Exhibit 10.1

MIDWESTONE FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN AND TRUST

(Restated as of January 1, 2006)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I

  

NAME AND PURPOSE OF PLAN

   1

ARTICLE II

  

STATEMENT OF TRUST

   2

ARTICLE III

  

DEFINITIONS

   2

ARTICLE IV

  

EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS

   11

4.1   ELIGIBILITY

   11

4.2   YEAR OF SERVICE - PARTICIPATION

   11

4.3   PARTICIPATION UPON RE-EMPLOYMENT

   11

ARTICLE V

  

COMPANY CONTRIBUTIONS

   12

Part 1. Amount of Company Contributions and Plan Allocations: Sections 5.1
through 5.6

   12

5.1   COMPANY CONTRIBUTIONS

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a. Amount

   12

b. Form of Contribution

   12

c. Time of Payment of Contribution

   12

d. Return of Contribution

   12

5.2   PARTICIPANT CONTRIBUTIONS

   13

5.3   PARTICIPANT ROLLOVER CONTRIBUTIONS

   13

5.4   CONTRIBUTION ALLOCATION

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5.5   FORFEITURE ALLOCATION

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5.6   ALLOCATION CONDITIONS

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a. Hours of Service Requirement

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b. Employment Requirement

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c. Suspension of Allocation Requirements

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Part 2. Limitations on Allocations: Sections 5.7 through 5.10

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5.7   LIMITATIONS ON ALLOCATIONS TO PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNTS

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a. Estimation of Compensation

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b. More Than One Plan

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c. Disposition of Excess Amount

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d. Defined Benefit Plan Limitation

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5.8   DEFINITIONS - ARTICLE V

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ARTICLE VI

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SEPARATION FROM SERVICE - PARTICIPANT VESTING

  

6.1   NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE

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6.2   VESTING SCHEDULE

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a. Vesting in Account-Generally

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b. Vesting in Account in Top Heavy Years

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c. Special Vesting Schedule

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6.3   CASH-OUT DISTRIBUTIONS TO PARTIALLY-VESTED PARTICIPANTS/RESTORATION OF
FORFEITED ACCOUNT BALANCE

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a. Restoration and Conditions Upon Restoration

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b. Time and Method of Restoration

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c. 0 Percent Vested Participant

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6.4   ACCOUNTING FOR REPAID AMOUNT

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6.5   YEAR OF SERVICE - VESTING

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6.6   BREAK IN SERVICE - VESTING

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6.7   INCLUDED YEARS OF SERVICE - VESTING

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6.8   FORFEITURE OCCURS

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6.9   AMENDMENT TO VESTING SCHEDULE

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6.10 PUT OPTIONS ON DISTRIBUTED COMPANY STOCK

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ARTICLE VII

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TIME AND METHOD OF PAYMENT OF BENEFITS

  

7.1   PAYMENT OF ACCOUNT BALANCE

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7.2   DISTRIBUTION UPON SEPARATION FROM SERVICE FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN DEATH

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a. Participant’s Vested Account Balance Not Exceeding $1,000

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b. Participant’s Vested Account Balance Exceeds $1,000

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c. Disability

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d. Benefit Notice

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e. Consent Requirement

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f. Determination of Vested Account Balance

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g. Consent to Cash-Out/Forfeiture

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h. Return to Employment

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7.3   DISTRIBUTION UPON DEATH OF THE PARTICIPANT

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7.4   METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION OF VESTED ACCOUNT BALANCE

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a. Distributions of Company Stock

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b. Election to Receive Company Stock

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7.5   DEFERRED DISTRIBUTIONS

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7.6   REQUIRED BEGINNING DATE

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7.7   MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS

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7.8   ANNUITY DISTRIBUTIONS TO PARTICIPANTS AND SURVIVING SPOUSES

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7.9   SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND PAYMENT REQUIREMENTS

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7.10 DIRECT ROLLOVER OF ELIGIBLE ROLLOVER DISTRIBUTIONS

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a. Participant Election

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b. Rollover and Withholding Notice

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c. Default Rollover

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d. Definitions

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(1) Eligible Rollover Distribution

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(2) Eligible Retirement Plan

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(3) Distributee

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(4) Direct Rollover

   31

(5) Mandatory Distribution

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7.11 DISTRIBUTIONS UNDER DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDERS

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7.12 DISTRIBUTION BEFORE SEPARATION FROM SERVICE AFTER ATTAINING AGE 62

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ARTICLE VIII

  

COMPANY ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

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8.1 INFORMATION TO COMMITTEE

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8.2 NO LIABILITY

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8.3 INDEMNITY OF COMMITTEE

   33

ARTICLE IX

  

PARTICIPANT ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

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9.1   BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION

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9.2   NO BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION

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9.3   PERSONAL DATA TO COMMITTEE

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9.4   ADDRESS FOR NOTIFICATION

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9.5   ASSIGNMENT OR ALIENATION

   34

9.6   NOTICE OF CHANGE IN TERMS

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9.7   LITIGATION AGAINST THE TRUST

   35

9.8   INFORMATION AVAILABLE

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9.9   APPEAL PROCEDURE FOR DENIAL OF BENEFITS

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9.10 PARTICIPANT DIRECTION OF INVESTMENT

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ARTICLE X

  

THE COMMITTEE

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10.1 GENERAL

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10.2   COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES

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10.3   POWERS

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10.4   AVAILABILITY OF PLAN DOCUMENTS

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10.5   LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

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10.6   FUNDING POLICY

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10.7   MANNER OF ACTION

   39

10.8   AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE

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10.9   INTERESTED MEMBER

   40

10.10 INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS

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10.11 VALUE OF PARTICIPANT'S ACCOUNT BALANCE

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10.12 ALLOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF NET INCOME AND GAIN OR LOSS TO
PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNTS

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a. Company Stock Account

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b. General Investments Account

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c. Dividends on Company Stock

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d. Segregated Investment Accounts

e. Additional Rules

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f. Allocation Restriction

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10.13 INDIVIDUAL STATEMENT

   43

10.14 ACCOUNT CHARGED

   43

10.15 LOST PARTICIPANTS

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a. Attempt to Locate

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b. Failure to Locate

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c. Nonexclusivity and Uniformity

   43

10.16 PLAN CORRECTION

   44

10.17 NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR OTHERS

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ARTICLE XI

  

TRUSTEE POWERS AND DUTIES

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11.1   ACCEPTANCE

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11.2   RECEIPT OF CONTRIBUTIONS

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11.3   TRUSTEE’S INVESTMENT

   45

11.4   RECORDS AND STATEMENTS

   51

11.5   FEES AND EXPENSES FROM FUND

   51

11.6   PARTIES TO LITIGATION

   51

11.7   PROFESSIONAL AGENTS

   51

11.8   DISTRIBUTION OF TRUST FUND

   51

11.9   DISTRIBUTION DIRECTIONS

   51

11.10 THIRD PARTY

   52

11.11 RESIGNATION

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11.12 REMOVAL

   52

11.13 INTERIM DUTIES AND SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE

   52

11.14 VALUATION OF TRUST

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11.15 LIMITATION ON LIABILITY - IF INVESTMENT MANAGER APPOINTED

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11.16 PARTICIPANT VOTING RIGHTS - Company Stock

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a. Tenders For Company Stock

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b. Voting Company Stock; Options and Other Rights

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(a) Company Stock in Accounts

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(b) Company Stock in the Exempt Loan Suspense Account and other Unallocated
Company Stock

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11.17 COMMITTEE DIRECTIONS

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11.18 PROTECTION OF THE TRUSTEE

   61

ARTICLE XII

  

TOP-HEAVY PROVISIONS

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12.1 DETERMINATION OF TOP HEAVY STATUS

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12.2 DEFINITIONS

   62

12.3 TOP HEAVY MINIMUM ALLOCATION

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12.4 DETERMINING TOP-HEAVY CONTRIBUTION RATES

   64

12.5 SATISFACTION OF TOP-HEAVY MINIMUM

   64

ARTICLE 13

  

EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT, AMENDMENT, TERMINATION

   65

13.1 EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT

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13.2 AMENDMENT BY COMPANY

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13.3 DISCONTINUANCE

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13.4 FULL VESTING ON TERMINATION

   66

13.5 MERGER/DIRECT TRANSFER

   66

13.6 TERMINATION

   67

ARTICLE XIV

  

MISCELLANEOUS

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14.1 EVIDENCE

14.2 NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR COMPANY ACTION

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14.3 FIDUCIARIES NOT INSURERS

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14.4 WAIVER OF NOTICE

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14.5 SUCCESSORS

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14.6 STATE LAW

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14.7 EMPLOYMENT NOT GUARANTEED

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MIDWESTONE FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN AND TRUST

MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc., an Iowa corporation with its principal place
of business in Oskaloosa, Iowa (the “Company”), and MidWestOne Bank, N.A., an
Iowa corporation with its principal place of business in Oskaloosa, Iowa, as
trustee (the “Trustee”).

WITNESSETH:

MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. continues, with this Agreement, a Plan and
Trust for the administration and distribution of contributions made by the
Company for the purpose of providing retirement benefits for eligible Employees.
This Plan is an amended Plan, in restated form, the original Plan being
established on December 31, 1985. The provisions of this Plan, as amended and
restated, apply solely to an Employee whose employment with the Company
terminates on or after the restated Effective Date of the Plan. If an Employee’s
employment with the Company terminates prior to the restated Effective Date,
that Employee is entitled to benefits under the Plan and Trust as the Plan and
Trust existed on the date of the Employee’s termination of employment.

Now, therefore, in consideration of their mutual covenants, the Company and the
Trustee agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

NAME AND PURPOSE OF PLAN

This Plan shall be known as the MIDWESTONE FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. EMPLOYEE STOCK
OWNERSHIP PLAN AND TRUST.

This Plan is established by the Company, as an employee stock ownership plan
within the meaning of Code § 4975(e), to create a uniform retirement program
covering all eligible Employees of the Company. The intent of this Plan is to
help each Participant build an estate to provide financial security for the
Participant and his or her family when his or her working career ends. Because
the value of each Account depends on the overall prosperity of the Company, this
Plan should give each Participant an incentive to increase Company profits and
make his or her career more rewarding. The Plan is designed to invest primarily
in Company securities.

This Plan provides benefits which are in addition to any benefits under any
other retirement plans of the Company which are currently in effect.

This Plan is administered by a Committee on an annual basis ending each
December 31. All Company contributions are paid to the Trustee and, together
with all income received, are held by the Trustee in the Trust and administered
for the exclusive benefit of Participants and their Beneficiaries, pursuant to
the Plan and the Trust.

 

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ARTICLE II

STATEMENT OF TRUST

All funds and property contributed to the Trustee hereunder shall be held and
administered by the Trustee, in trust, in accordance with the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement. The Plan and Trust are intended to meet
the requirements of Code § 401 (a) and ERISA and are designed to invest
primarily in Company Stock.

The Trustee hereby agrees that it will hold the Trust Fund, all moneys or
property contributed, transferred or assigned to it as Trustee and all earnings
and enhancement in value of the Trust Fund for the uses and purposes, and
subject to the terms and conditions, of the Plan and the Trust.

ARTICLE III

DEFINITIONS

In this Agreement, unless the context clearly implies otherwise, the singular
includes the plural, the masculine includes the feminine, and the capitalized
words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

3.1 “Account(s)” means an individual account maintained to record a
Participant’s interest in the Trust Fund attributable to the Company’s
contributions, Forfeitures and gains or losses, if any, under this Plan.

3.2 “Account Balance” means the Participant’s Plan Benefit.

3.3 “Accounting Date” means the last day of the Plan Year. Unless otherwise
specified in the Plan, the Plan Administrator will make all Plan allocations for
a particular Plan Year as of the Accounting Date of that Plan Year.

3.4 “Beneficiary” (or “Beneficiaries”) means a person designated by a
Participant who is or may become entitled to a benefit under the Plan upon a
Participant’s death. A Beneficiary who becomes entitled to a benefit under this
Plan remains a Beneficiary under this Plan until the Trustee has fully
distributed his or her benefit to him or her. The Beneficiary’s right to (and
the Plan Administrator’s or the Committee’s duty to provide to the Beneficiary)
information or data concerning the Plan does not arise until he or she first
becomes entitled to receive a benefit under this Plan.

3.5 “Break in Service or One Year Break in Service” means a Plan Year in which
an Employee does not complete more than 500 Hours of Service with the Company.

3.6 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time.

 

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3.7 “Committee” means the committee appointed pursuant to the provisions of the
Plan by the Board of Directors of the Company to administer the Plan and give
instructions to the Trustee.

3.8 “Company” means MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. (f/k/a Mahaska Investment
Company), any corporation adopting the Plan pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 3.8 (the “Adopting Corporation”) and any corporation which succeeds to
all or part of the business of MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. or of an
Adopting Corporation by merger, consolidation, transfer of stock or transfer of
assets or by any other method, if such corporation agrees in writing to adopt
the Plan and be bound by and subject to the provisions of this Agreement.

Any corporation which together with the Company is a member of a controlled
group of corporations within the meaning of Code § 1563(a) determined without
regard to Code §§1563(a)(4) and (e)(3)(c), with the consent of MidWestOne
Financial Group, Inc., may adopt the Plan by written resolution of its Board of
Directors. From and after the effective date of such resolution, such
corporation shall for all purposes hereunder be included within the meaning of
the word “Company.” Only MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. shall be deemed to be
the “Company,” however, for purposes of appointing the Committee, replacing the
Trustee and amending, restating, merging or terminating this Plan.

3.9 “Company Stock” means securities issued by the Company, or by a corporation
which is a member of the same controlled group of corporations, which satisfy
the definition of “qualifying employer securities” in Code §4975(e)(8).

3.10 “Compensation” means a Participant’s W-2 wages for federal income tax
withholding purposes, as defined under Code § 3401(a), plus all other payments
to an Employee in the course of the Company’s trade or business, for which the
Company must furnish the Employee a written statement under Code §§6041, 6051
and 6052, disregarding any rules limiting the remuneration included as wages
under this definition based on the nature or location of the employment or
service performed.

The following paragraphs a., b., c. and d. apply to the definition of
Compensation:

a. Elective Contributions. “Elective Contributions” are amounts excludible from
the Employee’s gross income under Code §§ 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(2),
403(b), 408(p) or 457, and contributed by the Company, at the Employee’s
election, to a cafeteria plan, a qualified transportation fringe benefit plan, a
401(k) arrangement, a SARSEP, a tax-sheltered annuity, a SIMPLE plan or a Code §
457 plan.

b. Compensation Dollar Limitation. For any Plan Year beginning prior to
January 1, 2002, the Plan Administrator cannot take into account more than
$150,000 (or such larger or smaller amount as the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue may prescribe) of any Participant’s Compensation. For any Plan Year
beginning after December 31, 2001, the Plan Administrator cannot take into
account more than $200,000 (as adjusted for cost of living increases in
accordance with Code § 401(a)(17)(B)) of any Participant’s Compensation.

 

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c. Nondiscrimination. For purposes of determining whether the Plan discriminates
in favor of Highly Compensated Employees, Compensation means Compensation as
defined in this Section 3.9, except the Company annually may elect operationally
to include or to exclude Elective Contributions. In applying the immediately
preceding sentence, the Company must be consistent and uniform with respect to
all Employees and all plans of the Company for any particular Plan Year. The
Company may elect to exclude from this nondiscrimination definition of
Compensation any items of Compensation excludible under Code §414(s) and the
applicable Treasury regulations, provided such adjusted definition conforms to
the nondiscrimination requirements of those regulations.

d. Other Rules. Any reference in this Plan to Compensation is a reference to the
definition in this Section 3.10, unless the Plan reference specifies a
modification to this definition. The Plan Administrator will take into account
only Compensation actually paid for the relevant period. The term “Compensation”
does not include (1) Company contributions to a plan of deferred compensation to
the extent the contributions are not included in the gross income of the
Employee for the taxable year in which contributed, on behalf of an Employee to
a Simplified Employee Pension Plan to the extent such contributions are
excludible from the Employee’s gross income, and any distributions from a plan
of deferred compensation, regardless of whether such amounts are includible in
the gross income of the Employee when distributed; (2) amounts realized from the
exercise of a non-qualified stock option, or when restricted stock (or property)
held by an Employee either becomes freely transferable or is no longer subject
to a substantial risk of forfeiture; (3) amounts realized from the sale,
exchange or other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified stock option;
(4) other amounts which receive special tax benefits, such as premiums for group
term life insurance (but only to the extent that the premiums are not includible
in the gross income of the Employee); or (5) reimbursements or other expense
allowances, fringe benefits (cash and noncash), moving expenses, deferred
compensation, and welfare benefits. However, Compensation includes Elective
Contributions made by the Company on the Employee’s behalf. A Compensation
payment includes Compensation paid by the Company to an Employee through another
person under the common paymaster provisions of Code §§3121(s) and 3306(p).

3.11 “Disability” means the Participant, because of a physical or mental
disability, will be unable to perform the duties of his or her customary
position of employment (or is unable to engage in any substantial gainful
activity) for an indefinite period which the Plan Administrator considers will
be of long continued duration. A Participant also is disabled if he or she
incurs the permanent loss or loss of use of a member or function of the body, or
is permanently disfigured, and incurs a Separation from Service. The Plan
considers a Participant disabled on the date the Plan Administrator determines
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Administrator may require a Participant to submit to a physical examination in
order to confirm the disability. The Plan Administrator will apply the
provisions of this Section 3.11 in a nondiscriminatory, consistent and uniform
manner.

3.12 “Disqualified Person” has the same meaning ascribed to that term under Code
§ 4975(e)(2).

3.13 “Effective Date” of this Plan, as restated during the 2006 Plan Year, is
generally January 1, 2006, except for the retroactive effective dates required
by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, the Uniformed Services Employment and
Re-employment Rights Act of 1994, the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996,
the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 and the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring
and Reform Act of 1998 or any final Treasury regulations published and effective
since the most recent effective date of this Plan, and except as otherwise
stated in this Plan. Further, to the extent the Plan was operated according to
an effective date earlier than is required by law, then such date shall be the
Effective Date.

3.14 “Employee” means any individual employed by the Company. The term
“Employee” shall include any such individual so employed who is on a leave of
absence granted by the Company. Employee shall not include individuals who are
nonresident aliens (unless such individuals are permitted to participate per a
resolution of the Board of Directors of the corporation by which they are
employed) who received no earned income from the Company which constitutes
income from sources within the United States.

3.15 “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time.

3.16 “Exempt Loan” means a loan made to this Plan by a Disqualified Person, or a
loan to this Plan which a Disqualified Person guarantees, provided the loan
satisfies the requirements of Treas. Reg. § 54.4975-7(b).

3.17 “Fair Market Value” means, in the case of shares of Company Stock that are
not readily tradable on an established securities market and which are otherwise
subject to the appraisal requirement of Code § 401(a)(28)(C), the valuation
determined by an independent appraiser meeting requirements similar to those
prescribed by Treasury regulations under Code § 170(a)(1) selected by the
Committee. In all other cases, the term shall mean the value determined in good
faith by the Committee based upon reported sales or quotations. If no sale or
sales of such on a recognized exchange were reported on the relevant date, or
if, in the Committee’s opinion, the quotation or last report of sale, if any,
does not reflect Fair Market Value, then the Committee shall in good faith
determine such Fair Market Value on the basis of such evidence, data and all
other relevant factors or information, including by appraisal, as shall be
pertinent, reliable and equitable, and its judgment with respect thereto shall
be conclusive upon all persons. If the stock is traded on the over-the-counter
market, the Committee shall determine the Fair Market Value of the Company Stock
based on the closing price for the Accounting Date or such other date of
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case of a transaction between the Plan and a Disqualified Person (as defined in
Internal Revenue Code Regulations), Fair Market Value must be determined as of
the date of the transaction. For all other purposes, Fair Market Value must be
determined as of the most recent valuation date under the Plan.

3.18 “Forfeitures” means any portion of an Account of a Participant which is not
vested upon termination of employment. Forfeitures shall be allocated as
provided in Section 5.5 on the Accounting Date next following the date on which
the Participant incurs a Break in Service.

3.19 “Highly Compensated Employee” means an Employee:

a. who, during the Plan Year or during the preceding Plan Year, is a 5 percent
or more owner of the Company (applying the constructive ownership rules of Code
§ 318, and applying the principles of Code § 318 for an unincorporated entity);
or

b. who, during the preceding Plan Year, had Compensation from the Company in
excess of $80,000 (as adjusted by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the
relevant year pursuant to Code § 415(d)).

For purposes of this Section 3.19, “Compensation” means Compensation as defined
in Section 3.10, except Compensation specifically excludes Elective
Contributions. The Plan Administrator must make the determination of who is a
Highly Compensated Employee consistent with Code § 414(q) and the Treasury
regulations issued under that Code section. For purposes of this Section 3.19,
the term “preceding Plan Year” means the 12-consecutive month period immediately
preceding the current Plan Year.

