sole and absolute discretion, shall administer the Plan in
accordance with its terms and shall have all powers necessary to carry out the
provisions of the Plan. Without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, the Committee shall have the following powers:
(a) To
make and publish such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary, in its
sole and absolute discretion, to carry out the provisions of the
Plan;
(b) To
determine, in its sole and absolute discretion, all questions arising in the
administration, interpretation and application of the Plan, including questions
of eligibility of employees and of the status and rights of Participants,
Beneficiaries and any other person hereunder;
(c) To
direct the investment and reinvestment of the Trust Fund and the income
therefrom, as more particularly specified hereinafter;
(d) To
authorize all disbursements by the Trustee from the Trust Fund for fees and
expenses incurred in the administration of the Plan;
(e) To
decide, in its sole and absolute discretion, any dispute arising
hereunder;
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(f) To
construe, in its sole and absolute discretion, the provisions of the Plan and to
correct any defects therein; and
(g) To
provide, in its sole and absolute discretion, procedures for determination of
claims for benefits.
The
determination of the Committee as to any question arising hereunder shall be
conclusive and binding on all persons.
2.4 Organization and Operation
of the Committee. The
Committee shall act by a majority of its members at the time in office, and such
action may be taken either by a vote at a meeting or by vote or action in
writing without a meeting; however, a Committee member shall not vote on any
question relating specifically to himself, but any necessary action regarding
such Committee member shall be decided by the remaining members of the
Committee. In the event the remaining members of the
Committee are unable to agree upon the disposition of any such question, the
Board of Directors of RadioShack shall appoint another person eligible for
membership on the Committee to serve as a temporary member for the purpose of
reaching a decision on the matter in issue. Such matters shall then
be determined by a majority of the Committee, including said temporary
member. The Committee may delegate from time to time the performance
of its duties to such person or persons as the Committee deems fit.
The
Committee may authorize any one or more of its members to execute any document
or documents on behalf of the Committee, in which event the Committee shall
notify the Trustee in writing of such action and the name and names of its
members so designated with specimen signatures of Committee
members. The Trustee thereafter shall accept and rely upon any
document executed by such member or members as representing action by the
Committee until the Committee shall file with the Trustee a written revocation
of such designation.
The
Committee may adopt such bylaws and regulations as it deems desirable for the
conduct of its affairs, and may appoint such accountants, counsel, specialists,
and other persons as it deems necessary or desirable in connection with the
administration of the Plan. Such accountants and counsel may, but
need not, be accountants and counsel for RadioShack. The Committee
shall be entitled to rely conclusively upon, and shall be fully protected in,
any action taken by it in good faith in relying upon any opinions or reports
which shall be furnished to it by any such accountant, counsel, specialist, or
other such person.
RadioShack
may furnish the Committee with such clerical assistance on a full or part time
basis as shall from time to time be reasonable or desirable to assist in the
administration of the Plan, and may, in its discretion, pay such of the
Trustee’s fees and expenses incurred in the administration of the Plan,
including but not limited to all transfer taxes of any and all kinds whatsoever
that may be levied or assessed under
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existing
or future laws upon, or in respect of, the Trust Fund, save and except: (a)
those specified in Section 7.5; (b) fees for origination and annual
administration of Participant loans; (c) fees for distributions from a
Participant’s account(s); (d) taxes charged upon the income of the Trust or upon
a Participant’s distribution; (e) fees and expenses ordinarily paid directly by
the mutual fund or charged to shares; (f) those costs and expenses, including
attorneys’ fees, which are charged to the accounts of Participants by a court of
competent jurisdiction in any litigation in which the Plan or any of its
fiduciaries is a party; (g) commissions incurred for the trading of securities
held in the Trust Fund; and (h) costs associated with issuing any security
certificates.
2.5 Records. The
Committee shall keep a record of its actions, and shall keep all such books of
account, records, and other data as may be necessary for the proper
administration of the Plan. The Committee shall notify the Trustee of
any action taken by the Committee and, when required, shall notify any other
interested person or persons.
2.6 Immunity from
Liability. Subject
to applicable law, no present or former member of the Committee shall incur any
liability for any action or failure to act, excepting liability for his own
gross negligence or willful misconduct. RadioShack shall indemnify each present
or former member of the Committee against any and all claims, losses, damages,
expenses and liabilities, including any amounts paid in settlement with the
Committee’s approval, arising from any action or failure to act, except when the
same is judicially determined to be due to the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such member. The Committee may, at its discretion,
require the written approval or disapproval of RadioShack prior to taking action
in any particular matter made the subject of its responsibility
hereunder.
ARTICLE
III
ELIGIBILITY
3.1 Conditions of
Eligibility. Each
person who is a Participant in the Plan immediately prior to the Effective Date
of this amendment to the Plan shall remain a Participant in the Plan in
accordance with its terms. On and after the Effective Date of this
amendment to the Plan, a person who is an Eligible Employee may participate in
the Plan (i) on, or at any time after, the date he completes the one year
anniversary of his Employment Date if during such period he completed a Year of
Service or (ii) if the Eligible Employee has not completed a Year of Service as
of the one year anniversary of his Employment Date, then the Eligible Employee
may participate in the Plan on or at any time after he completes a Year of
Service.
3.2 Resumption of Service with
the Employer. Notwithstanding
anything in this Section 3.2 to the contrary, a rehired Eligible Employee shall
not become a Participant earlier than he would have if he did not have
termination of service.
(a) Former
Participant. A
rehired Eligible Employee who was a Participant before his termination of
service and is rehired shall be subject to the eligibility requirements of
Section 3.1 upon his return to employment unless such
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Participant
did not incur a One Year Break in Service in which case such Participant shall
immediately become a Participant in the Plan.
(b) Other Eligible
Employees. A
rehired Eligible Employee shall immediately become a Participant in the Plan
after he has met the requirements of Section 3.1.
(c) Qualified Military
Service. The
following shall apply with respect to military service if
applicable:
(i) If an
Eligible Employee whose employment rights are protected by the Uniformed
Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, as amended (“USERRA”),
was a Participant before his or her termination in service and is thereafter
rehired, such Eligible Employee may elect to make Deferred Salary Contributions
in accordance with Section 4.1 for the period during which the Eligible Employee
was in “qualified military service” (as defined under USERRA). In
addition, the Eligible Employee’s Years of Service shall include the period of
his or her qualified military service. The Eligible Employee shall
designate the Plan Year(s) to which the Deferred Salary Contributions relate.
Such Deferred Salary Contributions may be made during the period beginning on
the date of rehire of such Eligible Employee, and must be completed by the end
of the period that is the lesser of (A) the product of 3 and the period of
qualified military service, or (B) five years following the date of such
reemployment. For purposes of this Section 3.2(c) these Deferred
Salary Contributions shall be referred to in this Section 3.2(c) as “Makeup
Deferred Salary Contributions.” The Makeup Deferred Salary Contributions shall
be credited to the Participant’s USERRA Deferred Salary Account. If such Eligible
Employee has a termination of employment during the period the Eligible Employee
is entitled to make Makeup Deferred Salary Contributions, then such Eligible
Employee may make Makeup After-Tax Contributions which shall be allocated to the
Eligible Employee's Voluntary Account in such amounts and during such period as
the Eligible Employee could have made Makeup Deferred Salary Contributions had
such Eligible Employee not terminated employment and such Makeup After-Tax
Contributions shall be allocated Employer matching contributions as if they were
Makeup Deferred Salary Contributions.
(ii) If an
Eligible Employee is rehired following a period of qualified military service
and pays Makeup Deferred Salary Contributions and Makeup After-Tax Contributions
then the Company shall contribute on behalf of such Eligible Employee an amount
equal to the Employer Contributions the Company would have made if the Makeup
Salary Contributions and Makeup After-Tax Contributions had been contributed by
the Eligible Employee during the period of his or her qualified military
service. These contributions by the Company shall be credited to the
Participant’s USERRA Matching Account which for all purposes hereunder shall be
treated the same as a Matching Account.
(iii) In the
event any contributions are made by the Participant and the Company pursuant to
Section 3.2(c)(i) and (ii) above, the Eligible Employee shall not be entitled to
any earnings on such contributions or be eligible to receive or be
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paid
any amounts based on or due to forfeitures attributable to Employer
Contributions that may have occurred or been payable during the period of his or
her qualified military service.
(iv) Any
Eligible Employee who is rehired following a period of qualified military
service shall, for purposes of this Section 3.2(c) be treated as receiving
Compensation equal to the Compensation the Eligible Employee would have received
during such period if the Eligible Employee were not in qualified military
service, determined based on the rate of pay the Eligible Employee would have
received but for the absence; provided, however, if the Compensation the
Eligible Employee would have received during such period is not reasonably
certain, Compensation for this purpose shall equal the Eligible Employee’s
average Compensation during the 12 months immediately preceding the qualified
military service (or, if shorter, the period of employment immediately preceding
the qualified military service).
(v) Any
contributions made pursuant to Section 3.2(c)(i) and (ii) above are not subject
to the limits under Sections 402(g) and 415 of the Code in the Plan Year(s) in
which made; rather, such contributions are subject to such limits in the Plan
Year(s) to which the contributions relate. Such contributions will
not be subject to testing for purposes of Section 401(k) of the Code for any
Plan Year.
3.3 Change in Employment
Status. If
a Participant ceases to be an Eligible Employee due to a change in employment
status while remaining employed by the Employer or any Affiliated Business, he
shall become an Inactive Participant until he again becomes an Employee who
satisfies the employment status required to become an Eligible
Employee. If an individual (who is employed by the Employer and who
is not a Participant because he is not an Eligible Employee) becomes an Eligible
Employee due to a change in employment status, he will become a Participant as
of the first day of the calendar quarter coincident with or next following the
date his employment status changed, provided he would have been eligible to
become a Participant had he met the definition of an Eligible Employee on his
Employment Date.
3.4 Employment by Employer;
Service with Newly Acquired Entities; Records of Employer.
(a) In
the event the Employer has or shall acquire the control of any organization by
the purchase of assets or stock, merger, amalgamation, consolidation or any
other similar event, the Board of Directors of RadioShack may direct to what
extent, if any, employment by such organization shall be deemed to be employment
by the Employer and, in connection therewith, may specify a special entry date
for participation.
(b) The
personnel records of the Employer or any Affiliated Business shall be conclusive
evidence for the purpose of determining the period of employment of any and all
Employees.
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3.5 Application for
Participation. In
order to contribute to the Plan, each Eligible Employee shall make an election
as is acceptable to the Committee, wherein he shall evidence:
(a) his
intent to participate in the Plan;
(b) his
election to defer a portion of his Compensation and have the Employer make
contributions to the Trust Fund in accordance with Article IV; and
(c) his
consent that such deferred salary reductions be withheld by the Employer from
his Compensation at each pay period.
An
Eligible Employee may file an application for participation in the Plan at any
time on or after his Employment Date; provided, however, that the Eligible
Employee’s participation in the Plan shall be effective no earlier than the time
prescribed by Section 3.1. If an Eligible Employee files an
application for participation in the Plan following the time the Eligible
Employee satisfies the participation requirements prescribed by Section 3.1, his
participation in the Plan shall begin the latter of his eligibility date or as
soon as administratively feasible.
ARTICLE
IV
CONTRIBUTIONS
4.1 Salary
Reductions.
(a) Deferred Salary
Contributions. Each
Participant may elect in accordance in Section 3.5 to defer an amount equal to
1% to 75% in whole percentages of his compensation and have the Employer
contribute the amount to the Trust Fund. The contributions under this
paragraph are hereinafter called “deferred salary contributions.” A
Participant’s annual deferred salary contribution is limited to the amount
permitted under Section 402(g) of the Code, as adjusted by the Secretary of the
Treasury or his delegate at the same time and in the same manner as under
Section 415(d) of the Code, as of the beginning of the Participant’s taxable
year; provided, however, that any Participant eligible for the increased
limitations applicable to Deferred Salary Contributions provided in Section
414(v) of the Code shall be limited to the maximum Deferred Salary Contribution
allowed pursuant to Section 414(v) of the Code.
(b) The
election of the Participant to defer a portion of his Compensation in lieu of
receiving cash is intended to meet the requirements of Section 401(k) of the
Code as amended and the regulations thereunder.
(c) The
election of the Participant to defer or not to defer a portion of his
Compensation in lieu of receiving cash shall remain in effect until the
Participant files a change of election.
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(d) All
contributions of the Participant are nonforfeitable being held in trust for the
account of the Participant or his Beneficiary.
(e) Notwithstanding
anything in this Section 4.1 to the contrary the Committee shall have the
discretion to limit the deferred salary contributions and related matching
contributions made by or for any Highly Compensated Employee for any Plan Year
as the Committee deems necessary in order for the Plan to comply with the
limitations of Section 4.6 regardless of whether the limit of such deferred
salary contributions and related matching contributions, in whole or in part, is
found at the end of the relevant Plan Year to be necessary in order for the Plan
to comply with Section 4.6.
4.2 Matching
Contributions. Each
payroll period, the Employer shall contribute a matching amount, which may be
reduced by forfeitures used as Matching Contributions, to the Trust Fund on
behalf on Participants that make a Deferred Salary Contribution during the
applicable payroll period subject to the limitations described in this Section
4.2. Matching contributions for each applicable Participant shall
equal 100% of the Participant Deferred Salary Contribution up to four percent of
the Participant's Compensation for the payroll period. The matching
amount shall be contributed to the Plan and allocated to each Participant’s
Matching Account on each payroll period. The contribution by the
Employer may be in the form of either Company Stock or
cash. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.2,
if the rate of a Participant's Deferred Salary Contribution prevents the
Participant from receiving a Matching Contribution equal to the lesser of four
percent of his Compensation for the Plan Year or the amount of his Deferred
Salary Contributions for the Plan Year, as soon as administratively feasible
following the end of the Plan Year the Employer shall contribute make an
additional matching amount equal to (a) the lesser of (i) four percent of the
Participant's Compensation or (ii) the Participant's Deferred Salary
Contributions for the Plan Year, minus (b) the matching amount previously
contributed on behalf of the Participant for the Plan Year.
4.3 Payment of
Contributions.
(a) The
Employer’s total contribution for each Plan Year shall be made, in one or more
installments, not later than the due date (including extensions thereof) for
filing the federal income tax return of the Employer for its fiscal year and the
Plan Year for which the contribution is made.
(b) The
Employer shall withhold and deduct on each regular pay day from each
Participant’s Compensation that percentage of same which each Participant shall
have elected and designated as his “deferred salary contribution” to the Trust
Fund. The Employer shall pay over to the Trustee all such
contributions of Participants as soon as practicable following each payroll
period in which such contributions shall have been deducted and
withheld.
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4.4 Transfers From Qualified
Plans.
(a) With
the consent of the Committee, amounts may be transferred from other qualified
plans by Employees, provided that the trust from which such funds are
transferred permits the transfer to be made and the transfer will not jeopardize
the tax exempt status of the Plan or Trust or create adverse tax consequences
for the Company. The amounts transferred shall be set up in a
separate account herein referred to as a “Rollover Account.” Any
amounts in such Rollover Account shall be fully vested at all times and not
subject to forfeiture.
(b) Amounts
in a Rollover Account shall be held by the Trustee pursuant to the provisions of
this Plan and may not be withdrawn by, or distributed to the Participant, in
whole or in part, except as provided in paragraphs (c) or (d) of this
Section.
(c) Except
as allowed by Treasury Regulations (including Regulation 1.411(d)-4), amounts
attributable to elective contributions (as defined in Regulation
1.401(k)-1(g)(3)), including amounts treated as elective contributions, which
are transferred from another qualified plan in a plan-to-plan transfer shall be
subject to the distribution limitations provided in Regulation
1.401(k)-1(d).
(d) At
the date specified in the Plan when a Participant or Beneficiary shall be
entitled to receive benefits, the fair market value of the Rollover Account
shall be used to provide additional benefits to the Participant or
Beneficiary. Any distributions of amounts held in a Rollover Account
shall be made in a manner which is consistent with and satisfies the provisions
of Article VI, including, but not limited to, all notice and consent
requirements under Section 411(a)(11) of the Code and the Regulations
thereunder.
(e) At
the time the Plan accepts a Participant rollover, the Participant shall have
specified the investment selection(s) in which his Rollover Account should be
invested, and these investment selections shall be effectuated as soon as
practicable.
(f) For
purposes of this Section, the term “qualified plan” shall mean any tax qualified
plan under Section 401(a) of the Code. The term “amounts transferred
from other qualified plans” shall mean: (i) amounts transferred to this Plan
directly from another qualified plan; (ii) distributions from another qualified
plan which are eligible rollover distributions and which are either transferred
by the Employee to this Plan within 60 days following his receipt thereof or are
transferred pursuant to a direct rollover; (iii) amounts transferred to this
Plan from a conduit individual retirement account provided that the conduit
individual retirement account has no assets other than assets which (A) were
previously distributed to the Employee by another qualified plan as a lump-sum
distribution; (B) were eligible for tax-free rollover to a qualified plan; and
(C) were deposited in such conduit individual retirement account within 60 days
of receipt thereof and other than earnings on said assets; or (iv) amounts
distributed to the
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Employee
from a conduit individual retirement account meeting the requirements of clause
(iii) above, and transferred by the Employee to this Plan within 60 days of his
receipt thereof from such conduit individual retirement account. In
no case shall amounts transferred from another qualified plan include hardship
distributions as described in Section 401(k)(2)(B)(i)(IV) of the
Code.
(g) Prior
to accepting any transfers to which this Section applies, the Committee may
require the Employee to provide documentation to establish that the amounts to
be transferred to this Plan meet the requirements of this Section or, if such
documentation is not available, may require the Employee to provide an opinion
of counsel satisfactory to the Committee that the amounts to be transferred meet
the requirements of this Section.
(h) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, a transfer directly to this Plan from another
qualified plan (or a transaction having the effect of such a transfer) shall
only be permitted if it will not result in the elimination or reduction of any
rights or benefits protected pursuant to Section 411(d)(6) of the
Code.
