EXHIBIT 10.17

 

ZIONS BANCORPORATION PENSION PLAN

 

As Restated Effective January 1, 2001

Including Amendments Adopted Through January 31, 2002

 

February 19, 2002 Edition

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

Page

INTRODUCTION

1

 

 

ARTICLE 1  DEFINITIONS

3

1.1

Accrued Benefit

3

1.2

Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan Account

3

1.3

Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company Contributions

3

1.4

Actuarial Equivalence or Actuarial Equivalent

3

1.5

Affiliate or Subsidiary

4

1.6

Authorized Period of Absence

4

1.7

Beneficiary

4

1.8

Break in Service

5

1.9

Cash Balance Account

6

1.10

Code

6

1.11

Commerce Participant

6

1.12

Commerce Plan

6

1.13

Committee or Retirement Committee

6

1.14

Company

6

1.15

Compensation

6

1.16

Disability Retirement Date

7

1.17

Early Retirement Date and Earliest Retirement Date

7

1.18

Earnings

7

1.19

Eligibility Computation Period

9

1.20

Eligible Employee

10

1.21

Eligible Spouse

10

1.22

Eligibility Computation Period

10

1.23

Employee

10

1.24

Employer

11

1.25

Employment Date

11

1.26

ERISA

11

1.27

Grossmont Participant

11

1.28

Grossmont Plan

11

1.29

Hour of Service

11

1.30

Investment Manager

13

1.31

Late Retirement Date

13

1.32

Nonvested Former Participant

13

1.33

Normal Retirement Age

13

1.34

Normal Retirement Date

14

1.35

Old Plan Account

14

1.36

Participant

14

1.37

Participation Date

14

1.38

Plan

14

1.39

Plan Year

15

1.40

Qualified Domestic Relations Order

15

1.41

Qualified Military Service

15

1.42

Retirement Date

15

1.43

Single Life Annuity

15

1.44

Sumitomo Participant

15

1.45

Sumitomo Plan

16

1.46

Termination of Employment

16

1.47

Trust Agreement

16

1.48

Trust Fund

16

1.49

Trustee

16

1.50

Year of Vesting Service

16

1.51

Zions

18

 

 

ARTICLE 2  PARTICIPATION

19

2.1

Participation Date

19

2.2

Reinstatement of Active Participation

20

 

 

ARTICLE 3  ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF CASH BALANCE ACCOUNT

21

3.1

Initial Establishment of Cash Balance Account

21

3.2

Earnings Credits

23

3.3

Interest Credits

24

3.4

Maintenance of Account after Termination of Employment until Benefit
Commencement

25

3.5

Establishment of New Account if Re-employed After Benefit Commencement

26

 

 

ARTICLE 4  ACCRUED BENEFIT

27

4.1

Accrued Benefit

27

4.2

Cash Balance Accrued Benefit

27

4.3

Minimum Accrued Benefit

28

4.4

Grandfathered Minimum Accrued Benefit

28

4.5

Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan Account

28

4.6

Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company Contributions

28

4.7

Old Plan Account

28

 

 

ARTICLE 5 AMOUNT OF RETIREMENT INCOME

30

5.1

Monthly Retirement Income

30

5.2

Normal Retirement Income

30

5.3

Early Retirement Income

30

5.4

Late Retirement Income

31

5.5

Disability Retirement Income

32

5.6

Application for Retirement Income

32

5.7

Forms of Retirement Income

33

5.8

Payment of Small Benefits

38

5.9

Eligible Rollover Distribution

38

5.10

Re-employment After Retirement

39

5.11

Commencement of Benefits

39

5.12

Delay of Payment Due to Administrative Error

41

5.13

Suspension of Benefits for Active Participants at Normal Retirement Date

42

5.14

Benefits Under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)

43

 

 

ARTICLE 6  TERMINATION AND VESTING

44

6.1

Vesting

44

6.2

Termination Benefit

44

6.3

Re-employment After Termination of Employment

45

6.4

Termination Benefits and Re-employment for Commerce Participants

46

6.5

Special Termination Benefit for Sumitomo Participants

46

 

 

ARTICLE 7 DISABILITY BENEFITS

47

7.1

Determination of Disability

47

7.2

Eligibility for Disability Benefits

47

7.3

Disability Retirement Date

47

7.4

Disability Retirement Income

47

 

 

ARTICLE 8  DEATH BENEFITS

48

8.1

Death after Commencement of Benefits

48

8.2

Death Prior to Commencement of Benefits

48

8.3

Effect of Old Plan Account

49

8.4

Return of Old Plan Account

49

 

 

ARTICLE 9  FINANCING THE PLAN

50

9.1

Company Contributions

50

9.2

Return of Company Contributions

50

9.3

Employee Contributions

50

 

 

ARTICLE 10  TERMINATION OF THE PLAN

51

10.1

Termination of Plan

51

10.2

Procedures Upon Termination of Plan

51

 

 

ARTICLE 11  INTERNAL REVENUE CODE LIMITATIONS ON BENEFITS

52

11.1

Earnings Limitation under Code Section 401(a)(17)

52

11.2

Maximum Retirement Benefit under Code Section 415

52

11.3

Additional Benefit Limits for Highly Compensated Employees

56

11.4

Top-Heavy Provisions

58

 

 

ARTICLE 12  ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN

63

12.1

Administration

63

12.2

Records

64

12.3

Payment of Expenses

64

12.4

Delegation of Authority

64

12.5

Information Available

64

12.6

Claims and Appeals Procedure

64

12.7

Fiduciary Capacity

65

12.8

Committee Liability

65

 

 

ARTICLE 13  GENERAL PROVISIONS

66

13.1

Amendment of Plan

66

13.2

Employment Status

66

13.3

Mergers or Consolidations

66

13.4

Provision Against Anticipation

67

13.5

Facility of Payment

67

13.6

Construction

67

13.7

Legal Actions

67

 

 

SIGNATURE PAGE

68

 

 

APPENDIX I: FACTORS FOR SPOUSE OPTION UNDER SECTION 5.7(A)

69

 

 

APPENDIX II: ACTUARIAL EQUIVALENCE FOR MONTHLY BENEFITS AND  LUMP SUMS

70

 

 

APPENDIX III:  MINIMUM ACCRUED BENEFIT

72

 

 

APPENDIX IV: ACQUISITION EFFECTIVE DATES

77

 

 

APPENDIX V:  DEFINITION OF “COMPANY”

78

 

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INTRODUCTION

 

The Zions Bancorporation Pension Plan became effective on January 1, 1968. The
Plan has been amended and restated from time to time.

 

Except where an effective date is expressly stated in the text of this Plan,
this document amends and restates the Plan, effective January 1, 2001; provided,
however:  (1) provisions pertaining to the establishment and maintenance of Cash
Balance Accounts shall be effective April 1, 1997; (2) provisions pertaining to
Grossmont Participants and former participants of the Grossmont Plan shall be
effective January 1, 1998; (3) provisions pertaining to Sumitomo Participants
and former participants of the Sumitomo Plan shall be effective October 1, 1998;
and (4) provisions pertaining to Commerce Participants and former participants
of the Commerce Plan shall be effective January 1, 1999.

 

The prior restatement of this Plan was effective as of April 1, 1997, and
included the terms and conditions of a cash balance account feature, which was
established as of January 1, 1997, for Active and Disabled Participants in the
Plan as of March 31, 1997.

 

This January 1, 2001 restatement incorporates the terms of Amendments 1 through
4 to the April 1, 1997 restatement and other modifications approved by Zions
Bancorporation through January 31, 2002. This restatement furthermore
incorporates modifications resulting from changes in the Internal Revenue Code
(the “Code”) and other provisions of federal law that were enacted or became
effective on various dates from 1994 through 2000 (sometimes referred to
collectively as “GUST” changes in law). Moreover, effective January 1, 2002,
this restatement contains less restrictive legal limitations on pension
benefits, as authorized by the Economic Growth and Tax Reduction Reconciliation
Act of 2001 (“EGTRRA”).

 

Effective at the close of business December 31, 1997, the Grossmont Bank
Restated Defined Benefit Pension Plan and Trust (the “Grossmont Plan”), restated
effective January 1, 1996, is merged into this Plan. Nothing in this Plan shall
be construed to provide a benefit under this Plan for a period of service for
which he or she has received a benefit under the Grossmont Plan. The eligibility
for and the amount of benefit of a former employee who terminated or retired
under the Grossmont Bank Restated Defined Benefit Pension Plan and Trust prior
to January 1, 1998, and who does not participate in this Plan on or after
January 1, 1998, shall be determined exclusively by the provisions of the
Grossmont Plan that were in effect as of the earlier of the former employee’s
date of termination or retirement, except as specifically stated otherwise in
the Grossmont Plan. With respect to the merger, this Plan shall be interpreted
and administered to comply with ERISA Section 204(g) and Code Sections 411(d)(6)
and 414(l).

 

Effective at the close of business October 31, 1998, the Sumitomo Bank of
California Pension Plan (“Sumitomo Plan”), restated effective January 1, 1989,
is merged into this Plan. Nothing in this Plan shall be construed to provide a
benefit under this Plan for a period of service for which he or she has received
a benefit under the Sumitomo Plan. The eligibility for and the amount of benefit
of a former employee who terminated under the Sumitomo Plan prior to October 1,
1998, and who does not actively participate in this Plan on or after October 1,
1998, shall be determined exclusively by the provisions of that plan. With
respect to the merger, this Plan shall be interpreted and administered to comply
with ERISA Section 204(g) and Code Sections 411(d)(6) and 414(l).

 

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Effective at the close of business December 31, 1998, the Commerce
Bancorporation Defined Benefit Pension Plan (“Commerce Plan”), restated
effective July 21, 1994, is merged into this Plan. Nothing in this Plan shall be
construed to provide a benefit under this Plan for a period of service for which
he or she has received a benefit under the Commerce Plan. The eligibility for
and the amount of benefit of a former employee who terminated under the Commerce
Plan prior to January 1, 1999, and who does not actively participate in this
Plan on or after January 1, 1999, shall be determined exclusively by the
provisions of that plan. With respect to the merger, this Plan shall be
interpreted and administered to comply with ERISA Section 204(g) and Code
Sections 411(d)(6) and 414(l).

 

Except as specifically provided in the Plan, the rights and benefits of any
Participant who terminates, dies or retires prior to the effective date of this
restatement or any other amendment to the Plan will be determined pursuant to
the provisions of the Plan in effect on the earlier of his or her date of
retirement, death or termination.

 

The Plan and Trust thereunder are created and maintained for the primary purpose
of providing retirement benefits for eligible employees of the Zions
Bancorporation and its affiliates. It is intended that the Plan and Trust
qualify under Sections 401(a) and 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended, and that they meet the requirements of the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

 

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Article 1

 

DEFINITIONS

 

1.1           Accrued Benefit

 

Accrued Benefit means the monthly amount of benefit credited to a Participant in
accordance with Article 4 on the basis of an annuity payable for life beginning
on his or her Normal Retirement Date, or the current date, if later.

 

1.2           Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan Account

 

Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan Account is defined in Section 4.5.

 

1.3           Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company Contributions

 

Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company Contributions is defined in Section 4.6.

 

1.4           Actuarial Equivalence or Actuarial Equivalent

 

Actuarial Equivalence or Actuarial Equivalent means equality in value of the
aggregate amounts expected to be received under different forms of payment
computed on the following bases:

 

(a)                                  For purposes of determining (i) the monthly
annuity benefits under Sections 4.2, 4.5, 5.3(b) and 8.2, and (ii) the value of
lump sum payments under Sections 5.7(d) and 5.8, Actuarial Equivalence will be
calculated in accordance with Appendix II.

 

(b)                                 For purposes of determining the maximum
retirement benefit in Section 11.2, Actuarial Equivalence will be calculated
using the following bases:

 

(1)                                  The mortality assumption is the “Applicable
Mortality Table as defined in subsection (a) of Appendix II.

 

(2)                                  Except as otherwise specified in Section
11.2, effective on or after January 1, 1995, for a benefit in the form of an
annuity, the interest assumption (to adjust for age and for the form of the
benefit) shall be 5%. Notwithstanding any provision of Section 11.2 to the
contrary, for a benefit payment after May 31, 1995 that is in a form that is
subject to Code Section 417(e) (for example, a lump sum), the interest
assumption to adjust for age will be the “Applicable Interest Rate” specified in
subsection (b) of Appendix II, and the interest assumption to adjust for the
form of the benefit shall be 5%.

 

(c)                                  For the purposes of determining the maximum
retirement benefit in Section 11.2 for a Grossmont Participant who retires
between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 1998, Actuarial Equivalence will never
be less than the amount the Grossmont Participant would have received under the
Grossmont Plan.

 

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(d)                                 Except as otherwise specified in the Plan,
for all other purposes actuarial equivalency will be calculated using the
following basis:

 

(1)                                  The mortality assumption will be the 1984
Unisex Pensioners Mortality Table.

 

(2)                                  The interest assumption will be 6%.

 

1.5           Affiliate or Subsidiary

 

Affiliate or Subsidiary means Zions Bancorporation and each member of a
controlled group of corporations (as defined in Code Section 1563(a), determined
without regard to Code Sections 1563(a)(4) and (e)(3)(C)), a group of trades or
businesses (whether incorporated or not) which are under common control within
the meaning of Code Section 414(c), or an affiliated service group (as defined
in Code Sections 414(m) or 414(o)), of which Zions Bancorporation is a part.
With respect to the Maximum Retirement Benefit defined in Section 11.2, in
determining whether a corporation is a member of a controlled group of
corporations the phrase “more than 50 percent” will be substituted for the
phrase “at least 80 percent” each place it appears in Code Section 1563(a)(1).

1.6           Authorized Period of Absence

 

Authorized Period of Absence means an absence authorized by the Company for one
or more of the following reasons:

 

(a)           Approved leave of absence;

 

(b)           Pregnancy;

 

(c)           Jury duty;

 

(d)           Qualified Military Service; or

 

(e)                                  Illness or injury, including disability,
and including a period of absence legally authorized to be taken, under the
facts and circumstances applicable to the Participant, in accordance with the
terms of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

 

Any discretion of the Company under the provisions of this definition will be
exercised without discrimination and in accordance with definitely established
rules uniformly applicable to Employees or Participants whose approved periods
of absence were occasioned by similar circumstances.

 

1.7           Beneficiary

 

(a)           Beneficiary of Retirement Income of a Married Participant

 

For purposes of a post-retirement survivor benefit for a Participant who is
married to an Eligible Spouse on the date of commencing his or her Retirement
Income, the Beneficiary shall be the Eligible Spouse, except to the extent that
either: (a) the benefit is payable pursuant to the mandatory lump sum provisions
of Section 5.8 (in which case there shall be no Beneficiary), (b) the
Participant, with the written and notarized consent of the Eligible Spouse,
elects to receive a benefit in

 

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the form of a Single Life Annuity (with or without a Level Income Option) or a
lump sum (in which case there shall be no Beneficiary), or (c) is eligible for
and elects a form of benefit under subsection (e)(1), (e)(2) or (f)(1) of
Section 5.7 with a designated Beneficiary other than the Eligible Spouse (in
which case the Beneficiary shall be the person (or persons, under Section
5.7(e)(1) or (e)(2)) designated by the Participant with the consent of the
Eligible Spouse at the time of commencing the Retirement Income).

 

(b)           Beneficiary of Retirement Income of an Unmarried Participant

 

For purposes of a Retirement Income benefit for a Participant who has no
Eligible Spouse on the date of commencing his or her Retirement Income, the
Beneficiary means either (a) the living person designated by the Participant at
the time of commencing his or her Retirement Income, if the Participant is
eligible for and elects a form of benefit pursuant to Section 5.7(e)(1), (e)(2)
or (f)(1) (in which case the Beneficiary shall be the person (or persons, under
Section 5.7(e)(1) or (e)(2)) designated by the Participant, or (b) there shall
be no Beneficiary if either the benefit is payable pursuant to the mandatory
lump-sum provisions of Section 5.8 or the Participant elects to receive a
benefit in the form of a Single Life Annuity or lump sum.

 

(c)           Beneficiary of a Pre-Retirement Survivor’s Death Benefit

 

For purposes of any pre-retirement death benefit which may be payable under
Section 8.2 of the Plan, Beneficiary means the Eligible Spouse (if any, as of
the date of the Participant’s death prior to receiving Retirement Income under
this Plan), or, if no Eligible Spouse survives the Participant, then the benefit
under Section 8.2 shall be paid in a lump sum to the Participant’s estate.

 

(d)           Beneficiary of Unpaid Balance of Old Plan Account

 

In the case of any death benefit which may be applicable under the terms of
Section 8.4, Beneficiary means the person or persons designated by a Participant
for such purpose, or, if no Beneficiary is designated (or if any and all
designated Beneficiaries fail to survive the Participant and the Eligible
Spouse, if any), any death benefit payable under Section 8.4 shall be payable to
the estate of the last to die of the Participant or Eligible Spouse (if any).

 

1.8           Break in Service

 

Break in Service means an interruption in service due to a person’s failure to
complete at least 501 Hours of Service during a calendar year or during an
Eligibility Computation Period. A Break in Service will not occur during an
Authorized Period of Absence unless the Employee fails to return to work for at
least 30 days with the Company or any member of the Employer after the
expiration of the Authorized Period of Absence (or, in the case of an absence
due to Qualified Military Service, unless the Employee fails to return to work
within the applicable period of time allowed pursuant to Code Section 414(u)).

 

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1.9           Cash Balance Account

 

Cash Balance Account means the separate bookkeeping account established and
maintained for each Participant as provided in Article 3.

 

1.10         Code

 

Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

 

1.11         Commerce Participant

 

“Commerce Participant” means a Participant in the Commerce Plan who became a
Participant in this Plan on January 1, 1999 as the result of the December 31,
1998 merger of the Commerce Plan into this Plan. Based upon his or her status in
the Commerce Plan on December 31, 1998, and based upon whether or not he or she
became an Eligible Employee on January 1, 1999, a Commerce Participant described
in this Section shall be deemed an Active Participant, an Inactive Participant,
a Terminated Vested Participant, a Disabled Participant or a Retired Participant
in this Plan, as defined in Section 1.36, on January 1, 1999.

 

1.12         Commerce Plan

 

“Commerce Plan” means the Commerce Bancorporation Defined Benefit Plan as in
effect immediately prior to January 1, 1999.

 

1.13         Committee or Retirement Committee

 

Committee or Retirement Committee means the Committee which will administer the
plan as described in Article 12.

 

1.14         Company

 

Company means Zions Bancorporation and any Affiliate or Subsidiary which adopts
this Plan with the consent of the Board of Directors of Zions Bancorporation.
The Affiliates and Subsidiaries listed on Appendix V, as it may be revised from
time to time, have adopted this Plan and are, as of the date or dates stated on
Appendix V, a participating Company in the Plan.

 

1.15         Compensation

 

“Compensation” for any tax year has the meaning set forth in Treasury
Regulations Section 1.415-2(d). Effective January 1, 1998, Compensation shall
also include any elective deferrals as defined in Code Section 402(g)(3) made by
the Participant during a Plan Year and any pre-tax Employee contributions made
by the Employer on behalf of the Employee for the Plan Year, pursuant to Code
Section 125 and/or Code Section 132(f)(4).

 

For Plan Years prior to January 1, 1997, in determining the Compensation of a
Participant for purposes of determining whether he or she is a Highly
Compensated Employee (as defined in Section 11.3(a)(3)), the family aggregation
rules of former Code Section 414(q)(6) shall apply, except that in applying such
rules, the term “family” shall include

 

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only the Eligible Spouse of the Participant and any lineal descendants of the
Participant who have not attained age 19 before the close of the year.

 

1.16         Disability Retirement Date

 

Disability Retirement Date is defined in Section 7.3.

 

1.17         Early Retirement Date and Earliest Retirement Date

 

Early Retirement Date shall have the meaning stated in subsections (a) through
(d) below, whichever is applicable to a particular Participant. Earliest
Retirement Date means the earliest date that would satisfy all of the conditions
of the definition of Early Retirement Date that is applicable to the
Participant.

 

(a)                                  Except as otherwise provided in subsections
(b), (c) and (d), a Participant may retire prior to his or her Normal Retirement
Date on an Early Retirement Date which, subject to his or her election, may be
the first day of any month coincident with or following the latest of:

 

(1)                                  the Participant’s 55th birthday,

 

(2)                                  the date on which the Participant completes
10 Years of Vesting Service, or

 

(3)                                  the date of the Participant’s Termination
of Employment.