3.20 “Hour of Service” means:

a. each Hour of Service for which the Company, either directly or indirectly,
pays an Employee, or for which the Employee is entitled to payment, for the
performance of duties. The Plan Administrator credits Hours of Service under
this paragraph a. to the Employee for the computation period in which the
Employee performs the duties, irrespective of when paid;

b. each Hour of Service for back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, to
which the Company has agreed or for which the Employee has received an award.
The Plan Administrator credits Hours of Service under this paragraph (b) to the
Employee for the computation period(s) to which the award or the agreement
pertains rather than the computation period in which the award, agreement or
payment is made, subject to the provisions of Regulation 29 CFR Sec.
2530.200b-2, which the Plan, by this reference, specifically incorporates in
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c. each Hour of Service for which the Company, either directly or indirectly,
pays an Employee, or for which the Employee is entitled to payment (irrespective
of whether the employment relationship is terminated), for reasons other than
for the performance of duties during a computation period, such as leave of
absence, vacation, holiday, sick leave, illness, incapacity (including
disability), lay off, jury duty or military duty. The Plan Administrator will
credit no more than five hundred one (501) Hours of Service under this paragraph
c. to an Employee on account of any single continuous period during which the
Employee does not perform any duties (whether or not such period occurs during a
single computation period. The Plan Administrator credits Hours of Service under
this paragraph c. in accordance with the rules of paragraphs b. and c. of Labor
Reg. § 2530.200b-2, which the Plan, by this reference, specifically incorporates
in full within this paragraph c.

The Plan Administrator will not credit an Hour of Service under more than one
(1) of the above paragraphs. A computation period for purposes of this
Section 3.20 is the Plan Year, Year of Service period, Break in Service period
or other period, as determined under the Plan provision for which the Plan
Administrator is measuring an Employee’s Hours of Service. Further, the Company
may round up Hours of Service at the end of a Plan Year or more frequently. If
any questions shall arise as to determining an Hour of Service, the Plan
Administrator shall make a determination by using any Department of Labor
regulations that are then in effect. The Plan Administrator will resolve any
ambiguity with respect to the crediting of an Hour of Service in favor of the
Employee.

(1) Method of Crediting Hours of Service. The Company will credit an Employee
with Hours of Service on the basis of the “actual” method. For purposes of this
Plan, “actual” method means the determination of Hours of Service from records
of hours worked and hours for which the Company makes payment or for which
payment is due from the Company. Alternatively, Hours of Service for salaried
Employees shall be computed on the basis of days of employment; and each
salaried Employee shall be credited with 10 hours of service for each day for
which the salaried Employee would be required to be credited with at least one
Hour Of Service under the method used for computing Hours Of Service for
hourly-paid Employees.

(2) Maternity/Paternity Leave; Family and Medical Leave Act. Solely for purposes
of determining whether the Employee incurs a Break in Service under any
provision of this Plan, the Plan Administrator will credit Hours of Service
during an Employee’s unpaid absence period due to maternity or paternity leave.
The Committee considers an Employee on maternity or paternity leave if the
Employee’s absence is due to the Employee’s pregnancy, the birth of the
Employee’s child, the placement with the Employee of an adopted child, or the
care of the Employee’s child immediately following the child’s birth or
placement. The Plan Administrator credits Hours of Service under this paragraph
on the basis of the number of Hours of Service the Employee would receive if he
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the Plan Administrator cannot determine the number of Hours of Service the
Employee would receive, on the basis of eight (8) hours per day during the
absence period. The Plan Administrator will credit only the number of Hours of
Service (up to 501 Hours of Service) necessary to prevent an Employee’s Break in
Service. The Plan Administrator credits all Hours of Service described in this
paragraph to the computation period in which the absence period begins or, if
the Employee does not need these Hours of Service to prevent a Break in Service
in the computation period in which is absence period begins, the Plan
Administrator credits these Hours of Service to the immediately following
computation period.

(3) Qualified Military Service. Hour of Service also includes any Service the
Plan must credit in order to satisfy the crediting of Service requirements of
Code § 414(u).

(4) Absence occasioned by military service or other authorized leaves of absence
shall not be deemed an interruption of Service. An Employee who fails to return
to the Service of the Company after completion of military service or other
authorized leave of absence shall be deemed to have terminated his Service on
the date such military service ended or other authorized leave of absence
expired. All leaves of absence shall be granted in a non-discriminatory manner.

3.21 “Leased Employee” means an Employee of the Company subject to the
provisions of this Section 3.19. A Leased Employee is an individual (who
otherwise is not an Employee of the Company) who, pursuant to a leasing
agreement between the Company and any other person, has performed services for
the Company (or for the Company and any persons related to the Company within
the meaning of Code § 144(a)(3)) on a substantially full time basis for at least
one year and, effective for Plan Years beginning after 1996 whose services are
performed under the primary direction and control of the Company within the
meaning of Code § 414(n)(2). If a Leased Employee is treated as an Employee by
reason of this Section 3.21, “Compensation” includes Compensation from the
leasing organization which is attributable to services performed for the
Company.

a. Safe Harbor Plan Exception. The Plan does not treat a Leased Employee as an
Employee if the leasing organization covers the employee in a safe harbor plan
and, prior to application of this safe harbor plan exception, 20 percent or less
of the Company’s Employees (other than Highly Compensated Employees) are Leased
Employees. A safe harbor plan is a money purchase pension plan providing
immediate participation, full and immediate vesting, and a nonintegrated
contribution formula equal to at least 10 percent of the employee’s compensation
without regard to employment by the leasing organization on a specified date.
The safe harbor plan must determine the 10 percent contribution on the basis of
compensation as defined in Code § 415(c)(3) with the inclusion of elective
contributions (if otherwise excludible). If a Participant is a Leased Employee
covered by a plan maintained by the leasing organization, the Plan Administrator
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allocation of Company contributions and Forfeitures on behalf of the Participant
by taking into account the Leased Employee’s allocation, if any, under the
leasing organization’s plan, but only to the extent that allocation is
attributable to the Leased Employee’s services performed for the Company.

b. Other Requirements. The Plan Administrator must apply this Section 3.21 in a
manner consistent with Code §§ 414(n) and 414(o) and the regulations issued
under those Code sections.

3.22 “Leveraged Company Stock” means Company Stock acquired by the Trust with
the proceeds of an Exempt Loan and which satisfy the definition of “qualifying
employer securities” under Code § 4975(e)(8).

3.23 “Limitation Year” means, for purposes of ERISA, the Plan Year.

3.24 “Named Fiduciary” means the Plan Administrator for purposes of Section 402
of ERISA. Individuals on the Committee shall have the authority to control and
manage the Plan operations and administration.

3.25 “Nonhighly Compensated Employee” means any Employee who is not a Highly
Compensated Employee.

3.26 “Normal Retirement Age” means the sixty-fifth (65th) birthday of the
Participant.

3.27 “Participant” means any Employee who meets the eligibility requirements of
Article IV.

3.28 “Plan” means the retirement plan established and continued by the Company
in the form of this Agreement, designated as the “MidWestOne Financial Group,
Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan and Trust.” The Company has designed this
Plan to invest primarily in Company Stock.

3.29 “Plan Administrator” means the Committee. In addition to other duties, the
Plan Administrator shall have full responsibility for compliance with the
reporting and disclosure rules under ERISA as respects this Plan. The Plan
Administrator is hereby designated as the agent for service of legal process.

3.30 “Plan Benefit” means the amount standing in a Participant’s Account(s) as
of any date derived from Company contributions, Forfeitures and gains or losses,
if any, under this Plan.

3.31 “Plan Year” means the fiscal year of the Plan, a 12-consecutive month
period ending every December 31.

 

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3.32 “Protected Benefit” means any accrued benefit described in Treas. Reg. §
1.411(d)-4, including any optional form of benefit provided under the Plan which
may not (except in accordance with such Regulations) be reduced, eliminated or
made subject to the Company’s discretion.

3.33 “Related Employer/Related Group” is a controlled group of corporations (as
defined in Code § 414(b)), trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated)
which are under common control (as defined in Code § 414(c)) or an affiliated
service group (as defined in Code § 414(m) or in Code § 414(o)). If the Company
is a member of a related group, the term “Company” includes the related group
members for purposes of crediting Hours of Service, determining Years of Service
and Breaks in Service under Articles IV and VI, applying the limitations on
allocations in Part 2 of Article V, applying the top heavy rules and the minimum
allocation requirements of Article XIII, the definitions of Employee, Highly
Compensated Employee and Compensation, and for any other purpose required by the
applicable Code section or by a Plan provision.

However, only a Company described in Section 3.8 may contribute to the Plan and
only an Employee employed by a Company described in Section 3.8 is eligible to
participate in this Plan. For Plan allocation purposes, “Compensation” does not
include Compensation received from a Related Company not participating in this
Plan.

3.34 “Separation from Service” means a separation from Service with the Company
maintaining this Plan.

3.35 “Service” means any period of time the Employee is in the employ of the
Company, including any period the Employee is on an unpaid leave of absence
authorized by the Company under a uniform, nondiscriminatory policy applicable
to all Employees. If the Company maintains the plan of a predecessor employer,
the Plan treats service of the Employee with the predecessor employer as Service
with the Company. If the Company does not maintain the plan of a predecessor
employer, the Plan does not credit service with any predecessor employer, unless
the Company identifies the predecessor employer in this Plan and specifies the
purposes for which the Plan will credit service with that predecessor employer.

3.36 “Trust” means the separate Trust created under this Plan.

3.37 “Trust Fund” means all property every kind held or acquired by the Trustee
under this Plan and Trust, other than incidental benefit insurance contracts, if
any. This Plan creates a single Trust for all companies participating under this
Plan. However, the Trustee will maintain separate records of account in order to
properly reflect each Participant’s Annual Benefit derived from each
participating company

3.38 “Trustee” means MidWestOne Bank (f/k/a Mahaska State Bank), of Oskaloosa,
Iowa, chosen by the Company’s Board of Directors to act as Trustee hereunder, or
any successor in interest to such Trustee, or any successor Trustee chosen by
the Company’s Board of Directors which agrees to act hereunder in writing.

 

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3.39 “Year of Service” Except as provided in Article V. shall means any Plan
Year in which an Employee completed at least 1,000 Hours of Service with the
Company.

3.40 “Vested” means a Participant or a Beneficiary has an unconditional claim,
legally enforceable against the Plan, to the Participant’s Account Balance or
Plan Benefit.

ARTICLE IV

EMPLOYEE PARTICIPANTS

4.1 ELIGIBILITY. Each Employee shall become a Participant in the Plan on the
January first or July first coincident with or immediately following the later
of the date on which the Employee attains age 18 or the date on which he or she
completes one Year of Service with the Company (if he or she is still employed
by the Company on that date). Each Employee who was a Participant in the Plan on
the day before the Effective Date of this Restated Plan continues as a
Participant in the Plan. Once an Employee becomes a Participant, he or she will
remain a Participant until he or she incurs a One Year Break in Service caused
by his or her termination of employment with the Company.

4.2 YEAR OF SERVICE - PARTICIPATION. For purposes of an Employee’s participation
in the Plan under Section 4.1, the Plan takes into account all of the Employee’s
Years of Service with the Company. “Year of Service” means an eligibility
computation period during which the Employee completes not less then 1,000 Hours
of Service. The initial eligibility computation period is the first
12-consecutive month period measured from the Employment Commencement Date. The
Plan measures subsequent periods by reference to the Plan Year, beginning with
the Plan Year which includes the first anniversary of the Employee’s Employment
Commencement Date. “Employment Commencement Date” means the date on which the
Employee first performance an Hour of Service for the Company.

4.3 PARTICIPATION UPON RE-EMPLOYMENT. A former Participant who incurs a
Separation from Service prior to becoming vested in any portion of his or her
Account, who is rehired by the Company and who has incurred five consecutive
Breaks in Service shall again be required to meet the eligibility requirements
of this Article IV. A former Participant who is rehired by the Company and who
was partially vested or has not incurred five consecutive Breaks in Service
shall become a Participant on the date of his or her re-employment.

 

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ARTICLE V

COMPANY CONTRIBUTIONS

Part 1. Amount of Company Contributions

and Plan Allocations: Sections 5.1 through 5.6

5.1 COMPANY CONTRIBUTIONS.

a. Amount. For each Plan Year, the Company will contribute to the Trust an
amount which the Company may from time to time deem advisable. Although the
Company will contribute to this Plan irrespective of whether it has net profits,
the Company intends the Plan to be an employee stock ownership plan for all
purposes of the Code. The Company may not make a contribution to the Trust for
any Plan Year to the extent the contribution would exceed the Participants’
Maximum Permissible Amounts. See Part 2 of this Article V.

b. Form of Contribution. Subject to the consent of the Trustee, the Company may
make its contribution in property (including Company Stock), instead of cash,
provided the contribution of property is not a prohibited transaction under the
Code or ERISA. The Company may make its contribution of Company Stock at Fair
Market Value determined at the time of contribution. Notwithstanding any
provision in this Article V to the contrary, the Plan will provide contributions
with respect to qualified military service in accordance with Code § 414(u).

c. Time of Payment of Contribution. The Company may pay its contribution for
each Plan Year in one (1) or more installments without interest. The Company
must, however, make its contribution to the Trustee within the time prescribed
(including extensions) by the Code or applicable Treasury regulations. If the
Company makes a contribution for a particular Plan Year after the close of that
Plan Year, the Company will designate in writing to the Trustee the Plan Year
for which the Company is making its contribution.

d. Return of Contribution. The Company contributes to the Plan on the condition
its contribution is not due to a mistake of fact and the Internal Revenue
Service will not disallow the deduction for its contribution. The Trustee, upon
written request from the Company, must return to the Company the amount of the
Company’s contribution made by the Company by mistake of fact or the amount of
the Company’s contribution disallowed as a deduction under Code § 404. The
Trustee will not return any portion of the Company’s contribution under the
provisions of this paragraph more than one (1) year after:

(1) the Company made the contribution by mistake of fact; or

 

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(2) the disallowance of the contribution as a deduction, and then, only to the
extent of the disallowance.

The Trustee will not increase the amount of the Company contribution returnable
under this Section 5.1 for any earnings attributable to the contribution, but
the Trustee shall decrease the Company contribution returnable for any losses
attributable to it. The Trustee may require the Company to furnish it whatever
evidence the Trustee deems necessary to enable the Trustee to confirm the amount
the Company has requested be returned is properly returnable under ERISA.

Except as set out in this paragraph, none of the principal or income of this
Trust shall be paid to or revert to the Company or be used for any purpose
whatsoever other than the exclusive benefit of the Participants or their
Beneficiaries or for the payment of expenses of the administration of the Trust
Fund allowable under the Code and ERISA.

5.2 PARTICIPANT CONTRIBUTIONS. The Plan does not require or permit Participant
contributions.

5.3 PARTICIPANT ROLLOVER CONTRIBUTIONS. The Plan does not permit Participant
rollover contributions.

5.4 CONTRIBUTION ALLOCATION. The Plan Administrator will allocate and credit
each annual Company contribution (and Forfeitures, if any) to the Account of
each Participant who satisfies the conditions of Section 5.6 in the same ratio
that each Participant’s Compensation for the Plan Year bears to the total
Compensation of all Participants for the Plan Year.

5.5 FORFEITURE ALLOCATION. The amount of a Participant’s Account Balance
forfeited under the Plan is a Forfeiture. Subject to any restoration allocation
required under the Plan, the Plan Administrator will allocate the Forfeiture in
accordance with Section 5.4, as a Company contribution for the Plan Year in
which the Forfeiture occurs, as if the Forfeiture were an additional Company
contribution for that Plan Year. The Plan Administrator will continue to hold
the undistributed, non-Vested portion of a terminated Participant’s Account
Balance in his or her Account solely for his or her benefit until a Forfeiture
occurs at the time specified in Section 6.8, or, if applicable, until the time
specified in Section 10.15. Except as provided under Section 6.3, a Participant
will not share in the allocation of a Forfeiture of any portion of his or her
Account Balance.

5.6 ALLOCATION CONDITIONS. The Plan Administrator will determine the allocation
conditions which apply to Company contributions and Forfeitures on the basis of
the Plan Year. Except for purposes of determining the top-heavy minimum
contribution under Article XII, the Plan Administrator will take into account
only the Compensation determined for the portion of the Plan Year in which the
Employee actually is a Participant.

a. Hours of Service Requirement. Subject to the top-heavy minimum allocation
requirement of Article XII, the Plan Administrator will not allocate any portion
of a Company contribution for a Plan Year to any Participant’s Account if the
Participant does not complete a minimum of 1,000 Hours of Service during the
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b. Employment Requirement. A Participant who, during a particular Plan Year,
completes the Hours of Service requirement under this Section 5.6 will not share
in the allocation of Company contributions and Forfeitures, if any, for that
Plan Year unless he or she is employed by the Company on the Accounting Date of
that Plan Year.

c. Suspension of Allocation Requirements. The Plan suspends the allocation
requirements under paragraphs a. and b. of this Section 5.6 for any Plan Year if
the Plan fails to satisfy the Coverage Test. A Plan satisfies the “Coverage
Test” if, on the last day of the Plan Year, the benefitting ratio of the
Nonhighly Compensated Includible Employees is at least 70 percent of the
benefitting ratio of the Highly Compensated Includible Employees.

The benefitting ratio of the Nonhighly Compensated Includible Employees is the
number of Nonhighly Compensated Includible Employees benefitting under the Plan
over the number of the Includible Employees who are Nonhighly Compensated
Employees. “Includible” Employees are all Employees other than: (1) those
Employees excluded from participating in the Plan for the entire Plan Year by
reason of the Code’s collective bargaining unit exclusion or the Code’s
nonresident alien exclusion or by reason of the age and service requirements of
Article III; and (2) any Employee who incurs a Separation from Service during
the Plan Year and fails to complete at least 501 Hours of Service for the Plan
Year. A “Nonhighly Compensated Includible Employee” is an Employee who is not a
Highly Compensated Includible Employee.

For purposes of the Coverage Test, an Employee is benefitting under the Plan on
a particular date if, under Section 5.4 of the Plan, he or she is entitled to a
Company contribution or a Forfeiture allocation for the Plan Year.

If this paragraph c. applies for a Plan Year, the Plan Administrator will
suspend the allocation conditions for the Nonhighly Compensated Includible
Employees who are Participants, beginning first with the Includible Employee(s)
employed with the Company on the last day of the Plan Year, then the Includible
Employee(s) who have the latest Separation from Service during the Plan Year,
and continuing to suspend the allocation conditions for each Includible Employee
who incurred an earlier Separation from Service, from the latest to the earliest
Separation from Service date, until the Plan satisfies the Coverage Test for the
Plan Year. If two or more includible Employees have a Separation from Service on
the same day, the Plan Administrator will suspend the allocation conditions for
all such Includible Employees, irrespective of whether the Plan can satisfy the
Coverage Test by accruing benefits for fewer than all such Includible Employees.
If the Plan suspends the allocation conditions for an Includible Employee, that
Employee will share in the allocation of the Company contribution and
Forfeitures, if any, without regard to whether employed by the Company on the
last day of the Plan Year.

 

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Part 2. Limitations on Allocations: Sections 5.7 through 5.10

5.7 LIMITATIONS ON ALLOCATIONS TO PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNTS. The amount of Annual
Additions which the Plan Administrator may allocate under this Plan on a
Participant’s behalf for a Limitation Year may not exceed the Maximum
Permissible Amount. If the amount the Company otherwise would contribute to the
Participant’s Account would cause the Annual Additions for the Limitation Year
to exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount, the Company will reduce the amount of
its contribution so the Annual Additions for the Limitation Year will equal the
Maximum Permissible Amount. If an allocation of Company contributions, pursuant
to Section 5.4, would result in an Excess Amount (other than an Excess Amount
resulting from a reasonable error in estimating a Participant’s actual annual
Compensation, because of the allocation of Forfeitures or because of a
reasonable error in determining a Participant’s Elective Contributions, if any)
to the Participant’s Account, the Plan Administrator will reallocate the Excess
Amount to the remaining Participants who are eligible for an allocation of
Company contributions for the Plan Year in which the Limitation Year ends. The
Plan Administrator will make this reallocation on the basis of the allocation
method under the Plan as if the Participant whose Account otherwise would
receive the Excess Amount is not eligible for an allocation of Company
contributions.

a. Estimation of Compensation. Prior to the determination of the Participant’s
actual Compensation for a Limitation Year, the Plan Administrator may determine
the Maximum Permissible Amount on the basis of the Participant’s estimated
annual Compensation for such Limitation year. The Plan Administrator must make
this determination on a reasonable and uniform basis for all Participants
similarly situated. The Plan Administrator must reduce any Company contributions
(including any allocation of Forfeitures) based on estimated annual Compensation
by any Excess Amount carried over from prior years. As soon as is
administratively feasible after the end of the Limitation year, the Plan
Administrator will determine the Maximum Permissible Amount for such Limitation
Year on the basis of the Participant’s actual Compensation for such Limitation
Year.

b. More Than One Plan. If the Plan Administrator allocated an Excess Amount to a
Participant’s Account on an allocation date of this Plan which coincides with an
allocation date of another defined contribution plan maintained by the Company,
the Excess Amount attributed to this Plan will be the product of:

(1) The total Excess Amount allocated as of such date (including any amount
which the Plan Administrator would have allocated but for the limitations of
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(2) The ratio of a) the amount allocated to the Participant as of such date
under this Plan divided by b) the total amount allocated as of such date under
all qualified defined contribution plans (determined without regard to the
limitations of Code § 415).

c. Disposition of Excess Amount. If, because of a determination of the
Participant’s actual Compensation, or because of the allocation of Forfeitures
or because of a Participant’s Elective Contributions, if any, there is an Excess
Amount with respect to a Participant for a Limitation Year, the Plan
Administrator will dispose of such Excess Amount as follows:

(1) The Plan Administrator first will return to the Participant any
nondeductible Employee contributions and then any Elective Contributions under a
401(k) arrangement, if any, to the extent the return would reduce the Excess
Amount.

