Company: BKYI
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-021438
Chunk: 115

Company: BIO KEY INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-06-27
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 115
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 as of the Enrollment Date) for each calendar year in which such Option is outstanding at any time.

4. Offering Periods. Options to purchase Shares shall be offered to Participants under the Plan through a continuous series of Offerings, each continuing for six months and each of which shall commence on January 1 and July 1 of each year, as the case may be, and shall terminate on June 30 and December 31 of such year, as the case may be (each such period being, an “Offering Period”); provided, however, that (a) the Committee may suspend Offerings under the Plan or any Offering Period at any time and for any reason and (b) the first Offering Period under the Plan and any subsequent Offering Period commenced immediately after a suspension of the Plan shall have an Enrollment Date and Exercise Date as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion. Offerings under the Plan shall continue until either (i) the Committee decides, in its sole discretion, (x) to suspend Offerings under the Plan or (y) that no further Offerings shall be made because the number of Shares remaining available under the Plan is insufficient to make an Offering to all Eligible Employees, or (ii) the Plan is terminated under Section 20 below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and without limiting the authority of the Committee under Sections 14, 19 and 20 of the Plan, the Committee, in its sole discretion, may (a) accelerate the Exercise Date of the then current Offering Period and provide for the exercise of Options thereunder by Participants in accordance with Section 8 of the Plan, or (b) accelerate the Exercise Date of the then current Offering Period and provide that all payroll deductions credited to the accounts of Participants will be paid to Participants as soon as practicable after such Exercise Date and that all Options for such Offering Period will automatically be canceled and will no longer be exercisable, if such change is announced at least five (5) days prior to the newly scheduled Exercise Date.

5. Participation.

(a) Each Eligible Employee may become a Participant with respect to any Offering Period by completing a subscription agreement authorizing payroll deductions in a form acceptable to the Committee and filing it with the Company (or its designated third-party stock plan administrator) at least fifteen (15) calendar days (or a different number of days as may be determined by the Committee, in its sole discretion) prior to the first day of such Offering Period. A Participant’s completion of a subscription agreement with respect to any Offering Period will