 

(b)                                 A Grossmont Participant may retire prior to
his or her Normal Retirement Date on an Early Retirement Date which, subject to
his or her election, may be the first day of any month coincident with or
following the date of his or her Termination of Employment on or after reaching
age 55 and completing three Years of Vesting Service.

 

(c)                                  A Sumitomo Participant may retire prior to
his or her Normal Retirement Date on an Early Retirement Date, which subject to
his or her election, may be the first day of any month coincident with or
following the date of his or her Termination of Employment on or after reaching
age 55 and completing five Years of Vesting Service.

 

(d)                                 A Commerce Participant may retire prior to
his or her Normal Retirement Date and receive his or her entire Accrued Benefit
on an Early Retirement Date which, subject to his or her election, may be the
first day of any month coincident with or following the date of his or her
Termination of Employment on or after reaching age 55 and completing three Years
of Vesting Service.

 

1.18         Earnings

 

(a)           Earnings for a Participant for a Plan Year includes the sum of:

 

(1)                                  the Participant’s wages, salaries, fees for
professional service and other amounts received (without regard to whether or
not an amount is paid in cash) for personal services actually rendered in the
course of employment

 

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with the Company to the extent that the amounts are includible in gross income
(including, but not limited to, commissions paid salesmen, compensation for
services on insurance premiums, tips, and bonuses);

 

(2)                                  the Participant’s “elective deferrals” (as
defined in Code Section 402(g)) to a plan with a Code Section 401(k) cash or
deferral arrangement maintained by an Affiliate or Subsidiary;

 

(3)                                  the Participant’s pre-tax contributions to
any health or welfare benefit program under Code Section 125 or any qualified
public transit and parking program under Code Section 132(f)(4);

 

(4)                                  effective on and after January 1, 2001,
compensation that the Participant elects to defer to a nonqualified deferred
compensation plan maintained by an Affiliate or Subsidiary, but under no
circumstances shall the amount of Earnings that is recognized under this
paragraph (a)(4) cause the Participant’s overall Earnings for the Plan Year to
increase by more than 15% of the amount of Earnings determined without reference
to this paragraph (a)(4), nor shall it cause overall Earnings to exceed the
applicable limitation under subsection (c) below; and

 

(5)                                  for each month in which a Participant is
entitled to credit for Qualified Military Service, the Participant will be
considered, for purposes of determining the Accrued Benefit under this Plan, to
have Earnings equal to the Participant’s average monthly Earnings during the 12
months (or, if less, the number of months of prior employment with the Employer)
immediately preceding his or her period of Qualified Military Service.

 

(b)           The term “Earnings” does not include the types of remuneration
described in the following paragraphs.

 

(1)                                  except to the extent included in Earnings
under clause (a)(2) or (a)(4) above,

 

(A)                              Company contributions to a plan of deferred
compensation to the extent that, before the application of the Code Section 415
limitations to that plan, the contributions are not includible in the gross
income of the Participant for the taxable year in which contributed; and

 

(B)                                any distributions from a plan of deferred
compensation regardless of whether such amounts are includible in the gross
income of the Participant when distributed.

 

(2)                                  amounts realized from the exercise of a
nonqualified stock option, or income realized when restricted stock (or
property) held by the Participant either becomes freely transferable or is no
longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture;

 

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(3)                                  amounts realized by the Participant from
the sale, exchange or other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified
stock option;

 

(4)                                  except to the extent included in Earnings
pursuant to Code Section 125 or 132(f)(4) in accordance with clause (a)(3)
above,

 

(A)                              other amounts which receive special tax
benefits, such as premiums for group term life insurance (without regard to
whether the premiums are includible in the gross income of the Participant); and

 

(B)                                reimbursements or other expense allowances,
fringe benefits (cash and non-cash), moving expenses, welfare benefits, and any
lump sum amounts paid at Termination of Employment (on account of such
termination), such as severance pay, vacation and sick leave cash-outs; and

 

(5)                                  fees for service as a member of a board of
directors, if any, paid to “Highly Compensated Employees” (as defined in Section
11.3(a)(3)).

 

(c)           Limitations on Earnings under Code Section 401(a)(17).

 

For each Plan Year, the amount of annual Earnings that shall be taken into
account for purposes of determining benefit accruals under the Plan shall not
exceed the limit that is in effect for that Plan Year under Code Section
401(a)(17), after taking into account any amendment of that Code Section that is
enacted into law and any adjustment to that limit that is authorized by the
Secretary of the Treasury for the calendar year that coincides with that Plan
Year (for example, the limit shall be $170,000 for Plan Year 2001 and $200,000
for Plan Year 2002).

 

If a period over which Earnings is determined under the Plan (determination
period) is less than 12 months, the otherwise applicable dollar limit under Code
Section 401(a)(17) for that calendar year will be multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of months in the determination period, and the
denominator of which is 12, determined in a manner consistent with Treas. Reg.
Section 1.401(a)(17)-1(b)(3).

 

1.19         Eligibility Computation Period

 

Eligibility Computation Period, for purposes of determining under Section 2.1(b)
whether an Employee has accrued 1,000 Hours of Service during such a period in
order to become eligible to participate in the Plan, means the period of 12
consecutive months commencing on the Employment Date and ending on the first
anniversary of such date, or, if 1,000 Hours of Service are not accrued during
that 12-month period, the Eligibility Computation Period shall be the 12-month
period commencing on the first day of each Plan Year that occurs after the
Employment Date.

 

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1.20         Eligible Employee

 

Subject to the exclusions stated in the following paragraph, Eligible Employee
means an Employee of the Company.

 

“Eligible Employee” does not include: (a) an Employee of an Affiliate or
Subsidiary that is not a Company that has adopted the Plan and is participating
in the Plan; (b) an Employee who is covered under a collective bargaining
agreement where retirement benefits were the subject of good faith bargaining
which does not provide for retirement benefits under this Plan; (c) a person who
performs services for a Company but is compensated for such services by means of
the payroll of a third party employee leasing organization; (d) any “leased
employee” within the meaning of Code Section 414(n)(2), or (e) a person who is
not treated by the Participating Company as an employee for payroll tax
purposes, whether or not such person is subsequently determined by a government
agency, by the conclusion or settlement of threatened or pending litigation, or
otherwise to be (or to have been) a common law employee of the Company. In the
event of any determination by any court, governmental agency or other party that
a person excluded under clause “(c)”, “(d)” or “(e)” should be treated as a
common-law employee of the Company for payroll tax purposes, the individual
shall not be treated as an Eligible Employee unless and until the date on which
the individual is first recharacterized as an Employee for payroll tax purposes
on the payroll system of the Company, and not as of any retroactive effective
date of such recharacterization.

 

1.21         Eligible Spouse

 

Eligible Spouse means the legal spouse of the Participant at the time the
Participant commences his or her Retirement Income under the Plan (or the
Participant’s date of death, if earlier), or, if applicable, a former spouse who
is designated as the alternate payee with the right to be treated as the spouse
Beneficiary of a Participant according to the terms of a Qualified Domestic
Relations Order.

 

1.22         Eligibility Computation Period

 

Eligibility Computation Period means a 12-consecutive-month period beginning on
an Employee’s Employment Date. However, if such Employee fails to complete at
least 1,000 Hours of Service during his or her initial 12-consecutive-month
period, the Eligibility Computation Period becomes the Plan Year commencing with
the Plan Year in which such initial period ends.

 

1.23         Employee

 

Employee means any person who is employed as a common law employee by any
Affiliate or Subsidiary, and any “leased employee” within the meaning of Code
Section 414(n)(2); provided, however, if leased employees constitute 20% or less
of the Employer’s non-highly compensated work force, the term “Employee” shall
not include a leased employee who is covered by a plan maintained by the leasing
organization which meets the requirements of Code Section 414(n)(5).

 

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1.24         Employer

 

Employer means, collectively, any and all companies that satisfy the definition
of an “Affiliate or Subsidiary” (as defined in Section 1.5). All Employees of
the Employer will be treated as employed by a single employing company for
purposes of applying the requirements for qualification of the Plan under Code
Section 401(a).

 

1.25         Employment Date

 

Employment Date means the date on which an Employee first performs an Hour of
Service for any member of the Employer.

 

1.26         ERISA

 

ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended.

 

1.27         Grossmont Participant

 

“Grossmont Participant” means a participant in the Grossmont Plan who became a
Participant in this Plan effective January 1, 1998 as a result of the merger of
the Grossmont Plan into this Plan.

 

Based upon his or her status in the Grossmont Plan on December 31, 1997, and
based on whether or not the Grossmont Participant becomes an Eligible Employee
on January 1, 1998, a Grossmont Participant shall, as of January 1, 1998, be
either an Active Participant, an Inactive Participant, a Terminated Vested
Participant, a Disabled Participant or a Retired Participant in this Plan (as
those terms are defined in Section 1.36).

 

1.28         Grossmont Plan

 

“Grossmont Plan” means the Grossmont Bank Restated Defined Benefit Pension Plan
and Trust, restated effective January 1, 1996, according to the terms and
conditions of that plan which existed as of the close of business on December
31, 1997 when assets and benefits for Grossmont Participants were transferred to
and merged into this Plan.

 

1.29         Hour of Service

 

Hour of Service means:

 

(a)                                  each hour for which an Employee is paid, or
entitled to payment, for the performance of duties for the Company;

 

(b)                                 each hour for which an Employee is paid, or
entitled to payment, by the Company on account of a period of time during which
no duties are performed (whether or not the employment relationship has
terminated) due to vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity (including
disability), layoff, jury duty, military duty or leave of absence; provided,
however, that an Employee will not be credited with more than 501 Hours of
Service under this sentence for any continuous period during which

 

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he or she performs no duties for the Company. Notwithstanding the preceding
provisions of this paragraph, no credit will be given:

 

(1)                                  for an Hour of Service for which the
individual is directly or indirectly paid, or entitled to payment, on account of
a period during which no duties are performed if such payment is made or due
under a plan maintained solely for the purpose of complying with applicable
workers’ compensation, unemployment compensation or disability insurance laws
(except as specifically provided for in Article 7); or

 

(2)                                  for an Hour of Service for which a payment
is made which solely reimburses the individual for medical or medically related
expenses incurred;

 

(c)                                  each hour not otherwise credited under the
Plan for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, is either
awarded or agreed to by the Company.

 

(d)                                 Effective December 12, 1994, Qualified
Military Service shall be credited for purposes of eligibility under Section
2.1(b) and for Years of Vesting Service. For a Participant returning from
Qualified Military Service on or after January 1, 2001, for purposes of
satisfying the 1,000 Hours of Service requirement of Section 2.1(b) during an
Eligibility Computation Period, and for purposes of determining Years of Vesting
Service, a Participant will receive 190 Hours of Service for each full or
partial month during which the Participant is engaged in Qualified Military
Service.

 

(e)                                  Hours of Service will be credited for
employment as an Employee of any Affiliate or Subsidiary.

 

(f)                                    Solely for purposes of determining
whether a Break in Service has occurred, an individual who is absent from work
will receive credit for the Hours of Service which would have been credited to
the individual but for such absence if the absence is (1) because of the
pregnancy of the individual, (2) because of the birth of a child of the
individual, (3) because of the placement of a child with the individual in
connection with the adoption of such child by such individual, (4) for purposes
of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth
or placement, or (5) for family or medical leave required to be provided under
the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. Where such hours cannot be determined,
eight Hours of Service per day of such absence will be used. The Hours of
Service credited under this paragraph will be credited in the computation period
in which the absence begins if the crediting is necessary to prevent a Break in
Service in that period. In all other cases, such hours will be credited in the
following computation period.

 

(g)                                 The foregoing notwithstanding, Participants
whose pay is solely on a commission basis will be credited with Hours of Service
as follows:

 

(1)                                  If the Participant’s Earnings for a Plan
Year are at least 750 multiplied by the lowest hourly rate of compensation
payable to employees in the same

 

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job classification as the Participant, then the Participant will be credited
with 1,000 Hours of Service for that Plan Year.

 

(2)                                  If the Participant’s Earnings for a Plan
Year are less than 750 multiplied by the lowest hourly rate of compensation
payable to employees in the same job classification as the Participant, then the
Participant will not be credited with any Hours of Service for that Plan Year.

 

(h)                                 The crediting of Hours of Service under this
Plan will be performed in accordance with applicable provisions of the
Department of Labor Regulations 2530.200b-2 and 2530.200b-3 (including, by way
of example, the equivalency rules which may be applied in the event that a
Participant’s actual Hours of Service cannot be determined), and such
regulations are incorporated by reference herein.

 

1.30         Investment Manager

 

Investment Manager shall have the meaning stated in Section 3(38) of ERISA.

 

1.31         Late Retirement Date

 

If a Participant continues in the service of the Company or any Affiliate or
Subsidiary beyond his or her Normal Retirement Date, then his or her Late
Retirement Date will be the first day of any month coincident with or following
the date of the Participant’s Termination of Employment. A Participant’s Late
Retirement Date will not be later than the required beginning date described in
Section 5.11(c) even if his or her employment continues after such date.

 

1.32         Nonvested Former Participant

 

Nonvested Former Participant means a prior Participant who has incurred a
Termination of Employment and who does not have a vested interest in his or her
Accrued Benefit in accordance with Section 6.1.

 

Nonvested Former Participant also means a prior participant in the Grossmont
Plan who has incurred a Termination of Employment under that plan and who did
not have a vested interest in that plan on December 31, 1997.

 

Nonvested Former Participant also means a prior participant in the Sumitomo Plan
who has incurred a Termination of Employment under that plan and who did not
have a vested interest in that plan on September 30, 1998.

 

Nonvested Former Participant also means a prior participant in the Commerce Plan
who has incurred a Termination of Employment under that plan and who did not
have a vested interest in that plan on December 31, 1998.

 

1.33         Normal Retirement Age

 

If the Participant’s Participation Date is on or after July 1, 1994, his or her
“Normal Retirement Age” is the later of: (a) his or her 65th birthday, or (b)
the earlier of: (1) the date the Participant completes five Years of Vesting
Service, or (2) the fifth anniversary of his or her Participation Date provided
the Participant is an Employee on or after the

 

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later of such date or his or her 65th birthday and earns at least one Year of
Vesting Service after any Break in Service. If the Participant first
participated in the Plan before July 1, 1994, the Participant’s Normal
Retirement Age is 65.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Normal Retirement Age for a Commerce
Participant is his or her 65th birthday.

 

1.34         Normal Retirement Date

 

A Participant’s Normal Retirement Date will be the first day of the month
coincident with or next following the date of attaining his or her Normal
Retirement Age.

 

1.35         Old Plan Account

 

Old Plan Account is defined in Section 4.7.

 

1.36         Participant

 

Participant means an Active Participant, Inactive Participant, Terminated Vested
Participant, Disabled Participant, or Retired Participant, as defined below:

 

(a)                                  “Active Participant” means an Eligible
Employee who has met the requirements for participation described in Article 2.

 

(b)                                 “Inactive Participant” means a prior Active
Participant who is on an Authorized Period of Absence, or who is employed by an
Affiliate or Subsidiary other than a Company that is then a participating
Company in the Plan, or who is employed by the Company but is not an Eligible
Employee.

 

(c)                                  “Terminated Vested Participant” means a
former Eligible Employee who has incurred a Termination of Employment, who
retains a vested interest in accordance with Section 6.1, and who is not
currently receiving benefit payments under the Plan.

 

(d)                                 “Disabled Participant” means a former Active
Participant who has a total and permanent disability as determined under Article
7.

 

(e)                                  “Retired Participant” means a former
Eligible Employee who is receiving benefit payments under the Plan.

 

1.37         Participation Date

 

Participation Date means the date as of which an Eligible Employee becomes a
Participant in the Plan, in accordance with the terms stated in Article 2.

 

1.38         Plan

 

Plan means the Zions Bancorporation Pension Plan.

 

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1.39         Plan Year

 

Plan Year means a calendar year.

 

1.40         Qualified Domestic Relations Order

 

The term “Qualified Domestic Relations Order” or “QDRO” means a judgment, decree
or order of a court with authority under state law for domestic relations
matters, which is issued for the benefit of a named “alternate payee” in
connection with divorce, marital property rights or alimony, and which complies
with all requirements of Code Section 414(p). As further described in Section
5.13, a QDRO may expressly provide either for (a) a division of a Participant’s
Accrued Benefit between the Participant and an alternate payee, (b) a
distribution to an alternate payee, (c) the right of an alternate payee to elect
to receive one or more distributions on or after a specified date or occurrence
of a specified event, or (d) the designation of an alternate payee as
beneficiary for some or all of the Participant’s benefit upon the Participant’s
death. A QDRO shall identify (i) the name and last known mailing address of the
Participant and of each alternate payee (who shall be either a Participant’s
spouse, former spouse, child or other dependent); (ii) the amount or percentage
of the Participant’s benefit to be paid by the Plan to each alternate payee, or
the manner in which such percentage is to be determined; (iii) the number of
payments or period to which such order applies; and (iv) the name of each
benefit plan of the Employer to which it applies. A domestic relations order
shall not be treated as an enforceable QDRO under this Plan unless and until the
Administrative Committee (or a person or administrator designated by that
Committee) has determined that the domestic relations order conforms to the
requirements of Code Section 414(p), describes benefits that are consistent with
the terms of this Plan, and satisfies the requirements of any QDRO guidelines
maintained by the Administrative Committee or its designee.

 

1.41         Qualified Military Service

 

“Qualified Military Service” shall have the meaning stated in Code Section
414(u)(5), and shall refer to an individual’s service in the uniformed services
of the United States to the extent the individual, on or after December 12,
1994, is entitled to re-employment rights (sometimes referred to as “USERRA”
rights) and returns to employment in a timely manner following such service
according to chapter 43 of title 38 of the United Stated Code.

 

1.42         Retirement Date

 

Retirement Date means the date the Participant’s benefits commence. Benefits may
begin at the Participant’s Early, Normal, Late or Disability Retirement Date.

 

1.43         Single Life Annuity

 

Single Life Annuity means an annuity providing level monthly payments over the
life of the annuitant.

 

1.44         Sumitomo Participant

 

“Sumitomo Participant” means:

 

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(a)                                  A Participant in the Sumitomo Plan who
became a Participant in this Plan on October 1, 1998 in connection with the
October 31, 1998 merger of the Sumitomo Plan into this Plan, or

 

(b)                                 An employee of Sumitomo Bank of California
on September 30, 1998 who becomes eligible to participate in this Plan on or
before December 31, 1999.

 

Based upon his or her status in the Sumitomo Plan on September 30, 1998, and
based upon whether or not he or she became an Eligible Employee on October 1,
1998, a Sumitomo Participant described in subsection (a) shall be deemed an
Active Participant, an Inactive Participant, a Terminated Vested Participant, a
Disabled Participant or a Retired Participant in this Plan, as defined in
Section 1.36, on October 1, 1998.

 

1.45         Sumitomo Plan

 

“Sumitomo Plan” means the Sumitomo Bank of California Pension Plan as in effect
immediately prior to November 1, 1998.

 

1.46         Termination of Employment

 

Termination of Employment means cessation of employment with the Company or any
member of the Employer due to:

 

(a)                                  voluntary or involuntary termination or
separation of employment, or

 

(b)                                 failure to return to work for at least 30
days upon the expiration of any Authorized Period of Absence from the Company or
any member of the Employer, in which event cessation of active work will be
deemed to have occurred at the time such Authorized Period of Absence expired.

 

Transfer of employment, without interruption, between members of the Employer
will not be deemed a Termination of Employment.

 

1.47         Trust Agreement

 

Trust Agreement means the agreement between the Company and the Trustee.

 

1.48         Trust Fund

 

Trust Fund means all money or property held by the Trustee pursuant to the Trust
Agreement.

 

1.49         Trustee

 

Trustee means the trustee appointed by the Board of Directors of the Company and
named as such in the Trust Agreement.

 

1.50         Year of Vesting Service

 

Year of Vesting Service means a calendar year after December 31, 1988 during
which an Employee completes 1,000 or more Hours of Service except as follows:

 

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(a)                                  For Plan Years from December 31, 1994 to
December 31, 1997, an Employee shall be credited with a partial Year of Vesting
Service (measured in calendar months) in a Plan Year in which the Employee
completes less than 1,000 Hours of Service but in which the Employee has a
Benefit Service Date or in which the Employee retires, dies, or incurs a
Termination of Employment if the Employee completes 83.33 Hours of Service
multiplied by the number of calendar months during such Plan Year in which the
Employee completes at least one Hour of Service. The Employee will be credited
with months of Service equal to the number of calendar months during the Plan
Year in which the Employee completes at least one Hour of Service. Twelve months
of Service will equal a Year of Vesting Service.

