Document:

1997 Stock Plan (as amended and restated as of July 10, 2003)

 Exhibit 10.6 
 RAMBUS INC. 
 1997 STOCK PLAN 
  
 (as amended and restated as of July 10, 2003) 
  
 1.    Purposes of the Plan.    The purposes of this Stock Plan are:

  

	 	•	 	to attract and retain the best available personnel for positions of substantial responsibility, 

  

	 	•	 	to provide additional incentive to Employees, Directors and Consultants, and 

  

	 	•	 	· to promote the success of the Company’s business. 

  
 Options granted under the Plan may be Incentive Stock Options or Nonstatutory Stock Options, as determined by the Administrator at the time of grant.
Stock Purchase Rights and Common Stock Equivalents may also be granted under the Plan. The Plan also provides for automatic grants of Nonstatutory Stock Options to Outside Directors. 
  
 2.    Definitions.    As used herein, the following definitions shall apply:

  
 (a)    “Administrator” means the Board or any of its Committees as shall be administering the Plan, in accordance with Section 4 of the Plan. 
  
 (b)    “Applicable
Laws” means the requirements relating to the administration of stock option plans under U. S. state corporate laws, U.S. federal and state securities laws, the Code, any stock exchange or quotation system on which the Common Stock is listed
or quoted and the applicable laws of any foreign country or jurisdiction where Awards are, or will be, granted under the Plan. 
  
 (c)    “Award” means an award of Options, Stock Purchase Rights or Common Stock Equivalents pursuant
to the terms of the Plan. 
  
 (d)    “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company. 
  
 (e)    “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. 
  
 (f)    “Committee”
means a committee of Directors appointed by the Board in accordance with Section 4 of the Plan. 
  
 (g)    “Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company. 
  
 (h)    “Common Stock
Equivalent” means an unfunded and unsecured right to receive Shares in the future that may be granted to a Service Provider pursuant to Section 12. 
  
 (i)    “Common Stock Equivalent Agreement” means a written agreement between the Company and a
Service Provider evidencing the terms and conditions of an individual Common Stock Equivalent grant or Award. 

 (j)    “Company” means Rambus Inc., a Delaware
corporation. 
  
 (k)    “Consultant” means any person, including an advisor, engaged by the Company or a Parent or Subsidiary to render services to such entity. 
  
 (l)    “Director” means
a member of the Board. 
  
 (m)    “Disability” means total and permanent disability as defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code. 
  
 (n)    “Employee” means any person, including Officers and Directors, employed by the Company or any
Parent or Subsidiary of the Company. A Service Provider shall not cease to be an Employee in the case of (i) any leave of absence approved by the Company or (ii) transfers between locations of the Company or between the Company, its Parent, any
Subsidiary, or any successor. For purposes of Incentive Stock Options, no such leave may exceed ninety days, unless reemployment upon expiration of such leave is guaranteed by statute or contract. If reemployment upon expiration of a leave of
absence approved by the Company is not so guaranteed, on the 181st day of such leave any Incentive Stock Option held by the Optionee shall cease to be treated as an Incentive Stock Option and shall be treated for tax purposes as a Nonstatutory Stock
Option. Neither service as a Director nor payment of a director’s fee by the Company shall be sufficient to constitute “employment” by the Company. 
  
 (o)    “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. 
  
 (p)    “Fair Market Value” means, as of any date, the value of Common Stock determined as follows: 
  
 (i)    If the Common Stock is listed on any established stock exchange or a national market system, including without
limitation the Nasdaq National Market or The Nasdaq SmallCap Market of The Nasdaq Stock Market, its Fair Market Value shall be the closing sales price for such stock (or the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted on such exchange or
system for the last market trading day prior to the time of determination, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Administrator deems reliable; 
  
 (ii)    If the Common Stock is regularly quoted by a recognized securities dealer but
selling prices are not reported, the Fair Market Value of a Share of Common Stock shall be the mean between the high bid and low asked prices for the Common Stock on the last market trading day prior to the day of determination, as reported in
The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Administrator deems reliable; or 
  
 (iii)    In the absence of an established market for the Common Stock, the Fair Market Value shall be determined in
good faith by the Administrator. 
  
 (q)    “Incentive Stock Option” means an Option intended to qualify as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder. 
  
 (r)    “Inside
Director” means a Director who is an Employee. 
  
 (s)    “Nonstatutory Stock Option” means an Option not intended to qualify as an Incentive Stock Option. 
  

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 (t)    “Notice of Grant” means a written or
electronic notice evidencing certain terms and conditions of an individual Option or Stock Purchase Right grant. The Notice of Grant is part of the Option Agreement. 
  
 (u)    “Officer” means a person who is an officer of the Company within
the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. 
  
 (v)    “Option” means a stock option granted pursuant to the Plan. 
  
 (w)    “Option
Agreement” means an agreement between the Company and an Optionee evidencing the terms and conditions of an individual Option grant. The Option Agreement is subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan. 
  
 (x)    “Option Exchange
Program” means a program whereby outstanding Options are surrendered in exchange for Options with a lower exercise price. 
  
 (y)    “Outside Director” means a Director who is not an Employee. 
  
 (z)    “Optioned Stock”
means the Common Stock subject to an Option or Stock Purchase Right. 
  
 (aa)    “Optionee” means the holder of an outstanding Option or Stock Purchase Right granted under the Plan. 
  
 (bb)    “Parent” means a “parent corporation,” whether now or
hereafter existing, as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code. 
  
 (cc)    “Plan” means this 1997 Stock Plan. 
  
 (dd)    “Restricted Stock” means shares of Common Stock acquired pursuant to a grant of Stock
Purchase Rights under Section 11 of the Plan. 
  
 (ee)    “Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement” means a written agreement between the Company and the Optionee evidencing the terms and restrictions applying to stock purchased under a Stock Purchase
Right. The Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement is subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and the Notice of Grant. 
  
 (ff)    “Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act or any successor to Rule 16b-3, as in
effect when discretion is being exercised with respect to the Plan. 
  
 (gg)    “Section 16(b)” means Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act. 
  
 (hh)    “Service Provider” means an Employee, Director or Consultant. 
  
 (ii)    “Share” means a
share of the Common Stock, as adjusted in accordance with Section 15 of the Plan. 
  
 (jj)    “Stock Purchase Right” means the right to purchase Common Stock pursuant to Section 11 of the
Plan, as evidenced by a Notice of Grant. 
  

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 (kk)    “Subsidiary” means a “subsidiary
corporation”, whether now or hereafter existing, as defined in Section 424(f) of the Code. 
  
 3.    Stock Subject to the Plan.    Subject to the provisions of Section 15 of the Plan, the maximum
aggregate number of Shares which may be optioned and sold under the Plan is 4,000,000 Shares, plus an annual increase as of the last day of each of the Company’s immediately preceding fiscal years during the term of the Plan equal to the lesser
of (i) the number of Shares needed to restore the maximum aggregate number of Shares which may be optioned and sold under the Plan to 4,000,000 Shares, (ii) four percent (4%) of the outstanding Shares on such date, or (iii) a lesser amount
determined by the Board. The Shares may be authorized, but unissued, or reacquired Common Stock. 
  
 If an Option or Stock Purchase Right expires or becomes unexercisable without having been exercised in full, or is surrendered pursuant to an Option
Exchange Program, the unpurchased Shares which were subject thereto shall become available for future grant or sale under the Plan (unless the Plan has terminated); provided, however, that Shares that have actually been issued under the Plan,
whether upon exercise of an Option or Right, shall not be returned to the Plan and shall not become available for future distribution under the Plan, except that if Shares of Restricted Stock are repurchased by the Company at their original purchase
price, such Shares shall become available for future grant under the Plan. 
  
 4.    Administration of the Plan. 
  
 (a)    Procedure. 
  
 (i)    Multiple Administrative Bodies.    The Plan may be administered by different
Committees with respect to different groups of Service Providers. 
  
 (ii)    Section 162(m).    To the extent that the Administrator determines it to be desirable to qualify Options granted hereunder as “performance-based
compensation” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code, the Plan shall be administered by a Committee of two or more “outside directors” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code. 
  
 (iii)    Rule
16b-3.    To the extent desirable to qualify transactions hereunder as exempt under Rule 16b-3, the transactions contemplated hereunder shall be structured to satisfy the requirements for exemption under Rule 16b-3.

  
 (iv)    Grants to
Outside Directors.    All grants of Options to Outside Directors made pursuant to Section 14 of the Plan shall be automatic and nondiscretionary. 
  
 (v)    Other Administration.    Other than as provided above,
the Plan shall be administered by (A) the Board or (B) a Committee, which committee shall be constituted to satisfy Applicable Laws. 
  
 (b)    Powers of the Administrator.    Subject to the provisions of the Plan, and in the
case of a Committee, subject to the specific duties delegated by the Board to such Committee, the Administrator shall have the authority, in its discretion: 
  
 (i)    to determine the Fair Market Value; 
  
 (ii)    to select the Service Providers to whom Awards may be granted hereunder;

  

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 (iii)    to determine the number of shares of Common Stock to be
covered by each Award granted hereunder; 
  
 (iv)    to approve forms of agreement for use under the Plan; 
  
 (v)    to determine the terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan, of any Award granted
hereunder. Such terms and conditions include, but are not limited to, the exercise price, the time or times when Options or Stock Purchase Rights may be exercised (which may be based on performance criteria), the time or times when Common Stock
Equivalents may be converted to Shares, any vesting acceleration or waiver of forfeiture restrictions, and any restriction or limitation regarding any Award or the Shares relating thereto, based in each case on such factors as the Administrator, in
its sole discretion, shall determine; 
  
 (vi)    to reduce the exercise price of any Option or Stock Purchase Right to the then current Fair Market Value, or to adjust the number of Shares subject to a Common Stock Equivalent, if the Fair Market Value of the
Common Stock shall have declined since the date the Award was granted; 
  
 (vii)    to institute an Option Exchange Program; 
  
 (viii)    to construe and interpret the terms of the Plan and Awards granted pursuant to the Plan; 
  
 (ix)    to prescribe, amend and rescind
rules and regulations relating to the Plan, including rules and regulations relating to sub-plans established for the purpose of qualifying for preferred tax treatment under foreign tax laws; 
  
 (x)    to modify or amend each Award
(subject to Section 17(c) of the Plan), including the discretionary authority to extend the post-termination exercisability period of Options longer than is otherwise provided for in the Plan; 
  
 (xi)    to allow Optionees to satisfy
withholding tax obligations by electing to have the Company withhold from the Shares to be issued upon exercise of an Option or Stock Purchase Right that number of Shares having a Fair Market Value equal to the amount required to be withheld. The
Fair Market Value of the Shares to be withheld shall be determined on the date that the amount of tax to be withheld is to be determined. All elections by an Optionee to have Shares withheld for this purpose shall be made in such form and under such
conditions as the Administrator may deem necessary or advisable; 
  
 (xii)    to authorize any person to execute on behalf of the Company any instrument required to effect the grant of an Option or Stock Purchase Right previously granted by the Administrator;

  
 (xiii)    to make all
other determinations deemed necessary or advisable for administering the Plan. 
  
 (c)    Effect of Administrator’s Decision.    The Administrator’s decisions,
determinations and interpretations shall be final and binding on all Optionees and any other holders of Awards. 
  
 5.    Eligibility.    Nonstatutory Stock Options, Stock Purchase Rights and Common Stock Equivalents may be
granted to Service Providers. Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to Employees. 
  
 6.    Limitations. 
  

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 (a)    Each Option shall be designated in the Option Agreement as
either an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonstatutory Stock Option. However, notwithstanding such designation, to the extent that the aggregate Fair Market Value of the Shares with respect to which Incentive Stock Options are exercisable for the first
time by the Optionee during any calendar year (under all plans of the Company and any Parent or Subsidiary) exceeds $100,000, such Options shall be treated as Nonstatutory Stock Options. For purposes of this Section 6(a), Incentive Stock Options
shall be taken into account in the order in which they were granted. The Fair Market Value of the Shares shall be determined as of the time the Option with respect to such Shares is granted. 
  
 (b)    Neither the Plan nor any Award
shall confer upon an Optionee any right with respect to continuing the Optionee’s relationship as a Service Provider with the Company, nor shall they interfere in any way with the Optionee’s right or the Company’s right to terminate
such relationship at any time, with or without cause. 
  
 (c)    The following limitations shall apply to grants of Options: 
  
 (i)    No Service Provider shall be granted, in any fiscal year of the Company, Options to purchase more than
1,000,000 Shares. 
  
 (ii)    In connection with his or her initial service, a Service Provider may be granted Options to purchase up to an additional 1,000,000 Shares which shall not count against the limit set forth in subsection (i) above.

  
 (iii)    The foregoing
limitations shall be adjusted proportionately in connection with any change in the Company’s capitalization as described in Section 15. 
  
 (iv)    If an Option is canceled in the same fiscal year of the Company in which it was granted (other than in
connection with a transaction described in Section 15), the canceled Option will be counted against the limits set forth in subsections (i) and (ii) above. For this purpose, if the exercise price of an Option is reduced, the transaction will be
treated as a cancellation of the Option and the grant of a new Option. 
  
 7.    Term of Plan.    Subject to Section 21 of the Plan, the Plan shall become effective upon its adoption by the Board. It shall continue in effect for a term of ten (10) years unless
terminated earlier under Section 17 of the Plan. 
  
 8.    Term of Option.    The term of each Option shall be stated in the Option Agreement. In the case of an Incentive Stock Option, the term shall be ten (10) years from the date of grant or
such shorter term as may be provided in the Option Agreement. Moreover, in the case of an Incentive Stock Option granted to an Optionee who, at the time the Incentive Stock Option is granted, owns stock representing more than ten percent (10%) of
the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary, the term of the Incentive Stock Option shall be five (5) years from the date of grant or such shorter term as may be provided in the Option
Agreement. 
  
 9.    Option Exercise Price
and Consideration. 
  
 (a)    Exercise Price.    The per share exercise price for the Shares to be issued pursuant to exercise of an Option shall be determined by the Administrator, subject to the following:

  
 (i)    In the case of an
Incentive Stock Option 
  

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 (A)    granted to an Employee who, at the time the Incentive Stock
Option is granted, owns stock representing more than ten percent (10%) of the voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary, the per Share exercise price shall be no less than 110% of the Fair Market Value per Share
on the date of grant. 
  
 (B)    granted to any Employee other than an Employee described in paragraph (A) immediately above, the per Share exercise price shall be no less than 100% of the Fair Market Value per Share on the date of grant.

  
 (ii)    In the case of a
Nonstatutory Stock Option, the per Share exercise price shall be determined by the Administrator. In the case of a Nonstatutory Stock Option intended to qualify as “performance-based compensation” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of
the Code, the per Share exercise price shall be no less than 100% of the Fair Market Value per Share on the date of grant. 
  
 (iii)    Notwithstanding the foregoing, Options may be granted with a per Share exercise price of less than 100% of
the Fair Market Value per Share on the date of grant pursuant to a merger or other corporate transaction. 
  
 (b)    Waiting Period and Exercise Dates.    At the time an Option is granted, the
Administrator shall fix the period within which the Option may be exercised and shall determine any conditions which must be satisfied before the Option may be exercised. 
  
 (c)    Form of Consideration.    The Administrator shall
determine the acceptable form of consideration for exercising an Option, including the method of payment. In the case of an Incentive Stock Option, the Administrator shall determine the acceptable form of consideration at the time of grant. Such
consideration may consist entirely of: 
  
 (i)    cash; 
  
 (ii)    check; 
  
 (iii)    promissory note; 
  
 (iv)    other Shares which (A) in the case of Shares acquired upon exercise of an option, have been owned by the Optionee for more than six months on the date of surrender, and (B) have a Fair Market Value on the date of
surrender equal to the aggregate exercise price of the Shares as to which said Option shall be exercised; 
  
 (v)    consideration received by the Company under a cashless exercise program implemented by the Company in
connection with the Plan; 
  
 (vi)    a reduction in the amount of any Company liability to the Optionee, including any liability attributable to the Optionee’s participation in any Company-sponsored deferred compensation program or arrangement;

  
 (vii)    any combination
of the foregoing methods of payment; or 
  
 (viii)    such other consideration and method of payment for the issuance of Shares to the extent permitted by Applicable Laws. 
  

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 10.    Exercise of Option. 
  
 (a)    Procedure for Exercise; Rights
as a Stockholder.    Any Option granted hereunder shall be exercisable according to the terms of the Plan and at such times and under such conditions as determined by the Administrator and set forth in the Option Agreement.
Unless the Administrator provides otherwise, vesting of Options granted hereunder shall be tolled during any unpaid leave of absence. An Option may not be exercised for a fraction of a Share. 
  
 An Option shall be deemed exercised when the Company
receives: (i) written or electronic notice of exercise (in accordance with the Option Agreement) from the person entitled to exercise the Option, and (ii) full payment for the Shares with respect to which the Option is exercised. Full payment may
consist of any consideration and method of payment authorized by the Administrator and permitted by the Option Agreement and the Plan. Shares issued upon exercise of an Option shall be issued in the name of the Optionee or, if requested by the
Optionee, in the name of the Optionee and his or her spouse. Until the Shares are issued (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company), no right to vote or receive dividends
or any other rights as a stockholder shall exist with respect to the Optioned Stock, notwithstanding the exercise of the Option. The Company shall issue (or cause to be issued) such Shares promptly after the Option is exercised. No adjustment will
be made for a dividend or other right for which the record date is prior to the date the Shares are issued, except as provided in Section 15 of the Plan. 
  
 Exercising an Option in any manner shall decrease the number of Shares thereafter available, both for purposes of the Plan and for sale
under the Option, by the number of Shares as to which the Option is exercised. 
  
 (b)    Termination of Relationship as a Service Provider.    If an Optionee ceases to be a
Service Provider, other than upon the Optionee’s death or Disability, the Optionee may exercise his or her Option within such period of time as is specified in the Option Agreement to the extent that the Option is vested on the date of
termination (but in no event later than the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Option Agreement). In the absence of a specified time in the Option Agreement, the Option shall remain exercisable for three (3) months following
the Optionee’s termination. If, on the date of termination, the Optionee is not vested as to his or her entire Option, the Shares covered by the unvested portion of the Option shall revert to the Plan. If, after termination, the Optionee does
not exercise his or her Option within the time specified by the Administrator, the Option shall terminate, and the Shares covered by such Option shall revert to the Plan. 
  
 (c)    Disability of Optionee.    If an Optionee ceases to be
a Service Provider as a result of the Optionee’s Disability, the Optionee may exercise his or her Option within such period of time as is specified in the Option Agreement to the extent the Option is vested on the date of termination (but in no
event later than the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Option Agreement). In the absence of a specified time in the Option Agreement, the Option shall remain exercisable for twelve (12) months following the Optionee’s
termination. If, on the date of termination, the Optionee is not vested as to his or her entire Option, the Shares covered by the unvested portion of the Option shall revert to the Plan. If, after termination, the Optionee does not exercise his or
her Option within the time specified herein, the Option shall terminate, and the Shares covered by such Option shall revert to the Plan. 
  
 (d)    Death of Optionee.    If an Optionee dies while a Service Provider, the Option may
be exercised within such period of time as is specified in the Option Agreement (but in no event later than the expiration of the term of such Option as set forth in the Notice of Grant), by the Optionee’s estate or by a 
  

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 person who acquires the right to exercise the Option by bequest or inheritance, but only to the extent
that the Option is vested on the date of death. In the absence of a specified time in the Option Agreement, the Option shall remain exercisable for twelve (12) months following the Optionee’s termination. If, at the time of death, the Optionee
is not vested as to his or her entire Option, the Shares covered by the unvested portion of the Option shall immediately revert to the Plan. The Option may be exercised by the executor or administrator of the Optionee’s estate or, if none, by
the person(s) entitled to exercise the Option under the Optionee’s will or the laws of descent or distribution. If the Option is not so exercised within the time specified herein, the Option shall terminate, and the Shares covered by such
Option shall revert to the Plan. 
  
