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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May , 1997
Registration No. 333-
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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FORT BEND HOLDING CORP.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
DELAWARE 76-0391720
(State or other jurisdiction of (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
incorporation or organization)
3400 AVENUE H, ROSENBERG, TEXAS 77471
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVING AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
PROFIT SHARING PLAN
AND TRUST
(Full title of the plan)
Martin L. Meyrowitz, P.C.
Silver, Freedman & Taff, L.L.P.
(a limited liability partnership including professional corporations)
1100 New York Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005
(Name and address of agent for service)
(202) 414-6100
(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
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PROPOSED PROPOSED
TITLE OF MAXIMUM MAXIMUM
SECURITIES TO BE AMOUNT TO BE OFFERING PRICE AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF
REGISTERED REGISTERED PER SHARE OFFERING PRICE REGISTRATION FEE
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Common Stock, $.01 par value 25,000 shares/(1)/ $27.25/(2)/ $681,250/(2)/ $206.44/(2)/
Interests in Profit Sharing Plan/(3)/ N/A/(3)/ N/A N/A N/A/(3)/
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/(1)/ Estimated maximum aggregate number of shares of Fort Bend Holding Corp.
("Fort Bend") common stock purchasable with employee and employer
contributions under the Plan during the next 60 months.
/(2)/ Estimated in accordance with Rule 457(h), solely for the purpose of
calculating the registration fee at $27.25 per share, which was the
average of the high and low prices of the Fort Bend common stock on May
19, 1997, as reported on the Nasdaq National Market.
/(3)/ In addition, pursuant to Rule 416(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, this Registration Statement also covers an indeterminate amount
of interests to be offered or sold pursuant to the employee benefit plan
described herein. In accordance with Rule 457(h)(2) no separate fee
calculation is made for plan interests.
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PART I
INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(A) PROSPECTUS
The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8
will be sent or given to participants in the Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Rosenberg Profit Sharing Plan and Trust (the "Plan") as specified
by Rule 428(b)(1) promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act").
Such documents are not being filed with the Commission, but constitute
(along with the documents incorporated by reference into the Registration
Statement pursuant to Item 3 of Part II hereof) a prospectus that meets the
requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act.
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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ITEM 3. INCORPORATION OF DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE.
The following documents previously or concurrently filed by Fort Bend
Holding Corp. (the "Company") with the Commission are hereby incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement and the Prospectus to which this
Registration Statement relates (the "Prospectus"), which Prospectus has been or
will be delivered to the participants in the Plan covered by this Registration
Statement:
(a) The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended March 31,
1996, filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act");
(b) All other reports filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) of the Exchange Act since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
audited financial statements referred to in (a) above;
(c) The description of the Company's Common Stock, par value $0.01 per
share, contained in the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed
with the Commission on May 3, 1993, and all amendments or reports filed for
the purpose of updating such description.
All documents filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Sections
13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, after the date hereof, and prior
to the filing of a post-effective amendment which indicates that all securities
offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters all securities then remaining
unsold, shall be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration
Statement and the Prospectus and to be a part hereof and thereof from the date
of the filing of such documents. Any statement contained in the documents
incorporated, or deemed to be incorporated, by reference herein or in the
Prospectus shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this
Registration Statement and the Prospectus to the extent that a statement
contained herein or therein or in any other subsequently filed document which
also is, or is deemed to be, incorporated by reference herein or therein
modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or
superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to
constitute a part of this Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
The Company shall furnish without charge to each person to whom the
Prospectus is delivered, on the written or oral request of such person, a copy
of any or all of the documents incorporated by reference, other than exhibits to
such documents (unless such exhibits are specifically incorporated by reference
to the information that is incorporated). Requests should
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be directed to FBFS&L Committee, Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association
of Rosenberg, 3400 Avenue H, Rosenberg, Texas 77471, telephone number (281)238-
7071.
All information appearing in this Registration Statement and the Prospectus
is qualified in its entirety by the detailed information, including financial
statements, appearing in the documents incorporated herein or therein by
reference.
ITEM 4. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.
Not Applicable.
ITEM 5. INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.
Not Applicable.
ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.
Article ELEVENTH of the Company's Certificate of Incorporation provides for
indemnification of directors and officers of the Registrant against any and all
judgments, fines and reasonable settlements, costs, expenses and attorneys' fees
incurred in any actual, threatened or potential proceeding, to the fullest
extent permitted by Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware ("Section 145"). Article ELEVENTH also provides for the authority to
purchase insurance with respect thereto.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware
authorizes a corporation's board of directors to grant indemnity under certain
circumstances to directors and officers, when made, or threatened to be made,
parties to certain proceedings by reason of such status with the corporation,
against judgments, fines, settlements and expenses, including attorneys' fees.
In addition, under certain circumstances such persons may be indemnified against
expenses actually and reasonably incurred in defense of a proceeding by or on
behalf of the corporation. Similarly, the corporation, under certain
circumstances, is authorized to indemnify directors and officers of other
corporations or enterprises who are serving as such at the request of the
corporation, when such persons are made, or threatened to be made, parties to
certain proceedings by reason of such status, against judgments, fines,
settlements and expenses, including attorneys' fees; and under certain
circumstances, such persons may be indemnified against expenses actually and
reasonably incurred in connection with the defense or settlement of a proceeding
by or in the name of such other corporation or enterprise. Indemnification is
permitted where such person (i) was acting in good faith, (ii) was acting in a
manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of
the corporation or other corporation or enterprise, as appropriate, (iii) with
respect to a criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct
was unlawful, and (iv) was not adjudged to be liable to the corporation or other
corporation or enterprise (unless the court where the proceeding was brought
determines that such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity).
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Unless ordered by a court, indemnification may be made only following a
determination that such indemnification is permissible because the person being
indemnified has met the requisite standard of conduct. Such determination may
be made (i) by a majority vote of the Directors of the Company who are not
parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though such directors
constitute less than a quorum, or (ii) if there are no such directors, or if
such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or
(iii) by the Stockholders.
Section 145 also permits expenses incurred by directors and officers in
defending a proceeding to be paid by the corporation in advance of the final
disposition of such proceedings upon the receipt of an undertaking by the
director or officer to repay such amount if it is ultimately determined that he
is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation against such expenses.
Under a directors' and officers' liability insurance policy, directors and
officers of the Company are insured against certain liabilities, including
certain liabilities under the Securities Act.
ITEM 7. EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.
Not Applicable.
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ITEM 8. EXHIBITS.
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Regulation
S-K Reference to Prior
Exhibit Filing or Exhibit
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4 Instruments defining the rights of
security holders, including indentures
(1) Certificate of Incorporation of *
Fort Bend Holding Corp.
(2) Bylaws of Fort Bend *
Holding Corp.
(3) Specimen form of common stock *
certificate of Fort Bend Holding Corp.
(4) Description of Fort Bend Holding Filed as an exhibit to the
Corp. Common Stock, par value Company's Registration Statement
$0.01 per share on Form 8-A filed with the
Commission on May 3, 1993, as
amended and hereby incorporated
by reference in accordance with
Item 601 of Regulation S-B.
(5) Form of Indenture dated as of
December 5, 1995 with respect to the * *
Registrant's 8% Convertible
Subordinated Debentures, due
December 1, 2005.
(6) Form of Debenture
* *
(7) Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Attached as Exhibit 4.7
Association of Rosenberg Profit
Sharing Plan and Trust
5 Opinion of Silver, Freedman & Taff, Attached as Exhibit 5
L.L.P.
23.1 Consent of Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. Attached as Exhibit 23.1
23.2 Consent of Silver, Freedman & Taff, Contained in Exhibit 5
L.L.P. (Included in Exhibit 5)
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* Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant's Form S-1 registration statement (File
No. 33-57722) and incorporated herein by reference in accordance with Item 601
of Regulation S-B.
* * Filed as an exhibit to the Registrant's Form SB-2 registration statement
(File No. 33-97920) and incorporated herein by reference in accordance with Item
601 of Regulation S-B.
The Company hereby undertakes that it will submit or has submitted the Plan
and any amendment thereto to the Internal Revenue Service (the "IRS") in a
timely manner and has made or will make all changes required by the IRS in order
to qualify the Plan under Section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.
(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement to include any
material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously
disclosed in the Registration Statement or any material change to such
information in the Registration Statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new Registration Statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.
(3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.
(b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new Registration Statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
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proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
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SIGNATURES
The Registrant. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933,
the registrant certifies that is has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Rosenberg, State of Texas, on the 27/th/ day of
May, 1997.
FORT BEND HOLDING CORP.
Date: May 27, 1997 By: /s/ Lane Ward
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Lane Ward
President, Chief Executive Officer
and Director
(Duly Authorized Representative)
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated.
By: /s/ Lane Ward By: /s/ David D. Rinehart
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Lane Ward David D. Rinehart
President, Chief Executive Senior Vice President and
Officer and Director Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting
Officer)
Date: May 27, 1997 Date: May 27, 1997
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By: /s/ Robert W. Lindsay By: /s/ George C. Brady
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Robert W. Lindsay George C. Brady
Chairman of the Board Director
Date: May 27, 1997 Date: May 27, 1997
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By: /s/ J. Patrick Gubbels By: /s/ William A. Little
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J. Patrick Gubbels William A. Little
Director Director
Date: May 27, 1997 Date: May 27, 1997
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By: /s/ Wayne O. Poldrack By: /s/ Doyle G. Callender
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Wayne O. Poldrack Doyle G. Callender
Director Director
Date: May 27, 1997 Date: May 27, 1997
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By: /s/ Ron L. Workman
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Ron L. Workman
Director
Date: May 27, 1997
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SIGNATURES
The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
trustees (or other persons who administer the employee benefit plan) have duly
caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto, duly authorized, in the City of Rosenberg, State of
Texas on the 27/th/ day of May, 1997.
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG PROFIT SHARING PLAN
AND TRUST
By: /s/ Stephen S. Hand
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American Industries Trust Company
Trustee of the Fort Bend Federal
Savings and Loan Association of Rosenberg
Profit Sharing Plan and Trust
Date: May 27, 1997
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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EXHIBITS
TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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FORT BEND HOLDING CORP.
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit
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4.7 Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rosenberg
Profit Sharing Plan and Trust
5 Opinion of Silver, Freedman & Taff, L.L.P.
23.1 Consent of Coopers and Lybrand L.L.P.
23.2 Consent of Silver, Freedman & Taff, L.L.P. (included in Exhibit 5)
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EXHIBIT 4.7
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG PROFIT
SHARING PLAN AND TRUST
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FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
PROFIT SHARING PLAN AND TRUST
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
1.03 Account.............................................. 1
1.02 Accounting Date...................................... 1
1.03 Accrued Benefit...................................... 1
1.04 Advisory Committee................................... 1
1.05 Beneficiary.......................................... 2
1.06 Break in Service..................................... 2
1.07 Code................................................. 2
1.08 Compensation......................................... 2
1.09 Determination of Top Heavy Status.................... 3
1.10 Disability........................................... 5
1.11 Early Retirement Date................................ 6
1.12 Effective Date....................................... 6
1.13 Employee............................................. 6
1.14 Employer............................................. 6
1.15 Employment Commencement Date......................... 6
1.16 ERISA................................................ 6
1.17 Forfeiture Break in Service.......................... 6
1.18 Highly Compensated Employee.......................... 6
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1.19 Hour of Service...................................... 8
1.20 Leased Employee...................................... 8
1.21 Month of Service..................................... 9
1.22 Nonforfeitable....................................... 9
1.23 Normal Retirement Age................................ 9
1.24 Participant.......................................... 9
1.25 Plan................................................. 9
1.26 Plan Administrator................................... 9
1.27 Plan Entry Date...................................... 10
1.28 Plan Year............................................ 10
1.29 Retirement........................................... 10
1.30 Separation from Service.............................. 10
1.31 Service.............................................. 10
1.32 Service for Predecessor Employer..................... 10
1.33 Trust................................................ 10
1.34 Trust Fund........................................... 10
1.35 Trustee.............................................. 10
1.36 Vesting.............................................. 10
1.37 Year of Service...................................... 10
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ARTICLE II
2.01 Eligibility.......................................... 11
2.02 Break in Service -Participation...................... 11
2.03 Participation Upon Re-employment..................... 11
ARTICLE III
3.01 Amount............................................... 12
3.01A Salary Reduction..................................... 13
3.01B Special Rules For Deferral Contributions............. 14
3.02 Determination of Contribution........................ 19
3.03 Time Of Payment of Contribution...................... 19
3.04 Contribution Allocation.............................. 20
3.05 Forfeiture Allocation................................ 22
3.06 Accrual of Benefit................................... 22
3.07 Limitations on Allocations to Participants Account... 22
3.08 Definitions - Article III............................ 23
ARTICLE IV
4.01 Participant Voluntary Contributions.................. 27
4.02 Participant Rollover Contributions................... 27
ARTICLE V
5.01 Vesting.............................................. 27
ARTICLE VI
6.01 Time of Payment of Accrued Benefit................... 27
6.02 Method of Payment of Accrued Benefit................. 29
6.03 Benefit Payment Elections............................ 31
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6.04 Special Distribution Rules For Hardship From Deferral
Contributions Account................................ 32
6.05 Distributions Under Domestic Relations Order......... 33
ARTICLE VII
7.01 Information to Committee............................. 35
7.02 No Liability......................................... 35
7.03 Indemnity of Committee............................... 35
7.04 Employer Direction Of Investment..................... 35
7.05 Amendment to Vesting Schedule........................ 36
ARTICLE VIII
8.01 Beneficiary Designation.............................. 36
8.02 No Beneficiary Designation........................... 37
8.03 Personal Data to Committee........................... 37
8.04 Address For Notification............................. 37
8.05 Assignment or Alienation............................. 38
8.06 Notice of Change in Terms............................ 38
8.07 Litigation Against the Trust......................... 38
8.08 Information Available................................ 38
8.09 Appeal Procedure For Denial Of Benefits.............. 38
ARTICLE IX
9.01 Members Compensation Expenses........................ 39
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9.02 Term and Number...................................... 39
9.03 Powers............................................... 39
9.04 General.............................................. 40
9.05 Funding Policy....................................... 41
9.06 Manner of Action..................................... 41
9.07 Authorized Representative............................ 41
9.08 Interested Member.................................... 41
9.09 Individual Accounts.................................. 41
9.10 Value of Participants Accrued Benefit................ 42
9.11 Allocation and Distribution of Net Income Gain or
Loss................................................. 42
9.13 Account Charged...................................... 43
9.14 Unclaimed Account Procedure.......................... 43
ARTICLE X
10.01 Acceptance........................................... 44
10.02 Receipt of Contributions............................. 44
10.03 Investment Powers.................................... 44
10.04 Records and Statements............................... 47
10.05 Fees and Expenses from Fund.......................... 47
10.06 Parties to Litigation................................ 47
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10.07 Professional Agents.................................. 48
10.08 Distributions of Cash or Property.................... 48
10.09 Distribution Directions.............................. 48
10.10 Third Party.......................................... 48
10.11 Resignation.......................................... 48
10.12 Removal.............................................. 48
10.13 Interim Duties and Successor Trustee................. 49
10.14 Valuation of Trust................................... 49
10.15 Limitation on Liability - If Investment Manager
Appointed............................................ 49
10.16 Investment in Group Trust Fund....................... 49
ARTICLE XI
11.01 Evidence............................................. 50
11.02 No Responsibility for Employer Action................ 50
11.03 Fiduciaries Not Insurers............................. 50
11.04 Waiver of Notice..................................... 50
11.05 Successors........................................... 50
11.06 Word Usage........................................... 50
11.07 State Law............................................ 50
11.08 Employment Not Guaranteed............................ 51
ARTICLE XII
12.01 Exclusive Benefit.................................... 51
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12.02 Amendment by Employer................................ 51
12.03 Discontinuance....................................... 52
12.04 Full Vesting on Termination.......................... 53
12.05 Merger/Direct Transfer............................... 53
12.06 Termination.......................................... 53
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PROFIT SHARING PLAN AND TRUST
Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rosenberg, a corporation
organized under the laws of the State of Texas, makes this Agreement with R. W.
Lindsey and Walter L. Ward as Trustee.
WITNESSETH:
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
establishes, within this Trust and Plan Agreement, a Plan for the administration
and distribution of contributions made by the Employer for the purpose of
permitting Participants to save for their retirement with pretax dollars and
rewarding eligible Employees for past service. The provisions of this Plan apply
solely to an Employee whose employment with the Employer terminates on or after
the Effective Date of the Employer's Plan. If an Employee's employment with the
Employer terminates prior to the Effective Date, that Employee is not entitled
to any benefit under the Plan. This Plan is intended to be the type commonly
referred to as a "profit sharing plan with a cash or deferred arrangement".
Now, therefore, in consideration of their mutual covenants, the Employer and the
Trustee agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
1.01 "Account" means the separate account(s) which the Advisory Committee
or the Trustee maintains for a Participant under the Plan.
1.02 "Accounting Date" means the last day of the Plan Year. Unless
otherwise specified in the Plan, the Advisory Committee will make all plan
allocations for a particular Plan Year as of the Accounting Date of that Plan
Year.
1.03 "Accrued Benefit" means the amount standing in a Participant's
Account(s) as of any date. A Participant's Account includes his "Deferral
Contributions Account" and his "Employer Contributions Account."
1.04 "Advisory Committee" means the Board of Directors of Fort Bead
Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rosenberg or its designees as from time
to time constituted pursuant to Article IX.
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1.05 "Beneficiary" means a person designated by a Participant who is or
may become entitled to a benefit under the Plan. A Beneficiary who becomes
entitled to a benefit under the Plan remains a Beneficiary under the Plan until
the Trustee has fully distributed his benefit to him. A Beneficiary's right to
(and the Advisory Committee's or a Trustee's duty to provide to the Beneficiary)
information or data concerning the Plan does not arise until he first becomes
entitled to receive a benefit under the Plan.