 

(b)                                 Year of Vesting Service also include Years
of Vesting Service earned before January 1, 1989 under the terms of the Plan in
effect as of December 31, 1988.

 

(c)                                  A Participant shall be credited in the 1989
calendar year with 190 Hours of Service for each month in which the Participant
earned at least one Hour of Service in his or her partial Year of Vesting
Service (if any) ending on December 31, 1988.

 

(d)                                 The foregoing notwithstanding, a Participant
must be at least age 18 before he or she can earn a Year of Vesting Service.

 

(e)                                  The foregoing notwithstanding, if a
Participant who has no vested interest in the Plan incurs a Break in Service,
Years of Vesting Service will not include:

 

(1)           service prior to a Break in Service which is not followed by a
Year of Vesting Service, and

 

(2)                                  service prior to five or more consecutive
one year Breaks in Service if the number of consecutive one year Breaks in
Service equals or exceeds the number of prior Years of Vesting Service.

 

This subsection (e) shall not apply to a Sumitomo Participant who failed to earn
501 hours of service under the Sumitomo Plan in any Plan Year ending prior to
November 1, 1998, or to a nonvested former participant in the Sumitomo Plan who
incurred a Termination of Employment under that plan on or prior to September
30, 1998.

 

(f)                                    Years of Vesting Service earned by
Grossmont Participants prior to December 31, 1997 shall be calculated as defined
under the provisions of the Grossmont Plan.

 

(g)                                 Special Rules Applicable to Sumitomo
Participants:

 

(1)                                  Years of Vesting Service earned by a
Sumitomo Participant prior to November 1, 1998 shall be calculated as defined
under the provisions of the Sumitomo Plan.

 

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(2)                                  A Sumitomo Participant who earns 1,000 or
more Hours of Service in the Plan Year beginning on January 1, 1998 and ending
on December 31, 1998, shall be credited with one Year of Vesting Service.

 

(3)                                  After December 31, 1998, a Sumitomo
Participant shall be credited with one Year of Vesting Service for each calendar
year in which he or she completes 1,000 or more Hours of Service.

 

(4)                                  In no event will a Sumitomo Participant’s
Years of Vesting Service be less than what the Sumitomo Participant would have
earned under the Sumitomo Plan through his or her anniversary year ending in the
calendar year ending on December 31, 2000.

 

(h)                                 Years of Vesting Service earned by Commerce
Participants prior to January 1, 1999 shall be credited as determined under the
provisions of the Commerce Plan.

 

(i)                                     Effective April 1, 1997, for a former
employee of an acquired company listed on Appendix IV who becomes an Eligible
Employee as of the Acquisition Effective Date listed in that Appendix, the
Eligible Employee’s prior service as an employee of the acquired company (or of
any affiliate or subsidiary of the acquired company) shall be credited for
purposes of determining Years of Vesting Service under this Plan.

 

1.51         Zions

 

Zions means Zions Bancorporation, which is the sponsor of this Plan and the
ultimate parent corporation of the Employer.

 

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Article 2

 

PARTICIPATION

 

2.1           Participation Date

 

Participation Date means the date a Participant first becomes an Active
Participant, provided that the Participation Date of a Nonvested Former
Participant who is reinstated under Section 2.2 after five or more consecutive
one year Breaks in Service shall be the date of reinstatement.

 

(a)                                  An Eligible Employee who was an Active
Participant in the Plan on March 31, 1997 will continue to be an Active
Participant on April 1, 1997.

 

(b)                                 Except as provided in subsections (c)
through (f) below, any other Eligible Employee will become an Active Participant
in the Plan on the January 1 or July 1 coinciding with or next following the
later of (1) the date on which the Employee completes an Eligibility Computation
Period during which he or she completes at least 1,000 Hours of Service, or (2)
the Employee’s 21st birthday.

 

(c)                                  Effective April 1, 1997, in the case of an
Employee who has a period of employment as an Employee of an Affiliate or
Subsidiary during which he or she is not an Eligible Employee (either because of
the individual’s employment status or because the employing company is not a
participating Company), which is followed (without a Break in Service) by a
transition to Eligible Employee status (either because of a change of individual
employment status or because the employing company has become a participating
Company in this Plan), then the Employee’s Hours of Service prior to becoming an
Eligible Employee shall be credited toward meeting the eligibility service
requirement of subsection (b) above, and the Eligible Employee will become an
Active Participant on the first day of the month coinciding with or next
following the later of the dates referred to in clause (1) and (2) of subsection
(b) above.

 

(d)                                 An Eligible Employee who was an active
participant in the Grossmont Plan on December 31, 1997 shall become a
Participant in this Plan on January 1, 1998 (or, if later, the date (if any) on
which he or she becomes an Eligible Employee).

 

(e)                                  An Eligible Employee who was an Active
Participant in the Sumitomo Plan on September 30, 1998, shall become a
Participant in this Plan effective October 1, 1998. Effective on or before
December 31, 1999, any other employee of Sumitomo Bank of California on
September 30, 1998 shall become a Participant in this Plan on the first of the
month coinciding with or next following the later of (1) the date on which the
Employee completes an Eligibility Computation Period during which he or she
completes at least 1,000 Hours of Service, or (2) the Employee’s 21st birthday.

 

(f)                                    An Eligible Employee who was an Active
Participant in the Commerce Plan on December 31, 1998, shall become a
Participant in this Plan effective January 1, 1999.

 

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(g)                                 Effective April 1, 1997, for a former
employee of an acquired company listed on Appendix IV who becomes an Eligible
Employee as of the Acquisition Effective Date listed in that Appendix, the
Eligible Employee’s prior service as an employee of the acquired company (or of
any affiliate or subsidiary of the acquired company) shall be credited for
purposes of eligibility to become an Active Participant in the Plan. If such
Eligible Employee had accrued at least 1,000 hours of service (according to the
records maintained by the acquired company) in the 12-month period ending on the
Acquisition Effective Date (and had attained age 21 on or before such date), the
Eligible Employee shall become an Active Participant in this Plan as of the
first day of the calendar month coinciding with or first following the
Acquisition Effective Date. Otherwise, the Participation Date shall be the first
day of the calendar month coinciding with or first following the date on which
the sum of the pre-acquisition service and post-acquisition Hours of Service
satisfy the Eligibility Computation Period requirements of subsection (b) above
(and the Eligible Employee has attained at least age 21).

 

2.2           Reinstatement of Active Participation

 

A Terminated Vested Participant, a Retired Participant, an Inactive Participant,
or a Nonvested Former Participant who again becomes an Eligible Employee or who
returns from an Authorized Period of Absence will be reinstated as an Active
Participant on the day he or she is reinstated as an Eligible Employee or
returns from such Authorized Period of Absence.

 

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Article 3

 

ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF CASH BALANCE ACCOUNT

 

Except as otherwise stated, this Article shall be effective as of April 1, 1997.

 

3.1           Initial Establishment of Cash Balance Account

 

(a)                                  A Cash Balance Account will be established
for each Participant on the date he or she first becomes a Participant. The
initial balance in the Cash Balance Account will be zero. With respect to each
person who is an Active Participant or a Disabled Participant on March 31, 1997,
a Cash Balance Account will be established as of January 1, 1997. The initial
balance in the Participant’s Cash Balance Account will equal the present value
of the Active or Disabled Participant’s accrued benefit under the Plan as of
December 31, 1996, expressed in the form of a Single Life Annuity. The present
value will be determined using a 7% interest rate and the Participant’s age on
December 31, 1996, and the Applicable Mortality Table described in Section
1.4(b)(1) which is in effect as of such date.

 

(b)                                 With respect to each Inactive Participant
and Terminated Vested Participant on March 31, 1997 who becomes an Active
Participant on or after April 1, 1997 and each Nonvested Former Participant on
March 31, 1997 who becomes an Active Participant and does not lose his or her
prior vested interest in accordance with Section 1.50(e), a Cash Balance Account
will be established on the date he or she again becomes an Active Participant.
The initial balance in the Participant’s Cash Balance Account will equal the
present value of the Participant’s accrued benefit under the Plan as of December
31, 1996, expressed in the form of a Single Life Annuity. The present value will
be determined using a 7% interest rate, the Participant’s age on the date he or
she again becomes an Active Participant, and the Applicable Mortality Table
described in Section 1.4(b)(1) which is in effect as of such date.

 

(c)                                  A Cash Balance Account will be established
for each Grossmont Participant who becomes an Active Participant in this Plan on
January 1, 1998. The initial balance in the Grossmont Participant’s Cash Balance
Account will equal the present value of his or her accrued benefit under the
Grossmont Plan as of December 31, 1997, expressed in the form of a Single Life
Annuity. The present value will be determined using a 7% interest rate, the
Participant’s age on December 31, 1997, and the Applicable Mortality Table
described in Section 1.4(b)(1) which is in effect as of such date.

 

(d)                                 With respect to each Inactive Participant
and Terminated Vested Participant (as defined in Sections 1.27 and 1.36 of this
Plan) in the Grossmont Plan on December 31, 1997 who becomes an Active
Participant in this Plan or after January 1, 1998 and each Nonvested Former
Participant in the Grossmont Plan on December 31, 1997 who becomes an Active
Participant in this Plan and does not lose his or her prior vested interest in
accordance with Section 1.50, a Cash Balance Account will be established on the
date he or she becomes an Active Participant in this Plan. The initial balance
in the Grossmont Participant’s Cash

 

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Balance Account will equal the present value of his or her accrued benefit under
the Grossmont Plan as of December 31, 1997, expressed in the form of a Single
Life Annuity. The present value will be determined using a 7% interest rate, the
Grossmont Participant’s age on the date he or she again becomes a Participant,
and the Applicable Mortality Table described in Section 1.4(b)(1) which is in
effect as of such date.

 

(e)                                  A Cash Balance Account will be established
for each Sumitomo Participant who becomes an Active Participant in this Plan on
October 1, 1998. The initial balance in the Sumitomo Participant’s Cash Balance
Account will equal the present value of his or her accrued benefit under the
Sumitomo Plan as of September 30, 1998, expressed in the form of a Single Life
Annuity. The present value will be determined using a 7% interest rate and the
Participant’s age on September 30, 1998, and the Applicable Mortality Table
described in Section 1.4(b)(1) which is in effect as of such date.

 

(f)                                    With respect to each inactive participant
and terminated vested participant in the Sumitomo Plan on September 30, 1998 who
becomes an Active Participant in this Plan after October 1, 1998, and each
nonvested former participant in the Sumitomo Plan who becomes an Active
Participant in this Plan after October 1, 1998, a Cash Balance Account will be
established on the date such Employee becomes an Active Participant in this
Plan. The initial balance in the Sumitomo Participant’s Cash Balance Account
will equal the present value of his or her accrued benefit under the Sumitomo
Plan as of September 30, 1998, expressed in the form of a Single Life Annuity.
The present value will be determined using a 7% interest rate, the Sumitomo
Participant’s age on the date he or she again becomes an Active Participant, and
the Applicable Mortality Table described in Section 1.4(b)(1) which is in effect
as of such date.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the initial balance in the Cash Balance Account
of a Sumitomo Participant who receives a distribution of the actuarial
equivalent of his or her full accrued benefit from the Sumitomo Plan on or
before October 31, 1998 shall be zero.

 

(g)                                 A Cash Balance Account will be established
for each Commerce Participant who becomes an Active Participant in this Plan on
January 1, 1999. The initial balance in the Commerce Participant’s Cash Balance
Account will equal the present value of his or her accrued benefit under the
Commerce Plan as of December 31, 1998, expressed in the form of a Single Life
Annuity. The present value will be determined using the Participant’s age on
December 31, 1998, and the interest and mortality basis specified in the
Commerce Bancorporation Defined Benefit Plan (as that plan was in effect on
December 31, 1998) for terminations occurring during the 1999 plan year.

 

(h)                                 With respect to each inactive participant
and terminated vested participant in the Commerce Plan on December 31, 1998 who
becomes an Active Participant in this Plan after January 1, 1999, and each
nonvested former participant in the Commerce Plan who becomes an Active
Participant in this Plan after January 1, 1999, a Cash Balance Account will be
established on the date such Employee becomes an Active Participant in this
Plan. The initial balance in the

 

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Commerce Participant’s Cash Balance Account will equal the present value of his
or her accrued benefit under the Commerce Plan as of December 31, 1998,
expressed in the form of a Single Life Annuity. The present value will be
determined using a 7% interest rate, the Commerce Participant’s age on the date
he or she again becomes an Active Participant, and the Applicable Mortality
Table described in Section 1.4(b)(1) which is in effect as of such date.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the initial balance in the Cash Balance Account
of a Commerce Participant who receives a distribution of the actuarial
equivalent of his or her full accrued benefit from the Commerce Plan on or
before December 31, 1998 shall be zero.

 

3.2           Earnings Credits

 

(a)                                  General Rule for Earnings Credits

 

As of the last day of each Plan Year the Cash Balance Account of each
Participant who is employed on that date and who has completed at least 1,000
Hours of Service during the Plan Year will be credited with an amount equal to
the product obtained by multiplying the Participant’s Earnings for the Plan Year
by a percentage from the following table, which percentage is based upon the
Participant’s age as of the last day of the Plan Year:

 

Attained Age

 

Percentage

 

Less than 30 years

 

2.25

%

At least 30 years, but less than 40 years

 

3.00

%

At least 40 years, but less than 50 years

 

4.00

%

At least 50 years, but less than 55 years

 

5.25

%

At least 55 years, but less than 60 years

 

7.00

%

60 or more years

 

9.25

%

 

(b)                                 Acquisitions and Reinstatements in a Year of
At Least 1,000 Hours

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the Plan Year containing a Participant’s
Participation Date (or date of reinstatement as an Active Participant), where
the Participation Date (or reinstatement date) is later than January 1 of the
Plan Year, but where the Participant accrues 1,000 Hours of Service for the Plan
Year, then:

 

(1)                                  If the Participant received Earnings as an
Employee for the period from January 1 of such Plan Year to the Participation
Date (or reinstatement date), the Earnings Credit for that Plan Year shall be
the product of the amount determined under Section 3.2(a) times a fraction, the
numerator of which is the number of completed months of Plan participation as an
Active Participant during the Plan Year, and the denominator of which is 12 (or,
if less, the number of months from January 1 to the date of the Participant’s
Termination of Employment; and

 

(2)                                  If the Participant did not receive Earnings
as an Employee prior to his or her Participation Date (for example, if a
Participant has a right to an immediate Participation Date upon an Acquisition
Date as described in

 

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Section 3.2(c), or a right to an immediate reinstatement of Participation
following a Break in Service or Period of Authorized Absence as described in
Section 2.2), then the Earnings Credit shall be determined as described in
3.2(a) taking into account the Earnings from the Participation Date through
December 31 (or, if earlier, the date of the Participant’s Termination of
Employment, as described in Section 3.2(c)).

 

(c)                                  Acquisitions in a Year of Less Than 1,000
Hours

 

This subsection shall apply to a Participant who becomes a Participant in this
Plan as the result of an acquisition with an “Acquisition Effective Date” (as
stated in Appendix IV) other than January 1 of a Plan Year, and who fails to
complete 1,000 Hours of Service in the Plan Year containing the Acquisition
Effective Date. Such a Participant shall be entitled to an Earnings Credit for
such Plan Year, if such Participant’s Hours of Service earned following the
Acquisition Effective Date, when annualized, equal or exceed 1,000. The
annualized hours shall be the product of the Participant’s actual Hours of
Service times a fraction, the numerator of which is 12 and the denominator of
which is the number of completed months as an Active Participant during the said
Plan Year. The Earnings Credit for such Plan Year shall be as stated in Section
3.2(b)(2). For this purpose, Earnings will not include amounts earned prior to
the Acquisition Effective Date.

 

(d)                                 Earnings Credit If Employment Terminates
Prior to Year End

 

Subject to the terms of subsection (e), the Cash Balance Account of a
Participant who is not an Employee on the last day of the Plan Year but who has
completed at least 1,000 Hours of Service during the Plan Year will be credited
as of the last day of the Plan Year or, if earlier, as of the date on which the
Participant’s benefit is paid or commences to be paid, with an amount calculated
in the manner described in the applicable subsection of this Section 3.2, but
based upon the Participant’s Earnings for the Plan Year and the age of the
Participant as of the date on which he or she incurs a Termination of
Employment.

 

(e)                                  Terminations of Employment in Plan Year
2000

 

Effective January 1, 2000, in the case of a Participant who had a Termination of
Service for any reason between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2000, the
Participant shall be entitled to an Earnings Credit for the 2000 Plan Year if
the Hours of Service he or she accrued prior to the Termination of Employment,
when annualized, equal or exceed 1,000. The annualized hours shall be the
product of the Participant’s actual Hours of Service times a fraction, the
numerator of which is 12 and the denominator of which is the number of completed
months as an Employee during the said Plan Year.

 

3.3           Interest Credits

 

(a)                                  General Rule for Quarterly Interest
Crediting

 

For calendar quarters commencing on and after April 1, 1997, as of the last day
of each calendar quarter, the Cash Balance Account of each Participant who has a

 

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Cash Balance Account on that date will be credited with interest on the balance
in the account as of the first day of the Plan Year. Interest will be credited
at the rate of 25% of the annual rate of interest on 30-year Treasury securities
for November of the previous Plan Year. If a Participant’s benefit commences
prior to the end of a calendar quarter, no interest will be credited for the
quarter.

 

(b)                                 If An Account Balance Is Established During
a Plan Year

 

Notwithstanding the prior paragraph, the terms of this subsection shall apply to
a Participant who, on a date subsequent to April 1, 1997, has a right to have a
Cash Balance Account established during the course of a Plan Year with an
opening balance greater than zero, either in the case of a reinstatement of
Active Participant status as described in Section 3.1(b) or 3.5(a), or in the
case of an initial Participation Date of a former employee of an acquired
company described in Section 3.1(d), 3.1(e), 3.1(f) or 3.1(h). In such a case,
the Participant’s Cash Balance Account shall be credited with interest during
the remainder of such a Plan Year (subject to the terms of Section 3.4, if
applicable), as follows.

 

(1)                                  As of the last day of the calendar quarter
in which the Cash Balance Account is established, the interest for such initial
calendar quarter shall be the product of the opening balance of the Cash Balance
Account, times 25% of the annual rate of interest (as stated subsection (a)
above), times a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of complete
calendar months from the effective date of the establishment of the Cash Balance
Account to the end of the calendar quarter, and the denominator of which is
three.

 

(2)                                  In any subsequent calendar quarter during
the same Plan Year, interest shall be credited as stated in Section 3.1(a),
except that the principal amount shall be the opening balance of the Cash
Balance Account rather than the balance as of January 1 of the Plan Year.

 

3.4           Maintenance of Account after Termination of Employment until
Benefit Commencement

 

(a)                                  After Termination of Employment

 

After Termination of Employment, a Participant’s Cash Balance Account will
continue to be maintained and credited with interest pursuant to Section 3.3,
until the Participant’s benefit commences to be paid or is deemed to be paid
under Section 6.3(b).

 

(b)                                 If Re-Employed with an Existing Cash Balance
Account Prior to Benefit Commencement

 

This subsection shall apply to a Terminated Vested Participant who (i) is
re-employed as an Eligible Employee of the Company, (ii) is reinstated to Active
Participant status as of such re-employment date according to Section 2.2, and
(iii) has an existing Cash Balance Account. In such a case, on and after the
date of reinstatement of Active Participant status, the Cash Balance Account
will continue to be credited with interest on a quarterly basis, and the Active

 

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Participant shall have a right to receive Earnings Credits to the extent
provided in Section 3.2(b).

 

3.5           Establishment of New Account if Re-employed After Benefit
Commencement

 

(a)                                  If a Nonvested Former Participant’s Cash
Balance Account has ceased to be maintained due to the deemed zero-dollar
“cash-out” distribution (under Section 6.3(b)) of his or her entire interest
under the Plan, he or she becomes an Active Participant prior to incurring five
consecutive Breaks in Service, and he or she completes a Year of Vesting Service
following the date of re-employment, then, as of the date of becoming an Active
Participant (but contingent upon satisfying the said Year of Service
requirement), the Participant’s Cash Balance Account will be restored to the
balance in the Cash Balance Account as of the previous Termination of Employment
date, increased for interest in accordance with Section 3.3 for the period from
the Termination of Employment date to the date the Participant again became an
Active Participant.