(2) If, after the application of paragraph (1), an Excess Amount still exists,
and the Plan covers the Participant at the end of the Limitation Year, then the
Plan Administrator will use the Excess Amount(s) to reduce future Company
contributions (including any allocation of Forfeitures) under the Plan for the
next Limitation Year and for each succeeding Limitation Year, as is necessary,
for the Participant.

(3) If, after the application of paragraph (1), an Excess Amount still exists,
and the Plan does not cover the Participant at the end of the Limitation Year,
then the Plan Administrator will hold the Excess Amount unallocated in a
suspense account. The Plan Administrator will apply the suspense account to
reduce Company Contributions (including allocation of Forfeitures) for all
remaining Participants in the next Limitation Year, and in each succeeding
Limitation Year if necessary. Neither the Company nor any Employee may
contribute to the Plan for any Limitation Year in which the Plan is unable to
allocate fully a suspense account maintained pursuant to this paragraph (3).

(4) The Plan Administrator under paragraphs (2) or (3) will not distribute any
Excess Amount(s) to Participants or to former Participants.

d. Defined Benefit Plan Limitation. The Company does not maintain and never has
maintained a defined benefit plan covering any Participant in this Plan.
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5.8 DEFINITIONS - ARTICLE V. For purposes of Article V, the following terms
shall mean:

a. “Annual Addition” means the sum of the following amounts allocated on behalf
of a Participant for a Limitation year, of (1) all Company contributions and
(2) all Forfeitures. Except to the extent provided in Treasury regulations,
Annual Additions include excess contributions described in Code § 401(k), excess
aggregate contributions described in Code § 401(m) and excess deferrals
described in Code § 402(g), irrespective of whether the Plan distributes or
forfeits such excess amounts. Annual Additions also include Excess Amounts
reapplied to reduce Company contributions under Section 5.7. Annual Additions
also include amounts allocated to an individual medical account (as defined in
Code § 415(1)(2) included as part of a defined benefit plan maintained by the
Company. Furthermore, Annual Additions include contributions paid or accrued
after December 31, 1985, for taxable years ending after December 31, 1985,
attributable to post-retirement medical benefits allocated to the separate
account of a key employee (as defined in Code § 419(A)(d)(3)) under a welfare
benefit fund (Code § 419(e)) maintained by the Company, but only for purposes of
the dollar limitation applicable to the Maximum Permissible Amount.

“Annual Additions” do not include any Company contributions applied by the Plan
Administrator (not later than the due date, including extensions, for filing the
Company’s Federal income tax return for that Plan Year) to pay interest on an
Exempt Loan, and any Leveraged Company Stock the Plan Administrator allocates as
Forfeitures; provided, however, the provisions of this sentence do not apply in
a Plan Year for which the Plan Administrator allocates more than one-third of
the Company contributions applied to pay principal and interest on an Exempt
Loan to Restricted Participants. The Plan Administrator may reallocate the
Company Contributions in accordance with Section 5.4 to the Accounts of
Nonhighly Compensated Employee-Participants to the extent necessary in order to
satisfy this special limitation.

b. “Compensation” means, for purposes of applying the limitations of Part 2 of
this Article VI, Compensation as defined in Section 3.10, except, for Limitation
Years beginning prior to January 1, 1998, Compensation does not include Elective
Contributions.

c. “Maximum Permissible Amount” - For Plan Years beginning before January 1,
2002, the lesser of (1) $30,000 (or, if greater, the amount as adjusted under §
415(d), or (2) 25 percent of the Participant’s Compensation for the Limitation
Year. For Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001, except to the extent
permitted under the Code, the lesser of (1) $40,000 (or, if greater, the amount
as adjusted under § 415(d), or (2) 100 percent of the Participant’s Compensation
for the Limitation Year. The Compensation limit referred to in this paragraph
shall not apply to any contribution for medical benefits after Separation from
Service (within the meaning of Code § 401(h) or Code § 419A(f)(2) which is
otherwise treated as an annual addition. If there is a short Limitation Year
because of a change in the Limitation Year, the Plan Administrator will multiply
the $30,000 or the $40,000 (or adjusted) limitation, as the case may be, by the
following fraction:

Number of Months in the short Limitation Year

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d. “Company” means the Company that adopts this Plan and any Related Employer.
Solely for purposes of applying the limitations of Part 2 of this Article IV,
the Plan Administrator will determine Related Employers by modifying Code §§
414(b) and (c) in accordance with Code § 415(h).

e. “Excess Amount” means the excess of the Participant’s Annual Additions for
the Limitation Year over the Maximum Permissible Amount.

f. “Limitation Year” means the Plan Year. If the Company amends the Limitation
Year to a different 12 consecutive month period, the new Limitation Year must
begin on a date within the Limitation Year for which the Company makes the
amendment, creating a short Limitation Year.

g. “Defined contribution plan” means a retirement plan which provides for an
individual account for each participant and for benefits based solely on the
amount contributed to the participant’s account, and any income, expenses, gains
and losses, and any Forfeitures of accounts of other participants which the plan
may allocate to such participant’s account. The Plan Administrator must treat
all defined contribution plans (whether or not terminated) maintained by the
Company as a single plan. For purposes of the limitations of Part 2 of this
Article V, the Plan Administrator will treat employee contributions made to a
defined benefit plan maintained by the Company as a separate defined
contribution plan. The Plan Administrator will also treat as a defined
contribution plan an individual medical account (as defined in Code § 415(l)(2))
included as part of a defined benefit plan maintained by the Company and, for
taxable years ending after December 31, 1985, a welfare benefit fund under Code
§ 419(e) maintained by the Company to the extent there are post-retirement
medical benefits allocated to the separate account of a key employee (as defined
in Code § 419A(d)(3)).

h. “Defined benefit plan” means a retirement plan which does not provide for
individual accounts for Company contributions. The Plan Administrator must treat
all defined benefit plans (whether or not terminated) maintained by the Company
as a single plan.

ARTICLE VI

SEPARATION FROM SERVICE - PARTICIPANT VESTING

6.1 NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE. A Participant’s Normal Retirement Age is sixty-five
(65) years of age. A Participant’s Account Balance derived from Company
contributions is 100 percent Vested upon and after his or her attaining Normal
Retirement Age, if employed by the Company on or after that date.

 

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6.2 VESTING SCHEDULE.

a. Vesting in Account-Generally. For Plan Years beginning before January 1,
2007, except as provided in Section 6.1, for each Year of Service (unless this
Plan is top heavy in the Plan Year) a Participant’s Vested percentage of his or
her Account Balance derived from Company contributions equals the percentage,
based on each Year of Service, under the following vesting schedule:

 

Years of Service With the Company

   Percent of Vested Account Balance  

Less than    3

   None  

3

   20 %

4

   40 %

5

   60 %

6

   80 %

7 or more

   100 %

For Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2006, except as provided in
Section 6.1, for each Year of Service (unless this Plan is top heavy in the Plan
Year) a Participant’s Vested percentage of his or her Account Balance derived
from Company contributions equals the percentage, based on each Year of Service,
under the following vesting schedule:

 

Years of Service With the Company

   Percent of Vested Account Balance  

Less than    2

   None  

2

   20 %

3

   40 %

4

   60 %

5

   80 %

6 or more

   100 %

 

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b. Vesting in Account in Top Heavy Years. For any Plan Year for which the Plan
is a top heavy Plan (as defined in Article XIII), the Plan Administrator shall
calculate a Participant’s Vested percentage of his or her Account Balance under
the following vesting schedule:

 

Years of Service With the Company

   Percent of Vested Account Balance  

Less than    2

   None  

2

   20 %

3

   40 %

4

   60 %

5

   80 %

6

   100 %

The Plan Administrator shall apply the top heavy schedule to Participants who
earn at least one (1) Hour of Service after the top heavy schedule becomes
effective. A shift between vesting schedules under this Section 6.2 is an
amendment to the vesting schedule, and the Plan Administrator shall apply the
rules of Section 6.9 accordingly. A shift to a new vesting schedule under this
Section 6.2 is effective on the first day of the Plan Year for which the top
heavy status of the Plan changes.

c. Special Vesting Schedule. If the Trustee makes a distribution (other than a
cash-out distribution described in Section 6.3) to a partially-Vested
Participant, and the Participant has not incurred a Forfeiture Break in Service
at the relevant time, the Plan Administrator will establish a separate Account
for the Participant’s Account Balance. At any relevant time following the
distribution, the Plan Administrator will determine the Participant’s Vested
Account Balance derived from Company contributions in accordance with the
following formula: P(AB + ®) x D)) - ®) x D).

To apply this formula, “P” is the Participant’s current vesting percentage at
the relevant time, “AB” is the Participant’s Company-derived Account Balance at
the relevant time, “R” is the ratio of “AB” to the Participant’s Company-derived
Account Balance immediately following the earlier distribution and “D” is the
amount of the earlier distribution. If, under a restated Plan, the Plan has made
distribution to a partially-Vested Participant prior to its restated Effective
Date and is unable to apply the cash-out provisions of Section 6.3 to that prior
distribution, this special vesting formula also applies to that Participant’s
remaining Account Balance.

6.3 CASH-OUT DISTRIBUTIONS TO PARTIALLY-VESTED PARTICIPANTS/RESTORATION OF
FORFEITED ACCOUNT BALANCE. If, pursuant to Article VII, a partially-Vested
Participant receives a cash-out distribution before he or she incurs a
Forfeiture Break in Service (as defined in Section 6.7), the cash-out
distribution will result in an immediate Forfeiture of the non-Vested portion of
the Participant’s Account Balance derived from Company contributions. A
partially-Vested Participant is a Participant whose Vested percentage determined
under Section 6.2 is less than 100 percent. A “cash-out” distribution is a
distribution of the entire present value of the Participant’s Vested Account
Balance upon Separation from Service.

 

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a. Restoration and Conditions Upon Restoration. A partially-Vested Participant
who is re-employed by the Company after receiving a cash-out distribution of the
Vested percentage of his or her Account Balance may repay the Trustee the amount
of the cash-out distribution attributable to Company contributions unless the
Participant no longer has a right to restoration under the requirements of this
Section 6.3. If a partially-Vested Participant makes the cash-out distribution
repayment, the Plan Administrator, subject to the conditions of this paragraph
(a), must restore his or her Account Balance attributable to Company
contributions to the same dollar amount as the dollar amount of his or her
Account Balance on the Accounting Date, or other evaluation date, immediately
preceding the date of the cash-out distribution, unadjusted for any gains or
losses occurring subsequent to that Accounting Date, or other valuation date.
Restoration of the Participant’s Account Balance shall include restoration of
all Code § 411(d)(6) protected benefits with respect to that restored Account
Balance, in accordance with applicable Treasury regulations. The Plan
Administrator shall not restore a re-employed Participant’s Account Balance
under this Section 6.3 if:

(1) five (5) years have elapsed since the Participant’s first re-employment date
following the cash-out distribution;

(2) the Participant is not in the Company’s Service on the date the Participant
makes his or her request to repay his or her cash-out distribution; or

(3) the Participant incurred a Forfeiture Break in Service (as defined in
Section 6.7). This condition also applies if the Participant makes repayment
within the Plan Year in which he or she incurs the Forfeiture Break in Service
and that Forfeiture Break in Service would result in a complete forfeiture of
the amount the Plan Administrator otherwise would restore.

b. Time and Method of Restoration. If none of the conditions in Section 6.3a.
preventing restoration of the Participant’s Account Balance applies, the Plan
Administrator will restore the Participant’s Account Balance as of the Plan Year
Accounting Date coincident with or immediately following the repayment. To
restore the Participant’s Account Balance, the Plan Administrator, to the extent
necessary, will allocate to the Participant’s Account:

(1) first, the amount, if any, of Forfeitures the Plan Administrator would
otherwise allocate under Section 5.5;

(2) second, the amount, if any, of the Trust Fund net income or gain for the
Plan Year; and

(3) third, the Company contribution for the Plan Year to the extent made under a
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To the extent the amount(s) described in clauses (1), (2) and (3) are
insufficient to enable the Plan Administrator to make the required restoration,
the Company must contribute, without regard to any requirement or condition of
Article V, the additional amount as is necessary to enable the Plan
Administrator to make the required restoration. If, for a particular Plan Year,
the Plan Administrator must restore the Account Balance of more than one
(1) re-employed Participant, then the Plan Administrator will make the
restoration allocation(s) to each such Participant’s Account in the same
proportion that a Participant’s restored amount for the Plan Year bears to the
restored amount for the Plan Year of all re-employed Participants. The Plan
Administrator shall not take into account the allocation(s) under this
Section 6.4 in applying the limitation on allocations under Part 2 of Article
IV.

c. 0 Percent Vested Participant. The deemed cash-out rule applies to a 0 percent
Vested Participant. A 0 percent Vested Participant is a Participant whose
Account Balance derived from Company contributions is entirely forfeitable at
the time of his or her Separation from Service. If the Participant’s Account is
not entitled to an allocation of Company contributions for the Plan Year in
which he or she has a Separation from Service, the Plan Administrator will apply
the deemed cash-out rule as if the 0 percent Vested Participant received a
cash-out distribution on the date of Participant’s Separation from Service. If
the Participant’s Account is entitled to an allocation of Company contributions
or Forfeitures for the Plan Year in which he or she has a Separation from
Service, the Plan Administrator will apply the deemed cash-out rule as if the 0
percent Vested Participant received a cash-out distribution on the first day of
the first Plan Year beginning after his or her Separation from Service. For
purposes of applying the restoration provisions of this Section 6.3, the Plan
Administrator will treat the 0 percent Vested Participant as repaying his or her
cash-out “distribution” on the first date of his or her re-employment with the
Company.

6.4 ACCOUNTING FOR REPAID AMOUNT. As soon as is administratively practicable,
the Plan Administrator will credit to the Participant’s Account the cash-out
amount a Participant has repaid to the Plan. Pending the restoration of the
Participant’s Account Balance, the Plan Administrator may direct the Trustee to
maintain a temporary segregated investment Account in the name of the
Participant if necessary to prevent a distortion of income, gain or loss
allocations under Section 10.12. The Plan Administrator will direct the Trustee
to repay to the Participant as soon as is administratively practicable the full
amount of the Participant’s repaid cash-out amount if the Plan Administrator
determines any of the conditions of Section 6.3a. prevents restoration as of the
applicable Accounting Date, notwithstanding the Participant’s repayment.

6.5 YEAR OF SERVICE - VESTING. For purposes of vesting under Section 6.2, Year
of Service means any Plan Year during which the Employee completes not less than
one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service with the Company.

6.6 BREAK IN SERVICE - VESTING. For purposes of this Article VI, a Participant
incurs a Break in Service if during any Plan Year he or she does not complete
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6.7 INCLUDED YEARS OF SERVICE - VESTING. Subject to Section 6.6, for purposes of
determining “Years of Service” under Section 6.5, the Plan takes into account
all Years of Service an Employee completes with the Company, except:

a. any Year of Service after the Participant first incurs a Forfeiture Break in
Service or receives a cash-out distribution (unless the Plan Administrator
restores the Participant’s Account under Section 6.3a.). The Participant incurs
a “Forfeiture Break in Service” when he or she incurs five (5) consecutive
Breaks in Service. This exception shall apply for the sole purpose of
determining a Participant’s Vested percentage of his or her Account Balance
derived from Company contributions which accrued for his or her benefit prior to
the Forfeiture Break in Service;

b. if the Participant has incurred a Forfeiture Break in Service and had a 0
percent Vested interest at the time of his or her first Break in Service, then
only Years of Service completed subsequent to the previous Break in Service
shall be counted for purposes of determining the Vested percentage in his or her
Account Balance at the time of his or her next Break in Service;

c. if the Participant has incurred fewer than five consecutive Breaks in Service
or the Participant was partially Vested at the time of his or her first Break in
Service, then Years of Service prior to such Break in Service shall be counted
together with each Year of Service completed after such Break in Service for
purposes of determining his or her Vested percentage in his or her Account
Balance at the time of his or her next Break in Service; and

d. any Year of Service before the Plan Year in which the Participant attained
the age of eighteen (18).

6.8 FORFEITURE OCCURS. A Participant’s Forfeiture, if any, of his or her Account
Balance derived from Company contributions occurs under the Plan on the earlier
of:

a. the last day of the Plan Year in which the Participant first incurs a
Forfeiture Break in Service; or

b. the date the Participant receives a cash out distribution.

The Plan Administrator determines the percentage of Participant’s Account
Balance forfeiture, if any, under this Section 6.8 solely by reference to the
vesting schedule of Section 6.2. A Participant will not forfeit any portion of
his or her Account Balance for any other reason or cause except as expressly
provided by this Section 6.8 or as provided by Section 10.15.

Furthermore, if the Participant’s Account is entitled to an allocation of
Company contributions or Forfeitures for the Plan Year in which he or she
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Section 6.8 by reason of a cash-out distribution, the Plan Administrator will
apply the cash-out forfeiture rule as if the partially-Vested Participant
received a cash-out distribution on the first day of the immediately following
Plan Year.

6.9 AMENDMENT TO VESTING SCHEDULE. Though the Company reserves the right to
amend the vesting schedule at any time, the Plan Administrator will not apply
the amended vesting schedule to reduce the Vested percentage (determined as of
the later of the date the Company adopts the amendment, or the date the
amendment becomes effective) of any Participant’s existing and future Account
Balance derived from Company contributions to a percentage less than the Vested
percentage computed under the Plan without regard to the amendment. An amended
vesting schedule will apply to a Participant only if the Participant receives
credit for at least one Hour of Service after the new schedule becomes
effective.

If the Company makes a permissible amendment to the vesting schedule, each
Participant having at least three Years of Service with the Company may elect to
have the percentage of his or her Vested Account Balance computed under the Plan
without regarding to the amendment. The Participant must file his or her
election with the Plan Administrator within 60 days of the latest of: (a) the
Company’s adoption of the amendment; (b) the effective date of the amendment; or
(c) the Participant’s receipt of a copy of the amendment. The Plan
Administrator, as soon as practicable, must forward a true copy of any amendment
to the vesting schedule to each affected Participant, together with an
explanation of the effect of the amendment, the appropriate form upon which the
Participant may make an election to remain under the vesting schedule provided
under the Plan prior to the amendment and notice of the time within which the
Participant must make an election to remain under the prior vesting schedule.
The election described in this Section 6.9 does not apply to a Participant if
the amended vesting schedule provides for vesting at least as rapid at any time
as the vesting schedule in effect prior to the amendment. The election described
in this Section 6.9 does not apply to a Participant if the amended vesting
schedule provides for vesting at least as rapid at any time as the vesting
schedule in effect prior to the amendment. For purposes of this Section 6.9, an
amendment to the vesting schedule include any Plan amendment which directly or
indirectly affects the computation of the Vested percentage of an Employee’s
rights to his or her Company derived Account Balance. Furthermore, the Plan
Administrator must treat any shift in the vesting schedule, due to a change in
the Plan’s top-heavy status, as an amendment to the vesting schedule for
purposes of this Section 6.9.

6.10 PUT OPTIONS ON DISTRIBUTED COMPANY STOCK. If Company Stock received in a
distribution from this Plan is not readily tradeable on an established market at
the time of distribution, the Participant or Beneficiary shall have the right,
to the extent required by Code § 409(h), to require the Company to repurchase
the Company Stock at the value established as of the valuation date immediately
preceding the distribution. To exercise this put option, the Participant or
Beneficiary must notify the Committee in writing of his or her intent to
exercise this option within sixty (60) days of the date of distribution or, if
the option is not then exercised, within a 60-day period commencing one (1) year
after the date of distribution and terminating sixty (60) days later. Within
thirty (30) days after exercise of the put option, the Committee shall determine
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exercise and, if valid, the Committee shall direct that consideration for the
shares shall be paid in annual installments over a period beginning not later
than thirty (30) days after exercise and not exceeding five (5) years. For any
installment payment, the Company’s obligation shall be reflected in a written
promissory note and a reasonable interest rate paid on unpaid installments. If
the distribution of Company Stock is part of an installment distribution,
however, the full amount of consideration to be paid for distributed shares
shall be paid not later than thirty (30) days after the exercise of the put
option. The right of the Company to repurchase shares pursuant to the exercise
of put options by Participants or Beneficiaries may be assigned by the Company
to the Plan.