1.06 "Break in Service" means a Plan Year of twelve (12) consecutive
months during which an Employee fails to accrue a Month of Service. Further,
solely for the purpose of determining whether a Participant has incurred a one
year Break in Service, Hours of Service shall be recognized for "authorized
Leaves of absence" and maternity leaves of absence".
The Advisory Committee considers an Employee on maternity or paternity
leave if the Employee's absence is due to the Employee's pregnancy, the birth of
the Employee's child, the placement with the Employee of an adopted child, or
the care of the Employee's child immediately following the child's birth or
placement. For this purpose, Hours of Service shall be credited for the
computation period in which the absence from work begins, only if credit
therefore is necessary to prevent the Employee from incurring a Break in
Service, or, in any other case, in the immediately following computation period.
An Employee shall not be deemed to have incurred a Break in Service if
he completes an Hour of Service within twelve ( 12) months following the last
day of the month during which his employment terminated.
1.07 "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
1.08 "Compensation" means the Participant's wages, salaries, fees for
professional service and other amounts received for personal services actually
rendered in the course of employment with the Employer maintaining the plan
(including, but not limited to, compensation for services on the basis of a
percentage of profits and bonuses). Compensation includes elective contributions
made by the Employer on the Employee's behalf. "Elective contributions" are
amounts excluded from the Employee's gross income under Code section 402(a)(8)
(relating to a Code section 401(k) arrangement), Code section 402(h) (relating
to a Simplified Employee Pension), Code section 125 (relating to a cafeteria
plan) or Code section 403(b) (relating to a tax-sheltered annuity). The term
"Compensation" does not include:
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(a) Employer contributions, other than "elective contributions" to a
plan of deferred compensation to the extent the contributions are not included
in the gross income of the Employee for the taxable year in which contributed,
on behalf of an Employee to a Simplified Employee Pension Plan to the extent
such contributions are excludable from the Employee's gross income, and any
distributions from a plan of deferred compensation, regardless of whether such
amounts are includible in the gross income of the Employee when distributed.
(b) Amounts realized when restricted property held by an Employee
either becomes freely transferable or is no longer subject to a substantial risk
of forfeiture.
(c) Other amounts which receive special tax benefits, such as premiums
for group term life insurance (but only to the extent that the premiums are not
includible in the gross income of the Employee).
Any reference in this Plan to Compensation is a reference to the
definition in this Section 1.08 unless the Plan reference specifies a
modification to this definition. The Advisory Committee will take into account
only Compensation actually paid for the relevant period.
For any Plan Year, the Advisory Committee must take into account only
the first $200,000 (or beginning January 1, 1990, such larger amount as the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue may prescribe) of any Participant's
Compensation. The $200,000 (or adjusted) Compensation limitation applies to the
combined Compensation of the Employee and of any family member aggregated with
the Employee under Section 1.17 and who is either (i) the Employee's spouse; or
(ii) the Employee's lineal descendant under the age of 19. If the $200,000 (or
adjusted) Compensation limitation applies to the combined Compensation of the
Employee and one or more family members, the Advisory Committee will apply the
contribution and allocation provisions of Article III by prorating the $200,000
(or adjusted) limitation among the affected Participants in proportion to each
such Participant's Compensation determined prior to application of this
limitation.
1.09 "Determination of Top Heavy Status". If this Plan is the only
qualified plan maintained by the Employer, the Plan is top heavy for a Plan Year
if the top heavy ratio as of the
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Determination Date exceeds 60%. The top heavy ratio is a fraction, the numerator
of which is the sum of the present value of Accrued Benefits of all Key
Employees as of the Determination Date and the denominator of which is a similar
sum determined for all Employees. The Advisory Committee must include in the top
heavy ratio, as part of the present value of Accrued Benefits, any contribution
not made as of the Determination Date but includible under Code section 416 and
the applicable Treasury regulations. and distributions made within the
Determination Period. The Advisory Committee must calculate the top heavy ratio
by disregarding the Accrued Benefit (and distributions, if any, of the Accrued
Benefit) of any Non-Key Employee who was formerly a Key Employee, and by
disregarding the Accrued Benefit (including distributions, if any, of the
Accrued Benefit) of an individual who has not received credit for at least one
Hour of Service with the Employer during the Determination Period. The Advisory
Committee must calculate the top heavy ratio, including the extent to which it
must take into account distributions, rollovers and transfers, in accordance
with Code section 416 and the regulations under that Code section.
If the Employer maintains other qualified plans (including a
Simplified Employee Pension Plan), or maintained another such plan which now is
terminated, this Plan is top heavy only if it is part of the Required
Aggregation Group, and the top heavy ratio for the Required Aggregation Group
and for the Permissive Aggregation Group, if any, each exceeds 60%. The Advisory
Committee will calculate the top heavy ratio in the same manner as required by
the first paragraph of this Section 1.09, taking into account all plans within
the Aggregation Group. To the extent the Advisory Committee must take into
account distributions to a Participant, the Advisory Committee must include
distributions from a terminated plan which would have been part of the Required
Aggregation Group if it were in existence on the Determination Date. The
Advisory Committee will calculate the present value of Accrued Benefits under
defined benefit plans or Simplified Employee Pension Plans included within the
group in accordance with the terms of those plans, Code section 416 and the
regulations under that Code section. If a Participant in a defined benefit plan
is a Non-Key Employee, the Advisory Committee will determine his Accrued Benefit
under the accrual method, if any, which is applicable uniformly to all defined
benefit plans maintained by the Employer or, if there is no uniform method, in
accordance with the slowest accrual rate permitted under the fractional rule
accrual method described in Code section 411(b)(l)(C). To calculate the present
value of benefits from a defined benefit plan, the Advisory Committee will use
the actuarial assumptions (interest and mortality only) prescribed by the
defined benefit plan(s) to value benefits for top heavy purposes. If an
aggregated plan does not have a
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valuation date coinciding with the Determination Date, the Advisory Committee
must value the Accrued Benefits in the aggregated plan as of the most recent
valuation date falling within the twelve-month period ending on the
Determination Date, except as Code section 416 and applicable Treasury
regulations require for the first and second plan year of a defined benefit
plan. The Advisory Committee will calculate the top heavy ratio with reference
to the Determination Dates that fall within the same calendar year.
Definitions. For purposes of applying the provisions of this Section
1.09:
(a) "Key Employee" means, as of any Determination Date, any Employee
or former Employee (or Beneficiary of such Employee) who, for any Plan Year in
the Determination Period: (i) has Compensation in excess of 50% of the dollar
amount prescribed in Code section 415(b)( 1 )(A) (relating to defined benefit
plans) and is an officer of the Employer; (ii) has Compensation in excess of the
dollar amount prescribed in Code section 415(c)(1)(A) (relating to defined
contribution plans) and is one of the Employees owning the ten largest interests
in the Employer; (iii) is a more than 5% owner of the Employer; or (iv) is a
more than 1% owner of the Employer and has Compensation of more than $150,000.
The constructive ownership rules of Code section 318 (or the principles of that
section, in the case of an unincorporated Employer) will apply to determine
ownership in the Employer. The number of officers taken into account under
clause (i) will not exceed the greater of 3 or 10% of the total number (after
application of the Code section 414(q)(8) exclusions) of Employees, but no more
than 50 officers. The Advisory Committee will make the determination of who is a
Key Employee in accordance with Code section 416(i)(1) and the regulations under
that Code section.
(b) "Non-Key Employee" is an employee who does not meet the definition
of Key Employee.
(c) "Compensation" means Compensation as determined under Section 1.18
(relating, to the Highly Compensated Employee definition).
(d) "Required Aggregation Group" means: (1) each qualified plan of the
Employer in which at least one Key Employee participates at any time during the
Determination Period; and (2) any other qualified plan of the Employer which
enables a plan described in clause (1] to meet the requirements of Code section
401(a)(4) or Code section 410.
(e) "Permissive Aggregation Group" is the Required
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Aggregation Group plus any other qualified plans maintained by the Employer, but
only if such group would satisfy in the aggregation the requirements of Code
section 401(a)(4) and Code section 410. The Advisory Committee will determine
the Permissive Aggregation Group.
(f) "Employer" means the Employer that adopts this Plan.
(g) "Determination Date" for any Plan Year is the Accounting Date of
the preceding Plan Year or, in the case of the first Plan Year of the Plan, the
Accounting Date of that Plan Year.
(h) "Determination Period" is the 5 year period ending on the
Determination Date.
1.10 "Disability" means a Participants inability, because of a physical or
mental disability, to perform the duties of his customary position of employment
for an indefinite period which the Advisory Committee considers will be of long
continued duration. A Participant also is disabled if he incurs the permanent
loss or loss of use of a member or function of the body, or is permanently
disfigured, and incurs a Separation from Service. The Plan considers a
Participant disabled on the date the Advisory Committee determines the
Participant satisfies the definition of disability. The Advisory Committee may
require a Participant to submit to a physical examination with a physician
chosen by the Advisory Committee, in order to confirm disability. The Advisory
Committee will apply the provisions of this Section 1.10 in a nondiscriminatory,
consistent and uniform manner.
1.11 "Early Retirement Date". This Plan does not provide for a retirement
date prior to the normal Retirement Date.
1.12 "Effective Date" of the Plan means January 1, 1976. This Amendment is
generally effective January 1, l989, except to the extent an earlier effective
date is required by law for a particular provision in which case the effective
date shall mean that date required by law.
1.13 "Employee" means any employee of the Employer, but excludes any person
who is employed as an independent contractor.
1.14 "Employer" means FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN
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ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG.
1.15 "Employment Commencement Date" means the date on which the Employee
first performs an Hour of Service for the Employer.
1.16 "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,as
amended.
1.17 "Forfeiture Break in Service" means a Participant's incurring five (5)
consecutive Breaks in Service.
1.18 "Highly Compensated Employee" means an Employee who, during the
Plan Year or during the preceding 12-month period:
(a) is a more than 5% owner of the Employer (applying the constructive
ownership rules of Code section 318, and applying the principles of Code section
318, for an unincorporated entity);
(b) has Compensation in excess of $75,000 (as adjusted by Commissioner
of Internal Revenue for the relevant year);
(c) has Compensation in excess of $50,000 (as adjusted by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the relevant year) and is part of the top-
paid 20% group of employees (based on Compensation for the relevant year);
(d) has Compensation in excess of 50% of the dollar amount prescribed
in Code section 415(b)(1)(A) (relating to defined benefit plans) and is an
officer of the Employer.
If the Employee satisfies the definition in clause (b), (c), or (d) in
the Plan Year but not during the preceding 12-month period and does not satisfy
clause (a) in either period, the Employee is a Highly Compensated Employee only
if he is one of the 100 most highly compensated Employees for the Plan Year. The
number of officers taken into account under clause (d) will not exceed the
greater of 3 or 10% of the total number (after application of the Code section
414(q) exclusions) of Employees, but no more than 50 officers. If no Employee
satisfies the Compensation requirement in clause (d) for the relevant year, the
Advisory Committee will treat the highest paid officer as satisfying clause (d)
for that year.
For purposes of this Section 1.18, "Compensation" means Compensation
as defined in Section 1.08. The Advisory Committee must make the determination
of who is a Highly Compensated Employee, including the determinations of the
number and identity
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of the top-paid 20% group, the 100 top-paid Employees, the number of officers
includible in clause (d) and the relevant Compensation, consistent with Code
section 414(q) and regulations issued under that Code section. The Employer may
make a calendar year election to determine the Highly Compensated Employees for
the Plan Year, as prescribed by Treasury regulations. A calendar year election
must apply to all plans and arrangements of the Employer. For purposes of
applying any nondiscrimination test required under the Plan or under the Code,
in a manner consistent with applicable Treasury regulations, the Advisory
Committee will not treat as a separate Employee a family member (a spouse, a
lineal ascendant or descendant, or a spouse of a lineal ascendant or descendant)
of a Highly Compensated Employee described in clause (a) of this Section, or a
family member of one of the ten (10) Highly Compensated Employees with the
greatest Compensation for the Plan Year, but will treat the Highly Compensated
Employee and all family members as a single Highly Compensated Employee. This
aggregation rule applies to a family member even if that family member is a
Highly Compensated Employee without family aggregation.
The term "Highly Compensated Employee" also includes any former
Employee who separated from Service (or has a deemed Separation from Service, as
determined under Treasury regulations) prior to the Plan Year, performs no
Service for the Employer during the Plan Year, and was a Highly Compensated
Employee either for the separation year or any Plan Year ending on or after his
55th birthday. If the former Employee's Separation from Service occurred prior
to January 1, 1987, he is a Highly Compensated Employee only if he satisfied
clause (a) of this Section 1.17 or received Compensation in excess of $50,000
during: (1) the year of his Separation from Service (or the prior year); or (2)
any year ending after his 54th birthday.
1.19 "Hour of Service" means:
(a) Each Hour of Service for which the Employer, either directly or
indirectly, pays an Employee, or for which the Employee is entitled to payment,
for the performance of duties. The Advisory Committee credits Hours of Service
under this subsection (a) to the Employee for the computation period in which
the Employee performs the duties, irrespective of when paid;
(b) Each Hour of Service for back pay, irrespective of mitigation of
damages. to which the Employer has agreed or for which the Employee has received
an award. The Advisory Committee credits Hours of Service under this subsection
(b) to the Employee for the computation period(s) to which the award or the
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agreement pertains rather than for the computation period in which the award,
agreement or payment is made; and
(c) Each Hour of Service for which the Employer, either directly or
indirectly, pays an Employee, or for which the Employee is entitled to payment
(irrespective of whether the employment relationship is terminated), for reasons
other than for the performance of duties during a computation period, such as
leave of absence, vacation holiday, sick leave, illness, incapacity (including
disability), layoff, jury duty or military duty.
The Advisory Committee will not credit an Hour of Service under more
one (1) of the above sub-Sections. A computation period for purposes of this
Section 1.19 is the Plan Year, Year of Service period, Break in Service period
or other period, as determined under the Plan provision for which the Advisory
Committee is measuring an Employee's Hours of Service. The Advisory Committee
will resolve any ambiguity with respect to the crediting of an Hour of Service
in favor of the Employee.
If the Employer pays an Employee for services rendered on an hourly
basis the Advisory Committee will credit that Employee with Hours of Service on
the basis of the "actual" method. If the Employer pays an Employee for services
rendered on a basis other than by the hour, the Advisory Committee will credit
that Employee with Hours of Service on the basis of months of employment. A
Month of Service is credited for each month in which the Advisory Committee
would credit the Employee with at least one (1) Hour of Service under the
"actual" method. For purposes of the Plan, "actual" method means the
determination of Hours of Service from records of hours worked and hours for
which the Employer makes payment or for which payment is due from the Employer.
1.20 "Leased Employee". The Plan treats a Leased Employee as an Employee of
the Employer. A Leased Employee is an individual (who otherwise is not an
Employee of the Employer) who, pursuant to a leasing agreement between the
Employer and any other person, has performed services for the Employer (or for
the Employer and any persons related to the Employer within the meaning of Code
section 144(a)(3)) on a substantially full time basis for at least one year and
who performs services historically performed by employees in the Employer's
business field. If a Leased Employee is treated as an Employee by reason of this
Section 1.20 of the Plan, "Compensation" includes Compensation from the leasing
organization which is attributable to services performed for the Employer.
Safe harbor plan exception. The Plan does not treat a
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Leased Employee as an Employee if the leasing organization covers the employee
in a safe harbor plan and, prior to application of this safe harbor plan
exception, 20% or less of the Employer's Employees (other than Highly
Compensated Employees) are Leased Employees. A safe harbor plan is a money
purchase pension plan providing immediate participation, full and immediate
vesting, and a nonintegrated contribution formula equal to at least 10% of the
employee's compensation without regard to employment by the leasing organization
on a specified date. The safe harbor plan must determined the 10% contribution
on the basis of compensation as defined in Code section 415(c)(3) plus elective
contributions (as defined in Section 1.08).
Other requirements. The Advisory Committee must apply this Section
1.20 in a manner consistent with Code sections 414(n) and 414(o) and the
regulations issued under those Code sections.
1.21 "Month of Service" shall mean a calendar month during any part of
which an Employee completed an Hour of Service. Except, however, a Participant
shall be credited with a Month of Service for each month during the twelve ( 12)
month computation period in which he has not incurred a one year Break in
Service.
1.22 "Nonforfeitable" describes a Participant's or Beneficiary's
unconditional claim, legally enforceable against the Plan, to the Participant's
Accrued Benefit.
1.23 "Normal Retirement Age" means sixty-five (65) years of age.
1.24 "Participant" means an Employee who is eligible to be and becomes a
Participant in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.01. An Employee who
becomes a Participant will remain a Participant under the Plan until the Trustee
has fully distributed his Vested Accrued Benefit to him.
1.25 "Plan" means the retirement plan established by the Employer in the
form of this Agreement, designated as the FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN
ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG PROFIT SHARING PLAN.
1.26 "Plan Administrator" means the Advisory Committee unless the Employer
designates another person to hold the position of Plan Administrator. In
addition to other duties, the Plan Administrator has full responsibility for
compliance with the reporting and disclosure rules under ERISA as respects this
Agreement.
1.27 "Plan Entry Date" means the Effective Date and every
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January 1 and July 1 after the Effective Date.
1.28 "Plan Year" means the calendar year.
1.29 "Retirement" means a Participant's Separation from Service after
attaining Normal Retirement Age.
1.30 "Separation from Service" means a separation from Service with the
Employer maintaining this Plan.
1.31 "Service" means any period of time the Employee is in the employ of
the Employer, including any period the Employee is on an unpaid leave of absence
authorized by the Employer under a uniform, nondiscriminatory policy applicable
to all Employees. The Plan will treat all employees of all corporations which
are members of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Code section
414(b)), all employees of all trades or business (whether or not incorporated)
which are under common control (as defined in Code section 414(c)) and all
employees of an affiliated service group (as defined in Code section 414(m)) as
employed by a single employer.
1.32 "Service for Predecessor Employer". If the Employer maintains the
plan of a predecessor employer, the Plan treats service of the Employee with the
predecessor employer as Service with the Employer.