 

(b)                                 If a Retired Participant is re-employed by
the Company and again becomes an Active Participant in the Plan after his or her
Cash Balance Account has ceased to be maintained pursuant to Section 3.4, a new
Cash Balance Account, with an initial balance of zero, will be established as of
the last day of the Plan Year in which he or she again becomes an Active
Participant. The Cash Balance Account will be credited with earnings and
interest as provided in Sections 3.2 and 3.3. Any Retirement Income which is
being paid as a monthly benefit to the Retired Participant as of the date of his
or her re-employment shall not be suspended and shall be unaffected by the
resumption of employment. The benefit accrued by the Participant from the date
of re-employment to the subsequent Termination of Employment shall be subject to
an election by the Participant with respect to the form and timing of the
benefit which is separate and independent from the election that was applicable
to the benefit that commenced on the prior Retirement Date. Moreover, to the
extent that a spousal consent is applicable to the benefit that accrued
subsequent to the re-employment date, the person with the right to consent shall
be the Eligible Spouse (if any) to whom the Participant is legally married at
the time of the commencement of the benefit that accrued subsequent to the
re-employment date, and not the Eligible Spouse as of the first Retirement Date.

 

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Article 4

 

ACCRUED BENEFIT

 

4.1        Accrued Benefit

 

A Participant’s Accrued Benefit is equal to the largest of the benefits
described in Sections 4.2, 4.3, or 4.4. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein, in no event will the benefit payable to a Participant be less than the
following:

 

(a)         The Accrued Benefit of a Participant who was a Participant in the
Plan on March 31, 1997, shall not be less than the benefit accrued by such
Participant under the Plan on March 31, 1997.

 

(b)         The Accrued Benefit of a Grossmont Participant shall not be less
than the benefit accrued by such Grossmont Participant under the Grossmont Plan
on December 31, 1997.

 

(c)         The Accrued Benefit of a Sumitomo Participant shall not be less than
the benefit accrued by such Sumitomo Participant under the terms of the Sumitomo
Plan (as in effect on September 30, 1998) with benefit accruals based on the
earlier of the Participant’s Termination of Employment or December 31, 1999.

 

(d)         The Accrued Benefit of a Commerce Participant shall not be less than
the benefit accrued by such Commerce Participant calculated as of December 31,
1998 under the terms of the Commerce Plan.

 

4.2        Cash Balance Accrued Benefit

 

A Participant’s cash balance accrued benefit is a monthly benefit in the form of
a Single Life Annuity commencing on his or her Normal Retirement Date, or the
current date, if later, which is the Actuarial Equivalent of the balance in the
Participant’s Cash Balance Account as of his or her Normal Retirement Date, or
the current date, if later. For purposes of determining a Participant’s cash
balance accrued benefit:

 

(a)         The balance in the Participant’s Cash Balance Account as of the
Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, if the Participant has not yet reached
that date, will be determined by projecting the balance in the Participant’s
Cash Balance Account at the determination date to the Participant’s Normal
Retirement Date. The projection will be accomplished by applying the interest
credits specified in Section 3.3 from the determination date (the date on which
benefits are being determined) to the Participant’s benefit commencement date
(the date on which benefits commence) and by applying the interest credit in
Section 3.3 during the year of benefit commencement for each year from the
benefit commencement date to the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date.

 

(b)         The monthly benefit in the form of a Single Life Annuity will be
determined by using the assumptions for Actuarial Equivalence described in
Section 1.4(a) and

 

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the age of the Participant as of his or her Normal Retirement Date, or the
current date, if later.

 

4.3        Minimum Accrued Benefit

 

A Participant’s minimum accrued benefit is the monthly benefit accrued by such
Participant under the Plan on March 31, 1997, as defined in Section 2.2 of
Appendix III.

 

4.4        Grandfathered Minimum Accrued Benefit

 

Any Active Participant or Disabled Participant on March 31, 1997 who, as of
December 31, 1997, has attained 55 years of age and has completed 10 Years of
Vesting Service is eligible to receive a grandfathered minimum accrued benefit
described in Section 2.3 of Appendix III.

 

4.5        Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan Account

 

The Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan Account as of the Participant’s
Normal Retirement Date, or current date if later, will be equal to the
Participant’s Old Plan Account expressed as a monthly benefit under a Single
Life Annuity commencing on his or her Normal Retirement Date, or current date if
later, using Actuarial Equivalence as provided in Section 1.4(a).

 

The Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan Account as of the Participant’s
Early Retirement Date will be equal to the monthly benefit determined under the
foregoing paragraph and, reduced by 5/9 of 1% for each of the first 60 months by
which the Early Retirement Date precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date and
by 5/18 of 1% for each of the next 60 such months.

 

4.6        Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company Contributions

 

The Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company Contributions will be equal to the
excess, if any, of the Accrued Benefit over the Accrued Benefit Attributable to
the Old Plan Account.

 

4.7        Old Plan Account

 

A Participant’s Old Plan Account is his or her individual account balance under
this Plan which resulted from the transfer of funds from a terminated plan
formerly sponsored by the Company. The Old Plan Account shall include interest
from the transfer date to the earlier of the Participant’s Retirement Date or
the date on which the Participant’s Old Plan Account is otherwise payable
pursuant to the provisions of this Plan (the determination date) as follows: The
rate of interest shall be compounded annually. For Plan Years beginning before
January 1, 1988 and continuing to the determination date, the interest rate
shall be 5%. For each Plan Year beginning on or after January 1, 1988 and
continuing to the determination date, the interest rate shall be 120% of the
federal mid-term rate (as defined in Code Section 1274) in effect on the first
day of such Plan Year. For purposes of determining the Accrued Benefit
Attributable to the Old Plan Account, the Old Plan Account shall also include
interest, compounded annually, at the Actuarial Equivalent interest rate
(Section 1.4(a)) applicable to the determination date year, for each Plan Year
from the determination date to the Participant’s Normal

 

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Retirement Date. In no event can a Participant’s Old Plan Account be withdrawn
prior to Termination of Employment, death or retirement. This section is
effective January 1, 1995.

 

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Article 5

 

AMOUNT OF RETIREMENT INCOME

 

5.1           Monthly Retirement Income

 

A Participant’s monthly retirement income commencing on his or her Normal
Retirement Date, Early Retirement Date, Late Retirement Date, or Disability
Retirement Date will be equal to his or her benefit described in Section 5.2,
5.3, 5.4, or 5.5.

 

5.2           Normal Retirement Income

 

The monthly amount of retirement income payable to a participant retiring on his
or her Normal Retirement Date will be equal to the Accrued Benefit earned to his
or her Normal Retirement Date. This amount is reduced by the Accrued Benefit
Attributable to the Old Plan Account if the Participant has previously taken a
lump sum payment of the Old Plan Account under Section 5.7(d). This Retirement
Income will be subject to adjustment depending on the Form of Retirement Income
elected in accordance with Section 5.7.

 

5.3           Early Retirement Income

 

(a)           The Early Retirement Income amounts described in this Section 5.3
will be subject to adjustment depending on the Form of Payment elected in
accordance with Section 5.7.

 

(b)           The monthly amount of retirement income payable to a Participant
retiring on an Early Retirement Date is the greater of:

 

(1)                       The Actuarial Equivalent value of the Participant’s
Cash Balance Account as of the Early Retirement Date using the assumptions for
Actuarial Equivalence described in Section 1.4(a) and the age of the Participant
as of the Early Retirement Date.

 

(2)                       The Minimum Early Retirement Benefit as described in
Article 3 of Appendix III.

 

The above amount is reduced by the Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan
Account as of the Participant’s Early Retirement Date, as determined under
Section 4.5 if the Participant has taken a lump sum payment of the Old Plan
Account under Section 5.7(d).

 

(c)           Grossmont Participant’s minimum early retirement benefit shall be
at least equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of his or her Accrued Benefit
determined as of December 31, 1997. Actuarial Equivalent shall be calculated
using:

 

(1)           Interest at a rate of 7% per annum, compounded annually, and

 

(2)           Mortality determined in accordance with the Unisex Pension 1984
Mortality Table, set back three years for both males and females.

 

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(d)           A Sumitomo Participant’s minimum early retirement benefit payable
on an Early Retirement Date shall be equal to the Sumitomo Participant’s Accrued
Benefit described in Section 4.1(c) multiplied by an early retirement factor
from the table below:

 

Participant’s Age
At Commencement

 

Factor

55

 

.4912

56

 

.5236

57

 

.5572

58

 

.5956

59

 

.6364

60

 

.6820

61

 

.7336

62

 

.7888

63

 

.8524

64

 

.9220

65

 

1.0000

 

Interpolation shall be used to determine the Factor applicable to the minimum
benefit calculation of a Participant who retires in any month other than his or
her month of birth.

 

(e)           A Commerce Participant’s early retirement benefit shall be at
least equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of his or her  Accrued Benefit
determined as of December 31, 1998 under the terms of the Commerce Plan. For the
purpose of this subsection (e) Actuarial Equivalent for a Commerce Participant,
shall be calculated using the 1984 Uniform Pensioners Mortality Table and an
interest rate equal to the lesser of 100% of the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation’s immediate interest rate in effect on the first day of the Plan
Year in which the Commerce Participant retires or 4%.

 

5.4           Late Retirement Income

 

(a)           The monthly amount of Retirement Income payable to a Participant
retiring on a Late Retirement Date will be equal to the Participant’s Accrued
Benefit earned to the Late Retirement Date. The amount determined according to
the previous sentence is reduced by the Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old
Plan Account if the Participant has previously taken a lump sum payment of the
Old Plan Account under Section 5.7(d). This Retirement Income will be subject to
adjustment depending on the Form of Retirement Income elected in accordance with
Section 5.7.

 

(b)           The minimum late retirement benefit of a Grossmont Participant
shall be at least equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of his or her Accrued
Benefit determined as of December 31, 1997, and taking into account his or her
years of benefit service and final average monthly earnings, as defined in the
Grossmont Plan, as of December 31, 1997. Actuarial Equivalent shall be
calculated using:

 

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(1)           Interest at a rate of 7% per annum, compounded annually, and

 

(2)           Mortality determined in accordance with the 1984 Unisex Pensioners
Mortality Table, set back three years for both males and females.

 

(c)           The minimum late retirement benefit of a Sumitomo Participant
shall never be less than his or her Accrued Benefit determined under Section
4.1(c).

 

5.5           Disability Retirement Income

 

Disability Retirement Income is described in Section 7.4.

 

5.6           Application for Retirement Income

 

Each Participant must notify the Committee in writing of his or her intent to
retire. Upon receipt of such notification, each Participant will receive a
written explanation of the terms and conditions of the various Forms of
Retirement Income and the financial effect of electing each Form of Retirement
Income. A Participant will have the right to elect or revise a previously
elected Form of Retirement Income at any time during his or her Election Period.

 

A Participant’s Election Period is the 90 day period ending on the date his or
her Retirement Income is to begin. The Committee will make Election Information
available to a Participant within a reasonable period of time prior to the date
Retirement Income is to begin. In no event will a Participant’s Election Period
end prior to the 30th day next following the day on which Election Information
and the information provided in accordance with the first paragraph of this
Section 5.6 are first made available to him.

 

For purposes of this Section, Election Information will include:

 

(a)           a written explanation of each form of Retirement Income and the
relative financial effect of the payment of Monthly Retirement Income in that
form;

 

(b)           a statement of the right to consider the benefit election for at
least 30 days; and

 

(c)           a notification that Retirement Income payments will be made in the
50% Spouse Option form (or the Life Annuity Form if the Participant is not
married) unless he or she elects otherwise during the Election Period and his or
her spouse consents to such election.

 

The Participant must elect a form of payment in writing. An election of a form
of payment other than a Spouse Option will not be valid without the written
consent of the Participant’s spouse. The spouse’s consent must acknowledge the
effect of the election and must be witnessed by a plan representative or notary
public. The Participant may change his or her election at any time, and any
number of times, during the 90 day period ending on the date his or her
Retirement Income is to begin. The Participant may not change the form of
payment without further spousal consent unless the spouse expressly permits such
changes. The requirement for spouse’s consent will be waived if the participant
establishes to the satisfaction of the Committee that such consent cannot be

 

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obtained because there is no spouse, the spouse cannot be located or because of
such other circumstances as the Secretary of the Treasury may by regulations
prescribe.

 

The election by the Participant and the consent of the spouse must be obtained
no more than 90 days prior to the annuity starting date (as defined in the
previous paragraph).

 

If the spouse of a Participant who has elected a Spouse Option dies before
Retirement Income payments begin, the Retirement Income will be paid to the
Participant in the form of the Single Life Annuity.

 

5.7           Forms of Retirement Income

 

A Participant retiring on his or her Normal, Early, Late, or Disability
Retirement Date may elect one of the following Forms of Retirement Income
payment:

 

(a)           Spouse Option.

 

A Spouse Option provides for a monthly payment during the Participant’s life.
After the Participant’s death, a percentage of the Participant’s Retirement
Income will be paid for life to the Participant’s Eligible Spouse. The
percentage to be paid to the Participant’s Eligible Spouse will be 50%, 66 2/3%
or 100% as elected by the Participant. The monthly payment under the Spouse
Option will be equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of the amount payable under the
Life Annuity form using the factors from Appendix I.

 

(b)           Life Annuity.

 

The Life Annuity form provides for a monthly payment during the Participant’s
life, with the last payment being made for the month in which the Participant’s
death occurs.

 

(c)           Lump Sum Payment Option.

 

The Lump Sum Payment Option provides for a single payment equal to the greater
of the balance in the Participant’s Cash Balance Account as of the Participant’s
Retirement Date or the Lump Sum value of his or her Accrued Benefit using the
Actuarial Equivalent basis for lump sums provided under Section 1.4(a). If a
Participant took a lump sum payment of his or her Old Plan Account before
retirement, the Lump Sum Payment Option shall be based on the Accrued Benefit
Attributable to Company Contributions as described in Section 4.6. If a
Participant maintains an Old Plan Account on his or her Retirement date, the
lump sum shall not be less than the sum of the Old Plan Account on the
Retirement Date and the Lump Sum Payment Option amount using the Accrued Benefit
Attributable to Company Contributions as described in Section 4.6.

 

(d)           Lump Sum Payment of Old Plan Account Option.

 

The Lump Sum Payment of Old Plan Account Option provides for a lump sum payment
of the Participant’s Old Plan Account. The Participant’s Accrued Benefit
Attributable to Company Contributions is paid in a Life Annuity, Spouse Option,
or Lump Sum Payment Option form as elected by the Participant. This form of

 

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payment is available to a Participant only one time, at the earlier of his or
her retirement or Termination of Employment.

 

(e)           Options Available Only to Grossmont Participants.

 

In addition to the forms described in subsections (a) through (d) above, the
following additional forms of benefit are available only to Grossmont
Participants:

 

(1)           Ten Year Certain and Life Thereafter Option.

 

The Ten Year Certain and Life Thereafter Option provides a reduced monthly
Retirement Income commencing on the Grossmont Participant’s Retirement Date and
ceasing with the payment for the month in which the Grossmont Participant’s
death occurs. The Ten Year Certain and Life Thereafter Option shall be the
Actuarial Equivalent of a Single Life Annuity Option. If a Grossmont
Participant’s death should occur before 120 monthly payments have been made,
such payment shall continue to his or her Beneficiary(ies) until the earlier of
(a) the Beneficiary(ies’) death(s), or (b) a total of 120 monthly Retirement
Income payments to the Grossmont Participant and his or her Beneficiary(ies)
have been made.

 

If a Grossmont Participant designates joint Beneficiaries, upon the Grossmont
Participant’s death prior to the payment of 120 monthly payments, any surviving
Beneficiaries shall share equally.

 

In the event that the (or all) Beneficiary(ies) and the Grossmont Participant
die prior to the payment of a total of 120 monthly Retirement Income payments to
the Grossmont Participant and/or his or her Beneficiary(ies); the balance of
such 120 monthly payments shall be payable to the estate of the last survivor.

 

In the event the Grossmont Participant and his or her Beneficiary(ies) die prior
to the date the Grossmont Participant’s benefits are scheduled to commence, the
rights of all persons shall be the same as if the option had not been elected.

 

(2)           Ten Year Certain Option.

 

The Ten Year Certain Option provides a monthly Retirement Income commencing on
the Grossmont Participant’s Retirement Date and ceasing after 120 monthly
payments have been made. The Ten Year Certain Option shall be the Actuarial
Equivalent of a Single Life Annuity Option.  If a Grossmont Participant’s death
should occur before 120 monthly payments have been made, such payment shall
continue to his or her Beneficiary(ies) until the earlier of (a) the
Beneficiary(ies’) death(s), or (b) a total of 120 monthly Retirement Income
payments to the Grossmont Participant and/or his or her Beneficiary(ies) have
been made.

 

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If a Grossmont Participant designates joint Beneficiaries, upon the Grossmont
Participant’s death prior to the payment of 120 monthly payments, any surviving
Beneficiaries shall share equally.

 

In the event that the (or all) Beneficiary(ies) and the Grossmont Participant
die prior to the payment of a total of 120 monthly Retirement Income payments to
the Grossmont Participant and/or his or her Beneficiary(ies), the balance of
such 120 monthly payments shall be payable to the estate of the last survivor.

 

In the event the Grossmont Participant and his or her Beneficiary(ies) die prior
to the date the Grossmont Participant’s benefits are scheduled to commence, the
rights of all persons shall be the same as if the option had not been elected.

 

(3)           For the purpose of this subsection (e), Actuarial Equivalent shall
be calculated using:

 

(A)          Interest at a rate of 7% per annum, compounded annually, and

 

(B)           Mortality determined in accordance with the 1984 Unisex Pensioners
Mortality Table, set back three years for both males and females.

 

(4)         This subsection (e) shall only apply to the portion of a Grossmont
Participant’s Accrued Benefit earned prior to January 1, 1998. The portion of a
Grossmont Participant’s Accrued Benefit earned on or after December 31, 1997
shall be paid in one of the forms described in subsections (a) through (d) of
this Section 5.7.

 

(5)         A Grossmont Participant’s Accrued Benefit payable under any form
described in this Section 5.7(e) shall never be less than his or her Accrued
Benefit calculated as of December 31, 1997 under the terms of the Grossmont
Plan.

 

(f)            Options Available to Sumitomo Participants:

 

In addition to the forms described in subsections (a) through (d), the following
additional forms of benefit are available only to Sumitomo Participants:

 

(1)           Joint and Survivor Annuity.

 

A Sumitomo Participant may elect to have a fraction, either 50% or 100%, of his
or her Life Annuity continue after his or her death to the Sumitomo
Participant’s Beneficiary for life, if the Beneficiary survives the Sumitomo
Participant. A Joint and Survivor Annuity payable to a Sumitomo Participant who
receives a benefit under Section 4.1(c) shall be the Actuarial Equivalent of the
benefit otherwise payable as a Single Life Annuity (taking into account
whichever 50% or 100% option is elected), and using the following Actuarial
assumptions: (A) 4% interest, and (B) the 1984 Unisex Pension mortality table
with a four-year setback for the age of the Participant and no set-back for the

 

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age of the Beneficiary, and (C) the respective ages (in completed months as of
the benefit commencement date) of the Participant and Beneficiary. The
Beneficiary must be irrevocably designated before benefits commence.

 

(2)           Level Income Option.

 

A Sumitomo Participant who retires prior to his or her Normal Retirement Date
and whose benefit is paid in the form of a Life Annuity may elect to receive his
or her benefits in a greater amount during the period before Social Security
benefits could first be paid and a correspondingly reduced amount after such
benefits first become payable, such that the total income (including the
adjusted benefit payable under the Plan and the Social Security benefit to which
the Sumitomo Participant is entitled) shall be as nearly uniform as possible
both before and after commencement of Social Security benefits. The amount of
the adjustment to the Sumitomo Participant’s benefit shall be calculated using
the factors in Appendix III of the Sumitomo Plan.

 

(3)           This subsection (f) shall only apply to the portion of the
Sumitomo Participant’s Accrued Benefit attributable to Section 4.1(c). The
portion of a Sumitomo Participant’s Accrued Benefit not attributable to Section
4.1(c) shall be paid in one of the forms described in subsections (a) through
(d) of this Section 5.7.

 

(4)           A Sumitomo Participant’s Accrued Benefit payable in any form under
this Section 5.7 shall never be less than his or her Accrued Benefit calculated
as of December 31, 1999 under the terms of the Sumitomo Plan.

 

(g)           Options Available to Commerce Participants.

 

In addition to the forms described in subsections (a) through (d), the following
additional forms of benefit are available only to Commerce Participants:

 

(1)           Post-retirement 75% Spouse Option.