4.5 Limitations on Annual
Additions. Effective
January 1, 1996, "Annual Additions," as such term is hereinafter defined,
applied to any Participant's Account shall not exceed, for any Plan Year, the
lesser of (a) twenty-five percent (25%) of the Participant's Compensation for
the entire Plan Year or (b) thirty thousand dollars ($30,000), as adjusted for
increases in the cost of living under Section 415(d) of the Code; provided,
however, that the special increased limitation of Section 415(c)(6) of the Code
shall apply to the ESOP. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective
April 1, 2000, "Annual Additions,” as such term is hereinafter defined, applied
to any Participant's Account shall not exceed, for any Plan Year, the lesser of
(a) twenty-five percent (25%) of the Participant's Compensation for the entire
Plan Year or (b) thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000), as adjusted for
increases in the cost of living under Section 415(d) of the Code; provided,
however, that the special increased limitation of Section 415(c)(6) of the Code
shall apply to the ESOP. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective
April 1, 2002, except to the extent permitted under Section 414(v) of the Code,
if applicable, the Annual Addition that may be contributed or allocated to a
Participant’s Account under the Plan for any Plan Year shall not exceed the
lesser of: (x) forty thousand dollars ($40,000), as adjusted for
increases in the cost-of-living under Section 415(d) of the Code, or (y) 100
percent of the Participant’s Compensation for the Plan Year; provided, however,
that the special increased limitation of Section 415(c)(6) of the Code shall
apply to the ESOP. The Compensation limit referred to in clause (y)
above, shall not apply to any contribution for medical benefits after separation
from service (within the meaning of Section 401(h) or Section 419A(f)(2) of the
Code) which is otherwise treated as an Annual Addition.
If, in
addition to this Plan, a Participant participates in one or more other qualified
defined contribution plans maintained by the Company during any Plan Year, the
Annual Additions to be applied to the Participant’s Account under this Plan,
together with the Annual Additions to be applied to such Participant’s account
under such other
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plan or
plans for such Plan Year, shall not exceed the lesser of (x) or (y) in the
immediately preceding paragraph.
The
term “Annual Additions” means the sum credited to a Participant’s Account for
any Plan Year of:
(a) Employer
Contributions, if any;
(b) Deferred
salary contributions (including any Excess Contributions under Section 4.7(b),
and any amount characterized as an Excess Deferral Amount, if such Excess
Deferral Amount is not distributed as provided for in Section 4.7(a)
hereof);
(c) Voluntary
after-tax Employee contributions and Excess Aggregate Contributions (as defined
in Section 4.8 hereof);
(d) forfeitures;
(e) Makeup
Deferred Salary Contributions and Makeup After-Tax Contributions made pursuant
to Section 3.2 for the Plan Year to which such contributions relate rather than
the Plan Year in which such contributions are made;
(f) any
amount allocated to an “individual medical account,” as defined in Section
415(1)(2) of the Code, which is part of a defined benefit plan maintained by an
Employer; and
(g) any
amounts derived from contributions attributable to post-retirement medical
benefits allocated to the separate account of a key employee (as defined in
Section 419A(d)(3) of the Code) under a welfare benefit fund (as defined in
Section 419(e) of the Code) maintained by an Employer.
Solely
for purposes of this Section 4.5, the determination of a Participant’s deferred
salary contributions and other employee contributions, if any, for a Plan Year
shall exclude the items set forth in Sections 1.415-6(b)(3)(i)-(iv) of the
Income Tax Regulations, and the determination of a Participant’s allocable share
of Employer Contributions and forfeitures, if any, for a Plan Year shall exclude
any Employer Contributions, deferred salary contributions, if any, and
forfeitures, if any, allocated to such Participant for any of the reasons set
forth in Sections 1.415-6(b)(2)(ii)-(vi) of the Income Tax Regulations (except
as otherwise provide in such Sections).
If the
Annual Additions for a Participant exceed the above limitation because of
contributions based on estimated annual compensation or the allocation of
forfeitures, then, the excess amounts shall be held unallocated in a suspense
account until the next Plan Year and shall be used to reduce the Employer
Contributions, if any, as appropriate, for the next Plan Year for all
Participants, beginning with the first calendar quarter thereof and continuing
until all of such excess amounts have been allocated to
Participants. Any such excess amounts shall be treated as
attributable to deferred
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salary
contributions only to the extent such excess amounts exceed the total Employer
Contributions allocated to the Account of the Participant for the Plan
Year.
4.6 Discrimination Test
Allocation Limit.
(a) Safe
Harbor Method. Effective for Plan Years beginning on and after
July 1, 2006, the Plan shall utilize the safe harbor method of satisfying (i)
the “actual deferral percentage” test, set forth in Section 401(k)(3) of the
Code pursuant to Section 401(k)(12) of the Code and Internal Revenue Service
Notice 98-52, and (ii) the “actual contribution percentage” test set forth in
Section 401(m)(2) of the Code pursuant to Section 401(m)(11) of the Code and
Internal Revenue Service guidance issued thereunder. Such testing
shall meet the contribution requirements of Section 401(k)(12)(B) of the Code
and shall utilize the current year testing method as such term is defined in
Internal Revenue Service Notice 98-1. Prior to any Plan Year in which
the Plan will utilize the safe harbor method, the Employer will give each
Eligible Employee written notice that is:
(i) sufficiently
accurate and comprehensive to inform the Eligible Employee of his rights and
obligations under the Plan; and
(ii) written
in a manner calculated to be understood by the average Eligible
Employee.
Such
notice will accurately describe (A) the safe harbor matching or nonelective
contribution formula used under the Plan (including a description of the levels
of matching contributions, if any, available under the Plan); (B) any other
contributions under the Plan (including the potential for discretionary matching
contributions) and the conditions under which such contributions are made (if
different than the Plan); (C) the type and amount of compensation that may be
deferred under the Plan; (D) how to make cash or deferred elections, including
any administrative requirements that apply to such elections; (E) the periods
available under the Plan for making cash or deferred elections; and (F)
withdrawal and vesting provisions applicable to contributions under the
Plan. The notice described in this Section 4.6(a) will be delivered
to Eligible Employees at least 30 days (and no more than 90 days) before the
beginning of each Plan Year or, in the year an Employee first becomes eligible
to participate in the Plan, no more than 90 days before the employee becomes
eligible (and no later than the date the employee becomes
eligible).
(b) ADP and ACP
Tests. For
each Plan Year, the Employer shall ensure that either the test set forth in
paragraph (i) or (ii) below is satisfied with respect to deferred salary
contributions and either the test set forth in paragraph (iii) or (iv) is
satisfied with respect to Employer Contributions and Employee
contributions.
(i) the
Actual Deferral Percentage for all Participants who are Highly Compensated
Employees for the Plan Year does not exceed the Actual Deferral Percentage for
all Participants who are non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year
multiplied by 1.25; or
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(ii) the
Actual Deferral Percentage for all Participants who are Highly Compensated
Employees for the Plan Year does not exceed the Actual Deferral Percentage for
all Participants who are non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year
multiplied by 2, provided that the Actual Deferral Percentage for all
Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year does not
exceed the Actual Deferral Percentage for all Participants who are non-Highly
Compensated Employees for the Plan Year by more than two (2) percentage points;
and
(iii) the
Actual Contribution Percentage for all Participants who are Highly Compensated
Employees for the Plan Year does not exceed the Actual Contribution Percentage
for all Participants who are non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year
multiplied by 1.25; or
(iv) the
Actual Contribution Percentage for all Participants who are Highly Compensated
Employees for the Plan Year does not exceed the Actual Contribution Percentage
for all Participants who are non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year
multiplied by 2, provided that the Actual Contribution Percentage for all
Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year does not
exceed the Actual Contribution Percentage for all Participants who are
non-Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year by more than (2) percentage
points.
The
tests set forth in paragraphs (i) through (iv) may at the Company’s discretion
be made by separating the Plan into two plans, one for otherwise excludable
Employees, and one for any other Employees.
(c) Actual Deferral
Percentage.
(i) The
term “Actual Deferral Percentage” (“ADP”) shall mean the average of the ratios
(expressed as a percentage), calculated separately for each Participant, of the
amount contributed as deferred salary contributions (excluding any deferred
salary contributions made pursuant to Section 3.2 or Section 414(v) of the Code
and Excess Deferral Amounts for non-Highly Compensated Employees made under this
Plan or any plan of the Company) to the Trust on behalf of each such Participant
for a Plan Year to the Participant’s Compensation.
(ii) For
purposes hereof, “Participant” is hereby defined to include a person who for any
part of the Plan Year is directly or indirectly eligible to make a cash or
deferred election under the Plan for all or a portion of a Plan Year and
includes: an Employee whose eligibility to make deferred salary contributions
has been suspended because of an election (other than certain one-time
elections) not to participate, a distribution, or a loan; and, an Employee who
cannot defer because of the Section 415 of the Code limits on Annual Additions
(as such term is elsewhere defined).
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In the
case of an eligible Employee who makes no deferred salary contributions the ADP
that is to be included in determining the ADP test is zero.
(d) Actual Contribution
Percentage.
(i) The
term “Actual Contribution Percentage” (“ACP”) shall mean the average of the
ratios (expressed as a percentage), calculated separately for each Participant,
of the amount contributed as Employer matching contributions to the Trust on
behalf of each such Participant for a Plan Year plus Employee contributions made
by such Participant for a Plan Year to the Participant’s Compensation but
excluding Employer matching contributions that are forfeited either to correct
Excess Aggregated Contributions or because the contributions to which they
relate are Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions, or Excess Aggregated
Contributions and excluding any Employee contributions made pursuant to Section
3.2.
(ii) For
purposes hereof, “Participant” is any Employee who is directly or indirectly
eligible to receive an allocation of Employer matching contributions or to make
Employee contributions and includes: an Employee who would be a Participant but
for the failure to make required contributions; an Employee whose right to make
Employee contributions or receive matching contributions has been
suspended because of an election (other than certain one-time
elections) not to participate; and an Employee who cannot make an Employee
contribution or receive a matching contribution because Sections 415(c)(1) or
415(e) of the Code prevents the Employee from receiving additional Annual
Additions. In the case of an eligible Employee who makes no Employee
contributions and who receives no matching contributions, the contribution ratio
that is to be included in determining the ACP test is zero.
(iii) In
calculating the ADP or ACP test of Section 401(a) of the Code for a Plan Year,
contributions will be taken into account as follows: An Employee
contribution is to be taken into account if it is paid to the Trust during the
Plan Year or paid to an agent of the Plan and transmitted to the Trust within a
reasonable period after the end of the Plan Year; an excess contribution to a
cash or deferred arrangement that is recharacterized is to be taken into account
in the Plan Year in which the contribution would have been received in cash by
the Employee had the Employee not elected to defer the amounts; and a matching
contribution is to be taken into account for a Plan Year only if it is (A) made
on account of the Employee’s deferred salary contributions or Employee
contributions for the Plan Year, (B) allocated to the Employee’s account as of a
date within the Plan Year, and (C) paid to the Trust by the end of the 12th
month following the end of that Plan Year.
(iv) For
purposes of determining whether the Plan satisfies the ADP or ACP test, all
contributions that are made under two or more plans that are aggregated for
purposes of Sections 401(a)(4) and 410(b) of the Code (other than Section
410(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Code) are to be treated as a single contribution made
under a single plan and if two (2) or more plans are permissively aggregated for
purposes of ADP or ACP test, the aggregated plans must also satisfy Sections
401(a)(4) and 410(b) of the Code as though they were a single plan; provided,
however,
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that
for Plan Years beginning before January 1, 2006, the portion of the Plan
designated as an ESOP shall be treated as a separate plan when compared to the
portion of the Plan not treated as an ESOP.
(v) In
calculating the ADP or ACP for purposes of Section 401(m) of the Code, the ADP
or ACP of a Highly Compensated Employee will be determined by treating all plans
of the Company under which the Highly Compensated Employee is eligible (other
than those that may not be permissively aggregated) as a single
plan. For Plan Years beginning before January 1, 2006, if a Highly
Compensated Employee participates in two or more plans with different plan
years, all such plans ending with or within the same calendar year shall be
treated as a single arrangement. For Plan Years beginning on or after
January 1, 2006, if a Highly Compensated Employee participates in two or more
plans with different plan years, all salary deferred contributions made during
the Plan Year under all such arrangements shall be
aggregated. Notwithstanding the foregoing, certain plans shall be
treated as separate if mandatorily disaggregated under the regulations under
Section 401(k) of the Code.
(vi) Satisfaction
of Nondiscrimination Rules. If the nondiscrimination rules of
Sections 401(k)(3) and 401(m) of the Code, which are summarized in this Section,
would otherwise not be satisfied for a Plan Year, the Committee, at its option,
shall either (A) reduce deferred salary contributions, Employer Contributions,
or Employee contributions, whichever is applicable, of Highly Compensated
Employees and return such excess deferred salary contributions, Employer
Contributions or Employee contributions to the affected Participants in
accordance with Sections 4.7 and 4.8, respectively, to the extent necessary to
satisfy the limitations of this Section, (B) make additional Employer
Contributions on behalf of non Highly Compensated Employees (which will meet the
requirements of Treasury Regulation Section 1.401(k)-1(b)(5) (or any successor
thereto) and shall not be included in the calculations under Section 4.6(a)(iii)
or (iv) hereof) to the extent necessary to insure that the limitations of
Section 4.6(a)(i) or (ii) are met or (C) make additional Employer Contributions
on behalf of non-Highly Compensated Employees (which shall meet he requirements
of Treasury Regulation Section 1.401(m)-1(b)(5) [or any successor thereto] and
shall not be included in the calculations under Section 4.6(a)(i) or (ii)
hereof) to the extent necessary to insure that the limitations of Section
4.6(a)(iii) or (iv) are met. Any such additional contributions shall
be allocated as determined by the Committee. Such additional
contributions shall be treated as deferred salary contributions, shall be
allocated to such Participant’s Deferred Salary Account and shall be immediately
fully vested and subject to the distribution restrictions of Section 6.11
applicable to deferred salary contributions.
4.7 Disposition of Excess
Deferrals and Contributions.
(a) Excess Deferral
Amounts. Notwithstanding
any other provision of the Plan, Excess Deferral Amounts and income or loss
allocable thereto shall be
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distributed
no later than April 15th to Participants who claim such Excess Deferral Amounts
for the preceding calendar year.
“Excess
Deferral Amount” means the amount of deferred salary contributions for a
calendar year in excess of the limitation set forth in Section 402(g) of the
Code (including if applicable the limitation under Section 414(v) of the Code)
for such calendar year that the Participant elects to have distributed from the
Plan pursuant to the claims procedure set forth in the following
paragraph. In the event the Participant’s deferred salary
contributions to the Plan for a calendar year, when added to amounts deferred
under other plans, contracts or arrangements, described in Sections 401(k),
408(k), 408(p), 501(c)(18) or 403(b) of the Code (including, for Plan Years
beginning on or after January 1, 2006, Xxxx elective deferrals) for such
calendar year, of the Company constitute Excess Deferral Amounts, such
Participant shall be deemed to have filed a claim in accordance with the
following paragraph, and the appropriate Employer or Affiliated Business shall
notify RadioShack on behalf of the Participant under those
circumstances.
The
Participant’s claim shall be in writing; shall be submitted to RadioShack no
later than March 1 following the calendar year in question; shall specify the
Participant’s Excess Deferral Amount for the preceding calendar year; and shall
be accompanied by the Participant’s written statement that if such amounts are
not distributed, such Excess Deferral Amount, when added to amounts deferred
under other plans, contracts or arrangements described in Sections 401(k),
408(k), 408(p), 501(c)(18) or 403(b) of the Code (including, for Plan Years
beginning on or after January 1, 2006, Xxxx elective deferrals) for such
calendar year, exceeds the limit imposed on the Participant by Section 402(g) of
the Code (including if applicable the limitation under Section 414(v) of the
Code) for the Plan Year in which the deferral occurred.
The
Excess Deferral Amount distributed to a Participant with respect to a calendar
year shall be adjusted for income or loss allocable to the Excess Deferral
Amount, determined in a manner consistent with Internal Revenue Service
guidelines.
(b) Distribution of Excess
Contributions. Notwithstanding
any other provision of the Plan and to the extent RadioShack elects not to
utilize Employer Contributions or make additional contributions to satisfy the
ADP test, Excess Contributions and income allocable thereto shall be distributed
to Participants on whose behalf such Excess Contributions were made no later
than the last day of the Plan Year following the Plan Year in which the Excess
Contributions were made. Any Employer matching contributions and
income allocable thereto allocated on account of such Excess Contribution shall
be forfeited. In the event such Excess Contributions are not distributed within
two and one-half (2½) months after the last day of the Plan Year in which such
Excess Contributions arose, Section 4979 of the Code may impose a 10 percent
excise tax on the Company with respect to such Excess
Contributions.
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Excess
Contributions are allocated to the Highly Compensated Employees with the largest
amounts of employer contributions taken into account in calculating the ADP test
for the year in which the excess arose, beginning with the Highly Compensated
Employee with the largest amount of such employer contributions and continuing
in descending order until all of the Excess Contributions have been
allocated. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the “largest
amount” is determined after distribution of any Excess
Contributions. “Excess Contributions” shall mean, with respect to any
Plan Year, the excess of: (i)the aggregate amount of contributions
described in Section 401(k)(8)(B) of the Code actually taken into account in
computing the ADP of Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year, over (ii)
the maximum amount of such contributions permitted by the test set forth in
Section 4.6(a)(i) or (ii) (determined by reducing contributions made on behalf
of Highly Compensated Employees in order of the ADPs, beginning with the highest
of such percentages).
The
Excess Contributions which would otherwise be distributed to the Participant
shall be adjusted for income or loss and shall be reduced, in accordance with
regulations, by the amount of excess deferrals distributed to the
Participant.
The
income or loss allocable to Excess Contributions shall be determined in a manner
consistent with the Treasury Regulations and, for Plan Years beginning on or
after January 1, 2006, shall include income or loss allocable to the period
between the end of the Plan Year and the date of distribution as provided in the
Treasury Regulations.
4.8 Distribution of Excess
Aggregate Contributions. Notwithstanding
any other provisions of the Plan and to the extent additional Employer
Contributions are not made to satisfy the ACP Test, Excess Aggregate
Contributions and income allocable thereto shall be distributed to Participants
on whose behalf such Excess Aggregate Contributions were made no later than the
last day of each Plan Year following the Plan Year in which the Excess Aggregate
Contributions were made. In the event such Excess Aggregate
Contributions are not distributed within two and one-half (2½) months after the
last day of the Plan Year in which such Excess Contributions arose,
Section 4979 of the Code may impose a 10 percent excise tax on the Company with
respect to such Excess Aggregate Contributions.