 (e)    Buyout Provisions.    The Administrator may at any time offer to buy out for a payment in cash or Shares an Option previously granted based on such terms and conditions as the
Administrator shall establish and communicate to the Optionee at the time that such offer is made. 
  
 11.    Stock Purchase Rights. 
  
 (a)    Rights to Purchase.    Stock Purchase Rights may be issued either alone, in addition
to, or in tandem with other Awards granted under the Plan and/or cash awards made outside of the Plan. After the Administrator determines that it will offer Stock Purchase Rights under the Plan, it shall advise the offeree in writing or
electronically, by means of a Notice of Grant, of the terms, conditions and restrictions related to the offer, including the number of Shares that the offeree shall be entitled to purchase, the price to be paid, and the time within which the offeree
must accept such offer. The offer shall be accepted by execution of a Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement in the form determined by the Administrator. 
  
 (b)    Repurchase Option.    Unless the Administrator determines otherwise, the Restricted
Stock Purchase Agreement shall grant the Company a repurchase option exercisable upon the voluntary or involuntary termination of the purchaser’s service with the Company for any reason (including death or Disability). The purchase price for
Shares repurchased pursuant to the Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement shall be the original price paid by the purchaser and may be paid by cancellation of any indebtedness of the purchaser to the Company. The repurchase option shall lapse at a rate
determined by the Administrator. 
  
 (c)    Other Provisions.    The Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement shall contain such other terms, provisions and conditions not inconsistent with the Plan as may be determined by the
Administrator in its sole discretion. 
  
 (d)    Rights as a Stockholder.    Once the Stock Purchase Right is exercised, the purchaser shall have the rights equivalent to those of a stockholder, and shall be a stockholder when his or
her purchase is entered upon the records of the duly authorized transfer agent of the Company. No adjustment will be made for a dividend or other right for which the record date is prior to the date the Stock Purchase Right is exercised, except as
provided in Section 15 of the Plan. 
  
 12.    Common Stock Equivalents. 
  
 (a)    Award of Common Stock Equivalents.    Common Stock Equivalents may be awarded to Service Providers either alone, in addition to, or in tandem with other Awards
granted under the Plan and/or cash awards made outside of the Plan. An Award of Common Stock Equivalents shall be made pursuant to a Common Stock Equivalent Agreement in such form as is determined by the Administrator. 
  
 (b)    Bookkeeping Account;
Nontransferability.    The number of Common Stock Equivalents awarded pursuant to Section 12(a) to each Service Provider shall be credited to a bookkeeping account established in the name of the Service Provider at such time
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 Common Stock Equivalent Agreement. The Company’s obligation with respect to such Common Stock
Equivalents shall not be funded or secured in any manner. A Service Provider’s right to receive Common Stock Equivalents may not be assigned or transferred, voluntarily or involuntarily, except as expressly provided herein. 
  
 (c)    Dividends.    If the Company pays a cash dividend with respect to the Shares at any time while Common Stock Equivalents are credited to a Service Provider’s account, there shall be
credited to the Service Provider’s account additional Common Stock Equivalents equal to (i) the dollar amount of the cash dividend the Service Provider would have received had he or she been the actual owner of the Shares to which the Common
Stock Equivalents then credited to the Service Provider’s account relate, divided by (ii) the Fair Market Value of one Share on the dividend payment date. The Company will pay the Service Provider a cash payment in lieu of fractional Common
Stock Equivalents on the date of such dividend payment. 
  
 (d)    Conversion.    The Company shall deliver to the Service Provider (or his or her designated beneficiary or estate) a number of Shares equal to the whole number of
Common Stock Equivalents then credited to the Service Provider’s account, at such time or times as specified in the Service Provider’s Common Stock Equivalent Agreement, or as otherwise provided herein. 
  
 (e)    Stockholder
Rights.    A Service Provider (or his or her designated beneficiary or estate) shall not be entitled to any voting or other stockholder rights as a result of the credit of Common Stock Equivalents to the Service
Provider’s account, until certificates representing Shares are delivered to the Service Provider (or his or her designated beneficiary or estate) upon conversion of the Service Provider’s Common Stock Equivalents pursuant to Section 12(d).

  
 13.    Non-Transferability of
Awards.    Unless determined otherwise by the Administrator, an Award may not be sold, pledged, assigned, hypothecated, transferred, or disposed of in any manner other than by will or by the laws of descent or distribution
and may be exercised, during the lifetime of the Optionee, only by the Optionee. If the Administrator makes an Award transferable, such Award shall contain such additional terms and conditions as the Administrator deems appropriate. 
  
 14.    Automatic Option Grants to Outside
Directors. 
  
 (a)    First Option.    Each Outside Director who becomes an Outside Director after the effective date of this Plan shall be automatically granted a Nonstatutory Stock Option to purchase 40,000
Shares (the “First Option”) on the date on which such person first becomes an Outside Director, whether through election by the stockholders of the Company or appointment by the Board to fill a vacancy; provided, however, that an Inside
Director who ceases to be an Inside Director but who remains a Director shall not receive a First Option. 
  
 (b)    Subsequent Option.    Each Outside Director shall be automatically granted a
Nonstatutory Stock Option to purchase 20,000 Shares (a “Subsequent Option”) on October 1 of each year; provided that he or she is then an Outside Director and, providedfurther, that as of such date, he or she shall
have served on the Board for at least the preceding six (6) months. 
  
 (c)    Terms of Options.    The terms of First Options and Subsequent Options granted hereunder shall be as follows: 
  
 (A)    the term of each Option shall be
ten (10) years. 
  

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 (B)    the exercise price per Share shall be 100% of the Fair Market
Value per Share on the date of grant. In the event that the date of grant is not a trading day, the exercise price per Share shall be the Fair Market Value on the next trading day immediately following the date of grant. 
  
 (C)    12.5% of the Shares subject to
the Option shall vest six months after the date of grant, and 1/48 of the Shares subject to the Option shall vest each month thereafter so that 100% of the Shares subject to the Option shall be vested four (4) years from the grant date, subject to
the Optionee remaining a Service Provider as of such vesting dates. 
  
 15.    Adjustments Upon Changes in Capitalization, Dissolution, Merger or Asset Sale. 
  
 (a)    Changes in Capitalization.    Subject to any required action by the stockholders of
the Company, the number of shares of Common Stock covered by each outstanding Award, the number of Common Stock Equivalents credited to a Service Provider’s account under Section 12(b) and the number of shares of Common Stock which have been
authorized for issuance under the Plan but as to which no Awards have yet been granted or which have been returned to the Plan upon cancellation or expiration of an Award, as well as the price per share of Common Stock covered by each such
outstanding Award, shall be proportionately adjusted for any increase or decrease in the number of issued shares of Common Stock resulting from a stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend, combination or reclassification of the Common Stock,
or any other increase or decrease in the number of issued shares of Common Stock effected without receipt of consideration by the Company; provided, however, that conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be deemed to have
been “effected without receipt of consideration.” Such adjustment shall be made by the Board, whose determination in that respect shall be final, binding and conclusive. Except as expressly provided herein, no issuance by the Company of
shares of stock of any class, or securities convertible into shares of stock of any class, shall affect, and no adjustment by reason thereof shall be made with respect to, the number or price of shares of Common Stock subject to an Award.

  
 (b)    Dissolution or
Liquidation.    In the event of the proposed dissolution or liquidation of the Company, the Administrator shall notify each Optionee as soon as practicable prior to the effective date of such proposed transaction. The
Administrator in its discretion may provide: (i) for an Optionee to have the right to exercise his or her Option until ten (10) days prior to such transaction as to all of the Optioned Stock covered thereby, including Shares as to which the Option
would not otherwise be exercisable; (ii) that any Company repurchase option applicable to any Shares purchased upon exercise of an Option or Stock Purchase Right shall lapse as to all such Shares, provided the proposed dissolution or liquidation
takes place at the time and in the manner contemplated; and (iii) that any Common Stock Equivalents credited to a Service Provider’s account under Section 12(b) shall convert into Shares (as provided in Section 12(d)) immediately prior to the
consummation of any such dissolution or liquidation. To the extent it has not been previously exercised, an Award will terminate immediately prior to the consummation of such proposed action. 
  
 (c)    Merger or Asset
Sale.    In the event of a merger of the Company with or into another corporation, or the sale of substantially all of the assets of the Company (a “Merger”), each outstanding Award shall be assumed or an equivalent
award substituted by the successor corporation or a Parent or Subsidiary of the successor corporation (the “Successor Corporation”). 
  
 Following such assumption or substitution in connection with a Merger, if the Optionee’s status as an Employee or employee of the
Successor Corporation, as applicable, is terminated by the Successor Corporation as a result of an Involuntary Termination (as defined below) other than for Cause (as defined below) within twelve months following a Merger, then (i) the Optionee
shall fully vest in and have the right to exercise Optionee’s Option or Stock Purchase Right as to all of the Optioned Stock, including Shares as to which Optionee would not otherwise be vested or exercisable; and (ii) Common Stock Equivalents
credited to 
  

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 a Service Provider’s account under Section 12(b) shall convert into Shares (as provided in Section
12(d)) on the date of such termination. Thereafter, the Award shall remain exercisable in accordance with Sections 10(b) through (d) and Section 12 above. 
  
 For purposes of this section, any of the following events shall constitute an “Involuntary Termination”: (i) without the
Employee’s express written consent, a significant reduction of the Employee’s duties, authority or responsibilities, relative to the Employee’s duties, authority or responsibilities as in effect immediately prior to the Merger, or the
assignment to Employee of such reduced duties, authority or responsibilities; (ii) without the Employee’s express written consent, a substantial reduction, without good business reasons, of the facilities and perquisites (including office space
and location) available to the Employee immediately prior to the Merger; (iii) a reduction by the Successor Corporation in the base salary of the Employee as in effect immediately prior to the Merger; (iv) a material reduction by the Successor
Corporation in the kind or level of employee benefits, including bonuses, to which the Employee was entitled immediately prior to the Merger with the result that the Employee’s overall benefits package is significantly reduced; (v) the
relocation of the Employee to a facility or a location more than fifty (50) miles from the Employee’s then present location, without the Employee’s express written consent; (vi) any purported termination of the Employee by the Corporation
which is not effected for Disability or for Cause, or any purported termination for which the grounds relied upon are not valid; (vii) or any act or set of facts or circumstances which would, under California case law or statute constitute a
constructive termination of the Employee. 
  
 For
purposes of this section, “Cause” shall mean (i) any act of personal dishonesty taken by the Employee in connection with his responsibilities as an employee and intended to result in substantial personal enrichment of the Employee, (ii)
the conviction of a felony, (iii) a willful act by the Employee which constitutes gross misconduct and which is injurious to the Successor Corporation, and (iv) following delivery to the Employee of a written demand for performance from the
Successor Corporation which describes the basis for the Successor Corporation’s belief that the Employee has not substantially performed his duties, continued violations by the Employee of the Employee’s obligations to the Successor which
are demonstrably willful and deliberate on the Employee’s part. 
  
 In the event that the Successor Corporation refuses to assume or substitute for the Award, then: (i) the Optionee shall fully vest in and have the right to exercise the Option or Stock Purchase Right as to all of the
Optioned Stock, including Shares as to which Optionee would not otherwise be vested or exercisable; and (ii) Common Stock Equivalents credited to a Service Provider’s account under Section 12(b) shall convert into Shares (as provided in Section
12(d)) immediately prior to the merger or sale of assets. If an Option or Stock Purchase Right becomes fully vested and exercisable in lieu of assumption or substitution in the event of a merger or sale of assets, the Administrator shall notify the
Optionee in writing or electronically that the Option or Stock Purchase Right shall be fully vested and exercisable for a period of fifteen (15) days from the date of such notice, and the Option or Stock Purchase Right shall terminate upon the
expiration of such period. If a Common Stock Equivalent converts to Shares in such event, the Administrator shall notify the Optionee at least fifteen (15) days prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction. For the purposes of this
paragraph, an Award shall be considered assumed if, following the merger or sale of assets, the award confers the right to purchase or receive, for each Share of Optioned Stock subject to the Option or Stock Purchase Right or for each Common Stock
Equivalent, immediately prior to the merger or sale of assets, the consideration (whether stock, cash, or other securities or property) received in the merger or sale of assets by holders of Common Stock for each Share held on the effective date of
the transaction (and if holders were offered a choice of consideration, the type of consideration chosen by the holders of a majority of the outstanding Shares); provided, however, that if such consideration received in the merger or sale of assets
is not solely common stock of the Successor Corporation or its Parent, the Administrator may, with the consent of the Successor Corporation, provide for the consideration to be received upon the exercise of the Option or 
  

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 Stock Purchase Right, for each Share of Optioned Stock subject to the Option or Stock Purchase Right, or
upon conversion of each Common Stock Equivalent, to be solely common stock of the Successor Corporation or its Parent equal in fair market value to the per share consideration received by holders of Common Stock in the merger or sale of assets.

  
 16.    Date of
Grant.    The date of grant of an Award shall be, for all purposes, the date on which the Administrator makes the determination granting such Award, or such other later date as is determined by the Administrator. Notice of
the determination shall be provided to each Optionee within a reasonable time after the date of such grant. 
  
 17.    Amendment and Termination of the Plan. 
  
 (a)    Amendment and Termination.    The Board may at any
time amend, alter, suspend or terminate the Plan. 
  
 (b)     Stockholder Approval.    The Company shall obtain stockholder approval of any Plan amendment to the extent necessary and desirable to comply with Applicable Laws. 
  
 (c)    Effect of Amendment or
Termination.    No amendment, alteration, suspension or termination of the Plan shall impair the rights of the holder of any Award, unless mutually agreed otherwise between the holder of such Award and the Administrator,
which agreement must be in writing and signed by the holder of such Award and the Company. Termination of the Plan shall not affect the Administrator’s ability to exercise the powers granted to it hereunder with respect to Awards granted under
the Plan prior to the date of such termination. 
  
 18.    Conditions Upon Issuance of Shares. 
  
 (a)    Legal Compliance.    Shares shall not be issued pursuant to the exercise of an Award
unless the exercise or conversion of such Award and the issuance and delivery of such Shares shall comply with Applicable Laws and shall be further subject to the approval of counsel for the Company with respect to such compliance. 
  
 (b)    Investment
Representations.    As a condition to the exercise or conversion of an Award, the Company may require the person exercising or converting such Award to represent and warrant at the time of any such exercise or conversion that
the Shares are being purchased only for investment and without any present intention to sell or distribute such Shares if, in the opinion of counsel for the Company, such a representation is required. 
  
 19.    Inability to Obtain
Authority.    The inability of the Company to obtain authority from any regulatory body having jurisdiction, which authority is deemed by the Company’s counsel to be necessary to the lawful issuance and sale of any
Shares hereunder, shall relieve the Company of any liability in respect of the failure to issue or sell such Shares as to which such requisite authority shall not have been obtained. 
  
 20.    Reservation of Shares.    The Company, during the term of this Plan,
will at all times reserve and keep available such number of Shares as shall be sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the Plan. 
  
 21.    Stockholder Approval.    The Plan shall be subject to approval by the stockholders of the Company
within twelve (12) months after the date the Plan is adopted. Such stockholder approval shall be obtained in the manner and to the degree required under Applicable Laws. 
  

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 RAMBUS INC. 
  
 1997 STOCK PLAN 
 STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT 
  
 Unless otherwise defined herein, the terms defined in the Plan shall have the
same defined meanings in this Option Agreement. 
  
 I.    NOTICE OF STOCK OPTION GRANT 
  
 [Optionee’s Name and Address] 
  
 You have been
granted an option to purchase Common Stock of the Company, subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Option Agreement, as follows: 
  

	Grant Number	 	_______________________________	 	 
			
	Date of Grant	 	_______________________________	 	 
			
	Vesting Commencement Date	 	_______________________________	 	 
			
	Exercise Price per Share	 	$______________________________	 	 
			
	Total Number of Shares Granted	 	_______________________________	 	 
			
	Total Exercise Price	 	$______________________________	 	 
			
	Type of Option:	 	 ——    Incentive Stock Option
 ——    Nonstatutory Stock Option
	 	 
			
	Term/Expiration Date:	 	_______________________________	 	 

  
 Vesting Schedule: 

 
 This Option may be exercised, in whole or in part, in accordance with the
following schedule: 
  
 10.0% of the Shares subject to the Option
shall vest six months after the date of grant, and 1/60 of the Shares subject to the Option shall vest each month thereafter so that 100% of the Shares subject to the Option shall be vested five (5) years from the vesting commencement date, subject
to the Optionee remaining a Service Provider as of such vesting dates. 
  
 Termination Period: 
  
 This Option may be
exercised for three months after Optionee ceases to be a Service Provider. Upon the death or Disability of the Optionee, this Option may be exercised for such longer period as provided in the Plan. In no event shall this Option be exercised later
than the Term/Expiration Date as provided above. 
  
 II.    AGREEMENT 

 1    Grant of Option.    The Plan Administrator of the
Company hereby grants to the Optionee named in the Notice of Grant attached as Part I of this Agreement (the “Optionee”) an option (the “Option”) to purchase the number of Shares, as set forth in the Notice of Grant, at the
exercise price per share set forth in the Notice of Grant (the “Exercise Price”), subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan, which is incorporated herein by reference. Subject to Section 17(c) of the Plan, in the event of a conflict
between the terms and conditions of the Plan and the terms and conditions of this Option Agreement, the terms and conditions of the Plan shall prevail. 
  
 If designated in the Notice of Grant as an Incentive Stock Option (“ISO”), this Option is intended to qualify as an Incentive
Stock Option under Section 422 of the Code. However, if this Option is intended to be an Incentive Stock Option, to the extent that it exceeds the $100,000 rule of Code Section 422(d) it shall be treated as a Nonstatutory Stock Option
(“NSO”). 
  
 2    Exercise of
Option. 
  
 (a)    Right to Exercise.    This Option is exercisable during its term in accordance with the Vesting Schedule set out in the Notice of Grant and the applicable provisions of the Plan and this
Option Agreement. 
  
 (b)    Method of Exercise.    This Option is exercisable by delivery of an exercise notice, in the form attached as Exhibit A (the “Exercise Notice”), which shall state the election
to exercise the Option, the number of Shares in respect of which the Option is being exercised (the “Exercised Shares”), and such other representations and agreements as may be required by the Company pursuant to the provisions of the
Plan. The Exercise Notice shall be completed by the Optionee and delivered to the Stockholder Relations Manager of the Company. The Exercise Notice shall be accompanied by payment of the aggregate Exercise Price as to all Exercised Shares. This
Option shall be deemed to be exercised upon receipt by the Company of such fully executed Exercise Notice accompanied by such aggregate Exercise Price. 
  
 No Shares shall be issued pursuant to the exercise of this Option unless such issuance and exercise complies with Applicable Laws.
Assuming such compliance, for income tax purposes the Exercised Shares shall be considered transferred to the Optionee on the date the Option is exercised with respect to such Exercised Shares. 
  
 3    Method of
Payment.    Payment of the aggregate Exercise Price shall be by any of the following, or a combination thereof, at the election of the Optionee: 
  
 (a)    cash; 
  
 (b)    check; 
  
 (c)    consideration received by the Company under a cashless exercise program
implemented by the Company in connection with the Plan; or 
  
 (d)    surrender of other Shares which (i) in the case of Shares acquired upon exercise of an option, have been owned by the Optionee for more than six (6) months on the date of surrender, and (ii)
have a Fair Market Value on the date of surrender equal to the aggregate Exercise Price of the Exercised Shares. 
  
 4    Non-Transferability of Option.    This Option may not be transferred in any manner otherwise than by
will or by the laws of descent or distribution and may be exercised during the lifetime of Optionee only by 
  

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 the Optionee. The terms of the Plan and this Option Agreement shall be binding upon the executors, administrators, heirs,
successors and assigns of the Optionee. 
  