ARTICLE VII

TIME AND METHOD OF PAYMENT OF BENEFITS

7.1 PAYMENT OF ACCOUNT BALANCE. The Committee will direct the Trustee when to
commence the distribution of a Participant’s Account in accordance with this
Article VII if the Participant separates from Service for any reason. In each
case a distribution date is specified, distribution will be made on the later of
that date or the earliest date as administratively practicable following the
specified date.

7.2 DISTRIBUTION UPON SEPARATION FROM SERVICE FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN DEATH.

a. Participant’s Vested Account Balance Not Exceeding $1,000. Upon the
Participant’s Separation from Service for any reason other than death, the Plan
Administrator will direct the Trustee to distribute the Participant’s Vested
Account Balance not exceeding $1,000 in a lump sum as soon as administratively
practicable following the close of the Plan Year in which the Participant incurs
a Separation from Service, but in no event later than the 60th day following the
close of the Plan Year in which the Participant attains Normal Retirement Age,
or if later, no later than the 60th day following the close of the Plan Year in
which the Participant’s Separation from Service occurs.

b. Participant’s Vested Account Balance Exceeds $1,000. Upon the Participant’s
Separation from Service for any reason other than death, the Plan Administrator,
subject to the consent requirements of this Section 7.2 and Section 7.10 and the
distribution provisions of Section 7.4, will direct the Trustee to distribute
the Participant’s Vested Account Balance exceeding $1,000 as soon as
administratively practicable following the close of the Plan Year in which the
Participant incurs a Separation from Service in a form determined in accordance
with Section 7.4. Any election under this Section 7.2b. is subject to the
requirements of Sections 7.2, 7.4, 7.7, 7.9 and 7.10. The Participant’s election
under this Section 7.2b. is valid if filed with the Committee at any time before
the Trustee otherwise would commence payment of a Participant’s Account Balance
in accordance with the requirements of this Article VII. In the absence of an
election by the Participant for a distribution upon Separation from Service, the
Plan Administrator will direct the Trustee to distribute the Participant’s
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Plan Year in which the later of the following two events occurs: (a) the
Participant attains Normal Retirement Age or (b) the Participant’s Separation
from Service.

c. Disability. If the Participant’s Separation from Service occurs because of
his or her Disability, the Plan Administrator will direct the Trustee to pay the
Participant’s Vested Account Balance in the same manner as if the Participant
had incurred a Separation from Service without Disability.

d. Benefit Notice. Not earlier than 90 days, but not later than 30 days, before
the date the Participant’s Vested Account Balance is distributed, the Plan
Administrator must provide a benefit notice to a Participant or Beneficiary who
is eligible to make a benefit payment election. The benefit notice must explain
the Participant’s or Beneficiary’s right to postpone distribution until the
applicable date described in Section 7.2b.

If a Participant or Beneficiary makes a benefit payment election, the Plan
Administrator will direct the Trustee to distribute the Participant’s Vested
Account Balance in accordance with that election. Any election is subject to the
requirements of this Article VII. Upon the Participant’s or Beneficiary’s
request, the Plan Administrator shall furnish the Participant or Beneficiary an
appropriate form for the making of the election. The Participant or Beneficiary
shall make an election by filing the election form with the Plan Administrator
at any time before the Trustee otherwise would commence to pay a Participant’s
Vested Account Balance in accordance with the requirements of this Article VII.

e. Consent Requirement. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.10, a Participant
must consent, in writing, to any distribution required under this Section 7.2 or
under Section 7.9 if the Participant’s Vested Account Balance, at the time of
the distribution to the Participant, exceeds $5,000 and the Participant has not
attained Normal Retirement Age. A Participant may elect to receive distribution
at any administratively practicable time which is earlier than 30 days following
the Participant’s receipt of the benefit notice, by waiving in writing the
balance of the 30 days.

f. Determination of Vested Account Balance. For purposes of the consent
requirements under this Article VII, the Plan Administrator determines a
Participant’s Vested Account Balance as of the most recent valuation date
immediately prior to the distribution date. The Plan Administrator, in
determining the Participant’s Vested Account Balance at the relevant time, will
disregard a Participant’s Vested Account Balance existing on any prior date,
except as the Code otherwise may require.

g. Consent to Cash-Out/Forfeiture. If the Participant is partially Vested in his
or her Account Balance, an election to distribute prior to the Participant
incurring a Forfeiture Break in Service (as defined in Section 6.7), must be in
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h. Return to Employment. A Participant may not receive a distribution upon
Separation from Service if, prior to the time the Trustee actually makes the
distribution, the Participant returns to employment with the Company.

7.3 DISTRIBUTION UPON DEATH OF THE PARTICIPANT. The Committee, subject to the
election of the Participant’s Beneficiary under Section 7.4, will direct the
Trustee to distribute to the Participant’s Beneficiary the Participant’s Vested
Account Balance remaining in the Trust at the time of the Participant’s death.
The Participant’s Vested Account Balance shall be distributed in the manner
elected by the Participant prior to his or her death or by the Beneficiary, as
the case may be. Distribution must commence no later than sixty (60) days after
the close of the Plan Year in which the Participant’s death occurs or, if later,
the date on which the Committee receives notification or otherwise confirms the
Participant’s death.

7.4 METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION OF VESTED ACCOUNT BALANCE.

a. Distributions of Company Stock. Upon the Participant’s Separation from
Service for any reason, the Participant’s Vested Account Balance may, in the
discretion of the Committee, be distributed in shares of Company Stock or cash,
except for balances representing fractional shares of Company Stock which shall
be paid in cash. Such distributions of Company Stock or cash shall be made in a
lump sum.

b. Election to Receive Company Stock. Notwithstanding any provision of paragraph
a. to the contrary, the Participant or the Participant’s Beneficiary may elect
to receive shares of Company Stock (except fractional shares of Company Stock)
in lieu of cash, provided that he or she makes a written election within 60 days
following the Accounting Date used in determining the Participant’s Vested
Account Balance. Company Stock distributed as a part of the Account Balance of a
Participant shall be valued as of the Accounting Date used in determining the
Participant’s Vested Account Balance for purposes of distribution.

c. The distribution of a Participant’s Vested Account Balance in cash shall be
made in five or fewer annual installments as determined by the Committee in its
discretion. The amount of each installment shall be equal to the value of the
Participant’s Vested Account Balance on the immediately preceding valuation date
divided by the number of installments remaining to be made. If a Participant’s
death occurs prior to the commencement of such cash distributions, all cash
installments shall be paid to the Participant’s Beneficiary within five years of
death the Participant’s date of death.

7.5 DEFERRED DISTRIBUTIONS. If distribution of all or any part of the
Participant’s Vested Account Balance is deferred under the provisions of
Section 7.2, Company Stock insofar as possible and other Trust assets having a
Fair Market Value equal to the undistributed portion of the Participant’s Vested
Account Balance as of the Accounting Date used in determining the Participant’s
Vested Account Balance will be segregated as of that date and held as a separate
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benefit of the Participant or the Participant’s Beneficiary, as the case may be.
Such segregated Account will be credited with income earned by the Account’s
assets and charged with its share of Trust expenses directly attributable to
such assets, if any. No Company contributions or Forfeitures will be credited to
any such segregated Account.

7.6 REQUIRED BEGINNING DATE. If any distribution date, either by Plan provision
or by Participant election or nonelection, is later than the Participant’s
required beginning date, the Plan Administrator instead must direct the Trustee
to make distribution on the Participant’s required beginning date. A
Participant’s “required beginning date” is the first day of April of the
calendar year following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age
70 1/2, except that the required beginning date of a Participant who attains age
70 1/2 after December 31, 1999 and who is not a 5 percent owner of the Company
with respect to the Plan Year shall be the first day of April of the calendar
year following the later of the calendar year in which the Participant attains
age 70 1/2 or the calendar year in which the Participant incurs a Separation of
Service. A mandatory distribution at the Participant’s required beginning date
will be in lump sum.

7.7 MINIMUM DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS. The Plan Administrator shall direct the
Trustee to distribute a Participant’s Vested Account Balance by payment in a
lump sum, except as otherwise elected by the Committee under Section 7.4b.
Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, all distributions to
a Participant or a Participant’s Beneficiary shall be determined and made in
accordance with Code § 401(a) (9) and the Treasury regulations under Code §
401(a)(9). The Plan Administrator may not direct the Trustee to distribute the
Participant’s Vested Account Balance, nor may the Participant or the
Participant’s Beneficiary elect to have the Trustee distribute his or her Vested
Account Balance, under a method of payment which, as of the required beginning
date, does not satisfy the minimum distribution requirements under Code §
401(a)(9) and the applicable Treasury regulations.

With respect to distributions under the Plan made for calendar years beginning
on or after January 1, 2002, the Plan will apply the minimum distribution
requirements of Code § 401(a)(9) in accordance with the final regulations under
Code § 401(a)(9) that were issued on April 16, 2002, notwithstanding any
provision to the contrary.

7.8 ANNUITY DISTRIBUTIONS TO PARTICIPANTS AND SURVIVING SPOUSES. The joint and
survivor annuity requirements of the Code do not apply to this Plan. The Plan
does not provide any annuity distributions to Participants. A transfer agreement
described in Section 13.5 may not permit a plan which is subject to the
provisions of Code § 417 to transfer assets to this Plan.

7.9 SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION AND PAYMENT REQUIREMENTS. Unless the Participant elects
in writing to have the Trustee apply other distribution provisions of the Plan,
or unless other distribution provisions of the Plan require earlier distribution
of the Participant’s Account Balance, the Trustee must distribute the portion of
the Participant’s Account Balance attributable to Company Stock (the “Eligible
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irrespective of any other provision of the Plan. The distribution provisions of
this Section 7.9 are subject to the consent requirements of this Article VII.

a. If the Participant separates from Service by reason of the attainment of
Normal Retirement Age, death or Disability, the Plan Administrator will direct
the Trustee to distribute the Eligible Portion not later than one year after the
close of the Plan Year in which that event occurs.

b. If the Participant separates from Service for any reason other than by reason
of the attainment of Normal Retirement Age, death or disability, the Plan
Administrator will direct the Trustee to distribute the Eligible Portion not
later than one year after the close of the Plan Year in which the Participant
incurs a Separation from Service. If the Participant resumes employment with the
Company on or before the last day of the fifth Plan Year following the Plan Year
of his or her Separation from Service, the distribution provisions of this
paragraph b. do not apply.

For purposes of this Section 7.9, Company Stock does not include any Company
Stock acquired with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan until the close of the Plan
Year in which the borrower repays the Exempt Loan in full.

Period of Payment. The Plan Administrator will direct the Trustee to make
distributions required under this Section 7.9 over a period not exceeding five
years. If a Participant’s Eligible Portion exceeds $800,000, the maximum payment
period is five years plus one additional year (but no more than five additional
years) for each $160,000 (or fraction thereof) by which the Eligible Portion
exceeds $800,000. The Plan Administrator will apply this Section 7.9 by
adjusting the $800,000 and $160,000 limitations by the adjustment factor
prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under Code § 415(d) and other
applicable provisions of the Code. In no event will the distribution period
exceed the period permitted under Section 7.6 of the Plan.

7.10 DIRECT ROLLOVER OF ELIGIBLE ROLLOVER DISTRIBUTIONS.

a. Participant Election. Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the
contrary that would otherwise limit a Participant’s election under this Section,
a Participant may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Plan
Administrator, to have any portion of an eligible rollover distribution paid
directly to an eligible retirement plan specified by the Participant in a direct
rollover designation. For purposes of this Section 7.10, a Participant includes
a Participant’s surviving spouse and the Participant’s spouse or former spouse
who is an alternate payee.

b. Rollover and Withholding Notice. At least 30 days and not more than 90 days
prior to the Trustee’s distribution of an eligible rollover distribution, the
Plan Administrator must provide a written notice (including a summary notice as
permitted under applicable Treasury regulations) explaining to the Participant
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mandatory 20 percent federal withholding to any amount not directly rollover
over, and the recipient’s right to roll over within 60 days after the date of
receipt of the distribution (“rollover notice.”) If applicable, the rollover
notice also must explain the availability of income averaging and the exclusion
if net unrealized appreciation. A recipient of an eligible rollover distribution
(whether he or she elects a direct rollover or elects to receive the
distribution) also may elect to receive distribution at any administratively
practicable time which is earlier than 30 days following receipt of the rollover
notice.

c. Default Rollover. In the event of a mandatory distribution greater than
$1,000 in accordance with the provisions of this Section 7.2, Section 7.9 or any
other provision of this Plan, if the Participant does not elect to have such
distribution paid directly to an eligible retirement plan specified by the
Participant in a direct rollover or to receive the distribution directly in
accordance with the applicable provision of this Plan, then the Plan
Administrator will pay the distribution in a direct rollover to an individual
retirement plan designated by the Plan Administrator.

d. Definitions. The following definitions apply to this Section 7.10:

(1) Eligible Rollover Distribution. An eligible rollover distribution is any
distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the credit of the
distributee, except that an eligible rollover distribution does not include:

(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 §
401(a)(9) of the Code;

(c) the portion of any distribution that is not includible in gross income
(determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with
respect to Company Stock); and

(2) Eligible Retirement Plan. An eligible retirement plan is an individual
retirement account described in § 408(a) of the Code, an individual retirement
annuity described in § 408(b) of the Code, an annuity plan described in § 403(a)
of the Code or a qualified trust described in § 401(a) of the Code that accepts
the distributee’s eligible rollover distribution. For Plan Years beginning after
December 31, 2001, an eligible retirement plan shall also mean an annuity
contract described in Code § 403(b) and an eligible plan under Code § 457(b)
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subdivision of a state and which agrees to separately account for amounts
transferred into such plan from this Plan. However, in the case of an eligible
rollover distribution to the surviving spouse, an eligible retirement plan is an
individual retirement account or individual retirement annuity. This definition
of eligible retirement plan shall also apply in the case of a distribution to a
surviving spouse, or to a spouse or former spouse who is the alternate payee
under a qualified domestic relations order as defined in Code § 415(p).

(3) Distributee. A distributee includes an Employee or former Employee and, in
addition, the Employee’s or former Employee’s surviving spouse and the
Employee’s or former Employee’s spouse or former spouse who is the alternate
payee under a qualified domestic relations order as defined with regard to the
interest of the spouse or former spouse.

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

(5) Mandatory Distribution. A mandatory distribution is a distribution to a
Participant that is made without the Participant’s consent and is made to the
Participant before he or she attains the older of age 62 or Normal Retirement
Age.

7.11 DISTRIBUTIONS UNDER DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDERS. Nothing contained in this
Plan prevents the Trustee, in accordance with the direction of the Plan
Administrator, from complying with the provisions of a qualified domestic
relations order (or “QDRO”) as defined in Code § 414(p). This Plan specifically
permits distribution to an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations
order at any time, irrespective of whether the Participant has attained his or
her earliest retirement age (as defined under Code § 414(p)) under the Plan. A
distribution to an alternate payee prior to the Participant’s attainment of
earliest retirement age is available only if: (a) the QDRO specifies
distribution at that time or permits an agreement between the Plan and the
alternate payee to authorize an earlier distribution; and (b) if the present
value of the alternate payee’s benefits under the Plan exceeds $1,000, and the
QDRO requires that the alternate payee consent to any distribution occurring
prior to the Participant’s attainment of the earliest retirement age. Nothing in
this Section 7.11 permits a Participant a right to receive distribution at a
time otherwise not permitted under the Plan nor does it permit the alternate
payee to receive a form of payment not permitted under the Plan.

The Plan Administrator must establish reasonable procedures to determine the
qualified status of a domestic relations order. Upon receiving a domestic
relations order, the Plan Administrator promptly will notify the Participant and
any alternate payee named in the order, in writing, of the receipt of the order
and Plan’s procedures for determining the qualified status of the order. Within
a reasonable period of time after receiving the domestic relations order, the
Plan Administrator must determine the qualified status of the order and must
notify the Participant and each alternate payee, in writing, of its
determination. The Plan Administrator must provide notice under this paragraph
by mailing to the individual’s address specified in the domestic relations
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If any portion of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance is payable during the
period the Plan Administrator is making its determination of the qualified
status of the domestic relations order, the Plan Administrator must make a
separate accounting of the amounts payable. If the Plan Administrator determines
the QDRO is a qualified domestic relations order within eighteen (18) months of
the date amounts first are payable following receipt of the order, the Plan
Administrator will direct the Trustee to distribute the payable amounts in
accordance with the QDRO. If the Plan Administrator does not make its
determination of the qualified status of the order within the eighteen
(18) month determination period, the Plan Administrator will direct the Trustee
to distribute the payable amounts in the manner the Plan would distribute if the
order did not exist and shall apply the order prospectively if the Plan
Administrator later determines the order is a QDRO.

To the extent it is not inconsistent with the provisions of the qualified
domestic relations order, the Plan Administrator may direct the Trustee to
invest any partitioned amount in a segregated subaccount or separate account and
to invest the account in Federally insured, interest-bearing savings accounts or
time deposits (or a combination of both), or in other fixed income investments.
A segregated subaccount remains a part of the Trust, but it alone shares in any
income it earns, and it alone bears any expense or loss it incurs. The Trustee
will make any payment or distribution required under this Section 7.11 by
separate benefit check or other separate distribution to the alternate payee(s).

7.12 DISTRIBUTION BEFORE SEPARATION FROM SERVICE AFTER ATTAINING AGE 62. For
Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2006, a Participant who has attained age
sixty-two (62) and remains employed by the Company shall have the right to elect
within ninety (90) days after the close of the Plan Year during which the
Participant attains age 62 and of any subsequent Plan Year to direct the Trustee
in writing to distribute 25 percent of the value of the Participant’s Account
Balance determined as of the Accounting Date of the Plan Year, reduced by the
aggregate amount of such distributions that have previously been made pursuant
to such an election, subject to the provisions of Code § 401(a)(36).

ARTICLE VIII

COMPANY ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

8.1 INFORMATION TO COMMITTEE. The Company must supply current information to the
Plan Administrator as to the name, date of birth, date of employment, annual
compensation, leaves of absence, Years of Service and date of Separation from
Service of each Employee who is, or who will be eligible to become, a
Participant under the Plan, together with any other information which the
Committee considers necessary. The Company’s records as to the current
information the Company furnishes to the Plan Administrator are conclusive as to
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8.2 NO LIABILITY. The Company assumes no obligation or responsibility or any of
its Employees, Participants or Beneficiaries for any act of, or failure to act,
on the part of its Committee or Trustee.

8.3 INDEMNITY OF COMMITTEE. The Company indemnifies and saves harmless the Plan
Administrator and the members of the Committee, and each of them, from and
against any and all loss resulting from liability to which the Plan
Administrator or the members of the Committee may be subjected by reason of any
act or conduct (except willful misconduct or gross negligence) in their official
capacities in the administration of this Trust or Plan or both, including all
expenses reasonably incurred in their defense, in case the Company fails to
provide such defense. The indemnification provisions of this Section 8.3 do not
relieve the Plan Administrator or any Plan Administrator member from any
liability it may have under the Act for breach of a fiduciary duty. Furthermore,
the Plan Administrator, members of the Committee and the Company may execute a
letter agreement further delineating the indemnification agreement of this
Section 8.3, provided the letter agreement must be consistent with and must not
violate ERISA. The indemnification provisions of this Section 8.3 extend to the
Trustee solely to the extent provided by a letter agreement executed by the
Trustee and the Company.

ARTICLE IX

PARTICIPANT ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

9.1 BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION. Any Participant may from time to time designate, in
writing, any person or persons, contingently or successively, to whom the
Trustee shall pay his or her Vested Account Balance on event of the
Participant’s death and the Participant may designate the time of payment. The
Plan Administrator shall prescribe the form for the written designation of
Beneficiary and, upon the Participant’s filing the form with the Plan
Administrator, the form effectively revokes all designations filed prior to that
date by the same Participant.

A married Participant’s Beneficiary designation is not valid unless the
Participant’s spouse consents, in writing, to the Beneficiary designation. The
spouse’s consent must acknowledge the effect of that consent and a notary public
or the Plan Administrator (or its representative) must witness that consent. The
espousal consent requirements of this paragraph do not apply if: (a) the
Participant and his or her spouse are not married throughout the one year period
ending on the date of the Participant’s death; (b) the Participant’s spouse is
the Participant’s sole primary beneficiary; (c) the Plan Administrator is not
able to locate the Participant’s spouse; (d) the Participant is legally
separated or has been abandoned (within the meaning of applicable state law) and
the Participant has a court order to that effect; or (e) other circumstances
exist under which the Secretary of the Treasury will excuse the consent
requirement. If the Participant’s spouse is legally incompetent to give consent,
the spouse’s legal guardian (even if the guardian is the Participant) may give
consent.