1.33 "Trust" means the separate Trust created under the Plan.
1.34 "Trust Fund" means all property of every kind held or acquired by the
Trustee under this Agreement.
1.35 "Trustee" means R. W. Lindsey and Walter L. Ward, or any successor in
office who in writing accepts the position of Trustee.
1.36 "Vesting" means the extent to which a Participant's Accrued Benefit is
Nonforfeitable. Other forms of the word "Vest" will have the meaning that the
suffix would normally connote, given the meaning of "Vesting".
1.37 "Year of Service" shall mean twelve(12) consecutive Months of Service.
For vesting purposes, the computation period shall be the Plan Year.
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ARTICLE II
EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS
2.01 ELIGIBILITY. Each salaried Employee who was a Participant in the Plan
prior to the effective date of its Amendment shall be eligible to participate in
the Plan. Thereafter each salaried Employee becomes a Participant in the Plan
on the Plan Entry Date (if employed on that date) coincident with or immediately
following the date six (6) months after the date on which the Employee first
performs an Hour of Service for the Employer.
2.02 BREAK IN SERVICE - PARTICIPATION. For purposes of participation in the
Plan, the Plan does not impose any Break in Service rule.
2.03 PARTICIPATION UPON RE-EMPLOYMENT. A Participant whose employment
terminates reenters the Plan as a Participant on the date of his re-employment.
An Employee who satisfies the Plan's eligibility conditions but who terminates
employment prior to becoming a Participant becomes a Participant in the Plan on
the later of the Plan Entry Date on which he would have entered the Plan had he
not terminated employment or the date of his re-employment. Any Employee who
terminates employment prior to satisfying the Plan's eligibility conditions
becomes a Participant in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.01.
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ARTICLE III
EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS AND FORFEITURES
Part 1. Amount of Employer Contributions and Plan Allocations: Sections 3.01
through 3.06
3.01 AMOUNT. For each Plan Year, the Employer will contribute to the Trust
the following amounts:
(a) Deferral Contributions. "Deferral Contributions" means the amount
by which the Participants have elected to reduce their Compensation for the Plan
Year under their salary reduction agreements on file with the Advisory
Committee.
(b) Employer Nonelective Contribution. "Employer Nonelective
Contribution" means the additional amount the Employer may from time to time
deem advisable. The Employer will designate all of its Employer Nonelective
Contribution as a Qualified Employer Nonelective Contribution.
(c) Employer Matching Contributions. The Employer may contribute an
amount equal to a percentage the Employer from time to time may deem advisable
of each Participant's eligible contributions for the Plan Year. The Employer
will designate all Employer Matching Contributions as Qualified Employer
Matching Contributions
Although the Employer may contribute to this Plan irrespective of
whether it has net profits, the Employer intends this Plan to be a profit
sharing plan for all purposes under the Code.
Under the matching contribution formula described in paragraph (c),
the term "eligible contributions" shall mean the deferral contributions
allocated to the Participant for the Plan Year but not exceeding 6% of the
Participant's Compensation. For purposes of determining its matching
contribution and allocation of that contribution, the Employer shall not take
into account a Participant's elective deferrals which exceed the Code Section
402(g) limitation for the calendar year. See Section 3.01 B.
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The Employer shall not make a contribution to the Trust for any Plan
Year to the extent the contribution would exceed the Participants' "Maximum
Permissible Amount" under Section 3.08.
The Trustee, upon written request from the Employer, must return to
the Employer the amount of the Employer's contribution made by the Employer by
(1) mistake of fact or (2) the amount of the Employer's contribution disallowed
as a deduction under Code section 404. The Trustee will not return any portion
of the Employer's contribution under the provisions of case (1) or (2) of this
paragraph more than one (1) year after (a) the Employer made the contribution by
mistake of fact; or (b) the disallowance of the contribution as a deduction, and
then, only to the extent of the disallowance.
The Trustee will not increase the amount of the Employer contribution
returnable under this Section 3.01 for any earnings attributable to the
contribution, but the Trustee will decrease the Employer contribution returnable
for any losses attributable to it. The Trustee may require the Employer to
furnish it whatever evidence the Trustee deems necessary to enable the Trustee
to confirm the amount the Employer has requested be returned is properly
returnable under ERISA.
3.01A SALARY REDUCTION. The Employer contribution described in Section
3.01(a) is an elective deferral (i.e. "401 (k)") arrangement. A Participant who
is still an Employee (hereinafter designated as an "Employee Participant") may
file a salary reduction agreement with the Advisory Committee. A salary
reduction agreement executed by an Employee Participant may not be effective
earlier than its execution date, and in no event earlier than the Employee's
Plan Entry Date (or, in the case of a re-employed Employee, his reparticipation
date under Article II). A salary reduction agreement must specify the amount of
Compensation (as defined in Section 1.08) or percentage of Compensation the
eligible Employee wishes to defer to the Plan. The salary reduction agreement
will apply to Compensation (including increases in Compensation) which is
currently available to the Employee after the effective date of the salary
reduction agreement. The Employer will not apply the salary reduction agreement
to a bonus unless the salary reduction agreement specifics its application to
the bonus. The Employee Participant may enter into a separate salary reduction
agreement with respect to a bonus prior to the time the bonus is currently
available to him.
If the salary reduction agreement specifies the
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reduction amount as a percentage of Compensation, the percentage may not be less
than two percent (2%) of Compensation and must specify a reduction percentage
equal to an increment of one percent (1%). An Employee Participant's Deferral
Contributions may not exceed 15 percent (15%) of his Compensation for each pay
period. An Employee Participant may modify his salary reduction agreement,
either to reduce or to increase the amount of Deferral Contributions, as of any
Plan Entry Date. The Employee Participant will make this modification by filing
a new salary reduction agreement with the Advisory Committee at least 15 days
prior to the Plan Entry Date for which the modification is to be first
effective. An Employee Participant may revoke a salary reduction agreement as of
any Plan Entry Date. An Employee Participant who revokes his salary reduction
agreement may file a new salary reduction agreement effective as of any Plan
Entry Date.
3.01B SPECIAL RULES FOR DEFERRAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
Annual Elective Deferral Limitation. An Employee Participant's
elective deferrals for a calendar year may not exceed the limitation on elective
deferrals determined under section 402(g,) of the Code. If the Employer
(2) Effective January 1, 1989, the first paragraph of Section 3.01(B)
is hereby replaced in its entirely by the following:
Annual Elective Deferral Limitation. An Employee Participants
elective deferrals for a calendar year may not exceed the limitation on elective
deferrals determined under section 402(g) of the Code. If the Employer
determines the Employee Participant's elective deferrals for a calendar year
would exceed the limitation on elective deferrals under section 402(g) of the
Code for the calendar year, the Employer will not make any additional Deferral
Contributions with respect to that Employee Participant for the remainder of
that calendar year, paying in cash to the Employee Participant any amounts which
would cause the Deferral Contributions to exceed the limitation on elective
deferrals under section 402(g) of the Code. If, after the close of a calendar
year, the Advisory Committee determines an Employee Participant's Deferral
Contributions exceed the limitation on elective deferrals under section 402(g)
of the Code, the Advisory Committee will distribute the amount in excess of the
limination(the "excess deferral"), as adjusted for allocable income or loss, no
later than April 15 of the following
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calendar year for purposes of making a distribution of excess deferrals,
allocable income means net income or net loss allocable to the excess deferrals
for the calendar year in which the Employee made the excess deferral and for the
"gap period" measured from the beginning of the next calendar year to the date
of distribution. If the distribution of the excess deferral occurs during the
calendar year in which the Employee made the excess deferral, the Advisory
Committee will treat as a "gap period" the period from the first day of that
calendar year to the date of the distribution. The Advisory Committee will
determine the amount of income or loss allocable to the Participant's excess
deferral in a manner similar to the allocable income or loss determination
described in this Section 3.01 B for excess contributions, except the numerator
of the allocation fraction will be the amount of the Employee's excess deferrals
and the denominator of the allocation fraction will be the Employee's Accrued
Benefit attributable to his elective deferrals. If the Advisory Committee
distributes the excess deferral by the appropriate April 15, it may make the
distribution irrespective of any other provision under this Plan or under the
Code The Advisory Committee will reduce the amount of excess deferrals for a
calendar year distributable to the Employee by the amount of excess
contributions, if any, previously distributed to the Employee for the Plan Year
beginning in that calendar year.
If an Employee Participant participates in another Plan under which he
makes elective deferrals pursuant to a Code section 40l (k) arrangement,
elective deferrals under a Simplified Employee Pension, or salary reduction
contributions to a tax-sheltered annuity, irrespective of whether the Employer
maintains the other plan, the Participant may provide the Advisory Committee a
written claim for excess deferrals made for a calendar year. The Participant
must submit the claim no later than the March 1 following the close of the
particular calendar year and the claim will specify the amount of the
Participants Deferral Contributions under this Plan which are excess deferrals.
If the Advisory Committee receives a timely claim, it will distribute to the
Participant the excess deferral, as adjusted for allocable income or loss, which
the Employee has assigned to this Plan in accordance with the distribution
procedure described in the immediately preceding paragraph.
Actual Deferral Percentage Test. For each Plan Year, the 401(k)
arrangement must satisfy one of the following actual deferral percentage
("ADP") tests:
(i) The average ADP for the Highly Compensated Group does not exceed
1.25 times the average ADP of the Nonhighly Compensated Group; or
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(ii) The average ADP for the Highly Compensated Group does not exceed
the average ADP for the Nonhighly Compensated Group by more than two (2)
percentage points and the average ADP for the Highly Compensated Group is not
more than twice the average ADP for the Nonhighly Compensated Group.
For purposes of applying the ADP test, the following definitions
apply:
(a) "Highly Compensated Group" means the eligible Employees who are
Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year.
(b) "Eligible Employee" means (1) a Participant on whose behalf the
Employer makes Deferral Contributions (as described in Section 3.01) or who is
eligible to elect Deferral Contributions for the Plan Year, irrespective of
whether the Employer actually makes Deferral Contributions on behalf of the
Participant. The Advisory Committee treats a Participant as an Eligible Employee
irrespective of whether, pursuant to Section 6.04, the Plan limits his
eligibility to defer because of a hardship distribution or whether the
Participant is employed by the Employer on the last day of the Plan Year.
(c) "Nonhighly Compensated Group" means the Eligible Employees who are
not Highly Compensated Employees and are not family members treated as Highly
Compensated Employee under Section 1.18.
(d) "Deferral Contributions" mean the sum of the Deferral
Contributions the Employer contributes on the Eligible Employee's behalf for the
Plan Year, pursuant to Section 3.01.
(e) The "Average ADP" for a group is the average of the separate ADPs
calculated for each Eligible Employee who is a member of that group. An Eligible
Employee's ADP for a Plan Year is the ratio of (1) the sum of Deferral
Contributions and Qualified Employer Nonelective Contributions allocate to the
Eligible Employee for the Plan Year, to (2) his 414(s) Compensation for the Plan
Year. For aggregated family members treated as a single Eligible Employee under
Section 1.18, the ADP of the family unit is the greater of: (i) the ADP
determined by combining the Deferral Contributions, Qualified Employer
Nonelective Contributions and 414(s) Compensation of the family members who are
Highly Compensated Employees irrespective of family aggregation; or (ii) the ADP
determined by combining the Deferral Contributions, Qualified Employer
Nonelective Contributions and 414(s) Compensation of all aggregated family
members. A Nonhighly Compensated Employees ADP shall not include elective
deferrals made to this Plan or to any other Plan maintained by the Employer, to
the extent such elective deferrals exceed the limitation on elective deferrals
under section 402(g)
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of the Code. A Highly Compensated Employee's ADP shall include elective
deferrals under any other Code section 401(k) arrangement maintained by the
Employer, but a Nonhighly Compensated Employee's ADP shall not include elective
deferrals under another Code section 401(k) arrangement maintained by the
Employer unless the Employer treats the Code section 401(k) arrangement under
this Plan and the other Code section 401(k) arrangement as a unit for coverage
or discrimination purposes. The Advisory Committee may determine (in a manner
consistent with Treasury regulations) the ADPs of the Eligible Employees by
taking into account Qualified Employer Nonelective Contributions or Qualified
Employer Matching Contribution, or both, made to this Plan or to any other
qualified Plan maintained by the Employer. The Advisory Committee may not
include Qualified Employer Nonelective Contributions in the ADP test unless the
allocation of Employer Nonelective Contributions is nondiscriminatory when the
Advisory Committee takes into account only those Qualified Employer Nonelective
Contributions not used in the ADP test. The Advisory Committee may not include
in the ADP test any Qualified Employer Nonelective Contributions or Qualified
Employer Matching Contributions under another qualified Plan unless that Plan
has the same Plan Year as this Plan.
(f) "414(s) Compensation" means Compensation as defined in
Section 1.08 of the Plan, disregarding any exclusions from Compensation other
than the exclusions described in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of Section 1.08.
The Employer may elect to define 414(s) Compensation to include or exclude
elective deferrals under a Code section 401(k) arrangement or under a Simplified
Employee Pension maintained by the Employee, and compensation paid by the
Employer which is not currently includible in gross income pursuant to Code
sections 125 or 403(b). The Employer's election must be consistent and uniform
with respect to all Employees and all plans of the Employer for any particular
Plan Year. The Employer may change the election provided the change does not
result in discrimination in favor of the Highly Compensated Employees. The
Advisory Committee will disregard an Eligible Employee's 414(s) Compensation in
excess of $200,000 (or the adjusted limitation prescribed by the Secretary of
the Treasury). The $200,000 (or adjusted) limitation on 414(s) Compensation will
apply to the combined 414(s) Compensation of any family members aggregated under
Section 1.18 who are spouses and any aggregated lineal descendants who are under
the age of 19.
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(g) "Employer Nonelective Contributions" are contributions made by the
Employer which are not subject to a deferral election by the Employee and which
are not matching contributions. "Qualified Employer Nonelective Contributions"
are Employer Nonelective Contributions which are one hundred percent (100%)
nonforfeitable at all times and which are subject to the Distribution
Restrictions described in paragraph (i). Under this Plan, any Employer
Nonelective Contribution under Section 3.01(b) designated as a Qualified
Employer Nonelective Contribution satisfies this definition.
(h) "Employer Matching Contributions" are contributions made by the
Employer on account of Employee contributions or on account of elective
deferrals under a Code section 401(k) arrangement and forfeitures allocated on
account of such Employee contributions or Deferral Contributions pursuant to
Section 3.05. "Qualified Employer Matching Contributions" are Employer Matching
Contributions which are one hundred percent (100%) nonforfeitable at all times
and which are subject to the Distribution Restrictions described in paragraph
(i).
(i) The term "Distribution Restrictions" means a Plan will not
permit distribution of the Accrued Benefit attributable to the specified
contribution except (1) in the event of the Participant's death, disability,
termination of employment or attainment of age 59 1/2, (2) in the event of
financial hardship (other than Qualified Employer Matching, Contributions or
Qualified Employer Nonelective Contributions), (3) in the event of a Plan
termination, without establishment of a successor Defined Contribution Plan
(other than an ESOP), (4) in the event of a sale of substantially all of the
assets (within the meaning of Code section 409(d)(2)) used in a trade or
business, but only to an Employee who continues employment with the corporation
acquiring those assets, or (5) in the event of a sale by a corporation of its
interest in a subsidiary (within the meaning, of Code section 409(d)(3), but
only to an Employee who continues employment with the subsidiary.
If the Advisory Committee determines the Plan fails to satisfy the ADP
test for a Plan Year, it will distribute the excess contributions as adjusted
for allocable income or loss, no later than the last day of the succeeding Plan
Year. However, the Employer will incur an excise tax equal to ten percent (10%)
of the amount of excess contributions for a Plan Year not distributed to the
appropriate Highly Compensated Employees by 2 1/2 months following the close of
that Plan Year. The excess contributions are the amount of Deferral
Contributions and Qualified Employer Nonelective Contributions allocated to
Highly Compensated Employees which causes the Plan to fail to satisfy
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the ADP test. The Advisory Committee will distribute to each Highly Compensated
Employee his respective share of the excess contributions. The Advisory
Committee will determine the respective shares of excess contributions by
starting with the Highly Compensated Employee(s) who has the greatest ADP,
reducing his ADP to the next highest ADP, then, if necessary, reducing the ADP
of the Highly Compensated Employee(s) at the next highest ADP level (including
the ADP of the Highly Compensated Employee(s) whose ADP the Advisory Committee
already has reduced), and continuing in this matter until the average ADP for
the Highly Compensated Group satisfies the ADP test.
The Advisory Committee will determine the amount of income or loss
allocable to the Highly Compensated Employee's excess contribution by
multiplying the income or loss allocable under Section 9.11 to the Highly
Compensated Employee's Accrued Benefit attributable to Deferral Contributions
by a fraction, the numerator of which is his excess contributions for the Plan
Year of deferral and the denominator of which is the value of his Accrued
Benefit attributable to Deferral Contributions (and to any Qualified Employer
Nonelective Contributions included in the ADP test), determined as of the last
day of the Plan Year, without regard to income or loss allocable to that accrued
benefit for the Plan Year.
If pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section 3.01 B, the Advisory
Committee has elected to include Qualified Employer Matching Contributions in
the average ADP, the Advisory Committee shall treat excess contributions as
attributable proportionately to Deferral Contributions and to Qualified Employer
Matching Contributions allocated on the basis of those Deferral Contributions.
If the total amount of a Highly Compensated Employee's excess contributions for
the Plan Year exceeds his Deferral Contributions or Qualified Employer Matching
Contributions for the Plan Year, the Advisory Committee will treat the remaining
portion of his excess contributions as attributable to Qualified Employer
Nonelective Contributions.
(1) Effective January 1, 1989, the definitions in Section 3.01(B) are
hereby amended by adding paragraph (j).