 

The post-retirement 75% Spouse Option provides a monthly payment during the
Commerce Participant’s life. After the Commerce Participant’s death 75% of the
Commerce Participant’s Retirement Income will be paid for life to the Commerce
Participant’s Eligible Spouse. The initial monthly payment under the 75% Spouse
Option will be equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of the amount payable under the
Life Annuity form. For the purpose of this paragraph (1), Actuarial Equivalent
shall be calculated using the 1984 Uniform Pensioners Mortality Table and an
interest rate equal to the greater of 100% of the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation immediate interest rate in effect on the first day of the Plan Year
in which the Commerce Participant retires or 6.5%.

 

This paragraph (1) shall only apply to the portion of the Commerce Participant’s
Accrued Benefit earned prior to January 1, 1999 under the terms of the Commerce
Plan. The portion of a Commerce Participant’s

 

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Accrued Benefit earned on or after January 1, 1999 shall be paid in one of the
forms described in subsections (a) through (d) of this Section 5.7.

 

(2)           Pre-retirement Spouse Options.

 

The Pre-retirement Spouse Options provide a monthly payment during the Commerce
Participant’s life starting on the first of any month following his or her
Termination of Employment, which date shall be considered the Annuity Starting
Date for the purpose of this form of benefit, and prior to his or her Early
Retirement Date as described in Section 1.17. After the Commerce Participant’s
death 50%, 75% or 100% of the Commerce Participant’s Retirement Income will be
paid for life to the Commerce Participant’s Eligible Spouse. The initial monthly
payment under the Pre-retirement Spouse Option will be equal to the Actuarial
Equivalent of the amount payable under the Life Annuity form. For the purpose of
this paragraph, Actuarial Equivalent shall be calculated using the 1984 Uniform
Pensioners Mortality Table and an interest rate equal to the greater of 100% of
the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation immediate interest rate in effect on
the first day of the Plan Year in which the Commerce Participant’s Annuity
Starting Date occurs or 6.5%.

 

This paragraph (2) shall only apply to the portion of the Commerce Participant’s
Accrued Benefit earned prior to January 1, 1999 under the terms of the Commerce
Plan. The portion of a Commerce Participant’s Accrued Benefit earned on or after
January 1, 1999 shall be paid in one of the forms described in subsections (a)
through (d) of this Section 5.7.

 

(3)           Commerce Lump Sum Option.

 

A Commerce Participant may elect to receive the Actuarial Equivalent of his or
her Accrued Benefit earned prior to January 1, 1999 in the form of a single
payment effective on the first of any month following Termination of Employment,
which date shall be considered the Annuity Starting Date for the purpose of this
form of benefit. For the purpose of this paragraph (3) Actuarial Equivalent
shall be calculated using the 1984 Uniform Pensioners Mortality Table and an
interest rate equal to 100% of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s (PBGC)
interest rates in effect on the first day of the Plan Year in which the Commerce
Participant’s Annuity Starting Date occurs. If the lump sum value using this
basis exceeds $25,000 then Actuarial Equivalent shall be calculated using the
1984 Uniform Pensioners Mortality Table and an interest rate equal to 120% of
the PBGC rates. For the period of time prior to the Commerce Participant’s
Normal Retirement Date, pre-retirement mortality shall not be used.

 

The portion of a Commerce Participant’s Accrued Benefit earned on or after
January 1, 1999 shall be paid on the retirement date elected by the Commerce
Participant in one of the forms described in subsections (a) through (d) of this
Section 5.7.

 

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(4)           A Commerce Participant’s Accrued Benefit payable under any of the
forms described in this Section 5.7(g) shall never be less than his or her
Accrued Benefit calculated as of December 31, 1998 under the terms of the
Commerce Plan.

 

5.8           Payment of Small Benefits

 

Effective for payments to Participants first commencing after September 18,
1998, if a Participant has a Termination of Employment or dies and the Actuarial
Equivalent value of the benefit payable under the Plan to such Participant or
his or her Beneficiary does not exceed $5,000 ($3,500, for payments commencing
prior to September 18, 1998), the Committee will pay the Actuarial Equivalent
value of such benefit to the Participant or Beneficiary in a lump sum. If a lump
sum payment is made, no other benefit under the Plan will be due to the
Participant or Beneficiary. However, if the Participant receives less than the
Actuarial Equivalent of his or her full Accrued Benefit, such Accrued Benefit
and related service shall be reinstated if the Participant repays the
distributed lump sum with interest at one hundred and twenty percent (120%) of
the Federal mid-term rate as in effect for the first month of the Plan Year.
Such repayment must be made prior to the earlier of (1) the fifth anniversary of
the Participant’s re-employment date, or (2) the date the Participant incurs a
five-year Break in Service.

 

If the Participant’s Vested Percentage is zero, the Participant will be deemed
to have received a distribution of the Vested Percentage of his or her Accrued
Benefit and to have forfeited the nonvested percentage of his or her Accrued
Benefit.

 

If the Actuarial Equivalent value of the Participant’s benefit at the time of a
distribution exceeds $5,000 (or $3,500, whichever is applicable), then such
value at any subsequent time will be deemed to exceed $5,000 (or $3,500,
whichever is applicable).

 

5.9           Eligible Rollover Distribution

 

(a)           This Section 5.9 applies 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 Section 5.9, a distributee
may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Committee, 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)           Definitions.

 

(1)           Eligible rollover distribution: An eligible rollover distribution
is any distribution of all or any portion of the amount payable by the Plan to a
distributee, except that an eligible rollover distribution does not include: (A)
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; (B) any distribution to the extent such
distribution is required under Code Section 401(a)(9); or (C) the portion of any
distribution that is not includible in gross income.

 

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(2)           Eligible retirement plan: An eligible retirement plan is an
individual retirement account described in Code Section 408(a), an individual
retirement annuity described in Code Section 408(b), an annuity plan described
in Code Section 403(a), or a qualified trust described in Code Section 401(a)
that accepts the distributee’s eligible rollover distribution. However, in the
case of an eligible rollover distribution prior to January 1, 2002, that is
payable to the surviving Eligible Spouse, an eligible retirement plan is an
individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity.

 

Effective for distributions occurring on or after January 1, 2002, an “eligible
retirement plan” for any distributee (including a surviving Eligible Spouse)
shall include, in addition to the plans and programs mentioned in the first
sentence of the previous paragraph, any tax-deferred annuity program under Code
Section 403(b) and any deferred compensation plan of a governmental entity under
Code Section 457.

 

(3)           Distributee: A distributee includes a Participant or an Eligible
Spouse.

 

(4)          Direct rollover: A direct rollover is a payment by the plan to the
eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee.

 

5.10         Re-employment After Retirement

 

In order to retire, a Participant must have a Termination of Employment.
Effective January 1, 1992, if a Retired Participant is rehired by the Company,
his or her Retirement Income, if being paid in a Life Annuity form, will not be
suspended. The Retired Participant may earn additional benefits as provided in
Article 3. The benefit attributable to service during the Participant’s
re-employment that is not yet in payment status will be paid, or commence to be
paid upon the earlier of the Participant’s subsequent retirement or the
Participant’s required beginning date described in Section 5.11(c). Such benefit
may be paid in any form elected by the Participant, which form may be different
from the form in which benefits are currently being paid.

 

If the Participant dies during such period of re-employment, any death benefits
attributable to service during the Participant’s re-employment will be
determined in accordance with Article 8. Any death benefit attributable to
service before the Retired Participant’s re-employment will be determined in
accordance with the provisions of the applicable Form of Retirement Income
elected at his or her original retirement.

 

5.11         Commencement of Benefits

 

(a)           Retirement Income payments will begin on the later of the
Retirement Date elected by the Participant or the first day of the month
following the date on which the Participant applies for a retirement benefit.

 

(b)           Unless a Participant elects otherwise, Retirement Income payments
will begin not later than the 60th day after the end of the Plan Year in which:

 

(1)           the Participant’s Normal Retirement Age, or

 

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(2)           the Participant’s Termination of Employment occurs, whichever is
later.

 

(c)           The required beginning date described in this paragraph (c) will
apply regardless of any election made by the Participant.

 

(1)           Except as provided by subparagraphs (2), (3) and (4) below,
Retirement Income payments will begin not later than April 1 of the calendar
year following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 70½
whether or not such Participant’s employment has terminated. Effective for Plan
Years commencing on or after January 1, 1999, for a Participant who is not a 5%
owner and who attains age 70-1/2 on or after January 1, 1999, Retirement Income
payments will begin not later than April 1 following the calendar year in which
the Participant attains age 70-1/2 or, if later, April 1 following the calendar
year in which the Participant incurs a Termination of Employment.

 

(2)           A Participant who attained age 70½ in 1988, who is not a 5% owner,
and who has not retired by January 1, 1989, will be treated as having retired on
January 1, 1989. Retirement Income payments will begin not later than April 1,
1990 for such Participants.

 

(3)           Retirement Income payments for a Participant who attained age 70½
before January 1, 1988, and who is not a 5% owner will begin not later than
April 1 of the calendar year following the later of (A) the calendar year in
which the Participant attained age 70½, or (B) the calendar year in which the
Participant retires.

 

(4)           Retirement Income payments for a Participant who attained age 70½
before January 1, 1988, and who is a 5% owner will begin not later than April 1
of the calendar year following the later of (A) the calendar year in which the
Participant attained age 70½, or (B) the earlier of (i) the calendar year within
which ends the Plan Year in which the Participant becomes a 5% owner, or (ii)
the calendar year in which the Participant retires.

 

(5)           A Participant is treated as a 5% owner for purposes of this
paragraph (c), if such Participant is a 5% owner as defined in Code Section
416(i) at any time during the Plan Year ending within the calendar year in which
such owner attains age 66½ or any subsequent Plan Year. Once a Participant is
described in this subparagraph, distributions will continue to such Participant
even if such Participant ceases to own more than 5% of the Company in a
subsequent year. Effective January 1, 1999, a Participant is treated as a 5%
owner if the Participant is a “5 percent owner” (as defined in Code Section
416(i)(1)(B)(i)) at any time during the calendar year in which the Participant
attains age 70-1/2.

 

(6)           If a Participant receives payments under this paragraph (c), such
payments will be determined as if the Participant’s Late Retirement Date were
the date by which Retirement Income payments must be made under this paragraph
(c). If the Participant continues to earn additional Accrued

 

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Benefits after this date, his or her Monthly Retirement Income will be
re-determined on each January 1 following the date benefit payments commence.
This re-determined benefit will be payable under the Form of Retirement Income
elected as of the Late Retirement Date in accordance with Section 5.7.

 

(7)           Effective January 1, 1999, for a Participant whose continued
active employment results in the deferral of Retirement Income to a date later
than April 1 following the calendar year the Participant attains age 70-1/2 (the
“Base Date”), the Accrued Benefit for such a Participant shall be Actuarially
adjusted to reflect the deferral period from the Base Date to the date the
Participant commences payment of Retirement Income. The Actuarial adjustment
shall be based on the factors stated in Section 1.4(d).

 

5.12         Delay of Payment Due to Administrative Error

 

(a)           Delay in Commencing Annuity Payments

 

In the event Retirement Income payments to a Participant are delayed for more
than 60 days beyond his or her Retirement Date due to an administrative error,
or such other event designated by the Committee, the affected Participant shall
be entitled to Retirement Income payments retroactive to his or her Retirement
Date, plus interest at a rate of 6% per year on the portion of the delayed
payment which is more than 60 days late.

 

(b)           Delay in Payment of Lump-Sum

 

Effective on and after November 1, 1998, the provisions of this paragraph shall
apply if a Participant or Beneficiary becomes entitled to receive a lump-sum
Retirement Income payment pursuant to Section 5.7 or 5.8, and if the payment of
such lump-sum is delayed due to an administrative error for more than 60 days.
In such a case, if the Participant or Beneficiary has a right to receive a
lump-sum based on the balance of his or her Cash Balance Account (or other
account balance under the Plan which is expressed as a single sum), then the
amount payable on the delayed date shall be the balance of such account after
crediting of interest applicable to the account through the end of month
immediately preceding the delayed payment date. However, if the Participant or
Beneficiary has a right to receive a lump-sum based on the Actuarial present
value of an Accrued Benefit expressed in the form of an annuity, the lump-sum
which shall be payable to the Participant or Beneficiary as soon as
administratively practical after the administrative error has been detected
shall be an amount that is equal to the greater of:

 

(1)           the sum of: (A) the Actuarial present value of the Accrued Benefit
based on the age, mortality and interest rate factors in effect as of the 60th
day following the earliest date on which the benefit could have been paid in
accordance with the terms of the Plan, plus (B) interest at 6% per annum for the
whole and/or partial years from the said 60th day to the payment date; or

 

(2)           a lump-sum based on the Accrued Benefit on the date of Termination
(or death, if applicable), but with the Actuarial present value based on the
age, mortality and interest rate factors in effect as of the actual payment
date.

 

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5.13         Suspension of Benefits for Active Participants at Normal Retirement
Date

 

(a)           Permissible Suspension

 

For a Participant who has not previously commenced receiving monthly benefits
and who continues in active service as an Employee after attaining his or her
Normal Retirement Date, the right to receive payment of benefits shall be
suspended so long as such employment continues, but not later than any required
beginning date applicable to the Participant under Section 5.11(c), at which
time the benefit shall commence. For any period of suspension between the Normal
Retirement Date and April 1 following the year the Participant attains age
70-1/2 there shall be no Actuarial adjustment to the Participant’s benefit
attributable to the suspension of the benefit. For any period of suspension that
continues past such date, the terms of Section 5.11(c)(7) shall apply.

 

Any such suspension shall not apply to a Participant who has attained age 65 and
performs no more than 40 Hours of Service per month. The benefit for such a
Participant shall commence on the later of the Normal Retirement Date or the
first day of the month following the date the Participant performs 40 or fewer
Hours of Service per month.

 

(b)           Notice of Suspension of Benefits

 

A Participant whose benefit payment rights are suspended as described in the
previous paragraph shall be notified in writing of such suspension as soon as
administratively practical following the date as of which such payments are
withheld. Such notice shall, among other things, advise the Participant of his
or her right to request a review of the suspension, in accordance with the
procedures in Section 12.6.

 

(c)           Participant’s Duty to Notify Plan Administrator

 

Each such Participant shall have the duty to notify the Plan Administrator if
and when the Participant modifies his or her regular work schedule to less than
40 Hours of Service per month, in which case the suspension shall cease, subject
to verification by the Committee.

 

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(d)           Benefits Paid in Error May Offset Future Benefits

 

In the event that benefits are mistakenly paid to a Participant during a period
for which benefit payments should have been suspended under this Section, the
amount mistakenly paid may be offset against benefits which become properly
payable in the future, provided that such offset shall not exceed 25 percent of
the benefit payable in each subsequent month.

 

5.14         Benefits Under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)

 

A domestic relations order, if (but only if) it is determined by the Committee
(or the Committee’s designated QDRO administrator) to be a Qualified Domestic
Relations Order, may provide, as of a stated date (or upon the occurrence of a
stated event pertaining to the Participant), either:

 

(a)           the division of a Participant’s Accrued Benefit between the
Participant and a named alternate payee, in portions or amounts stated in the
QDRO;

 

(b)           the distribution to a named alternate payee of a stated portion
(or dollar amount) of the Participant’s benefit, in an amount not greater than
the value of the Participant’s Accrued Benefit that is vested at such time; or

 

(c)           a right for a named alternate payee to be treated as Beneficiary
for all or a stated portion of a Participant’s death benefit.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, a QDRO may not (1) require
a form of benefit distribution not provided under the terms of this Plan, (2)
cause any unvested benefit to be vested, (3) cause a Participant’s Accrued
Benefit to have a value greater than the value determined under the terms of
this Plan, (4) provide for a distribution to commence from an alternate payee’s
benefit at a time later than the latest date or age as of which a benefit
distribution may commence under this Plan, or (5) otherwise state terms which
are inconsistent with the terms of this Plan.

 

The Committee (or QDRO administrator) shall determine whether a domestic
relations order meets the requirements of this Section within a reasonable
period after it is received by the Committee (or QDRO administrator). The
Committee (or QDRO administrator) shall notify the Participant and any alternate
payee that a domestic relations order has been received. Any amounts due the
alternate payee under the domestic relations order which, in its absence, would
be paid to the Participant or a beneficiary, shall be held during the period
while the domestic relations order’s qualified status is being determined. If a
domestic relations order is not affirmatively determined to be a QDRO, then such
restriction shall lapse on the earlier of the (a) the date the order is
determined not to be a QDRO and appeal rights under Section 12.6(c) or (d)
(whichever is applicable) have expired or been exhausted, or (b) 18 months after
such restriction is imposed.

 

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Article 6

 

TERMINATION AND VESTING

 

6.1           Vesting

 

(a)           Except as described in subsection (b), a Participant’s vested
Accrued Benefit will be equal to the sum of (1) and (2) below:

 

(1)           The Participant’s Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan
Account determined in accordance with Section 4.5.

 

(2)           Effective January 1, 1989, the Participant’s Accrued Benefit
Attributable to Company Contributions (determined in accordance with Section
4.6) multiplied by the vested percentage shown in the following table:

 

Years of Vesting Service

 

Vested Percentage

Less than 5

 

0%

5 or more

 

100%

 

(b)           A Grossmont Participant’s, and a Commerce Participant’s, Accrued
Benefit will be equal to his or her Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company
Contributions (determined in accordance with Section 4.1) multiplied by the
vested percentage shown in the following table:

 

Years of Vesting Service

 

Vested Percentage

Less than 3 years

 

0%

3 years but less than 4

 

20%

4 years but less than 5

 

40%

5 or more years

 

100%

 

(c)           In addition, a Participant’s Accrued Benefit will be 100% vested
if and when the Participant attains his or her Normal Retirement Age while an
active Employee.

 

(d)           Effective December 12, 1994, a Participant will receive vesting
credit for any and all years and partial years of Qualified Military Service.

 

6.2           Termination Benefit

 

(a)           A Terminated Vested Participant will have the option of:

 

(1)           withdrawing his or her Old Plan Account, in which event the
Participant would be entitled to his or her vested Accrued Benefit Attributable
to Company Contributions commencing on his or her Normal or Early Retirement
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(2)           leaving his or her Old Plan Account in the Plan, in which event
the Participant would be entitled to his or her vested  Accrued Benefit
commencing on his or her Normal or Early Retirement Date.

 

(b)           The monthly amount of Retirement Income payable to a Terminated
Vested Participant who commences his or her benefit on the Normal Retirement
Date will be equal to the vested Accrued Benefit (or, if the Old Plan Account
has been withdrawn, the vested Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company
Contributions) earned to the date of Termination of Employment. This Retirement
Income will be subject to adjustment depending on the Form of Retirement Income
elected in accordance with Section 5.7.

 

(c)           The monthly amount of Retirement Income payable to a Terminated
Vested Participant who commences his or her benefit on an Early Retirement Date
is equal to the Early Retirement Income described in Section 5.3.

 

(d)           Except as provided in Section 5.8, the Old Plan Account of a
Participant will not be distributed pursuant to this Sectionunless the
Participant elects such distribution and the Eligible Spouse of the Participant
consents to the distribution not more than 90 days prior to the date of such
distribution. The Eligible Spouse’s consent must acknowledge the effect of the
election and must be witnessed by a plan representative or notary public. The
requirement for consent of the Eligible Spouse will be waived if the Participant
establishes to the satisfaction of the Committee that such consent cannot be
obtained because there is no Eligible Spouse, the Eligible Spouse cannot be
located or because of such other circumstances as the Secretary of the Treasury
may by regulations prescribe.

 

6.3           Re-employment After Termination of Employment

 

(a)           If a Terminated Vested Participant is subsequently reinstated as
an Active Participant, his or her Retirement Income subsequent to his or her
eventual Termination of Employment following the second period of employment
will be based on the Participant’s Accrued Benefit under the provisions of the
Plan in effect as of such subsequent Termination of Employment, except that it
may not be less than the Participant’s Accrued Benefit as of the date of any
prior Termination of Employment.

 

(b)           If a Participant’s employment with the Company terminates prior to
the Participant’s becoming partially or fully vested in his or her Accrued
Benefit, the Participant will be deemed to have received a distribution of his
or her entire vested interest under the Plan. The Participant’s unvested Accrued
Benefit will be forfeited on the date of his or her Termination of Employment. A
Participant whose benefit has been so forfeited will be deemed “cashed out” from
the Plan. If the former Participant is re-employed before incurring five
consecutive Breaks in Service and after completing a Year of Vesting Service,
his or her Cash Balance Account and Accrued Benefit will be restored in
accordance with Sections 3.5(a) and 4.1 respectively..