 5    Term of Option.    This Option may be exercised only within the term set out in the Notice of Grant, and may be exercised during such term only in accordance with the Plan and the terms of
this Option Agreement. 
  
 6    Tax
Consequences.    Some of the federal tax consequences relating to this Option, as of the date of this Option, are set forth below. THIS SUMMARY IS NECESSARILY INCOMPLETE, AND THE TAX LAWS AND REGULATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO
CHANGE. THE OPTIONEE SHOULD CONSULT A TAX ADVISER BEFORE EXERCISING THIS OPTION OR DISPOSING OF THE SHARES. 
  
 (a)    Exercising the Option. 
  
 (i)    Nonstatutory Stock Option.    The Optionee may incur
regular federal income tax liability upon exercise of a NSO. The Optionee will be treated as having received compensation income (taxable at ordinary income tax rates) equal to the excess, if any, of the Fair Market Value of the Exercised Shares on
the date of exercise over their aggregate Exercise Price. If the Optionee is an Employee or a former Employee, the Company will be required to withhold from his or her compensation or collect from Optionee and pay to the applicable taxing
authorities an amount in cash equal to a percentage of this compensation income at the time of exercise, and may refuse to honor the exercise and refuse to deliver Shares if such withholding amounts are not delivered at the time of exercise.

  
 (ii)    Incentive
Stock Option.    If this Option qualifies as an ISO, the Optionee will have no regular federal income tax liability upon its exercise, although the excess, if any, of the Fair Market Value of the Exercised Shares on the date
of exercise over their aggregate Exercise Price will be treated as an adjustment to alternative minimum taxable income for federal tax purposes and may subject the Optionee to alternative minimum tax in the year of exercise. In the event that the
Optionee ceases to be an Employee but remains a Service Provider, any Incentive Stock Option of the Optionee that remains unexercised shall cease to qualify as an Incentive Stock Option and will be treated for tax purposes as a Nonstatutory Stock
Option on the date three (3) months and one (1) day following such change of status. 
  
 (b)    Disposition of Shares. 
  
 (i)    NSO.    If the Optionee holds NSO Shares for at least
one year, any gain realized on disposition of the Shares will be treated as long-term capital gain for federal income tax purposes. 
  
 (ii)    ISO.    If the Optionee holds ISO Shares for at least one year after exercise and
two years after the grant date, any gain realized on disposition of the Shares will be treated as long-term capital gain for federal income tax purposes. If the Optionee disposes of ISO Shares within one year after exercise or two years after the
grant date, any gain realized on such disposition will be treated as compensation income (taxable at ordinary income rates) to the extent of the excess, if any, of the lesser of (A) the difference between the Fair Market Value of the Shares acquired
on the date of exercise and the aggregate Exercise Price, or (B) the difference between the sale price of such Shares and the aggregate Exercise Price. Any additional gain will be taxed as capital gain, short-term or long-term depending on the
period that the ISO Shares were held. 
  
 (c)    Notice of Disqualifying Disposition of ISO Shares.    If the Optionee sells or otherwise disposes of any of the Shares acquired pursuant to an ISO on or before the later of (i) two years
after the grant date, or (ii) one year after the exercise date, the Optionee shall immediately notify the Company in writing of such disposition. The Optionee agrees that he or she may be subject to income tax withholding by the 
  

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 Company on the compensation income recognized from such early disposition of ISO Shares by payment in
cash or out of the current earnings paid to the Optionee. 
  
 7    Entire Agreement; Governing Law.    The Plan is incorporated herein by reference. The Plan and this Option Agreement constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the
subject matter hereof and supersede in their entirety all prior undertakings and agreements of the Company and Optionee with respect to the subject matter hereof, and may not be modified adversely to the Optionee’s interest except by means of a
writing signed by the Company and Optionee. This agreement is governed by the internal substantive laws, but not the choice of law rules, of California. 
  
 8    NO GUARANTEE OF CONTINUED SERVICE.    OPTIONEE ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE VESTING OF SHARES
PURSUANT TO THE VESTING SCHEDULE HEREOF IS EARNED ONLY BY CONTINUING AS A SERVICE PROVIDER AT THE WILL OF THE COMPANY (AND NOT THROUGH THE ACT OF BEING HIRED, BEING GRANTED AN OPTION OR PURCHASING SHARES HEREUNDER). OPTIONEE FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGES AND
AGREES THAT THIS AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER AND THE VESTING SCHEDULE SET FORTH HEREIN DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN EXPRESS OR IMPLIED PROMISE OF CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT AS A SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE VESTING PERIOD, FOR ANY PERIOD, OR AT
ALL, AND SHALL NOT INTERFERE WITH OPTIONEE’S RIGHT OR THE COMPANY’S RIGHT TO TERMINATE OPTIONEE’S RELATIONSHIP AS A SERVICE PROVIDER AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE. 
  
 By your signature and the signature of the Company’s representative below, you and the Company agree that this Option
is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Option Agreement. Optionee has reviewed the Plan and this Option Agreement in their entirety, has had an opportunity to obtain the advice of counsel prior to executing
this Option Agreement and fully understands all provisions of the Plan and Option Agreement. Optionee hereby agrees to accept as binding, conclusive and final all decisions or interpretations of the Administrator upon any questions relating to the
Plan and Option Agreement. Optionee further agrees to notify the Company upon any change in the residence address indicated below. 
  

	 OPTIONEE:
	 	 	 	 RAMBUS INC.

			
	  	 	 	 	  
	
	 	 	

	Signature	 	 	 	Geoff Tate, CEO
			
	  	 	 	 	  
	
	 	 	 	 
	Print Name	 	 	 	 
			
	  	 	 	 	  
	
	 	 	 	 
	Residence Address	 	 	 	 
			
	  	 	 	 	  
	
	 	 	 	 

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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                                  Exhibit 10.34

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based on our understanding of the desired provisions. It may not fit your
situation. You should consult with your lawyer on the plan's legal and tax
implications. Neither Principal Life Insurance Company nor its agents can be
responsible for the legal or tax aspects of the plan nor its appropriateness for
your situation. If you wish to change the provisions of this sample plan, you
may ask us to prepare new sample wording for you and your lawyer to review.

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                             CASEY'S GENERAL STORES
                                   401(k) PLAN

                          Defined Contribution Plan 8.0

                             Restated April 30, 2003

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

ARTICLE I       FORMAT AND DEFINITIONS

Section  1.01   Format
Section  1.02   Definitions

ARTICLE II      PARTICIPATION

Section  2.01   Active Participant
Section  2.02   Inactive Participant
Section  2.03   Cessation of Participation

ARTICLE III     CONTRIBUTIONS

Section  3.01   Employer Contributions
Section  3.01A  Rollover Contributions
Section  3.02   Forfeitures
Section  3.03   Allocation
Section  3.04   Contribution Limitation
Section  3.05   Excess Amounts
Section  3.06   Prohibited Allocations of Qualifying Employer Securities

ARTICLE IV      INVESTMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Section  4.01   Investment and Timing of Contributions
Section  4.02   Investment in Qualifying Employer Securities

ARTICLE V       BENEFITS

Section  5.01   Retirement Benefits
Section  5.02   Death Benefits
Section  5.03   Vested Benefits
Section  5.04   When Benefits Start
Section  5.05   Withdrawal Benefits
Section  5.06   Loans to Participants
Section  5.07   Distributions Under Qualified Domestic Relations Orders

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ARTICLE VI      DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS

Section  6.01   Automatic Forms of Distribution
Section  6.02   Optional Forms of Distribution
Section  6.03   Election Procedures
Section  6.04   Notice Requirements
Section  6.05   Form of Distribution From ESOP Matching and Non-Matching
                Contribution Accounts
Section  6.06   Put Option

ARTICLE VII     DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS

Section  7.01   Application
Section  7.02   Definitions
Section  7.03   Distribution Requirements

ARTICLE VIII    TERMINATION OF THE PLAN

ARTICLE IX      ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN

Section  9.01   Administration
Section  9.02   Expenses
Section  9.03   Records
Section  9.04   Information Available
Section  9.05   Claim and Appeal Procedures
Section  9.06   Delegation of Authority
Section  9.07   Exercise of Discretionary Authority
Section  9.08   Voting and Tender of Qualifying Employer Securities

ARTICLE X       GENERAL PROVISIONS

Section 10.01   Amendments
Section 10.02   Direct Rollovers
Section 10.03   Mergers and Direct Transfers
Section 10.04   Provisions Relating to the Insurer and Other Parties
Section 10.05   Employment Status
Section 10.06   Rights to Plan Assets
Section 10.07   Beneficiary
Section 10.08   Nonalienation of Benefits
Section 10.09   Construction
Section 10.10   Legal Actions
Section 10.11   Small Amounts
Section 10.12   Word Usage
Section 10.13   Change in Service Method
Section 10.14   Military Service

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ARTICLE XI      TOP-HEAVY PLAN REQUIREMENTS

Section 11.01   Application
Section 11.02   Definitions
Section 11.03   Modification of Vesting Requirements
Section 11.04   Modification of Contributions
Section 11.05   Modification of Contribution Limitation

PLAN EXECUTION

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                                  INTRODUCTION

     The Primary Employer previously established a 401(k) plan on January 1,
1990. The Primary Employer previously established a profit sharing plan on May
1, 1966 and converted that profit sharing plan to an employee stock ownership
plan effective as of May 1, 1981.

     The Primary Employer is of the opinion that the 401(k) plan and the
employee stock ownership plan should be merged. It believes that the best means
to accomplish this merger is to completely restate both plans' terms, provisions
and conditions. The restatement, effective April 30, 2003, is set forth in this
document and is substituted in lieu of the prior documents. Notwithstanding the
prior sentence, the Good Faith Compliance Amendment for the Economic Growth and
Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) dated December 20, 2001
amending the Casey's General Stores 401(k) Plan shall continue to apply to this
document.

     Prior to the restatement, the employee stock ownership plan had a short
plan year from May 1, 2002 through April 29, 2003. Any contribution or
allocation of forfeitures for the plan year ending on April 29, 2003 were
governed under the terms of the prior plan document with statutory limitations
adjusted to reflect the short plan year as required by ERISA and the Code.

     The restated plan continues to be for the exclusive benefit of employees of
the Employer. All persons covered under either plan on April 30, 2003, shall
continue to be covered under the restated plan with no loss of benefits.

     It is intended that the merged plan, as restated, shall consists of two
components. One component is intended to qualify as a qualified stock bonus plan
under Code Section 401(a) and as an employee stock ownership plan under Code
Section 4975(e)(7). This component includes both contributions made under the
prior employee stock ownership plan and all matching contributions made in
company stock (including such matching contributions made under the 401(k) plan
prior to this restatement). The other component is intended to qualify as a
profit sharing plan under Code Section 401(a). The profit sharing component
includes a qualified cash or deferred arrangement under Code Section 401(k). The
profit sharing component provides for participant-directed investments and is
intended to comply with ERISA Section 404(c). The underlying Trust is intended
to be exempt from taxation under Code Section 501.

     The purpose of the Plan is to offer Participants a systematic program for
accumulation of retirement and savings income, as well as a means to obtaining
beneficial interest of ownership in company stock. The ESOP component of the
Plan is intended to invest primarily (and may be exclusively invested) in common
stock of the Employer.

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                                    ARTICLE I

                             FORMAT AND DEFINITIONS

SECTION 1.01--FORMAT.

     Words and phrases defined in the DEFINITIONS SECTION of Article I shall
have that defined meaning when used in this Plan, unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise.

     These words and phrases have an initial capital letter to aid in
identifying them as defined terms.

SECTION 1.02--DEFINITIONS.

     Account means, for a Participant, his share of the Plan Fund. Separate
accounting records are kept for those parts of his Account that result from:

     (a)  Elective Deferral Contributions

     (b)  ESOP Matching Contributions (other than cash dividends paid on
          Qualifying Employer Securities and initially reinvested in Qualifying
          Employer Securities at the election of the Participant)

     (c)  ESOP Non-Matching Contributions (other than cash dividends paid on
          Qualifying Employer Securities and initially reinvested in Qualifying
          Employer Securities at the election of the Participant)

     (d)  Other Employer Contributions

     (e)  Specified Minimum Employer Contributions

     (f)  Rollover Contributions

     (g)  Diversification Amounts

     (h)  Cash dividends paid on shares of Qualifying Employer Securities
          credited to the account maintained to reflect ESOP Matching and ESOP
          Non-Matching (with a separate dividend source account for each such
          type of Contribution) that are initially reinvested in Qualifying
          Employer Securities at the election of the Participant

     If the Participant's Vesting Percentage is less than 100% as to any of the
Employer Contributions, a separate accounting record will be kept for any part
of his Account resulting from such Employer Contributions and, if there has been
a prior Forfeiture Date, from such Contributions made before a prior Forfeiture
Date.

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     A Participant's Account shall be reduced by any distribution of his Vested
Account and by any Forfeitures. A Participant's Account shall participate in the
earnings credited, expenses charged, and any appreciation or depreciation of the
Investment Fund. His Account is subject to any minimum guarantees applicable
under the Annuity Contract or other investment arrangement and to any expenses
associated therewith.

     If a Participant makes a diversification election under Section 4.02(b),
such amount shall be credited to a Diversification Account, which is maintained
under the non-ESOP component of the Plan.

     Accounts and Subaccounts in addition to those specified above may also be
maintained if considered appropriate in the administration of the Plan.

     Accrual Computation Period means a consecutive 12-month period ending on
the last day of each Plan Year, including corresponding consecutive 12-month
periods before January 1, 1990.

     ACP Test means the nondiscrimination test described in Code Section
401(m)(2) as provided for in subparagraph (d) of the EXCESS AMOUNTS SECTION of
Article III.

     Active Participant means an Eligible Employee who is actively participating
in the Plan according to the provisions in the ACTIVE PARTICIPANT SECTION of
Article II.

     ADP Test means the nondiscrimination test described in Code Section
401(k)(3) as provided for in subparagraph (c) of the EXCESS AMOUNTS SECTION of
Article III.

     Affiliated Service Group means any group of corporations, partnerships or
other organizations of which the Employer is a part and which is affiliated
within the meaning of Code Section 414(m) and regulations thereunder. Such a
group includes at least two organizations one of which is either a service
organization (that is, an organization the principal business of which is
performing services), or an organization the principal business of which is
performing management functions on a regular and continuing basis. Such service
is of a type historically performed by employees. In the case of a management
organization, the Affiliated Service Group shall include organizations related,
within the meaning of Code Section 144(a)(3), to either the management
organization or the organization for which it performs management functions. The
term Controlled Group, as it is used in this Plan, shall include the term
Affiliated Service Group.

     Alternate Payee means any spouse, former spouse, child, or other dependent
of a Participant who is recognized by a qualified domestic relations order as
having a right to receive all, or a portion of, the benefits payable under the
Plan with respect to such Participant.

     Annual Compensation means, for a Plan Year, the Employee's Compensation for
the Compensation Year ending with or within the consecutive 12-month period
ending on the last day of the Plan Year.

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     Annuity Contract means the annuity contract or contracts into which the
Primary Employer enters with the Insurer for guaranteed benefits, for the
investment of Contributions in separate accounts, and for the payment of
benefits under this Plan. The term Annuity Contract as it is used in this Plan
shall include the plural unless the context clearly indicates the singular is
meant.

     Annuity Starting Date means, for a Participant, the first day of the first
period for which an amount is payable as an annuity or any other form.

     Beneficiary means the person or persons named by a Participant to receive
any benefits under the Plan when the Participant dies. See the BENEFICIARY
SECTION of Article X.

     Claimant means any person who makes a claim for benefits under this Plan.
See the CLAIM AND APPEAL PROCEDURES SECTION of Article IX.

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

     Compensation means, except for purposes of the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION
SECTION of Article III and Article XI, the total earnings, except as modified in
this definition, paid or made available to an Employee by the Employer during
any specified period.

     "Earnings" in this definition means wages within the meaning of Code
Section 3401(a) and all other payments of compensation to an Employee by the
Employer (in the course of the Employer's trade or business) for which the
Employer is required to furnish the Employee a written statement under Code
Sections 6041(d), 6051(a)(3), and 6052. Earnings must be determined without
regard to any rules under Code Section 3401(a) that limit the remuneration
included in wages based on the nature or location of the employment or the
services performed (such as the exception for agricultural labor in Code Section
3401(a)(2)). The amount reported in the "Wages, Tips and Other Compensation" box
on Form W-2 satisfies this definition.

     For any Self-employed Individual, Compensation means Earned Income.

     Compensation shall exclude reimbursements or other expense allowances,
fringe benefits (cash and noncash), moving expenses, deferred compensation
(other than elective contributions), and welfare benefits.

     Compensation shall also include elective contributions. For this purpose,
elective contributions are amounts contributed by the Employer pursuant to a
salary reduction agreement and which are not includible in the gross income of
the Employee under Code Section 125, 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), or 403(b).
Elective contributions also include compensation deferred under a Code Section
457 plan maintained by the Employer and employee contributions "picked up" by a
governmental entity and, pursuant to Code Section 414(h)(2), treated as Employer
contributions. For years beginning after December 31, 1997, elective
contributions shall also include amounts contributed by the Employer pursuant to
a salary reduction agreement and which are not includible in the gross income of
the Employee under Code Section 132(f)(4).

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     For purposes of the EXCESS AMOUNTS SECTION of Article III, the Employer may
elect to use an alternative nondiscriminatory definition of Compensation in
accordance with the regulations under Code Section 414(s).

     For Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1994, the annual
Compensation of each Participant taken into account for determining all benefits
provided under the Plan for any determination period shall not exceed $150,000,
as adjusted for increases in the cost-of-living in accordance with Code Section
401(a)(17)(B). The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year
applies to any determination period beginning in such calendar year.

     If a determination period consists of fewer than 12 months, the annual
limit is an amount equal to the otherwise applicable annual limit multiplied by
a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the number of months in the short
determination period, and the denominator of the fraction is 12.

     If Compensation for any prior determination period is taken into account in
determining a Participant's contributions or benefits for the current Plan Year,
the Compensation for such prior determination period is subject to the
applicable annual compensation limit in effect for that determination period.
For this purpose, in determining contributions or benefits in Plan Years
beginning on or after January 1, 1994, the annual compensation limit in effect
for determination periods beginning before that date is $150,000.

     Compensation means, for a Leased Employee, Compensation for the services
the Leased Employee performs for the Employer, determined in the same manner as
the Compensation of Employees who are not Leased Employees, regardless of
whether such Compensation is received directly from the Employer or from the
leasing organization.

     Compensation Year means the consecutive 12-month period ending on the last
day of each Plan Year, including corresponding periods before January 1, 1990.

     Contingent Annuitant means an individual named by the Participant to
receive a lifetime benefit after the Participant's death in accordance with a
survivorship life annuity.

     Contributions means
          Elective Deferral Contributions
          ESOP Matching Contributions
          Matching Contributions
          Discretionary Contributions
          ESOP Non-Matching Contributions
          Specified Minimum Employer Contributions
          Rollover Contributions

     as set out in Article III, unless the context clearly indicates only
     specific contributions are meant.

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     Controlled Group means any group of corporations, trades, or businesses of
which the Employer is a part that are under common control. A Controlled Group
includes any group of corporations, trades, or businesses, whether or not
incorporated, which is either a parent-subsidiary group, a brother-sister group,
or a combined group within the meaning of Code Section 414(b), Code Section
414(c) and regulations thereunder and, for purposes of determining contribution
limitations under the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION SECTION of Article III, as
modified by Code Section 415(h) and, for the purpose of identifying Leased
Employees, as modified by Code Section 144(a)(3). The term Controlled Group, as
it is used in this Plan, shall include the term Affiliated Service Group and any
other employer required to be aggregated with the Employer under Code Section
414(o) and the regulations thereunder.