(j) "Contributions Taken Into Account" means, in applying the Actual
Deferral Percentage test, an elective contribution may be taken into account
only if it satisfies the following two requirements:
(i) It must be allocated to the Employee as of a date within the Plan
Year; and
(ii) It must relate to Compensation that either would
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have been received by the Employee in the Plan Year except for the Employee's
election to defer it or is attributable to services performed by the Employee in
the Plan Year, and but for the Employee's election to defer, would have been
received by the Employee within 2 1/2 months after the close of the Plan Year.
For purposes of the first requirement, a pretax contribution is
considered to be allocated as of a date within the Plan Year only if (1) the
allocation is not contingent upon the Employee's participation in the Plan or
performance of services on any later date and (2) the elective contribution is
actually paid to the Trust no later than the end of the 12-month period
immediately following the Plan Year to which it relates.
3.02 DETERMINATION OF CONTRIBUTION. The Employer, from its records,
determines the amount of any contributions to be made by it to the Trust under
the terms of the Plan.
3.03 TIME OF PAYMENT OF CONTRIBUTION. The Employer may pay its
contribution for each Plan Year in one (l) or more installments without
interest. The Employer must make its contribution to the Trustee within the
time prescribed (including extensions) by Codes Section 404 (a) (6) for filing
its tax return for the taxable year for which it claims a deduction for its
contribution. The Employer shall make Deferral Contributions to the Trust, to
the extent made pursuant to salary reduction agreements, within an
administratively reasonable period of time after withholding the corresponding
Compensation from the Participant and shall make Deferral Contributions,
Employer Matching Contributions and Qualified Employer Nonelective Contributions
no later than the time prescribed by the Code or by Treasury regulations.
Deferral Contributions are Employer contributions for all purposes under this
plan, except to the extent the Code or Treasury regulations prohibit the use of
these contributions to satisfy the qualification requirements of the Code.
3.04 CONTRIBUTION ALLOCATION.
(A) Method of Allocation. Subject to Section 3.04(B), the Advisory
Committee shall establish a Participant Account. The Advisory Committee will
establish and allocate to sub accounts the amounts attributable to the various
types of Employer contributions described in paragraphs (a) and (b) and (c) of
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Section 3.01. The Advisory Committee will allocate and credit each annual
Employer contribution (and Participant forfeitures, if applicable) to the Trust
as follows:
Deferral Contributions. The Advisory Committee shall allocate to each
Participant's Deferral Contributions Account the Deferral Contributions the
Employer makes to the Trust on behalf of the Participants for the Plan Year.
Employer Nonelective Contributions. The Advisory Committee shall
allocate the Employer's Nonelective Contribution, if any, under the remaining
provisions of this Section 3.04.
Subject to the conditions of Section 3.06, the Advisory Committee will
allocate and credit the Employer Nonelective Contribution, if any, as a
Qualified Employer Nonelective Contribution to the Deferral Contributions
Account of each Participant in the same ratio that each Participant's
Compensation for the Plan Year bears to the total Compensation of all
Participants for the Plan Year. The Advisory Committee may include a Qualified
Employer Nonelective Contribution in the ADP test described in Section 3.01 B,
to the extent necessary to satisfy the test. For purposes of allocating the
Qualified Employer Nonelective Contribution, "Participant" shall mean all
Participants.
Employer Matching Contributions. Subject to the conditions of Section
3.06, the Advisory Committee shall allocate the annual Employer Matching
Contributions to the Deferral Contributions Account of each Participant entitled
to an allocation of Employer Matching Contributions. The Advisory Committee
shall allocate to each Participant's Account that percentage of the
Discretionary Employer Matching Contributions which is in the same proportion
that each Participant's eligible contributions (as defined in Section 3.01 )
upon which the Employer bases its matching contributions for the Plan Year bears
to the total such eligible contributions for the Plan Year.
(B) Top Heavy Minimum Allocation.
(1) Minimum Allocation. If the Plan is top heavy in any Plan Year:
(a) Each Non-Key Employee (as defined in Section 1.09)
who is a participant and is employed by the Employer on the last day of the Plan
Year will receive a top heavy minimum allocation for that Plan Year,
irrespective of whether he satisfies the Hours of Service condition under
Section 3.06; and
(b) The top heavy minimum allocation is the lesser of
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3% of the Non-Key Employee's Compensation for the Plan Year or the highest
contribution rate for the Plan Year made on behalf of any Key Employee (as
defined in Section 1.09). However, if a Defined Benefit Plan maintained by the
Employer which benefits a Key Employee depends on this Plan to satisfy the anti
discrimination rules of Code section 401(a)(4) or the coverage rules of Code
section 410 (or another plan benefiting the Key Employee so depends on such
defined benefit plan), the top heavy minimum allocation is 3% of the Non-Key
Employee's Compensation regardless of the contribution rate for the Key
Employees.
For purposes of clause (b), "Compensation" means Compensation as
defined in Section 1.08, disregarding elective contributions and any exclusions
from Compensation, other than the exclusions described in paragraphs (a), (b),
and (c) of Section 1.08 and disregarding the requirements of Section 3.06. For
purposes of this Section 3.04(B), a Participants contribution rate is the sum of
Employer contributions (not including Employer contributions to Social Security)
and forfeitures allocated to the Participant's Account for the Plan Year divided
by his Compensation for the entire Plan Year. However, a Non-Key Employee's
contribution rate does not include any elective contributions under a Code
section 401(k) arrangement nor any Employer Matching Contributions subject to
the nondiscrimination requirements of Code section 401(k) or of Code section
401(m). To determine a Participant's contribution rate, the Advisory Committee
must treat all qualified top heavy Defined Contribution Plans maintained by the
Employer as a single plan.
(2) Method of Compliance. The Plan will satisfy the top heavy minimum
allocation in accordance with this Section 3.04(B)(2). The Advisory Committee
first will allocate the Employer contribution (and Participant forfeitures, if
any) for the Plan Year in accordance with the allocation formula under Section
3.04(A). The Employer then will contribute an additional amount for the Account
of any Participant who is entitled under this Section 3.04(B) to a top heavy
minimum allocation and whose contribution rate for the Plan Year is less than
the top heavy minimum allocation. The additional amount is the amount necessary
to increase the Participant's contribution rate to the top heavy minimum
allocation. The Advisory Committee will allocate the additional contribution to
the Employer Contribution Account of the Participant on whose behalf the
Employer makes the contribution.
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3.05 FORFEITURE ALLOCATION. Subject to any restoration allocation required
under Section 9.14, the Advisory Committee shall allocate the amount of a
Participant's Accrued Benefit forfeited under Section 9.14 among the
Participants' Accounts in the proportion that the ending Deferral Contributions
Account of each Participant bears to the total ending Deferral Contributions
Accounts.
The Deferral Contributions Account is 100% Vested at all times.
3.06 ACCRUAL OF BENEFIT. The Advisory Committee will determine the accrual
of benefit (Employer contributions and Participant forfeitures) on the basis of
the Plan Year.
Compensation Taken Into Account. In allocating the Employer's Employer
Nonelective Contribution to a Participant's Account, the Advisory Committee,
except for purposes of determining the top heavy minimum contribution under
Section 3.04(B), will take into account only the Compensation determined for the
portion of the Plan Year in which the Employee actually is a Participant.
Employment Requirement. A Participant will share in the allocation of
Employer contributions and Participant forfeitures only if he is employed by the
Employer on the Accounting Date of that Plan Year. Income, gain or loss shall
be allocated to all Participants and former Participants Accounts except to the
extent that such Accounts have been fully distributed or segregated.
Part 2. Limitations on Allocations; Sections 3.07 and 3.08
3.07 LIMITATIONS ON ALLOCATIONS TO PARTICIPANTS' ACCOUNTS
The amount of Annual Additions which the Advisory Committee may
allocate under this Plan on a Participant's behalf for a Limitation Year may not
exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount. If the amount the Employer otherwise
would contribute to the Participant's Account would cause the Annual Additions
for the Limitation Year to exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount, the Employer
will reduce the amount of its contribution so the Annual Additions for the
Limitation Year will equal the Maximum Permissible Amount.
(A) Estimation of Compensation. Prior to the determination of the
Participant's actual Compensation for a Limitation Year, the Advisory Committee
may determine the Maximum Permissible Amount on the basis of the Participant's
estimated annual Compensation for such Limitation Year. The Advisory Committee
must make this determination on a reasonable and uniform basis
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for all Participants similarly situated. The Advisory Committee must reduce any
Employer contributions (including any allocation of forfeitures) based on
estimated annual Compensation by any Excess Amount carried over from prior
years. As soon as is administratively feasible after the end of the Limitation
Year, the Advisory Committee will determine the Maximum Permissible Amount for
such Limitation Year on the basis of the Participant's actual Compensation for
such Limitation Year.
(B) Disposition of Excess Amount. If pursuant to Section 3.07(A), or
because of the allocation of forfeitures, there is an Excess Amount with respect
to a Participant for a Limitation Year, the Advisory Committee will dispose of
such Excess Amount as follows:
(1) The Advisory Committee will return any nondeductible voluntary
Employee contributions to the Participant to the extent that the return would
reduce the Excess Amount.
(2) If, after the application of subsection (1), an Excess Amount
still exists, and the Plan covers the Participant at the end of the Limitation
Year, then the Advisory Committee will use the Excess Amount(s) to reduce future
Employer contributions (including any allocation of forfeitures) under the Plan
for the next Limitation Year and for each succeeding Limitation Year, as is
necessary, for the Participant. The Participant may elect to limit his
Compensation for allocation purposes to the extent necessary to reduce his
allocation for the Limitation Year to the Maximum Permissible Amount and
eliminate the Excess Amount.
(3) If, after the application of subsection (1), an Excess Amount
still exists, and the Plan does not cover the Participant at the end of the
Limitation Year, then the Advisory Committee will hold the Excess Amount
unallocated in a suspense account. The Advisory Committee will apply the
suspense account to reduce Employer contributions (including allocation of
forfeitures) for all remaining Participants in the next Limitation Year, and in
each succeeding Limitation Year if necessary.
(4) The Advisory Committee will not distribute any Excess Amount(s) to
Participants or to former Participants.
(C) Defined Benefit Plan Limitation. If the Participant presently
participates, or has ever participated under a Defined Benefit Plan maintained
by the Employer, then the sum of the Defined Benefit Plan Fraction and the
Defined Contribution Plan Fraction for the Participant for that Limitation Year
must not exceed 1.0. To the extent necessary to satisfy the limitation under
Section 3.08, the Employer will reduce the Participant's
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projected annual benefit under the Defined Benefit Plan under which the
Participant participates and then, if necessary, its contribution or allocation
on behalf of the Participant to the Defined Contribution Plan under which the
Participant participates.
3.08 DEFINITIONS - ARTICLE III. For purposes of Article III, the following
terms mean:
(a) "Annual Addition" means the sum of the following amounts allocated
on behalf of a Participant for a Limitation Year: (i) all Employer
contributions; (ii) all forfeitures; and (iii) all Employee contributions.
Except to the extent provided in Treasury regulations, Annual Additions include
excess contributions described in Code section 401(k), excess aggregate
contributions described in Code section 401(m) and excess deferrals described in
Code section 402(g), irrespective of whether the plan distributes or forfeits
such excess amounts. Annual Additions also include Excess Amounts reapplied to
reduce Employer contributions under Section 3.07. Amounts allocated after March
31, 1984, to an individual medical account (as defined in Code section
415(1)(2)) included as part of a Defined Benefit Plan maintained by the Employer
are Annual Additions. Furthermore, Annual Additions include contributions paid
or accrued after December 31, 1985, for taxable years ending after December 31,
1985, attributable to post-retirement medical benefits allocated to the separate
account of a key employee (as defined in Code section 419A(d)(3)) under a
welfare benefit fund (as defined in Code section 419(e)) maintained by the
Employer, but only for purposes of the dollar limitation applicable to the
Maximum Permissible Amount.
(b) "Compensation" For purposes of applying the limitations of Part 2
of this Article III, "Compensation" means Compensation as defined in Section
1.08, disregarding elective contributions and any exclusions from Compensation,
other than the exclusions described in paragraphs (a), b), (c) and (d) of
Section 1.08.
(c) "Maximum Permissible Amount" - The lesser of (i) $30,000 (or, if
greater, one fourth (1/4) of the defined benefit dollar limitation under Code
section 415(b)(1)(A)), or (ii) twenty-five percent (25%) of the Participant's
Compensation for the Limitation Year. If there is a short Limitation Year
because of a change in Limitation Year, the Advisory Committee will multiply the
$30,000 (or adjusted) limitation by the following fraction:
Number of months in the short Limitation Year 12
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(d) "Employer" - The Employer that adopts this Plan and any related
employers. Solely for purposes of applying the limitations of Part 2 of this
Article III, the Advisory Committee will determine related employers by
modifying Code sections 414(b) and (c) in accordance with Code section 415(h).
(e) "Excess Amount" means the excess of the Participant's Annual
Additions for the Limitation Year over the Maximum Permissible Amount.
(f) "Limitation Year" means the Plan Year. If the Employer amends the
Limitation Year to a different 12 consecutive month period, the new Limitation
Year must begin on a date within the Limitation Year for which the Employer
makes the amendment, creating a short Limitation Year.
(g) "Defined Contribution Plan" means a retirement plan which provides
for an individual account for each Participant and for benefits based solely on
the amount contributed to the Participant's account, and any income, expenses,
gains and losses, and any forfeitures of accounts of other Participants which
the plan may allocate to such Participant's account. The Advisory Committee must
treat all defined contribution plans (whether or not terminated) maintained by
the Employer as a single plan. For purposes of the limitations of Part 2 of this
Article III, the Advisory Committee will treat employee contributions made to a
defined benefit plan maintained by the Employer as a separate defined
contribution plan. The Advisory Committee also will treat as a defined
contribution plan an individual medical account (as defined in Code section
415(1)(2)) included as part of a defined benefit plan maintained by the Employer
and, for taxable years ending after December 31, 1985, a welfare benefit fund
under Code section 419(e) maintained by the Employer to the extent there are
post-retirement medical benefits allocated to the separate account of a key
employee (as defined in Code section 419A(d)(3)).
(h) "Defined Benefit Plan" means a retirement plan which does not
provide for individual accounts for Employer contributions. The Advisory
Committee must treat all Defined Benefit Plans (whether or not terminated)
maintained by the Employer as a single plan.
(i) "Defined Benefit Plan Fraction" means
Projected Annual Benefit of the
Participant under the Defined Benefit Plan
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The Lesser of (i) 125% of the dollar limitation in effect under Code
section 415(b)(1)(A) for the Limitation Year, or (ii) 1.4 times the
Participant's average Compensation limitation under Code section 415(b)( 1)(B).
The Advisory Committee will determine the denominator of this fraction
by taking into account the years of participation and the Years of Service the
Advisory Committee reasonably can project the Participant will have at the time
his projected annual benefit is payable. If the Employee was a Participant in
one or more Defined Benefit Plans maintained by the Employer which were in
existence on May 5, 1986, the denominator of this fraction will not be less than
125% of the Employee's Current Accrued Benefit. An Employee's "Current Accrued
Benefit" is the sum of the annual benefits under such Defined Benefit Plans
which the Employee had accrued as of the end of the 1986 Limitation Year (the
last Limitation Year beginning before January 1, 1987), determined without
regard to any change in the terms or conditions of the Plan made after May 5,
1986, and without regard to any cost of living adjustment occurring after May 5,
1986. The preceding sentence only applies if the Defined Benefit Plans
individually and in the aggregate satisfied the requirements of Code section 415
as in effect at the end of the 1986 Limitation Year.
(j) "Defined Contribution Plan Fraction" means the sum of the Annual
Additions to the Participant's Account under the Defined Contribution Plan(s)
and welfare benefit funds (as defined in Code section 419(c)) as of the close of
the Limitation Year the sum of the lesser of the following amounts determined
for the Limitation Year and for each prior Year of Service with the Employer:
(i) 125% of the dollar limitation in effect under Code section 415(c)(1)(A) for
the Limitation Year (determined without regard to the special dollar limitations
for employee stock ownership plans), or (ii) 35% of the Participant's
Compensation for the Limitation Year
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The Advisory Committee may use on a uniform basis any transitional
rules prescribed by law to compute the Participant's Defined Contribution Plan
Fraction. For purposes of determining the Defined Contribution Plan Fraction,
the Advisory Committee will not recompute Annual Additions in Limitations Years
beginning, prior to January 1, 1987, to treat all Employee contributions as
Annual Additions. If the plan satisfied Code section 415 for Limitation Years
beginning prior to January 1, 1987, the Advisory Committee will redetermine the
Defined Contribution Plan Fraction and the Defined Benefit Plan Fraction as of
the end of the 1986 Limitation Year, in accordance with this Section 3.08. If
the sum of the redetermined fractions exceeds 1.0, the Advisory Committee will
subtract permanently from the numerator of the Defined Contribution Plan
fraction an amount equal to the product of (i) the excess of the sum of the
fractions over 1.0, times (ii) the denominator of the Defined Contribution Plan
Fraction. In making the adjustment, the Advisory Committee will disregard any
Accrued Benefit under the Defined Benefit Plan which is in excess of the Current
Accrued Benefit.
(k) "Projected Annual Benefit" means the annual retirement benefit
(adjusted to an actuarial equivalent straight life annuity if the plan expresses
such benefit in a form other than a straight life annuity or qualified joint and
survivor annuity) of the Participant under the terms of the Defined Benefit Plan
on the assumptions he continues employment until his Normal Retirement Age (or
current age, if later) as stated in the Defined Benefit Plan, his compensation
continues at the same rate as in effect in the Limitation Year under
consideration until the date of his normal retirement age and all other relevant
factors used to determine benefits under the Defined Benefit Plan remain
constant as of the current Limitation Year for all future Limitation Years.
ARTICLE IV
PARTICIPANT CONTRIBUTIONS
4.01 PARTICIPANT VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS. The Plan does not require nor
permit Participant voluntary contributions.
4.02 PARTICIPANT ROLLOVER CONTRIBUTIONS. The Plan does not permit
Participant rollover contributions.