Excess
Aggregate Contributions are allocated to the Highly Compensated Employees with
the largest amounts of contributions taken into account in calculating the test
set forth in Section 4.6(a)(iii) or (iv) for the year in which the excess arose,
beginning with the Highly Compensated Employee with the largest amount of such
contributions and continuing in descending order until all the Excess Aggregate
Contributions have been allocated. For purposes of the preceding
sentence, the “largest amount” is determined after distribution of any Excess
Aggregate Contributions. “Excess Aggregate Contributions” shall mean,
with respect to any Plan Year, the excess of: (a) the aggregate of
contributions described in Section 401(m)(6)(B) of the Code taken into account
in computing the ACP actually made on behalf of Highly
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Compensated
Employees for such Plan Year, over (b) the maximum amount of such contributions
permitted by the test under Section 4.6(a)(iii) or (iv) (determined by reducing
contributions made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees in order of their
ACPs beginning with the highest of such percentages).
The
Excess Aggregate Contributions which would otherwise be distributed to the
Participant shall be adjusted for income or loss allocable to such Excess
Aggregate Contributions determined in a manner consistent with the Treasury
Regulations for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2006, shall include
income or less allocable to the period between the end of the Plan Year and the
date of distribution as provided in the Treasury Regulations.
4.9 Forfeiture or Distribution
of Contributions When Excess Deferral or Excess Contribution
Occurs. In
the event the deferred salary contribution to which an Employer Contribution
relates is distributed pursuant to Section 4.8, the related Employer
Contribution, at the option of RadioShack, will be either (a) forfeited and
allocated as provided in Section 6.13(e) or (b) if the Employer Contributions
are vested and constitute Excess Aggregate Contributions, distributed in the
manner set forth in Section 4.8.
4.10 Conclusiveness of
Determination of Contributions. Neither
the Trustee nor the Committee shall be under any duty to inquire into the
correctness of the amounts contributed and paid over to the Trustee by Employer
in accordance with the Plan nor shall the Trustee or the Committee or any other
person be under any duty to enforce the payment of the contributions to be made
under the Plan; and the determination by RadioShack of contributions hereunder
shall be final and conclusive upon all persons.
4.11 Reversion and
Diversion.
(a) Reversion. Contributions
made under this Plan by the Employer and deferred salary contributions made on
behalf of Participants by the Employer are conditioned hereby upon the
deductibility thereof under Section 404 of the Code and that they have properly
been contributed. To the extent that part or all of the deduction for
any contribution is disallowed or that such contribution has been contributed on
account of a mistake of fact, then the contribution or portion of the
contribution may be returned to the Employer within one year after the date of
disallowance of the deduction or the date the mistaken contribution was made, if
applicable; provided, however, that any deferred salary contributions for which
a deduction is disallowed shall be returned to the respective
Participant. Except as otherwise specified in this Section and
Section 4.5, the Employer may not recover any part of the contributions made to
this Plan. The provisions of Section 4.11(b) shall not prevent the
application and implementation of this Section 4.11(a).
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(b) Diversion. No
part of the Trust Fund created by this Plan, except as required to pay taxes and
administrative expenses or that has been contributed on account of a mistake of
fact, shall be used or diverted to purposes other than for the exclusive benefit
of the Participants or their beneficiaries or
estates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the vested portions of a
Participant’s or Beneficiary’s Accounts may be reduced to cover the costs
associated with commissions attributable to the trade of a security held in any
Account or the costs associated with the certification of any security
distributable in kind to a Participant or Beneficiary.
4.12 Employee Stock Ownership
Plan. A
portion of the Plan, described more fully below, shall constitute an “employee
stock ownership plan” under Section 4975(e) of the Code and shall be construed
accordingly. The employee stock ownership plan portion of the Plan
shall consist of the Company Stock ESOP Fund (as hereinafter described), which
shall be invested primarily in Company Stock which meets the qualification
requirements of Section 409(1) of the Code. All amounts in the
Matching Account and, for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2006, any
other Accounts which are invested in Company Stock shall be held in the Company
Stock ESOP Fund. Furthermore, as of each December 1, prior
to January 1, 2006, assets of any other Account that are invested in Company
Stock shall be transferred to the Company Stock ESOP Fund. Finally,
all dividends, interest, and other earnings of the Company Stock ESOP Fund shall
be held in that Fund. Amounts held in the Company Stock ESOP Fund
shall remain in that Fund until distributed or transferred to another investment
option as directed by the Participant in accordance with Section
5.3. For Plan Years beginning before January 1, 2006, in no event
will Deferred Salary Contributions be contributed directly to the Company Stock
ESOP Fund.
4.13 ESOP Nondiscrimination
Requirement Provision. The
employee stock ownership plan is subject to the limits of Sections 401(k) and
(m) of the Code, as more fully described in Section 4.6 above. The
Plan that is intended to be an employee stock ownership plan under Section
4975(e) of the Code shall be considered separately from the portion of the Plan
that is not intended to be an employee stock ownership plan under Section
4975(e) of the Code for purposes of applying the Plan’s nondiscrimination
testing requirements. However, for Plan Years beginning before
January 1, 2006, it is expected that the provisions of Section 401(k) of the
Code will be inapplicable to the portion of the Plan that is intended to be an
employee stock ownership plan under Section 4975(e) of the Code, because no
deferred salary contributions will be initially “paid” to the Company Stock ESOP
Fund, within the meaning of Section 401(k)(3) of the Code.
4.14 ESOP Nondiscrimination
Requirement Provision. The
employee stock ownership plan is subject to the limits of Sections 401(k) and
(m) of the Code, as more fully described in Section 4.6 above. To the
extent required by the Code and regulations thereunder, the portion of the Plan
that is intended to be an employee stock ownership plan under Section 4975(e) of
the Code shall be considered separately from the portion of the Plan that is not
intended to be an employee stock ownership plan
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under
Section 4975(e) of the Code for purposes of applying the Plan’s
nondiscrimination testing requirements. However, it is expected that
the provisions of Section 401(k) of the Code will be inapplicable to the portion
of the Plan that is intended to be an employee stock ownership plan under
Section 4975(e) of the Code, because no deferred salary contributions will be
initially “paid” to the Company Stock ESOP Fund, within the meaning of Section
401(k)(3) of the Code.
ARTICLE
V
ACCOUNTS
AND VALUATION
5.1 Participant’s
Accounts. The
Trustee shall establish and maintain the Trust Fund. The Company has
appointed a record keeper to establish and maintain Accounts in the name of each
Participant. All contributions shall be allocated to each such Participant
pursuant to the provisions of Section 5.3 hereof.
5.2 Valuation of
Accounts. An
Account’s value is based on the fair market value of all investments less
liabilities in the Account which are held in the Trust Fund. The
value of any securities constituting Company Stock as of any date shall be equal
to:
(a) In
the case of securities listed on a national exchange: (i) for statement
purposes, the closing price of such securities; (ii) for purchase and sale on
the open market purposes, the price at which the securities may be purchased or
sold; or (iii) for purposes of the initial valuation of Company common stock
received from the Company in exchange for securities not listed on a national
securities exchange, the average of the high and low prices of such securities
for the Valuation Date on the New York Stock Exchange (or such national exchange
as shall be designated by the Committee in the event a security is not traded on
the New York Stock Exchange; for purposes of this Section 5.2(a), a system
sponsored by a national securities association registered under Section 15A(b)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) shall be
deemed to be a national exchange).
(b) In
the case of securities not listed on a national exchange, the fair market value
as determined in good faith and in accordance with regulations prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury. Such fair market value shall be determined
by an independent appraiser, pursuant to Section 401(a)(28)(C) of the
Code.
Notwithstanding
any other provision of the Plan, to the extent that Participants’ Accounts are
invested in mutual funds or other assets for which daily pricing is available
(“Daily Pricing Media”), the balance of each Account shall reflect the results
of such daily pricing from the time of actual receipt until the time of
distribution. Investment elections and changes pursuant to Section
5.3 shall be effective upon receipt of the funds by the Daily Pricing
Media. References elsewhere in the Plan to the investment of
contributions “as of” a date other than that described in this Section shall
apply only to the extent, if any, that assets of the Trust Fund are not invested
in Daily Pricing Media.
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5.3 Accounts and
Investments.
(a) Deferred Salary
Account. The
Trustee as of each payroll period (or Plan Year in the case of Makeup Deferred
Salary Contributions, as defined in Section 3.2(c) hereof) for which the
Participant shall make deferred salary contributions, shall allocate to the
Deferred Salary Account or USERRA Deferred Salary Account, as applicable, of
such Participant, the contributions of that Participant for such payroll period
(or Plan Year in the case of Makeup Deferred Salary
Contributions). Deferred Salary Accounts (including any USERRA
Deferred Salary Accounts) will be invested in increments of 1% in Company Stock
and/or any of the Investment Funds made available to Participants by the
Committee, as the Participant may direct. Except as provided
elsewhere in this Section 5.3, if a Participant fails to direct the investment
of assets in this Account, the undirected assets will be invested in the age
appropriate Xxxxxx Retirement Ready Fund or any successor fund.
(b) Company
Account. The
Employer will maintain the Company Account for Employer Contributions made prior
to October 1, 1990. Company Accounts will be invested as directed by the
Participant, in increments of 1% in Company Stock, any of the Investment Funds
made available to the Participants by the Committee, and/or if vested a
Participant Loan. If a Participant fails to direct the investment of
assets in this Account, the undirected assets will be invested in the age
appropriate Xxxxxx Retirement Ready Fund or any successor fund.
(c) Voluntary
Account. Voluntary
contributions will be held in the Voluntary Account. Voluntary
Accounts will be invested as directed by the Participant, in increments of 1% in
Company Stock, any of the Investment Funds made available to the Participants by
the Committee, and/or if vested a Participant Loan. If a Participant
fails to direct the investment of assets in this Account, the undirected assets
will be invested in the age appropriate Xxxxxx Retirement Ready Fund or any
successor fund. Voluntary contributions shall mean any after-tax
employee contributions permitted under the Plan prior to July 1, 1987, any
Excess Aggregate Contributions (as defined in Section 4.8 hereof), and any
Makeup After-Tax Contributions made by an Eligible Employee returning from
“qualified military service” (as described in Section 3.2(c)
hereof).
(d) Matching
Account. Matching
contributions (including any matching contributions made pursuant to Section
3.2(c)(ii)) shall be held in the Matching Account or USERRA Matching Account as
applicable. The Matching Account and USERRA Matching Account will be
invested in Company Stock or as directed by the Participant in increments of 1%
in Company Stock, any of the investment funds made available to the Participants
by the Committee, and/or if vested a Participant Loan. If a
Participant fails to direct the investment of funds in these Accounts, the
undirected assets will be invested in the age appropriate Xxxxxx Retirement
Ready Fund or any successor fund.
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(e) Rollover
Account. Rollover
contributions from another retirement plan maintained pursuant to Section 401(a)
of the Code shall be held in the Rollover Account. Rollover Accounts
will be invested in increments of 1% in Company Stock, any Investment Funds made
available to Participants by the Committee and/or a Participant Loan as the
Participant may direct. Except as provided elsewhere in this Section
5.3, if a Participant fails to direct the investment of assets in this Account,
the undirected assets will be invested in the age appropriate Xxxxxx Retirement
Ready Fund or any successor fund.
(f) TIP
Account. Accounts
established under the TIP shall be known as TIP
Accounts. Participants’ TIP Accounts (TIP Company Account or TIP
Employee Account) will be invested in increments of 1% in Company Stock, any
Investment Funds made available to Participants by the Committee and/or a
Participant Loan as the Participant may direct. Except as provided
elsewhere in this Section 5.3, if a Participant fails to direct the investment
of assets in this Account, the undirected assets will be invested in the age
appropriate Xxxxxx Retirement Ready Fund or any successor fund.
5.4 Valuation of the Trust Fund
and Reports. The
Trustee as of each Valuation Date shall determine the net worth of the assets of
the Trust Fund and report such value to the Committee in writing. In
determining such net worth, the Trustee shall evaluate the assets of the Trust
Fund at their fair market value as of such Valuation Date and shall deduct all
expenses properly chargeable against the Trust Fund under the terms of this
Plan. The record keeper will specifically maintain separate records
as to the total value of each Participant’s Accounts. Within a
reasonable period of time after the end of each calendar quarter, the record
keeper shall notify each Participant of his total Account value as of the end of
the calendar quarter which will include the employee’s contribution and the
employer’s contribution, if any.
5.5 Election and Allocation of
Cash Dividends on Company Stock.
(a) Each Participant in the
Company Stock ESOP Fund shall have a reasonable opportunity before a cash
dividend is paid or distributed on shares of Company Stock to elect to have the
dividend distributed to such Participant in cash or have the dividend invested
in Company Stock and allocated to the applicable Account(s) as earnings pursuant
to Section 5.3. Should an individual fail to make an election, such dividends
shall be invested in Company Stock and allocated to the applicable Account as
earnings under Section 5.3. An individual shall also be given a
reasonable opportunity each Plan Year to change his or her dividend
election.
In the
event more than one class of Company Stock is held by the Trust Fund, the
distribution or allocation of cash dividends on Company Stock, pursuant to this
Section, with respect to each class of Company Stock shall be carried out
separately.
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(b) Stock dividends shall be
allocated to the Company Stock ESOP Fund or distributed in cash in the manner
described in this Section 5.5.
5.6 Diversification of
Investments. In
the event the Committee restricts the investment diversification rights of
Participants in the Plan, each Qualified Participant will, regardless of any
restrictions the Committee may impose, retain the right to elect, within 90 days
after the close of each Plan Year in the Qualified Election Period, to direct
the investment of at least twenty-five percent (25%) (fifty percent (50%) in the
case of an election year in which the Qualified Participant can make his last
election) of such Qualified Participant’s Account, to the extent such portion
exceeds the amount to which a prior election under this Section 5.6
applies. The Plan will, at all times, offer at least three (3)
investment options to each Qualified Participant making an election under this
Section 5.6 and, within 90 days after the period during which the election may
be made, the portion of the Qualified Participant’s Account covered by the
election will be invested in accordance with such election.
ARTICLE
VI
VESTING
AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS
6.1 General
Provisions. Except
as provided in Article VIII hereof, relating to termination of this Trust Fund,
a Participant’s Accounts in the Trust Fund shall vest and shall be distributed
as provided herein.
6.2 Vested Percentage in
Accounts. Effective
July 1, 2006, a Participant is always 100% vested in his
Accounts. Prior to July 1, 2006, a Participant was always 100% vested
in his Deferred Salary Account (including the USERRA Deferred Salary Account),
Company Account, Voluntary Account, Rollover Account, the TIP Accounts and the
portion of the Company Stock ESOP Fund relating the contributions other than
Matching Contributions. A Participant was also always 100% in any
dividends declared on shares of Company Stock in his Company Stock ESOP
Fund. An Eligible Employee who was in the service of an Employer on
September 30, 1990 and who elected to become a Participant in the Plan, has a
fully vested interest in his Matching Account at all times. In the
case of any other Participant, such Participant’s interest in his Matching
Account (including his USERRA Matching Account) and the portion of the Company
Stock ESOP Fund relating to Matching Contributions, prior to July 1, 2006, was
fully forfeitable until the earliest date occurring on or after the three year
anniversary of the Participant’s Employment Date on which date the Participant
is an Employee; provided, however, that in the case of a Participant who
incurred a “period of severance” (as such term is defined in Department of Labor
regulation Section 2530.200b-9) for a period of five or more years, service
credited after the return to service could be disregarded in determining the
forfeitable percentage of the Participant’s Account balance accumulated before
the Period of Severance.
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Notwithstanding anything in this
Section 6.2 to the contrary, prior to July 1, 2006, a Participant’s interest in
his Matching Account became fully vested on the earlier of:
(a) His
Normal Retirement Date, if he reached his Normal Retirement Date while in the
service of the Company,
(b) His
Total and Permanent Disability, if he becomes Totally and Permanently Disabled
while in the service of the Company, or
(c) His
death, if he dies while in the service of the Company.
Notwithstanding any other provision
herein, prior to July 1, 2006, all Participants became fully vested in their
Accounts hereunder upon the occurrence of a Change in Control (as defined in
Section 12.2).
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6.4 Retirement. Any
Participant who while actively employed by the Company, shall attain the age of
sixty five (65), shall become eligible to retire on his 65th birthday (“Normal
Retirement Date”). However, such Participant may postpone his
retirement date, in which event such Participant shall continue to participate
in the Plan in accordance with all terms and conditions specified herein;
provided, however, that distributions under this Plan shall commence April 1 of
the calendar year following the later of (a) the calendar year in which the
Participant attains age 70½; or (b) the calendar year in which the Participant
retires. The Committee in accordance with the provisions of this
Article VI shall direct the Trustee to distribute to such Participant the value
of his vested Accounts as determined under the provisions of this Article
VI. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this Section 6.4, for
a Participant who is a five percent (5%) owner within the meaning of Section
416(i) of the Code in the Plan Year period ending in the calendar year in which
such individual attains age seventy and one-half (70½), distributions shall
commence no later than April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year
in which the Participant attains age seventy and one-half (70½).
6.5 Timing of Valuation of
Participant’s Account. In
the event of retirement, Total and Permanent Disability, termination of
employment, or withdrawal from the Plan, the value of a Participant’s Accounts
shall be the value determined under Section 5.2 of all investments in the
Participant’s Accounts as of the Valuation Date coincident with the date of
liquidation of the underlying securities in a Participant’s
Accounts.
6.6 Distribution Upon Withdrawal
From the Plan During Employment.
A. INSERVICE
(a) Voluntary
Account. A
Participant may withdraw all of the value of his Voluntary Account by filing a
written notice with the Trustee. In this event, however, he shall be
deemed to have suspended participation in the Plan for a period of
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months,
and all deferred salary contributions shall be suspended. The
effective date of such written notice shall be the date the notice is received
by the Trustee or a date subsequent thereto if the Participant so states in the
written notice.
(b) Company
Account. A
Participant may withdraw all of the value of his Company Account by filing a
written notice with the Trustee; provided, however, that a Participant may not
withdraw any Employer Contributions (or earnings thereon) which are treated as
deferred salary contributions for purposes of satisfying the Actual Deferral
Percentage test. In this event, however, he shall be deemed to have
suspended participation in the Plan for a period of 6 months, and all deferred
salary contributions shall be suspended. The effective date of such
written notice shall be the date the notice is received by the Trustee or a date
subsequent thereto if the Participant so states in the written
notice.