9.2 NO BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION. If a Participant fails to name a Beneficiary in
accordance with Section 9.1, or if the Beneficiary named predeceases the
Participant or dies before complete distribution of the Participant’s Account
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Beneficiary form, then the Trustee will pay the Participant’s Account Balance in
accordance with Section 7.2 in the following order of priority to:

a. the Participant’s surviving spouse;

b. the Participant’s surviving children, including adopted children, in equal
shares;

c. the Participant’s surviving parents, in equal shares; or

d. the legal representative of the estate of the last to die of the Participant
and his or her Beneficiary.

The Plan Administrator will direct the Trustee as to the method and to whom the
Trustee will make payment under this Section 9.2.

9.3 PERSONAL DATA TO COMMITTEE. Each Participant and each Beneficiary of a
deceased Participant must furnish to the Plan Administrator such evidence, data
or information as the Plan Administrator considers necessary or desirable for
the purpose of administering the Plan. The provisions of this Plan are effective
for the benefit of each Participant upon the condition precedent that each
Participant will furnish promptly full, true and complete evidence, data and
information when requested by the Plan Administrator, provided the Plan
Administrator advises each Participant of the effect of his or her failure to
comply with its request.

9.4 ADDRESS FOR NOTIFICATION. Each Participant and each Beneficiary of a
deceased Participant shall file with the Plan Administrator from time to time,
in writing, his or her post office address and any change of post office
address. Any communication, statement or notice addressed to a Participant, or
Beneficiary, at his or her last post office address filed with the Plan
Administrator, or as shown on the records of the Company, binds the Participant,
or Beneficiary, for all purposes of this Plan.

9.5 ASSIGNMENT OR ALIENATION. Subject to Code § 414(p) relating to qualified
domestic relations orders, neither a Participant nor a Beneficiary may
anticipate, assign or alienate (either at law or in equity) any benefit provided
under the Plan, and the Trustee will not recognize any such anticipation,
assignment or alienation. Furthermore, a benefit under the Plan is not subject
to attachment, garnishment, levy, execution or other legal or equitable process.

9.6 NOTICE OF CHANGE IN TERMS. The Plan Administrator, within the time
prescribed by ERISA and the applicable regulations, must furnish all
Participants and Beneficiaries a summary description of any material amendment
to the Plan or notice of discontinuance of the Plan and all other information
required by ERISA to be furnished without charge.

 

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9.7 LITIGATION AGAINST THE TRUST. A court of competent jurisdiction may
authorize any appropriate equitable relief to redress violations of ERISA or to
enforce any provisions of ERISA or the terms of the Plan. A fiduciary may
receive reimbursement of expenses properly and actually incurred in the
performance of its duties with the Plan.

9.8 INFORMATION AVAILABLE. Any Participant in the Plan or any Beneficiary may
examine copies of the Plan description, latest annual report, any bargaining
agreement, this Agreement or any other instrument under which the Plan was
established or is operated. The Plan Administrator will maintain all of the
items listed in this Section 9.8 in its office, or in such other place or places
as it may designate from time to time in order to comply with the regulations
issued under ERISA, for examination during reasonable business hours. Upon the
written consent of a Participant or Beneficiary, the Plan Administrator will
furnish him or her with a copy of any item listed in this Section 9.8. The Plan
Administrator may make a reasonable charge to the requesting person for the copy
so furnished.

9.9 APPEAL PROCEDURE FOR DENIAL OF BENEFITS. The Plan Administrator shall
provide adequate notice in writing to any Participant or to any Beneficiary
(“Claimant”) whose claim for benefits under the Plan the Plan Administrator has
denied. The Plan Administrator’s notice to the Claimant must set forth:

a. the specific reason for the denial;

b. specific references to pertinent Plan provisions on which the Plan
Administrator based its denial;

c. a description of any additional material and information needed for the
Claimant to perfect his or her claim and an explanation of why the material or
information is needed; and

d. that any appeal the Claimant wishes to make of the adverse determination must
be in writing to the Plan Administrator within seventy-five (75) days after
receipt of the Plan Administrator’s notice of denial of benefits. The Plan
Administrator’s notice must further advise the Claimant that his or her failure
to appeal the action to the Plan Administrator in writing within the
seventy-five (75) day period will render the Plan Administrator’s determination
final, binding and conclusive.

If the Claimant should appeal to the Plan Administrator, the Claimant, or his or
her duly authorized representative, may submit, in writing, whatever issues and
comments he or she feels are pertinent. The Claimant, or his or her duly
authorized representative, may review pertinent Plan documents. The Plan
Administrator will re-examine all facts related to the appeal and make a final
determination as to whether the denial of benefits is justified under the
circumstances. The Plan Administrator will advise the Claimant of its decision
within sixty (60) days of the Claimant’s written request for review, unless
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decision within the sixty (60) day limit unfeasible, but in no event may the
Plan Administrator render a decision respecting a denial for a claim for
benefits later than one hundred twenty (120) days after its receipt of a request
for review.

The Plan Administrator’s notice of denial of benefits must identify the name of
each member of the Plan Administrator and the name and address of the Plan
Administrator member to whom the Claimant may forward his or her appeal.

9.10 PARTICIPANT DIRECTION OF INVESTMENT. Except as provided in this
Section 9.10, a Participant does not have the right to direct the Trustee with
respect to the investment or reinvestment of the assets comprising the
Participant’s Account. Each Qualified Participant may direct the Trustee as to
the investment of 25 percent of the value of the Participant’s Account Balance
attributable to Company Stock (the “Eligible Account Balance”) within 90 days
after the Accounting Date of each Plan Year (to the extent a direction amount
exceeds the amount to which a prior direction under this Section 9.10 applies)
during the Participant’s Qualified Election Period. For the last Plan Year in
the Participant’s Qualified Election Period, the Trustee will substitute “50
percent” for “25 percent” in the immediately preceding sentence. The Qualified
Participant must make his or her direction to the Trustee in writing, the
direction may be effective no later than 180 days after the close of the Plan
Year to which the direction applies, and the direction must specify which, if
any, of the investment options the Participant selects.

A Qualified Participant may choose one of the following investment options:

a. The distribution of the portion of his or her Eligible Account Balance
covered by the election. The Trustee will make the distribution within 90 days
after the last day of the period during which the Qualified Participant may make
the election. The provisions of this Plan applicable to a distribution of
Company Stock apply to this investment option.

b. The direct transfer of the portion of his or her Eligible Account Balance
covered by the election to another qualified plan of the Company which accepts
such transfers, but only if the transferee plan permits employee-directed
investment and does not invest in Company Stock to a substantial degree. The
Trustee will make the direct transfer no later than 90 days after the last day
of the period during which the Qualified Participant may make the election.

For purposes of this Section 9.10, the following definitions apply:

(1) “Qualified Participant” means a Participant who has attained age 55 and who
has completed at least 10 years of participation in the Plan, subject to the
terms of Code § 401(a)(28)(B). A “year of participation” means a Plan Year in
which the Participant was eligible for an allocation of Company contributions,
irrespective of whether the Company actually contributed to the Plan for that
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(2) “Qualified Election Period” means the six (6) Plan Year period beginning
with the Plan Year in which the Participant first becomes a Qualified
Participant, subject to the terms of Code § 401(a)(28)(B).

A Participant’s right under this Section 9.10 to direct the investment of his or
her Account applies solely to Company Stock acquired by the Plan after
December 31, 1986.

ARTICLE X

THE COMMITTEE

10.1 GENERAL. The general administration of the Plan and responsibility for
carrying out the provisions thereof shall be placed in the Committee. The Board
of Directors of the Company shall determine the number of members of the
Committee and shall appoint the members of the Committee who will remain in
office at the will of such Board of Directors. The Committee shall have all the
powers necessary or proper to accomplish the administration of this Plan,
including, without limitation, the powers set forth in this Agreement.

Any person hereinafter appointed a member of the Committee shall signify his or
her acceptance to the Company. The Company will apprise the Trustee concerning
changes in the membership of the Committee. Any member of the Committee may
resign by notifying the Company of his or her resignation. In case of a vacancy
in the membership of the Committee, the remaining members of the Committee may
exercise any and all of the powers, authority, duties and discretion conferred
upon the Committee pending the filling of the vacancy. Vacancies in the
membership of the Committee shall be filled by resolution of the Board of
Directors of the Company.

10.2 COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES. Members of the Committee shall serve without
compensation. If liability insurance is purchased for any members of the
Committee with the consent of the Company’s Board of Directors, it shall be paid
by the Company. The Committee may appoint such other agents, who need not be
members of the Committee, as the Committee deems necessary for the performance
of its duties. The compensation of such agents shall be determined by the
Committee with the consent of the Company’s Board of Directors. The compensation
of such agents plus proper expenses of the Committee will be paid by the
Company.

10.3 POWERS. The Committee has the following powers and duties:

a. To direct the Trustee in regard to investment of the Trust Fund as provided
in Section 11.3;

b. To determine the rights of eligibility of an Employee to participate in the
Plan, the value of a Participant’s Plan Benefit and the Vested percentage of
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c. To adopt rules of procedure and regulations necessary for the proper and
efficient administration of the Plan provided the rules are not inconsistent
with the terms of this Agreement;

d. To construe and enforce the terms of the Plan and the rules and regulations
it adopts, including interpretation of this Agreement and any document related
to the administration of the Plan;

e. To deliver, as soon as reasonably convenient after the contributions of the
Company have been determined for the year, to the Trustee a record disclosing
the names of Participants, the exact amount of the Company’s contribution
allocated to their respective Accounts and the applicable amount of Compensation
for the Plan Year.

f. To notify the Trustee of a Participant’s or Beneficiary’s right to a
distribution of Plan Benefits, including the Vested percentage of Plan Benefits
to be paid and the distribution options available, and to direct the Trustee as
respects the crediting and distribution of the Trust;

g. To review and render decisions respecting a claim for (or denial of a claim
for) a benefit under the Plan;

h. To furnish the Company with information which the Company may require for tax
or other purposes;

i. To engage the service of agents and counsel and such clerical, medical,
accounting and actuarial services as the Committee may deem advisable to carry
out the provisions of the Plan and to perform its duties;

j. To engage the services of an Investment Manager or managers (as defined in
ERISA Section 3(38)), each of whom shall have full power and authority to
manage, acquire or dispose (or direct the Trustee with respect to acquisition or
disposition) of any Plan asset under its control;

k. to adjust and settle all claims, on behalf of all persons having or claiming
any interest in the Trust or under the Plan, against the Trust; and

l. To make any other determinations the Committee believes are necessary and
advisable for the administration of the Plan.

The Committee must exercise all of its powers, duties and discretion under the
Plan in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner. Any determination made by the
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10.4 AVAILABILITY OF PLAN DOCUMENTS. The Committee shall make available to each
Participant hereunder a copy of this Plan at the principal office of the Company
during business hours. The Committee shall also issue explanatory material to
the Participants describing the Plan. In the event of any conflict between the
terms of the Plan as set forth in this Agreement and as set forth in such
material, this Agreement shall control.

10.5 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. Any member of the Committee shall be free from all
liability, joint or several, for their acts and conduct, and for the acts and
conduct of their agents, in the administration of the Plan, and the Company
shall indemnify and save them and each of them harmless from any and all
liability for their acts and conduct or the acts and conduct of their agents in
their official capacity, except as prohibited by ERISA Section 410 or to the
extent that such liability results from their own willful misconduct.

10.6 FUNDING POLICY. The Committee will review, not less often than annually,
all pertinent Employee information and Plan data in order to establish the
funding policy of the Plan and to determine the appropriate methods of carrying
out the Plan’s objectives. The Committee must communicate periodically, as it
deems appropriate, to the Trustee and to any Plan Investment Manager the Plan’s
short-term and long-term financial needs so investment policy can be coordinated
with Plan financial requirements.

10.7 MANNER OF ACTION. The Committee shall hold meetings for the purpose of
acting upon all matters within the scope of its authority upon such notice, at
such place or places, and such time or times as it may from time to time
determine. A majority of the members of the Committee at the time in office
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. A secretary may be
appointed by the Committee (who may or may not be a member of such Committee) to
keep records of all meetings and acts of the Committee and to have custody of
all documents, the preservation of which shall be necessary or convenient in the
efficient operation of the Plan. An assistant secretary may also be appointed by
the Committee.

All resolutions adopted or other actions taken by the Committee and any
direction to the Trustee relating to investments in the Trust Fund shall be by
the affirmative action of a majority of the Committee members; but any direction
to the Trustee not related to investments in the Trust Fund may be signed by any
designated member of said Committee. No member of the Committee shall
participate in any decision of the Committee solely affecting his or her own
rights or benefits under the Plan.

The decision of a majority of the members appointed and qualified controls.

10.8 AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE. The Committee may authorize any one (1) of its
members, or its secretary, to sign on its behalf any notices, directions,
applications, certificates, consents, approvals, waivers, letters or other
documents. The Committee must evidence this authority by an instrument signed by
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10.9 INTERESTED MEMBER. No member of the Committee may decide or determine any
matter concerning the distribution, nature or method of settlement of his or her
own rights or benefits under the Plan, except in exercising an election
available to that member in his or her capacity as a Participant.

10.10 INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS. The Committee will maintain, or direct the Trustee to
maintain, a separate Account, or multiple separate Accounts, in the name of each
Participant to reflect the Participant’s Account Balance. The Committee will
maintain for a Participant one Account designated as the “Company Stock Account”
to reflect a Participant’s interest in Company Stock held by the Trust and
another Account designated as the “General Investments Account” to reflect the
Participant’s interest in the Trust Fund attributable to assets other than
Company Stock. If a Participant re-enters the Plan subsequent to his or her
having a Forfeiture Break in Service (as defined in Section 6.7), the Committee,
or the Trustee, must maintain a separate Account for the Participant’s
pre-Forfeiture Break in Service Account Balance and a separate Account for his
or her post-Forfeiture Break in Service Account Balance unless the Participant’s
entire Account Balance under the Plan is 100 percent Nonforfeitable.

The Committee will make its allocations, or request the Trustee to make its
allocations, to the Accounts of the Participants in accordance with the
provisions of Section 10.12. The Committee may direct the Trustee to maintain a
temporary segregated investment Account in the name of a Participant to prevent
a distortion of income, gain or loss allocations under Section 10.12. The
Committee must maintain records of its activities.

10.11 VALUE OF PARTICIPANT’S ACCOUNT BALANCE. The value of each Participant’s
Account Balance consists of that proportion of the net worth (at Fair Market
Value) of the Trust Fund which the net credit balance in his or her Account
bears to the total net credit balance in the Accounts of all Participants as of
the applicable Accounting Date. For purposes of a distribution under the Plan,
the value of a Participant’s Account Balance attributable to his or her General
Investments Account is its value as of the Accounting Date (or the “valuation
date” as defined in Section 10.12) immediately preceding the date of
distribution.

10.12 ALLOCATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF NET INCOME AND GAIN OR LOSS TO
PARTICIPANTS’ ACCOUNTS. A “valuation date” under this Plan is each Accounting
Date. As of each valuation date, the Committee will adjust the General
Investment Accounts to reflect net income, gain or loss since the last valuation
date. The valuation period is the period beginning the day after the last
valuation date and ending on the current valuation date.

a. Company Stock Account. As of the Accounting Date of each Plan Year, the
Committee first will reduce Company Stock Accounts for any Forfeitures arising
under Section 6.8 and then will credit the Company Stock Account maintained for
each Participant with the Participant’s allocable share of Company Stock
(including fractional shares) purchased and paid for by the Trust or contributed
in kind to the Trust, with any Forfeitures of Company Stock and with any stock
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Company Stock Account. The Committee will allocate Company Stock acquired with
an Exempt Loan under Section 11.3b. in accordance with that Section, subject,
however, to the provisions of paragraph c. of this Section 10.12. Except as
otherwise specifically provided in Section 11.3b., the Committee will base
allocations to the Participant’s Accounts on dollar values expressed as shares
of Company Stock or on the basis of actual shares where there is a single class
of Company Stock. In making a forfeiture reduction under this Section 10.11, the
Committee, to the extent possible, first will forfeit from a Participant’s
General Investments Account before making a forfeiture from his or her Company
Stock Account.

b. General Investments Account. The allocation provisions of this paragraph
apply to all Participant General Investment Accounts other than segregated
investment Accounts. The Committee first will adjust the Participant General
Investment Accounts, as those Accounts stood at the beginning of the current
valuation period, by reducing the Accounts for any Forfeitures arising under the
Plan for amounts charged during the valuation period to any Accounts in
accordance with Section 10.14 (relating to distributions) and for the amount of
any General Investment Account which the Trustee has fully distributed since the
immediately preceding valuation date. The Committee then, subject to the
restoration allocation requirements of Section 6.3 or of Section 10.15, will
allocate the net income, gain or loss pro rata to the adjusted Participant
General Investment Accounts. The allocable net income, gain or loss is the net
income (or net loss), including the increase or decrease in the Fair Market
Value of assets, since the last valuation date. In making its allocation under
this Section 10.12b. the Committee will exclude Company Stock and interest paid
by the Trust on an Exempt Loan.

c. Dividends on Company Stock. The Committee will allocate any cash dividends
the Company pays with respect to Company Stock to the General Investments
Accounts of Participants in the same ratio, determined on the dividend
declaration date, that Company Stock allocated to a Participant’s Company Stock
Account bears to the Company Stock allocated to all Company Stock Accounts. The
Committee will not allocate to the General Investments Accounts any cash
dividends the Company directs the Trustee to apply to the payment of an Exempt
Loan. If the Company directs the Trustee to apply cash dividends on Company
Stock to the payment of an Exempt Loan, the Committee first will allocate the
released Company Stock to the Participants’ Company Stock Accounts in the same
ratio, determined on the dividend declaration date, that Company Stock allocated
to a Participant’s Company Stock Account bears to the Company Stock allocated to
all Company Stock Accounts. This first allocation of released Company Stock must
equal the greater of: (1) the shares of released Company Stock equal to the Fair
Market Value of the cash dividends attributable to the allocated Company Stock;
or (2) the number of shares of all released Company Stock attributable to the
cash dividends on allocated Company Stock. If any released Company Stock remains
unallocated after the first allocation, the Committee will allocate these
remaining released Company Stock under Section 5.02 as if the Company has made a
Company contribution equal to the amount of the cash dividend attributable to
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d. Segregated Investment Accounts. A segregated investment Account receives all
income it earns and bears all expense or loss it incurs. As of the valuation
date, the Committee must reduce a segregated Account for any Forfeiture arising
under Section 6.8 after the Committee has made all other allocations, changes or
adjustments to the Account for the Plan Year.

e. Additional Rules. An Excess Amount or suspense account described in Part 2 of
Article V does not share in the allocation of net income, gain or loss described
in this Section 10.12b. This Section 10.12b. applies solely to the allocation of
net income, gain or loss of the Trust. The Committee will allocate the Company
contributions and Forfeitures, if any, in accordance with Article V. For this
purpose, the Plan Administrator will allocate any gain or net income with
respect to a Company contribution made during the Plan Year, but before the
Accounting Date to which the contribution relates, as part of the Company
contribution for that Plan Year.

f. Allocation Restriction. To the extent a shareholder sells Company Stock to
the Trust and elects (with the consent of the Company) nonrecognition of gain
under Code § 1042, the Committee will not, directly or indirectly, allocate
under the Plan (or under any qualified plan of the Company), during the
nonallocation period any portion of the purchased Company Stock to:

(1) the selling shareholder;

(2) the selling shareholder’s spouse, brothers or sisters (whether by the whole
or half blood), ancestors or lineal descendants; or

(3) any shareholder owning (as determined under Code § 318(a)) more than 25
percent in value or 25 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of stock
of the corporation which issues the Company Stock or of a corporation which is a
Related Employer.

For purposes of this Section 10.12f., the term “Shareholder” includes the
shareholder’s executor and the term “purchased Company Stock” includes any
dividends or other income attributable to the purchased Company Stock and any
amounts allocated in lieu of the purchased Company Stock. The allocation
restrictions of this Section 10.12f. apply to a lineal descendant of a selling
shareholder only to the extent the allocation of the purchased Company Stock
otherwise allocable during the nonallocation period to all such lineal
descendants would exceed, in the aggregate, 5 percent of the total purchased
Company Stock unless any lineal descendant is, directly or indirectly, a more
than 25 percent shareholder. The “nonallocation” period begins on the date of
the sale of Company Stock and ends on the later of: (a) ten years after the sale
date or (b) the date the Plan makes the final allocation of leverage Company
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10.13 INDIVIDUAL STATEMENT. As soon as practicable after the Accounting Date of
each Plan Year but within the time prescribed by ERISA and the regulations under
ERISA, the Committee will deliver to each Participant (and to each Beneficiary)
a statement reflecting the condition of his or her Account Balance in the Trust
as of that date and such other information ERISA requires be furnished the
Participant or Beneficiary. No Participant, except a member of the Committee,
has the right to inspect the records reflecting the Account of any other
Participant.

10.14 ACCOUNT CHARGED. The Committee will charge all distributions made to a
Participant or to his or her Beneficiary from his or her Account against the
Account of the Participant when made. The Committee also will charge a
Participant’s Account for any reasonable administrative expenses incurred by the
Plan directly related to that Account.