ARTICLE V
TERMINATION OF SERVICE - PARTICIPANT VESTING
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5.01 VESTING. For purposes of Vesting, once an Employee becomes a
Participant he is 100% Vested in his Account.
ARTICLE VI
TIME AND METHOD OF PAYMENT OF BENEFITS
6.01 TIME OF PAYMENT OF ACCRUED BENEFIT. Unless, pursuant to Section 6.03,
the Participant or the Beneficiary elects in writing to a different time or
method of payment, the Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to commence
distribution of a Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit in accordance with this
Section 6.01. A Participant must consent, in writing, to any distribution
required under this Section 6.01 if the present value of the Participant's
Vested Accrued Benefit, at the time of the distribution to the Participant,
exceeds $3,500 and the Participant has not attained the later of Normal
Retirement Age or age 62. A distribution date under this Article VI, unless
otherwise specified within the Plan, is the date of Separation of Service or any
subsequent date directed by the Participant or as soon as administratively
feasible thereafter but no later than the 60th day following the close of the
Plan Year. For purposes of the consent requirements under this Article VI, if
the present value of the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit, at the time of
any distribution, exceeds $3,500, the Advisory Committee must treat that present
value as exceeding $3,500 for purposes of all subsequent Plan distributions to
the Participant.
(A) Termination of Employment For a Reason Other Than Death. For a
Participant who terminates employment with the Employer for a reason other than
death, the Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to commence distribution
of the Participant's Accrued Benefit, as follows:
(1) Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit Not Exceeding $3,500. In a
lump sum, on the first distribution date coincident with or after the
Participant's Separation from Service.
(2) Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit Exceeding $3,500. The
Participant may elect to have the Trustee commence distribution as of any
distribution date coincident with or following Separation from Service only in a
lump sum, pursuant to Section 6.03, but in no event later than the 60th day
following the close of the Plan Year in which the Participant attains Normal
Retirement Age. If the Participant has attained Normal Retirement Age when he
separates from Service, the distribution under this paragraph will occur no
later than the 60th day following the close of the Plan Year in which the
Participant's Separation from Service occurs.
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(B) Required Beginning Date. If any distribution commencement date
described under Paragraph (A) of this Section 6.01, either by Plan provision or
by Participant election (or non election), is later than the Participant's
Required Beginning Date, the Advisory Committee instead must direct the Trustee
to make distribution under this Section 6.01 on the Participant's Required
Beginning Date. A Participant's Required Beginning Date is the April 1
following the close of the calendar year in which the Participant attains age
seventy and one-half (70 1/2). However, if the Participant, prior to incurring a
Separation from Service, attained age 70 1/2 by January 1, 1988, and, for the
five Plan Year period ending in the calendar year in which he attained age 70
1/2 and for all subsequent years, the Participant was not a more than 5% owner
(as defined in Section 1.18(a)), the Required Beginning Date is the April 1
following the close of the calendar year in which the Participant separates from
Service or, if earlier, the April 1 following the close of the calendar year in
which the Participant becomes a more than 5% owner. Furthermore, if a
Participant who was not a more than 5% owner attained age 70 1/2 during 1988 and
did not incur a Separation from Service prior to January 1, 1989, his Required
Beginning Date is April 1, 1990. For an active Employee Participant a mandatory
distribution at the Participants Required Beginning Date will be in the manner
prescribed in Section 6.02 referring to Minimum Distribution.
(C) Death of the Participant. The Advisory Committee will direct the
Trustee, in accordance with this Section 6.01(C), to distribute to the
Participant's Beneficiary the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit remaining in
the Trust at the time of the Participant's death.
(1) Deceased Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit Does Not Exceed
$3,500. The Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to pay the deceased
Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit in a single cash sum, as soon as
administratively practicable following the Participant's death or, if later, the
date on which the Advisory Committee receives notification of or otherwise
confirms the Participant's death.
(2) Deceased Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit Exceeds $3,500. The
Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to pay the deceased Participant's
Vested Accrued Benefit at the time and in the form permitted under this Article
VI. The Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to distribute. The
Participant's Beneficiary the undistributed Vested Accrued Benefit in a lump
sum, pursuant to Section 6.03, but in no event
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later than the 60th day following the close of the Plan Year in which the
Participant would have attained Normal Retirement Age. If the Participant had
attained Normal Retirement Age prior to his death, the distribution under this
paragraph will occur no later than the 60th day following the close of the Plan
Year in which the Participant died.
6.02 METHOD OF PAYMENT OF ACCRUED BENEFIT. Subject to any restrictions
prescribed by Section 6.01 and Section 6.03, the Advisory Committee will direct
a Participant or Beneficiary receive a distribution, only at Separation of
Service, by payment in a lump sum except to the extent required for an active
Employee to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements under Section
401(a)(9).
(A) Minimum Distribution Requirements for Participants. The Advisory
Committee may not direct the Trustee to distribute the Participant's Vested
Accrued Benefit, nor may the Participant elect to have the Trustee distribute
his Vested Accrued Benefit, under a method of payment which, as of the Required
Beginning Date, does not satisfy the minimum distribution requirements under
Code section 401(a)(9) and the applicable Treasury regulations. The minimum
distribution for a calendar year equals the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit
as of the latest valuation date preceding the beginning of the calendar year
divided by the Participant's life expectancy or, if applicable, the joint and
last survivor expectancy of the Participant and his designated beneficiary (as
determined under Article VIII, subject to the requirements of the Code section
401(a)(9) regulations). The Advisory Committee will increase the Participant's
Vested Accrued Benefit, as determined on the relevant valuation date, for
contributions or forfeitures allocated after the valuation date and by December
31 of the valuation calendar year, and will decrease the valuation by
distributions made after the valuation date and by December 31 of the valuation
calendar year. For purposes of this valuation, the Advisory Committee will treat
any portion of the minimum distribution for the first distribution calendar year
made after the close of that year as a distribution occurring in that first
distribution calendar year. In computing a minimum distribution, the Advisory
Committee must use the unisex life expectancy multiples under Treasury
Regulation section 1.72-9. The Advisory Committee, only upon the Participant's
written request, may compute the minimum distribution for a calendar year
subsequent to the first calendar year for which the Plan requires a minimum
distribution by redetermining the applicable life expectancy. However, the
Advisory Committee may not redetermine the joint life and last survivor
expectancy of the Participant and a non spouse designated Beneficiary in a
manner which takes
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into account any adjustment to a life expectancy other than the Participant's
life expectancy.
If the Participant's spouse is not his designated Beneficiary, a
method of payment to the Participant (whether by Participant election or by
Advisory Committee direction) may not provide more than incidental benefits to
the Beneficiary. The Plan must satisfy the minimum distribution incidental
benefit ("MDIB") requirement in the Treasury regulations issued under Code
section 401(a)(9) for distributions made on or after the Participant's Required
Beginning Date and before the Participant's death. To satisfy the MDIB
requirement, the Advisory Committee will compute the minimum distribution
required by this Section 6.02(A) by substituting the applicable MDIB divisor for
the applicable life expectancy factor, if the MDIB divisor is a lesser number.
Following the Participant's death, the Advisory Committee will compute the
minimum distribution required by this Section 6.02(A) solely on the basis of the
applicable life expectancy factor and will disregard the MDIB factor. For Plan
Years beginning prior to January 1, 1989, the Plan satisfies the incidental
benefits requirement if the distributions to the Participant satisfied the MDIB
requirement or if the present value of the retirement benefits payable solely to
the Participant is greater than 50% of the present value of the total benefits
payable to the Participant and his Beneficiaries. The Advisory Committee must
determine whether benefits to the Beneficiary are incidental as of the date the
Trustee is to commence payment of the retirement benefits to the Participant, or
as of any date the Trustee redetermines the payment period to the Participant.
The minimum distribution for the first calendar year is due by the
Participant's Required Beginning Date. The minimum distribution for each
subsequent distribution calendar year, including the calendar year in which the
Participant's Required Beginning Date falls, is due by December 31 of that year.
(B) Minimum Distribution Requirements for Beneficiaries. The method of
distribution to the Participant's Beneficiary must satisfy Code section
401(a)(9) and the applicable Treasury regulations. If the Participant's death
occurs after his Required Beginning Date, the method of payment to the
Beneficiary must provide for completion of payment over a period which does not
exceed the payment period which had commenced for the Participant. If the
Participant's death occurs prior to his Required Beginning Date, the method of
payment to the Beneficiary, subject to Section 6.03, must provide for completion
of payment to the Beneficiary over a period not exceeding: (i) five
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(5) years after the date of the Participant's death; or (ii) if the Beneficiary
is a designated Beneficiary, the designated Beneficiary's life expectancy. The
Advisory Committee may not direct payment of the Participant's Vested Accrued
Benefit over a period described in clause (ii) unless the Trustee will commence
payment to the designated Beneficiary no later than the December 31 following
the close of the calendar year in which the Participant's death occurred or, if
later, and if the designated Beneficiary is the Participant's surviving spouse,
December 31 of the calendar year in which the Participant would have attained
age seventy and one-half (70 1/2). If the Trustee will make distribution in
accordance with clause (ii), the minimum distribution for a calendar year equals
the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit as of the latest valuation date
preceding the beginning of the calendar year divided by the designated
Beneficiary's life expectancy. The Advisory Committee must use the unisex life
expectancy multiples under Treasury Regulation section 1.72-9 for purposes of
applying this paragraph. The Advisory Committee, only upon the written request
of the Participant or of the Participant's surviving spouse, may recalculate the
life expectancy of the Participant's surviving spouse not more frequently than
annually, but may not recalculate the life expectancy of a non spouse designated
Beneficiary after the Trustee commences payment to the designated Beneficiary.
The Advisory Committee will apply this paragraph by treating any amount paid to
the Participant's child, which becomes payable to the Participant's surviving
spouse upon the child's attaining the age of majority, as paid to the
Participant's surviving spouse. Upon the Beneficiary's written request, the
Advisory Committee must direct the Trustee to accelerate payment of all, or any
portion, of the Participant's unpaid Accrued Benefit, as soon as
administratively practicable following the effective date of that request.
6.03 BENEFIT PAYMENT ELECTIONS. At the date of termination of a
Participant's employment with the Employer, the Plan Administrator must provide
a benefit notice to a Participant who is eligible to make an election under this
Section 6.03. The benefit notice must explain the optional forms of benefit in
the Plan, including the material features and relative values of those options,
and the Participant's right to defer distribution until he attains of Normal
Retirement Age.
If a Participant or Beneficiary makes an election prescribed by this
Section 6.03, the Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to distribute the
Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit in accordance with that election. Any
election under this Section 6.03 is subject to the requirements of Section 6.02.
The Participant or
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Beneficiary must make an election under this Section 6.03 by filing his election
form with the Advisory Committee at any time before the Trustee otherwise would
commence to pay a Participant's Accrued Benefit in accordance with the
requirements of Article VI.
(A) Participant Elections After Termination of Employment. If the
present value of a Participant's Vested Accrued benefit exceeds $3,500, he may
elect to have the Trustee commence distribution as of any distribution date
coincident with or after the Participant's Separation from Service but no later
than his Normal Retirement Date. The distribution may only be in lump sum.
(B) Participant Elections Prior to Termination of Employment. The
Participant may not receive his Accrued Benefit prior to Separation from Service
except as required in Section 6.01.
(C) Death Benefit Elections. If the present value of the deceased
Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit exceeds $3,500, the Participant's
Beneficiary may elect to have the Trustee distribute the Participant's Vested
Accrued Benefit in a form and within a period permitted under Section 6.02 and
this 6.03. The Beneficiary's election is subject to any restrictions designated
in writing by the Participant and not revoked as of his date of death.
6.04 SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION RULES FOR HARDSHIP FROM DEFERRAL
CONTRIBUTIONS ACCOUNT. The distribution provisions in this Section 6.04 apply to
Withdrawals from the Deferral Contributions Account by a Participant who has not
separated from Service with the Employer. The Participant has a continuing
election to receive a distribution from his Deferral Contributions Account if he
incurs an immediate and heavy financial hardship. The distribution event applies
to all or any portion of the Participant's Deferral Contributions Account. The
distribution event under (2) applies to all or any portion of the Participant's
Deferral Contributions Account, except: (i) any portion derived from earnings on
the Participant's elective deferrals; and (ii) to the extent used in the ADP
test described in Section 3.01B, any portion derived from Qualified Employer
Matching Contributions and from Qualified Employer Nonelective Contributions.
A hardship distribution, as described in (2) above is on account of an
immediate and heavy financial need only if the distribution is for any of the
following reasons: (1) medical expenses described in Code section 213(d)
incurred by the Participant, by the Participant's spouse, or by any of the
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Participant's dependents; (2) the purchase (excluding mortgage payments) of a
principal residence for the Participant; (3) the payment of post-secondary
education tuition, for the next semester or for the next quarter, for the
Participant, for the Participant's spouse or for any of the Participant's
dependents; or (4) to prevent the eviction of the Participant from his principal
residence or the foreclosure on the mortgage of the Participant's principal
residence. A Participant's hardship distribution must not exceed the amount
required to meet the need.
The Participant may not receive a hardship distribution unless he has
obtained all distributions and all nontaxable loans otherwise available under
the Plan and under all other qualified plans maintained by the Employer.
Furthermore, a Participant who receives a hardship distribution: (a) will not
have the right to make a deferral election under the 401(k) arrangement
prescribed by Section 3.01A; and (b) must agree to limit elective deferrals (as
defined in Section 3.01B) under this Plan and under any other qualified Plan
maintained by the Employer, for the Participant's taxable year immediately
following the taxable year of the hardship distribution, to the limitation on
elective deferrals under section 402(g) of the Code reduced by the amount of the
Participant's elective deferrals made in the taxable year of the hardship
distribution.
After the Participant separates from service with the Employer, the
provisions of this Article VI other than this Section 6.04 will apply to the
distribution of the Participant's Accrued Benefit, including, the portion
attributable to his Deferral Contributions Account.
6.05 DISTRIBUTIONS UNDER DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDERS. Nothing contained in
this Plan prevents the Trustee, in accordance with the direction of the Advisory
Committee, from complying with the provisions of a qualified domestic relations
order (as defined in Code section 414(p)). This Plan specifically permits
distribution to an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order at
any time, irrespective of whether the Participant has attained his earliest
retirement age (as defined under Code section 414(p)) under the Plan. A
distribution to an alternate payee prior to the Participant's attainment of
earliest retirement age is available only if:
(1) the order specifies distribution at that time or permits an
agreement between the Plan and the alternate payee
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to authorize an earlier distribution; and (2) if the present value of the
alternate payee's benefits under the Plan exceeds $3,500, and the order
requires, the alternate payee consents to any distribution occurring prior to
the Participant's attainment of earliest retirement age. Nothing in this Section
6.05 permits a Participant a right to receive distribution at a time otherwise
not permitted under the Plan nor does it permit the alternate payee to receive a
form of payment not permitted under the Plan.
The Plan Administrator must establish reasonable procedures to
determine the qualified status of a domestic relations order. Upon receiving a
domestic relations order, the Plan Administrator promptly will notify the
Participant and any alternate payee named in the order, in writing, of the
receipt of the order and the Plan's procedures for determining the qualified
status of the order. Within a reasonable period of time after receiving, the
domestic relations order, the Plan Administrator must determine the qualified
status of the order and must notify the Participant and each alternate payee, in
writing, of its determination. The Plan Administrator must provide notice under
this paragraph by mailing such notice to the individual's address specified in
the domestic relations order, or in a manner consistent with Department of Labor
regulations.
If any portion of the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit is payable
during the period the Plan Administrator is making its determination of the
qualified status of the domestic relations order, the Advisory Committee must
make a separate accounting of the amounts payable. The Plan Administrator will
determine if the order is a qualified domestic relations order within eighteen
(18) months of the date amounts first are payable following receipt of the
order, and the Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to distribute the
payable amounts in accordance with the order.
To the extent it is not inconsistent with the provisions of the
qualified domestic relations order, the Advisory Committee may direct the
Trustee to invest any partitioned amount in a segregated sub account or separate
account and to invest the account in Federally insured, interest-bearing savings
account(s) or time deposit(s) (or a combination of both), or in other fixed
income investments. A segregated sub account remains a part of the Trust, but it
alone shares in any income it earns, and it alone bears any expense or loss it
incurs. The Trustee will make any payments or distributions required under this
Section 6.05 by separate checks or other separate distribution to the alternate
payee(s).
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ARTICLE VII
EMPLOYER ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
7.01 INFORMATION TO COMMITTEE. The Employer must supply current information
to the Advisory Committee as to the name, date of birth, date of employment,
annual compensation, leaves of absence, Years of Service and date of
termination of employment of each Employee who is, or who will be eligible to
become, a Participant under the Plan, together with any other information
which the Advisory Committee considers necessary. The Employer's records as to
the current information the Employer furnishes to the Advisory Committee are
conclusive as to all persons.
7.02 NO LIABILITY. The Employer assumes no obligation or responsibility to
any of its Employees, Participants or Beneficiaries for any act of, or failure
to act, on the part of its Advisory Committee (unless the Employer is the
Advisory Committee), the Trustee or the Plan Administrator (unless the Employer
is the Plan Administrator).
7.03 INDEMNITY OF COMMITTEE. The Employer indemnifies and saves harmless
the Plan Administrator and the members of the Advisory Committee from and
against any and all loss resulting from liability to which the Plan
Administrator and the Advisory Committee, or the members of the Advisory
Committee, may be subjected by reason of any act or conduct (except willful
misconduct or gross negligence) in their official capacities in the
administration of this Trust or Plan or both, including all expenses reasonably
incurred in their defense, in case the Employer fails to provide such defense.
The indemnification provisions of this Section 7.03 do not relieve the Plan
Administrator or any Advisory Committee member from any liability he may have
under ERISA for breach of a fiduciary duty. Furthermore, the Plan Administrator
and the Advisory Committee members and the Employer may execute a letter
agreement further delineating the indemnification agreement of this Section
7.03, provided the letter agreement is consistent with and does not violate
ERISA. The indemnification provisions of this Section
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7.03 extend to the Trustee solely to the extent provided by a letter agreement
executed by the Trustee and the Employer.