     Direct Rollover means a payment by the Plan to the Eligible Retirement Plan
specified by the Distributee.

     Discretionary Contributions means discretionary contributions made by the
Employer to fund this Plan. See the EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of Article
III.

     Distributee means an Employee or former Employee. 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 in Code Section 414(p), are Distributees
with regard to the interest of the spouse or former spouse.

     Early Retirement Age means age 55.

     Early Retirement Date means the first day of any month before a
Participant's Normal Retirement Date which the Participant selects for the start
of his retirement benefits. This day may be on or after the date on which he
ceases to be an Employee and reaches Early Retirement Age. If a Participant
ceases to be an Employee before satisfying any age requirement for Early
Retirement Age, the Participant shall be entitled to elect an early retirement
benefit upon satisfying such age requirement.

     Earned Income means, for a Self-employed Individual, net earnings from
self-employment in the trade or business for which this Plan is established if
such Self-employed Individual's personal services are a material income
producing factor for that trade or business. Net earnings shall be determined
without regard to items not included in gross income and the deductions properly
allocable to or chargeable against such items. Net earnings shall be reduced for
the employer contributions to the Employer's qualified retirement plan(s) to the
extent deductible under Code Section 404.

     Net earnings shall be determined with regard to the deduction allowed to
the Employer by Code Section 164(f) for taxable years beginning after December
31, 1989.

     Elective Deferral Contributions means contributions made by the Employer to
fund this Plan in accordance with elective deferral agreements between Eligible
Employees and the Employer.

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     Elective deferral agreements shall be made, changed, or terminated
according to the provisions of the EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of Article
III.

     Elective Deferral Contributions shall be 100% vested and subject to the
distribution restrictions of Code Section 401(k) when made. See the WHEN
BENEFITS START SECTION of Article V.

     Eligibility Break in Service means an Eligibility Computation Period in
which an Employee is credited with 500 or fewer Hours-of-Service. An Employee
incurs an Eligibility Break in Service on the last day of an Eligibility
Computation Period in which he has an Eligibility Break in Service.

     Eligibility Computation Period means a consecutive 12-month period. The
first Eligibility Computation Period begins on an Employee's Employment
Commencement Date. Later Eligibility Computation Periods shall be consecutive
12-month periods ending on the last day of each Plan Year that begins after his
Employment Commencement Date.

     To determine an Eligibility Computation Period after an Eligibility Break
in Service, the Plan shall use the consecutive 12-month period beginning on an
Employee's Reemployment Commencement Date as if his Reemployment Commencement
Date were his Employment Commencement Date.

     Eligibility Service means one year of service for each Eligibility
Computation Period that has ended and in which an Employee is credited with at
least 1,000 Hours-of-Service.

     However Eligibility Services is modified as follows:

     Service before a date excluded:

          Service before January 1, 1989, is excluded for Employees of the
          franchise stores.

     Period of Military Duty included:

          A Period of Military Duty shall be included as service with the
          Employer to the extent it has not already been credited. For purposes
          of crediting Hours-of-Service during the Period of Military Duty, an
          Hour-of-Service shall be credited (without regard to the 501
          Hour-of-Service limitation) for each hour an Employee would normally
          have been scheduled to work for the Employer during such period.

     Controlled Group service included:

          An Employee's service with a member firm of a Controlled Group while
          both that firm and the Employer were members of the Controlled Group
          shall be included as service with the Employer.

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     Eligible Employee means any Employee of the Employer who meets the
following requirement. His employment classification with the Employer is the
following:

          Not an Employee who became an Employee as the result of a Code Section
          410(b)(6)(C) transaction. These Employees will be excluded during the
          period beginning on the date of the transaction and ending on the last
          day of the first Plan Year after the date of the transaction. A Code
          Section 410(b)(6)(C) transaction is an asset or stock acquisition,
          merger, or similar transaction involving a change in the employer of
          the employees of a trade or business.

     Eligible Retirement Plan means an individual retirement account described
in Code Section 408(a), an individual retirement annuity described in Code
Section 408(b), an annuity plan described in Code Section 403(a) or a qualified
trust described in Code Section 401(a), that accepts the Distributee's Eligible
Rollover Distribution. However, in the case of an Eligible Rollover Distribution
to the surviving spouse, an Eligible Retirement Plan is an individual retirement
account or individual retirement annuity.

     Eligible Rollover Distribution means 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: (i) 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; (ii) any
distribution to the extent such distribution is required under Code Section
401(a)(9); (iii) any hardship distribution described in Code Section
401(k)(2)(B)(i)(IV) received after December 31, 1998; (iv) the portion of any
other distribution(s) that is not includible in gross income (determined without
regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to employer
securities); and (v) any other distribution(s) that is reasonably expected to
total less than $200 during a year.

     Employee means an individual who is employed by the Employer or any other
employer required to be aggregated with the Employer under Code Sections 414(b),
(c), (m), or (o). A Controlled Group member is required to be aggregated with
the Employer.

     The term Employee shall include any Self-employed Individual treated as an
employee of any employer described in the preceding paragraph as provided in
Code Section 401(c)(1). The term Employee shall also include any Leased Employee
deemed to be an employee of any employer described in the preceding paragraph as
provided in Code Section 414(n) or (o).

     Employer means, except for purposes of the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION SECTION
of Article III, the Primary Employer. This will also include any successor
corporation or firm of the Employer which shall, by written agreement, assume
the obligations of this Plan or any Predecessor Employer which maintained this
Plan.

     Employer Contributions means

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          Elective Deferral Contributions
          ESOP Matching Contributions
          Matching Contributions
          Discretionary Contributions
          ESOP Non-Matching Contributions
          Specified Minimum Employer Contributions

     as set out in Article III and contributions made by the Employer to fund
this Plan in accordance with the provisions of the MODIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
SECTION of Article XI, unless the context clearly indicates only specific
contributions are meant.

     ESOP Matching Contributions means Matching Contributions contributed by the
Employer in the form of Qualifying Employer Securities or designated by the
Employer to be invested in Qualifying Employer Securities. See the EMPLOYER
CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of Article III.

     ESOP Non-Matching Contributions means contributions made by the Employer or
a Controlled Group Member to repay any outstanding Exempt Loan, to provide a
discretionary contribution or for other purposes as described in the EMPLOYER
CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of Article III.

     Exempt Loan means a loan or other extension of credit to the Plan to enable
the Plan to acquire shares of Qualifying Employer Securities, or to refinance a
prior Exempt Loan.

     Employment Commencement Date means the date an Employee first performs an
Hour-of-Service.

     Entry Date means the date an Employee first enters the Plan as an Active
Participant. See the ACTIVE PARTICIPANT SECTION of Article II.

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

     Fiscal Year means the Primary Employer's taxable year. The last day of the
Fiscal Year is April 30.

     Forfeiture means the part, if any, of a Participant's Account that is
forfeited. See the FORFEITURES SECTION of Article III.

     Forfeiture Date means, as to a Participant, the date the Participant incurs
five Vesting Breaks in Service.

     Highly Compensated Employee means any Employee who:

     (a)  was a 5-percent owner at any time during the year or the preceding
          year, or

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     (b)  for the preceding year had compensation from the Employer in excess of
          $80,000 and, if the Employer so elects, was in the top-paid group for
          the preceding year. The $80,000 amount is adjusted at the same time
          and in the same manner as under Code Section 415(d), except that the
          base period is the calendar quarter ending September 30, 1996.

     For this purpose the applicable year of the plan for which a determination
is being made is called a determination year and the preceding 12-month period
is called a look-back year. If the Employer makes a calendar year data election,
the look-back year shall be the calendar year beginning with or within the
look-back year. The Plan may not use such election to determine whether
Employees are Highly Compensated Employees on account of being a 5-percent
owner.

     In determining who is a Highly Compensated Employee, the Employer does not
make a top-paid group election. In determining who is a Highly Compensated
Employee, the Employer does not make a calendar year data election.

     Calendar year data elections and top-paid group elections, once made, apply
for all subsequent years unless changed by the Employer. If the Employer makes
one election, the Employer is not required to make the other. If both elections
are made, the look-back year in determining the top-paid group must be the
calendar year beginning with or within the look-back year. These elections must
apply consistently to the determination years of all plans maintained by the
Employer which reference the highly compensated employee definition in Code
Section 414(q), except as provided in Internal Revenue Service Notice 97-45 (or
superseding guidance). The consistency requirement will not apply to
determination years beginning with or within the 1997 calendar year, and for
determination years beginning on or after January 1, 1998 and before January 1,
2000, satisfaction of the consistency requirement is determined without regard
to any nonretirement plans of the Employer.

     The determination of who is a highly compensated former Employee is based
on the rules applicable to determining Highly Compensated Employee status as in
effect for that determination year, in accordance with section 1.414(q)-1T, A-4
of the temporary Income Tax Regulations and Internal Revenue Service Notice
97-45.

     In determining whether an Employee is a Highly Compensated Employee for
years beginning in 1997, the amendments to Code Section 414(q) stated above are
treated as having been in effect for years beginning in 1996.

     The determination of who is a Highly Compensated Employee, including the
determinations of the number and identity of Employees in the top-paid group,
the compensation that is considered, and the identity of the 5-percent owners,
shall be made in accordance with Code Section 414(q) and the regulations
thereunder.

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     Hour-of-Service means the following:

     (a)  Each hour for which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, for
          performing duties for the Employer during the applicable computation
          period.

     (b)  Each hour for which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, by
          the Employer because of a period of time in which no duties are
          performed (irrespective of whether the employment relationship has
          terminated) due to vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity (including
          disability), layoff, jury duty, military duty or leave of absence.
          Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this subparagraph (b), no
          credit will be given to the Employee:

          (1)  for more than 501 Hours-of-Service under this subparagraph (b)
               because of any single continuous period in which the Employee
               performs no duties (whether or not such period occurs in a single
               computation period); or

          (2)  for an Hour-of-Service for which the Employee is directly or
               indirectly paid, or entitled to payment, because of a period in
               which no duties are performed if such payment is made or due
               under a plan maintained solely for the purpose of complying with
               applicable worker's or workmen's compensation, or unemployment
               compensation, or disability insurance laws; or

          (3)  for an Hour-of-Service for a payment which solely reimburses the
               Employee for medical or medically related expenses incurred by
               him.

          For purposes of this subparagraph (b), a payment shall be deemed to be
          made by, or due from the Employer, regardless of whether such payment
          is made by, or due from the Employer, directly or indirectly through,
          among others, a trust fund or insurer, to which the Employer
          contributes or pays premiums and regardless of whether contributions
          made or due to the trust fund, insurer or other entity are for the
          benefit of particular employees or are on behalf of a group of
          employees in the aggregate.

     (c)  Each hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages,
          is either awarded or agreed to by the Employer. The same
          Hours-of-Service shall not be credited both under subparagraph (a) or
          subparagraph (b) above (as the case may be) and under this
          subparagraph (c). Crediting of Hours-of-Service for back pay awarded
          or agreed to with respect to periods described in subparagraph (b)
          above will be subject to the limitations set forth in that
          subparagraph.

     The crediting of Hours-of-Service above shall be applied under the rules of
paragraphs (b) and (c) of the Department of Labor Regulation 2530.200b-2
(including any interpretations or opinions implementing such rules); which
rules, by this reference, are specifically incorporated in full within this
Plan. The reference to paragraph (b) applies to the special rule for determining

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hours of service for reasons other than the performance of duties such as
payments calculated (or not calculated) on the basis of units of time and the
rule against double credit. The reference to paragraph (c) applies to the
crediting of hours of service to computation periods.

     Hours-of-Service shall be credited for employment with any other employer
required to be aggregated with the Employer under Code Sections 414(b), (c),
(m), or (o) and the regulations thereunder for purposes of eligibility and
vesting. Hours-of-Service shall also be credited for any individual who is
considered an employee for purposes of this Plan pursuant to Code Section 414(n)
or (o) and the regulations thereunder.

     Solely for purposes of determining whether a one-year break in service has
occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes, during a Parental Absence an
Employee shall be credited with the Hours-of-Service which otherwise would
normally have been credited to the Employee but for such absence, or in any case
in which such hours cannot be determined, eight Hours-of-Service per day of such
absence. The Hours-of-Service credited under this paragraph shall be credited in
the computation period in which the absence begins if the crediting is necessary
to prevent a break in service in that period; or in all other cases, in the
following computation period.

     Inactive Participant means a former Active Participant who has an Account.
See the INACTIVE PARTICIPANT SECTION of Article II.

     Insurer means Principal Life Insurance Company and any other insurance
company or companies named by the Trustee or Primary Employer.

     Investment Fund means the total of Plan assets, excluding the guaranteed
benefit policy portion of any Annuity Contract and excluding any Unallocated
Reserve. All or a portion of these assets may be held under the Trust Agreement.

     The Investment Fund shall be valued at current fair market value as of the
Valuation Date. The valuation shall take into consideration investment earnings
credited, expenses charged, payments made, and changes in the values of the
assets held in the Investment Fund.

     The Investment Fund shall be allocated at all times to Participants, except
as otherwise expressly provided in the Plan. The Account of a Participant shall
be credited with its share of the gains and losses of the Investment Fund. That
part of a Participant's Account invested in a funding arrangement which
establishes one or more accounts or investment vehicles for such Participant
thereunder shall be credited with the gain or loss from such accounts or
investment vehicles. The part of a Participant's Account which is invested in
other funding arrangements shall be credited with a proportionate share of the
gain or loss of such investments. The share shall be determined by multiplying
the gain or loss of the investment by the ratio of the part of the Participant's
Account invested in such funding arrangement to the total of the Investment Fund
invested in such funding arrangement.

     Investment Manager means any fiduciary (other than a trustee or Named
Fiduciary):

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     (a)  who has the power to manage, acquire, or dispose of any assets of the
          Plan;

     (b)  who (i) is registered as an investment adviser under the Investment
          Advisers Act of 1940; (ii) is not registered as an investment adviser
          under such Act by reason of paragraph (1) of section 203A(a) of such
          Act, is registered as an investment adviser under the laws of the
          state (referred to in such paragraph (1)) in which it maintains its
          principal office and place of business, and, at the time it last filed
          the registration form most recently filed by it with such state in
          order to maintain its registration under the laws of such state, also
          filed a copy of such form with the Secretary of Labor, (iii) is a
          bank, as defined in that Act; or (iv) is an insurance company
          qualified to perform services described in subparagraph (a) above
          under the laws of more than one state; and

     (c)  who has acknowledged in writing being a fiduciary with respect to the
          Plan.

     Late Retirement Date means the first day of any month which is after a
Participant's Normal Retirement Date and on which retirement benefits begin. If
a Participant continues to work for the Employer after his Normal Retirement
Date, his Late Retirement Date shall be the earliest first day of the month on
or after the date he ceases to be an Employee. An earlier or a later Retirement
Date may apply if the Participant so elects. An earlier Retirement Date may
apply if the Participant is age 70 1/2. See the WHEN BENEFITS START SECTION of
Article V.

     Leased Employee means any person (other than an employee of the recipient)
who, pursuant to an agreement between the recipient and any other person
("leasing organization"), has performed services for the recipient (or for the
recipient and related persons determined in accordance with Code Section
414(n)(6)) on a substantially full time basis for a period of at least one year,
and such services are performed under primary direction or control by the
recipient. Contributions or benefits provided by the leasing organization to a
Leased Employee, which are attributable to service performed for the recipient
employer, shall be treated as provided by the recipient employer.

     A Leased Employee shall not be considered an employee of the recipient if:

     (a)  such employee is covered by a money purchase pension plan providing
          (i) a nonintegrated employer contribution rate of at least 10 percent
          of compensation, as defined in Code Section 415(c)(3), but for years
          beginning before January 1, 1998, including amounts contributed
          pursuant to a salary reduction agreement which are excludible from the
          employee's gross income under Code Sections 125, 402(e)(3),
          402(h)(1)(B), or 403(b), (ii) immediate participation, and (iii) full
          and immediate vesting, and

     (b)  Leased Employees do not constitute more than 20 percent of the
          recipient's nonhighly compensated work force.

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     Loan Administrator means the person(s) or position(s) authorized to
administer the Participant loan program.

     The Loan Administrator is Corporate Secretary with ministerial duties
delegated to the Payroll Manager.

     Matching Contributions means contributions made by the Employer to fund
this Plan which are contingent on a Participant's Elective Deferral
Contributions. See the EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of Article III.

     Monthly Date means each Yearly Date and the last day of each following
month during the Plan Year beginning on such Yearly Date.

     Named Fiduciary means the person or persons who have authority to control
and manage the operation and administration of the Plan.

     The Named Fiduciary is the Employer.

     Nonhighly Compensated Employee means an Employee of the Employer who is not
a Highly Compensated Employee.

     Nonvested Account means the excess, if any, of a Participant's Account over
his Vested Account.

     Normal Form means a single life annuity with installment refund.

     Normal Retirement Age means the age at which the Participant's normal
retirement benefit becomes nonforfeitable if he is an Employee. A Participant's
Normal Retirement Age is 62.

     Normal Retirement Date means the earliest first day of the month on or
after the date the Participant reaches his Normal Retirement Age. Unless
otherwise provided in this Plan, a Participant's retirement benefits shall begin
on a Participant's Normal Retirement Date if he has ceased to be an Employee on
such date and has a Vested Account. Even if the Participant is an Employee on
his Normal Retirement Date, he may choose to have his retirement benefit begin
on such date. See the WHEN BENEFITS START SECTION of Article V.

     Owner-employee means a Self-employed Individual who, in the case of a sole
proprietorship, owns the entire interest in the unincorporated trade or business
for which this Plan is established. If this Plan is established for a
partnership, an Owner-employee means a Self-employed Individual who owns more
than 10 percent of either the capital interest or profits interest in such
partnership.

     Parental Absence means an Employee's absence from work:

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     (a)  by reason of pregnancy of the Employee,

     (b)  by reason of birth of a child of the Employee,

     (c)  by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection
          with adoption of such child by such Employee, or

     (d)  for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning
          immediately following such birth or placement.

     Participant means either an Active Participant or an Inactive Participant.

     Period of Military Duty means, for an Employee

     (a)  who served as a member of the armed forces of the United States, and

     (b)  who was re-employed by the Employer at a time when the Employee had a
          right to re-employment in accordance with seniority rights as
          protected under Chapter 43 of Title 38 of the U. S. Code,

     the period of time from the date the Employee was first absent from active
work for the Employer because of such military duty to the date the Employee was
reemployed.

     Plan means the retirement and savings plan of the Employer set forth in
this document, including any later amendments to it. The portion of the Plan
that consists of the Qualifying Employer Securities Fund is a stock bonus and
employee stock ownership plan within the meaning of Code Section 4975(e)(7). The
remaining portion of the Plan is a profit sharing plan with a qualified cash or
deferred arrangement under Code Section 401(k).

     Plan Administrator means the person or persons who administer the Plan.

     The Plan Administrator is the Employer.

     Plan Fund means the total of the Investment Fund and the guaranteed benefit
policy portion of any Annuity Contract and any Unallocated Reserve. The
Investment Fund shall be valued as stated in its definition. The guaranteed
benefit policy portion of any Annuity Contract shall be determined in accordance
with the terms of the Annuity Contract and, to the extent that such Annuity
Contract allocates contract values to Participants, allocated to Participants in
accordance with its terms. The total value of all amounts held under the Plan
Fund, less amounts held in any Unallocated Reserve or reflected in a Forfeiture
Account, shall equal the value of the aggregate Participants' Accounts under the
Plan.

     Plan Year means a period beginning on a Yearly Date and ending on the day
before the next Yearly Date.

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     Predecessor Employer means a firm of which the Employer was once a part
(e.g., due to a spinoff or change of corporate status) or a firm absorbed by the
Employer because of a merger or acquisition (stock or asset, including a
division or an operation of such company).

     Primary Employer means Casey's General Stores, Inc..

     Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity means, for a Participant who has a
spouse, an immediate survivorship life annuity with installment refund, where
the survivorship percentage is 50% and the Contingent Annuitant is the
Participant's spouse. A former spouse will be treated as the spouse to the
extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code
Section 414(p).

     The amount of benefit payable under the Qualified Joint and Survivor
Annuity shall be the amount of benefit which may be provided by the
Participant's Vested Account.

     Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity means a single life annuity with
installment refund payable to the surviving spouse of a Participant who dies
before his Annuity Starting Date. A former spouse will be treated as the
surviving spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations
order as described in Code Section 414(p).

     Qualifying Employer Securities means any security which is issued by the
Employer or any Controlled Group member and which meets the requirements of Code
Section 409(l) and ERISA Section 407(d)(5). This shall also include any
securities that satisfied the requirements of the definition when these
securities were assigned to the Plan.

     Qualifying Employer Securities Fund means that part of the assets of the
Trust Fund that are designated to be held primarily or exclusively in Qualifying
Employer Securities for the purpose of providing benefits for Participants.

     Reemployment Commencement Date means the date an Employee first performs an
Hour-of-Service following an Eligibility Break in Service.

     Reentry Date means the date a former Active Participant reenters the Plan.
See the ACTIVE PARTICIPANT SECTION of Article II.

     Retirement Date means the date a retirement benefit will begin and is a
Participant's Early, Normal, or Late Retirement Date, as the case may be.

     Rollover Contributions means the Rollover Contributions which are made by
an Eligible Employee or an Inactive Participant according to the provisions of
the ROLLOVER CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of Article III.

     Self-employed Individual means, with respect to any Fiscal Year, an
individual who has Earned Income for the Fiscal Year (or who would have Earned
Income but for the fact the trade or business for which this Plan is established
did not have net profits for such Fiscal Year).

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     Semi-yearly Date means each Yearly Date and the sixth Monthly Date after
each Yearly Date which is within the same Plan Year.

     Specified Minimum Employer Contributions means an amount contributed by the
Employer to the Trust pursuant to Section 3.01(d) of the Plan.

     Totally and Permanently Disabled means that a Participant is disabled, as a
result of sickness or injury, to the extent that he is prevented from engaging
in any substantial gainful activity, and is eligible for and receives a
disability benefit under Title II of the Federal Social Security Act.

     Trust Agreement means an agreement of trust between the Primary Employer
and Trustee established for the purpose of holding and distributing the Trust
Fund under the provisions of the Plan. The Trust Agreement may provide for the
investment of all or any portion of the Trust Fund in the Annuity Contract.

     Trust Fund means the total funds held under the Trust Agreement.

     Trustee means the party or parties named in the Trust Agreement. The term
Trustee as it is used in this Plan is deemed to include the plural unless the
context clearly indicates the singular is meant.

     Unallocated Reserve means the portion of the Trust Fund that consists of
the proceeds of an Exempt Loan, the shares of Qualifying Employer Securities
that were acquired with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan and that have not yet
been allocated to Participant Accounts, the dividends and other investment
earnings on the assets held in the Unallocated Reserve, and the proceeds from
any sale of shares of Qualifying Employer Securities held in the Unallocated
Reserve.

     Valuation Date means the date on which the value of the assets of the
Investment Fund is determined. The value of each Account which is maintained
under this Plan shall be determined on the Valuation Date. In each Plan Year,
the Valuation Date shall be the last day of the Plan Year. At the discretion of
the Plan Administrator, Trustee, or Insurer (whichever applies), assets of the
Investment Fund may be valued more frequently. These dates shall also be
Valuation Dates.

     Vested Account means the vested part of a Participant's Account. The
Participant's Vested Account is determined as follows.

     If the Participant's Vesting Percentage is 100%, his Vested Account equals
his Account.

     If the Participant's Vesting Percentage is less than 100%, his Vested
Account equals the sum of (a), (b) and (c) below:

     (a)  The part of the Participant's Account that results from Employer
          Contributions made before a prior Forfeiture Date and all other
          Contributions which were 100% vested when made.

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     (b)  The part of the Participant's Account that results from cash dividends
          paid on shares of Qualifying Employer Securities credited to the
          source account for ESOP Matching or ESOP Non-Matching Contributions
          that are initially reinvested in Qualifying Employer Securities at the
          election of the Participant.

     (c)  The balance of the Participant's Account in excess of the amount in
          (a) above multiplied by his Vesting Percentage.

     The Participant's Vested Account is nonforfeitable.

     Vesting Break in Service means a Vesting Computation Period in which an
Employee is credited with 500 or fewer Hours-of-Service. An Employee incurs a
Vesting Break in Service on the last day of a Vesting Computation Period in
which he has a Vesting Break in Service.

     Vesting Computation Period means a consecutive 12-month period ending on
the last day of each Plan Year, including corresponding consecutive 12-month
periods before January 1, 1990.

     Vesting Percentage means the percentage used to determine the
nonforfeitable portion of a Participant's Account attributable to Employer
Contributions which were not 100% vested when made.

     A Participant's Vesting Percentage for Employer Contributions other than
ESOP Non-Matching Contributions is shown in the following schedule opposite the
number of whole years of his Vesting Service.

VESTING SERVICE             VESTING
(whole years)              PERCENTAGE

Less than 1                     0
1                              10
2                              20
3                              40
4                              60
5                              80
6 or more                     100

     A Participant's Vesting Percentage for ESOP Non-Matching Contributions is
shown in the following schedule opposite the number of whole years of his
Vesting Service.

VESTING SERVICE             VESTING
(whole years)              PERCENTAGE

Less than 5                     0
5 or more                     100

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     The Vesting Percentage for a Participant who is an Employee on or after the
date he reaches Normal Retirement Age or Early Retirement Age shall be 100%. The
Vesting Percentage for a Participant who is an Employee on the date he becomes
Totally and Permanently Disabled or dies shall be 100%.

     If the schedule used to determine a Participant's Vesting Percentage is
changed, the new schedule shall not apply to a Participant unless he is credited
with an Hour-of-Service on or after the date of the change and the Participant's
nonforfeitable percentage on the day before the date of the change is not
reduced under this Plan. The amendment provisions of the AMENDMENTS SECTION of
Article X regarding changes in the computation of the Vesting Percentage shall
apply.

     Vesting Service means the sum of (a) and (b) below:

     (a)  The total of an Employee's service with the Employer before January 1,
          1990. This total is expressed in whole years and fractional parts of a
          year (counting a partial month as a complete month).

     (b)  One year of service for each Vesting Computation Period ending on or
          after January 1, 1990, in which an Employee is credited with at least
          1,000 Hours-of-Service.

     However, Vesting Service is modified as follows:

     Service before a date excluded:

          Service before January 1, 1989, is excluded for Employees of the
          franchise stores.

     Period of Military Duty included:

          A Period of Military Duty shall be included as service with the
          Employer to the extent it has not already been credited. For purposes
          of crediting Hours-of-Service during the Period of Military Duty, an
          Hour-of-Service shall be credited (without regard to the 501
          Hour-of-Service limitation) for each hour an Employee would normally
          have been scheduled to work for the Employer during such period.

     Controlled Group service included:

          An Employee's service with a member firm of a Controlled Group while
          both that firm and the Employer were members of the Controlled Group
          shall be included as service with the Employer.

     Yearly Date means January 1, 1990, and each following May 1 through May 1,
1999, and each following April 30.

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     Years of Service means an Employee's Vesting Service disregarding any
modifications which exclude service.

                                   ARTICLE II

PARTICIPATION

SECTION 2.01--ACTIVE PARTICIPANT.

     (a)  An Employee shall first become an Active Participant (begin active
          participation in the Plan) on the earliest Semi-yearly Date on which
          he is an Eligible Employee and has met both of the eligibility
          requirements set forth below. This date is his Entry Date.

          (1)  He has completed one year of Eligibility Service before his Entry
               Date.

          (2)  He is age 21 or older.

          Each Employee who was an Active Participant under the Plan on April
          29, 2003, shall continue to be an Active Participant if he is still an
          Eligible Employee on April 30, 2003, and his Entry Date shall not
          change.

          If a person has been an Eligible Employee who has met all of the
          eligibility requirements above, but is not an Eligible Employee on the
          date which would have been his Entry Date, he shall become an Active
          Participant on the date he again becomes an Eligible Employee. This
          date is his Entry Date.

          In the event an Employee who is not an Eligible Employee becomes an
          Eligible Employee, such Eligible Employee shall become an Active
          Participant immediately if such Eligible Employee has satisfied the
          eligibility requirements above and would have otherwise previously
          become an Active Participant had he met the definition of Eligible
          Employee. This date is his Entry Date.

     (b)  An Inactive Participant shall again become an Active Participant
          (resume active participation in the Plan) on the date he again
          performs an Hour-of-Service as an Eligible Employee. This date is his
          Reentry Date.

          Upon again becoming an Active Participant, he shall cease to be an
          Inactive Participant.

     (c)  A former Participant shall again become an Active Participant (resume
          active participation in the Plan) on the date he again performs an
          Hour-of-Service as an Eligible Employee. This date is his Reentry
          Date.

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     There shall be no duplication of benefits for a Participant under this Plan
because of more than one period as an Active Participant.

SECTION 2.02--INACTIVE PARTICIPANT.

     An Active Participant shall become an Inactive Participant (stop accruing
benefits under the Plan) on the earlier of the following:

     (a)  the date the Participant ceases to be an Eligible Employee, or

     (b)  the effective date of complete termination of the Plan under
          Article VIII.

     An Employee or former Employee who was an Inactive Participant under the
Plan on April 30, 1997, shall continue to be an Inactive Participant on May 1,
1997. Eligibility for any benefits payable to the Participant or on his behalf
and the amount of the benefits shall be determined according to the provisions
of the prior document, unless otherwise stated in this document.

SECTION 2.03--CESSATION OF PARTICIPATION.

     A Participant shall cease to be a Participant on the date he is no longer
an Eligible Employee and his Account is zero.

                                   ARTICLE III

CONTRIBUTIONS

SECTION 3.01--EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS.

     Employer Contributions shall be made without regard to current or
accumulated net income, earnings or profits of the Employer. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Plan shall continue to be designed to qualify as a profit sharing
plan for purposes of Code Sections 401(a), 402, 412, and 417; except that, the
portion of the Plan that consists of the Qualifying Employer Securities Fund is
designed to qualify as a stock bonus plan and employee stock ownership plan
under Code Section 4975(e)(7). Employer Contributions shall be equal to the
amount described below:

     (a)  The amount of each Elective Deferral Contribution for a Participant
          shall be equal to a portion of Compensation as specified in the
          elective deferral agreement. An Employee who is eligible to
          participate in the Plan may file an elective deferral agreement with
          the Employer. The Participant shall modify or terminate the elective
          deferral agreement by filing a new elective deferral agreement. The
          elective deferral agreement may not be made retroactively and shall
          remain in effect until modified or terminated.

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          The elective deferral agreement to start or modify Elective Deferral
          Contributions shall be effective on the first day of the first pay
          period following the pay period in which the Participant's Entry Date
          (Reentry Date, if applicable) or any following date occurs. The
          elective deferral agreement must be entered into on or before the date
          it is effective.

          The elective deferral agreement to stop Elective Deferral
          Contributions may be entered into on any date. Such elective deferral
          agreement shall be effective on the first day of the pay period
          following the pay period in which the elective deferral agreement is
          entered into.

          Elective Deferral Contributions cannot be more than 15% of
          Compensation for the pay period.

          Elective Deferral Contributions are fully (100%) vested and
          nonforfeitable.

     (b)  The Employer shall make Matching Contributions in an amount equal to
          100% of Elective Deferral Contributions. Elective Deferral
          Contributions which are over 4% of Compensation won't be matched.

          Matching Contributions are calculated based on Elective Deferral
          Contributions and Compensation for the pay period. Matching
          Contributions are made for all persons who were Active Participants at
          any time during that pay period. Matching Contributions may be made in
          the form of Qualifying Employer Securities or the Employer may
          designate that Matching Contributions are to be invested in Qualifying
          Employer Securities. Such Matching Contributions shall be referred to
          as ESOP Matching Contributions and shall be part of the ESOP component
          of the Plan.

          Matching Contributions and ESOP Matching Contributions are subject to
          the Vesting Percentage. However, the separate account maintained to
          reflect the cash dividends paid on shares of Qualifying Employer
          Securities attributable to Matching Contributions (and earnings
          thereon) that are initially reinvested in Qualifying Employer
          Securities under the Plan at the election of the Participant is fully
          (100%) vested and nonforfeitable.

     (c)  Discretionary Contributions may be made for each Plan Year in an
          amount determined by the Employer.

          Discretionary Contributions are subject to the Vesting Percentage.

     (d)  ESOP Non-Matching Contributions will be made for each Plan Year for
          which a payment is due on an Exempt Loan. The amount of the ESOP
          Non-Matching Contribution for the Plan Year will be determined at the
          sole discretion of the Primary Employer, but will not be less than the
          minimum amount sufficient to

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          enable the Trustee to make the payment due on the Exempt Loan to the
          extent that such payment cannot be satisfied from cash dividends paid
          on shares of Qualifying Employer Securities held in the ESOP
          Non-Matching Accounts (if the Primary Employer directs that such
          dividends be applied to the Exempt Loan), or cash dividends paid on
          shares of Qualifying Employer Securities held in the Unallocated
          Reserve or other investment earnings of the Unallocated Reserve.

          Additional ESOP Non-Matching Contributions may be made for each Plan
          Year in an amount determined by the Employer.

          ESOP Non-Matching Contributions are subject to the Vesting Percentage.
          However, the separate account maintained to reflect the cash dividends
          paid on shares of Qualifying Employer Securities attributable to ESOP
          Non-Matching Contributions (and earnings thereon) that are initially
          reinvested in Qualifying Employer Securities under the Plan at the
          election of the Participant is fully (100%) vested and nonforfeitable.

     (e)  The Employer, in its sole discretion, may contribute an amount, for
          any Plan Year, which it designates as a Specified Minimum Employer
          Contribution. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the
          contrary, the following provisions shall govern the treatment of
          Specified Minimum Employer Contributions.

          (1)  Frequency. For each Plan Year, the Employer shall make a
               Specified Minimum Employer Contribution, as described in the
               following allocation method, on behalf of each individual who is
               both an Employee and a Participant on the first day of the Plan
               Year (a "SMEC Participant"). The Specified Minimum Employer
               Contribution for each Plan Year shall be in an amount determined
               by the Board of Directors by appropriate resolution on or before
               the last day of the Employer's taxable year that ends within such
               Plan Year.

          (2)  Allocation Method. Any Specified Minimum Employer Contribution
               made by the Employer pursuant to this Section 3.01(e) shall be
               allocated to the SMEC Participants as follows:

               (i)   The Specified Minimum Employer Contribution shall be
                     allocated to the payment of Elective Deferral Contributions
                     and Matching Contributions to be made to SMEC Participants'
                     accounts pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Plan.

               (ii)  Second, the balance, if any, of the Specified Minimum
                     Employer Contribution remaining after the allocation next
                     above shall be allocated as to the payment of Matching
                     Contribution, if any, on the last day of the Plan Year to
                     the Account of each SMEC

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                     Participant who is not also a Highly Compensated Employee,
                     in the ratio that each such SMEC Participant's Elective
                     Deferral Contributions during the Plan Year bears to the
                     Elective Deferral Contributions of all such SMEC
                     Participants during the Plan Year.

          (3)  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the
               following limitations shall apply to any Specified Minimum
               Employer Contribution made pursuant to this Section of the Plan:

               (i)   The Plan Administrator shall reduce the proportionate
                     allocation of the Specified Minimum Employer Contribution
                     under this section to Highly Compensated Employees to the
                     extent necessary to comply with the provisions of this Plan
                     and the Code, include Code Section 401(a)(4) and the
                     regulations thereunder.

               (ii)  Any payment/allocation of Elective Deferral Contributions
                     to a SMEC Participant's Account shall be made under either
                     Section 3.03 or this Section, as appropriate, but not both
                     sections.

               (iii) The Specified Minimum Employer Contribution allocated as a
                     Matching Contribution to a SMEC Participant's account
                     pursuant to this Section of the Plan, shall be treated in
                     the same manner as Matching Contributions for all purposes
                     under the Plan.

               (iv)  A Participant's allocation determined under this Section
                     may be subject to an adjustment as may be necessary to
                     prevent Contributions made by or on behalf of a Participant
                     for a Plan Year to exceed the maximum allowable under Code
                     Section 415, or any other provision of the Code or this
                     Plan.

          (4)  Timing, Medium and Posting. The employer shall make the Specified
               Minimum Employer Contribution in cash, in one or more
               installments without interest, at any time during the Plan Year,
               and for purposes of deducting such Contribution, not later than
               the Employer's federal tax filing date, including extensions, for
               its taxable year that ends within such Plan Year. The Trustee
               shall post such amount to each Participant's account as Elective
               Deferral Contributions or Matching Contributions once the
               allocations under this Section of the Plan as provided above are
               determined.

               The Specified Minimum Employer Contribution shall be held in a
               suspense account until posted. Such suspense account shall not
               participate in the allocation of investment gains, losses, income
               and deductions of the Trust as a whole, but shall be invested
               separately and all gains, losses, income and deductions
               attributable to such investment shall be applied to

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               reduce Plan fees and expenses and, thereafter, to reduce Employer
               contributions.

          (5)  Deduction Limitation. In no event shall the Specified Minimum
               Employer Contribution, when aggregated with other Employer
               contributions for the Employer's taxable year that ends within
               such Plan Year, exceed the amount deductible by the Employer for
               federal income tax purposes for such taxable year.

     No Participant shall be permitted to have Elective Deferral Contributions,
as defined in the EXCESS AMOUNTS SECTION of this article, made under this Plan,
or any other qualified plan maintained by the Employer, during any taxable year,
in excess of the dollar limitation contained in Code Section 402(g) in effect at
the beginning of such taxable year.

     An elective deferral agreement (or change thereto) must be made in such
manner and in accordance with such rules as the Employer may prescribe
(including by means of voice response or other electronic system under
circumstances the Employer permits) and may not be made retroactively.

     Employer Contributions are allocated according to the provisions of the
ALLOCATION SECTION of this article.

     The Employer may make all or any portion of the Matching Contributions,
which are to be invested in Qualifying Employer Securities, to the Trustee in
the form of Qualifying Employer Securities.

     A portion of the Plan assets resulting from Employer Contributions (but not
more than the original amount of those Contributions) may be returned if the
Employer Contributions are made because of a mistake of fact or are more than
the amount deductible under Code Section 404 (excluding any amount which is not
deductible because the Plan is disqualified). The amount involved must be
returned to the Employer within one year after the date the Employer
Contributions are made by mistake of fact or the date the deduction is
disallowed, whichever applies. Except as provided under this paragraph and
Article VIII, the assets of the Plan shall never be used for the benefit of the
Employer and are held for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to
Participants and their Beneficiaries and for defraying reasonable expenses of
administering the Plan.

SECTION 3.01A--ROLLOVER CONTRIBUTIONS.

     A Rollover Contribution may be made by an Eligible Employee or an Inactive
Participant if the following conditions are met:

     (a)  The Contribution is of amounts distributed from a plan that satisfies
          the requirements of Code Section 401(a) or from a "conduit" individual
          retirement account described in Code Section 408(d)(3)(A). In the case
          of an Inactive

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          Participant, the Contribution must be of an amount distributed from
          another plan of the Employer, or a plan of a Controlled Group member,
          that satisfies the requirements of Code Section 401(a).

     (b)  The Contribution is of amounts that the Code permits to be transferred
          to a plan that meets the requirements of Code Section 401(a).

     (c)  The Contribution is made in the form of a direct rollover under Code
          Section 401(a)(31) or is a rollover made under 402(c) or 408(d)(3)(A)
          within 60 days after the Eligible Employee or Inactive Participant
          receives the distribution.