 

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6.4           Termination Benefits and Re-employment for Commerce Participants

 

(a)           A Commerce Participant may elect to receive the portion of his or
her Accrued Benefit earned prior to January 1, 1999 on the first day of any
month coincident with or following his or her Termination of Employment
(“Termination Benefit”). The Termination Benefit is the Actuarial Equivalent of
the Accrued Benefit earned prior to January 1, 1999. For early retirement
reduction, Actuarial Equivalent shall be calculated as described in Section
5.3(e). For benefit form adjustment, Actuarial Equivalent shall be calculated as
described in Sections 5.7(g)(2) and 5.7(g)(3). Upon meeting the requirements of
Section 1.17(d), a Commerce Participant may receive the remainder of his or her
Accrued Benefit earned on or after January 1, 1999.

 

(b)           In the event a vested Commerce Participant who terminated after
December 31, 1998 and before his or her Early Retirement Date, received a
distribution upon Termination of Employment, and becomes re-employed, which
means he or she has at least forty (40) Hours of Service with the Employer
during any calendar month, his or her Termination Benefit or Retirement Income
shall be determined and paid as described below:

 

(1)           In the event a Commerce Participant has commenced annuity payments
and is subsequently re-employed, such annuity payments shall continue upon
re-employment;

 

(2)           In the event a Commerce Participant received a lump sum
distribution under Section 5.7(g)(3) upon Termination of Employment and becomes
re-employed prior to incurring five (5) consecutive one (1) year
Breaks-In-Service, he or she may repay such benefit with interest, at one
hundred and twenty percent (120%) of the Federal mid-term rate as in effect for
the first month of the Plan Year, to the Plan within five (5) years after
re-employment.  The Accrued Benefit of a Commerce Participant who makes such
repayment shall be determined as if no prior distribution occurred.

 

(3)           The additional benefit earned during re-employment may be paid in
any form elected by the Participant pursuant to Sections 5.7(a) to (d).

 

6.5           Special Termination Benefit for Sumitomo Participants

 

This Section applies to a Sumitomo Participant who (a) had a Termination of
Employment for any reason between October 1, 1998 and September 30, 1999, (b)
was not a Highly Compensated Employee (as defined in this Plan) for the Plan
Year in which the Termination of Employment occurred, and (c) elected to receive
severance benefits in connection with his or her separation from the Company
under either the Sumitomo Severance Benefit Program, the Executive Retention and
Severance Benefit Agreement and/or the Key Contributor Retention and Severance
Agreement (which are plans and programs that are not part of this Plan and are
not funded by the Trust Fund). In the case of each Sumitomo Participant who met
all of the conditions of the previous sentence, the minimum benefit under
Section 4.1(c) of this Plan as of his or her Termination of Employment shall be
increased by 6.5%.

 

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Article 7

 

DISABILITY BENEFITS

 

7.1           Determination of Disability

 

A Participant has a “total and permanent disability” if, while employed by the
Company, the Participant ceases to perform the duties assigned to him or her by
the Company due to a disability that meets the following eligibility criteria:

 

(a)           the Participant is entitled to disability retirement income
payments under Title II of the Federal Social Security Act; provided, however,
that this criterion in this clause “(a)” shall cease to be applicable to the
definition of “total and permanent disability” on or after March 1, 2002, and

 

(b)           the Participant is eligible for disability benefits under the
Company’s long term disability plan.

 

It will be the responsibility of the Participant to submit proof of disability,
as described in clause (a) and (b) above, satisfactory to the Committee.

 

7.2           Eligibility for Disability Benefits

 

A Disabled Participant or former Disabled Participant may retire on a Disability
Retirement Date if the Participant has completed five Years of Vesting Service
as of the date first disabled under Section 7.1.

 

7.3           Disability Retirement Date

 

If the Participant’s total and permanent disability continues until the
Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, the Participant’s Disability Retirement
Date shall be the Normal Retirement Date (or the first day of the month
following Termination of Service, if later). If a Disabled Participant’s total
and permanent disability ends before the Normal Retirement Date, the Participant
may retire on an Early or  Normal Retirement Date, whichever applies, and such
date will be his or her Disability Retirement Date.

 

7.4           Disability Retirement Income

 

A Disabled Participant will be entitled to a monthly Disability Retirement
Income beginning on his or her Disability Retirement Date. The amount will be
equal to the retirement income from Section 5.2, 5.3, or 5.4 on the Disability
Retirement Date. While a Participant’s total and permanent disability continues,
until the earliest of the Participant’s attaining his or her Normal Retirement
Date, death, or the Participant’s Disability Retirement Date, Earnings will be
credited (in accordance with Section 3.2, as though the Participant were
continuing to accrue 1,000 or more Hours of Service per year) in the amount
equal to Earnings in the most recent year prior to the year of initial
disability in which 1,000 Hours of Service were worked. Disability Retirement
Income will be subject to adjustment depending on the Form of Retirement Income
elected in accordance with Section 5.7.

 

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Article 8

 

DEATH BENEFITS

 

8.1           Death after Commencement of Benefits

 

Death Benefits for a Retired Participant will be determined in accordance with
the provisions of the applicable Form of Retirement Income elected.

 

8.2           Death Prior to Commencement of Benefits

 

This Section 8.2 shall be effective April 1, 1997, except as otherwise stated
below.

 

(a)           If a Participant, whose vested Accrued Benefit is calculated under
Section 4.2, dies before his or her Retirement Date, the Participant’s Eligible
Spouse, if any, will receive a benefit commencing on the first day of the month
following the Participant’s death. The Eligible Spouse may elect to defer
payment until the first day of any month on or before the Participant’s Normal
Retirement Date. The Eligible Spouse will receive a monthly benefit equal to the
Actuarial Equivalent amount, as of the date the benefit commences, of the
Participant’s Cash Balance Account, based upon the Eligible Spouse’s age as of
the date the benefit commences.  This benefit will continue to the death of the
Eligible Spouse. Instead of receiving the benefit in the form of a Life Annuity,
the Eligible Spouse may elect to receive the benefit in the Lump Sum Payment
Option, described in Section 5.7(c). If the Participant does not have an
Eligible Spouse who survives him or her, the Cash Balance Account as of the
Participant’s death will be paid on the first of the month following death to
the Participant’s estate.

 

For a Participant who is survived by an Eligible Spouse, the amount of the
monthly benefit payable to the Eligible Spouse, as described in this subsection
(a) (the “Cash Balance Annuity”), shall in no event be less than any of the
following minimum benefits (assuming a benefit commencement date that is the
same as the actual benefit commencement date under the prior paragraph) to the
extent that any of the following minimum benefit rules is applicable to the
deceased Participant:

 

(1)           For Participant with a Minimum Accrued Benefit as defined in
Section 4.3 or a Grandfathered Minimum Accrued Benefit as defined in Section
4.4, the Cash Balance Annuity shall not be less than the Minimum Death Benefit
that would be payable to the Eligible Spouse as described in Article 4 of
Appendix III.

 

(2)           Effective January 1, 1998, for a Grossmont Participant who has a
minimum benefit described in Section 4.1(b), the Cash Balance Annuity shall not
be less than the monthly amount that would be payable as a 50% pre-retirement
survivor annuity to the Eligible Spouse with respect to that minimum benefit, in
accordance with the actuarial factors and other terms of the Grossmont Plan that
were in effect on December 31, 1997.

 

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(3)           Effective October 1, 1998, for a Sumitomo Participant who has a
minimum benefit described in Section 4.1(c), the Cash Balance Annuity shall not
be less than the monthly amount that would be payable as a 50% pre-retirement
survivor annuity to his or her Eligible Spouse with respect to that minimum
benefit, in accordance with the actuarial factors and other terms of the
Sumitomo Plan that were in effect on September 30, 1998.

 

(4)           Effective January 1, 1999, for a Commerce Participant who has a
minimum benefit described in Section 4.1(d), the Cash Balance Annuity shall not
be less than the monthly amount that would be payable as a 50% pre-retirement
survivor annuity to the Eligible Spouse with respect to that minimum benefit, in
accordance with the actuarial factors and other terms of the Commerce Plan that
were in effect on December 31, 1998.

 

(b)           If a Participant, whose vested Accrued Benefit is calculated under
Plan provisions in effect prior to April 1, 1997, dies before his or her
Retirement Date, the Participant’s Eligible Spouse, if any, will receive a death
benefit in accordance with the prior provisions.

 

8.3           Effect of Old Plan Account

 

The Eligible Spouse of a Participant who has an Old Plan Account at death may
elect to receive it in a lump sum immediately following death. If the Eligible
Spouse elects to receive monthly payments in addition to this lump sum in
accordance with Section 8.2(a), the monthly amount payable will equal the
monthly amount before consideration of the Old Plan Account reduced by the
Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan Account, as described in Section
4.5. For Participants who die with 10 or more Years of Vesting Service, the
Accrued Benefit Attributable to the Old Plan Account commencing prior to the
first of the month following what would have been the Participant’s earliest
Early Retirement Date is the Actuarial Equivalent of the Accrued Benefit
Attributable to the Old Plan Account at that earliest Early Retirement Date.

 

8.4           Return of Old Plan Account

 

Upon the death of the Participant or, if later, the death of the Eligible Spouse
entitled to payments under Section 8.1 or 8.2, the Participant’s remaining Old
Plan Account, if any, will be paid to the Participant’s Beneficiary. For
purposes of this Section 8.4, the Participant’s remaining Old Plan Account will
be equal to the excess, if any, of:

 

(a)           the Participant’s Old Plan Account as of his or her date of death
or, if earlier, Retirement Date over

 

(b)           the sum of all amounts previously paid from the Trust Fund on such
Participant’s behalf.

 

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Article 9

 

FINANCING THE PLAN

 

9.1           Company Contributions

 

(a)           The Company expects to make the contributions necessary to provide
the benefits of the Plan. Such contributions will not be less than the amount
necessary to meet the minimum funding standards of ERISA.

 

(b)           All contributions will be deposited in the Trust Fund and will be
disbursed in accordance with the provisions of the Plan and the Trust Agreement.
All benefit payments under the Plan will be paid from the Trust Fund. No person
will have any interest in, or right to, any part of the assets of the Plan
except as expressly provided in the Plan.

 

(c)           Gains arising from experience under the Plan will not serve to
increase the benefits otherwise due any Participant, but will be used to reduce
future Company contributions.

 

9.2           Return of Company Contributions

 

(a)           Except as provided below and in Section 10.2, the assets of the
Plan will never inure to the benefit of the Company and will be held for the
exclusive purposes of providing benefits to Participants of the Plan and their
Beneficiaries and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the Plan.

 

(b)           If a contribution is made by the Company by a mistake of fact,
such contribution will be returned to the Company provided this is done within
one year after the payment of such contribution. Earnings attributable to the
excess contribution may not be returned, but losses attributable thereto shall
reduce the amount to be returned.

 

(c)           Contributions are conditioned upon their current deductibility
under Code Section 404. If a contribution deduction is disallowed, to the extent
the deduction is disallowed, such contribution will be returned to the Company
within one year after the disallowance.

 

9.3           Employee Contributions

 

The Company pays the entire cost of the Plan. No employee contributions or
rollovers are required or permitted.

 

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Article 10

 

TERMINATION OF THE PLAN

 

10.1         Termination of Plan

 

The Company expects to continue the Plan indefinitely but reserves the right to
terminate the Plan in whole or in part.

 

10.2         Procedures Upon Termination of Plan

 

Upon termination of the Plan, the following provisions will apply:

 

(a)           Upon complete termination of the Plan, the Accrued Benefit of each
Active or Inactive Participant will become fully vested and nonforfeitable (to
the extent funded). No additional Employees will become Participants.

 

Upon partial termination of the Plan, the Accrued Benefit of each Active or
Inactive Participant who is affected by such partial termination will become
fully vested and nonforfeitable (to the extent funded).

 

(b)           The assets of the Plan available to provide benefits will be
allocated among Participants and their Beneficiaries in the manner and order
prescribed by ERISA Section 4044.

 

If any assets of the Plan remain after all liabilities of the Plan to
Participants and their Beneficiaries have been satisfied or provided for, any
residual assets will be paid to the Company, provided such payment does not
contravene any provision of law.

 

(c)           Upon termination of the Plan, benefits of missing Participants
shall be treated in accordance with ERISA Section 4050.

 

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Article 11

 

INTERNAL REVENUE CODE LIMITATIONS ON BENEFITS

 

11.1         Earnings Limitation under Code Section 401(a)(17)

 

A Member’s “Earnings”, for purposes of determining his or her Accrued Benefit
under this Plan, shall be subject to the limitations of Code Section 401(a)(17),
as stated in Section 1.18(c) of this Plan.

 

11.2         Maximum Retirement Benefit under Code Section 415

 

(a)           For purposes of this Section 11.2 only, the following definitions
will apply:

 

(1)           “Annual Benefit” means a retirement benefit payable annually in
the form of a straight life annuity. A benefit payable in a form other than a
straight life annuity will be adjusted to be the Actuarial Equivalent of a
straight life annuity before applying the limitations of this Section 11.2.
However, no Actuarial adjustment will be made for the value of a qualified joint
and survivor annuity or the value of benefits that are not directly related to
retirement benefits.

 

(2)           “Annual Benefit Dollar Limit” means the dollar limit for the
applicable Plan Year, as stated in paragraph (b)(1) of this Section 11.2, after
taking account of any annual adjustment to that limit as stated in that
paragraph.

 

(3)           “Compensation” has the meaning stated in Section 1.15.

 

(4)           “Limitation Year” means a Plan Year, which coincides with the
calendar year.

 

(5)           “Social Security Retirement Age” means the age used as the
retirement age for a Participant under Section 216(l) of the Social Security Act
except that such section shall be applied without regard to the age increase
factor, and as if the early retirement age under Section 216(l)(2) of such Act
were 62.

 

(b)           The Annual Benefit of a Participant who commences his or her
benefit on a date within a Limitation Year may not at any time within a
Limitation Year exceed the lesser of (1) or (2) below:

 

(1)           The dollar limit set forth in Code Section 415(b)(1)(A), as that
limit may be modified for the applicable Limitation Year either by amendment of
Code Section 415(b)(1) or as a result of an adjustment approved by the Secretary
of the Treasury pursuant to Section 415(d) (for example, the limit shall be
$140,000 in Plan Year 2001 and $160,000 in Plan Year 2002) Effective each
January 1, this limitation will be automatically adjusted to the new dollar
limitation prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury for that calendar year.

 

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(2)           100% of the annual average of the Participant’s Compensation from
the Employer for the three consecutive Limitation Years (or all Limitation
Years, if fewer than three), during which he or she participated in the Plan and
which give the highest average.

 

(c)           If the Annual Benefit payable to a Participant under this Plan and
all other defined benefit plans of the Company does not exceed $10,000 and the
Employer has not maintained a defined contribution plan in which the Participant
participated, the maximum otherwise imposed by this Section 11.2 will not apply.

 

(d)           Service or participation less than ten years

 

(1)           If a Participant has completed less than ten years of
participation in the Plan, the Annual Benefit Dollar Limit will be multiplied by
the ratio of the Participant’s years (or part thereof) of participation in the
Plan to ten. This ratio will not be less than one- tenth.

 

(2)           If a Participant has completed less than ten Years of Vesting
Service, the limits otherwise imposed by Sections 11.2(b)(2) and 11.2(c) will be
multiplied by the ratio of the Participant’s Years of Vesting Service (or part
thereof) to ten. This ratio will not be less than one-tenth.

 

(3)           To the extent required by regulations under Code Section 415, this
Section 11.2(d) will be applied separately with respect to each change in the
benefit structure of the Plan.

 

(e)           The provisions of this subsection (e) shall apply to Participants
whose benefit commencement date occurs in any Plan Year beginning prior to
January 1, 2002.

 

(1)           If the Participant’s benefit payments are to commence at or after
age 62 and the Participant’s Social Security Retirement Age is 65, the Annual
Benefit Dollar Limit will be reduced by five-ninths of one percent for each
month by which benefits commence before the month in which the Participant
attains age 65 or,

 

(2)           If the Participant’s benefit payments are to commence at or after
age 62 and the Participant’s Social Security Retirement Age is greater than 65,
the Annual Benefit Dollar Limit will be reduced by five-ninths of one percent
for each of the first 36 months and five-twelfths of one percent for each of the
additional months (up to 24) by which benefits commence before the month in
which the Participant attains Social Security Retirement Age.

 

(3)           If the Participant’s benefit payments are to commence prior to the
month in which the Participant attains age 62, the Annual Benefit Dollar Limit
shall be reduced for each month by which benefits commence prior to the date of
attaining age 62, as follows. First, the limit at age 62 (the “Age 62 Limit”)
shall be determined pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) above (whichever is
applicable to the Participant). Second, the Age 62 Limit shall be reduced to the
lesser of:

 

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(A)          the product of (i) the Age 62 Limit, times (ii) the “implied early
retirement factor” (as hereafter  defined), or

 

(B)          the Actuarial Equivalent of the Age 62 Limit, based upon a 5%
interest rate and the Applicable Mortality Table.

 

The “implied early retirement factor” shall mean the ratio of: (1) the early
retirement reduction factor determined under Section 5.3 as applied to the
Participant’s age on his or her actual benefit commencement date, to (2) the
early retirement reduction factor determined under Section 5.3 which would apply
if the Participant elected to defer the commencement of his or her benefit to
age 62.

 

(4)           If a Participant’s benefit payments are to commence after the
Participant’s Social Security Retirement Age, the Annual Benefit Dollar Limit
will be increased to the Actuarial Equivalent of the limit as of the
Participant’s Social Security Retirement Age, but the mortality factor of the
Actuarial Equivalence calculation shall be ignored.

 

(f)            The provisions of this subsection (f) shall apply to Participants
whose benefit commencement date occurs in any Plan Year beginning on or after
January 1, 2002.

 

(1)           If the Participant’s benefit commences prior to age 62, the Annual
Benefit Dollar Limit shall be reduced to the lower of the following two amounts:

 

(A)          the Actuarially Equivalent dollar amount that reflects the number
of months by which the benefit commencement date precedes the date of attaining
age 62, based on an interest rate equal to five percent (5%); or

 

(B)           the dollar amount that reflects the applicable reduction factor
that would apply under the terms of the Plan.

 

(2)           If a Participant’s benefit commencement date occurs between the
date of attaining age 62 and 65, the Annual Benefit Dollar Limit shall not be
adjusted on account of early commencement.

 

(3)           If the Participant’s benefit commencement date occurs after
attaining age 65 under circumstances resulting in a right to receive an
Actuarial adjustment in the benefit payable under the Plan, the Annual Benefit
Dollar Limit shall be increased by means of an Actuarial adjustment based on
either (A) an interest rate of 5% (applied solely to the period that is subject
to Actuarial adjustment under the Plan), or (B) the Actuarial adjustment factor
that is applicable to the Participant’s benefit under the Plan, whichever
produces the lower limitation amount. When calculating the adjustment of the
Annual Benefit Dollar Limit according to this paragraph, mortality shall be
ignored.

 

(g)           If the Accrued Benefit of any Participant as of the close of the
last Limitation Year beginning before January 1, 1987 exceeds the benefit
limitations under Code

 

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Section 415(b) then, for purposes of Code Section 415(b) (and 415(e) for periods
prior to January 1, 2000) such Participant’s defined benefit dollar limitation
under Code Section 415(b)(1) will be equal to his or her Accrued Benefit,
determined as of such date as if the Participant had separated from service on
that date. For purposes of this paragraph, any changes in the terms and
conditions of the Plan or cost of living adjustments occurring after May 5, 1986
will be disregarded.

 

(h)           All defined benefit plans of the Employer, terminated or not, will
be considered as one plan for purposes of the limitations specified under this
Section 11.2, and all Affiliates and Subsidiaries of the Employer will be
considered as one employing company.

 

(i)            The terms of this subsection shall not apply to any benefit which
commences on or after January 1, 2000.In any case in which a person is a
Participant in both a defined benefit plan and a defined contribution plan
maintained by any Affiliate or Subsidiary of the Company, the sum of (1) and (2)
below for any Limitation Year may not exceed 1.0:

 

(1)           The defined benefit plan fraction for such Limitation Year is
equal to the quotient of (A) divided by (B) below:

 

(A)          The Annual Benefit of the Participant under the Plan and all other
defined benefit plans (determined as of the close of such Limitation Year).