7.04 EMPLOYER DIRECTION OF INVESTMENT. The Employer has the right to
direct the Trustee with respect to the investment and reinvestment of assets
comprising the Trust Fund only if the Trustee consents in writing to permit such
direction. If the Trustee consents to Employer direction of investment, the
Trustee and the Employer must execute a letter agreement as a part of this Plan
containing such conditions, limitations and other provisions they deem
appropriate before the Trustee will follow any Employer direction as respects
the investment or reinvestment of any part of the Trust Fund.
7.05 AMENDMENT TO VESTING SCHEDULE. Though the Employer reserves the right
to amend the Vesting schedule at any time, the Advisory Committee will not apply
the amended Vesting schedule to reduce the Vested percentage of any Participants
Employer Contribution Account (determined as of the later of the date the
Employer adopts the amendment, or the date the amendment becomes effective) to a
percentage less than the Vested percentage computed under the Plan without
regard to the amendment.
If the Employer makes a permissible amendment to the Vesting schedule,
each Participant having at least three (3) Years of Service with the Employer
may elect to have the percentage of his Vested Accrued Benefit computed under
the Plan without regard to the amendment. The Participant must file his election
with the Plan Administrator within sixty (60) days of the latest of (a) the
Employer's adoption of the amendment; (b) the effective date of the amendment;
or (c) his receipt of a copy of the amendment. The Plan Administrator, as soon
as practicable, must forward a true copy of any amendment to the Vesting
schedule to each affected Participant, together with an explanation of the
effect of the amendment, the appropriate form upon which the Participant may
make an election to remain under the Vesting schedule provided under the Plan
prior to the amendment and notice of the time within which the Participant must
make an election to remain under the prior Vesting schedule. For purposes of
this Section 7.05, an amendment to the Vesting schedule includes any Plan
amendment which directly or indirectly affects the computation of the Vested
percentage of an Employee's rights to his Employer Contribution Account.
ARTICLE VIII
PARTICIPANT ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
8.01 BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION. Any Participant may from time
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to time designate, in writing, any person or persons, contingently or
successively, to whom the Trustee will pay his Accrued Benefit on event of his
death and the Participant may designate the form and method of payment. The
Advisory Committee will prescribe the form for the written designation of
Beneficiary and, upon the Participant's filing the form with the Advisory
Committee, the form effectively revokes all designations filed prior to that
date by the same Participant.
A married Participant's Beneficiary designation is not valid unless
the Participant's spouse consents, in writing, to the Beneficiary designation.
The spouse's consent must acknowledge the effect of that consent and a notary
public or the Plan Administrator (or his representative) must witness that
consent. The spousal consent requirements of this paragraph do not apply if (1)
the Participant and his spouse are not married throughout the one year period
ending on the date of the Participant's death; (2) the Participant's spouse is
the Participant's sole primary beneficiary; (3) the Plan Administrator is not
able to locate the Participant's spouse; (4) the Participant is legally
separated or has been abandoned (within the meaning of State law) and the
Participant has a court order to that effect; or (5) other circumstances exist
under which the Secretary of the Treasury will excuse the consent requirement.
If the Participant's spouse is legally incompetent to give consent, the spouse's
legal guardian (even if the guardian is the Participant) may give consent.
8.02 NO BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION. If a Participant fails to name a
Beneficiary in accordance with Section 8.01, or if the Beneficiary named by a
Participant predeceases him or dies before complete distribution of the
Participant's Accrued Benefit as prescribed by the Participant's Beneficiary
form, then the Trustee will pay the Participant's Accrued Benefit in accordance
with Section 6.02 in the following order of priority to:
(a) The Participant's surviving spouse;
(b) The Participant's surviving children, including adopted children,
in equal shares;
(c) The Participant's surviving parents, in equal shares; or
(d) The legal representative of the estate of the last to die of the
Participant and his Beneficiary.
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The Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee as to the method and to
whom the Trustee will make payment under this Section 8.02.
8.03 PERSONAL DATA TO COMMITTEE. Each Participant and each Beneficiary of
a deceased Participant must furnish to the Advisory Committee such evidence,
data or information as the Advisory Committee considers necessary or desirable
for the purpose of administering the Plan. The provisions of this Plan are
effective for the benefit of each Participant upon the condition precedent that
each Participant will furnish promptly full, true and complete evidence, data
and information when requested by the Advisory Committee, provided the Advisory
Committee advises each Participant of the effect of his failure to comply with
its request.
8.04 ADDRESS FOR NOTIFICATION. Each Participant and each Beneficiary of a
deceased Participant must file with the Advisory Committee from time to time, in
writing, his post office address and any change of post office address. Any
communication, statement or notice addressed to a Participant, or Beneficiary,
at his last post office address filed with the Advisory Committee, or as shown
on the records of the Employer, binds the Participant, or Beneficiary, for all
purposes of this Plan.
8.05 ASSIGNMENT OR ALIENATION. Subject to Code section 414(p) relating to
qualified domestic relations orders, neither a Participant nor a Beneficiary may
anticipate, assign or alienate (either at law or in equity) any benefit provided
under the Plan, and the Trustee will not recognize any such anticipation,
assignment or alienation. Furthermore, a benefit under the Plan is not subject
to attachment, garnishment, levy, execution or other legal or equitable process.
8.06 NOTICE OF CHANGE IN TERMS. The Plan Administrator, within the time
prescribed by ERISA and the applicable regulations must furnish all
Participants and Beneficiaries a summary description of any material amendment
to the Plan or notice of discontinuance of the Plan and all other information
required by ERISA to be furnished without charge.
8.07 LITIGATION AGAINST THE TRUST. A court of competent jurisdiction may
authorize any appropriate equitable relief to redress violations of ERISA or to
enforce any provisions of ERISA or the terms of the Plan. A fiduciary may
receive reimbursement of expenses properly and actually incurred in the
performance of his duties with the plan.
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8.08 INFORMATION AVAILABLE. Any Participant in the Plan or any Beneficiary
may examine copies of the Plan description, latest annual report, any bargaining
agreement, this Plan and Trust, contract or any other instrument under which the
Plan was established or is operated. The Plan Administrator will maintain all of
the items listed in this Section 8.08 in his office, or in such other place or
places as he may designate from time to time in order to comply with the
regulations issued under ERISA, for examination during reasonable business
hours. Upon the written request of a Participant or Beneficiary the Plan
Administrator will furnish him with a copy of any item listed in this Section
8.08. The Plan Administrator may make a reasonable charge to the requesting
person for the copy so furnished.
8.09 APPEAL PROCEDURE FOR DENIAL OF BENEFITS. The Plan Administrator will
provide adequate notice in writing to any Participant or to any Beneficiary
("Claimant") whose claim for benefits under the Plan the Advisory Committee has
denied. The Plan Administrator's notice to the Claimant must set forth:
(a) The specific reason for the denial;
(b) Specific references to pertinent Plan provisions on which the
Advisory Committee based its denial;
(c) A description of any additional material and information needed
for the Claimant to perfect his claim and an explanation of why the material or
information is needed; and
(d) That any appeal the Claimant wishes to make of the adverse
determination must be in writing, to the Advisory Committee within seventy-five
(75) days after receipt of the Plan Administrator's notice of denial of
benefits. The Plan Administrator's notice must further advise the Claimant that
his failure to appeal the action to the Advisory Committee in writing within the
seventy-five (75) day period will render the Advisory Committee's determination
final, binding and conclusive.
If the Claimant should appeal to the Advisory Committee, he, or his
duly authorized representative, may submit, in writing, whatever issues and
comments he, or his duly authorized representative, feels are pertinent. The
Claimant, or his duly authorized representative, may review pertinent Plan
documents. The Advisory Committee will reexamine all facts related to the appeal
and make a final determination as to whether the denial of benefits is justified
under the
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circumstances. The Advisory Committee must advise the Claimant of its decision
within sixty (60) days of the Claimant's written request for review, unless
special circumstances (such as a hearing) would make the rendering of a decision
within the sixty (60) day limit unfeasible, but in no event may the Advisory
Committee reader a decision respecting a denial for a claim for benefits later
than one hundred twenty (120) days after its receipt of a request for review.
The Plan Administrator's notice of denial of benefits must identify
the name of each member of the Advisory Committee and the name and address of
the Advisory Committee member to whom the Claimant may forward his appeal.
ARTICLE IX
ADVISORY COMMITTEE - DUTIES WITH RESPECT
TO PARTICIPANTS' ACCOUNTS
9.01 MEMBERS COMPENSATION EXPENSES. The Employer must appoint an Advisory
Committee to administer the Plan, the members of which may or may not be
Participants in the Plan. The members of the Advisory Committee will serve
without compensation for services as such, but the Employer will pay all
expenses of the Advisory Committee, including the expense for any bond required
under ERISA.
9.02 TERM AND NUMBER. Each member of the Advisory Committee serves until
the appointment of his successor. The Advisory Committee will consist of at
least three (3) members.
9.03 POWERS. In case of a vacancy in the membership of the Advisory
Committee, the remaining members of the Advisory Committee may exercise any and
all of the powers, authority, duties and discretion conferred upon the Advisory
Committee pending the filling of the vacancy.
9.04 GENERAL. The Advisory Committee has the following powers and duties:
(a) To select a Secretary, who need not be a member of the Advisory
Committee;
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(b) To determine the rights of eligibility of an Employee to
participate in the Plan, the value of a Participant's Accrued Benefit and the
Vested percentage of each Participant's Accrued Benefit;
(c) To adopt rules of procedure and regulations necessary for the
proper and efficient administration of the Plan provided the rules are not
inconsistent with the terms of this Agreement;
(d) To enforce the terms of the Plan and the rules and regulations it
adopts;
(e) To direct the Trustee as respects the crediting and distribution
of the Trust;
(f) To review and render decisions respecting a claim for (or denial
of a claim for) a benefit under the Plan;
(g) To furnish the Employer with information which the Employer may
require for tax or other purposes;
(h) To engage the service of agents whom it may deem advisable to
assist it with the performance of its duties.
(i) To engage the services of an Investment Manager or Managers (as
defined in ERISA section 3(38)), each of whom will have full power and authority
to manage, acquire or dispose (or direct the Trustee with respect to acquisition
or disposition) of any Plan asset under its control;
(j) To establish a nondiscriminatory policy which the Trustee must
observe in making loans, if any, to Participants; and
(k) To establish and maintain a funding standard account and to make
credits and charges to the account to the extent required by and in accordance
with the provisions of the Code.
The Advisory Committee must exercise all of its powers, duties and
discretion under the Plan in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner.
Loan Policy. A loan policy described in paragraph (j)
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must be a written document and must include: (1) the identity of the person or
positions authorized to administer the participant loan program; (2) a procedure
for applying for the loan; (3) the criteria for approving or denying, a loan;
(4) the limitations, if any, on the types and amounts of loans available; (5)
the procedure for determining a reasonable rate of interest; (6) the types of
collateral which may secure the loan; and (7) the events constituting default
and the steps the Plan will take to preserve plan assets in the event of
default.
9.05 FUNDING POLICY. The Advisory Committee will review, not less often
than annually, all pertinent Employee information and Plan data in order to
establish the funding policy of the Plan and to determine the appropriate
methods of carrying out the Plan's objectives. The Advisory Committee must
communicate periodically, as it deems appropriate, to the Trustee and any Plan
Investment Manager the Plan's short-term and long-term financial needs so
investment policy can be coordinated with Plan financial requirements.
9.06 MANNER OF ACTION. The decision of a majority of the members appointed
and qualified controls.
9.07 AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE. The Advisory Committee may authorize any
one (1) of its members, or its Secretary, to sign on its behalf any notices,
directions, applications, certificates, consents, approvals, waivers, letters or
other documents. The Advisory Committee must evidence this authority by an
instrument signed by all members and filed with the Trustee.
9.08 INTERESTED MEMBER. No member of the Advisory Committee may decide or
determine any matter concerning the distribution, nature or method of settlement
of his own benefits under the Plan, except in exercising an election available
to that member in his capacity as a Participant, unless the Plan Administrator
is acting alone in the capacity of the Advisory Committee.
9.09 INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS. The Advisory Committee will maintain, or direct
the Trustee to maintain, a separate Account, or multiple Accounts, in the name
of each Participant to reflect the Participant's Accrued Benefit under the Plan.
If a Participant reenters the Plan subsequent to his having a Forfeiture Break
in Service, the Advisory Committee, or the Trustee, must maintain a separate
Account for the Participant's pre-Forfeiture Break in Service Accrued Benefit
and a separate Account for his post-Forfeiture Break in Service Accrued Benefit,
unless the Participant's entire Accrued Benefit under the Plan is one hundred
percent (100%) Vested.
The Advisory Committee will make its allocations, or
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request the Trustee to make its allocations, to the Accounts of the Participants
in accordance with the provisions of Section 9.11. The Advisory Committee may
direct the Trustee to maintain a temporary segregated investment Account in the
name of a Participant or former Participant to prevent a distortion of income,
gain or loss allocations under Section 9.11. The Advisory Committee must
maintain records of its activities.
9.10 VALUE OF PARTICIPANT'S ACCRUED BENEFIT. The value of each
Participant's Accrued Benefit consists of that proportion of the net worth (at
fair market value) of the Employer's Trust Fund which the net credit balance in
his Account bears to the total net credit balance in the Accounts of all
Participants.
For purposes of a distribution under the Plan, the value of a
Participant's Accrued Benefit is its value as of the valuation date immediately
preceding the date of the distribution.
9.11 ALLOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF NET INCOME GAIN OR LOSS.
A "valuation date" under this Plan is each Accounting Date and each
interim valuation date determined under Section 10.14. As of each valuation
date the Advisory Committee must adjust Accounts to reflect net income, gain or
loss since the last valuation date. The valuation period is the period beginning
the day after the last valuation date and ending on the current valuation date.
The allocable net income, gain or loss is the net income (or loss), including
the increase or decrease in the fair market value of assets, since the last
valuation date.
Trust Fund Accounts. The allocation provisions of this paragraph
apply to all Participant Accounts other than segregated investment Accounts.
The Advisory Committee shall adjust the Accounts as they stood at the
end of the prior valuation period by addition of current year deferrals and
reduction for amounts charged during the valuation period to those Accounts in
accordance with Section 9.13 (relating to distributions) and for the amount of
any Account which the Trustee has fully distributed since the immediately
preceding valuation date. Any earnings or losses of the Trust Fund related to
those Accounts shall then be allocated in the same proportion that each
Participant's or former Participant's non segregated Account bears to the total
of all Participants' non segregated Accounts as of such date. Next the Accounts
are increased for any forfeitures arising under Section 9.14 in the manner
described in Section 3.05. Employer
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Contributions, other than Deferral Contributions, will be allocated as described
in Section 3.04.
Segregated Investment Accounts. A segregated investment Account
receives all income it earns and bears all expense or loss it incurs.
Additional Rules. An Excess Amount or suspense account described in
Part 2 of Article III does not share in the allocation of net income, gain or
loss described in this Section 9.11. This Section 9.11 applies solely to the
allocation of net income, gain or loss of the Trust.
The Advisory Committee will allocate the Employer contributions and
Participant forfeitures, if any, in accordance with Article III.
9.12 INDIVIDUAL STATEMENT. As soon as practicable after the Accounting
Date of each Plan Year, but within the time prescribed by ERISA and the
regulations under ERISA, the Plan Administrator will deliver to each Participant
(and to each Beneficiary) a statement reflecting the condition of his Accrued
Benefit in the Trust as of that date and such other information ERISA requires
be furnished the Participant or Beneficiary. No Participant, except a member of
the Advisory Committee, has the right to inspect the records reflecting the
Account of any other Participant.
9.13 ACCOUNT CHARGED. The Advisory Committee will charge all distributions
made to a Participant or to his Beneficiary from his Account against the Account
of the Participant when made.
9.14 UNCLAIMED ACCOUNT PROCEDURE. The Plan does not require either the
Trustee or the Advisory Committee to search for, or ascertain the whereabouts
of, any Participant or Beneficiary. At the time the Participant's or
Beneficiary's benefit becomes distributable under Article VI, the Advisory
Committee, by certified or registered mail addressed to his last known address
of record with the Advisory Committee or the Employer, must notify any
Participant, or Beneficiary, that he is entitled to a distribution under this
Plan. The notice must quote the provisions of this Section 9.14 and otherwise
must comply with the notice requirements of Article VI. If the Participant, or
Beneficiary, fails to claim his distributive share or make his whereabouts known
in writing to the Advisory Committee within six
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(6) months from the date of mailing of the notice, the Advisory Committee will
treat the Participant's or Beneficiary's unclaimed payable Accrued Benefit as
forfeited and will reallocate the unclaimed payable Accrued Benefit in
accordance with Section 3.05. Where the benefit is distributable to the
Participant, the forfeiture under this paragraph occurs as of the last day of
the notice period, if the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit does not exceed
$3,500, or as of the first day the benefit is distributable without the
Participant's consent, if the present value of the Participant's Vested Accrued
Benefit exceeds $3,500. Where the benefit is distributable to a Beneficiary, the
forfeiture occurs on the date the notice period ends except, if the Beneficiary
is the Participant's spouse and the Vested Accrued Benefit payable to the spouse
exceeds $3,500, the forfeiture occurs as of the first day the benefit is
distributable without the spouse's consent. Pending forfeiture, the Advisory
Committee, following the expiration of the notice period, may direct the Trustee
to segregate the Vested Accrued Benefit in a segregated Account and to invest
that segregated Account in Federally insured interest bearing savings accounts
or time deposits (or in a combination of both), or in other fixed income
investments.