     (d)  The Eligible Employee or Inactive Participant furnishes evidence
          satisfactory to the Plan Administrator that the proposed rollover
          meets conditions (a), (b), and (c) above.

     A Rollover Contribution shall be allowed in cash only and must be made
according to procedures set up by the Plan Administrator.

     If the Eligible Employee is not an Active Participant when the Rollover
Contribution is made, he shall be deemed to be an Active Participant only for
the purpose of investment and distribution of the Rollover Contribution.
Employer Contributions shall not be made for or allocated to the Eligible
Employee until the time he meets all of the requirements to become an Active
Participant.

     Rollover Contributions made by an Eligible Employee or an Inactive
Participant shall be credited to his Account. The part of the Participant's
Account resulting from Rollover Contributions is fully (100%) vested and
nonforfeitable at all times. A separate accounting record shall be maintained
for that part of his Rollover Contributions consisting of voluntary
contributions which were deducted from the Participant's gross income for
Federal income tax purposes.

SECTION 3.02--FORFEITURES.

     The Nonvested Account of a Participant shall be forfeited as of the earlier
of the following:

     (a)  the date the Participant dies (if prior to such date he had ceased to
          be an Employee), or

     (b)  the Participant's Forfeiture Date.

All or a portion of a Participant's Nonvested Account shall be forfeited before
such earlier date if, after he ceases to be an Employee, he receives, or is
deemed to receive, a distribution of his entire Vested Account or a distribution
of his Vested Account derived from Employer Contributions which were not 100%
vested when made, under the RETIREMENT BENEFITS

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SECTION of Article V, the VESTED BENEFITS SECTION of Article V, or the SMALL
AMOUNTS SECTION of Article X. The forfeiture shall occur as of the date the
Participant receives, or is deemed to receive, the distribution. If a
Participant receives, or is deemed to receive, his entire Vested Account, his
entire Nonvested Account shall be forfeited. If a Participant receives a
distribution of his Vested Account from Employer Contributions which were not
100% vested when made, but less than his entire Vested Account from such
Contributions, the amount to be forfeited shall be determined by multiplying his
Nonvested Account from such Contributions by a fraction. The numerator of the
fraction is the amount of the distribution derived from Employer Contributions
which were not 100% vested when made and the denominator of the fraction is his
entire Vested Account derived from such Contributions on the date of
distribution.

     A Forfeiture shall also occur as provided in the EXCESS AMOUNTS SECTION of
this article.

     Forfeitures shall be determined at least once during each Plan Year.
Forfeitures may first be used to pay administrative expenses. Forfeitures of
Matching Contributions which relate to excess amounts as provided in the EXCESS
AMOUNTS SECTION of this article, which have not been used to pay administrative
expenses, shall be applied to reduce the earliest Employer Contributions made
after the Forfeitures are determined. Any other Forfeitures which have not been
used to pay administrative expenses shall be applied to reduce the earliest
Employer Contributions made after the Forfeitures are determined. Upon their
application to reduce Employer Contributions, Forfeitures shall be deemed to be
Employer Contributions.

     Forfeitures of Qualifying Employer Securities held in an ESOP Matching or
ESOP Non-Matching Account may be used to satisfy any allocation of Qualifying
Employer Securities required under the ALLOCATIONS SECTION of this article.

     If a Participant again becomes an Eligible Employee after receiving a
distribution which caused all or a portion of his Nonvested Account to be
forfeited, he shall have the right to repay to the Plan the entire amount of the
distribution he received (excluding any amount of such distribution resulting
from Contributions which were 100% vested when made). The repayment must be made
in a single sum (repayment in installments is not permitted) before the earlier
of the date five years after the date he again becomes an Eligible Employee or
the end of the first period of five consecutive Vesting Breaks in Service which
begin after the date of the distribution.

     If the Participant makes the repayment above, the Plan Administrator shall
restore to his Account an amount equal to his Nonvested Account which was
forfeited on the date of distribution, unadjusted for any investment gains or
losses. If no amount is to be repaid because the Participant was deemed to have
received a distribution, or only received a distribution of Contributions which
were 100% vested when made, and he again performs an Hour-of-Service as an
Eligible Employee within the repayment period, the Plan Administrator shall
restore the Participant's Account as if he had made a required repayment on the
date he performed such Hour-of-Service. Restoration of the Participant's Account
shall include restoration of all Code Section 411(d)(6) protected benefits with
respect to that restored Account, according to applicable Treasury regulations.
Provided, however,

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the Plan Administrator shall not restore the Nonvested Account if (i) a
Forfeiture Date has occurred after the date of the distribution and on or before
the date of repayment and (ii) that Forfeiture Date would result in a complete
forfeiture of the amount the Plan Administrator would otherwise restore.

     The Plan Administrator shall restore the Participant's Account by the close
of the Plan Year following the Plan Year in which repayment is made. Permissible
sources for the restoration of the Participant's Account are Forfeitures or
special Employer Contributions. Such special Employer Contributions shall be
made without regard to profits. The repaid and restored amounts are not included
in the Participant's Annual Additions, as defined in the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION
SECTION of this article.

SECTION 3.03--ALLOCATION.

     A person meets the allocation requirements of this section if he is an
Active Participant on the last day of the Plan Year and has at least 1,000
Hours-of-Service during the latest Accrual Computation Period ending on or
before that date.

     Elective Deferral Contributions shall be allocated to Participants for whom
such Contributions are made under the EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of this
article. Such Contributions shall be allocated when made and credited to the
Participant's Account.

     Matching Contributions (including ESOP Matching Contributions) shall be
allocated to the persons for whom such Contributions are made under the EMPLOYER
CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of this article. Such Contributions shall be allocated
when made and credited to the person's Account.

     Discretionary Contributions shall be allocated as of the last day of the
Plan Year using Annual Compensation for the Plan Year. The amount allocated
shall be determined as follows:

STEP ONE: This step one shall only apply in years in which the Plan is a
Top-heavy Plan, as defined in the DEFINITIONS SECTION of Article XI, and the
minimum contribution under the MODIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of Article
XI is not being provided by other contributions to this Plan or another plan of
the Employer.

The allocation in this step one shall be made to each person meeting the
allocation requirements of this section and each person who is entitled to a
minimum contribution under the MODIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of Article
XI. Each such person's allocation shall be an amount equal to the Discretionary
Contributions multiplied by the ratio of such person's Annual Compensation to
the total Annual Compensation of all such persons. Such amount shall not exceed
3% of such person's Annual Compensation. The allocation for any person who does
not meet the allocation requirements of this section shall be limited to the
amount necessary to fund the minimum contribution.

STEP TWO: The allocation in this step two shall be made to each person meeting
the allocation requirements of this section. Each such person's allocation shall
be equal to any amount remaining

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after the allocation in step one multiplied by the ratio of such person's Annual
Compensation to the total Annual Compensation of all such persons.

This amount shall be credited to the person's Account.

     The ESOP Non-Matching Contribution for the Plan Year (if any), together
with the cash dividends paid on Qualifying Employer Securities held in the ESOP
Non-Matching Contribution Accounts (if the Primary Employer directs that such
dividends be applied to the Exempt Loan), cash dividends paid on Qualifying
Employer Securities held in the Unallocated Reserve and other investment
earnings of the Unallocated Reserve (if any), shall be applied to make the
payment due on any Exempt Loan for the Plan Year. The Qualifying Employer
Securities released from the Unallocated Reserve as a result of that payment
shall be allocated as of the last day of the Plan Year as follows:

STEP ONE: This step one shall apply only if the cash dividends paid on
Qualifying Employer Securities held in the ESOP Non-Matching Contribution
Accounts are applied to the Exempt Loan.

The allocation in this step one shall be made to each person who received a cash
dividend on Qualifying Employer Securities held in his/her ESOP Non-Matching
Contribution Account that was applied to the Exempt Loan.

The number of shares of Qualifying Employer Securities allocated under this step
one shall equal the number of shares with a value equal to the total cash
dividends paid on Qualifying Employer Securities held in the ESOP Non-Matching
Contribution Accounts and applied to the Exempt Loan. The number of shares of
Qualifying Employer Securities allocated to each such person shall be determined
by multiplying the number of shares of Qualifying Employer Securities to be
allocated under this step one by a fraction, the numerator of which is the cash
dividends paid on Qualifying Employer Securities held in the ESOP Non-Matching
Account of such person and applied to the Exempt Loan, and the denominator of
which is the total cash dividends paid on Qualifying Employer Securities held in
the ESOP Non-Matching Accounts of all such persons and applied to the Exempt
Loan.

STEP TWO: The allocation in this step two shall be made among those persons who
meet the allocation requirements of this section, but subject to the PROHIBITED
ALLOCATION OF QUALIFYING EMPLOYER SECURITIES SECTION of this article.

The number of shares of Qualifying Employer Securities allocated to each such
person shall be determined by multiplying the number of shares of Qualifying
Employer Securities released from the Unallocated Reserve (and not allocated
under step one) by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Annual Compensation
of such person for the Plan Year, and the denominator of which is the aggregate
Annual Compensation of all such persons for the Plan Year. However, if the
aggregate amount of Qualifying Employer Securities that would be allocated under
this paragraph to Highly Compensated Employees exceeds one-third of the total
Qualifying Employer Securities allocated, then the amount of Qualifying Employer
Securities in excess of one-third

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shall be reallocated to the Nonhighly Compensated Employees in proportion to
each Nonhighly Compensated Employee's Annual Compensation to the total Annual
Compensation of all such Nonhighly Compensated Employees.

     If the ESOP Non-Matching Contributions exceed the amount needed to make the
payment for the Exempt Loan for the Plan Year, or if there is no Exempt Loan for
the Plan Year in which the ESOP Non-Matching Contribution is made, the ESOP
Non-Matching Contribution shall be allocated in the same manner as Discretionary
Contributions.

     Specified Minimum Employer Contributions shall be allocated to the Account
of the eligible Participants in accordance with subparagraph 3.01(e)(2).

     If Leased Employees are Eligible Employees, in determining the amount of
Employer Contributions allocated to a person who is a Leased Employee,
contributions provided by the leasing organization which are attributable to
services such Leased Employee performs for the Employer shall be treated as
provided by the Employer. Those contributions shall not be duplicated under this
Plan.

SECTION 3.04--CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION.

     (a)  Definitions. For the purpose of determining the contribution
          limitation set forth in this section, the following terms are defined.

     Annual Additions means the sum of the following amounts credited to a
Participant's account for the Limitation Year:

     (1)  employer contributions; provided that, ESOP Non-Matching Contributions
          under this Plan that are applied to pay interest on an Exempt Loan
          will not be an Annual Addition if no more than one-third (1/3/rd/) of
          the ESOP Non-Matching Contribution that is applied to pay principal or
          interest on an Exempt Loan for the Plan Year is allocated to Highly
          Compensated Employees;

     (2)  employee contributions; and

     (3)  forfeitures.

     Annual Additions to a defined contribution plan shall also include the
following:

     (4)  amounts allocated, after March 31, 1984, to an individual medical
          account, as defined in Code Section 415(l)(2), which are part of a
          pension or annuity plan maintained by the Employer,

     (5)  amounts derived from contributions paid or accrued after December 31,
          1985, in taxable years ending after such date, which are attributable
          to post-retirement

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          medical benefits, allocated to the separate account of a key employee,
          as defined in Code Section 419A(d)(3), under a welfare benefit fund,
          as defined in Code Section 419(e), maintained by the Employer; and

     (6)  allocations under a simplified employee pension.

     For this purpose, any Excess Amount applied under (e) below in the
Limitation Year to reduce Employer Contributions shall be considered Annual
Additions for such Limitation Year.

     Compensation means wages within the meaning of Code Section 3401(a) and all
other payments of compensation to an Employee by the Employer (in the course of
the Employer's trade or business) for which the Employer is required to furnish
the Employee a written statement under Code Sections 6041(d), 6051(a)(3), and
6052. Compensation must be determined without regard to any rules under Code
Section 3401(a) that limit the remuneration included in wages based on the
nature or location of the employment or the services performed (such as the
exception for agricultural labor in Code Section 3401(a)(2)). The amount
reported in the "Wages, Tips and Other Compensation" box on Form W-2 satisfies
this definition.

     For any Self-employed Individual, Compensation shall mean Earned Income.
     For purposes of applying the limitations of this section, Compensation for
a Limitation Year is the Compensation actually paid or made available in gross
income during such Limitation Year.

     For Limitation Years beginning after December 31, 1997, for purposes of
applying the limitations of this section, Compensation paid or made available
during such Limitation Year shall include any elective deferral (as defined in
Code Section 402(g)(3)), and any amount which is contributed or deferred by the
Employer at the election of the Employee and which is not includible in the
gross income of the Employee by reason of Code Section 125, 132(f)(4), or 457.

     Defined Benefit Plan Fraction means a fraction, the numerator of which is
the sum of the Participant's Projected Annual Benefits under all the defined
benefit plans (whether or not terminated) maintained by the Employer, and the
denominator of which is the lesser of (i) 125 percent of the dollar limitation
determined for the Limitation Year under Code Sections 415(b)(1)(A) and (d) or
(ii) 140 percent of the Highest Average Compensation, including any adjustments
under Code Section 415(b)(5).

     Notwithstanding the above, if the Participant was a participant as of the
first day of the first Limitation Year beginning after December 31, 1986, in one
or more defined benefit plans maintained by the Employer which were in existence
on May 6, 1986, the denominator of this fraction will not be less than 125
percent of the sum of the annual benefits under such plans which the Participant
had accrued as of the close of the last Limitation Year beginning before January
1, 1987, disregarding any changes in the terms and conditions of the plan after
May 5, 1986. The preceding sentence applies only if the defined benefit plans
individually and in the

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aggregate satisfied the requirements of Code Section 415 for all Limitation
Years beginning before January 1, 1987.

     Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation means, for Limitation Years
beginning after December 31, 1994, $30,000, as adjusted under Code Section
415(d).

     Defined Contribution Plan Fraction means a fraction, the numerator of which
is the sum of the Annual Additions to the Participant's account under all the
defined contribution plans (whether or not terminated) maintained by the
Employer for the current and all prior Limitation Years (including the Annual
Additions attributable to the Participant's nondeductible employee contributions
to all defined benefit plans, whether or not terminated, maintained by the
Employer, and the Annual Additions attributable to all welfare benefit funds,
individual medical accounts, and simplified employee pensions, maintained by the
Employer), and the denominator of which is the sum of the maximum aggregated
amounts for the current and all prior Limitation Years of service with the
Employer (regardless of whether a defined contribution plan was maintained by
the Employer). The maximum aggregate amount in any Limitation Year is the lesser
of (i) 125 percent of the dollar limitation under Code Section 415(c)(1)(A)
after adjustment under Code Section 415(d) or (ii) 35 percent of the
Participant's Compensation for such year.

     If the Employee was a participant as of the end of the first day of the
first Limitation Year beginning after December 31, 1986, in one or more defined
contribution plans maintained by the Employer which were in existence on May 6,
1986, the numerator of this fraction will be adjusted if the sum of this
fraction and the Defined Benefit Fraction would otherwise exceed 1.0 under the
terms of this Plan. Under the adjustment, an amount equal to the product of (i)
the excess of the sum of the fractions over 1.0 times (ii) the denominator of
this fraction, will be permanently subtracted from the numerator of this
fraction. The adjustment is calculated using the fractions as they would be
computed as of the end of the last Limitation Year beginning before January 1,
1987, and disregarding any changes in the terms and conditions of the plan made
after May 5, 1986, but using the Code Section 415 limitation applicable to the
first Limitation Year beginning on or after January 1, 1987.

     The Annual Addition for any Limitation Year beginning before January 1,
1987, shall not be recomputed to treat all employee contributions as Annual
Additions.

     Employer means the employer that adopts this Plan, and all members of a
controlled group of corporations (as defined in Code Section 414(b) as modified
by Code Section 415(h)), all commonly controlled trades or businesses (as
defined in Code Section 415(c) as modified by Code Section 415(h)) or affiliated
service groups (as defined in Code Section 414(m)) of which the adopting
employer is a part, and any other entity required to be aggregated with the
employer pursuant to regulations under Code Section 414(o).

     Excess Amount means the excess of the Participant's Annual Additions for
the Limitation Year over the Maximum Permissible Amount.

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     Highest Average Compensation means the average Compensation for the three
consecutive Limitation Years while he was an Employee (actual consecutive
Limitation Years while he was an Employee, if employed less than three years)
that produces the highest average.

     Limitation Year means the consecutive 12-month period ending on the last
day of each Plan Year, including corresponding consecutive 12-month periods
before January 1, 1990. If the Limitation Year is other than the calendar year,
execution of this Plan (or any amendment to this Plan changing the Limitation
Year) constitutes the Employer's adoption of a written resolution electing the
Limitation Year. If the Limitation Year is amended to a different consecutive
12-month period, the new Limitation Year must begin on a date within the
Limitation Year in which the amendment is made.

     Maximum Permissible Amount means the maximum Annual Addition that may be
contributed or allocated to a Participant's Account under the Plan for any
Limitation Year. This amount shall not exceed the lesser of:

     (1)  The Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation, or

     (2)  25 percent of the Participant's Compensation for the Limitation Year.

     The compensation limitation referred to in (2) shall not apply to any
contribution for medical benefits (within the meaning of Code Section 401(h) or
419A(f)(2)) which is otherwise treated as an Annual Addition under Code Section
415(l)(1) or 419A(d)(2).

     If a short Limitation Year is created because of an amendment changing the
Limitation Year to a different consecutive 12-month period, the Maximum
Permissible Amount will not exceed the Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation
multiplied by the following fraction:

                  Number of months in the short Limitation Year
                                       12

     Projected Annual Benefit means the annual retirement benefit (adjusted to
an actuarially equivalent straight life annuity if such benefit is expressed in
a form other than a straight life annuity or qualified joint and survivor
annuity) to which the Participant would be entitled under the terms of the plan
assuming:

     (1)  The Participant will continue employment until normal retirement age
          under the plan (or current age, if later), and

     (2)  the Participant's Compensation for the current Limitation Year and all
          other relevant factors used to determine benefits under the Plan will
          remain constant for all future Limitation Years.

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          (b)  If the Participant does not participate in, and has never
               participated in, another qualified plan maintained by the
               Employer or a welfare benefit fund, as defined in Code Section
               419(e), maintained by the Employer, or an individual medical
               account, as defined in Code Section 415(l)(2), maintained by the
               Employer, or a simplified employee pension, as defined in Code
               Section 408(k), maintained by the Employer, which provides an
               Annual Addition, the amount of Annual Additions which may be
               credited to the Participant's Account for any Limitation Year
               shall not exceed the lesser of the Maximum Permissible Amount or
               any other limitation contained in this Plan. If the Employer
               Contribution that would otherwise be contributed or allocated to
               the Participant's Account would cause the Annual Additions for
               the Limitation Year to exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount, the
               amount contributed or allocated shall be reduced so that the
               Annual Additions for the Limitation Year will equal the Maximum
               Permissible Amount.

          (c)  Prior to determining the Participant's actual Compensation for
               the Limitation Year, the Employer may determine the Maximum
               Permissible Amount for a Participant on the basis of a reasonable
               estimation of the Participant's Compensation for the Limitation
               Year, uniformly determined for all Participants similarly
               situated.

          (d)  As soon as is administratively feasible after the end of the
               Limitation Year, the Maximum Permissible Amount for the
               Limitation Year will be determined on the basis of the
               Participant's actual Compensation for the Limitation Year.

          (e)  If a reasonable error in estimating a Participant's Compensation
               for the Limitation Year, a reasonable error in determining the
               amount of elective deferrals (within the meaning of Code Section
               402(g)(3)) that may be made with respect to any individual under
               the limits of Code Section 415, or under other facts and
               circumstances allowed by the Internal Revenue Service, there is
               an Excess Amount, the excess will be disposed of as follows:

     (1)  Any Elective Deferral Contributions that are not the basis for
          Matching Contributions (plus attributable earnings), to the extent
          they would reduce the Excess Amount, will be distributed to the
          Participant.