 

(B)           The lesser of 125% of the Annual Benefit Dollar Limit and 140% of
the amount described in Section 11.2(b)(2).If the Employee was a participant in
one or more defined benefit plans maintained by any Affiliate or Subsidiary,
which were in existence on May 5, 1986, the amount calculated in (B) will not be
less than 125% of the Employee’s accrued benefit under such defined benefit
plans as of December 31, 1986, 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 requirement of Code Section 415 as in effect on December
31, 1986.

 

(2)           The defined contribution plan fraction for such Limitation Year is
equal to the quotient of (A) divided by (B) below:

 

(A)          The aggregate of the annual additions to the Participant’s account
under said defined contribution plan as of the close of such Limitation Year.

 

(B)           The lesser of 125% of the maximum annual additions to such account
for all Years of Vesting Service with the Employer, or 1.4

 

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multiplied by 25% of the Participant’s Compensation for all Years of Vesting
Service with the Employer.

 

If the Plan satisfied the applicable requirements of Code Section 415 as in
effect for the last Plan Year beginning before January 1, 1987, an amount will
be subtracted from the amount calculated in (A) (but not reducing the amount in
(A) to less than zero) so that the sum of the defined benefit fraction and
defined contribution fraction computed under Code Section 415(e)(1) does not
exceed 1.0 for such Plan Year (determined as if the changes to Code Section 415
made by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and any technical corrections to such act
were in effect for such Plan Year).

 

(3)           If the sum of (1) and (2) exceeds 1.0, the Annual Benefit under
this Plan will be limited to such amount as will reduce such sum to 1.0.

 

11.3         Additional Benefit Limits for Highly Compensated Employees

 

(a)           For purposes of this Section 11.3 only, the following definitions
will apply:

 

(1)           “Benefit” means benefits under the Plan and includes any annual
periodic income, any withdrawal values payable to a living Employee and any
death benefits not provided by insurance on the Employee’s life.

 

(2)           “Current Liabilities” is defined in Code Section 412(l)(7)
provided that the Company may elect to use the value of current liabilities as
reported on Schedule B of the Plan’s most recent timely filed Form 5500 or Form
5500 C/R. Alternatively, the Company may determine current liabilities as of a
later date.

 

(3)           Effective January 1, 1997, “Highly Compensated Employee” means:

 

(A)          Any Employee who performs services for an Affiliate or Subsidiary
of the Employer during the determination year and who received Compensation in
excess of the dollar amount stated in Code Section 414(q)(1)(B)(i) (as adjusted
by the Secretary of the Treasury) during the look-back year (for example, the
said adjusted amount shall be $85,000 for the 2001 look-back year and $90,000
for the 2002 look-back year). Provided, however, that, for Plan Years 1998 and
thereafter, such an Employee shall not be considered a Highly Compensated
Employee unless he or she has Compensation from the Employer during the
look-back year that causes him or her to be among the highest paid 20% of the
Employees of the Employer for a year in which the 20% limitation is in effect
under the defined contribution plans maintained by the Employer.

 

(B)          Any Employee who is a 5% owner (as defined in code Section
416(i)(1)(B)(i)) of the Employer at any time during the look-back year or the
determination year.

 

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(C)           For purposes of this Section, the following definitions apply. The
determination year is the Plan Year. The look-back year is the 12-month period
immediately preceding the determination year.

 

(4)           “Highly Compensated Former Employee” means any former Employee who
was a Highly Compensated Employee for a separation year (as defined in Treasury
Regulation Section 1.414(q)-1T) or for any determination year ending on or after
the Employee attains age 55, as provided by Code Section 414(q)(9) and the
regulations thereunder.

 

(5)           “Restricted Amount” is the excess of the accumulated amount of
distributions to a Restricted Employee over the accumulated amount of the
payments that would have been paid under:

 

(A)          a straight life annuity that is the actuarial equivalent of the
Restricted Employee’s Benefit (other than a social security supplement), plus

 

(B)           the amount of the payments that the Restricted Employee is
entitled to receive under a social security supplement. For this purpose, an
“accumulated amount” is the amount of a payment increased by a reasonable amount
of interest from the date the payment was made (or would have been made) until
the date for the determination of the Restricted Amount.

 

(6)           “Restricted Employee” for any Plan Year means one of the 25 Highly
Compensated Employees or Highly Compensated Former Employees with the greatest
compensation.

 

(b)           In the event the Plan is terminated, the Benefit payable to any
Highly Compensated Employee and any Highly Compensated Former Employee will be
limited to a benefit which is nondiscriminatory under Code Section 401(a)(4).

 

(c)           Prior to Plan termination, the annual payment to a Restricted
Employee under the Plan will be limited to an amount equal to the annual payment
that would have been paid under a straight life annuity that is the actuarial
equivalent to the Restricted Employee’s Benefit (not including any social
security supplement) plus the amount of any social security supplement payments
the Restricted Employee is entitled to receive.

 

(d)           Subsection (c) above will not apply if:

 

(1)           after payment of all Benefits to the Restricted Employee, the
value of Plan assets is 110% or more of the value of Current Liabilities,

 

(2)           the value of Benefits payable to the Restricted Employee is less
than one percent of the value of Current Liabilities, or

 

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(3)           the present value of the Benefits payable to the Restricted
Employee is $5,000 or less, or

 

(4)           upon receipt of a distribution from the Plan, the Restricted
Employee deposits in escrow property having a fair market value equal to at
least 125% of the Restricted Amount or, alternatively, posts a bond or letter of
credit in an amount equal to at least 100% of the Restricted Amount.

 

11.4         Top-Heavy Provisions

 

(a)           Top-Heavy Plan

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan to the contrary, this article
will apply if the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan. The Plan will be a Top-Heavy Plan
if, as of the Determination Date, the present value of the cumulative accrued
benefits of Key Employees exceeds sixty percent of the present value of the
cumulative accrued benefits under the Plan of all Participants and Beneficiaries
(but excluding the value of the accrued benefits of former Key Employees and
individuals who have not performed any services for the Company during the five
year period ending on the Determination Date). This percentage will be computed
in accordance with Code Section 416(g).

 

In determining whether this Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan, all employers that are
aggregated under Code Sections 414(b), (c) and (m) will be treated as a single
employer. In addition, all plans that are part of the Aggregation Group will be
treated as a single plan. In determining present values, mortality will be based
on the 1984 Unisex Pension Mortality Table and the interest rate utilized will
be five percent.

 

(b)           Definition of Terms

 

For purposes of this Section 11.4 only, the following terms will have the
following meanings:

 

(1)           “Aggregation Group” means the Required Aggregation Group or, at
the election of the Company, the Permissive Aggregation Group.

 

(2)           “Average Compensation” means the Participant’s Compensation
averaged over the five consecutive Plan Years in which the Participant earned a
Year of Vesting Service (if such Year of Vesting Service is not disregarded
pursuant to subsection (d) below) and in which the Participant’s aggregate
Compensation was the greatest. If the Participant received Compensation in fewer
than five such Plan Years, his or her Compensation will be averaged over such
lesser number of Plan Years.

 

(3)           “Compensation” shall be as defined in Section 1.15, subject to the
limitations imposed by Code Section 401(a)(17), as amended by law and as
adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury..

 

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(4)           “Determination Date” means the last day of the preceding Plan
Year. This date will also be the valuation date for determining present values.

 

(5)           For Plan Years commencing prior to January 1, 2002, “Key Employee”
means an Employee, a former Employee, or the Beneficiary of a former Employee
who, in the Plan Year containing the Determination Date, or any of the four
preceding Plan Years, is:

 

(A)          An officer of the Company having an annual compensation from the
Company greater than 50 percent of the amount in effect under Code Section
415(b)(1)(A) for the calendar year in which any such Plan Year ends. Not more
than 50 Employees (or, if fewer, the greater of three Employees or ten percent
of the Employees not excluded under Code Section 414(q)(8)), including those
Employees included under paragraphs (B), (C) and (D) below, will be considered
as officers for purposes of this subparagraph.

 

(B)           One of the ten Employees having an annual Compensation from the
Employer greater than the amount in effect under Code Section 415(c)(1)(A) for
the calendar year in which any such Plan Year ends and owning (or considered as
owning within the meaning of Code Section 318) both more than a one-half percent
interest and the largest interests in the Company.

 

(C)           A “five-percent owner” (as defined in Code Section 416(i)) of the
Employer.

 

(D)          A “one-percent owner” (as defined in Code Section 416(i)) of the
Employer having an annual Compensation from the Employer of more than $150,000
for a Plan Year.

 

Neither the aggregation rules nor the rules under Code Sections 414(b), (c) and
(m) will apply in determining whether an Employee is a five-percent owner or a
one-percent owner.

 

(6)           For Plan Years commencing on or after January 1, 2002, “Key
Employee” means an Employee or former

Employee (and, in the case of a deceased former Employee, his or her Beneficiary
under the Plan) where the Employee or former Employee, during the Plan Year
containing the Determination Date, is either:

 

(A)          an officer of the Employer whose annual Compensation from the
Employer exceeds $130,000 (adjusted in the manner stated in Code Section
416(i)), provided that no more than 50 Employees shall be considered officers;

 

(B)           a five-percent owner of the Employer (as defined above); or

 

(C)           a one-percent owner of the Employer (as defined above) whose
annual Compensation from the Employer exceeds $150,000.

 

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For purposes of paragraphs (B) and (C) above, an Employee will be deemed to own
stock held for his or her benefit by a partnership, estate, trust or corporation
to the extent provided under Code Section 318(a)(2), but subparagraph (C) of
that Code Section shall be applied by substituting 5% instead of 50%.

 

(7)           “Non-key Employee” means an Employee (and any Beneficiary of an
Employee) who is not a Key Employee.

 

(8)           “Permissive Aggregation Group” means the Required Aggregation
Group of plans plus any other plan or plans of the Company which, when
considered as a group with the Required Aggregation Group, would continue to
satisfy the requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(4) and 410.

 

(9)           “Required Aggregation Group” means:

 

(A)          Each stock bonus, pension, or profit sharing plan of the Employer
in which a Key Employee participates in the Plan Year containing the
Determination Date or any of the four preceding Plan Years which is intended to
qualify under Code Section 401(a); and

 

(B)           Each other such stock bonus, pension or profit sharing plan of an
employer which enables any plan in which a Key Employee participates to meet the
requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(4) or 410.

 

(10)         “Top-Heavy Group” means the Aggregation Group if the sum of (1) and
(2) below exceeds 60% of a similar sum determined for all Employees (excluding
former Key Employees and individuals who have not performed any services for the
Employer during the five year period ending on the Determination Date):

 

(A)          The present value of the cumulative accrued benefit for Key
Employees under all defined benefit plans included in such group.

 

(B)           The aggregate of the accounts of Key Employees under all defined
contribution plans included in such group.In a Top-Heavy Group, all plans in the
Required Aggregation Group are Top-Heavy regardless of whether or not the
individual plans are Top-Heavy.

 

(c)           Modification of Vesting Schedule

 

If the Plan is a Top-Heavy Plan in a Plan Year, a Participant who is credited
with an Hour of Service in such Plan Year will have his or her Vested Percentage
for Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company Contributions determined in
accordance with the following schedule if it produces a higher Vested Percentage
than the schedule in Section 6.1.

 

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Years of Vesting Service

 

Vested Percentage

Less than 2

 

0

%

2

 

20

%

3

 

40

%

4

 

60

%

5

 

80

%

6 or more

 

100

%

 

A Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company Contributions
will not be less than that determined as of the last day of the last Plan Year
in which the Plan was a Top-Heavy Plan.

 

If the Plan ceases to be Top-Heavy, each Participant with three or more Years of
Vesting Service (determined as of the first day of the Plan Year in which the
Plan ceases to be Top- Heavy) will continue to have his or her Vested Percentage
for Accrued Benefit Attributable to Company Contributions determined in
accordance with this subsection (c).

 

(d)           Minimum Benefit

 

If the Plan is Top-Heavy in a Plan Year, the Accrued Benefit as of the last day
of such Plan Year for any Participant who is not a Key Employee, but who is
employed or on an Authorized Period of Absence in such Plan Year, will not be
less than the Actuarial Equivalent of an annual benefit payable in the form of a
straight life annuity beginning on the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date
equal to the lesser of (i) two percent of the Participant’s Average Compensation
multiplied by Years of Vesting Service or (ii) twenty percent of the
Participant’s Average Compensation. For purposes of this subsection (d), any
Years of Vesting Service will be disregarded if:

 

(1)           the Plan was not a Top-Heavy Plan for any Plan Year ending during
such Years of Vesting Service, or

 

(2)           such Year of Vesting Service ended in a Plan Year beginning before
January 1, 1984.

 

A Participant’s Accrued Benefit as of any subsequent date will not be less than
that determined as of the last day of the Plan Year in which the Plan was a
Top-Heavy Plan.

 

(e)           Modification of Maximum Benefit

 

For Plan Years commencing prior to January 1, 2000, if the Plan is a Top-Heavy
Plan in a Plan Year, Sections 11.2(i)(1)(B)  and 11.2(i)(2)(B) will be amended
for such Plan Year by substitution of “100%” for “125%” where such percentage
appears therein.

 

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(f)            Collective Bargaining Agreements

 

The provisions of subsections (c) and (d) shall not apply to any Employee
included in a group of Employees covered by an agreement which the Secretary of
Labor finds to be a collective bargaining agreement between employee
representatives and one or more employers, including the Employer, if there is
evidence that retirement benefits were the subject of good faith bargaining
between such employee representatives and such employer(s).

 

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Article 12

 

ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN

 

12.1         Administration

 

(a)           The Retirement Committee (“Committee”) will consist of three or
more individuals who will be appointed by the Board of Directors of Zions. The
Committee will serve as Plan “administrator” (as that term is defined by ERISA).
The Committee will have complete control of the administration of the Plan,
subject to the provisions hereof, with all powers necessary to enable it to
carry out its duties properly in that respect. Not in limitation, but in
amplification of the foregoing, it will have the power to interpret the Plan and
to determine all questions that may arise hereunder, including all questions
relating to the eligibility of Employees to participate in the Plan and the
amount of benefit to which any Participant or Beneficiary may become entitled.
Its decisions upon all matters within the scope of its authority will be final.

 

(b)           The Committee will establish rules and procedures to be followed
by Participants and Beneficiaries in filing applications for benefits, in
furnishing and verifying proofs necessary to determine age or marital status,
and in any other matters required to administer the Plan.

 

(c)           The Committee will receive all applications for benefits and will
determine all facts necessary to establish the right of the applicant to
benefits under the provisions of the Plan and the amount thereof.

 

(d)           The Committee will maintain accounts showing the fiscal
transactions of the Plan, and will keep data required for the valuation of the
assets and liabilities of the Plan. The Committee will also prepare an annual
report showing in reasonable detail the assets and liabilities of the Plan and
giving a brief account of the operation of the Plan for each year. The Committee
will make the annual report available to each Participant as required by law.

 

(e)           The Committee will appoint an enrolled actuary to make actuarial
valuations of the liabilities of the Plan, to recommend the amount of
contributions to be made by the Company and to perform such other services as
the Committee will deem necessary or desirable in connection with the
administration of the Plan. The Committee may also appoint such accountants,
counsel, consultants and other persons the Committee deems necessary or
desirable in connection with the administration of the Plan.

 

(f)            The Committee will have the power to appoint or remove any
Investment Manager or Managers and to manage (including the power to acquire and
dispose of) any assets of the Plan.

 

(g)           The Committee will have the power to appoint or remove the
Trustee.

 

(h)           The Committee will be entitled to rely upon all tables,
valuations, certificates and reports furnished by the accountant, consultant,
administrator or actuary appointed

 

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by the Committee and upon all opinions given by any counsel selected or approved
by it.

 

12.2         Records

 

All acts and determinations of the Committee and the Company regarding this Plan
will be duly recorded and all such records, together with such other documents
as may be necessary for the administration of the Plan, will be preserved in the
custody of the Committee (or a designee appointed by the Committee).

 

12.3         Payment of Expenses

 

All expenses that arise in connection with the administration of the Plan,
including, but not limited to, the compensation of any enrolled actuary,
accountant, legal counsel, consultant or other person who will be employed by
the Committee in connection with the administration thereof, may, to the extent
that it is lawful to do so under ERISA, be paid from the assets of the Plan.

 

12.4         Delegation of Authority

 

The administrative duties and responsibilities set forth in Section 12.1 may be
delegated by the Committee in whatever manner and extent it chooses to such
person or persons as it selects. It will notify Zions and the Trustee of the
authority conferred upon such person or persons.

 

12.5         Information Available

 

Any Participant in the Plan or any Beneficiary receiving benefits under the Plan
may examine copies of the summary plan description, latest annual report, any
bargaining agreement, the Plan document, the Trust Agreement or any other
governing instruments under which the Plan is operated. The Committee will
maintain all of these items in its office, or in such other place or places as
it may designate from time to time for examination during reasonable business
hours. Upon the written request of a Participant or Beneficiary receiving
benefits under the Plan, the Committee will furnish a copy of any item listed in
this Section. The Committee may make a reasonable charge to the requesting
person for the copy furnished.

 

12.6         Claims and Appeals Procedure

 

(a)           The Committee will adopt procedures for the resolving of claims
for benefits and for the appeal and review of the denial of such claims by the
Committee. Detailed information regarding such procedures may be obtained by
writing to the Retirement Committee.

 

(b)           Each claim for benefits will be decided by one or more persons, a
committee or other claims administrator designated by the Committee (such
designated party is referred to in this Section as the “Claims Administrator”).
The Claims Administrator will give the claimant written notice of the
disposition of a claim within 90 days after the claim has been filed, unless
special circumstances require an extension of time for processing, in which case
such notice of disposition shall be given within 180 days after the application
has been filed. If a claim is denied

 

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in whole or in part, the Claims Administrator shall give the claimant a written
explanation of the reasons for the denial.

 

(c)           A claimant wishing a review of a denied claim may submit an appeal
in writing in a manner acceptable to the “Appeals Administrator”, which shall be
the Committee or a person, committee or other administrator designated by the
Committee. The deadline for submitting any such appeal to the Appeals
Administrator shall be 60 days after receipt of the written notification of the
denial of the claim, as described above.

 

(d)           Within 60 days following the receipt of the notice of appeal, the
Appeals Administrator will give the claimant either (i) a written notice of the
decision of the Appeals Administrator, or (ii) if special circumstances require
an extension of time for review, a notice of a 60-day extension of the review
period. In the latter case, the notice of the decision of the Appeals
Administrator shall be delivered to the claimant within 120 days after the
appeal has been delivered by the claimant. Effective January 1, 2002, the one or
more individuals who act as Appeals Administrator and who decide the appeal
shall not include any person who decided the initial claim, but a person who
decided the initial claim may participate in the discussion of the appeal.

 

(e)           The Plan hereby delegates full and complete discretion to the
Claims Administrator and the Appeals Administrator:

 

(1)           to make findings of fact pertaining to a claim or appeal;

 

(2)           to interpret the Plan as applied to the facts; and

 

(3)           to decide all aspects of the claim or appeal.

 

 

(f)            The decision of the Appeals Administrator upon such a review of a
denied claim, (or, if the claimant fails to submit a timely appeal to the
Appeals Administrator, the decision of the Claims Administrator) will be final,
subject to any remedies which may be provided by law.

 

12.7         Fiduciary Capacity

 

Any person may serve in more than one fiduciary capacity with respect to this
Plan.

 

12.8         Committee Liability

 

The members of the Committee will use ordinary care and diligence in the
performance of their duties, but no member will be personally liable by virtue
of any contract, agreement, or other instrument made or executed as a member of
the Committee, nor for any mistake of judgment made by him or her or by any
other member, nor for any loss unless resulting from willful misconduct or
failure to exercise good faith. No member of the Committee will be liable for
the neglect, omission, or wrongdoing of any other member or of the agents or
counsel of the Committee. Zions will indemnify (or cause one or more of the
participating Companies to indemnify) each member of the Committee against, and
hold him or her harmless from any and all expenses and liabilities arising out
of any act or omission to act as a member of the Committee, except such
liabilities and expenses as are due to willful misconduct or failure to exercise
good faith.

 

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Article 13

 

GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

13.1         Amendment of Plan

 

(a)                                  Zions may amend the Plan at any time. In
addition to the authority to amend the Plan in other respects, Zions shall
furthermore have the authority to adopt any remedial retroactive changes to
comply with the requirements of any law or regulation issued by any governmental
agency to which the Plan is subject. No amendment will diminish or adversely
affect any accrued interest or benefit of Participants or their Beneficiaries,
except as may be required to comply with the requirements of any law or
regulation issued by any governmental agency to which the Company is subject.