If a Participant or Beneficiary who has incurred a forfeiture of his
Accrued Benefit under the provisions of the first paragraph of this Section 9.14
makes a claim, at any time, for his forfeited Accrued Benefit, the Advisory
Committee must restore the Participant's or Beneficiary's forfeited Accrued
Benefit to the same dollar amount as the dollar amount of the Accrued Benefit
forfeited, unadjusted for any gains or losses occurring subsequent to the date
of the forfeiture. The Advisory Committee will make the restoration during the
Plan Year in which the Participant or Beneficiary makes the claim first from the
amount, if any, of Participant forfeitures the Advisory Committee otherwise
would allocate for the Plan Year, then from the amount, if any, of the Trust
Fund net income or gain for the Plan Year and then from the amount, or
additional amount, the Employer contributes to enable the Advisory Committee to
make the required restoration. The Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee
to distribute the Participant's or Beneficiary's restored Accrued Benefit to him
in accordance with Article VI. The forfeiture provisions of this Section 9.14
apply solely to the Participant's or to the Beneficiary's Accrued Benefit
derived from Employer contributions.
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ARTICLE X
TRUSTEE, POWERS AND DUTIES
10.01 ACCEPTANCE. The Trustee accepts the Trust created under the Plan
and agrees to perform the obligations imposed. The Trustee must provide bond for
the faithful performance of its duties under the Trust to the extent required by
ERISA.
10.02 RECEIPT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. The Trustee is accountable to the
Employer for the funds contributed to it by the Employer, but does not have any
duty to see that the contributions received comply with the provisions of the
Plan. The Trustee is not obliged to collect any contributions from the Employer,
nor is obliged to see that funds deposited with it are deposited according to
the provisions of the Plan.
10.03 INVESTMENT POWERS.
(A) Trustee Powers. The Trustee has full discretion and authority
with regard to the investment of the Trust Fund except with respect to a Plan
asset under the control or direction of a properly appointed Investment Manager,
or with respect to a Plan asset subject to Employer, Participant or Advisory
Committee direction of investment. The Trustee must coordinate its investment
policy with Plan financial needs as communicated to it by the Advisory
Committee. The Trustee is authorized and empowered, but not by way of
limitation, with the following powers, rights and duties:
(a) To invest any part or all of the Trust Fund in any common or
preferred stocks, open-end or closed-end mutual funds, put and call options
traded on a national exchange, United States retirement plan bonds, corporate
bonds, debentures, convertible debentures, commercial paper, U.S. Treasury
bills, U.S. Treasury notes and other direct or indirect obligations of the
United States Government or its agencies, improved or unimproved real estate
situated in the United States, insurance contracts of any type, limited
partnerships, mortgages, notes or other property of any kind, real or personal,
and to buy or sell options on common stock on a nationally recognized exchange
with or without holding the underlying common stock, and to make any other
investments the Trustee deems appropriate, as a prudent man would do under like
circumstances with due regard for the purposes of this Plan. Any investment made
or retained by the Trustee in good faith is proper but must be of a kind
constituting a diversification considered by law suitable for trust investments.
(b) To retain in cash so much of the Trust Fund as it may deem
advisable to satisfy liquidity needs of the Plan and to deposit any cash held in
the Trust Fund in a bank account
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at reasonable interest. If the Trustee is a bank or similar financial
institution supervised by the United States or by a State, this paragraph (b)
includes specific authority to invest in any type of deposit of the Trustee (or
of a bank related to the Trustee within the meaning of Code section 414(b)) at a
reasonable rate of interest or in a common trust fund (the provisions of which
govern the investment of such assets and which the Plan incorporates by this
reference) as described in Code section 584 which the Trustee (or its affiliate,
as defined in Code section 1504) maintains exclusively for the collective
investment of money contributed by the bank (or the affiliate) in its capacity
as Trustee and which conforms to the rules of the Comptroller of the Currency.
(c) To manage, sell, contract to sell, grant options to purchase,
convey, exchange, transfer, abandon, improve, repair, insure, lease for any term
even though commencing in the future or extending beyond the term of the Trust,
and otherwise deal with all property, real or personal, in such manner, for such
considerations and on such terms and conditions as the Trustee decides.
(d) To credit and distribute the Trust as directed by the Advisory
Committee. The Trustee is not obliged to inquire as to whether any payee or
distributee is entitled to any payment or whether the distribution is proper or
within the terms of the Plan, or as to the manner of making any payment or
distribution. The Trustee is accountable only to the Advisory Committee for any
payment or distribution made by it in good faith on the order or direction of
the Advisory Committee.
(e) To compromise, contest, arbitrate or abandon claims and demands,
in its discretion;
(f) To have with respect to the Trust all of the rights of an
individual owner, including the power to give proxies, to participate in any
voting trusts, mergers, consolidations or liquidation's, and to exercise or sell
stock subscriptions or conversion rights;
(g) To hold any securities or other property in the name of the
Trustee or its nominee, with depositories or agent depositories or in another
form as it may deem best, with or without disclosing the trust relationship;
(h) To perform any and all other acts in its judgment necessary or
appropriate for the proper and advantageous management, investment and
distribution of the Trust;
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(i) To retain any funds or property subject to any dispute without
liability for the payment of interest, and to decline to make payment or
delivery of the funds or property until final adjudication is made by a court of
competent jurisdiction;
(j) To file all tax returns required of the Trustee;
(k) To furnish to the Employer, the Plan Administrator and the
Advisory Committee an annual statement of account showing the condition of the
Trust Fund and all investments, receipts, disbursements and other transactions
effected by the Trustee during the Plan Year covered by the statement and also
stating the assets of the Trust held at the end of the Plan Year, which accounts
are conclusive on all persons, including the Employer, the Plan Administrator
and the Advisory Committee, except as to any act or transaction concerning which
the Employee, the Plan Administrator or the Advisory Committee files with the
Trustee written exceptions or objections within ninety (90) days after the
receipt of the accounts or for which ERISA authorizes a longer period within
which to object; and
(l) To begin, maintain or defend any litigation necessary in
connection with the administration of the Plan, except that the Trustee is not
obliged or required to do so unless indemnified to its satisfaction.
(B) Participant Loans. This Section 10.03(B) specifically authorizes
the Trustee to make loans on a nondiscriminatory basis to a Participant in
accordance with the loan policy established by the Advisory Committee, provided:
(1) the loan policy satisfies the requirements of Section 9.04; (2) loans are
available to all Participants and Beneficiaries on a reasonably equivalent basis
and are not available in a greater amount for Highly Compensated Employees than
for other Employees; (3) any loan is adequately secured and bears a reasonable
rate of interest; (4) the loan provides for repayment within a specified time;
(5) the default provisions of the note prohibit offset of the Participant's
Vested Accrued Benefit prior to the time the Trustee otherwise would distribute
the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit; (6) the amount of the loan does not
exceed (at the time the Plan extends the loan) the present value of the
Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit; and (7) the loan otherwise conforms to the
exemption provided by Code section 4975(d)(l). If the Employer is an
unincorporated trade of business, a Participant who is an Owner-Employee may not
receive a loan from the Plan, unless he has obtained a prohibited transaction
exemption from the Department of Labor.
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10.04 RECORDS AND STATEMENTS. The records of the Trustee pertaining to
the Plan must be open to the inspection of the Plan Administrator, Advisory
Committee and the Employer at all reasonable times and may be audited from time
to time by any person or persons as the Plan Administrator, Employer or Advisory
Committee may specify in writing. The Trustee must furnish the Plan
Administrator or Advisory Committee with whatever information relating to the
Trust Fund the Advisory Committee or Plan Administrator considers necessary.
10.05 FEES AND EXPENSES FROM FUND. The Trustee will receive reasonable
annual compensation as may be agreed upon from time to time between the Employer
and the Trustee. The Trustee will pay all fees and expenses reasonably incurred
by it in its administration of the Plan from the Trust Fund unless-the Employer
pays the fees and expenses. The Advisory Committee will not treat any fee or
expense paid, directly or indirectly, by the Employer as an Employer
contribution, provided the fee or expense relates to the ordinary and necessary
administration of the Fund. No person who is receiving, full pay from the
Employer may receive compensation for services as Trustee.
10.06 PARTIES TO LITIGATION. Except as otherwise provided by ERISA,
only the Employer, the Plan Administrator, the Advisory Committee, and the
Trustee are necessary parties to any court proceeding involving, the Trustee or
the Trust Fund. No Participant, or Beneficiary, is entitled to any notice of
process unless required by ERISA. Any final judgment entered in any proceeding
will be conclusive upon the Employer, the Plan Administrator, the Advisory
Committee, the Trustee, Participants and Beneficiaries.
10.07 PROFESSIONAL AGENTS. The Trustee may employ and pay from the
Trust Fund reasonable compensation to agents, attorneys, accountants and other
persons to advise the Trustee as in its opinion may be necessary. The Trustee
may delegate to any agent, attorney, accountant or other person selected by it
any non-Trustee power or duty assigned it by the Plan, and the Trustee may act
or refrain from acting, on the advice or opinion of any agent, attorney,
accountant or other person so selected.
10.08 DISTRIBUTION OF CASH OR PROPERTY. The Trustee may make
distribution under the Plan in cash or property, or partly in each, at its fair
market value as determined by the Trustee.
10.09 DISTRIBUTION DIRECTIONS. If no one claims a payment or
distribution made from the Trust, the Trustee must promptly notify the Advisory
Committee and then dispose of the
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payment in accordance with the subsequent direction of the Advisory Committee.
10.10 THIRD PARTY. No person dealing with the Trustee is obligated to
see to the proper application of any money paid or property delivered to the
Trustee, or to inquire whether the Trustee has acted pursuant to any of the
terms of the Plan. Each person dealing with the Trustee may act upon any notice
request or representation in writing by the Trustee or by the Trustee duly
authorized agent, and is not liable to any person in so acting. The certificate
of the Trustee that it is acting in accordance with the Plan will be conclusive
in favor of any person relying on the certificate. If more than two persons act
as Trustee, the decision of a majority of such persons controls with respect to
any decision regarding the administration or investment of the Trust Fund.
10.11 RESIGNATION. The Trustee may resign at any time as Trustee of
the Plan by giving thirty (30) days written notice in advance to the Employer
and to the Advisory Committee. If the Employer fails to appoint a successor
Trustee within 60 days of its receipt of the Trustee's written notice of
resignation, the Trustee will treat the Employer as having appointed itself as
Trustee and as having filed its acceptance of appointment with the former
Trustee.
10.12 REMOVAL. The Employer, by giving thirty (30) days written notice
in advance to the Trustee, may remove any Trustee. In the event of the
resignation or removal of a Trustee, the Employer must appoint a successor
Trustee if it intends to continue the Plan. If two or more persons hold the
position of Trustee, in the event of the removal of one such person, during any
period the selection of a replacement is pending, or during any period such
person is unable to serve for any reason, the remaining person or persons will
act as the Trustee.
10.13 INTERIM DUTIES AND SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE. Each successor Trustee
succeeds to the title to the Trust vested in his predecessor by accepting in
writing his appointment as successor Trustee and filing the acceptance with the
former Trustee and the Advisory Committee without the signing or filing of any
further statement. The resigning or removed Trustee, upon receipt of acceptance
in writing of the Trust by the successor Trustee, must execute all documents and
do all acts necessary to vest the title of record in any successor Trustee. Each
successor Trustee has and enjoys all of the powers, both discretionary and
ministerial, conferred under this Agreement upon his predecessor.
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A successor Trustee is not personally liable for any act or failure to act of
any predecessor Trustee, except as required under ERISA. With the approval of
the Employer and the Advisory Committee, a successor Trustee, with respect to
the Plan, may accept the account rendered and the property delivered to it by a
predecessor Trustee without incurring any liability or responsibility for so
doing.
10.14 VALUATION OF TRUST. The Trustee must value the Trust Fund as of
each Accounting Date to determine the fair market value of each Participant's
Accrued Benefit in the Trust. The Trustee also must value the Trust Fund on such
other dates as directed in writing by the Advisory Committee.
10.15 LIMITATION ON LIABILITY - IF INVESTMENT MANAGER APPOINTED. The
Trustee is not liable for the acts or omissions of any Investment Manager or
Managers the Advisory Committee may appoint, nor is the Trustee under any
obligation to invest or otherwise manage any asset of the Plan which is subject
to the management of a properly appointed Investment Manager. The Advisory
Committee, the Trustee and any properly appointed Investment Manager may execute
a Letter agreement as part of this Plan delineating the duties, responsibilities
and liabilities of the Investment Manager with respect to any part of the Trust
Fund under the control of the Investment Manager.
10.16 INVESTMENT IN GROUP TRUST FUND. The Trustee, for collective
investment purposes, may combine into one (1) trust fund the Trust created under
this Plan with the trust created under any other qualified retirement plan the
Employer maintains. However, the Trustee must maintain separate records of
account for the assets of each trust, in order to reflect properly each
Participant's Accrued Benefit under the plan(s) in which he is a Participant.
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
11.01 EVIDENCE. Anyone required to give evidence under the terms of the
Plan may do so by certificate, affidavit,
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document or other information which the person to act in reliance may consider
pertinent, reliable and genuine, and to have been signed, made or presented by
the proper party or parties. Both the Advisory Committee and the Trustee are
fully protected in acting and relying upon any evidence described under the
immediately preceding sentence.
11.02 NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR EMPLOYER ACTION. Neither the Trustee nor
the Advisory Committee has any obligation nor responsibility with respect to any
action required by the Plan to be taken by the Employer, any Participant or
eligible Employee, or for the failure of any of the above persons to act or make
any payment or contribution, or to otherwise provide any benefit contemplated
under this Plan. Furthermore, the Plan does not require the Trustee or the
Advisory Committee to collect any contribution required under the Plan or to
determine the correctness of the amount of any Employer contribution. Neither
the Trustee nor the Advisory Committee need inquire into or be responsible for
any action or failure to act on the part of the others. Any action required of a
corporate Employer must be by its Board of Directors or its designate.
11.03 FIDUCIARIES NOT INSURERS. The Trustee, the Advisory Committee,
the Plan Administrator and the Employer in no way guarantee the Trust Fund from
loss or depreciation. The Employer does not guarantee the payment of any money
which may be or becomes due to any person from the Trust Fund. The liability of
the Advisory Committee and the Trustee to make any payment from the Trust Fund
at any time and all times is limited to the then available assets of the Trust.
11.04 WAIVER OF NOTICE. Any person entitled to notice under the Plan
may waive the notice.
11.05 SUCCESSORS. The Plan is binding upon all persons entitled to
benefits under the Plan, their respective heirs and legal representatives, upon
the Employer, its successors and assigns, and upon the Trustee and the Advisory
Committee and their successors.
11.06 WORD USAGE. Words used in the masculine also apply to the
feminine where applicable, and wherever the context of the Employer's Plan
dictates, the plural includes the singular and the singular includes the plural.
11.07 STATE LAW. Texas law will determine all questions arising with
respect to the provisions of this Agreement except to the extent Federal
statute supersedes Texas law.
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11.08 EMPLOYMENT NOT GUARANTEED. Nothing contained in this Plan, or
with respect to the establishment of the Trust, or any modification or amendment
to the Plan or Trust, or in the creation of any Account, or the payment of any
benefit, gives any Employee, Participant or any Beneficiary any right to
continue employment, any legal or equitable right against the Employer, or
Employee of the Employer, or against the Trustee, or its agents or employees, or
against the Plan Administrator, except as expressly provided by the Plan, the
Trust, ERISA or by a separate agreement.
ARTICLE XII
EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT, AMENDMENT, TERMINATION
12.01 EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT. Except as provided under Article III, the
Employer has no beneficial interest in any asset of the Trust and no part of any
asset in the Trust may ever revert to or be repaid to an Employer, either
directly or indirectly; nor prior to the satisfaction of all liabilities with
respect to the Participants and their Beneficiaries under the Plan, may any part
of the corpus or income of the Trust Fund, or any asset of the Trust, be (at
anytime) used for, or diverted to, purposes other than the exclusive benefit of
the Participants or their Beneficiaries. However, if the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, upon the Employer's request for initial approval of this Plan,
determines that the Trust created under the Plan is not a qualified trust exempt
from Federal income tax, then (and only then) the Trustee, upon written notice
from the Employer, will return the Employers contributions (and increment
attributable to the contributions) to the Employer. The Trustee must make the
return of the Employer contribution under this Section 12.01 within one year of
a final disposition of the Employer's request for initial approval of the Plan.
The Plan and Trust will terminate upon the Trustee's return of the Employer's
contributions.
12.02 AMENDMENT BY EMPLOYER. The Employer has the right at any time and
from time to time:
(a) To amend this Agreement in any manner it deems necessary or
advisable in order to qualify (or maintain qualification of) this Plan and the
Trust created under it under the appropriate provisions of Code section 401(a);
and
(b) To amend this Agreement in any other manner.
No amendment may authorize or permit any of the Trust Fund (other than
the part which 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
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or their Beneficiaries or estates. No amendment may cause or permit any portion
of the Trust Fund to revert to or become a property of the Employer. The or
their Beneficiaries or estates. No amendment may cause or permit any portion of
the Trust Fund to revert to or become a property of the Employer. The Employer
also may not make any amendment which affects the rights, duties or
responsibilities of the Trustee, the Plan Administrator or the Advisory
Committee without the written consent of the affected Trustee, the Plan
Administrator or the affected member of the Advisory Committee.
Code section 411(d)(6) protected benefits. An amendment (including the
adoption of this Plan as a restatement of an existing plan) may not decrease a
Participant's Accrued Benefit, except to the extent permitted under Code section
412(c)(8), and may not reduce or eliminate Code section 411(d)(6) protected
benefits determined immediately prior to the adoption date (or, if later, the
effective date) of the amendment. An amendment reduces or eliminates Code
section 411(d)(6) protected benefits if the amendment has the effect of either
(1) eliminating or reducing, an early retirement benefit or a retirement-type
subsidy (as defined in Treasury regulations), or (2) except as provided by
Treasury regulations, eliminating, an optional form of benefit. The Advisory
Committee must disregard an amendment to the extent application of the amendment
would fail to satisfy this paragraph. If the Advisory Committee must disregard
an amendment because the amendment would violate clause (1) or clause (2), the
Advisory Committee must maintain a schedule of the early retirement option or
other optional forms of benefit the Plan must continue for the affected
Participants.