     (2)  If after the application of (1) above an Excess Amount still exists,
          any Elective Deferral Contributions that are the basis for Matching
          Contributions (plus attributable earnings), to the extent they would
          reduce the Excess Amount, will be distributed to the Participant.
          Concurrently with the distribution of such Elective Deferral
          Contributions, any Matching Contributions which relate to any Elective
          Deferral Contributions distributed in the preceding sentence, to the
          extent such

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          application would reduce the Excess Amount, will be applied as
          provided in (3) or (4) below:

     (3)  If after the application of (2) above an Excess Amount still exists,
          and the Participant is covered by the Plan at the end of the
          Limitation Year, the Excess Amount in the Participant's Account will
          be used to reduce Employer Contributions for such Participant in the
          next Limitation Year, and each succeeding Limitation Year if
          necessary.

     (4)  If after the application of (2) above an Excess Amount still exists,
          and the Participant is not covered by the Plan at the end of the
          Limitation Year, the Excess Amount will be held unallocated in a
          suspense account. The suspense account will be applied to reduce
          future Employer Contributions for all remaining Participants in the
          next Limitation Year, and each succeeding Limitation Year if
          necessary.

     (5)  If a suspense account is in existence at any time during a Limitation
          Year pursuant to this (e), it will participate in the allocation of
          investment gains or losses. If a suspense account is in existence at
          any time during a particular Limitation Year, all amounts in the
          suspense account must be allocated and reallocated to Participant's
          Accounts before any Employer Contributions may be made to the Plan for
          that Limitation Year. Excess Amounts held in a suspense account may
          not be distributed to Participants or former Participants.

          (f)  This (f) applies if, in addition to this Plan, the Participant is
               covered under another qualified defined contribution plan
               maintained by the Employer, a welfare benefit fund maintained by
               the Employer, an individual medical account maintained by the
               Employer, or a simplified employee pension maintained by the
               Employer which provides an Annual Addition during any Limitation
               Year. The aggregate Annual Additions under all such qualified
               defined contribution plans, welfare benefit funds, individual
               medical accounts, and simplified employee pensions for the
               Limitation Year will not exceed the Maximum Permissible Amount.
               Any reduction necessary shall be made first to the profit sharing
               plans, then to all other such qualified defined contribution
               plans and welfare benefit funds, individual medical accounts, and
               simplified employee pensions and, if necessary, by reducing first
               those that were most recently allocated. Simplified employee
               pensions shall be deemed to be allocated first, followed by
               welfare benefit funds and individual medical accounts. However,
               elective deferral contributions shall be the last contributions
               reduced before the simplified employee pension, welfare benefit
               fund, or individual medical account is reduced.

          (g)  If the Employer maintains, or at any time maintained, a qualified
               defined benefit plan covering any Participant in this Plan, the
               sum of the

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               Participant's Defined Benefit Plan Fraction and Defined
               Contribution Plan Fraction will not exceed 1.0 in any Limitation
               Year. The Projected Annual Benefit shall be limited first. If the
               Participant's annual benefit(s) equal his Projected Annual
               Benefit, as limited, then Annual Additions to the defined
               contribution plan(s) shall be limited to the extent needed to
               reduce the sum to 1.0 in the same manner in which the Annual
               Additions are limited to meet the Maximum Permissible Amount.
               This subparagraph shall cease to apply effective as of the first
               Limitation Year beginning on or after January 1, 2000.

SECTION 3.05--EXCESS AMOUNTS.

          (a)  Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following
               terms are defined:

     ACP means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Contribution
Percentages of the Eligible Participants in a group.

     ADP means the average (expressed as a percentage) of the Deferral
Percentages of the Eligible Participants in a group.

     Aggregate Limit means the greater of:

     (1)  The sum of:

          (i)  125 percent of the greater of the ADP of the Nonhighly
               Compensated Employees for the prior Plan Year or the ACP of the
               Nonhighly Compensated Employees under the plan subject to Code
               Section 401(m) for the Plan Year beginning with or within the
               prior Plan Year of the cash or deferred arrangement, and

          (ii) the lesser of 200 percent or 2 percent plus the lesser of such
               ADP or ACP.

     (2)  The sum of:

          (i)  125 percent of the lesser of the ADP of the Nonhighly Compensated
               Employees for the prior Plan Year or the ACP of the Nonhighly
               Compensated Employees under the plan subject to Code Section
               401(m) for the Plan Year beginning with or within the prior Plan
               Year of the cash or deferred arrangement, and

          (ii) the lesser of 200 percent or 2 percent plus the greater of such
               ADP or ACP.

     If the Employer has elected to use the current testing method, then, in
calculating the Aggregate Limit for a particular Plan Year, the Nonhighly
Compensated Employees' ADP and

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ACP for that Plan Year, instead of the prior Plan Year, is used.

     Contribution Percentage means the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of the
Eligible Participant's Contribution Percentage Amounts to the Eligible
Participant's Compensation for the Plan Year (whether or not the Eligible
Participant was an Eligible Participant for the entire Plan Year). In
modification of the foregoing, Compensation shall be limited to the Compensation
received while an Eligible Participant. For an Eligible Participant for whom
such Contribution Percentage Amounts for the Plan Year are zero, the percentage
is zero.

     Contribution Percentage Amounts means the sum of the Participant
Contributions and Matching Contributions (that are not Qualified Matching
Contributions taken into account for purposes of the ADP Test) made under the
Plan on behalf of the Eligible Participant for the Plan Year. Such Contribution
Percentage Amounts shall not include Matching Contributions that are forfeited
either to correct Excess Aggregate Contributions or because the Contributions to
which they relate are Excess Elective Deferrals, Excess Contributions, or Excess
Aggregate Contributions. Under such rules as the Secretary of the Treasury shall
prescribe, in determining the Contribution Percentage the Employer may elect to
include Qualified Nonelective Contributions under this Plan which were not used
in computing the Deferral Percentage. The Employer may also elect to use
Elective Deferral Contributions in computing the Contribution Percentage so long
as the ADP Test is met before the Elective Deferral Contributions are used in
the ACP Test and continues to be met following the exclusion of those Elective
Deferral Contributions that are used to meet the ACP Test.

     Deferral Percentage means the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of Elective
Deferral Contributions under this Plan on behalf of the Eligible Participant for
the Plan Year to the Eligible Participant's Compensation for the Plan Year
(whether or not the Eligible Participant was an Eligible Participant for the
entire Plan Year). In modification of the foregoing, Compensation shall be
limited to the Compensation received while an Eligible Participant. The Elective
Deferral Contributions used to determine the Deferral Percentage shall include
Excess Elective Deferrals (other than Excess Elective Deferrals of Nonhighly
Compensated Employees that arise solely from Elective Deferral Contributions
made under this Plan or any other plans of the Employer or a Controlled Group
member), but shall exclude Elective Deferral Contributions that are used in
computing the Contribution Percentage (provided the ADP Test is satisfied both
with and without exclusion of these Elective Deferral Contributions). Under such
rules as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, the Employer may elect
to include Qualified Nonelective Contributions and Qualified Matching
Contributions under this Plan in computing the Deferral Percentage. For an
Eligible Participant for whom such contributions on his behalf for the Plan Year
are zero, the percentage is zero.

     Elective Deferral Contributions means any employer contributions made to a
plan at the election of a participant, in lieu of cash compensation, and shall
include contributions made pursuant to a salary reduction agreement or other
deferral mechanism. With respect to any taxable year, a participant's Elective
Deferral Contributions are the sum of all employer contributions made on behalf
of such participant pursuant to an election to defer under any qualified cash or
deferred arrangement described in Code Section 401(k), any salary reduction
simplified employee pension

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plan described in Code Section 408(k)(6), any SIMPLE IRA plan described in Code
Section 408(p), any eligible deferred compensation plan under Code Section 457,
any plan described under Code Section 501(c)(18), and any employer contributions
made on behalf of a participant for the purchase of an annuity contract under
Code Section 403(b) pursuant to a salary reduction agreement. Elective Deferral
Contributions shall not include any deferrals properly distributed as excess
annual additions.

     Eligible Participant means, for purposes of determining the Deferral
Percentage, any Employee who is otherwise entitled to make Elective Deferral
Contributions under the terms of the Plan for the Plan Year. Eligible
Participant means, for purposes of determining the Contribution Percentage, any
Employee who is eligible (i) to make a Participant Contribution or an Elective
Deferral Contribution (if the Employer takes such contributions into account in
the calculation of the Contribution Percentage), or (ii) to receive a Matching
Contribution (including forfeitures) or a Qualified Matching Contribution. If a
Participant Contribution is required as a condition of participation in the
Plan, any Employee who would be a Participant in the Plan if such Employee made
such a contribution shall be treated as an Eligible Participant on behalf of
whom no Participant Contributions are made.

     Excess Aggregate Contributions means, with respect to any Plan Year, the
excess of:

     (1)  The aggregate Contribution Percentage Amounts taken into account in
          computing the numerator of the Contribution Percentage actually made
          on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year, over

     (2)  The maximum Contribution Percentage Amounts permitted by the ACP Test
          (determined by hypothetically reducing contributions made on behalf of
          Highly Compensated Employees in order of their Contribution
          Percentages beginning with the highest of such percentages).

     Such determination shall be made after first determining Excess Elective
Deferrals and then determining Excess Contributions.

     Excess Contributions means, with respect to any Plan Year, the excess of:

     (1)  The aggregate amount of employer contributions actually taken into
          account in computing the Deferral Percentage of Highly Compensated
          Employees for such Plan Year, over

     (2)  The maximum amount of such contributions permitted by the ADP Test
          (determined by hypothetically reducing contributions made on behalf of
          Highly Compensated Employees in the order of the Deferral Percentages,
          beginning with the highest of such percentages).

     Such determination shall be made after first determining Excess Elective
Deferrals.

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     Excess Elective Deferrals means those Elective Deferral Contributions that
are includible in a Participant's gross income under Code Section 402(g) to the
extent such Participant's Elective Deferral Contributions for a taxable year
exceed the dollar limitation under such Code section. Excess Elective Deferrals
shall be treated as Annual Additions, as defined in the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION
SECTION of this article, under the Plan, unless such amounts are distributed no
later than the first April 15 following the close of the Participant's taxable
year.

     Matching Contributions means employer contributions made to this or any
other defined contribution plan, or to a contract described in Code Section
403(b), on behalf of a participant on account of a Participant Contribution made
by such participant, or on account of a participant's Elective Deferral
Contributions, under a plan maintained by the Employer or a Controlled Group
member.

     Participant Contributions means contributions made to the plan by or on
behalf of a participant that are included in the participant's gross income in
the year in which made and that are maintained under a separate account to which
the earnings and losses are allocated.

     Qualified Matching Contributions means Matching Contributions which are
subject to the distribution and nonforfeitability requirements under Code
Section 401(k) when made.

     Qualified Nonelective Contributions means any employer contributions (other
than Matching Contributions) which an employee may not elect to have paid to him
in cash instead of being contributed to the plan and which are subject to the
distribution and nonforfeitability requirements under Code Section 401(k) when
made.

          (b)  Excess Elective Deferrals. A Participant may assign to this Plan
               any Excess Elective Deferrals made during a taxable year of the
               Participant by notifying the Plan Administrator in writing on or
               before the first following March 1 of the amount of the Excess
               Elective Deferrals to be assigned to the Plan. A Participant is
               deemed to notify the Plan Administrator of any Excess Elective
               Deferrals that arise by taking into account only those Elective
               Deferral Contributions made to this Plan and any other plan of
               the Employer or a Controlled Group member. The Participant's
               claim for Excess Elective Deferrals shall be accompanied by the
               Participant's written statement that if such amounts are not
               distributed, such Excess Elective Deferrals will exceed the limit
               imposed on the Participant by Code Section 402(g) for the year in
               which the deferral occurred. The Excess Elective Deferrals
               assigned to this Plan cannot exceed the Elective Deferral
               Contributions allocated under this Plan for such taxable year.

               Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, Elective
               Deferral Contributions in an amount equal to the Excess Elective
               Deferrals assigned to this Plan, plus any income and minus any
               loss allocable thereto, shall be distributed no later than April
               15 to any Participant to whose Account Excess Elective Deferrals
               were assigned for the preceding year and who claims Excess
               Elective Deferrals for such taxable year.

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          The Excess Elective Deferrals shall be adjusted for income or loss.
          The income or loss allocable to such Excess Elective Deferrals shall
          be equal to the income or loss allocable to the Participant's Elective
          Deferral Contributions for the taxable year in which the excess
          occurred multiplied by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is
          the Excess Elective Deferrals. The denominator of the fraction is the
          closing balance without regard to any income or loss occurring during
          such taxable year (as of the end of such taxable year) of the
          Participant's Account resulting from Elective Deferral Contributions.

          Any Matching Contributions which were based on the Elective Deferral
          Contributions which are distributed as Excess Elective Deferrals, plus
          any income and minus any loss allocable thereto, shall be forfeited.

     (c)  ADP Test. As of the end of each Plan Year after Excess Elective
          Deferrals have been determined, the Plan must satisfy the ADP Test.
          The ADP Test shall be satisfied using the prior year testing method,
          unless the Employer has elected to use the current year testing
          method.

          (1)  Prior Year Testing Method. The ADP for a Plan Year for Eligible
               Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for each Plan
               Year and the prior year's ADP for Eligible Participants who were
               Nonhighly Compensated Employees for the prior Plan Year must
               satisfy one of the following tests:

               (i)   The ADP for a Plan Year for Eligible Participants who are
                     Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year shall not
                     exceed the prior year's ADP for Eligible Participants who
                     were Nonhighly Compensated Employees for the prior Plan
                     Year multiplied by 1.25; or

               (ii)  The ADP for a Plan Year for Eligible Participants who are
                     Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year:

                     A.  shall not exceed the prior year's ADP for Eligible
                         Participants who were Nonhighly Compensated Employees
                         for the prior Plan Year multiplied by 2, and

                     B.  the difference between such ADPs is not more than 2.

               If this is not a successor plan, for the first Plan Year the Plan
               permits any Participant to make Elective Deferral Contributions,
               for purposes of the foregoing tests, the prior year's Nonhighly
               Compensated Employees' ADP shall be 3 percent, unless the
               Employer has elected to use the Plan Year's ADP for these
               Eligible Participants.

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          (2)  Current Year Testing Method. The ADP for a Plan Year for Eligible
               Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for each Plan
               Year and the ADP for Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly
               Compensated Employees for the Plan Year must satisfy one of the
               following tests:

               (i)   The ADP for a Plan Year for Eligible Participants who are
                     Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year shall not
                     exceed the ADP for Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly
                     Compensated Employees for the Plan Year multiplied by 1.25;
                     or

               (ii)  The ADP for a Plan Year for Eligible Participants who are
                     Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year:

                     A.  shall not exceed the ADP for Eligible Participants who
                         are Nonhighly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year
                         multiplied by 2, and

                     B.  the difference between such ADP's is not more than 2.

          If the Employer has elected to use the current year testing method,
          that election cannot be changed unless (i) the Plan has been using the
          current year testing method for the preceding five Plan Years, or if
          less, the number of Plan Years the Plan has been in existence; or (ii)
          the Plan otherwise meets one of the conditions specified in Internal
          Revenue Service Notice 98-1 (or superseding guidance) for changing
          from the current year testing method.

          A Participant is a Highly Compensated Employee for a particular Plan
          Year if he meets the definition of a Highly Compensated Employee in
          effect for that Plan Year. Similarly, a Participant is a Nonhighly
          Compensated Employee for a particular Plan Year if he does not meet
          the definition of a Highly Compensated Employee in effect for that
          Plan Year.

          The Deferral Percentage for any Eligible Participant who is a Highly
          Compensated Employee for the Plan Year and who is eligible to have
          Elective Deferral Contributions (and Qualified Nonelective
          Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions, or both, if treated
          as Elective Deferral Contributions for purposes of the ADP Test)
          allocated to his account under two or more arrangements described in
          Code Section 401(k) that are maintained by the Employer or a
          Controlled Group member shall be determined as if such Elective
          Deferral Contributions (and, if applicable, such Qualified Nonelective
          Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions, or both) were made
          under a single arrangement. If a Highly Compensated Employee
          participates in two or more cash or deferred arrangements that have
          different plan years, all cash or deferred arrangements ending with or
          within the same calendar year shall be treated as a single
          arrangement. The foregoing notwithstanding, certain plans shall be
          treated as separate if mandatorily

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          disaggregated under the regulations of Code Section 401(k).

          In the event this Plan satisfies the requirements of Code Section
          401(k), 401(a)(4), or 410(b) only if aggregated with one or more other
          plans, or if one or more other plans satisfy the requirements of such
          Code sections only if aggregated with this Plan, then this section
          shall be applied by determining the Deferral Percentage of Employees
          as if all such plans were a single plan. Any adjustments to the
          Nonhighly Compensated Employee ADP for the prior year shall be made in
          accordance with Internal Revenue Service Notice 98-1 (or superseding
          guidance), unless the Employer has elected to use the current year
          testing method. Plans may be aggregated in order to satisfy Code
          Section 401(k) only if they have the same plan year and use the same
          testing method for the ADP Test.

          For purposes of the ADP Test, Elective Deferral Contributions,
          Qualified Nonelective Contributions, and Qualified Matching
          Contributions must be made before the end of the 12-month period
          immediately following the Plan Year to which the contributions relate.

          The Employer shall maintain records sufficient to demonstrate
          satisfaction of the ADP Test and the amount of Qualified Nonelective
          Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions, or both, used in
          such test.

          If the Plan Administrator should determine during the Plan Year that
          the ADP Test is not being met, the Plan Administrator may limit the
          amount of future Elective Deferral Contributions of the Highly
          Compensated Employees.

          Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Plan, Excess
          Contributions, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto,
          shall be distributed no later than the last day of each Plan Year to
          Participants to whose Accounts such Excess Contributions were
          allocated for the preceding Plan Year. Excess Contributions are
          allocated to the Highly Compensated Employees with the largest amounts
          of employer contributions taken into account in calculating the ADP
          Test for the year in which the excess arose, beginning with the Highly
          Compensated Employee with the largest amount of such employer
          contributions and continuing in descending order until all of the
          Excess Contributions have been allocated. For purposes of the
          preceding sentence, the "largest amount" is determined after
          distribution of any Excess Contributions. If such excess amounts are
          distributed more than 2 1/2 months after the last day of the Plan Year
          in which such excess amounts arose, a 10 percent excise tax shall be
          imposed on the employer maintaining the plan with respect to such
          amounts.

          Excess Contributions shall be treated as Annual Additions, as defined
          in the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION SECTION of this article.

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          The Excess Contributions shall be adjusted for income or loss. The
          income or loss allocable to such Excess Contributions allocated to
          each Participant shall be equal to the income or loss allocable to the
          Participant's Elective Deferral Contributions (and, if applicable,
          Qualified Nonelective Contributions or Qualified Matching
          Contributions, or both) for the Plan Year in which the excess occurred
          multiplied by a fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the Excess
          Contributions. The denominator of the fraction is the closing balance
          without regard to any income or loss occurring during such Plan Year
          (as of the end of such Plan Year) of the Participant's Account
          resulting from Elective Deferral Contributions (and Qualified
          Nonelective Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions, or
          both, if such contributions are included in the ADP Test).

          Excess Contributions allocated to a Participant shall be distributed
          from the Participant's Account resulting from Elective Deferral
          Contributions. If such Excess Contributions exceed the balance in the
          Participant's Account resulting from Elective Deferral Contributions,
          the balance shall be distributed from the Participant's Account
          resulting from Qualified Matching Contributions (if applicable) and
          Qualified Nonelective Contributions, respectively.