 

(b)                                 If any amendment to the Plan changes the
vesting schedule, each Participant who is an Employee with at least three Years
of Vesting Service may elect to remain under the vesting schedule of the Plan
prior to such amendment. If the Participant does not make the election within a
reasonable time (as may be determined pursuant to governmental regulations from
time to time), such Participant will be subject to the vesting schedule under
the Plan as amended. In no event will the vesting percentage of the
Participant’s Accrued Benefit be reduced below the percentage attained by the
Participant prior to such amendment.

 

(c)                                  In no event will a Participant who
terminates or retires on or after the date any amendment to the Plan is
effective receive less than his or her vested percentage multiplied by the
Accrued Benefit prior to such date. This amount will be adjusted for the date of
retirement and form of payment on the basis in effect prior to such amendment.
This paragraph (c) shall not apply to the amendment to the basis for determining
the Actuarial Equivalent value for purposes of Section 5.8 effective June 1,
1995.

 

(d)                                 If any amendment to the Plan eliminates an
optional form of payment, a Participant may continue to elect such form of
payment with respect to any Accrued Benefit earned prior to the effective date
of such amendment.

 

13.2         Employment Status

 

Nothing contained in the Plan will be deemed to give any Employee the right to
be retained in the employ of the Employer or to interfere with the rights of the
Employer to discharge any Employee at any time.

 

13.3         Mergers or Consolidations

 

If this Plan merges or consolidates with, or transfers its assets or liabilities
to any other qualified plan of deferred compensation, no Participant will, as a
result of such merger, consolidation or transfer, be entitled to a benefit on
the day following such event which is less than the benefit to which he or she
is entitled on the day preceding such event. For purposes of this Section, the
benefit to which a Participant is entitled will be calculated

 

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based upon the assumption that a Plan termination and distribution of assets
occurred on the day as of which the Participant’s entitlement is being
determined.

 

13.4         Provision Against Anticipation

 

No benefit under the Plan will be subject in any manner to anticipation,
alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, charge or other
legal process, and any attempt to do so will be void. The preceding sentence
will not apply to a Qualified Domestic Relations Order pursuant to Code Section
414(p).

 

13.5         Facility of Payment

 

If any Participant or Beneficiary is physically or mentally incapable of giving
a valid receipt for any payment due him and no legal representative has been
appointed for such Participant or Beneficiary, the Committee may direct the
Trustee to make such payment to any person or institution maintaining such
Participant or Beneficiary and the release of such person or institution will be
a valid and complete discharge for such payment. Any final payment or
distribution to any Participant, the legal representative of the Participant, or
to any Beneficiaries of such Participant in accordance with the provisions
herein will be in full satisfaction of all claims against the Plan, the
Committee, the Trustee and the Company arising under or by virtue of the Plan.

 

13.6         Construction

 

The validity of the Plan or any of its provisions will be determined under and
will be construed according to federal law and, to the extent permissible,
according to the laws of the State of Utah. If any provision of the Plan is held
illegal or invalid for any reason, such determination will not affect the
remaining provisions of the Plan and the Plan will be construed and enforced as
if said illegal or invalid provision had never been included.

 

13.7         Legal Actions

 

The Committee will be the necessary party to any action or proceeding involving
the assets held with respect to the Plan or the administration thereof. No
Employee, Participant, former Participant or their Beneficiaries, or any other
person having or claiming to have an interest in the Plan will be entitled to
any notice or process. Any final judgment that may be entered in any such action
or proceeding will be binding and conclusive on all persons having or claiming
to have any interest in the Plan.

 

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SIGNATURE PAGE

 

This Zions Bancorporation Pension Plan, as restated effective as of January 1,
2001, is hereby approved this 19th day of February, 2002, at Salt Lake City,
Utah.

 

 

ZIONS BANCORPORATION

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Harris H. Simmons

 

 

 

 

Name:  Harris H. Simmons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title:  Pres. and CEO

 

 

 

ATTEST:

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Diana M. Anderson

 

 

 

Name:  Diana M. Anderson

 

 

 

 

 

Title:  Vice President and Manager

 

 

 

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APPENDIX I: FACTORS FOR SPOUSE OPTION UNDER SECTION 5.7(A)

 

A Participant retiring at any age with a benefit in the form of a Spouse Option
(as described in Section 5.7(a)) will have the following factors applied to his
or her Accrued Benefit.

 

 

 

Joint & Survivor Option

 

 

 

50%

 

66 2/3%

 

100%

 

Spouse same age as Employee

 

.880

 

.850

 

.790

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For each year the Spouse is younger than
the Employee subtract

 

-.005

 

-.006

 

-.008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For each year the Spouse is older than the
Employee add

 

.005

 

.006

 

.008

 

 

The maximum adjustment for age differential is limited to 20 years.

 

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APPENDIX II: ACTUARIAL EQUIVALENCE FOR MONTHLY BENEFITS AND

LUMP SUMS

 

For the purpose of computing the annuity value of a Participant’s cash balance
account, the annuity value of a Participant’s Old Plan Account, and lump sums:

 

(a)                                  The mortality assumption is the “Applicable
Mortality Table” (as defined below) which is prescribed from time to time by the
Secretary of the Treasury under Code Section 417(e)(3).

 

(1)                                  For benefit commencement dates on and after
June 1, 1995 and prior to December 31, 2002, the “Applicable Mortality Table”
shall mean the applicable mortality table prescribed by the Secretary of the
Treasury in Rev. Rul. 95-6, which is the 1983 Group Annuity Mortality Table,
weighted 50% male and 50% female (commonly referred to as “GAM 83”).

 

(2)                                  For benefit commencement dates on and after
December 31, 2002, the “Applicable Mortality Table” shall mean the applicable
mortality table prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in Rev. Rul.
2001-62.

 

(b)                                 The interest assumption shall be the
“Applicable Interest Rate”, which shall be the average annual yield on 30-year
U.S. Treasury constant maturities, as shown in the Federal Reserve Statistical
Release H.15 for the reference month. The reference month shall be the month of
-November of the calendar year prior to the Plan Year in which the lump sum is
paid or the monthly benefit commences.

 

(c)                                  In no event shall such lump sum be less
than the present value as of December 31, 1985 of a Participant’s Accrued
Benefit as of December 31, 1985 on the basis of the following actuarial factors
used prior to December 31, 1985 for purposes of valuing a deferred annuity of $1
per year commencing at age 65 and payable in monthly installments:

 

Age

 

Factor

 

Age

 

Factor

32

 

0.6404

 

49

 

2.4180

33

 

0.6920

 

50

 

2.6182

34

 

0.7479

 

51

 

2.8357

35

 

0.8082

 

52

 

3.0721

36

 

0.8735

 

53

 

3.3292

37

 

0.9441

 

54

 

3.6090

38

 

1.0205

 

55

 

3.9138

39

 

1.1031

 

56

 

4.2458

40

 

1.1925

 

57

 

4.6080

41

 

1.2892

 

58

 

5.0034

42

 

1.3939

 

59

 

5.4356

43

 

1.5073

 

60

 

5.9088

44

 

1.6301

 

61

 

6.4279

45

 

1.7632

 

62

 

6.9983

46

 

1.9075

 

63

 

7.6261

47

 

2.0639

 

64

 

8.3184

48

 

2.2337

 

65

 

9.0836

 

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(d)                                 The minimum value of a lump sum distribution
to a Grossmont Participant who retires between January 1, 1998 and December 31,
1998 shall be determined under subsections (a) and (1) above, except that the
annual rate of interest on 30-year Treasury securities described in subsection
(1) shall be determined as of December 1997.

 

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APPENDIX III:  MINIMUM ACCRUED BENEFIT

 

Article 1

Definitions

 

Whenever used in this Appendix III, the following terms will have the meanings
set forth below, unless a different meaning is clearly required by the context.
Any capitalized terms that are used in this Appendix III, but that are not
defined below, will have the meaning set forth in Article I of the Plan, unless
a different meaning is clearly required by the context. References in this
Appendix to “Article” and “Section,” unless indicated otherwise, mean Articles
and Sections appearing in this Appendix III.

 

1.1           Covered Compensation

 

Covered Compensation for a Plan Year means the average of the Social Security
Taxable Wage Bases for each year in the 35-year period ending with the last day
of the year in which the Participant attains (or will attain) Social Security
Retirement Age as determined under the exact tables provided by the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue. Covered Compensation for any Plan Year after 1991 will be
equal to 1991 Covered Compensation. Social Security Taxable Wage Base means the
contribution and benefit base in effect under Section 230 of the Social Security
Act for the specified calendar year.

 

For purposes of this Section 1.1, a Participant’s Social Security Retirement Age
is determined based on the following table:

 

Year of
Birth

 

Social Security
Retirement Age

Before 1938

 

65

1938 to 1954

 

66

1955 and after

 

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1.2           Credited Service

 

Credited Service means service used to determine a Participant’s Accrued Benefit
and is determined as follows:

 

(a)                                  Credited Service shall be measured in
calendar years and months. Each month shall be equal to one-twelfth of a year of
Credited Service. Except as otherwise stated in this Section 1.2, Credited
Service for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 1988 means the sum of an
Employee’s calendar years and months (or parts thereof) as an Eligible Employee
during the period beginning on his or her Benefit Service Date. For purposes of
this section, Benefit Service Date means the later of:

 

(1)                                  the Participant’s employment date,

 

(2)                                  the first day of the month following the
Participant’s 21st birthday, or

 

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(3)                                  in the case of an Employee who is not
credited with at least 1,000 Hours of Service in his or her first Eligibility
Computation Period, the first day of the first Plan Year in which the Employee
is credited with at least 1,000 Hours of Service.

 

(b)                                 No Credited Service will be earned during a
Plan Year beginning after December 31, 1988 unless the Employee completes at
least 1,000 Hours of Service during that Plan Year except as follows: (1)
through the period ending on December 31, 1997 and for Plan Year 2000, in order
to earn Credited Service during the Plan Year in which the Employee has a
Benefit Service Date or during the Plan Year in which the Employee retires or
dies, the Employee must complete 83.33 Hours of Service multiplied by the number
of calendar months during such Plan Year in which the Employee completes at
least one Hour of Service; and (2) effective for the 1995-1997 and the 2000 Plan
Years, the foregoing sentence shall also apply to a Plan Year in which the
Employee incurs a Termination of Employment.

 

(c)                                  Except as otherwise stated in this Section
1.2, Credited Service for Plan Years beginning before January 1, 1989 means
benefit service as defined under the terms of the Plan in effect on December 31,
1988.

 

(d)                                 Effective on and after December 12, 1994, in
any year in which a Participant accrues at least 1,000 Hours of Service, a
Participant shall earn 190 Hours of Service, and one month of Credited Service,
for each month of the Participant’s Qualified Military Service.

 

(e)                                  Credited Service will not include service
earned during a period for which Years of Vesting Service are disregarded
pursuant to Section 1.50(e) of the Plan.

 

(f)                                    In the case of an Employee who is
employed by an Affiliate or Subsidiary which either adopts this Plan with the
consent of the Company or merges with the Company, Credited Service will not
include service prior to the date of merger or adoption unless an earlier date
is specifically designated for this purpose by the Board of Directors of Zions.

 

1.3           Final Average Earnings

 

Final Average Earnings means the average of the Participant’s Earnings as an
Eligible Employee for the period of five consecutive calendar years ending on or
before December 31, 1991 which produces the highest average. If the Participant
has not been an Eligible Employee for five years, Final Average Earnings means
the average of the Participant’s Earnings over the Participant’s full period of
employment as an Eligible Employee before December 31, 1991.

 

In determining Final Average Earnings, Plan Years after 1988 during which the
Participant earns fewer than 1,000 Hours of Service will be disregarded while
allowing the immediately prior Plan Year and immediately subsequent Plan Year to
be treated as though they are consecutive years.

 

In determining Final Average Earnings, Earnings will be annualized in the Plan
Year of hire if the employee earned 1,000 Hours of Service during the one-year
period beginning

 

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on the Employee’s Employment Date. Earnings are annualized by dividing actual
earnings for the Plan Year (excluding bonuses) by the number of months of actual
earnings, then multiplying the result by 12 then adding bonuses.

 

For purposes of calculating Final Average Earnings, the $200,000 Earnings
limitation that applies under Code Section 401(a)(17) for Plan Year 2002 and
thereafter (subject to annual adjustment in years following 2002) shall not be
applied retroactively to any Plan Year prior to 2002.

 

Article 2

Accrued Benefits

2.1           Prior Plan Benefit Formula

 

A Participant’s monthly retirement income is equal to one twelfth of the greater
of:

 

(a)                                  the sum of:

 

(1)                                  the sum of the following (determined by
applying the Code Section 401(a)(17) limitations, as adjusted, that were in
effect in the respective year in which Earnings were received, and not the
$150,000 limitation which became effective thereafter):

 

(A)                              1.65% of Final Average Earnings determined as
of December 31, 1991 multiplied by Credited Service earned as of December 31,
1991, and

 

(B)                                1.65% of Earnings for each Plan Year
beginning after December 31, 1991 and before January 1, 1994 in which the
Participant earns a full or partial year of Credited Service.

 

(2)                                  1.65% of Earnings (determined by applying
the Code Section 401(a)(17) limitations, as adjusted, that were in effect in the
respective year in which Earnings were received) for each Plan Year after
December 31, 1993 in which the Participant earns a full or partial year of
Credited Service.

 

(b)                                 the sum of the following (determined by
applying the Code Section 401(a)(17) limitations, as adjusted, that were in
effect in the respective year in which Earnings were received, and not the
$150,000 limitation which became effective thereafter):

 

(1)                                  1.15% of Final Average Earnings up to
Covered Compensation multiplied by Credited Service up to 35 years.

 

(2)                                  1.65% of Final Average Earnings in excess
of Covered Compensation multiplied by Credited Service up to 35 years.

 

(3)                                  1.0% of Final Average Earnings multiplied
by Credited Service in excess of 35 years.

 

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(c)                                  the annual accrued benefit on December 31,
1988 under the terms of the Plan as then in effect determined without regard to
the $200,000 or $150,000 limitations under Section 1.18(c) of the Plan.

 

A Participant will receive an Accrued Benefit for any full or partial years of
Qualified Military Service.

 

2.2           Minimum Accrued Benefit

 

The minimum accrued benefit is the amount determined under Section 2.1 of this
Appendix, for Credited Service before January 1, 1998, except Earnings for 1997
will be Earnings during the period from January 1, 1997 to March 31, 1997.

 

2.3           Grandfathered Minimum Accrued Benefit

 

The minimum grandfathered accrued benefit is the amount determined under Section
2.1 of this Appendix; provided, however, that, effective January 1, 2002 for a
Participant with at least an Hour or Service on or after that date, the minimum
grandfathered accrued benefit shall take into account any Credited Service and
Earnings which may be accrued or earned by an Active Participant until the
earliest to occur of December 31, 2006, the Participant’s Termination of
Employment or the date of any termination of, or cessation of accruals under,
the Plan..

 

Article 3

Minimum Early Retirement Benefits

 

The minimum early retirement benefit equals the greater of the amount in Section
2.2 and 2.3 of this Appendix, reduced by 1/3 of 1% for each month by which the
Early Retirement Date precedes the Normal Retirement Date.

 

Article 4

Minimum Death Benefit

 

4.1           Death After Eligibility for Retirement

 

If a Participant (other than a Retired Participant) dies on or after the
earliest date on which he or she could retire in accordance under the Plan, his
or her Eligible Spouse, if any, will receive a monthly benefit equal to the
amount the Eligible Spouse would have been entitled to under Article 2 of this
Appendix if the Participant had elected the 50% Spouse Option and retired on the
first day of the month coinciding with or following the date of death. This
benefit will be payable monthly to the Eligible Spouse beginning on the first
day of the month coinciding with or next following the Participant’s death and
will continue until the death of the Eligible Spouse.

 

4.2           Death Before Eligibility for Retirement

 

If a Participant who has a vested interest in his or her Accrued Benefit dies
prior to the earliest date on which the Participant could retire under the Plan,
his or her Eligible Spouse, if any, will receive a monthly benefit equal to the
amount the Eligible Spouse would have been entitled to under Article 2 of this
Appendix if the Participant had:

 

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(a)                                  terminated employment on his or her date of
death (if the Participant was an Employee on the date of death),

 

(b)                                 survived to the earliest date on which he or
she could retire in accordance with Article 3 of this Appendix (the “Earliest
Retirement Date”),

 

(c)                                  elected the 50% Spouse Option and retired
on such Earliest Retirement Date, and

 

(d)                                 died immediately after retiring.

 

This benefit will be payable monthly to the Eligible Spouse beginning on the
Participant’s Earliest Retirement Date and will continue until the death of the
Eligible Spouse.

 

4.3           Alternate Death Benefit For Old Plan Accounts

 

In lieu of the benefit described in Sections 4.1 or 4.2 of this Appendix, the
Eligible Spouse of a Participant who has an Old Plan Account may elect to
receive payment of the Old Plan Account as a lump sum payment as soon a
practicable after the Participant’s death. The Participant’s Accrued Benefit
Attributable to Company Contributions will be paid in accordance with (a) or (b)
of Section 4.4 of this Appendix below, whichever applies.

 

4.4           Other

 

(a)                                  Benefits under this Article will be paid as
soon as practicable after the Participant’s death except that the Eligible
Spouse may elect to defer commencement of the benefit described in Sections 4.1,
4.2, or 4.3 of this Appendix until any date which is before the Participant’s
Normal Retirement Date. An Eligible Spouse who makes an election under Section
4.3 of this Appendix may not defer receipt of the Old Plan Account.

 

(b)                                 The benefit under Sections 4.1 or 4.2 of
this Appendix will apply to Terminated Vested Participants even if their
Termination of Employment occurred prior to the effective date of these
paragraphs.

 

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APPENDIX IV: ACQUISITION EFFECTIVE DATES

 

“Acquisition Effective Date” means the date described below:

 

Acquisition

 

Effective Date

Southern Arizona Bancorp, Inc.

 

May 31, 1996

Farm Investment Division

 

January 3, 1997

Howerth

 

January 17,1997

Aspen Bancshares, Inc.

 

May 16, 1997

Pitkin County Bank

 

May 19, 1997

Centennial Savings Bank

 

May 19, 1997

Valley National Bank

 

May 19, 1997

Kelling, Northcross, & Nobriga, Inc.

 

July 7, 1997

Tri-State Bank

 

July 11, 1997

Wells Fargo Bank (branches)

 

July 19, 1997

Sun-State Bank

 

October 17, 1997

Grossmont Bank

 

January 1, 1998

Vectra Banking Corporation

 

January 6, 1998

Sky Valley Bank Corporation

 

January 23, 1998

Tri-State Financial Corporation

 

February 27, 1998

FP Bancorp, Inc.

 

May 26, 1998

SBT Bankshares, Inc.

 

June 1, 1998

Routt County National Bank Corporation

 

June 1, 1998

Kersey Bancorp

 

August 31, 1998

Eagle Bank

 

August 31, 1998

Commerce Bancorporation

 

January 1, 1999

Sumitomo Bank of California

 

October 1, 1998

Mountain Financial Holding Co.

 

October 30, 1998

Citizens Banco, Inc.

 

December 1, 1998

Barlow Insurance, Inc.

 

January 14, 1999

TradeWave

 

May 6, 1999

Regency Bancorp

 

October 6, 1999

Pioneer Bancorporation

 

October 18, 1999

County Bank

 

July 28, 2000

Draper Bancorp

 

January 26, 2001

Eldorado Bancshares, Inc.

 

March 30, 2001

Antelope Valley Bank

 

March 30, 2001

Pacific Century Financial Corporation

 

April 2, 2001

icomXpress

 

July 19, 2001

thinkXML

 

July 19, 2001

E-Lock Technologies

 

July 19, 2001

Leifer Capital

 

September 4, 2001

(Branches of) Washington Federal, Inc.

 

October 25, 2001

Minnequa Bancorp, Inc.

 

November 9, 2001

 

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APPENDIX V:  DEFINITION OF “COMPANY”

 

As stated in Section 1.14 of the Plan, the term “Company” means each of the
following corporations or partnerships, each of which has adopted this Plan, and
is, as of January 1, 2002, a participating Company in the Plan:

 

California Bank and Trust

 

Commerce Bank of Washington National Association

 

Digital Signature Trust Co.

 

Lexign Inc.

 

National Bank of Arizona

 

Nevada State Bank

 

Phaos Technology Corporation

 

Vectra Bank of Colorado National Association

 

Zions Bancorporation

 

Zions First National Bank

 

Zions Credit Corporation

 

Zions Insurance Agency, Inc.

 

Zions Investment Securities, Inc.

 

Zions Management Services Company

 

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