(c) Matching
Account. After
five (5) years of participation in the Plan (including participation in the DIP
and the TESOP), a Participant may withdraw all of the vested balance of his
Matching Account by filing a written notice with the
Trustee. Effective July 1, 2006, amounts contributed to a
Participant’s Matching Account on and after July 1, 2006 shall not be
distributed to the Participant as an inservice withdrawal under this Section
6.6A. A Participant must file written notice with the Trustee in
order to withdraw amounts from his Matching Account. In this event,
however, he shall be deemed to have suspended participation in the Plan for a
period of six months, and all deferred salary contributions shall be
suspended. The effective date of such written notice shall be the
date the notice is received by the Trustee or a date subsequent thereto if the
Participant so states in the written notice.
(d) Rollover
Account. A
Participant may withdraw all of the value of his Rollover Account by filing
written notice with the Trustee. In this event, however, he shall be
deemed to have suspended participation in the Plan for a period of 6 months and
all deferred salary contributions shall be suspended. The effective
date of such written notice shall be the date the notice is received by the
Trustee or a date subsequent thereto if the Participant so states in the written
notice.
(e) TIP Company and Employee
Accounts. A
Participant may withdraw all or a portion of his TIP Accounts by filing written
notice with the Trustee. The effective date of such notice shall be
the date the notice is received by the Trustee or a date subsequent thereto if
the Participant so states in the written notice.
B. HARDSHIP
(a) Distribution
Upon Hardship Withdrawals. A Participant may withdraw (i) all
or such portion of the value of his Deferred Salary Account and (ii) all or such
portion of the value of his Matching Account attributable to contributions made
before July 1, 2006, as may be required to satisfy a Financial Hardship (as
defined below) for which other sources of payment are not reasonably available
by filing a written notice with the Trustee. The effective date of
such written notice shall be the
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date
the notice is received by the Trustee or a date subsequent thereto if the
Participant so states in the written notice.
A
distribution on account of Financial Hardship can only be made if the
distribution is made to satisfy an immediate and heavy financial need of the
employee and is necessary to meet such financial need. As used herein
the term “Financial Hardship” shall mean: (i) expenses for “medical
care” (as described in Section 213(d) of the Code) which are either (A)
previously incurred by the Participant, the Participant’s spouse, children or
any dependents (as defined in Section 152 of the Code and, for taxable years
beginning on or after January 1, 2005, without regard to Sections 152(b)(1),
(b)(2) and (d)(1)(B) of the Code) of the Participant or (B) necessary for the
foregoing persons to obtain medical care; (ii) the need for funds for the
purchase of a principal residence of the Participant (excluding mortgage
payments); (iii) payment of tuition and related educational fees for the next 12
months of post secondary education for the Participant or the Participant’s
spouse, children or dependents (as defined above); (iv) the need for funds to
prevent the eviction of the Participant from his principal residence or to
prevent foreclosure on the mortgage of the Participant’s principal residence;
(v) effective January 1, 2006, payment for burial or funeral expenses for the
Participant’s deceased parents, spouse, child, or dependant (as defined above);
or (vi) effective January 1, 2006, expenses to repair damage to the
Participant’s principal residence that would qualify for the casualty loss
deduction under Section 165 of the Code (determined without regard to whether
the loss exceeds 10% of adjusted gross income).
A
distribution will be deemed to be necessary as a Financial Hardship withdrawal
if all of the following requirements are met: (1) the distribution is not in
excess of the amount needed to satisfy the Financial Hardship plus any amounts
necessary to pay any federal, state or local taxes or penalties reasonably
anticipated to result from such payment; (2) the Participant has obtained all
loans and distributions, other than hardship distributions, under all plans of
the Company; and (3) in the case of a Participant who requests a distribution
under this Section 6.6 within 30 days of a cash dividend distribution pursuant
to Section 5.5, the Participant has elected to receive such cash dividend in
cash. In the event of a withdrawal from his Deferred Salary Account
or the eligible portion of his Matching Account for purposes of satisfying a
Financial Hardship, the Participant may not renew participation in this Plan for
a period of six (6) months from the date of distribution of the
withdrawal.
In the
event of a withdrawal from his Deferred Salary Account, the Participant may not
make deferred salary contributions during the calendar year immediately
following the year of the hardship distribution which are in excess of the
applicable limit under Section 402(g) of the Code for such next calendar year
less the amount of such Participant’s deferred salary contributions for the year
of the hardship distribution.
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In no
event shall any earnings on deferred salary contributions made after December
31, 1988, or any additional Employer Contributions made to ensure the
limitations of Section 4.6 are met, be withdrawn under this
Section.
(b) Form of
Distribution. The
Trustee shall distribute any proceeds due under Section 6.6(B)(a) above by
single sum payment in cash. Each Participant ’s account shall be
valued in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.5.
6.7 Withdrawal From The Plan
Because of Termination of Employment. Unless
otherwise provided in the Plan, in the case of benefits payable to any
Participant whose service ends prior to his Normal Retirement Date, benefit
payments will be made or begin as soon as practicable after the Valuation Date
coincident with or immediately following the Participant’s Normal Retirement
Date. A Participant or Beneficiary shall receive a distribution from
the Plan, as provided for herein, as soon as practicable after the earlier
of:
(a) the date the
Participant’s participation in the Plan terminates, provided the Participant’s
Account balance is under $5,000 (or equal to or less than $1,000 effective
January 1, 2005) determined, prior to January 1, 2005, without regard to that
portion of the Account balance that is attributable to rollover contributions
(and earnings allocable thereto) within the meaning of Sections 402(c),
403(a)(4), 403(b)(8), 408(d)(3)(A)(ii), and 457(e)(16) of the Code;
or
(b) the date the
Participant’s withdrawal election form is received by the Trustee, unless
another date is indicated in the withdrawal form; or
(c) unless the Participant
elects otherwise, the latest of (i) the last day of the Plan Year in which the
Participant attains age 65; (ii) the last day of the Plan Year in which occurs
the 10th anniversary of the year in which the Participant commenced
participation in the Plan; or (iii) the last day of the Plan Year in which the
Participant incurs a termination of employment;
and
provided, however, that the Participant has not been employed or reemployed by a
Participating Company prior to the date of payment of the distribution; and,
provided further, however, that in applying Section 6.7(c), “as soon as
practicable” shall not refer to a date later than 60 days after the close of the
applicable Plan Year. For purposes of this Section 6.7 the trust will
be valued on the date provided in Section 6.7(a), (b) or (c).
(i) Participation Ceases To Be
Effective: Upon
a Participant’s retirement, Total and Permanent Disability, termination of
employment or date of death, a Participant’s participation in the Plan shall
cease to be effective as of his payroll termination date; in the event of death
of the Participant, participation shall cease to be effective as of the first
payroll date following the end of the quarter in which the trust is notified
that death has occurred. For purposes of this Section 6.7, a
Participant will not be deemed to have terminated employment in the event of a
change
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in such
Participant’s employment status from a common law employee to a Leased
Employee.
(ii) Election: The
Participant or Beneficiary may elect, if applicable, one of the three following
methods of payment to be used in distribution of such Participant’s
Account. An election consenting to an immediate distribution and
specifying one of the methods of distribution, stated below, is required if a
Participant’s vested Account exceeds $5,000 ($1,000, effective January 1, 2005)
determined, prior to January 1, 2005, without regard to that portion of the
Account balance that is attributable to rollover contributions (and earnings
allocable thereto) within the meaning of Sections 402(c), 403(a)(4), 403(b)(8),
408(d)(3)(A)(ii), and 457(e)(16) of the Code, and he wishes to withdraw at any
time before the later of age 70½ or his retirement as provided in Section
6.4.
The
Trustee shall distribute to such Participant or his Beneficiary, as may be
appropriate, the value of his vested Accounts; provided, however, in the event
there are conflicting claims to a Participant’s Accounts or in the event the
Committee, for any reason, shall be in doubt as to its right to direct payment
of any amount to any Participant, Beneficiary or Beneficiaries, the Committee
may direct the Trustee to hold the Participant’s Accounts, without liability for
any interest thereon, until the rights thereto shall have been judicially
determined or the Committee may direct the Trustee to pay such Account into a
court of competent jurisdiction, such Accounts to be distributed by such court
after a judicial determination of the rights thereto.
The
alternative methods which may be used in payment of a Participant’s Accounts
are:
(A) Single
sum payment in cash;
(B) If a
Participant’s vested Account exceeds $5,000, payment in monthly installments
over any designated period of years, not to exceed ten (10) years (or the
Participant’s actuarial life expectancy, if lesser), with any unpaid
balance at the date of Participant’s death to be payable in a single sum to the
surviving Beneficiary or, if none, to his estate. The amount of the
installments shall be as determined under Section 6.5 so that the Participant’s
Accounts in the Plan shall be reduced by the dollar value of any payments
made. The balance of Participant’s account shall remain as a part of
the Trust Fund until full distribution is made; or
(C) Distributions
in Company Stock:
(1) ESOP. With
respect to the Participant’s Company Stock ESOP Fund, a combination
of
a single sum payment in cash and shares of Company Stock. The maximum number of
shares of
Company Stock shall be the number of
shares of Company Stock (as defined under Section 1.7) represented
by the value of
the vested balance of the Participant’s Company Stock ESOP Fund reduced by any
amounts
diversified
pursuant to
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Section 5.6;
provided that the value of any fractional shares shall be paid in
cash.
(2) Non-ESOP. With
respect to the Participant’s Accounts (excluding the portion of
such
Accounts constituting the
Company Stock ESOP Fund), a combination of a single sum payment in cash
and
shares of Company Stock.
The maximum number of shares of Company Stock to be received by the
Participant
shall be the number of
shares allocated to such Participant’s vested Accounts (excluding the portion of
such
Accounts constituting the
Company Stock ESOP Fund), if any.
(3) Protections
and Rights. No Company Stock acquired with the proceeds of an
Exempt
Loan may be subject to a put, call (other than a call described in Section
409(1)(3) of the Code) or other option, or buy-sell or similar arrangement while
held by and when distributed from the Plan. The protections in this
Section 6.7(b)(ii)(C)(3) shall continue to apply with respect to Company Stock
purchased with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan notwithstanding the distribution
of such Company Stock from the Plan or the cessation of the status of the Plan
as an “employee stock ownership plan” within the meaning of Section 4975(e)(7)
of the Code, provided that the provisions of this Section 6.7(b)(ii)(C)(3) shall
not apply with respect to such Company Stock during any period of time during
which such Company Stock is readily tradeable on an established securities
market.
6.8 Date of
Payment. The
payments due a Participant or Beneficiary under this Article VI shall be paid as
soon as reasonably possible following the applicable Valuation
Date.
6.9 Limitations on
Timing. Notwithstanding
any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, distributions must occur at
least as rapidly as required under this Section.
(a) A Participant’s interest
in the Plan shall be distributed or commence to be distributed to him no later
than the Required Beginning Date based on the vested balance in his Accounts as
of the Valuation Date coinciding with or immediately preceding the Required
Beginning Date.
(b) All distributions
required under this Article VI shall be determined and made in accordance with
the Treasury Regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 401(a)(9) of the Code
including the minimum distribution incidental benefit requirement of Treasury
Regulation Section 1.401(a)(9)-2
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(c) Except as provided in
Section 6.9(f), as of the first Distribution Calendar Year, distributions, if
not made in a single sum, may only be made over one of the following
periods:
(i)
a
period certain not extending beyond the life expectancy of the Participant,
or
(ii)
a
period certain not extending beyond the joint and last survivor expectancy of
the Participant and a designated Beneficiary.
(d) If the Participant’s
interest is to be distributed in other than a single sum, the following minimum
distribution rules shall apply on or after the Required Beginning
Date:
(i) Effective
only for calendar years commencing prior to January 1, 2003, if a Participant’s
interest is to be distributed over (A) a period not extending beyond the life
expectancy of the Participant or the joint life and last survivor expectancy of
the Participant and the Participant’s designated Beneficiary or (B) a period not
extending beyond the life expectancy of the designated Beneficiary, the amount
required to be distributed for each calendar year, beginning with distributions
for the first Distribution Calendar Year, must at least equal the quotient
obtained by dividing the Participant’s Benefit by the Applicable Life
Expectancy.
(ii) The
amount to be distributed each year, beginning with distributions for the first
Distribution Calendar Year shall not be less than the quotient obtained by
dividing the Participant’s Benefit by the lesser of (A) the Applicable Life
Expectancy or (B) effective only for calendar years commencing prior to January
1. 2003, if the Participant’s spouse is not the designated Beneficiary, the
applicable divisor determined from the table set forth in Q&A-4 of Section
1.401(a)(9)-2 of the Proposed Regulations. Effective only for
calendar years commencing prior to January 1, 2003, distributions after the
death of the Participant shall be distributed using the Applicable Life
Expectancy in Section 6-9(d)(i) above as the relevant divisor without regard to
Proposed Regulations Section 1.401(a)(9)-2.
(iii) The
minimum distribution required for the Participant’s first Distribution Calendar
Year must be made on or before the Participant’s Required Beginning
Date. The minimum distribution for other calendar years, including
the minimum distribution for the Distribution Calendar Year in which the
Employee’s Required Beginning Date occurs, must be made on or before December 31
of that Distribution Calendar Year.
(e) If a Participant dies
after distribution of his or her benefit under the Plan has commenced, the
remaining portion of such benefit will 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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(f) If the Participant dies
before distribution of his or her benefit commences, the Participant’s entire
interest will be distributed no later than the December 31 of the calendar year
which contains the fifth anniversary of the date of the Participant’s death
except to the extent that an election is made to receive the distribution in
accordance with Paragraph (i) or (ii) below:
(i) if any
portion of the Participant’s interest is payable to a designated Beneficiary
(effective January 1, 2003, the determination of who is the designated
Beneficiary shall be made as of September 30 of the year following the year of
the Participant’s death), distributions may be made in substantially equal
installments over a period certain not greater than the Applicable Life
Expectancy of the designated Beneficiary commencing no later than the December
31 of the calendar year following the calendar year of the Participant’s
death;
(ii) if the
designated Beneficiary (effective January 1, 2003, the determination of who is
the designated Beneficiary shall be made not later than September 30 of the year
following the year of the Participant’s death) is the Participant’s surviving
spouse, the date distributions are required to begin shall not be earlier than
the December 31 of the calendar year in which the Participant would have
attained age 70½, or, if later, the December 31 of the calendar year following
the calendar year in which the Participant dies, and, if the spouse dies before
payments begin, subsequent distributions shall be made as if the spouse had been
the Participant.
If the
Participant’s designated Beneficiary does not elect a method of distribution by
the earlier of (A) the December 31 of the calendar year in which distributions
would be required to begin under (i) or (ii) of this Section 6.9(f), or (B)
December 31 of the calendar year which contains the fifth anniversary of the
date of death of the Participant, the Participant’s entire interest will be
distributed no later than the December 31 of the calendar year which contains
the fifth anniversary of the Participant’s death.
For
purposes of this Section 6.9(f), any amount paid to a child of the Participant
will be treated as if it had been payable to the surviving spouse if such amount
will become payable to the surviving spouse when the child reaches the age of
majority.
(g) Effective only for
calendar years commencing prior to January 1, 2003, for purposes of this Section
6.9, payments will be calculated by use of the return multiples specified in
Treasury Regulation Section 1.72-9. Life expectancy of a Participant,
or his surviving spouse, or both, may be recalculated annually; provided,
however, that if such Participant or his surviving spouse do not elect to have
his or her life expectancy recalculated, it shall not be recalculated; provided
further, in the case of any other designated Beneficiary, such life expectancy
shall be calculated at the time payment first commences without further
recalculation.
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(h) For purposes of this
Section 6.9, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(i) “Applicable
Life Expectancy” means the life expectancy (or joint and last survivor
expectancy if applicable) calculated using the attained age of the Participant
(or designated Beneficiary) as of the Participant’s (or designated
Beneficiary’s) birthday in the applicable calendar year reduced by one for each
calendar year which has elapsed since the date life expectancy was first
calculated. If life expectancy is being recalculated, the Applicable
Life Expectancy shall be the life expectancy as so recalculated. The
applicable calendar year shall be the first Distribution Calendar Year, and if
life expectancy is being recalculated such succeeding calendar
year. Effective January 1, 2003, life expectancy calculated after the
death of the Participant shall be determined by reference to the Single Life
Table set forth in Treasury Regulation Section
1.401(a)(9)-9. Effective January 1, 2003, life expectancy (or joint
and last survivor expectancy if applicable) during the Participant’s lifetime
shall be equal to the distribution period set forth in the Uniform Lifetime
Table set forth in Treasury Regulation Section 1.401(a)(9)-9; provided, however,
that if the Participant’s spouse is his sole designated Beneficiary and is more
than 10 years younger than the Participant, joint and last survivor life
expectancy shall be determined by reference to the Joint and Last Survivor Table
set forth in Treasury Regulation Section 1.401(a)(9)-9.
(ii) “Distribution
Calendar Year” shall mean a calendar year for which a minimum distribution is
required. For distributions beginning before the Participant’s death,
the first Distribution Calendar Year is the calendar year immediately preceding
the calendar year which contains the Participant’s Required Beginning Date. For
distributions beginning after the Participant’s death, the first Distribution
Calendar Year is the calendar year in which distributions are required to begin
pursuant to Section 6.9(f) above.
(iii) “Participant’s
Benefit” shall mean the Participant’s Accounts as of the last Valuation Date in
the calendar year immediately preceding the Distribution Calendar Year
(Valuation Calendar Year) increased by the amount of any contributions or
forfeitures allocated to the Accounts as of dates in the Valuation Calendar Year
after the Valuation Date and decreased by distributions made in the Valuation
Calendar Year after the Valuation Date; provided, however, that, effective only
for calendar years commencing prior to January 1, 2003, 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.
