Exhibit 10.3.4
CHART INDUSTRIES, INC.
2017 OMNIBUS EQUITY PLAN
STOCK AWARD AGREEMENT AND
DEFERRAL ELECTION FORM
(For Eligible Directors)

Participant: [NAME]
Award Period: [YEAR]
1.    Award. In consideration for services as an Eligible Director of the Board
of Directors (the “Board”) of Chart Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) in the next
fiscal year, the Company hereby agrees to make four installment payments of
shares of common stock of the Company (the “Shares”) to the Participant during
such fiscal year. Alternatively, the Participant may elect to receive the Shares
at the time indicated in the Deferral Election Form below (such date of later
delivery of such Shares pursuant to the Deferral Election Form is referred to
herein as the “Delivery Date”).
The Company’s obligation to make any such payments shall be subject to, and on
the terms and conditions set forth in, this Stock Award Agreement and Deferral
Election Form (this “Agreement”) and the Chart Industries, Inc. Amended and
Restated 2017 Omnibus Equity Plan (the “Plan”) which, as amended from time to
time, is incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Agreement.
Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings
attributed to them under the Plan.
2.    Payment of Shares.

(a)    Timing. Except as otherwise provided in a valid and timely submitted
Deferral Election Form, an installment payment will be made on the first
business day of each quarter (each a “Grant Date”) in the next fiscal year
provided that the Participant continues to serve as an Eligible Director on the
applicable Grant Date. If the Participant elects to defer payment of Shares
until a later fiscal year, Shares will be credited to a bookkeeping account as
deferred shares (“Deferred Shares,” the number of which credited to the
bookkeeping account on the Grant Date shall equal the number of Shares then
deferred) maintained for the Participant in installments on each Grant Date
provided that the Participant continues to serve as an Eligible Director on the
applicable Grant Date.

(b)    Amount. An installment payment will consist of a number of Shares with a
value of $25,000 (or such other amount as the Committee or the Nominations and
Corporate Governance Committee of the Board may determine) on the applicable
Grant Date. The precise number of Shares to which the Participant will be
entitled will be determined by reference to the closing price of a Share on the
principal exchange on which the Shares trade on the first business day of the
applicable quarter or, if the first business day of the applicable quarter falls
on a date on which the Shares are not regularly traded, the closing price on the
most recent trading date for Shares prior to the first business day of the
applicable quarter. Any partial Shares shall be rounded down to the next whole
Share.

3.    Dividend Equivalents. Should the Participant elect the deferral of payment
of Shares, then this Section 3 shall apply. If on any date while Deferred Shares
are held in the bookkeeping account hereunder the Company shall pay any cash
dividend on the Shares (with a record date after the Grant Date), the Company
shall credit to the Participant’s bookkeeping account and the Participant shall
be entitled to receive, on the Delivery Date, a cash payment equal to: (a) the
aggregate number of Deferred Shares held by the Participant as of the related
dividend record date, multiplied by (b) the per Share amount of such cash
dividend. In the case of any dividend declared on Shares (with a record date
after the Date of Grant) that is payable in the form of Shares, the Company
shall credit to the Participant’s bookkeeping account and the Participant shall
be granted, as of the Delivery Date, a number of additional Deferred Shares
(rounded