10.15 LOST PARTICIPANTS. If the Committee is unable to locate any Participant or
Beneficiary whose Account becomes distributable under Article VII or under
Section 13.4 (a “Lost Participant”), the Committee will apply the provisions of
this Section 10.15.

a. Attempt to Locate. The Committee will use one or more of the following
methods to attempt to locate a lost Participant: (1) provide a distribution
notice to the lost Participant at his/her last known address by certified or
registered mail; (2) use of the IRS letter forwarding program under Rev. Proc.
94-22; (3) use of a commercial locator service, the internet or other general
search method; or (4) use of the Social Security Administration search program.

b. Failure to Locate. If a lost Participant remains unlocated for six months
following the date of the Committee first attempts to locate the lost
Participant using one or more of the methods described in Section 10.15a., the
Committee may forfeit the lost Participant’s Account. If the Committee will
forfeit the lost Participant’s Account, the Forfeiture occurs at the end of the
above-described six month period and the Committee will allocate the Forfeiture
in accordance with Section 5.5. If a lost Participant whose Account was
forfeited thereafter at any time but before the Plan has been terminated makes a
claim for his/her forfeited Account, the Committee will restore the forfeited
Account to the same dollar amount as the amount forfeited, unadjusted for net
income, gains or losses occurring subsequent to the Forfeiture. The Committee
will make the restoration in the Plan Year in which the lost Participant makes
the claim, first from the amount, if any, of Forfeitures the Committee otherwise
would allocate for the Plan Year, then from the amount, if any, of Trust net
income or gain for the Plan Year and last from the amount or additional amount
the Company contributes to the Plan for the Plan Year. The Committee will
distribute the restored Account to the lost Participant not later than 60 days
after the close of the Plan Year in which the Committee restores the forfeited
Account.

c. Nonexclusivity and Uniformity. The provisions of this Section 10.15 are
intended to provide permissible but not exclusive means for the Committee to
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locate lost Participants and to administer the Accounts of lost Participants,
including the default rollover under Section 7.10c. and such other methods as
the Internal Revenue Service or the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) may in the
future specify. The Committee will apply this Section 10.15 in a reasonable,
uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, but may in determining a specific course
of action as to a particular Account, reasonably take into account differing
circumstances such as the amount of a lost Participant’s Account, the expense in
attempting to locate a lost Participant, the Committee’s ability to establish
and the expense of establishing a rollover IRA, and other factors. The Committee
may charge to the Account of a lost Participant the reasonable expenses incurred
under this Section 10.15 and which are associated with the lost Participant’s
Account.

10.16 PLAN CORRECTION. The Committee in conjunction with the Company may
undertake such correction of Plan errors as the Committee deems necessary,
including correction to preserve tax qualification of the Plan under Code §
401(a) or to correct a fiduciary breach under ERISA. Without limiting the
Committee’s authority under the prior sentence, the Committee, as it determines
to be reasonable and appropriate, may undertake correction of Plan document,
operational, demographic and employer eligibility failures under a method
described in the Plan or under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System
(“EPCRS”) or any successor program to EPCRS. The Committee, as it determines to
be reasonable and appropriate, also may undertake or assist the appropriate
fiduciary or plan official in undertaking correction of a fiduciary breach,
including correction under the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program (“VFC”) or
any successor program to VFC.

10.17 NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR OTHERS. Except as required under ERISA, the
Committee has no responsibility or obligation under the Plan to Participants or
Beneficiaries for any act (unless the Committee also serves in such capacities)
required of the Company, the Trustee or of any other service provider to the
Plan. The Committee is not responsible to collect any required plan contribution
or to determine the correctness or deductibility or any Company contribution.
The Committee in administering the Plan is entitled to, but is not required to
rely upon, information which a Participant, Beneficiary, Trustee, the Company, a
Plan service provider or a representatives thereof provides to the Committee.

ARTICLE XI

TRUSTEE POWERS AND DUTIES

11.1 ACCEPTANCE. The Trustee accepts the Trust created under this Agreement and
agrees to perform the obligations imposed. The Trustee shall provide bond for
the faithful performance of its duties under the Trust to the extent required by
ERISA.

11.2 RECEIPT OF CONTRIBUTIONS. The Trustee is accountable to the Company for the
funds contributed to it by the Company, but does not have any duty to see that
the contributions received comply with the provisions of the Plan. The Trustee
is not obliged to collect any contributions from the Company, nor is it obliged
to see that funds deposited with it are deposited according to the provisions of
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11.3 TRUSTEE’S INVESTMENT.

a. Subject to the directions of the Committee, the Trustee has discretion and
authority with regard to the investment of the Trust Fund, except with respect
to a Plan asset under the control or direction of a properly appointed
Investment Manager. The Trustee must coordinate its investment policy with Plan
financial needs as communicated to it by the Committee. The Trustee is
authorized and empowered, but not by way of limitation, with the following
powers, rights and duties:

(1) unless directed otherwise by the Committee, to invest the Trust Fund
primarily in Company Stock (“primarily” meaning the authority to hold and to
acquire not more than 100 percent of the Trust Fund in Company Stock) and to
invest any part or all of the Trust Fund in any common or preferred stocks,
open-end or closed-end mutual funds, put and call options, traded on a national
exchange, United States retirement plan bonds, corporate bonds, debentures,
convertible debentures, commercial paper, U.S. Treasury Bills, U.S. Treasury
Notes and other direct or indirect obligations of the United States Government
or its agencies, improved or unimproved real estate situated in the United
States, limited partnerships, insurance contracts of any type, mortgages, notes
or other property of any kind, real or personal, and to buy or sell options on
common stock on a nationally recognized exchange with or without holding the
underlying common stock, and to make any other investments the Trustee deems
appropriate, as a prudent person would do under like circumstances with due
regard for the purposes of this Plan. Any investment made or retained by the
Trustee in good faith is proper but must be of a kind (with the exception of
Company Stock) constituting a diversification considered by law suitable for
trust investments.

(2) to retain in cash so much of the Trust Fund as it may deem advisable to
satisfy liquidity needs of the Plan and to deposit any cash held in the Trust
Fund in a bank account at reasonable interest. If the Trustee is a bank or
similar financial institution supervised by the United States or by a state,
this paragraph (b) includes specific authority to invest in any type of deposit
of the Trustee (or of a bank related to the Trustee within the meaning of Code §
414(b)) at a reasonable rate of interest or in a common trust fund (the
provisions of which govern the investment of such assets and which the Plan
incorporates by this reference) as described in Code § 584 which the Trustee (or
its affiliate as defined in Code § 1504) maintains exclusively for the
collective investment of money contributed by the bank in its capacity as
Trustee and which conforms to the rules of the Comptroller of the Currency;

(3) to borrow funds from such sources, including, without limitation, the
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Committee and to repay such indebtedness and the cost thereof out of dividend
income, contributions and, if necessary, proceeds from the sale of assets of the
Trust Fund;

(4) to manage, sell, contract to sell, grant options to purchase, convey,
exchange, transfer, abandon, improve, repair, insure, lease for any term even
though commencing in the future or extending beyond the term of the Trust, and
otherwise deal with all property, real or personal, in such manner, for such
considerations and on such terms and conditions as the Trustee decides;

(5) to credit and distribute the Trust as directed by the Committee. The Trustee
is not obliged to inquire as to whether any payee or distributee is entitled to
any payment or whether the distribution is proper or within the terms of the
Plan, or as to the manner of making any payment or distribution. The Trustee is
accountable only to the Committee for any payment or distribution made by it in
good faith on the order or direction of the Committee;

(6) to issues notes or other obligations or otherwise borrow money, to assume
indebtedness, extend mortgages and encumber by mortgage or pledge;

(7) to compromise, contest, contest, arbitrate or abandon claims and demands, in
its discretion;

(8) to vote, subject to Section 11.16 and applicable provisions of the Code, all
voting stock held by the Trust Fund;

(9) to lease for oil, gas and other mineral purposes and to create mineral
severances by grant or reservation; to pool or unitize interests in oil, gas and
other minerals; and to enter into operating agreements and to execute division
and transfer orders;

(10) to hold any securities or other property in the name of the Trustee or its
nominee, with depositories or agent depositories, or in another form as it may
deem best, with or without disclosing the trust relationship;

(11) to perform any and all other acts in its judgment necessary or appropriate
for the proper and advantageous management, investment and distribution of the
Trust;

(12) to retain any funds or property subject to any dispute without liability
for the payment of interest, and to decline to make payment or delivery of the
funds or property until final adjudication is made by a court of competent
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(13) to file all tax returns required of the Trustee;

(14) to furnish to the Company and the Committee an annual statement of account
showing the condition of the Trust Fund and all investment, receipts,
disbursements and other transactions effected by the Trustee during the Plan
Year covered by the statement and also stating the assets of the Trust held at
the end of the Plan Year, which accounts shall be conclusive on all persons,
including the Company and the Committee, except as to any act or transaction
concerning which the Company and the Committee files with the Trustee written
exceptions or objections within ninety (90) days after the receipt of the
accounts, or for which ERISA authorizes a longer period within which to object;
and

(15) to begin, maintain or defend any litigation necessary in connection with
the administration of the Plan, except that the Trustee is not obliged or
required to do so unless indemnified to its satisfaction.

b. Exempt Loan. This Section 11.3b. specifically authorizes the Trustee to enter
into an Exempt Loan transaction. The following terms and conditions will apply
to any Exempt Loan:

(1) The Trustee will use the proceeds of the loan within a reasonable time after
receipt only for any or all of the following purposes: (a) to acquire Company
Stock, (b) to repay such loan, or (c) to repay a prior Exempt Loan. Except as
provided under Article XIII, no Company Stock Security acquired with the
proceeds of an Exempt Loan may be subject to a put, call or other option, or
buy-sell or similar arrangement while held by and when distributed from this
Plan, whether or not this Plan is then an employee stock ownership plan.

(2) The interest rate of the loan may not be more than a reasonable rate of
interest.

(3) Any collateral the Trustee pledges to the creditor must consist only of the
assets purchased by the borrowed funds and those assets the Trust used as
collateral on the prior Exempt Loan repaid with the proceeds of the current
Exempt Loan.

(4) The creditor may have no recourse against the Trust under the loan except
with respect to such collateral given for the loan, contributions (other than
contributions of Company Stock) that the Company makes to the Trust to meet its
obligations under the loan, and earnings attributable to such collateral and the
investment of such contributions. The payment made with respect to an Exempt
Loan by the Plan during a Plan Year must not exceed an amount equal to the sum
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prior years. The Committee and the Trustee must account separately for such
contributions and earnings in the books of account of the Plan until the Trust
repays the loan.

(5) In the event of default upon the loan, the value of Plan assets transferred
in satisfaction of the loan must not exceed the amount of the default, and if
the lender is a Disqualified Person, the loan must provide for transfer of Plan
assets upon default only upon and to the extent of the failure of the Plan to
meet the payment schedule of the loan.

(6) The Trustee must add and maintain all assets acquired with the proceeds of
an Exempt Loan in a suspense Account referred to in this Article XI as the
“Exempt Loan Suspense Account.” Separate suspense accounts shall be maintained
if more than one loan is present, and separate calculations shall be made for
each loan. In withdrawing assets from the Suspense Account, the Trustee will
apply the provisions of Treas. Reg. §§ 54.4975-7(b)(8) and (15) as if all
securities in the Exempt Loan Suspense Account were encumbered.

(7) During the duration of the Exempt Loan, upon the payment of any portion of
the loan, the Trustee will effect the release of assets in the Exempt Loan
Suspense Account from encumbrances. For each Plan Year during the duration of
the loan, the number of shares of Company Stock released must equal the number
of encumbered shares of Company Stock held immediately before release for the
current Plan Year multiplied by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the
amount of principal paid for the Plan Year. The denominator of the fraction is
the sum of the numerator plus the principal to be paid for all future Plan
Years. The number of future Plan Years under the loan must be definitely
ascertainable and must be determined without taking into account any possible
extension or renewal periods. If the interest rate under the loan is variable,
the interest to be paid in future Plan Years must be computed by using the
interest rate applicable as of the end of the Plan Year. If collateral includes
more than one class of Company Stock, the number of shares of Company Stock of
each class to be released for a Plan Year must be determined by applying the
same fraction to each such class. The Committee will allocate assets withdrawn
from the Exempt Loan Suspense Account to the Accounts of Participants who
otherwise share in the allocation of the Company’s contribution for the Plan
Year for which the Trustee has paid the portion of the loan resulting in the
release of the assets. The Committee consistently will make this allocation as
of each Accounting Date on the basis of non-monetary units, taking into account
the relative Compensation of all such Participants for such Plan Year.

The foregoing allocation method shall apply only if the loan provides for annual
payments of principal and interest at a cumulative rate that is not less rapid
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shares released from encumbrance shall be determined solely with reference to
principal payments, and interest included in any payments shall be disregarded
only to the extent that the interest would be determined to be interest under
standard loan amortization tables. If at any time, by reason of a renewal,
extension or refinancing, the sum of the expired duration of the exempt loan,
the renewal period, the extension period and the duration of a new exempt loan
exceeds ten (10) years, or if, at any time, the other terms and conditions of
this subparagraph (7) are not met, then from such time shares of Company Stock
shall be released pursuant to subparagraph (8) below.

(8) If the allocation method set forth in subparagraph (7) is not applicable,
then upon the payment of any portion of the loan, the Trustee will effect the
release of assets in the Exempt Loan Suspense Account from encumbrances in
accordance with this subparagraph (8). For each Plan Year during the duration of
the loan, the number of shares of Company Stock released must equal the number
of encumbered shares of Company Stock held immediately before release for the
current Plan Year multiplied by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the
amount of principal and interest paid for the Plan Year. The denominator of the
fraction is the sum of the numerator plus the principal and interest to be paid
for all future Plan Years. The number of future Plan Years under the loan must
be definitely ascertainable and must be determined without taking into account
any possible extension or renewal periods. If the interest rate under the loan
is variable, the interest to be paid in future Plan Years must be computed by
using the interest rate applicable as of the end of the Plan Year. If collateral
includes more than one class of Company Stock, the number of shares of Company
Stock of each class to be released for a Plan Year must be determined by
applying the same fraction to each such class. The Committee will allocate
assets withdrawn from the Exempt Loan Suspense Account to the Accounts of
Participants who otherwise share in the allocation of the Company’s contribution
for the Plan Year for which the Trustee has paid the portion of the loan
resulting in the release of the assets. The Committee consistently will make
this allocation as of each Accounting Date on the basis of non-monetary units,
taking into account the relative Compensation of all such Participants for such
Plan Year.

(9) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if the Plan
acquires shares of Company Stock with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan, and the
Lender for such Exempt Loan utilizes the interest exclusion available under Code
§ 133, then each Participant shall be entitled to direct the Trustee as to the
manner in which shares of Company Stock allocated to the Participant’s Account
which were acquired with the proceeds of such Exempt Loan are to be voted on all
matters with respect to which such shares are entitled to vote.

(10) The loan must be for a specific term and may not be payable at the demand
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(11) Notwithstanding the fact this Plan ceases to be an employee stock ownership
plan, Company Stock acquired with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan will continue
after the Trustee repays the loan to be subject to the provisions of Treas.
Reg §§ 54.4975-7(b)(4), (10), (11) and (12) relating to put, call or other
options and to buy-sell or similar arrangements, except to the extent these
regulations are inconsistent with Code § 409(h).

(12) Any Company Stock acquired with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan, or
otherwise, must be subject to a put option which is exercisable only by a
Participant or his or her Beneficiary. Any such Company Stock acquired may be
put to the Company. The Plan may assume the rights and obligations of the
Company at the time that the put option is exercised. The put option shall be
exercisable during the period beginning on the date that the Company Stock is
distributed and ending fifteen (15) months following such date. Such period
shall not include any period during which the distributee is unable to exercise
the put option because the party bound by the put option is prohibited from
honoring it by applicable federal or state law. The distributee of the Company
Stock must notify the Company in writing the put option is being exercised. The
price at which a put option is exercisable is the Fair Market Value of the
Company Stock as determined under Section 3.17. That price may be paid by the
Company (or the Plan) in five substantially equal annual installments, the first
of which shall be paid within thirty (3) days after the put option is exercised.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the payment period may be extended to the earlier
of ten years from the date the put option is exercised or the date on which the
Plan repays the proceeds of the Exempt Loan used by the Plan to acquire the
security subject to the put option. If the Plan repays an Exempt Loan used or if
the Plan ceases to be an employee stock ownership plan, the protections and
rights enumerated above shall continue to exist.

(13) Company Stock acquired with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan or otherwise
shall be subject to a right of first refusal first by the Company and then by
the Plan. The selling price of the Company Stock and any other terms of this
right shall not be less favorable to the seller than the greater of:

(a) Fair Market Value as defined in Section 3.17; or

(b) the purchase price and other terms offered by a buyer (other than the
Company or the Plan) making a good faith offer to purchase the Company Stock.

This right to first refusal shall expire fourteen (14) days after the
stockholder gives written notice to both the Company and the Plan that an offer
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11.4 RECORDS AND STATEMENTS. The records of the Trustee pertaining to the Plan
must be open to the inspection of the Committee and the Company at all
reasonable times and may be audited from time to time by any person or persons
as the Company and Committee may specify in writing. The Trustee shall furnish
the Committee with whatever information relating to the Trust Fund the Committee
considers necessary.

11.5 FEES AND EXPENSES FROM FUND. The Trustee will receive reasonable annual
compensation as may be agreed upon from time to time between the Company and the
Trustee. The Trustee will pay all fees and expenses reasonably incurred by it in
its administration of the Plan from the Trust Fund unless the Company pays the
fees and expenses. The Committee shall not treat any fee or expense paid,
directly or indirectly, by the Company as a Company contribution, provided the
fee or expense relates to the ordinary and necessary administration of the Fund.
No person who is receiving full pay from the Company shall receive compensation
for services as Trustee from the Trust Fund.

11.6 PARTIES TO LITIGATION. Except as otherwise provided by ERISA, only the
Company and the Plan Administrator and the Trustee are necessary parties to any
court proceeding involving the Trustee or the Trust Fund. No Participant, or
Beneficiary, is entitled to any notice of process unless required by ERISA. Any
final judgment entered in any proceeding will be conclusive upon the Company and
the Plan Administrator, the Trustee, Participants and Beneficiaries.

11.7 PROFESSIONAL AGENTS. The Trustee may employ and pay from the Trust Fund
reasonable compensation to agents, attorneys, accountants and other persons to
advise the Trustee as in its opinion may be necessary. The Trustee may delegate
to any agent, attorney, accountant or other person selected by it any
non-Trustee power or duty vested in it by the Plan, and the Trustee may act or
refrain from acting on the advice or opinion of any agent, attorney, accountant
or other person so selected.

11.8 DISTRIBUTION OF TRUST FUND. Subject to Section 7.4b. and Section 13.6, the
Trustee shall make all distributions of benefits under the Plan in Company Stock
valued at Fair Market Value as of the valuation date immediately preceding the
date of distribution. The Trustee shall pay in cash any fractional share of
Company Stock to which a Participant or his or her Beneficiary is entitled.

In the event the Trustee is to make a distribution in shares of Company Stock,
the Trustee shall apply any balance in a Participant’s General Investments
Account to provide shares of Company Stock for distribution at the Fair Market
Value as of the Accounting Date immediately preceding the distribution.

11.9 DISTRIBUTION DIRECTIONS. If no one claims a payment or distribution made
from the Trust, the Trustee shall promptly notify the Committee and then dispose
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11.10 THIRD PARTY. No person dealing with the Trustee is obligated to see to the
proper application of any money paid or property delivered to the Trustee, or to
inquire whether the Trustee has acted pursuant to any of the terms of the Plan.
Each person dealing with the Trustee may act upon any notice, request or
representation in writing by the Trustee, or by the Trustee’s duly authorized
agent, and is not liable to any person in so acting. The certificate of the
Trustee that it is acting in accordance with the Plan will be conclusive in
favor of any person relying on the certificate. If more than two persons act as
Trustee, the decision of a majority of such persons controls with respect to any
decision regarding the administration or investment of the Trust Fund.

11.11 RESIGNATION. The Trustee may resign at any time as Trustee of the Plan by
giving thirty (30) days’ written notice in advance to the Company and to the
Committee. If the Company fails to appoint a successor Trustee within 60 days of
its receipt of the Trustee’s written notice of resignation, the Trustee will
treat the Company as having appointed itself as Trustee and as having filed its
acceptance of appointment with the former Trustee.

11.12 REMOVAL. The Company, by giving thirty (30) days’ written notice in
advance to the Trustee, may remove any Trustee. In the event of the resignation
or removal of a Trustee, the Company must appoint a successor Trustee if it
intends to continue the Plan. If two or more persons hold the position of
Trustee, in the event of the removal of one such person, during any period the
selection of a replacement is pending, or during any period such person is
unable to serve for any reason, the remaining person or persons will act as the
Trustee.