(iv) “Required
Beginning Date” shall mean for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1998,
April 1 of the calendar year following the later of: (A) the calendar year in
which the Participant attains age 70½ years; or (B) the calendar year in which
the Participant retires. For Plan Years beginning prior to January 1,
1999
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“Required
Beginning Date” shall mean for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1988,
April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the
Participant attains age seventy and one-half (70½). For Plan Years
beginning prior to January 1, 1989, “Required Beginning Date” shall mean April 1
of the calendar year following the later of: (1) the calendar year in which the
Participant attains age seventy and one-half (70½), or (2) the calendar year in
which the Participant retires. Notwithstanding the preceding
sentence, for a Participant who is a five percent (5%) owner within the meaning
of Section 416(i) of the Code in the Plan Year ending in the calendar year in
which such individual attains age seventy and one-half (70½), “Required
Beginning Date” shall mean April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar
year in which the Participant attains age seventy and one-half
(70½).
(v) Any
Participant who attained age 70½ prior to January 1, 1999 who is a current
Eligible Employee and is receiving payments under the Plan may elect to either
continue to receive the amounts being provided under this Section or elect to
cease receiving the amounts that would otherwise continue to be provided under
this Section. If a Participant shall fail to make an election then
the payments being provided under this Section shall continue.
6.10 Loans to
Participants.
(a) In
General. In
the sole discretion of the Committee, the Committee may make a bona fide loan to
a Participant, in an amount which, when added to the outstanding balance of all
other loans to the Participant from all qualified plans of the Company, does not
exceed the lesser of $50,000 or fifty percent (50%) of the value of the
Participant’s vested Accounts under the Plan. The $50,000 limitation
of this Section shall be reduced by the excess of the Participant’s highest
outstanding loan, during the one-year period ending on the day before the date
on which the loan was made, over the Participant’s current outstanding loan
balance, including any defaulted loan and accrued interest, on the date of the
loan. A loan shall be made under such terms, security interest, and
conditions as the Committee deems appropriate; provided, however, that all loans
granted hereunder:
(i) shall
be available to all Participants who are actively employed by the Employer or
who are parties in interest (as such term is defined in Section 3(14) of ERISA)
on a reasonably equivalent basis;
(ii) shall
not be made available to Highly Compensated Employees, officers, directors and
shareholders on a basis greater than the basis made available to other
Participants;
(iii) shall
be made solely from the Participant’s Accounts;
(iv) shall
bear a reasonable rate of interest;
(v) shall
be adequately secured; and
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(vi) shall
be made in accordance with and subject to all of the provisions of this
Section.
(b) Terms and Conditions of
Loans. In
addition to the loan policy described in Section 6.10(c), all loans shall comply
with the following terms and conditions:
(i) An
application for a loan by a Participant shall be made to the Trustee, whose
action thereon shall be final.
(ii) The
period of repayment of any loan shall be six (6) months (or multiples thereof),
but such period shall in no event exceed five (5) years from the effective date
of the loan. Repayments of any loan granted under the terms of this
Section shall actually be made within such period, payments shall be made not
less frequently than Participants’ scheduled payroll periods, and payment shall
be made in level payments.
(iii) Each
loan shall bear interest at a rate to be fixed by the Committee and, in
determining the interest rate, the Committee shall take into consideration
interest rates currently being charged on similar commercial loans by persons in
the business of lending money. The Committee shall not discriminate
among Participants in the matter of interest rate, but loans granted at
different times may bear different interest rates.
(iv) Every
Participant receiving a loan hereunder will receive a statement from the Trustee
clearly reflecting the charges involved in each loan transaction, including the
dollar amount and annual interest rate of the finance charges. The
statement will provide all information required to meet applicable Truth In
Lending laws.
(v) The
loan shall be treated as an investment of the Participant. In his
loan application each Participant may designate which of his Accounts shall be
invested in the loan. In the absence of a Participant designation,
the loan proceeds shall be extracted equally from each Account that may be the
subject of a loan pursuant to Section 6.10(a), to the extent vested amounts are
available in such Account. Each loan shall be reflected in the
Account of the borrower and such loan note shall be held by the Plan until such
time as the loan has been satisfied in full. See Section 5.3 for
investment of the loan payments. In the event that a distribution is
due to the Participant borrower, the unpaid loan balance, together with interest
thereon, shall become due and payable and the Committee shall first satisfy any
and all indebtedness from the Participant’s Account before making any payment to
the Participant or the Beneficiary, if applicable.
(vi) No loan
shall be made for an amount less than five hundred dollars ($500).
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(vii) In
addition to the limitations specified in Section 6.10(a), no loan shall exceed
an amount such that principal and interest on such loan (together with principal
and interest on any other loan outstanding to the Participant from this Plan or
any other qualified defined contribution plan maintained by the Employer) can be
fully amortized with respect to principal and interest over the term of such
loan by means of a regular payroll period loan payment which does not exceed
twenty five percent (25%) of the Participant’s regular payroll period
earnings.
(viii) No
Participant shall have more than four loans outstanding from the Plan at any
time.
(ix) A
Participant may prepay all of a loan at any time, without penalty for
prepayment; provided that no more than two (2) partial prepayments can be made
on a loan within any twelve (12) month period.
(x)
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the loan limitations contained in Section 6.10(b)(vii) and (viii)
above shall not apply to any loan obtained by Participant under the Plan during
the period commencing on April 1, 1996, and ending on March 31,
2001.
(c) Loan
Policy. The
Committee shall establish a nondiscriminatory loan policy that must be observed
in making loans to Participants. The loan policy must be a written
document and must include: (i) the identity of the persons or
positions authorized to administer the Participant loan program; (ii) a
procedure for applying for a loan; (iii) the criteria used in approving or
denying a loan; (iv) the limitations, if any, on the types and amounts of loans
available; (v) the procedures used in determining a reasonable fixed rate of
interest; (vi) the types of collateral that may secure the loan; and (vii) the
events constituting default and the steps the Plan will take to preserve Plan
assets in the event of default.
(d) Loan Repayment
Investments. A
Participant shall direct which of his Accounts will be used to fund a
Participant Loan. Repayment of Participant Loans originating after
January 1, 1996 shall be invested proportionately into the Accounts used to fund
said loan.
6.11 Distribution Limitations
Applicable to Deferred Salary Contributions. Notwithstanding
any provisions to the contrary herein, no distribution shall be made of any
deferred salary contributions or the earnings thereon prior to the earliest of
the following:
(a) The Employee’s
retirement, death, Disability or separation from employment;
(b) Termination of the Plan
without establishment or maintenance of another defined contribution plan (other
than an employee stock ownership plan or simplified employee
pension);
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(c) The Employee’s financial
hardship withdrawal under Section 6.6;
(d) The sale or other
disposition by a corporation to an unrelated corporation of substantially all of
the assets used in a trade or business, but only with respect to Employees who
continue employment with the acquiring corporation and the acquiring corporation
does not maintain the Plan after the disposition; or
(e) The sale or other
disposition by a corporation of its interest in a subsidiary to an unrelated
entity, but only with respect to Employees who continue employment with the
subsidiary and the acquiring entity does not maintain the Plan after the
disposition.
Items
(b), (d) and (e), above, apply only if the distribution is in the form of a
single sum. Items (d) and (e) above, apply only if the transferor
corporation continues to maintain the Plan.
6.12 Right to Have Accounts
Transferred. Notwithstanding
any provision of the Plan to the contrary that would otherwise limit an
“eligible distributee” election under this Section, an eligible distributee may
elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Committee, to have any
part of an “eligible rollover distribution” paid directly to an “eligible
retirement plan” specified by the eligible distributee in a “direct
rollover.” “Eligible rollover distribution” means any distribution of
all or any part of the Account balances of the eligible
distributee. However, an eligible rollover distribution shall not
include: any installment payments from the Plan if paid for ten years
or more; any distribution required to be distributed because of a Participant’s
required beginning date; any hardship distribution as described in Section
401(k)(2)(B)(i)(IV) of the Code; and the part of any distribution that is not
includible in gross income (determined without respect to the exclusion for net
unrealized appreciation with respect to employer securities). A
portion of a distribution shall not fail to be an eligible rollover distribution
solely because the portion consists of after-tax employee contributions which
are not includible in gross income. However, such after-tax portion
may be transferable only to an individual retirement account or annuity
described in Section 408(a) or 408(b) of the Code, or to a qualified deferred
contribution plan described in Sections 401(a) or 403(a) of the Code that
separately account for amounts so transferred, including separately accounting
for the portion of such distribution which is includible in gross income and the
portion of such distribution which is not so includible. “Eligible
retirement plan” means an individual retirement account described in Section
408(a) of the Code, an individual retirement annuity described in Section 408(b)
of the Code, a qualified trust described in Section 401(a) of the Code, an
annuity plan described in Section 403(b) of the Code, an annuity contract
described in Section 403(b) of the Code and an eligible plan under Section
457(b) of the Code which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a
state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a
state and which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into such
plan from this Plan. An “eligible distributee” means an Employee or
former Employee. In addition, the Employee’s or former Employee’s
surviving spouse and the Employee’s
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or
former Employee’s spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic
relations order are eligible distributees with regard to the interest of the
spouse or former spouse. A “direct rollover” means a payment by the
Plan to an eligible retirement plan specified by the eligible
distributee.
6.13 Forfeitures.
(a) Five Year Period of
Severance. If
a former Participant incurs a “period of severance” (as such term is described
in Department of Labor regulation Section 2530.200b-9) for a period of five or
more years, then the Participant’s unvested Accounts shall be forfeited and
allocated to all current Participants’ Accounts in the manner described in
Section 6.13(e) as of the last day of the Plan Year in which the Participant
incurred the five year period of severance.
(b) Upon Termination of
Service. If
a Participant is not entitled to a fully vested interest in his Accounts then
the unvested portion of the Participant’s Accounts shall be forfeited and
allocated in the manner described in Section 6.13(e) as of the last day of the
Plan Year in which occurs the earlier of the distribution of the Participant’s
vested Accounts or the day the Participant incurs a five year period of
severance.
(c) Reinstatement of
Forfeitures. If
a Participant described in Section 6.13(b) returns to the service of an Employer
and again becomes a Participant, and has not taken a distribution or restores
any distribution previously taken, then the forfeited amount of the
Participant’s Accounts will be restored if the Participant returns to the
service of the Employer before he incurs a five year period of severance,
provided that, if the Participant received a distribution from the Plan, the
restoration of the distribution occurs no later than the date a five year period
of severance would have occurred had the Participant not returned to
service.
(d) Restoration of Forfeited
Amounts. If
any portion of a Participant’s benefit that was forfeited and reallocated must
be subsequently restored, then to the extent possible, the amount to be restored
shall be allocated to the Participant’s Accounts from current
forfeitures. If current forfeitures are insufficient, the Employer
shall contribute in cash an amount sufficient enough when added to the current
forfeitures to equal the required restored benefits. Any amounts
restored shall be invested according to Section 5.3(d), including the default
investment provisions thereof.
(e) Allocation of
Forfeitures. Forfeitures
pursuant to Section 4.9 and this Section shall be calculated for each Plan
Year. All forfeitures for such Plan Year shall first be used to
restore forfeited amounts under Section 6.13(d). If any forfeitures
remain, they shall be allocated as of the last day of each Plan Year, as Company
matching contributions or effective for Plan Years beginning on or after January
1, 2005, they shall first be used to reduce Employer Contributions.
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(f) Method of
Forfeiture. If
a portion of a Participant’s Accounts is forfeited, Company Stock in the Company
Stock ESOP Fund must be forfeited only after other assets. If
interests in more than one class of Company Stock have been allocated to the
Participant’s Company Stock ESOP Fund, then the Participant must be treated as
forfeiting the same proportion of each such class.
6.14 Duty to Provide Forms and
Proofs. Each
Participant, Retired Participant, Disabled Participant and Inactive Participant,
and the Beneficiary of any such Participant shall be required to complete such
administrative forms and furnish such proofs in such form as shall be deemed
necessary or appropriate by the Committee for the purposes of administering this
Plan.
6.15 Duty to Provide Mailing
Address. It
shall be the duty of each Participant Retired Participant, Disabled Participant
and Inactive Participant and the Beneficiary of any such Participant to keep on
file with the Plan a correct mailing address.
6.16 Benefit Payments in the
Event of Incapacity. If
the Committee finds that any Retired Participant or Disabled Participant, any
Participant whose service with the Company terminates or any Beneficiary of any
such Participant is unable to care for his affairs because of illness or injury
or is a minor, any payment due may be made to the Spouse, child, brother, sister
or parent of such Participant or Beneficiary, for his benefit, unless a prior
claim shall have been made by a duly appointed guardian or other legal
representative.
6.17 Unclaimed
Amounts. Unclaimed
amounts shall consist of benefits to be paid to Participants or Beneficiaries
but that cannot be distributed because of inability to locate the distributee
after making a reasonable due diligence effort to do so. Unclaimed
amounts shall become Forfeitures and shall be applied in accordance with Section
6.13(e) of the Plan after the expiration of one year from the date as of which
they were originally directed to be distributed.
In
accordance with the foregoing, any such Forfeiture shall be and remain assets of
the Plan, until paid or distributed in accordance with the provisions of the
Plan, and in no event shall any such Forfeiture escheat to, or otherwise be paid
to, any governmental unit under any escheat or unclaimed property
law. If the intended distributee of an unclaimed amount or his or her
Beneficiary subsequently appears and files a claim for the forfeited benefit, it
shall be restored, without adjustment for gains or losses after the date of
forfeiture, in accordance with Section 6.13(d) of the Plan.
ARTICLE
VII
TRUST
AND TRUSTEE
7.1 Establishment and Acceptance
of Trust. The
Trustee shall receive any contributions paid to it in cash, or such other
property as shall be acceptable to the said Trustee. All
contributions so received, together with the income therefrom, which
shall
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be
known for purposes of this Agreement as the “Trust Fund”, shall be held, managed
and administered in trust pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement. The Trustee hereby accepts the Trust created hereunder and
agrees to perform the duties under this Agreement on its part to be
performed.
7.2 Powers of the
Trustee. Except
as otherwise provided in Section 7.9 and 7.10, the Trustee shall have all the
powers granted by the terms of the Texas Trust Code as it now exists, or as it
may be amended, and in addition thereto and not in modification or limitation
thereof, the Trustee shall have the following powers:
(a) To keep such portion of
the Trust Fund in cash, to meet contemplated requisitions, as the Participant
shall specify in written requests, and, in the Trustee’s discretion, to retain
cash temporarily awaiting investment, without liability for interest
thereon;
(b) (i) To
hold or register securities or other property which may at any time be purchased
for or held as investments of the Trust Fund in the name of the Trustee or in
the name of its nominee (including any custodian employed by the Trustee, any
nominee of such a custodian and any depository, clearing corporation or other
similar system) or in such form that title will pass by delivery;
(ii) To
employ such agents, consultants, custodians, depositories, advisors, and legal
counsel as may be reasonably necessary or desirable in the Trustee’s judgment in
managing and protecting the Trust Fund and subject to the provisions of Section
7.5, to pay them reasonable compensation out of the Trust Fund;
(iii) To
transfer any assets of the Trust to a custodian or sub-custodian employed by the
Trustee;
(c) To
sell, redeem, exchange, convey, transfer, pledge, invest and reinvest or
otherwise dispose of any securities, investments or other property held by it,
when directed by the Participants, Participant’s beneficiary or by the
Committee, by private contract or at public auction, and for such purposes the
Trustee may execute such instruments and writings and so such things as it shall
deem proper;
(d) With
respect to securities (other than Company Stock which is described in Section
7.9) and to the extent that the Plan provides or the Trustee receives direction
from the Committee, a Participant, a Beneficiary or an Investment Manager who
may be appointed pursuant to Section 7.10, to vote upon any stocks, bonds, or
other securities of any corporation, association or trust at any time, or
otherwise consent to or request any action on the part of such corporation,
association or trust; to give general or special proxies or powers of attorney
with or without power of substitution; to exercise any conversion privileges,
subscription rights or other options; to make any payments incidental thereto;
to oppose or consent to or otherwise participate in, corporate reorganization,
recapitalization, consolidation, merger or similar transactions with respect to
such corporate securities, or other change affecting corporate securities; to
deposit such securities or stock in any voting trust, or with any
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protective
or like committee or with a trustee, or with depositories designated thereby; to
pay any assessments or charges in connection therewith; and generally to
exercise any of the powers of an owner with respect to stocks, bonds, securities
or other properties held as a part of the Trust Fund; provided, however, unless
otherwise directed, the Trustee will not vote such securities or stock as to
which it receives no written directions;
(e) When directed by the
Committee, to borrow money from any lender, including itself, and to mortgage or
pledge assets of the Trust Fund as security for the repayment
thereof;
(f) When
directed by the Committee, to settle, compromise or submit to arbitration any
claims, debts or damages due or owing to or from the Trust Fund, or to commence
or defend suits or legal or administrative proceedings; provided, however, the
Trustee shall have no obligation to take any legal action for the benefit of the
Trust Fund unless it shall have been first indemnified for all expenses in
connection therewith, including reasonable attorney’s fees;
(g) To
enter into any contracts with responsible insurance companies to provide for the
payment of all or any part of the benefits provided under the Plan, and to
disburse under any such contracts any funds held by it;
(h) To
make payments from the Trust in accordance with the written instructions of
Participants. All payments made to Participants will be to the last address
recorded in the Plan’s records as maintained by the record keeper;
(i) To
make execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all instruments that it deems
necessary or appropriate to carry out the powers granted herein;
(j) Upon
express direction by the Committee, to transfer assets of the Trust to itself as
Trustee or to any other trustee of any trust which has been qualified under
Section 401(a) of the Code and is exempt from tax under Section 501(a) of the
Code, and which is maintained by it or such other trustee as a medium for the
collective investment of funds of pension, profit-sharing or other employee
benefit trusts, in which event such trust shall be deemed to be a part of the
Plan, and to withdraw any assets of the Trust so transferred;
(k) To
lend to Plan Participants amounts of money upon such terms and conditions, as
the Plan may direct, in accordance with the provisions of the Plan, the
Participant Loan Policy Statement and the Loan Program, as
applicable;
(l) To
delegate to RadioShack and/or the Committee by agreement in writing, such
ministerial and limited discretionary duties as may be agreed upon, including
but not limited to the maintenance of records of Accounts of Participants and
the quarterly determination of value of each Participant’s Account;
and
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(m) To
do all other acts in its judgment which are legal, necessary and desirable for
the proper administration of the Trust, in accordance with the provisions of the
Plan, although the power to do such acts is not specifically set forth
herein.