The Employer must make all amendments in writing. Each amendment must
state the date to which it is either retroactively or prospectively effective.
12.03 DISCONTINUANCE. The Employer has the right, at any time, to
suspend or discontinue its contributions under the Plan, and to terminate, at
any time, this Plan and the Trust created under this Agreement. The Plan will
terminate upon the first to occur of the following:
(a) The date terminated by action of the Employer;
(b) The date the Employer is judicially declared bankrupt or
insolvent, unless the proceeding authorized continued maintenance of the Plan;
(c) The dissolution, merger, consolidation or reorganization of the
Employer or the sale by the Employer of all or substantially all of its assets,
unless the successor or
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purchaser makes provision to continue the Plan, in which event the successor or
purchaser must substitute itself as the Employer under this Plan.
12.04 FULL VESTING ON TERMINATION. Upon either full or partial
termination of the Plan, or if applicable, upon complete discontinuance of
profit sharing, contributions to the Plan, an affected Participant's right to
his Accrued Benefit is one hundred percent (100%) Vested.
12.05 MERGER/DIRECT TRANSFER. The Trustee may not consent to, or be a
party to, any merger or consolidation with another plan, or to a transfer of
assets or liabilities to another plan.
12.06 TERMINATION. Upon termination of the Plan, the distribution
provisions of Article VI remain operative, with the following exceptions:
(a) If the present value of the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit
does not exceed $3,500, the Advisory Committee will direct the Trustee to
distribute the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit to him in lump sum as soon
as administratively practicable after the plan terminates; and
(b) if the present value of the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit
exceeds $3,500, the Participant or the Beneficiary, in addition to the
distribution events permitted under Article VI, may elect to have the Trustee
commence distribution of his Vested Accrued Benefit as soon as administratively
practicable after the Plan terminates.
To liquidate the Trust, the Advisory Committee will purchase a
deferred annuity contract for each Participant which protects the Participant's
distribution rights under the Plan, if the Participant's Vested Accrued Benefit
exceeds $3,500 and the Participant does not elect an immediate distribution
pursuant to Paragraph (2). The Trust will continue until the Trustee in
accordance with the direction of the Advisory Committee has distributed all of
the benefits under the Plan.
On each valuation date, the Advisory Committee will credit any part of
a Participant's Accrued Benefit retained in the Trust with its proportionate
share of the Trust's income, expenses, gains and losses, both realized and
unrealized. Upon termination of the Plan, the amount, if any, in a suspense
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account under Article III will revert to the Employer, subject to the conditions
of the Treasury regulations permitting such a reversion. A resolution or
amendment to freeze all future benefit accrual but otherwise to continue
maintenance of the Plan, is not a termination for purposes of this Section
12.06.
Special rule for Deferral Contributions Account. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Section 12.06, the Participant may not receive a distribution
from his Deferral Contributions Account pursuant to the termination of the Plan
unless: (a) the Participant otherwise is entitled to a distribution from the
Deferral Contributions Account under the Plan; or (b) the Plan termination
occurs without the establishment of a successor plan. A successor plan under
clause (b) is a defined contribution plan (other than an ESOP) maintained by the
Employer (or by a related employer) at the time of the termination of the Plan
or within the period ending twelve months after the final distribution of
assets. A distribution made pursuant to clause (b), must be part of a lump sum
distribution to the Participant of his Vested Accrued Benefit.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Employer and the Trustee have executed this Plan
and Trust in Rosenberg, Texas this 29th day of December 1989.
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
By:___________________________________________
Lane Ward, President
ATTEST:
By:___________________________________________
Sandra Samford, Secretary
By:___________________________________________
R. W. Lindsey, TRUSTEE
By:___________________________________________
Lane Ward, TRUSTEE
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FIRST AMENDMENT
TO THE
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
PROFIT SHARING PLAN AND TRUST
Effective as of January 1, 1993, the Fort Bend Savings and Loan Association
of Rosenberg Profit Sharing Plan and Trust (the "Plan"), in accordance with
Section 12.01 of the Plan, is hereby amended. Such amendment is as follows:
1. Section 10.03 of the Plan shall be and is hereby amended by the addition of
the following subsection (c) thereto:
(C) Investment in Employer Securities. The Trustee may acquire and invest
in qualifying employer securities and the Advisory Committee shall permit all
Participants to direct the investment of their Accounts in qualifying employer
securities, all in accordance with Section 408(e) of ERISA and the regulations
thereunder. Participants who elect to invest all or a portion of their Accounts
in employer securities shall be entitled to direct the Trustee as to the voting
of such shares allocated to their Accounts on all matters on which other
shareholders shall be accorded the right to vote. In the event that a
Participant shall fail to direct the Trustee with regard to the voting of his
shares, such shares may be voted by the Trustee in its discretion. The shares
allocated to such Participants shall be accounted for on a unit basis. Upon
distribution to a Participant or Beneficiary of a Participant who has directed
the Trustee to purchase employer securities, such Participant or Beneficiary, as
the case may be, shall receive his distribution in the form of such employer
securities to the
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extent that such Participant's Account had been invested in such employer
securities on the Accounting Date prior to the distribution of such Account. The
Advisory Committee shall determine, on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis,
how often Participants may elect to purchase or sell employer securities in
their Accounts. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a Participant
who is a person described at Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
shall be entitled to change his investment option only during an investment
change period, as provided in the regulations under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934.
The Plan is reaffirmed in all respects, except as to those provisions
specifically amended by this First Amendment.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of
Rosenberg has caused these presents to be executed by its duly authorized
officers and its corporate seal to be affixed on the 26th day of February, 1993.
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
By:________________________________
Lane Ward, President
ATTEST:
By:_______________________________
Sandra Samford, Secretary
[corporate seal]
TRUSTEES
______________________________________
R. W. Lindsey, Trustee
______________________________________
Lane Ward, Trustee
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SECOND AMENDMENT
TO THE
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG PROFIT SHARING PLAN
AND TRUST
In order to limit the amount of compensation that can be taken into
consideration, commencing January 1, 1994, to $150,000, as required by the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), to add the
withholding rules with respect to distributions from the Plan, effective as
of January 1, 1993, and to provide greater flexibility in the timing of
distributions, effective as of January 1, 1994, the Fort Bend Federal Savings
and Loan Association of Rosenberg Profit Sharing Plan and Trust (the "Plan"),
all in accordance with the requirements of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1993, shall be and hereby is amended as follows:
1. Section 1.08 shall be and hereby is amended by the addition of the
following sentence at the conclusion thereof:
Effective as of January 1, 1994, the figure $150,000 shall be
substituted for the figure $200,000 in each instance that such latter figure
shall appear in this Section 1.08.
2. A new Section 6.05 shall be and hereby is added to the Plan, effective
as of January 1, 1993, to read as follows:
6.05 Withholding.
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(a) This Section shall apply to distributions made on or after January 1,
1993. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary that would
otherwise limit a distributee's election under this Article VI, a distributee
may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Plan Administrator,
to have any portion of an "eligible rollover distribution'' paid directly to an
"eligible retirement plan" specified by the distributee in a "direct rollover."
(b) For purposes of this Section 6.05, an "eligible rollover distribution"
is any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the credit of the
distributee, except that an "eligible rollover distribution" does not include:
any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic
payments (not less frequently than annually) made for the life (or life
expectancy) of the distributee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies)
of the distributee and the distributee's designated beneficiary, or for a
specified period of ten years or more; any distribution to the extent such
distribution is required under section 401(a)(9) of the Code; and the portion of
any distribution that is not includible in gross income (determined without
regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to Employer
Securities).
(c) For purposes of this Section 6.05, an "eligible retirement plan" is an
individual retirement account described in section 408(a) of the Code, an
individual retirement annuity described in section 408(b) of the Code, an
annuity plan described in section 403(a) of the Code, or a qualified trust
described in section 401(a) of the Code, that accepts the distributee's eligible
rollover distribution. However, in the case of an ''eligible rollover
distribution" to the surviving spouse, an "eligible retirement plan" is an
individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity.
(d) For purposes of this Section 6.05, a distributee includes a Participant
or former Participant. In addition, the Participant's or former Participant's
surviving spouse and the Participant's or former Participant's spouse or former
spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, as
defined in section 414(p) of the Code, are "distributees" with regard to the
interest of the spouse or former spouse.
(e) For purposes of this Section 6.05, a "direct rollover" is a payment by
the Plan to the "eligible retirement plan" specified by the distributee.
3. A new Section 6.06 shall be and hereby is added to the Plan to read as
follows:
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6.06 Waiver of 30-day Notice
If a distribution is one to which sections 401(a)(11) and 417 of the Code
do not apply, such distribution may commence less than 30 days after the notice
required under section 1.411(a)-ll(c) of the Income Tax Regulations is given,
provided that: (1) the Plan Administrator clearly informs the Participant that
the Participant has a right to a period of at least 30 days after receiving the
notice to consider the decision of whether or not to elect a distribution (and,
if applicable, a particular distribution option), and (2) the Participant, after
receiving the notice, affirmatively elects a distribution.
The Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rosenberg Profit
Sharing Plan and Trust is hereby reaffirmed in all respects, subject to the
changes mandated by this Second Amendment.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Sponsor has caused these presents to be executed by
its duly authorized officers and its corporate seal to be affixed as of the
__th day of June, 1994.
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
By: ___________________
Lane Ward, President
ATTEST:
By:_______________________
Sandra Samford, Secretary
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THIRD AMENDMENT
TO THE
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
PROFIT SHARING PLAN AND TRUST
In order to enable any future employees of the holding company of Fort Bend
Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rosenberg (the "Association"), any
subsidiary of the holding company, and any subsidiary of the Association to
participate in the Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of
Rosenberg Profit Sharing Plan and Trust (the "Plan") on the same terms and
conditions as any Employee of the Association, the definition of "Employer"
in the Plan shall be amended, effective as of January 1, 1995, as follows:
1. Section 1.14 shall be and hereby is amended to read in
its entirety as follows:
"Employer" means FORT BEND SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
and its parent corporation, FORT BEND HOLDING CORP., and, with the written
consent of the Association, any majority owned subsidiary of such parent
corporation or of the Association.
The Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rosenberg Profit
Sharing Plan and Trust is hereby reaffirmed in all respects, subject to the
changes mandated by this Third Amendment.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Sponsor has caused these presents to be executed by
its duly authorized officers and its corporate seal to be affixed as of the 24th
day of July, 1995.
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
By:_______________________________
Lane Ward, President
ATTEST:
__________________________________
Sandra Samford, Secretary
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FOURTH AMENDMENT
TO THE
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ROSENBERG
PROFIT SHARING PLAN AND TRUST
In order to (i) designate American Industries Trust Company to serve as the
successor trustee of the Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of
Rosenberg Profit Sharing Plan and Trust (the "Plan"); (ii) enable Participants
to change their salary reduction agreements on a quarterly basis; (iii) enable
Participants to revoke their salary reduction agreements at any time; (iv)
enable Participants to make rollover contributions; (v) enable Participants to
invest in the common stock of Fort Bend Holding Corp. on an ongoing basis; and
(vi) enable Participants to direct the investment of their Account balances
among several investment options (including employer securities) selected by the
Advisory Committee and agreed to by the Trustee, the Plan shall be and hereby is
amended as hereinafter provided. The ensuing amendments shall be effective as of
January 1, 1997, unless a later effective date is indicated in the text of the
amendment itself:
1. Section 1.35, which defines the "Trustee," shall be and hereby is
amended to read as follows:
"Trustee" means American Industries Trust Company of Houston, Texas,
or any successor thereto which or who shall accept the position of Trustee. The
designation of American Industries Trust Company as Trustee hereunder shall be
effective as of the date of the assumption by American Industries Trust Company
of its duties as Trustee hereunder.
2. Section 3.01A shall be and hereby is amended by eliminating the second
paragraph thereof and substituting, the following paragraph therefor:
If the salary reduction agreement specifies the reduction as a
percentage of Compensation, the percentage may not be less than two percent (2%)
of Compensation and must specify a reduction percentage equal to an increment
of one percent (1 %). An Employee Participant's Deferral Contributions may not
exceed 15 percent ( 15%) of his Compensation for each pay period. An Employee
Participant may modify his salary reduction agreement, either to reduce or to
increase the amount of Deferral Contributions at any time by filing a new salary
reduction agreement with the Advisory Committee at least 15 days prior to the
first day of the calendar quarter (January 1, April 1, July 1, or October 1) for
which the modification is to be first effective. An Employee Participant may
revoke a salary reduction agreement as of any prospective payroll commencement
date, such revocation to be effective as soon as administratively possible for
the next following pay period. An Employee Participant who revokes his salary
reduction agreement may file a new salary reduction agreement effective as of
any Plan Entry Date.
3. Section 4.02 shall be and hereby is amended to read in its entirety as
follows:
(A) Notwithstanding the limitations contained in Section 3.07, the
Trustee, with the consent of the Advisory Committee, may, after the Employee has
become a Participant, accept a rollover contribution to be held for the benefit
of such
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Employee Participant, provided that, in the opinion of counsel for the Employer,
the acceptance of the Rollover Contribution will not jeopardize the exempt
status of the Plan or its related trust or create adverse tax consequences to
the Employer. Before accepting a Rollover Contribution, the Trustee may request
from the Employee Participant or the Employer any documents which the Trustee,
in its discretion, deems necessary to establish that the assets are suitable or
appropriate for a rollover contribution. The Trustee shall maintain a separate,
nonforfeitable account in the Fund for each rollover contribution accepted on
behalf of an Employee Participant and its share of the investment gains and
losses thereafter.
(B) In the case of a rollover contribution accomplished by the direct
transfer of assets from the trustee (or other fiduciary) of another qualified
retirement plan to the Trustee of this Plan, the Trustee shall maintain such
records as may be necessary to determine the portion of the Participant's
rollover contribution account in this Plan which represents employer
contributions, employee contributions (if applicable), and earnings and losses
attributable to each, with respect to such other retirement plan. To the extent
that any insurance policies on the life of the Participant are included in any
such direct transfer to this Plan, the Trustee shall maintain them as such,
either on a continuing or paid-up basis, as the case may be, and shall
separately account for any voluntary contributions which have been or are being
applied as premiums on such policies, as well as any other accounts which have
been attributed to current insurance protection under those policies which have
been previously taxed or are currently taxable to the Participant.
(C) Upon his death, Retirement or other Separation from Service,
Participants Rollover Account shall be combined with the vested portion of his
other Accounts and distributed to him or his Beneficiary in the same manner and
under the same circumstances and contingencies which are set forth in the Plan
for other distributions. Except as provided in Sections 6.02 and 12.06, there
shall be no distribution from a Participants Rollover Account until his death,
Retirement or other Separation from Service.
4. Section 10.03(C) shall be and hereby is amended by eliminating the
final sentence thereof and by adding the
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following sentence thereto:
A Participant shall be entitled to invest in Employer Securities in
accordance with the rules and regulations of the Advisory Committee. A
Participant's Deferral Contributions may be so invested, in accordance with the
requirements of the federal securities laws. This provision shall not be
effective until the Plan is in compliance with such requirements.
5. A new Section 10.03(D) shall be and hereby is added to the Plan to
read as follows:
(D) Individual Investment Direction. Participants shall be entitled to
individually direct the investment of their Account balances among investment
media selected by the Advisory Committee and agreed to by the Trustee. Such
investment media shall include qualifying employer securities, all in accordance
with Section 408(e) of ERISA. The investment media and the rules with respect to
the direction of investment there shall be in conformity with Section 404(c) of
ERISA. The ability to individually direct investments shall be effective (i) as
of January l, 1997 for salary savings contributions accounts with respect to
investment options made available, other than employer securities; (ii) as soon
as administratively possible on or after April 1 for profit sharing account
balances; and (iii) as soon as administratively possible for both salary savings
contributions accounts and profit sharing accounts with respect to employer
securities after the registration requirements of the federal securities laws
have been met.
The Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rosenberg Profit
Sharing Plan and Trust is hereby reaffirmed in all respects, subject to the
changes mandated by this Fourth Amendment.
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Sponsor has caused these presents to be executed by
its duly authorized officers and its corporate seal to be affixed as of the
____ day of _______, 1997.
FORT BEND FEDERAL SAVINGS AND
LOAN ASSOCIATION OF
ROSENBERG
_______________________________
Lane Ward, President
ATTEST
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__________________________________
Sandra Samford, Secretary
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EXHIBIT 5
May 27, 1997
Board of Directors
Fort Bend Holding Corp.
3400 Avenue H
Rosenberg, Texas 77471
Members of the Board:
We have acted as counsel to Fort Bend Holding Corp. (the "Company") in
connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission of a registration statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act of
1933 (the "Registration Statement") relating to 25,000 shares of the Company's
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Common Stock"), to be offered
pursuant to the Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of Rosenberg
Profit Sharing and Trust Plan (the "Plan"), and related interests in the Plan.
In this connection, we have reviewed originals or copies, certified or
otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of the Company's Certificate of
Incorporation, Bylaws, resolutions of its Board of Directors and such other
documents and corporate records as we deem appropriate for the purpose of
rendering this opinion.
Based upon the foregoing, it is our opinion that the shares of Common Stock
to be offered by the Company will be, when and if issued, sold and paid for as
contemplated by the Plan, legally issued, fully paid and non-assessable shares
of Common Stock of the Company.
We hereby consent to the inclusion of our opinion as Exhibit 5 of this
Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are
within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the rules and regulations of the
Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
Very truly yours,
SILVER, FREEDMAN & TAFF, L.L.P.
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EXHIBIT 23.1
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statement
on Form S-8, pertaining to the Fort Bend Federal Savings and Loan Association of
Rosenberg Profit Sharing Plan and Trust, of our report dated May 10, 1996, on
our audits of the consolidated financial statements of Fort Bend Holding Corp.
as of March 31, 1996 and 1995, and for the years ended March 31, 1996, 1995 and
1994, which report is incorporated by reference in the Annual Report on Form 10-
KSB.
COOPERS & LYBRAND L.L.P.
Houston, Texas
May 23, 1997