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down to the next whole Share) equal to: (x) the aggregate number of Deferred
Shares held by the Participant as of the related dividend record date,
multiplied by (y) the number of Shares (including any fraction thereof) payable
as a dividend on a Share.
4.    Adjustments Upon Certain Events. The Committee shall make certain
substitutions or adjustments to any Deferred Shares subject to this Agreement
pursuant to Section 3.4 of the Plan as it deems equitable, but such substitution
or adjustment shall not duplicate the value of any benefit the Participant shall
be entitled to receive under this Agreement.
5.    No Right to Continued Service. The award evidenced by this Agreement shall
impose no obligation on the Company or any Affiliate to continue the service of
the Participant and shall not lessen or affect the Company’s or its Affiliate’s
right to terminate the service of such Participant.
6.    No Voting Rights. The Participant shall not have any voting or similar
rights with respect to any Shares or Deferred Shares unless and until Shares
have been registered in the Company’s register of shareholders. Without limiting
the foregoing, including Section 3 above, the Participant shall not have any
voting or similar rights with respect to any Deferred Shares during any period
such shares are subject to a deferral election.
7.    Legend on Certificates. Any Shares issued or transferred to the
Participant pursuant to this Agreement shall be subject to such stop transfer
orders and other restrictions as the Committee may deem advisable under the Plan
or the rules, regulations, and other requirements of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, any stock exchange upon which such Shares are listed, and any
applicable federal or state laws or relevant securities laws of the jurisdiction
of the domicile of the Participant, and the Committee may cause a legend or
legends to be put on any certificates representing such Shares to make
appropriate reference to such restrictions.
8.    Transferability. Rights hereunder may not be assigned, alienated, pledged,
attached, sold or otherwise transferred or encumbered by the Participant other
than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and any purported
assignment, alienation, pledge, attachment, sale, transfer or encumbrance not
permitted by this Section 8 shall be void and unenforceable against the Company
and any Affiliate.
9.    Notices. Any notice under this Agreement shall be addressed to the Company
in care of its Secretary at the principal executive office of the Company and to
the Participant at the address appearing in the records of the Company or its
Affiliates for the Participant or to either party at such other address as
either party hereto may hereafter designate in writing to the other. Any such
notice shall be deemed effective upon receipt thereof by the addressee.
10.    Choice of Law. THE INTERPRETATION, PERFORMANCE AND ENFORCEMENT OF THIS
AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE WITHOUT REGARD
TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW.
11.    Shares Subject to Plan. By entering into this Agreement, the Participant
agrees and acknowledges that the Participant has received and read a copy of the
Plan. All Shares are subject to the Plan. In the event of a conflict between any
term or provision contained herein and a term or provision of the Plan, the
applicable terms and provisions of the Plan will govern and prevail.
12.    Modifications. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to
contrary, the Company reserves the right to modify the terms and conditions of
this Agreement including, without limitation, the timing or circumstances of the
issuance or transfer of Shares to the Participant hereunder, to the extent such
modification is determined by the Company to be necessary to comply with
applicable law or preserve any intended deferral of income recognition until the
issuance or transfer of Shares hereunder.
13.    Signature in Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts,
each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures
thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.

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14.    Compliance with Section 409A of the Code. This Agreement, together with
the Plan, constitutes the entire agreement between the parties with respect to
the subject matter hereof. The parties intend that this Agreement be, at all
relevant times, in compliance with (or exempt from) Section 409A of the Code and
all other applicable laws, and this Agreement shall be so interpreted and
administered. In addition to the general amendment rights of the Company with
respect to the Plan, the Company specifically retains the unilateral right (but
not the obligation) to make, prospectively or retroactively, any amendment to
this Agreement or any related document as it deems necessary or desirable to
more fully address issues in connection with compliance with (or exemption from)
Section 409A of the Code and other laws. In no event, however, shall this
section or any other provisions of this Agreement be construed to require the
Company to provide any gross‑up for the tax consequences of any provisions of,
or payments under, this Agreement. Except as may be provided in another
agreement to which the Company is bound, the Company and its Affiliates shall
have no responsibility for tax or legal consequences to the Participant (or the
Participant’s beneficiaries) resulting from the terms or operation of this
Agreement or the Plan.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of
December ____, [YEAR].

PARTICIPANT                        CHART INDUSTRIES, INC.
_____________________________                By:
___________________________            
[NAME]
Name:

Title:

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CHART INDUSTRIES, INC.
2017 OMNIBUS EQUITY PLAN
STOCK AWARD AGREEMENT AND
DEFERRAL ELECTION FORM
(For Eligible Directors)
I understand that, as an Eligible Director of Chart Industries, Inc. (the
“Company”), I will be entitled to four installment payments of shares of common
stock of the Company (the “Shares”) in the next fiscal year, as specified in the
above Agreement.
Normal Time and Form of Payment
In the absence of a contrary election below, I will receive an installment
payment on the first business day of each quarter in the next fiscal year, to
the extent specified in the above Agreement.
Complete the election below only if you wish to defer all or a portion of each
payment until a date after [YEAR] (i.e., until a date after the fiscal year
covered by the above Agreement).
Election to Defer Payment
I hereby elect to have _________% (enter a whole percentage between 1% and 100%;
if less than 100% the number of Shares deferred will be rounded up to the next
whole Share) of any Shares (and any related dividend equivalents) otherwise
payable to me in 2019 paid to me at the following time:
On the earliest of:
_____________ ______, 20______ or,
The first day of January following my “separation from service” (as defined
under Section 409A of the Code) with the Company’s Board of Directors or
The date of the occurrence of a “change in ownership or effective control” (as
defined under Section 409A of the Code) of the Company.
An election to defer payments must be submitted to the Company by the last day
of the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year to which the election
applies.
Participant:____________________________        ACKNOWLEDGED
Print Name: [NAME]                ___________________________________,
for Chart Industries, Inc.
Date: December ___, [YEAR]

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