The
powers granted to the Trustee under this Section 7.2 shall be exercised by the
Trustee; however, the Committee may at any time and from time to time, by
written direction to the Trustee, require the Trustee to obtain the written
approval of the Committee before exercising any such powers. Any such
direction may be of a continuing nature or otherwise, and may be revoked in
writing by the Committee at any time. Neither the Trustee nor any
other person shall be under any duty to question any such direction of the
Committee, and the Trustee shall as promptly as possible comply with any
directions given by the Committee hereunder. The Trustee shall not be
responsible for any loss which may result from the failure or refusal of the
Committee to give any such required approval.
7.3 Investment of the Trust
Fund. The
Plan and Trust are intended to invest in qualifying employer securities as
defined in Section 407(d)(5) of the ERISA, and shall be construed to permit
investment of up to 100% of the Trust Fund in such
securities. Therefore to the extent directed by the Committee or the
Participants (whichever is applicable), the Trustee may invest all or
substantially all of the assets of the Trust Fund in Company Stock; provided,
however, that the Committee may, by written instructions to the Trustee, direct
it to invest any cash held by the Trust for the purposes and needs of this Plan
and Trust in short-term securities issued by the United States of America or any
agency or instrumentality thereof or in any other short-term or money market
funds, as are approved by the Committee.
The
Committee from time to time may direct the Trustee to establish one or more
separate investment accounts within the Trust, each separate account being
hereinafter referred to as an “Investment Fund”. The Trustee shall
transfer to each such Investment Fund such portion of the assets of the Trust as
each Participant directs in accordance with the specific provisions of the Plan
and in the manner provided in the Administrative Services Agreement between
RadioShack and the the recordkeeper. The Trustee shall invest and
reinvest the assets which have been allocated to an Investment Fund in
accordance with the Participants’ instructions, unless such Investment Fund is
otherwise restricted by RadioShack or the Committee to be invested solely in
Company Stock; provided, however that neither RadioShack nor the Committee may
restrict the investment election of a Qualified Participant in any manner that
is contrary to the provisions of Section 5.6 of this Plan. The
Trustee is under no duty to review the investment decisions of the Participants
as regards to any Investment Fund.
7.4 Payments from the
Fund. The
Trustee may from time to time, on the written direction of a Participant,
Alternate Payee or a Participant’s beneficiary, make payments out of the Trust
Fund, in such manner, in such amounts, and for such purposes as may be specified
in the written directions of the Participant, Alternate
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Payee
or a Participant’s beneficiary, and upon any such payment being made, the amount
thereof shall no longer constitute a part of the Trust
Fund. Payments by the Trustee may be made by its check to the
order of the Participant, the Participant’s designated rollover institution or
Beneficiary and mailed to the Participant, the Participant’s designated rollover
institution or Beneficiary at the address last furnished to the
Trustee. The Trustee shall have no responsibility to ascertain that
the direction to make payments from the Trust Fund complies with the terms of
the Plan or of any applicable law or the direction’s effect for tax purposes or
otherwise; nor shall the Trustee have any responsibility to see to the
application of any disbursement. The Trustee shall not be required to
make any disbursement in excess of the net realizable value of the assets of the
Trust Fund in the Participant or Beneficiary’s Account at the time of the
disbursement. The Trustee shall not be responsible in any way for the
application of such payments or for the adequacy of the Trust Fund to meet and
discharge any and all liabilities under the Plan.
7.5 Fees and Expenses of the
Trustee. The
Trustee shall be paid such reasonable compensation as shall from time to time be
agreed upon in writing by RadioShack and the Trustee. All fees and
expenses of the Trust shall be paid as provided in writing between RadioShack
and the Trustee.
7.6 Accounting. The
Trustee shall keep accurate and detailed accounts of all investments, receipts,
disbursements and other transactions hereunder.
Within
a reasonable time after the close of the Plan Year and within one hundred twenty
(120) days following the resignation or removal of the Trustee or termination of
the Plan, the Trustee shall render a complete accounting for the Plan Year
preceding or then ended, as the case may be, to a firm of independent public
accountants to be selected by RadioShack. Such accountants shall have
full authority to examine the Trustee’s records and accounts relating to the
Plan and to submit written reports thereon to RadioShack.
Within
a reasonable time after the close of the taxable year of the Trust, which is
hereby established to end on December 31 each year, and within one hundred
twenty (120) days following the resignation or removal of the Trustee or
termination of the Trust, the Trustee shall render a complete accounting for the
Taxable Year preceding or then ended, as the case may be, to RadioShack or to a
firm of independent public accountants to be selected by
RadioShack. Such accountants shall have full authority to examine the
Trustee’s records and accounts relating to the Trust and to submit written
reports thereon to RadioShack.
Within
a reasonable time after the close of the Plan Year, the Trustee shall cause to
be transmitted to each Participant, in such form as the Trustee shall determine
subject to the Committee’s approval, a statement setting forth the interest of
each such Participant in the Plan. Such statement shall be deemed
correct unless written notice to the contrary shall be delivered to the Trustee
by a Participant within thirty (30) days following the mailing or delivery of
such statement to the Participant.
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Reports
relating to the Trustee’s accounts prepared by independent accountants selected
by RadioShack shall be maintained at the principal office of RadioShack and
shall be available for inspection by interested persons
hereunder. Subject to applicable law and to the right of a
Participant to challenge the correctness of an annual statement submitted to him
by the Trustee, the approval by the independent accountants of the Trustee’s
account shall constitute a complete release and discharge of the Trustee from
any liability in respect to any act or transaction reflected in the Trustee’s
accounts. In the absence of the filing in writing with the Trustee by
the Committee or a Participant of exceptions or objections to any such account
within one year after the receipt thereof, the Committee shall be deemed to have
approved such account; and in such case, or upon the written approval of the
Committee of any such account, the Trustee, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, shall be released, relieved and discharged with respect to all
matters and things set forth in such account. The foregoing
provisions notwithstanding, no person other than RadioShack or the Committee may
require an accounting or the furnishing of a statement or bring an action
against the Trustee with respect to the trust created hereby or its actions as
Trustee.
The
Committee shall arrange for each Investment Manager who may be appointed
pursuant to Section 7.10 and each insurance company issuing contracts held by
the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.11 to furnish the Trustee with such valuations
and reports as are necessary to enable the Trustee to fulfill its obligations
under this Section 7.6 and the Trustee shall be fully protected in relying on
such valuations and reports.
Notwithstanding
any of the foregoing provisions, the Trustee shall not be liable for any failure
to submit an account or statement in timely fashion where its failure to act is
based on the omission of RadioShack to name a firm of independent accountants to
whom such accounting is to be rendered or is based on the failure of either
RadioShack or the Committee to supply information to the Trustee necessary to
the completion of the accounting or of the statement. In any
proceeding instituted by the Trustee, RadioShack or the Committee or all of them
with respect to any account of the Trustee, only RadioShack, the Committee and
the Trustee shall be necessary parties.
7.7 Direction by RadioShack or
the Committee and Authorization to Protect the Trustee. Any
action by RadioShack pursuant to any of the provisions of this Agreement shall
be evidenced by a resolution of its Board of Directors certified to the Trustee
over the signature of any person authorized by the said Board of Directors to
take such written instrument or resolution so certified to it. All
orders, requests and instructions of the Committee shall be in writing, signed
by at least two members of the Committee, unless the Committee has directed
otherwise in accordance with Section 2.4, and the Trustee may act and shall be
fully protected in so acting in accordance with such orders, requests and
instructions. Whenever the Trustee is required or authorized to take
any action hereunder pursuant to any written direction or determination of
RadioShack or the Committee, such direction or determination shall be sufficient
protection to the Trustee if contained in writing and signed by the persons
authorized to execute such documents on behalf of RadioShack or the Committee,
as the case may
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be,
pursuant to the Plan. Subject to applicable law, the Trustee shall
not be liable for any loss to or diminution of the Trust Fund except when the
same may be due to its negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith, and the
Trustee shall in no event have any responsibility for the properties except
those actually received by it.
7.8 Removal and Resignation;
Successor Trustee. The
Trustee may be removed by RadioShack at any time upon ninety (90) days’ notice
in writing to the Trustee and Committee. The Trustee may resign at
any time upon ninety (90) days’ notice in writing to RadioShack and to the
Committee. Upon such removal or resignation of the Trustee,
RadioShack shall appoint a successor trustee, which shall be a bank or trust
company having combined capital and surplus of not less than Twenty Five Million
Dollars ($25,000,000.00), which shall have the same powers and duties as those
conferred upon the Trustee hereunder. Upon acceptance of such
appointment by the successor trustee, the Trustee shall assign, transfer and pay
over to such successor trustee the funds and properties then constituting the
Trust Fund. The Trustee is authorized, however, to reserve such sum
of money, as it may deem advisable, for payment of its fees and expenses in
connection with the settlement of its account or otherwise, and any balance of
such reserve remaining after the payment of such fees and expenses
shall be paid over to the successor trustee.
7.9 Voting and Exercise of Other
Rights.
(a) Tender
Offer.
(i) Notwithstanding
any provision contained in the Plan to the contrary, the provisions of this
Section shall apply in the event any “Person” (as the term person is used for
purposes of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the 0000 Xxx) either alone or in
conjunction with others, makes a tender offer, or exchange offer, or otherwise
offers to purchase, or solicits an offer to sell to such Person, one percent or
more of the outstanding Company Stock (hereinafter referred to as a “Tender
Offer”).
(ii) The
Trustee may not take any action in response to a Tender Offer except as
otherwise provided in this Section. Upon commencement of a Tender
Offer, RadioShack shall notify the Trustee, and the Trustee, unless otherwise
agreed to in writing by RadioShack, shall notify each Participant or Beneficiary
holding Company Stock in an Account of such Tender Offer and use its best
efforts to timely distribute or cause to be distributed to each Participant or
Beneficiary all information, documents, and other materials, provided by
RadioShack at its expense, which are distributed to shareholders of RadioShack
with respect to the Tender Offer. Each Participant or Beneficiary
shall be entitled to direct the Trustee to sell, offer to sell, exchange or
otherwise dispose of the Company Stock allocated to such Participant’s or
Beneficiary’s Accounts in accordance with the provisions, conditions and terms
of such Tender Offer and the provisions of this Section. Such a
Participant or Beneficiary shall, as a named fiduciary described in Section
403(a)(1) of ERISA, direct the Trustee with respect to the tender of such shares
of Company Stock which are allocated to the Accounts of the Participant or
Beneficiary. Reasonable means shall be employed by the Trustee to
provide confidentiality with respect to the tendering directions by
each
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Participant
or Beneficiary, and the Trustee shall hold such directions in confidence and
shall not divulge or release such directions to any person, including the
Company or any director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, it being the
intent to provide that the Company and its directors, officers, employees and
agents cannot determine the tendering directions given by any Participant or
Beneficiary. Such instructions shall be in such form and shall be
filed in such manner and at such time as the Trustee may prescribe.
(iii) A
Participant or Beneficiary who has directed the Trustee to tender or exchange
Company Stock may, at any time prior to the tender or exchange offer withdrawal
date, or such earlier date as established by the Trustee (the “Withdrawal
Date”), instruct the Trustee to withdraw, and the Trustee shall withdraw, such
Company Stock from the tender or exchange offer prior to the Withdrawal
Date. A Participant or Beneficiary shall not be limited, except as to
the terms of the offer, as to the number of instructions to tender or exchange
or withdraw which a Participant or Beneficiary may give to the
Trustee.
(iv) The
Trustee shall sell, offer to sell, exchange or otherwise dispose of the shares
of Company Stock allocated to a Participant’s or Beneficiary’s Accounts with
respect to which it has received directions from the Participant or Beneficiary
to do so under this Section and which have not been withdrawn. The
proceeds of a disposition directed by a Participant or Beneficiary shall be
allocated to such Participant’s or Beneficiary’s Accounts in proportion to the
number of shares of Company Stock from such Accounts which the Participant or
Beneficiary instructed the Trustee to sell, exchange or otherwise dispose
of. Section 5.3 of the Plan provides for additional investment
requirements. Provided that the Plan provides no direction, and
pending receipt of directions from a Participant, Alternate Payee or Beneficiary
as to the investment of the proceeds of the tendered shares, the Trustee shall
invest the proceeds as the Committee shall direct.
(v) To the
extent to which Participants or Beneficiaries do not instruct the Trustee, or do
not issue valid directions to the Trustee, to sell, offer to sell, exchange or
otherwise dispose of the Company Stock allocated to their Accounts, such
Participants or Beneficiaries shall be deemed to have directed the Trustee that
their respective Accounts remain invested in Company Stock subject to all
provisions of the Plan.
(vi) Unless
otherwise authorized by the Code or the rules, opinions or regulations
thereunder, following the completion of a Tender Offer, the Committee shall
direct the substitution of new Company Stock for Company Stock or for the
proceeds of any disposition of Company Stock to the extent provided in the Plan;
provided, however, that any such substitute Company Stock must be publicly
traded securities.
(b) Voting of Stock by
Participants or Beneficiaries. Notwithstanding
any provision contained in the Plan to the contrary:
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(i) Each
Participant or Beneficiary who timely provides instructions to the Trustee shall
be entitled to direct the Trustee how to vote shares of Company Stock or other
securities allocated to such Participant’s or Beneficiary’s Accounts in
accordance with this Section. In order to implement these voting directions,
RadioShack or the Trustee shall provide or cause to be provided each Participant
or Beneficiary with proxy solicitation materials or other notices or information
statements which are distributed to RadioShack shareholders, together with a
form requesting confidential instructions as to the manner in which shares of
Company Stock allocated to the Participant’s or Beneficiary’s Accounts are to be
voted. Each Participant or Beneficiary shall, as a named fiduciary described in
Section 403(a)(1) of ERISA, direct the Trustee with respect to the vote of such
shares of Company Stock which are allocated to the Accounts of the Participant
or Beneficiary. Reasonable means shall be employed by the Trustee to
provide confidentiality with respect to the voting by such Participant or
Beneficiary, and the Trustee shall hold such directions in confidence and shall
not divulge or release such directions to any person, including the Company or
any director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, it being the intent to
provide that the Company (and its directors, officers, employees and agents)
cannot determine the direction given by any Participant or
Beneficiary. Such instructions shall be in such form and shall be
filed in such manner and at such time as the Trustee may prescribe.
(ii) The
Trustee shall vote all shares of Company Stock, as defined in Section 1.7, which
are allocated to Participants’ or Beneficiaries’ Company Stock ESOP Fund for
which it does not receive timely or valid voting instructions, in the same
proportion as shares of Company Stock, as defined in Section 1.7 which are
allocated to Participant’s and Beneficiaries’ Company Stock ESOP Fund under the
Plan for which it does receive timely and valid voting
instructions.
(c) Participants,
Etc. For
purposes of this Section, the term “Participant” shall include any Participant,
Inactive Participant, former Participant or Retired Participant.
(d) Purchases and Sales of
Company Stock. To
implement transactions regarding investments in Company Stock, including
purchases, redemptions and exchanges, the Trustee shall purchase or sell Company
Stock on the open market, as the case may be, as soon as practicable following
the date and time of receipt by the Trustee of all funds, documents and/or
information necessary from RadioShack, a third party, Alternate Payee,
Participant or Beneficiary, as applicable, to effect such purchase or
sale. The Trustee shall purchase and sell Company Stock on the open
market consistent with its fiduciary responsibilities but in accordance with
written procedures established between the Trustee and the
Company. The Trustee may accumulate all like purchases into one or
more batches and may accumulate all like sales as a result of receiving
instructions for distributions, redemptions and exchanges out of Company Stock
into one or more batches, but shall not be required to do so.
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The
Trustee may purchase or sell Company Stock from or to RadioShack if the purchase
or sale is for no more than adequate consideration (within the meaning of
Section 3(18) of ERISA) and no commission is charged. To the extent
that Company contributions under the Plan are to be invested in Company Stock,
RadioShack may transfer Company Stock to the Trustee in lieu of
cash. The number of shares to be transferred shall be determined by
dividing the amount of the contribution by the closing price of Company Stock on
the New York Stock Exchange on the trading day as of which the contribution is
made.
The
Trustee and RadioShack may, in separate written procedures, agree upon such
prescribed dates for purchases of Company Stock by RadioShack, and sales of
Company Stock to RadioShack, and upon such rules and conventions in connection
with the purchase and sales of Company Stock as they may find mutually
acceptable.
(e) Securities Law
Reports
. RadioShack
shall be responsible for filing all reports required under federal or state
securities laws with respect to the Trust’s ownership of Company Stock,
including without limitation, any reports required under Sections 13 or 16 of
the 1934 Act, and shall immediately notify the Trustee in writing of any
requirement to stop purchases or sales of Company Stock pending the filing of
any report. The Trustee shall provide to RadioShack such information
on the Trust’s ownership of Company Stock as RadioShack may reasonably request
in order to comply with federal or state securities laws.
7.10 Appointment of Investment
Managers. The
Committee from time to time may appoint one or more Investment Managers (as that
term is defined in Section 3(38) of ERISA) to manage (including the power to
acquire and dispose of) all or any portion or portions of the
Trust. The Committee may enter into such agreements setting forth the
terms and conditions of any such appointment as it determines to be
appropriate. The Committee shall retain the right to remove and
discharge any Investment Manager. The compensation of such Investment
Managers shall be an expense payable by RadioShack. The Committee
shall notify the Trustee of the appointment of any Investment Manager by
delivering to the Trustee an executed copy of the agreement under which such
Investment Manager was appointed together with a written acknowledgment by such
Investment Manager that it is:
(a) a
fiduciary with respect to the Plan,
(b) bonded
as required by ERISA, and
(c) either
(i) registered
as an investment advisor under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,
or
(ii) a bank
as defined in said Act, or
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(iii) an
insurance company qualified to perform investment management services under the
laws of more than one state of the United States.