11.13 INTERIM DUTIES AND SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE. Each successor Trustee succeeds to
the title to the Trust vested in its predecessor by accepting in writing its
appointment as successor Trustee and filing the acceptance with the former
Trustee and the Committee without the signing or filing of any further
statement. The resigning or removed Trustee, upon receipt of acceptance in
writing of the Trust by the successor Trustee, must execute all documents and do
all acts necessary to vest the title of record in any successor Trustee. Each
successor Trustee has and enjoys all of the powers, both discretionary and
ministerial, conferred under this Agreement upon its predecessor. A successor
Trustee is not personally liable for any act or failure to act of any
predecessor Trustee, except as required under ERISA. With the approval of the
Company and the Committee, a successor Trustee, with respect to the Plan, may
accept the account rendered and the property delivered to it by a predecessor
Trustee without incurring any liability or responsibility for so doing.

11.14 VALUATION OF TRUST. The Trustee must value the Trust Fund as of each
Accounting Date to determine the Fair Market Value of each Participant’s Account
Balance in the Trust, and the Trustee also must value the Trust Fund on such
other dates as directed by the Committee.

11.15 LIMITATION ON LIABILITY - IF INVESTMENT MANAGER APPOINTED. The Trustee is
not liable for ERISA’s or omissions of any Investment Manager or Managers the
Committee may appoint, nor is the Trustee under any obligation to invest or
otherwise manage any asset of the Plan which is subject to the management of a
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The Committee, the Trustee and any properly appointed Investment Manager may
execute a letter agreement as a part of this Plan delineating the duties,
responsibilities and liabilities of the Investment Manager with respect to any
part of the Trust Fund under the control of the Investment Manager.

11.16 PARTICIPANT VOTING RIGHTS - Company Stock.

a. Tenders For Company Stock.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan to the contrary, if any,
but subject to the provisions of subparagraphs (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) of
this paragraph a., in the event an offer shall be received by the Trustee
(including but not limited to a tender offer or exchange offer within the
meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as from time to time amended and
in effect) to acquire any shares of Company Stock held by the Trustee in the
Trust, whether or not allocated to the Account of any Participant (hereinafter
referred to as an “Offer”), the Trustee shall have no discretion or authority to
sell, exchange or transfer any of such shares pursuant to such Offer except to
the extent, and only to the extent, that the Trustee is timely directed to do so
in writing (a) with respect to any Company Stock held by the Trustee subject to
such Offer and allocated to the Account of any Participant, by each Participant
to whose Account any of such shares are allocated, as a named fiduciary, within
the meaning of Section 403(a)(1) of ERISA (referred to in this Section 11.16 as
“named fiduciary”) and (b) with respect to any Company Stock held by the Trustee
subject to such Offer and not allocated to the Account of any Participant, by
each Participant who has Company Stock allocated to his or her Account, as named
fiduciary, with respect to an amount of such unallocated Company Stock equal to
the total amount of unallocated Company Stock, multiplied by a fraction the
numerator of which is the amount of Company Stock allocated to the Participant’s
Account under the Plan and the denominator of which is the total amount of
Employers Securities allocated to the Accounts of all Participants under the
Plan.

Upon timely receipt of such instructions, the Trustee shall, subject to the
provisions of subparagraphs (3), (4) and (6) of this paragraph a., sell,
exchange or transfer pursuant to such Offer, only such shares as to which such
instructions were given. The Trustee shall use its best efforts to communicate
or cause to be communicated to each Participant the consequences of any failure
to provide timely instructions to the Trustee.

In the event, under the terms of an Offer or otherwise, any shares of Company
Stock tendered for sale, exchange or transfer pursuant to such Offer may be
withdrawn from such Offer, the Trustee shall follow such instructions respecting
the withdrawal of such securities from such Offer in the same manner and the
same proportion as shall be timely received by the Trustee from the Participants
as named fiduciaries entitled under this paragraph to give instructions as to
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(2) In the event that an Offer for fewer than all of the shares of Company Stock
held by the Trustee in the Trust shall be received by the Trustee, each
Participant who has been allocated any of such Company Stock subject to such
Offer shall be entitled to direct the Trustee as to the acceptance or rejection
of such Offer (as provided by subparagraph (1) of this paragraph a.) with
respect to the largest portion of such Company Stock as may be possible given
the total number or amount of shares of Company Stock the Plan may sell,
exchange or transfer pursuant to the Offer based upon the instructions received
by the Trustee from all other Participants who shall timely instruct the Trustee
pursuant to this paragraph to sell, exchange or transfer such shares pursuant to
such Offer, each on a pro rata basis in accordance with the number or amount of
such shares allocated to their respective Company Stock Accounts.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraphs (1) and (2) of this
paragraph to the contrary, in the event that an Offer for fewer than 10 percent
of all Company Stock held by the Trustee subject to such Offer held by the
Trustee in the Trust shall be received by the Trustee, the Trustee shall
determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sell, exchange or transfer any
Company Stock pursuant to such Offer, taking into consideration items set forth
in subparagraph (6) of this paragraph a.; provided, however, if there are
multiple Offers within any twelve month period (each Offer being for fewer than
10 percent of the Company Stock held by the Trustee), the Trustee shall be
required to solicit directions from Participants, as named fiduciaries, pursuant
to the provisions of this Section 11.16 with respect to each outstanding Offer
that, after taking into account all Company Stock sold, exchanged or transferred
in accordance with any other Offer within the preceding 12 months and all
outstanding Offers for Company Stock, would result in the sale, exchange or
transfer within such 12-month period, in the aggregate with all other
outstanding Offers, of more than 10 percent of the Company Stock held by the
Trustee if all outstanding Offers were accepted by the Trustee.

(4) In the event an Offer shall be received by the Trustee and instructions
shall be solicited from Participants in the Plan pursuant to subparagraph (1) of
this paragraph a. regarding such Offer, and prior to termination of such Offer,
another Offer is received by the Trustee for the Company Stock subject to the
first Offer, the Trustee shall use its best efforts under the circumstances to
solicit instructions from the Participants to the Trustee (a) with respect to
Company Stock tendered for sale, exchange or transfer pursuant to the first
Offer, whether to withdraw such tender, if possible, and, if withdrawn, whether
to tender any Company Stock so withdrawn for sale, exchange or transfer pursuant
to the second Offer and (b) with respect to Company Stock not tendered for sale,
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whether to tender or not to tender such Company Stock for sale, exchange or
transfer pursuant to the second Offer. The Trustee shall follow all such
instructions received in a timely manner from Participants in the same manner
and in the same proportion as provided in subparagraph (1). With respect to any
further Offer for any Company Stock received by the Trustee and subject to any
earlier Offer (including successive Offers from one or more existing offerors),
the Trustee shall act in the same manner as described above.

(5) In the event an Offer for any Company Stock held by the Trustee in the Trust
shall be received by the Trustee and the Participants shall be entitled to
determine to accept, reject or withdraw an acceptance of such Offer pursuant to
subparagraphs (1) through (4), (a) the Company and the Trustee shall not
interfere in any manner with the decision of any Participant regarding the
action of the Participant with respect to such Offer (hereinafter referred to as
an “Investment Decision”), and the Trustee shall arrange for such Investment
Decision to be made on a confidential basis; (b) the Trustee shall use its best
efforts to communicate or cause to be communicated to all Participants the
provisions of the Plan and Trust Agreement relating to the right of Participants
to direct the Trustee with respect to Company Stock subject to such Offer,
including unallocated Company Stock, and of the obligation of the Trustee to
follow such directions; (c) the Trustee shall use its best efforts to distribute
or cause to be distributed to Participants all communications directed generally
to the owners of the Company Stock to whom such Offer is made or is available;
and (d) the Trustee shall use its best efforts to distribute or cause to be
distributed to Participants all communications that the Trustee may receive, if
any, from the persons making the Offer or any other interested party (including
the Company) relating to the Offer. The Company and the Committee shall provide
the Trustee with such information and assistance as the Trustee may reasonably
request in connection with any communications or distributions to Participants.
In no event shall the communications to Participants by the offeror, the Company
or other interested parties or public communications directed generally to the
owners of the Company Stock which are the subject of an Offer be deemed to be
interference in the making of an Investment Decision by any Participant;
provided, however, that Act § 510 shall apply to any communication which
threatens or intimates that actions which would violate Act § 510 will or might
be taken with respect to any Participant who does not make an Investment
Decision in accord with the wishes of the Company.

(6) In the event a court of competent jurisdiction shall issue to the Plan, the
Company or the Trustee an opinion or order, which shall, in the opinion of
counsel to the Company or the Trustee, invalidate under ERISA, in all
circumstances or in any particular circumstances, any provision or provisions of
this paragraph a. regarding the determination to be made as to whether or not
Company Stock held by the Trustee shall be tendered pursuant to an Offer or
cause any such provision or provisions to conflict with ERISA, then, upon notice
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case may be, such invalid or conflicting provisions of this paragraph a. shall
be given no further force or effect. In such circumstances the Trustee shall
have no discretion to tender or not to tender Company Stock held in the Trust
unless required under such order or opinion, but shall follow instructions
received from Participants, to the extent such instructions have not been
invalidated by such order or opinion. To the extent required to exercise any
residual fiduciary responsibility with respect to such sale, exchange or
transfer, the Trustee shall take into account in exercising its fiduciary
judgment, unless it is clearly imprudent to do so, directions timely received
from Participants, as such directions are most indicative of what action is in
the best interests of Participants. Further, the Trustee, in addition to taking
into consideration any relevant financial factors bearing on any such decision,
shall take into consideration any relevant non-financial factors, including, but
not limited to, the continuing job security of Participants as Employees of the
Company or of any of its subsidiaries, conditions of employment, employment
opportunities and other similar matters, and the prospect of the Participants
and prospective Participants for future benefits under the Plan (including any
subsequent release and allocation of Company Stock held in the Exempt Loan
Suspense Account required under Section 11.3b.(6).

(7) Notwithstanding anything elsewhere in this Plan or Trust Agreement to the
contrary, any proceeds received by the Trustee as a result of the sale, exchange
or transfer of Company Stock pursuant to an Offer shall be reinvested in Company
Stock by the Trustee, if such securities are available for purchase and if not,
to the extent attributable to unallocated stock in the Exempt Loan Suspense
Account, shall be used to pay down the Exempt Loan. The balance of the proceeds,
if any, and the proceeds attributable to allocated Company Stock shall be
invested in short-term, fixed income investments selected by the Trustee and
having a maturity of not more than two years from the time such investment is
made until the Trustee is otherwise directed by the Committee or until the
Participants to whose accounts such investments are allocated shall be entitled
to make investment elections with respect to such accounts in accordance with
the Plan.

b. Voting Company Stock; Options and Other Rights.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan to the contrary, if any,
the Trustee shall have no discretion or authority to vote Company Stock held in
the Trust by the Trustee on any matter presented for a vote by the stockholders
of the Company except in accordance with timely directions received by the
Trustee from Participants who have Company Stock allocated to their Accounts
under the Plan. Such directions shall be given by Participants acting in their
capacity as named fiduciaries with respect to both allocated and unallocated
Company Stock and, upon timely receipt of such instructions, the Trustee shall
vote the Company Stock held in the Trust pursuant to the directions of
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(a) Company Stock in Accounts. Each Participant who has Company Stock allocated
to his or her Company Stock Account shall provide directions to the Trustee on
any matter to be presented for a vote by the stockholders of the Company with
respect to Company Stock allocated to the Account of the Participant under the
Plan and the Trustee shall follow such directions.

With respect to Company Stock in any Account for which no instructions were
timely received by the Trustee, the Trustee shall vote such Company Stock in
accordance with the directions of the Participants who gave timely instructions
to the Trustee, in the same manner and in the same proportion to the voting of
Participants on such Company Stock with respect to which timely instructions
were given.

(b) Company Stock in the Exempt Loan Suspense Account and other Unallocated
Company Stock. Each Participant who has been allocated Company Stock to his or
her Account shall, as named fiduciary, direct the Trustee with respect to the
vote of Company Stock held by the Trustee in the Exempt Loan Suspense Account
and all other unallocated Company Stock, and the Trustee shall follow the
directions of those Participants who provide timely instructions to the Trustee.
Each Participant who has been allocated Company Stock to his or her Account
entitled to vote on any matter presented for a vote by the stockholders shall
separately direct the Trustee with respect to the vote of a portion of the
shares of Company Stock that are not allocated to the Account of any Participant
or for which no instructions were timely received by the Trustee, whether or not
allocated to the Account of any Participant. Such direction shall be with
respect to such number of votes equal to the total number of votes attributable
to Company Stock not allocated or with respect to which no responses were
received multiplied by a fraction the numerator of which is the number of votes
attributable to such Company Stock allocated to the Participant’s Company Stock
Account and the denominator of which is the total number of votes attributable
to such Company Stock allocated to the Account of all such Participants who have
provided directions to the Trustee under this subparagraph.

(c) The Trustee shall use its best efforts to communicate or cause to be
communicated to all Participants the provisions of this Plan and the Trust
Agreement relating to the right of Participants to direct the Trustee with
respect to the voting of Company Stock allocated to their Accounts under the
Plan and of Company Stock not allocated to the Account of any Participant. The
Trustee shall use its best efforts to distribute or cause to be distributed to
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Stock entitled to vote, and the Trustee shall use its best efforts to distribute
or cause to be distributed to Participants all communications that the Trustee
may receive, if any, from any person soliciting proxies or any other interested
party (including the Company) relating to the matters being presented for a vote
by the stockholders of the Company. The Company and the Committee shall provide
the Trustee with such information and assistance as the Trustee may reasonably
request in connection with any communications or distributions to Participants.
In no event shall the communications to Participants with respect to matters
being presented for a vote at a meeting of the stockholders of the Company by
the Company or other interested parties or public communications directed
generally to the stockholders of the Company be deemed to be interference in the
making of a decision by any Participant as to the voting of Company Stock;
provided, however, that Act § 510 shall apply to any communication which
threatens or intimates that actions which would violate Act § 510 will or might
be taken with respect to any Participant who does not issue directions to the
Trustee in accord with the wishes of the Company.

(d) In the event a court of competent jurisdiction shall issue an opinion or
order to the Plan, the Company or the Trustee which shall, in the opinion of
counsel to the Company or the Trustee, invalidate under ERISA, in all
circumstances or in any particular circumstances, any provision or provisions of
this paragraph b. regarding the manner in which Company Stock held in the Trust
shall be voted or cause any such provision or provisions to conflict with ERISA,
then, upon notice thereof to the Company or the Trustee, as the case may be,
such invalid or conflicting provision of this paragraph b. shall be given no
further force or effect. In such circumstances the Trustee shall nevertheless
have no discretion to vote Company Stock held in the Trust unless required under
such order or opinion but shall follow instructions received from Participants,
to the extent such instructions have not been invalidated. To the extent
required to exercise any residual fiduciary responsibility with respect to
voting, the Trustee shall take into account in exercising its fiduciary
judgment, unless it is clearly imprudent to do so, directions timely received
from Participants, as such directions are most indicative of what is in the best
interests of Participants. Further, the Trustee, in addition to taking into
consideration any relevant financial factors bearing on any such decision, shall
take into consideration any relevant non-financial factors, including, but not
limited to, the continuing job security of Participants as Employees of the
Company or any of its subsidiaries, conditions of employment, employment
opportunities and other similar matters, and the prospect of the Participants
and prospective Participants for future benefits under the Plan (including any
subsequent release and allocation of Company Stock held in the Exempt Loan
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(e) In the event that any option, right, warrant or similar property derived
from or attributable to the ownership of Company Stock shall be granted,
distributed or otherwise issued which is and shall become exercisable, each
Participant shall be entitled, subject to the provisions set forth below, to
direct the Trustee to sell, exercise, distribute (with the consent of the
Committee) or retain any such option, right, warrant or similar property. For
such purpose there shall be furnished to each Participant, on a timely and
confidential basis, a form to be returned to the Trustee on which he or she may
set forth his or her direction whether to sell, exercise, distribute or retain
part or all of such option, right, warrant or similar property. Upon timely
receipt of such form or other appropriate written direction, the Trustee shall
follow such direction to sell, exercise, distribute or retain part or all of any
such options, rights, warrants or similar property and, if such direction is to
retain the same, the Trustee shall follow any later appropriate written
directions to sell, exercise or distribute such options, rights, warrants or
similar property upon receipt thereof. If a Participant shall direct the Trustee
to exercise part or all of such options, rights, warrants or similar property,
the Trustee shall accumulate the amount equal to the consideration necessary to
exercise, from among the following sources: (1) by obtaining appropriate written
direction and authorization from the Participant respecting one or more of a) if
and to the extent necessary, the transfer and use, as he or she may designate,
of the uninvested cash, if any, allocated to him or her in his or her General
Investments Account; and b) if and to the extent necessary, the sale of part of
his or her options, rights, warrants or similar property, and use of the
proceeds thereof to exercise the remaining options, rights, warrants or similar
property which he or she has directed to be exercised or (2) if and to the
extent necessary, and to the extent the Trustee is willing and able, by
borrowing an amount equal to the consideration necessary to exercise, provided
that any such contribution or borrowing is permitted by applicable law and
further provided that such contribution or borrowing will not adversely affect
the continued qualified status of the Plan or continued exempt status of the
Trust under the Code. In the event of any such borrowing, the Trustee shall make
provisions for repayment thereof. The securities acquired by the Trustee upon
such exercise shall be held in a special account or accounts established in the
Trust at that time. If a Participant shall direct the Trustee to distribute to
him or her any such options, rights, warrants or similar property, the Trustee,
with the consent of the Committee, shall distribute such options, rights,
warrants or similar property provided, as certified by the Committee, (1) the
Participant is age 65 or more or has five or more years of Service and (2) such
distribution will not adversely affect the continued qualified status of the
Plan or continued exempt status of the Trust under the Code. If a Participant
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such distribution, the Trustee shall be deemed to be authorized, to the extent
necessary, as instructed by the Committee, to sell part of such options, rights,
warrants, or similar property and use the proceeds therefrom to pay all
applicable Federal withholding taxes due in connection with such distribution.
Upon any such distribution, the Trustee shall report the same to the Committee
to permit compliance with the applicable reporting provisions of the Code. For
all Plan purposes, all options, rights, warrants or similar property described
in this subparagraph (2) of paragraph b. hereof, shall be treated as income
added to the appropriate Accounts of Participants. If, within a reasonable
period of time after the form soliciting direction from a Participant has been
sent, no written direction shall have been received by the Trustee from him or
her, the Trustee shall, in its sole discretion, sell, exercise or retain and
keep unproductive of income such option, right, warrant or similar property for
which no response has been received from such Participant and also for options,
rights, warrants or similar property derived from, or attributable to, the
ownership of Company Stock not yet allocated to any Participant’s Company Stock
Account.

In addition the Trustee shall, in its sole discretion, sell, exercise or retain
and keep unproductive of income such option, right, warrant or similar property
attributable to unallocated Company Stock held in the Exempt Loan Suspense
Account or other Account. In the event of a discretionary decision by the
Trustee to exercise, the Trustee shall be deemed to be authorized to accumulate
the amount equal to the consideration necessary to exercise from any of the
sources specified herein and to hold such acquired securities in the Trust as
specified herein. In connection with any discretionary decisions by the Trustee
to sell, exercise or retain and keep unproductive of income any such option,
right, warrant or similar property, the Trustee shall consider, in addition to
any relevant financial factors, such as those set forth in paragraph b.(1)(d)
hereof, all as evidenced by the proportion of the directions received from
Participants to either sell, exercise or retain such options, rights, warrants
or similar property, and shall also consider such other factors as the Trustee
may deem relevant.

11.17 COMMITTEE DIRECTIONS. Any powers granted to the Trustee hereunder that are
to be exercised according to the direction of the Committee shall be exercised
by the Trustee only if, when and as directed by the Committee. The Trustee shall
be under no liability for any loss or breach of trust of any kind which may
result from any action due to compliance with a direction of the Committee or
the failure of the Committee to give direction provided the Trustee has acted
prudently.

The Trustee may assume that the Committee is discharging its duties under this
agreement until and unless it is notified to the contrary in writing by any
person known to the Trustee to be a Participant in the Plan or by the Company.
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the Trustee shall communicate such written notice to the Committee and may if it
so desires, after 30 days written notice to the Committee and to the Company,
apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for guidance with respect to the
disposition of the Trust Fund.

11.18 PROTECTION OF THE TRUSTEE. The Trustee shall be fully protected from any
responsibility for action taken or omitted in accordance with the instructions,
directions or approvals of the Committee, provided the Trustee has acted
prudently.