The
Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon such notice until such time as the
Committee shall notify and direct the Trustee in writing that another Investment
Manager has been appointed, or in the alternative, that the Investment Manager
has been removed. In each case where an Investment Manager is
appointed, the Committee shall determine the assets of the Trust to be allocated
to the Investment Manager from time to time and shall issue appropriate
instructions to the Trustee with respect thereto. The Trustee shall
carry out the written instructions of any Investment Manager with respect to the
management and investment of the assets then under control of such Investment
Manager and shall not incur any liability on account of its compliance with such
instructions. Purchase and sale orders may be placed without the
intervention of the Trustee and, in such event, the Trustee’s sole obligation
shall be to make payment for purchased securities and deliver those that have
been sold when advised of the transaction. The Trustee shall not
incur any liability on account of its failure to exercise any of the powers
delegated to any Investment Manager because of the failure of such Investment
Manager to give instructions for the management of the assets under the control
of such Investment Manager. The Trustee shall be under no duty to
question any Investment Manager, nor to review any securities or other property
acquired or retained at the direction of any Investment Manager, nor to make any
suggestions to any Investment Manager in connection therewith. The
Trustee shall have no obligation to vote upon any securities over which the
Investment Manager has investment management control unless the Trustee is
instructed in writing by the Investment Manager as to the voting of such
securities within a reasonable time before the time for voting thereof
expires.
Each
Investment Manager shall have the authority to exercise all the powers of the
Trustee hereunder with respect to assets under its control but only to the
extent that such powers relate to the investment of such assets.
7.11 Insurance
Contracts. If
provided in the Administrative Services Agreement, the Committee may direct the
Trustee to receive and hold or apply assets of the Trust to the purchase of
individual or group insurance or annuity contracts (“policies” or “contracts”)
issued by an insurance company and in a form approved by the Committee
(including contracts under which the contract holder is granted options to
purchase insurance or annuity benefits), or financial agreements which are
backed by group insurance or annuity contracts (“Financial
Agreements”). If such investments are to be made, the Committee shall
direct the Trustee to execute and deliver such applications and other documents
as are necessary to establish record ownership, to value such policies,
contracts or Financial Agreements under the method of valuation selected by the
Committee, and to record or report such values to the Committee or any
investment manager selected by the Committee, in the form and manner agreed to
by the Committee.
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The
Committee may direct the Trustee to exercise or may exercise directly the powers
of contract holder under any policy, contract or Financial Agreement, and the
Trustee shall exercise such powers only upon direction of the
Committee. The Trustee shall have no authority to act in its own
discretion, with respect to the terms, acquisition, valuation, continued holding
and/or disposition of any such policy, contract or Financial Agreement or any
asset held thereunder. The Trustee shall be under no duty to question
any direction of the Committee or to review the form of any such policy,
contract or Financial Agreement or the selection of the issuer thereof, or to
make recommendations to the Committee or to any issuer with respect to the form
of any policy, contract or Financial Agreement.
The
Trustee shall be fully protected in acting in accordance with written directions
of the Committee, and shall be under no liability for any loss of any kind which
may result by reason of any action taken or omitted by it in accordance with any
direction of the Committee, or by reason of inaction in the absence of written
directions from the Committee. In the event that the Committee
directs that any monies or property be paid or delivered to the contract holder
other than for the benefit of specific individual beneficiaries, the Trustee
agrees to accept such monies or property as assets of the Trust subject to all
the terms hereof.
7.12 Payment of
Taxes. The
Trustee may pay out of the Trust Fund (or the appropriate Investment Fund or
Funds) any and all taxes of any and all kinds, including without limitation
property taxes and income taxes levied or assessed under existing or future laws
upon or in respect of the Trust Fund or any monies, securities or other property
forming a part thereof or the income therefrom subject to the terms of any
agreements or contracts made with respect to trust investments which make other
provision for such tax payments. The Trustee may assume that any
taxes assessed on or in respect of the Trust Fund or its income are lawfully
assessed unless, after giving the Committee 30 days written notice of such
assessment, the Committee shall in writing advise the Trustee that it believes
such taxes may be unlawfully assessed. In the event that the
Committee shall so advise the Trustee, the Trustee will, if so requested in
writing by the Committee, contest the validity of such taxes in any manner
deemed appropriate by RadioShack but at the expense of the Trust Fund; or
RadioShack may contest the validity of any such taxes at the expense of the
Trust Fund and in the name and on behalf of the Trustee; and the Trustee agrees
to execute all documents, instruments, claims and petitions necessary or
advisable in the opinion of RadioShack for the refund, abatement, reduction or
elimination of any such taxes. At the direction of the Committee, the
Trustee shall collect all income tax to be withheld from Participant
distributions and shall report and pay over such taxes to the Internal Revenue
Service and/or any state or local equivalent, except for payments made directly
by an insurer to a Participant or Participant’s beneficiary under an annuity or
insurance contract, if applicable.
7.13 Indemnification.
RadioShack agrees to indemnify and hold the Trustee harmless from any loss,
damage, liability, claim, cost and expense (including
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reasonable
and necessary legal fees) which the Trustee may incur due to RadioShack’s breach
of this Agreement or the negligent act or omission or willful misconduct by
RadioShack including without limitation, any violation by RadioShack of the
terms of the Plan, ERISA or any applicable federal and state laws, the Trustee’s
reliance in good faith on any information or directions provided by RadioShack,
the Committee, an Investment Manager appointed by RadioShack pursuant to Section
7.10, or any other trustee, record-keeper or third party designated by
RadioShack to represent the Plan, or any Participant or Beneficiary, or the
Trustee’s making benefit payments based on fraudulent or unauthorized
instructions received from a person from whom the Trustee is authorized to take
direction, except to the extent any such loss, damage, liability, claim, cost or
expense arises from the Trustee’s breach of this Agreement or the Trustee’s
negligent act or omission, willful misconduct or bad faith. Any
waiver by the Trustee of a signature guarantee requirement relating to the
assets of the Trust will not be construed as a breach of this Agreement,
negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith by the Trustee.
The
Trustee will indemnify and hold RadioShack harmless from and against any and all
loss, damage, liability, claim, cost and expense (including reasonable and
necessary legal fees) which RadioShack may incur due to the Trustee’s breach of
this Agreement, or the negligent act or omission or willful misconduct or acts
done in bad faith by the Trustee including, without limitation, any violation by
the Trustee of the terms of the Plan, ERISA, or any applicable federal law or
the Texas Trust Code except to the extent that the Trustee has acted in good
faith, without willful misconduct and without negligence, on the direction of
RadioShack, the Committee, an Investment Manager appointed by RadioShack under
Section 7.10, or any other trustee, record-keeper or third party designated by
RadioShack to represent the Plan, or any Participant or Beneficiary or
RadioShack’s reliance on inaccurate information the Trustee (or any agent which
the Trustee has appointed to represent the Plan) has provided to RadioShack, and
except to the extent any such loss, damage, liability, claim, cost or expense is
due to RadioShack’s breach of this Agreement, negligent act or omission, willful
misconduct or bad faith.
7.14 Notice of
Agreement. No
person dealing with the Trustee shall be required to take any notice of this
Agreement, but all persons so dealing shall be protected in treating the Trustee
as the absolute owner with full power of disposition of all the monies,
securities and other property of the Trust, and all persons dealing with the
Trustee are released from inquiry into the decision or authority of the Trustee
and from seeing to the application of monies, securities or other property paid
or delivered to the Trustee.
ARTICLE
VIII
AMENDMENT
AND TERMINATION
8.1 Amendment. RadioShack
shall have the right at any time, and from time to time: (a) to amend
this Agreement in such manner as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to
qualify this Agreement and the Trust created hereby under the applicable
provisions of the Code, and any such amendment by its terms may be
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retroactive;
and (b) to amend this Agreement in any other manner. However, except
as otherwise permitted or required by law, no such amendment shall authorize or
permit any part of the Trust Fund (other than such part as is required to pay
taxes and administration expenses) to be used for or diverted to purposes other
than for the exclusive benefit of the Participants or their Beneficiaries or
estates, no such amendment shall cause or permit any portion of the Trust Fund
to revert to or become the property of the Company, no such amendment which
affects the rights, duties or responsibilities of the Trustee may be made
without the Trustee’s written consent, and no such amendment shall reduce
benefits accrued to Participant’s Accounts or reduce a Participant’s vested
percentage in his accounts. Any such amendment shall become effective
upon delivery of a written instrument, executed by order of RadioShack’s Board
of Directors, to the Trustee and the endorsement of the Trustee of its written
consent thereto.
No
amendment to the Plan shall be effective to eliminate or restrict an optional
form of benefit. The preceding sentence shall not apply to a Plan
amendment that eliminates or restricts the ability of a Participant to receive
payment of his or her Account balance under a particular optional form of
benefit if the amendment provides a single-sum distribution form that is
otherwise identical to the optional form of benefit being eliminated or
restricted. For this purpose, a single-sum distribution form is
otherwise identical in all respects to the eliminated or restricted optional
form benefit (or would be identical except that it provides greater rights to
the Participant) except with respect to the timing of payment after
commencement.
8.2 Termination. RadioShack
has established the Plan in the expectation and with the confidence that it will
continue in effect indefinitely. However, due to the vicissitudes of
general economic and business conditions which may affect RadioShack’s ability
so to continue the Plan, it must, and does hereby, reserve the right to
terminate the Plan in whole or in part at any time. Such termination
shall be effected by delivery to the Trustee and the Committee of written notice
of such action by RadioShack.
Upon
termination or partial termination of the Plan, or upon complete discontinuance
of employer contributions, the Accounts of the Participant shall be non
forfeitable. Upon termination of the Plan and Trust without the
establishment or maintenance of another defined contribution plan (other than an
employee stock ownership plan or simplified employee pension) and the merger or
consolidation of this Plan’s assets therewith as provided in Section 10.5, the
Committee shall direct the Trustee to distribute all assets remaining in the
Trust Fund, after payment of any expenses properly chargeable against the said
Trust Fund, to the Participants in accordance with the amount credited to the
Accounts of such Participants as of the date of such termination, in cash or in
kind and in such manner as the Committee shall determine. In the event the
Trustee makes a distribution in kind, pursuant to instructions of the Committee,
the assets so distributed shall be valued for the purposes of such distribution
at their fair market value at the date of such distribution. The
Committee’s determination shall be conclusive upon all persons.
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Upon
the happening of any event, the enactment of any law, and issuance of any rule,
regulation, direction, command, demand, or order of any court, administrative,
regulative or other agency, or of any group, or organization, or any individual
on behalf of same, which in any way or manner, or to any extent whatsoever,
impairs or prevents the free exercise of the uncontrolled discretion of the
Board of Directors of RadioShack in connection with terminating this Agreement
and the Trust hereby created, then and in any such event, such Agreement and
Trust shall thereupon, ipso facto, be terminated.
ARTICLE
IX
MISCELLANEOUS
9.1 Notices and
Forms. All
notices, applications, designations, forms and other communications required or
provided for hereunder shall, unless otherwise directed by the Committee, be in
writing and shall be executed at the time, in the manner and form prescribed by
the Committee, and if directed to RadioShack or the Committee shall be mailed by
first class mail to the Employee Benefits office and shall be deemed given when
received, and if directed to the Trustee, shall be mailed by first class mail
and delivered to the Trustee and shall be deemed to have been given when
received by the Trustee.
9.2 Plan Not an Employment
Contract. The
adoption and maintenance of the Plan shall not be deemed to constitute a
contract between the Company and any employee or Participant or to be a
consideration for or an inducement to or condition of employment of any
person. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to give any
employee or Participant the right to be retained in the employment of the
Company or to interfere with the right of the Company to terminate the
employment of an employee or Participant at any time.
9.3 Non
Assignability. It
is a condition of this Plan, and the rights of each Participant shall be subject
thereto, that, except as may be required by (a) a court of competent
jurisdiction or the Department of Labor if a Participant who is a fiduciary of
the Plan has violated certain fiduciary duties mandated by ERISA or (b) Section
401(a)(13) of the Code or Section 206(d) of ERISA, no right or interest of any
Participant in and to the Trust Fund shall be voluntarily assigned, pledged or
hypothecated in whole or in part, and neither the Company, the Committee, nor
the Trustee need give any effect to any purported assignment filed with them or
of which they have notice.
9.4 Qualified Domestic Relations
Order. In
the event a “domestic relations order” (“Court Order”), as defined in Section
414(p)(1)(B) of the Code, is received by the Plan assigning all or a portion of
a Participant’s account to an alternate payee and the Committee determines the
Court Order complies with Section 414(p) of the Code, the Account of the
Participant will be divided among the Participant and the Alternate Payee(s) in
accordance with the provisions of the Court Order. The Alternate
Payee(s) Account(s) will be distributed in accordance with the provisions of
Article VI of the Plan.
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For
purpose of distribution, the Alternate Payee(s) designated by the Court Order
(if not employed by the Company) will be considered terminated from employment
effective the date the Court Order is determined by the Committee to be a
qualified domestic relations order pursuant to said Section 414(p) of
the Code.
9.5 Immunity from
Liability. No
director, officer, or employee of the Company shall be personally liable for any
act or omission to act in connection with the operation or administration of the
Plan, except for his personal willful misconduct or gross
negligence.
RadioShack
intends, as a matter of accommodation, to assist both the Trustee and the
Participants in the delivery of forms, statements, applications, records,
notices, remittances, and other documents required or provided for under this
Agreement, and in so doing will endeavor in good faith to exercise ordinary
diligence, but in no event shall the Company be liable for any failure on its
part or the part of its officers, directors or employees for any failure so to
act.
9.6 Multiple
Copies. This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be
deemed the original.
9.7 Gender and
Number. Wherever
any words are used herein in the masculine gender, they shall be construed as
though they were also used in the feminine gender, in all cases where they would
so apply, and wherever any words are used herein in the singular form, they
shall be construed as though they were also used in the plural form, in all
cases where they would so apply.
9.8 Construction of
Agreement. This
Agreement shall be construed according to the laws of the State of
Texas.
9.9 Claims
Procedures. Claims
for benefits under the Plan shall be governed by the claims procedures
maintained by the Company in compliance with Section 503 of ERISA and made
available to Participants.
9.10 Exempt
Loans.
(a) Trust May Incur
Loan. The
Committee may direct the Trustee to incur a loan on behalf of the Trust Fund in
a manner and under conditions which will cause the loan to be an Exempt
Loan. The proceeds of each Exempt Loan shall be used, within a
reasonable time after the loan is obtained, to purchase Company Stock or to
repay the Exempt Loan or any prior Exempt Loan. Any Exempt Loan shall
provide for a reasonable rate of interest, an ascertainable period of maturity
and shall be without recourse against the Trust Fund. Any Exempt Loan
shall be secured solely by shares of Company Stock acquired with the proceeds of
the Exempt Loan and shares of Company Stock used as collateral for a prior
Exempt Loan. Company Stock acquired with the proceeds of an Exempt
Loan (whether or not pledged as collateral) shall be placed in a Suspense
Account and released from the Suspense Account in the manner specified in
Subsection (b) as the Exempt Loan is repaid. Company
Stock
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released
from the Suspense Account shall be allocated to the Company Stock ESOP Fund (as
described in Section 4.12) for each Participant and
Beneficiary. No person entitled to payment under an Exempt Loan
shall have recourse against any assets of the Trust Fund other than the Company
Stock used as collateral for the Exempt Loan, Employer Contributions of cash
that are available to meet the obligations of the Exempt Loan, and earnings
attributable to the Company Stock used as collateral. Employer
Contributions made with respect to any Plan Year during which an Exempt Loan
remains unpaid, and earnings on such contributions, shall be deemed available to
meet obligations under the Exempt Loan, unless otherwise provided by the
Committee at the time the Employer Contributions are made. In the
event of default upon an Exempt Loan, the value of Plan assets transferred in
satisfaction of the loan must not exceed the amount of the
default. If the lender is a disqualified person (as defined in
Section 4975 of the Code, a loan must provide for the transfer of Plan assets
upon default only up to and to the extent of the failure of the Plan to meet the
payment schedule of the loan.
(b) Release of Company
Stock. Any
pledge of Company Stock under this Section shall provide for the release of
shares pledged as collateral for an Exempt Loan upon the payment of any portion
of the principal and/or interest on the Exempt Loan. Each Plan Year,
the number of shares of Company Stock released shall equal the number of
encumbered shares held immediately before release for such Plan Year, multiplied
by a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of principal paid on the
Exempt Loan for the Plan Year, and the denominator of which is the sum of the
numerator and the principal to be paid on the Exempt Loan for all future Plan
Years, determined in accordance with Treasury Regulations section
54.4975-7. At the option of RadioShack, interest paid and to be paid
on the Exempt Loan may be included in the numerator and denominator of the
fraction. In the event shares of more than one class of Company Stock
are pledged as collateral for an Exempt Loan, the fraction described in this
Subsection shall be applied uniformly to each such class of Company Stock, and
shares and fractional shares of each such class of Company Stock shall be
allocated in the same proportion to the Company Stock ESOP Fund on behalf of
each Participant receiving an allocation. If the release of shares is
determined with reference to principal payments only, the following additional
rules shall apply: (1) the loan must provide for annual payments of principal
and interest at a cumulative rate that is not less rapid at any time than level
annual payments of such amount for 10 years; (2) the interest included in any
payment is disregarded only to the extent that it would be determined to be
interest under standard loan amortization tables; and (3) the release may no
longer be determined by reference to only principal payments from the time that,
by reason of a renewal, extension or refinancing, the sum of the expired
duration of the Exempt Loan, the renewal period, the extension period, and the
duration of the new Exempt Loan exceeds 10 years.
(c) Payments on Exempt
Loan. Payment
of principal and interest on any Exempt Loan shall be made by the Trustee at the
direction of the Committee solely from (i) Employer Contributions available to
meet obligations under the Exempt Loan, (ii) earnings from the investment of
such contributions, (iii) earnings attributable to Company
Stock pledged as collateral for the Exempt Loan, (iv) dividends attributable to
Company Stock held in the Company Stock ESOP Fund on behalf of a Participant,
and (v) the proceeds of a loan used to repay the Exempt
Loan. Employer Contributions and earnings available to repay an
Exempt Loan must be accounted for separately by the Committee until the Exempt
Loan is repaid.
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ARTICLE
X
ADOPTION
OF THE PLAN BY
AFFILIATED
AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES
10.1 Method of
Adoption. Any
Affiliated Business by resolution of its board of directors may adopt the Plan
hereby created, provided that in so doing it adopts and accepts all of the
provisions of this Agreement as it exists at the time of such
adoption. Both the written consent of RadioShack and the resolution
of the Affiliated Business adopting the Plan shall be delivered to the Trustee
and the effective date of adoption shall be that specified in such written
consent and resolution. From and after the effective date when such
Affiliated Business shall have become a party to this Agreement, it shall be
known as an “Employer.”
(a) The right and authority
to select the Trustee and any successor trustee and to appoint the Committee
shall be vested in and exercisable solely by RadioShack.
(b) Separate Accounts shall
be maintained by the Trustee for Participants from each Employer, and such
Accounts shall receive and be funded from contributions of those Participants
and from contributions from the particular Employer employing such
Participants.
(c) Separate records shall be
maintained for the Accounts of Participants of each Employer, but such Accounts
shall be administered by the Trustee and the Committee on the same basis as
those of the Participants of RadioShack.
(d) An Employer (other than
RadioShack) shall have the right at any time to discontinue its participation
hereunder and to terminate, as to itself, this Agreement and the Trust created
hereunder, by delivering to the Trustee written notice of such termination,
accompanied by a certified resolution of the board of directors of such Employer
authorizing termination, and such termination shall become effective when notice
is received by the Trustee. Upon discontinuance of contributions or
termination of the Trust, as to itself, by an Employer, the Trustee shall
segregate from the Trust Fund the interests of such Employer, represented by the
value of the Accounts of the Participants who are employees of such Employer, as
such Accounts are constituted at the time of termination by such Employer, as
determined and directed by the Committee. The Accounts of such
Participants shall become wholly non forfeitable as of the date of such
segregation by the Trustee. The Committee shall direct the Trustee to
distribute to such Participants the total value of their respective Accounts in
cash and/or in kind, provided that in the event the Trustee is directed to make
a distribution of all or a portion of each Participant’s accounts in kind, the
assets
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so
distributed shall be valued for the purposes of such distribution at their fair
market value at the time of such distribution. The Committee’s
determination shall be conclusive on all persons.
(e) Whenever an employee
transfers from one Employer to another, he shall be permitted to continue in
this Plan to the extent that such subsequent Employer participates in the
Plan. Upon transfer, his Account shall be transferred to the new
Employer.
10.2 Transfer of Employees to
Other Savings Plans. RadioShack
maintains for its employees other employees’ savings or investment plans
operated under the same general terms and conditions as this
Plan. Whenever a Participant in this Plan transfers his employment to
an Employer participating in such other similar qualified plans, RadioShack
will, when requested by the Participant, transfer the Participant’s Accounts to
the Trustee of the Plan of the Participant’s new Employer. This
transfer will be accomplished quarterly by the Committee directing that cash or
other assets, equal in value to the value of the Participant’s Accounts in the
Trust Fund at the next succeeding quarterly Valuation Date, be transferred to
the Trustee of the other plan.
10.3 Transfer of Funds to
Acquired Company’s Plans. Whenever
a Participant in this Plan transfers his employment to “an acquired company,
firm, partnership or such other legal entity” (as defined below) that has a plan
qualified under the applicable provisions of the Code, the Trustee will, when
requested by the Participant, transfer the Participant’s Accounts to the Trustee
of the plan of the Participant’s new employer. This transfer will be
accomplished by the Committee directing the Trustee that cash or other assets,
equal in value to the value of the Participant’s Accounts in the Trust Fund at
the next succeeding Valuation Date, be transferred to the trustee of the other
plan. An acquired company, firm, partnership or such other legal
entity is one that has been heretofore or hereafter acquired by RadioShack or
any of its subsidiaries.
10.4 Receipt of Funds from
Acquired Company’s Plans. RadioShack
agrees to permit the Trustee of this Plan to accept transfers of Participants’
accounts from plans of companies heretofore or hereafter acquired by RadioShack,
or any of its subsidiaries, provided the plan from which the transfer is made is
qualified under the applicable provisions of the Code. Any accounts
so transferred from an acquired company will be placed in the Participant’s
rollover account.
10.5 Merger or
Consolidation. In
the case of a merger or consolidation with, or transfer of assets or liabilities
to, any other plan, each Participant in the Plan must (if the Plan is then
terminated) receive a benefit immediately after the merger, consolidation or
transfer which is equal to or greater than the benefit he would have been
entitled to receive immediately before the merger, consolidation or transfer (if
the Plan was terminated). Further, no transfer of assets or
liabilities will be made from this Plan to another Plan unless such other plan
will impose the same distribution restrictions on Deferred Salary Contributions
and any qualified nonelective contributions or qualified matching contributions
as the Plan.
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ARTICLE
XI
TOP
HEAVY PLAN PROVISIONS
11.1 Top Heavy
Test. This
Article XI shall apply in the event it is determined, in accordance with this
Article XI and Section 416(g) of the Code, that this Plan is top heavy
(hereafter referred to as a “Top Heavy Plan”) because the present value of the
aggregate Participant Accounts of Key Employees (as hereinafter defined) exceeds
sixty percent (60%) of the present value of the aggregate of all Participant
Accounts. Except as otherwise provided, the provisions set forth in
this Article shall cease to apply when the Plan is no longer a Top Heavy
Plan.
11.2 Key
Employees. “Key
Employee” means any Employee or former Employee (including any deceased
Employee) who at any time during the Plan Year that includes the Determination
Date was an officer of the Employer having annual compensation greater than
$130,000 (as adjusted under Section 416(i)(1) of the Code), a 5-percent owner of
the Employer, or a 1-percent owner of the Employer having annual compensation of
more than $150,000. For this purpose, annual compensation means
compensation within the meaning of Section 415(c)(3) of the Code. The
determination of who is a Key Employee will be made in accordance with Section
416(i)(1) of the Code and the applicable regulations and other guidance of
general applicability issued thereunder.
11.3 Top Heaviness
Determination. The
determination of whether the Plan qualifies as a Top-Heavy Plan shall be made as
of the last day of the preceding Plan Year (hereinafter referred to as the
“Determination Date”). The Participant Accounts of a Key Employee and
of any other Employee, for purposes of testing for Top-Heaviness, shall be
determined as of the Determination Date and shall include the amount of any
contributions that would be allocable to Participant Accounts as of the
Determination Date, even if such amounts have not yet been
contributed. The present values of accrued benefits and the amounts
of Participant Account balances as of the Determination Date shall be increased
by the distributions made with respect to the Participant under the Plan and any
Plan aggregated with the Plan under Section 416(g)(2) of the Code during the
1-year period ending on the Determination Date. The preceding
sentence shall also apply to distributions under a terminated plan which, had it
not been terminated, would have been aggregated with the Plan under Section
416(g)(2)(A)(i) of the Code. In the case of a distribution made for a
reason other than separation from service, death, or disability, this provision
shall be applied by substituting “5-year period” for “1-year
period.” For purposes of testing for Top-Heaviness, (a) if any
individual is a “Non-Key Employee” with respect to any Plan Year, his Accounts
shall not be taken into account if he was a Key Employee for an earlier Plan
Year and (b) an individual’s Accounts shall not be taken into account if he has
not had any service with the Employer (other than benefits under the Plan) at
any time during the 1-year period ending on the Determination
Date. “Non-Key Employee” shall mean any Employee who is not a Key
Employee and includes Employees who are former Key Employees.
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11.4 Aggregation of
Plans. For
purposes of determining whether the Plan is a Top Heavy Plan for any Plan Year,
all Employers required to be aggregated and treated as one Employer under
Sections 414(b), (c) and (m) of the Code shall be so treated under this
Section. In addition, any pension or profit sharing plan qualified
under the provisions of Section 401 of the Code, which is then maintained by the
Employer (except those plans applicable exclusively to employees described in
Section 410(b)(3) of the Code) in which a Key Employee participates or which
enables a plan in which a Key Employee participates to meet the
requirements of Sections 401(a) or 410 of the Code shall be aggregated and the
determination of whether any such plan is a Top Heavy Plan shall be made as if
all such plans were a single plan for purposes of this Article.
11.5 Employer
Contributions. In
the event the Plan is determined to be a Top-Heavy Plan for any Plan Year,
Employer Contributions (including forfeitures) with respect to any Participant
who is a Non-Key Employee (as defined in Section 11.3 above) shall not be less
than the lesser of (a) 3 percent of such Participant’s compensation within the
meaning of Section 415 of the Code or (b) that percentage of such Participant’s
gross salary and wages which is equivalent to the highest percentage of gross
salary and wages for which Employer Contributions (including amounts contributed
as a result of an elective salary reduction agreement and forfeitures, if
applicable) were allocated to a Key Employee, subject to such regulations as
shall be prescribed pursuant to Section 416(f) of the Code including regulations
to prevent inappropriate omissions or require duplication of minimum benefits or
contributions. In any year in which the Plan is determined to be a
Top Heavy Plan, each non-Key Employee participating in the Plan will receive the
minimum contribution if the Participant has not separated from service at the
end of the Plan Year, regardless of whether the non-Key Employee has more or
less than 1,000 hours of service (or the equivalent). A Non-Key
Employee Participant’s Account balance(s) attributable to the minimum
contributions required pursuant to this Section 11.5 are not subject to
forfeiture even if said Participant withdraws mandatory Employee
contributions. For purposes of this Section 11.5, Employer
Contributions attributable to a cash or deferred salary reduction agreement are
not included as Employer Contributions. For purposes of this Section
11.5, (i) any employer matching contributions under the Plan or any other
defined contribution plan of any Affiliated Business used to satisfy the
nondiscrimination tests of Sections 401(k) and 401(m) of the Code and (ii) any
employer contributions attributable to a cash or deferred salary reduction
agreement are included in determining employer contributions made on behalf of
Key Employees, but are not included as employer contributions to satisfy the
minimum required contribution for non-Key Employees.
For
purposes of determining the highest percentage of gross salary and wages for
which Employer Contributions (including amounts contributed as a result of an
elective salary reduction agreement and forfeitures, if applicable) were made to
a Key Employee, such percentage shall be determined by dividing Employer
Contributions (including amounts contributed as a result of an elective salary
reduction agreement
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and
forfeitures, if applicable) to such Key Employee by so much of such Key
Employee’s gross salary and wages as does not exceed $150,000 (as adjusted by
the Secretary of the Treasury).
11.6 Multiple Plan
Fractions. In
the event the Plan is determined to be a Top Heavy Plan for any Plan Year, if
the Employer maintains both a defined contribution plan and a defined benefit
plan qualifying under Section 401(a) or 403(a) of the Code, the defined benefit
and defined contribution fractions, which limit contributions and benefits
payable to a Participant of both plans, shall be applied by substituting “1.0”
for “1.25”, provided, however, that this Section shall not apply
if:
(a) the
condition set forth in Section 11.5 is met if “4 percent” is substituted for “3
percent” in such Section; and
(b) the
Plan would not be a Top Heavy Plan if “ninety percent (90%)” is substituted for
“sixty percent (60%)” in Section 11.1.
11.7 Vesting if Plan is
Top-Heavy. If
the Plan fails the Top Heavy Test in any given Plan Year then each Participant
who has completed three Years of Service with the Employer, or an Affiliated
Business, maintaining the Plan is deemed to be fully vested in his Accounts for
all Employer Contributions made.
ARTICLE
XII
CHANGE
IN CONTROL
12.1 Termination or
Amendment. Notwithstanding
any provision contained in the Plan to the contrary, for a period of one (1)
year following a Change in Control (as hereinafter defined), the Plan may not be
terminated or amended in any way that would adversely affect the computation or
amount of, or entitlement to, benefits hereunder, including, but not limited to,
(a) any reduction in the right to make deferred salary contributions by any
individual who was an Employee on the date immediately prior to a Change in
Control, (b) a reduction in the level of Employer Contributions with respect to
such individuals immediately prior to a Change in Control or (c) any change in
the distribution or withdrawal provisions; provided, however, that the Plan may
be amended to the extent necessary to preserve its qualification under the
Code. Any amendment or termination of the Plan that (i) was at the
request of a third party who has indicated an intention or taken steps
reasonably calculated to effect a Change in Control or (ii) unless such
amendment confers additional benefits on the Participants or Beneficiaries,
otherwise arose in connection with, or in anticipation of, a Change in Control
shall be null and void, and shall have no effect
whatsoever. Notwithstanding any provision contained in the Plan to
the contrary, following a Change in Control, the Plan may not be terminated or
amended in any way if the effect of such termination or amendment would be to
eliminate or adversely affect for any Participant or Beneficiary the tax
treatment relating to “net unrealized appreciation” with respect to Company
Stock as provided for in Sections 402(a) and 402(e) of the Code.
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12.2 Change in
Control. For
purposes of the Plan, a “Change in Control” shall mean any of the following
events:
(a) An
acquisition (other than directly from RadioShack (for purposes of this Section
12.2 “the Company”) of any voting securities of the Company (the “Voting
Securities”) by any “Person” (as the term person is used for purposes of Section
13(d) or 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934
Act”)) immediately after which such Person has “Beneficial Ownership” (within
the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the 0000 Xxx) of fifteen percent
(15%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding
Voting Securities; provided, however, in determining whether a Change in Control
has occurred, Voting Securities which are acquired in a Non-Control Acquisition
(as hereinafter defined) shall not constitute an acquisition which would cause a
Change in Control.
A
“Non-Control Acquisition” shall mean an acquisition by (i) an employee benefit
plan (or a trust forming a part thereof) maintained by (A) the Company or (B)
any corporation or other Person of which a majority of its voting power or its
voting equity securities or equity interest is owned, directly or indirectly, by
the Company (for purposes of this definition, a “Subsidiary”), (ii) the Company
or its Subsidiaries, or (iii) any Person in connection with a Non-Control
Transaction (as hereinafter defined);
(b) The
individuals who, as of April 30, 2004 are members of the Board (the “Incumbent
Board”), cease for any reason to constitute at least two-thirds of the Board;
provided, however, that if the election, or nomination for election by the
Company’s stockholders, of any new director was approved by a vote of at least
two-thirds of the Incumbent Board, such new director shall, for purposes of this
Plan, be considered as a member of the Incumbent Board; provided further,
however, that no individual shall be considered a member of the Incumbent Board
if such individual initially assumed office as a result of either an actual or
threatened “Election Contest” (as described in Rule 14a-11 promulgated under the
0000 Xxx) or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by
or on behalf of a Person other than the Board (a “Proxy Contest”) including by
reason of any agreement intended to avoid or settle any Election Contest or
Proxy Contest; or
(c) The
consummation of:
(i) A
merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination with or into
the Company or in which securities of the Company are issued,
unless
(A) the
stockholders of the Company, immediately before such merger, consolidation,
reorganization or other business combination, own directly or indirectly
immediately following such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other
business combination, at least sixty percent (60%) of the combined voting power
of the outstanding voting securities of the corporation resulting from such
merger or
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consolidation,
reorganization or other business combination (the “Surviving Corporation”) in
substantially the same proportion as their ownership of the Voting Securities
immediately before such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business
combination,
(B) the
individuals who were members of the Incumbent Board immediately prior to the
execution of the agreement providing for such merger, consolidation,
reorganization or other business combination constitute at least two-thirds of
the members of the board of directors of the Surviving Corporation, or a
corporation beneficially directly or indirectly owning a majority of the
combined voting power of the outstanding voting securities of the Surviving
Corporation, or
(C) no
Person other than (i) the Company, (ii) any Subsidiary, (iii) any employee
benefit plan (or any trust forming a part thereof) that, immediately prior to
such merger, consolidation, reorganization or other business combination was
maintained by the Company, the Surviving Corporation, or any Subsidiary, or (iv)
any Person who, immediately prior to such merger, consolidation, reorganization
or other business combination had Beneficial Ownership of fifteen percent (15%)
or more of the then outstanding Voting Securities, has Beneficial Ownership of
fifteen percent (15%) or more of the combined voting power of the Surviving
Corporation’s then outstanding voting securities, and
A
transaction described in clauses (A) through (C) shall herein be referred to as
a “Non-Control Transaction.”
(ii) A
complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
(iii) The
sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company to any Person (other than (i) any such sale or disposition that results
in at least fifty percent (50%) of the Company’s assets being owned by one or
more subsidiaries or (ii) a distribution to the Company’s stockholders of the
stock of a subsidiary or any other assets).
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, a Change in Control shall not be deemed to occur solely because
any Person (the “Subject Person”) acquired Beneficial Ownership of more than the
permitted amount of the then outstanding Voting Securities (X) as a result of
the acquisition of Voting Securities by the Company which, by reducing the
number of Voting Securities outstanding, increases the proportional number of
shares Beneficially Owned by the Subject Person, provided that if a Change in
Control would occur (but for the operation of this subsection (X)) as a result
of the acquisition of Voting Securities by the Company, and after such share
acquisition by the Company, the Subject Person becomes the Beneficial Owner of
any additional Voting Securities which increases the percentage of the then
outstanding Voting Securities Beneficially Owned by the Subject Person, then a
Change in Control shall occur, or (Y) and such Subject Person (1) within
fourteen (14) Business Days (or such greater period of time as may be determined
by action of the Board) after such Subject Person would otherwise have caused a
Change in Control (but for the operation of this clause (Y)), such Subject
Person notifies the
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Board
that such Subject Person did so inadvertently, and (2) within seven (7) Business
Days after such notification (or such greater period of time as may be
determined by action of the Board), such Subject Person divests itself of a
sufficient number of Voting Securities so that such Subject Person is no longer
the Beneficial Owner of more than the permitted amount of the outstanding Voting
Securities.
12.3 Article XII
Amendment. Notwithstanding
any provision contained in the Plan to the contrary, no provision of this
Article XII may be amended at any time in any manner that would adversely affect
the right to or amount of any benefits upon a Change in Control.
12.4 Successors and
Assigns. Notwithstanding
any provision contained in the Plan to the contrary, the provisions of this
Article XII shall be binding upon the Company and its successors and
assigns.
12.5 Severability. Notwithstanding
any provision contained in the Plan to the contrary, the provisions of this
Article XII shall be deemed severable and the validity or unenforceability of
any provision shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the other
provisions hereof.
12.6 Contrary
Provisions. The
provisions of this Article XII shall govern notwithstanding anything contained
in the Plan to the contrary.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the COMPANY and the TRUSTEE have executed this instrument at
Fort Worth, Texas, as of the date first set forth above.
ATTEST: RADIOSHACK
CORPORATION
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
By: /s/ Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx
|
Name: Xxxx X. Xxxxxxx | Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx |
Title: Assistant Corporate Secretary | Title: Vice President - Compensation |
and Employee Benefits |
ATTEST: XXXXXX
FIDUCIARY TRUST COMPANY
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx |
By: /s/ Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
|
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxx |
Title: Senior Compliance Specialist | Title: Trust Officer |
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