ARTICLE XII

TOP-HEAVY PROVISIONS

12.1 DETERMINATION OF TOP HEAVY STATUS. If this Plan is the only qualified plan
maintained by the Company, the Plan is top heavy for a Plan Year if the top
heavy ratio as of the Determination Date exceeds 60 percent. The top heavy ratio
is a fraction, the numerator of which is the sum of the present value of Account
Balances of all Key Employees as of the Determination Date and the denominator
of which is a similar sum determined for all Employees. The Plan Administrator
must include in the top heavy ratio, as a part of the present value of Account
Balances, any contribution not made as of the Determination Date but includible
under Code § 416 and the applicable Treasury regulations, and distributions made
within the Determination Period. The Plan Administrator must calculate the top
heavy ratio by disregarding the Account Balance (and distributions, if any, of
the Account Balance) of any Non-Key Employee who was formerly a Key Employee,
and by disregarding the Account Balance (including distributions, if any, of the
Account Balance) of any individual who has not received credit for at least one
Hour of Service with the Company during the Determination Period. The Plan
Administrator must calculate the top heavy ratio, including the extent to which
it must take into account distributions, rollovers and transfers, in accordance
with Code § 416 and the regulations under that Code section.

If the Company maintains other qualified plans (including a simplified employee
pension plan), or maintained another such plan which now is terminated, this
Plan is top heavy only if it is part of the Required Aggregation Group, and the
top heavy ratio for the Required Aggregation Group and for the Permissive
Aggregation Group, if any, each exceeds 60 percent. The Plan Administrator will
calculate the top heavy ratio in the same manner as required by the first
paragraph of this Section 12.1, taking into account all plans within the
Aggregation Group. To the extent the Plan Administrator must take into account
distributions to a Participant, the Plan Administrator must include
distributions from a terminated plan which would have been part of the Required
Aggregation Group if it were in existence on the Determination Date. The Plan
Administrator will calculate the present value of Account Balance under defined
benefit plans or simplified employee pension plans included within the group in
accordance with the terms of those plans, Code § 416 and the regulations under
that Code section. If a Participant in a defined benefit plan is a Non-Key
Employee, the Plan Administrator will determine his Account Balance under the
accrual method, if any, which is applicable uniformly to all defined benefit
plans maintained by the Company or, if there is no uniform method, in accordance
with the slowest accrual rate permitted under the fractional rule accrual method
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benefit plan, the Plan Administrator will use ERISA assumptions (interest and
mortality only) prescribed by the defined benefit plan(s) to value benefits for
top heavy purposes. If any aggregated plan does not have a valuation date
coinciding with the Determination Date, the Plan Administrator must value the
Account Balances in the aggregated plan as of the most recent valuation date
falling within the twelve-month period ending on the Determination Date, except
as Code § 416 and applicable Treasury regulations require for the first and
second plan year of a defined benefit plan. The Plan Administrator will
calculate the top heavy ratio with reference to the Determination Dates that
fall within the same calendar year.

12.2 DEFINITIONS. For purposes of applying the provisions of this Plan:

a. “Company” means the Company that adopts this Plan and any Related Employers.

b. “Compensation” means Compensation as determined under Section 5.8.b.
(relating to the Highly Compensated Employee definition).

c. “Determination Date” for any Plan Year is the Accounting Date of the
preceding Plan Year or, in the case of the first Plan Year of the Plan, the
Accounting Date of that Plan Year. The “Determination Period” is the five
(5) year period ending on the Determination Date.

For Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001, for purposes of determining
the present values of accrued benefits and the amounts of Account Balances as of
a Determination Date, the present values of accrued benefits and the amounts of
Account Balances of an Employee as of the Determination Date shall be increased
by the distributions made with respect to the Employee under the Plan and any
plan aggregated with the Plan under Code § 416(g)(2) during the one-year period
ending on the Determination Date. The preceding sentence shall also apply to
distributions under a terminated plan which, had it not been terminated, would
have been aggregated with the Plan under Code § 416(g)(2)(A)(i). In the case of
a distribution made for a reason other than Separation from Service, death or
Disability, this provision shall be applied by substituting “five-year period”
for “one-year period.” The accrued benefits and Accounts of any individual who
has not performed Services for the Company during the one-year period ending on
the Determination Date shall not be taken into account. Matching contributions,
if any, shall be taken into account for purposes of satisfying the minimum
contribution requirements of Code § 416(c)(2) and the Plan. The preceding
sentence shall apply with respect to matching contributions under the Plan or,
if the Plan provides that the minimum contribution requirement shall be met in
another plan, such other plan. Matching contributions that are used to satisfy
the minimum contribution requirements shall be treated as matching contributions
for purposes of the average contribution percentage test and other requirements
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d. “Key Employee” means, as of any Determination Date, any Employee or former
Employee (or Beneficiary of such Employee) who, for any Plan Year in the
Determination Period: (1) has Compensation in excess of 50 percent of the dollar
amount prescribed in Code § 415(b)(1)(A) (relating to defined benefit plans) and
is an officer of the Company, (2) has Compensation in excess of the dollar
amount prescribed in Code § 415(c)(1)(A) (relating to defined contribution
plans) and is one of the Employees owning the ten largest interests in the
Company, (3) is a more than 5 percent owner of the Company; or (4) is a more
than 1 percent owner of the Company and has Compensation of more than $150,000.
The constructive ownership rules of Code § 318 (or the principles of that
section, in the case of an unincorporated Company,) will apply to determine
ownership in the Company. The number of officers taken into account under clause
(1) will not exceed the greater of 3 or 10 percent of the total number (after
application of the Code § 414(q)(8) exclusions) of Employees, but no more than
50 officers.

For any Plan Year beginning after December 31, 2001, Key Employee means any
Employee or former Employee (including any deceased Employee) who at any time
during the Plan Year that includes the Determination Date was an officer of the
Company having annual Compensation greater than $130,000 (as adjusted under Code
§ 416(i)(l) for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2002), a 5 percent owner
of the Company or a 1 percent owner of the Company having annual Compensation of
more than $150,000. For this purpose annual Compensation means Compensation
within the meaning of Code § 415(c)(3). The Plan Administrator will make the
determination of who is a Key Employee in accordance with Code § 416(i)(1) and
the regulations under that Code section.

e. “Non-Key Employee” is an employee who does not meet the definition of Key
Employee.

f. “Permissive Aggregation Group” is the Required Aggregation Group plus any
other qualified plan maintained by the Company, but only if such group would
satisfy in the aggregate the requirements of Code § 401(a)(4) and Code § 410.
The Plan Administrator will determine the Permissive Aggregation Group.

g. “Required Aggregation Group” means: (1) each qualified plan of the Company in
which at least one Key Employee participates at any time during the
Determination Period; and (2) any other qualified plan of the Company which
enables a plan described in clause (1) to meet the requirements of Code §
401(a)(4) or Code § 410.

12.3 TOP HEAVY MINIMUM ALLOCATION. The top-heavy minimum allocation requirement
applies to the Plan only in a Plan Year for which the Plan is top heavy. If the
Plan is top heavy in any Plan Year:

a. Each Non-Key Employee (as defined in Section 12.1.e.) who is a Participant
and is employed by the Company on the last day of the Plan Year will receive a
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b. The top heavy minimum allocation is the lesser of 3 percent of the Non-Key
Employee’s Compensation for the Plan Year or the highest contribution rate for
the Plan Year made on behalf of any Key Employee (as defined in
Section 12.1.d.). However, if a defined benefit plan maintained by the Company
which benefits a Key Employee depends on this Plan to satisfy the
anti-discrimination rules of Code § 401(a)(4) or the coverage rules of Code §
410 (or another plan benefitting the Key Employee so depends on such defined
benefit plan), the top heavy minimum allocation is 3 percent of the Non-Key
Employee’s Compensation regardless of the contribution rate for the Key
Employees

12.4 DETERMINING TOP-HEAVY CONTRIBUTION RATES. In determining under
Section 12.2b. the highest contribution rate for any Key Employee, the Plan
Administrator takes into account all Company contributions (including deferral
contributions and including matching contributions, if any, but not including
Company contributions to Social Security) and Forfeitures allocated to the
Participant’s Account for the Plan Year, divided by his or her Compensation for
the entire Plan Year. For purposes of satisfying the Company’s top-heavy minimum
allocation requirement, the Plan Administrator disregards the elective deferrals
and matching contributions, if any, allocated to a Non-Key Employee’s Account in
determining the Non-Key Employee’s contribution rate. However, the Plan
Administrator operationally may include in the contribution rate of a Non-Key
Employee any matching contributions not necessary to satisfy the
nondiscrimination requirements of Code § 401(k) or of Code § 401(m).

To determine a Participant’s contribution rate, the Plan Administrator must
treat all qualified top-heavy defined contribution plans maintained by the
Company (or by any Related Employer) as a single plan. If, for a Plan Year,
there are no allocations of Company contributions or of Forfeitures for any Key
Employee, the Plan does not require any top-heavy minimum allocation for the
Plan Year, unless a top-heavy minimum allocation applies because of the
maintenance by the Company of more than one plan.

12.5 SATISFACTION OF TOP-HEAVY MINIMUM. The Plan will satisfy the top-heavy
minimum allocation requirement in accordance with the following requirements:

a. If the Company makes any necessary additional contribution to this Plan, the
Plan Administrator first will allocate the Company contributions (the
Forfeitures, if any) for the Plan Year in accordance with the provisions of
Section 5.4. The Company then will contribute an additional amount for the
Account of any Participant entitled under Section 12.3 to a top-heavy minimum
allocation and whose contribution rate for the Plan Year, under this Plan and
any other plan aggregated under this Section 12.4, is less than the top-heavy
minimum allocation. The additional amount is the amount necessary to increase
the Participant’s contribution rate to the top-heavy minimum allocation. The
Plan Administrator will allocate the additional contribution to the Account of
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b. If the Company makes the top-heavy minimum allocation under another plan,
this Plan does not provide the top-heavy minimum allocation, and the Plan
Administrator will allocate the annual Company contributions (and Forfeitures)
under the Plan solely in accordance with the allocation method under
Section 5.4.

ARTICLE 13

EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT, AMENDMENT, TERMINATION

13.1 EXCLUSIVE BENEFIT. Except as provided under Article V, the Company has no
beneficial interest in any asset of the Trust Fund, and no part of any asset in
the Trust Fund may ever revert to or be repaid to a Company, either directly or
indirectly; nor prior to the satisfaction of all liabilities with respect to the
Participants and their Beneficiaries under the Plan, may any part of the corpus
or income of the Trust Fund, or any asset of the Trust, be (at any time) used
for, or diverted to, purposes other than the exclusive benefit of the
Participants or their Beneficiaries. However, if the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, upon the Company’s request for initial approval of this Plan,
determines that the Trust created under the Plan is not a qualified trust exempt
from Federal income tax, then (and only then) the Trustee, upon written notice
from the Company, will return the Company’s contributions (and increment
attributable to the contributions) to the Company. The Trustee must make the
return of the Company contribution under this Section 13.1 within one (1) year
of a final disposition of the Company’s request for initial approval of the
Plan. The Plan and Trust shall terminate upon the Trustee’s return of the
Company’s contributions.

13.2 AMENDMENT BY COMPANY. The Company has the right at any time and from time
to time:

a. to amend this Agreement in any manner it deems necessary or advisable in
order to qualify (or maintain qualification of) this Plan and the Trust created
under it under the appropriate provisions of the Code § 401(a); and

b. to amend this Agreement in any other manner.

No amendment may authorize or permit any of the Trust Fund (other than the part
which is required to pay taxes and administrative expenses) to be used or
diverted to purposes other than for the exclusive benefit of the Participants or
their Beneficiaries. No amendment may cause or permit any portion of the Trust
Fund to revert to or become a property of the Company. The Company also may not
make any amendment which affects the rights, duties or responsibilities of the
Trustee, the Plan Administrator or the Committee without the written consent of
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An amendment (including the adoption of this Plan as a restatement of an
existing plan) may not decrease a Participant’s Account Balance, except to the
extent permitted under Code § 412(c)(8), and may not reduce or eliminate
Protected Benefits determined immediately prior to the adoption date (or, if
later, the effective date) of the amendment. An amendment reduces or eliminates
Protected Benefits if the amendment has the effect of either (1) eliminating or
reducing an early retirement benefit or a retirement-type subsidy (as defined in
Treasury regulations), or (2) except as provided by Treasury regulations,
eliminating an optional form of benefit. The Plan Administrator must disregard
an amendment to the extent application of the amendment would fail to satisfy
this paragraph. If the Plan Administrator must disregard an amendment because
the amendment would violate clause (1) or clause (2), the Plan Administrator
must maintain a schedule of the early retirement option or other optional forms
of benefit the Plan must continue for the affected Participants.

The Company shall make all amendments in writing. Each amendment shall state the
date to which it is either retroactively or prospectively effective.

13.3 DISCONTINUANCE. The Company has the right, at any time, to suspend or
discontinue its contributions under the Plan, and to terminate, at any time,
this Plan and the Trust created under this Agreement. The Plan will terminate
upon the first to occur of the following:

a. the date terminated by action of the Company;

b. the date the Company shall be judicially declared bankrupt or insolvent,
unless the proceeding authorized continued maintenance of the Plan; or

c. the dissolution, merger, consolidation or reorganization of the Company or
the sale by the Company of all or substantially all of its assets, unless the
successor or purchaser makes provision to continue the Plan, in which event the
successor or purchaser shall substitute itself as the Company under this Plan.
Any termination of the Plan resulting from this paragraph (c) is not effective
until compliance with any applicable notice requirements under ERISA.

13.4 FULL VESTING ON TERMINATION. Upon either full or partial termination of the
Plan, or, if applicable, upon the date of complete discontinuance of Company
contributions to the Plan, an affected Participant’s right to his or her Account
Balance is One Hundred Percent (100 percent) Vested, irrespective of the Vested
percentage which otherwise would apply under Article VI.

13.5 MERGER/DIRECT TRANSFER. The Trustee may not consent to, or be a party to,
any merger or consolidation with another plan, or to a transfer of assets or
liabilities to another plan, unless immediately after the merger, consolidation
or transfer, the surviving Plan provides each Participant an Account Balance
equal to or greater than the Account Balance each Participant would have
received had the Plan terminated immediately before the merger or consolidation
or transfer. The Trustee possesses the specific authority to enter into merger
agreements or direct transfer of assets agreements with the trustees of other
retirement plans described in Code § 401(a), including an elective transfer, and
to accept the direct transfer of plan assets, or to transfer plan assets, as a
party to any such agreement.

 

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The Trustee may accept a direct transfer of Plan assets on behalf of an Employee
prior to the date the Employee satisfies the Plan’s eligibility conditions. If
the Trustee accepts such a direct transfer of plan assets, the Plan
Administrator and Trustee must treat the Employee as a Participant for all
purposes of the Plan except the Employee is not a Participant for purposes of
sharing in Company contributions or Forfeitures under Article V until he or she
actually becomes a Participant in the Plan.

If the Plan receives a direct transfer (by merger or otherwise) of elective
contributions (or amounts treated as elective contributions) under a Plan with a
Code §§ 401(k) arrangement, the distribution restrictions of Code §§ 401(k)(2)
and (10) continue to apply to those transferred elective contributions.

13.6 TERMINATION. The Company has established this Plan with the bona fide
intention and expectation that it be permanent. However, it realizes that
adverse business conditions or other circumstances beyond its control may make
it impossible to continue its contributions as provided herein. Upon termination
of the Plan, the distribution provisions of Article VII remain operative, with
the following exceptions:

a. if the present value of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance does not
exceed $1,000, the Committee will direct the Trustee to distribute the
Participant’s Vested Account Balance to him or her in lump sum as soon as
administratively practicable after the Plan terminates; and

b. if the present value of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance exceeds
$1,000, the Participant or the Beneficiary, in addition to the distribution
events permitted under Article VII, may elect to have the Trustee commence
distribution of his or her Vested Account Balance as soon as administratively
practicable after the Plan terminates.

To liquidate the Trust, the Committee may purchase a deferred annuity contract
for each Participant which protects the Participant’s distribution rights under
the Plan, if the Participant’s Vested Account Balance exceeds $1,000 and the
Participant does not elect an immediate distribution pursuant to paragraph b.

In lieu of the preceding provisions of this Section 14.6 and the distribution
provisions of Article VII, the Committee will direct the Trustee to distribute
each Participant’s Vested Account Balance, in lump sum, as soon as
administratively practicable after the termination of the Plan, irrespective of
the present value of the Participant’s Vested Account Balance and without
requirement of the Participant’s consent to that distribution. This paragraph
does not apply if: (a) the Plan provides an annuity option; or (2) as of the
period between the Plan termination date and the final distribution of assets
the Company maintains any other defined contribution plan (other than an ESOP).

 

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If the Committee is unable to locate any Participant or Beneficiary whose
Account becomes distributable upon Plan termination, the Committee will apply
Section 10.12.b.

The Trust shall continue until the Trustee in accordance with the direction of
the Committee has distributed all of the benefits under the Plan. On each
Valuation Date, the Committee will credit any part of a Participant’s Account
Balance retained in the Trust with its proportionate share of the Trust’s
income, expenses, gains and losses, both realized and unrealized. Upon
termination of the Plan, the amount, if any, in a suspense account under Article
V will revert to the Company, subject to the conditions of the Treasury
regulations permitting such a reversion. A resolution or amendment to freeze all
future benefit accrual but otherwise to continue maintenance of this Plan is not
a termination for purposes of this Section 14.6.

ARTICLE XIV

MISCELLANEOUS

14.1 EVIDENCE. Anyone required to give evidence under the terms of the Plan may
do so by certificate, affidavit, document or other information which the person
to act in reliance may consider pertinent, reliable and genuine, and to have
been signed, made or presented by the proper party or parties. Both the Plan
Administrator and the Trustee are fully protected in acting and relying upon any
evidence described under the immediately preceding sentence.

14.2 NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR COMPANY ACTION. Neither the Trustee nor the Plan
Administrator has any obligation nor responsibility with respect to any action
required by the Plan to be taken by the Company, any Participant or eligible
Employee, nor for the failure of any of the above persons to act or make any
payment or contribution, or to otherwise provide any benefit contemplated under
this Plan. Furthermore, the Plan does not require the Trustee or the Plan
Administrator to collect any contribution required under the Plan, or determine
the correctness of the amount of any Company contribution. Neither the Trustee
nor the Plan Administrator need inquire into or be responsible for any action or
failure to act on the part of the others. Any action required of the Company
must be by its Board of Directors or its designate.

14.3 FIDUCIARIES NOT INSURERS. The Trustee, the Committee and the Company in no
way guarantee the Trust Fund from loss or depreciation. The Company does not
guarantee the payment of any money which may be or becomes due to any person
from the Trust Fund. The liability of the Committee and the Trustee to make any
payment from the Trust Fund at any time and all times is limited to the then
available assets of the Trust.

14.4 WAIVER OF NOTICE. Any person entitled to notice under the Plan may waive
the notice.

 

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14.5 SUCCESSORS. The Plan is binding upon all persons entitled to benefits under
the Plan, their respective heirs and legal representatives, upon the Company,
its successors and assigns, and upon the Trustee, the Committee and their
successors.

14.6 STATE LAW. The Plan shall be deemed to have been made in Iowa, and all
questions arising with respect to the provisions of this Plan and any and all
performance thereunder, or breach thereof, shall be interpreted, governed and
construed pursuant to the laws of Iowa, except to the extent Federal statute
supersedes Iowa law; and the Trustee and Participants under the Plan consent
that Iowa shall be the forum where any cause of action arising under the Plan
shall be instituted.

14.7 EMPLOYMENT NOT GUARANTEED. Nothing contained in this Plan, or with respect
to the establishment of the Trust, or any modification or amendment to the Plan
or Trust, or in the creation of any Account, or the payment of any benefit,
gives any Employee, Participant or any Beneficiary any right to continue
employment, any legal or equitable right against the Company, or Employee of the
Company, or against the Trustee, or its agents or employees, or against the
Committee, except as expressly provided by the Plan, the Trust, ERISA or by a
separate agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused these presents to be executed
as of the date and year first above written.

 

MIDWESTONE FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. By:   /s/ Charles Howard   Charles Howard,
Chief Executive Officer MIDWESTONE BANK, TRUSTEE By:   /s/ Sherry Mattson  
Sherry Mattson, Vice President

 

STATE OF IOWA    )    )SS: COUNTY OF MAHASKA    )

On this          day of November, 2006, before me, a Notary Public in and for
the State of Iowa, personally appeared                     and
                    , to me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did
say that they are the President and Secretary, respectively, of MidWestOne
Financial Group, Inc., an Iowa corporation; that the corporation is without
corporate

 

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seal; that said instrument was signed on behalf of said corporation by authority
of its Board of Directors; and                     and                     , as
such officers, acknowledged the execution of said instrument to be the voluntary
act and deed of said corporation by it and by them voluntarily executed.

Given under my hand and seal of office, this          day of November, 2006.

 

    Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa

 

STATE OF IOWA    )    )SS: COUNTY OF MAHASKA    )

On this          day of November, 2006, before me, a Notary Public in and for
the State of Iowa, personally appeared                     , to me personally
known, who, being by me duly sworn, did say that he/she is a
                     of MidWestOne Bank, N.A.; that said instrument was signed
on behalf of said Bank by authority of its Board of Directors; and
                    , as such officer, acknowledged the execution of said
instrument to be the voluntary act and deed of said corporation by it and by
                     voluntarily executed.

Given under my hand and seal of office, this          day of November, 2006.

    Notary Public in and for the State of Iowa

 

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