          Any Matching Contributions which were based on the Elective Deferral
          Contributions which are distributed as Excess Contributions, plus any
          income and minus any loss allocable thereto, shall be forfeited.

     (d)  ACP Test. As of the end of each Plan Year, the Plan must satisfy the
          ACP Test. The ACP Test shall be satisfied using the prior year testing
          method, unless the Employer has elected to use the current year
          testing method.

          (1)  Prior Year Testing Method. The ACP for a Plan Year for Eligible
               Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for each Plan
               Year and the prior year's ACP for Eligible Participants who were
               Nonhighly Compensated Employees for the prior Plan Year must
               satisfy one of the following tests:

               (i)   The ACP for the Plan Year for Eligible Participants who are
                     Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year shall not
                     exceed the prior year's ACP for Eligible Participants who
                     were Nonhighly Compensated Employees for the prior Plan
                     Year multiplied by 1.25; or

               (ii)  The ACP for a Plan Year for Eligible Participants who are
                     Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year:

                     A.  shall not exceed the prior year's ACP for Eligible
                         Participants who were Nonhighly Compensated Employees
                         for the prior Plan Year multiplied by 2, and

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                     B.  the difference between such ACPs is not more than 2.

               If this is not a successor plan, for the first Plan Year the Plan
               permits any Participant to make Participant Contributions,
               provides for Matching Contributions, or both, for purposes of the
               foregoing tests, the prior year's Nonhighly Compensated
               Employees' ACP shall be 3 percent, unless the Employer has
               elected to use the Plan Year's ACP for these Eligible
               Participants.

          (2)  Current Year Testing Method. The ACP for a Plan Year for Eligible
               Participants who are Highly Compensated Employees for each Plan
               Year and the ACP for Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly
               Compensated Employees for the Plan Year must satisfy one of the
               following tests:

               (i)   The ACP for a Plan Year for Eligible Participants who are
                     Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year shall not
                     exceed the ACP for Eligible Participants who are Nonhighly
                     Compensated Employees for the Plan Year multiplied by 1.25;
                     or

               (ii)  The ACP for a Plan Year for Eligible Participants who are
                     Highly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year:

                     A.  shall not exceed the ACP for Eligible Participants who
                         are Nonhighly Compensated Employees for the Plan Year
                         multiplied by 2, and

                     B.  the difference between such ACPs is not more than 2.

          If the Employer has elected to use the current year testing method,
          that election cannot be changed unless (i) the Plan has been using the
          current year testing method for the preceding five Plan Years, or if
          less, the number of Plan Years the Plan has been in existence; or (ii)
          the Plan otherwise meets one of the conditions specified in Internal
          Revenue Service Notice 98-1 (or superseding guidance) for changing
          from the current year testing method.

          A Participant is a Highly Compensated Employee for a particular Plan
          Year if he meets the definition of a Highly Compensated Employee in
          effect for that Plan Year. Similarly, a Participant is a Nonhighly
          Compensated Employee for a particular Plan Year if he does not meet
          the definition of a Highly Compensated Employee in effect for that
          Plan Year.

          Multiple Use. If one or more Highly Compensated Employees participate
          in both a cash or deferred arrangement and a plan subject to the ACP
          Test maintained by the Employer or a Controlled Group member, and the
          sum of the ADP and ACP of those Highly Compensated Employees subject
          to either or both tests exceeds the

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          Aggregate Limit, then the Contribution Percentage of those Highly
          Compensated Employees who also participate in a cash or deferred
          arrangement will be reduced in the manner described below for
          allocating Excess Aggregate Contributions so that the limit is not
          exceeded. The amount by which each Highly Compensated Employee's
          Contribution Percentage is reduced shall be treated as an Excess
          Aggregate Contribution. The ADP and ACP of the Highly Compensated
          Employees are determined after any corrections required to meet the
          ADP Test and ACP Test and are deemed to be the maximum permitted under
          such tests for the Plan Year. Multiple use does not occur if either
          the ADP or ACP of the Highly Compensated Employees does not exceed
          1.25 multiplied by the ADP and ACP, respectively, of the Nonhighly
          Compensated Employees.

          The Contribution Percentage for any Eligible Participant who is a
          Highly Compensated Employee for the Plan Year and who is eligible to
          have Contribution Percentage Amounts allocated to his account under
          two or more plans described in Code Section 401(a) or arrangements
          described in Code Section 401(k) that are maintained by the Employer
          or a Controlled Group member shall be determined as if the total of
          such Contribution Percentage Amounts was made under each plan. If a
          Highly Compensated Employee participates in two or more cash or
          deferred arrangements that have different plan years, all cash or
          deferred arrangements ending with or within the same calendar year
          shall be treated as a single arrangement. The foregoing
          notwithstanding, certain plans shall be treated as separate if
          mandatorily disaggregated under the regulations of Code Section
          401(m).

          In the event this Plan satisfies the requirements of Code Section
          401(m), 401(a)(4), or 410(b) only if aggregated with one or more other
          plans, or if one or more other plans satisfy the requirements of such
          Code sections only if aggregated with this Plan, then this section
          shall be applied by determining the Contribution Percentage of
          Employees as if all such plans were a single plan. Any adjustments to
          the Nonhighly Compensated Employee ACP for the prior year shall be
          made in accordance with Internal Revenue Service Notice 98-1 (or
          superseding guidance), unless the Employer has elected to use the
          current year testing method. Plans may be aggregated in order to
          satisfy Code Section 401(m) only if they have the same plan year and
          use the same testing method for the ACP Test.

          For purposes of the ACP Test, Participant Contributions are considered
          to have been made in the Plan Year in which contributed to the Plan.
          Matching Contributions and Qualified Nonelective Contributions will be
          considered to have been made for a Plan Year if made no later than the
          end of the 12-month period beginning on the day after the close of the
          Plan Year.

          The Employer shall maintain records sufficient to demonstrate
          satisfaction of the ACP Test and the amount of Qualified Nonelective
          Contributions or Qualified Matching Contributions, or both, used in
          such test.

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          Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Plan, Excess Aggregate
          Contributions, plus any income and minus any loss allocable thereto,
          shall be forfeited, if not vested, or distributed, if vested, no later
          than the last day of each Plan Year to Participants to whose Accounts
          such Excess Aggregate Contributions were allocated for the preceding
          Plan Year. Excess Aggregate Contributions are allocated to the Highly
          Compensated Employees with the largest Contribution Percentage Amounts
          taken into account in calculating the ACP Test for the year in which
          the excess arose, beginning with the Highly Compensated Employee with
          the largest amount of such Contribution Percentage Amounts and
          continuing in descending order until all of the Excess Aggregate
          Contributions have been allocated. For purposes of the preceding
          sentence, the "largest amount" is determined after distribution of any
          Excess Aggregate Contributions. If such Excess Aggregate Contributions
          are distributed more than 2 1/2 months after the last day of the Plan
          Year in which such excess amounts arose, a 10 percent excise tax shall
          be imposed on the employer maintaining the plan with respect to such
          amounts.

          Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be treated as Annual Additions,
          as defined in the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION SECTION of this article.

          The Excess Aggregate Contributions shall be adjusted for income or
          loss. The income or loss allocable to such Excess Aggregate
          Contributions allocated to each Participant shall be equal to the
          income or loss allocable to the Participant's Contribution Percentage
          Amounts for the Plan Year in which the excess occurred multiplied by a
          fraction. The numerator of the fraction is the Excess Aggregate
          Contributions. The denominator of the fraction is the closing balance
          without regard to any income or loss occurring during such Plan Year
          (as of the end of such Plan Year) of the Participant's Account
          resulting from Contribution Percentage Amounts.

          Excess Aggregate Contributions allocated to a Participant shall be
          distributed from the Participant's Account resulting from Participant
          Contributions that are not required as a condition of employment or
          participation or for obtaining additional benefits from Employer
          Contributions. If such Excess Aggregate Contributions exceed the
          balance in the Participant's Account resulting from such Participant's
          Contributions, the balance shall be forfeited, if not vested, or
          distributed, if vested, on a pro-rata basis from the Participant's
          Account resulting from Contribution Percentage Amounts.

     (e)  Employer Elections. The Employer has not made an election to use the
          current year testing method.

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SECTION 3.06--PROHIBITED ALLOCATIONS OF QUALIFYING EMPLOYER SECURITIES

     Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the Plan, Qualifying Employer
Securities will not be allocated under the following circumstances.

     (a)  Sale under Code Section 1042. Qualifying Employer Securities that have
          been acquired by the Plan in a sale to which Code Section 1042 applies
          shall not be allocated during the non-allocation period directly or
          indirectly under the Plan (or any qualified plan of any Employer) to
          the Accounts of:

          (1)  The individual who makes the election under Code Section 1042.

          (2)  Any individual who is related (within the meaning of Code Section
               267(b)) to the individual who makes the election under Code
               Section 1042. However, this paragraph shall not apply to lineal
               descendents of the individual who makes the election under Code
               Section 1042, provided that the aggregate amount allocated to the
               benefit of such lineal descendents during the non-allocation
               period does not exceed than five percent (5%) of the Qualifying
               Employer Securities (or amounts allocated in lieu thereof) held
               by the Plan which are attributable to a sale to the Plan by any
               person related to such descendents (within the meaning of Code
               Section 267(c)(4)) in a transaction subject to Code Section 1042.

     The "non-allocation period" is the period for this purpose beginning on the
date of the sale of the Qualifying Employer Securities to the Plan and ending on
the later of the date which is ten (10) years after the date of sale or the date
of the allocation attributable to the final payment of an Exempt Loan incurred
in connection with such sale to the Plan.

     Further, notwithstanding any contrary provision of the Plan, Qualifying
Employer Securities that have been acquired by the Plan in a sale to which Code
Section 1042 applies shall not be allocated, during or after the non-allocation
period, directly or indirectly under the Plan (or any qualified plan of any
Employer) to the Account of any individual who owns (after application of the
aggregation rules of Code Section 318(a) applied without regard to the employee
trust exception in Code Section 318(a)(2)(B)(i)) more than twenty-five percent
(25%) of any class of outstanding stock of any Employer, or the total value of
any class of outstanding stock of the Employer.

     (b)  S-Corporation Shareholders. For Plan Years beginning after December
          31, 2004, if the Plan holds Qualifying Employer Securities of an S
          Corporation, no allocations of such Qualifying Employer Securities
          shall be made to disqualified persons during any nonallocation year.
          The terms "disqualified person" and "nonallocation year" shall have
          the meaning set forth under Code Section 409(p).

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                                   ARTICLE IV

                           INVESTMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS

SECTION 4.01--INVESTMENT AND TIMING OF CONTRIBUTIONS.

     The handling of Contributions is governed by the provisions of the Trust
Agreement, the Annuity Contract, and any other funding arrangement in which the
Plan Fund is or may be held or invested. To the extent permitted by the Trust
Agreement, Annuity Contract, or other funding arrangement, the parties named
below shall direct the Contributions to the guaranteed benefit policy portion of
the Annuity Contract, any of the investment options available under the Annuity
Contract, or any of the investment vehicles available under the Trust Agreement
and may request the transfer of amounts resulting from those Contributions
between such investment options and investment vehicles or the transfer of
amounts between the guaranteed benefit policy portion of the Annuity Contract
and such investment options and investment vehicles.

     The Plan, other than the ESOP Matching Contribution Account and the ESOP
Non-Matching Contribution Account, is intended to qualify under ERISA Section
404(c). Accordingly, a Participant or Beneficiary (following the death of the
Participant) generally shall be allowed to direct the investment of his/her
Contributions (other than his/her ESOP Matching and Non-Matching Contributions),
and a Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee generally shall be allowed to
direct the investment of his/her Account (other than his/her ESOP Matching and
Non-Matching Contribution Accounts) among the guaranteed benefit policy portion
of the Annuity Contract, any of the investment options available under the
Annuity Contract, or any of the investment vehicles available under the Trust
Agreement excluding the Qualifying Employer Securities Fund. Any investment
direction may be given in such percentage or dollar increments, in such manner
and in accordance with such other rules as may be prescribed for this purpose by
the Plan Administrator (including by means of a voice response or other
electronic system under circumstances so authorized by the Employer). Investment
directions will be processed as soon as administratively practicable after
proper investment directions are received from the Participant, Beneficiary or
Alternate Payee. The Plan provides no guarantee that investment directions will
be processed on a daily basis, and provides no guarantee in any respect as to
the processing time of an investment direction. Circumstances may arise from
time to time where investment direction is not available under the Plan (for
example, a "blackout period" may be imposed to facilitate account or fund
transitions). The Plan Administrator further reserves the right to delay any
investment transaction for any legitimate business reason (including, but not
limited to, failure of systems or computer programs, failure of the means of the
transmission of data, force majeure, the failure of a record keeper to timely
receive values or prices, to correct for its errors or omissions or the errors
or omissions of any record keeper or other service provider). With respect to
any investment transaction, the processing date of the transaction will be
considered the applicable Valuation Date for that transaction and will be
binding for all purposes of the Plan. All investment directions will be complete
as to the terms of the investment transaction and will remain in effect until a
new investment direction is filed by the Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate
Payee.

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     A Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee may not direct the Trustee or
Insurer to invest the Participant's Account in collectibles. Collectibles mean
any work of art, rug or antique, metal or gem, stamp or coin, alcoholic
beverage, or other tangible personal property specified by the Secretary of the
Treasury. However, for tax years beginning after December 31, 1997, certain
coins and bullion as provided in Code Section 408(m)(3) shall not be considered
collectibles. To the extent that a Participant who has investment direction
fails to give timely direction, the Primary Employer shall direct the investment
of his Account. If the Primary Employer has investment direction, such Account
shall be invested ratably in the guaranteed benefit policy portion of the
Annuity Contract, the investment options available under the Annuity Contract,
or the investment vehicles available under the Trust Agreement in the same
manner as the Accounts of all other Participants who do not direct their
investments. The Primary Employer shall have investment direction for amounts
which have not been allocated to Participants. To the extent an investment is no
longer available, the Primary Employer may require that amounts currently held
in such investment be reinvested in other investments.

     At least annually, the Named Fiduciary shall review all pertinent Employee
information and Plan data in order to establish the funding policy of the Plan
and to determine appropriate methods of carrying out the Plan's objectives. The
Named Fiduciary shall inform the Trustee and any Investment Manager of the
Plan's short-term and long-term financial needs so the investment policy can be
coordinated with the Plan's financial requirements.

     (a)  Employer Contributions other than Elective Deferral Contributions,
          ESOP Matching Contributions and ESOP Non-Matching Contributions: The
          Participant shall direct the investment of Elective Deferral
          Contributions and transfer of amounts resulting from those
          Contributions.

     (b)  Elective Deferral Contributions: The Participant shall direct the
          investment of Elective Deferral Contributions and transfer of amounts
          resulting from those Contributions.

     (c)  Rollover Contributions: The Participant shall direct the investment of
          Rollover Contributions and transfer of amounts resulting from those
          Contributions.

     (d)  ESOP Matching Contributions and ESOP Non-Matching Contributions: These
          amounts shall be invested in Qualifying Employer Securities.

     However, the Named Fiduciary may delegate to the Investment Manager
investment discretion for Contributions and amounts which are not subject to
Participant direction.

     The Employer shall pay to the Insurer or Trustee, as applicable, the
Elective Deferral Contributions for each Plan Year not later than the end of the
12-month period immediately following the Plan Year for which they are deemed to
be paid.

     All Contributions are forwarded by the Employer be held under the terms of
the Custodial Agreement, as applicable. Contributions that are accumulated
through payroll deduction shall be

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paid to the Trustee or Insurer, as applicable, by the earlier of (i) the date
the Contributions can reasonably be segregated from the Employer's assets, or
(ii) the 15th business day of the month following the month in which the
Contributions would otherwise have been paid in cash to the Participant.

SECTION 4.02--INVESTMENT IN QUALIFYING EMPLOYER SECURITIES.

     (a)  ESOP Designation. The portion of the Plan that consists of the ESOP
          Matching Contribution Accounts, the ESOP Non-Matching Contribution
          Accounts and the Unallocated Reserve is an employee stock ownership
          plan (within the meaning of Code Section 4975(e)(7)) and is designed
          to invest primarily in Qualifying Employer Securities. All shares of
          Qualifying Employer Securities held under the Plan will be held in the
          Trust Fund in the name of the Trustee or the nominee of the Trustee.

     (b)  Diversification of Employer Stock Investments into Other Investment
          Options. Except as provided in this subsection and subsection (c), a
          Participant may not direct the investment of his or her ESOP Matching
          Contribution Account or ESOP Non-Matching Contribution Account.

          (1)  Diversification Election: Each Participant, Beneficiary and
               Alternate Payee may make an election at any time during the Plan
               Year to direct the Trustee in writing as to the investment of 33
               and 1/3 percent of the number of shares of Qualifying Employer
               Securities credited to his/her ESOP Matching and ESOP
               Non-Matching Accounts as of the last day of the previous Plan
               Year. If the Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee elects
               to diversify less than the maximum number of shares of Qualifying
               Employer Securities eligible to diversified under this paragraph,
               the Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee may make a second
               election during the Plan Year to diversify some or all of the
               remaining number of shares of Qualifying Employer Securities
               eligible for diversification under this paragraph.

          (2)  Procedures: The elections under this section must be made in such
               manner and in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed for
               this purpose by the Employer. Any amounts in the ESOP Matching
               and ESOP Non-Matching Account with respect to which a
               Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee elects to direct
               investment pursuant to this Section shall be transferred to a
               Diversification Account and invested as the Participant,
               Beneficiary or Alternate Payee directs pursuant to Section 4.01.

     (c)  Statutory Diversification. Each Qualified Account Holder shall be
          eligible to make an additional diversification election with respect
          to the Qualifying

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          Employer Securities

          (1)  Diversification Election: Each Qualified Account Holder may make
               an election within ninety (90) days after the close of each Plan
               Year during the Qualified Election Period to direct the Trustee
               in writing as to the investment of 25 percent of the number of
               shares of Qualifying Employer Securities that have ever been
               credited to his or her ESOP Matching and ESOP Non-Matching
               Accounts, reduced by the number of shares of Qualifying Employer
               Securities that have previously been diversified pursuant to
               either subsection (b) or this subsection (c).

          (2)  Final Election: For the last Plan Year in the Qualified Election
               Period, 50 percent shall be substituted for 25 percent in
               paragraph (1) above.

          (3)  Procedures: The elections under this section must be made in such
               manner and in accordance with such rules as may be prescribed for
               this purpose by the Employer. If the Qualified Account Holder
               elects to direct the Trustee as to the investment of his ESOP
               Matching and ESOP Non-Matching Accounts, such direction shall be
               effective no later than 180 days after the close of the Plan Year
               to which such direction applies. Any amounts in the ESOP Matching
               and ESOP Non-Matching Account with respect to which a Qualified
               Account Holder elects to direct investment pursuant to this
               Section shall be transferred to a Diversification Account and
               invested as the Qualified Account Holder directs pursuant to
               Section 4.01.

          (4)  Definition of Qualified Account Holder: For purposes of this
               section, "Qualified Account Holder" means a Participant or former
               Participant who on the last day of the Plan Year has completed at
               least ten (10) years of participation in the Plan and has
               attained age 55, or the Beneficiary or Alternate Payee with
               respect to such Participant or former Participant.

          (5)  Definition of Qualified Election Period: For purposes of this
               section, "Qualified Election Period means the six Plan Year
               period beginning with the Plan Year in which the Participant
               first becomes a Qualified Participant.

          (6)  Special Distribution Rule for ESOP Non-Matching Account: To the
               extent that the diversification election provided under this
               subsection (c) (without taking into account amounts previously
               diversified under subsection (b)) allows for the diversification
               of Qualifying Employer Securities allocated to the ESOP
               Non-Matching Account

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               of the Qualified Account holder as of April 30, 2003, the
               Qualified Account Holder may elect to receive a lump sum
               distribution of those Qualifying Employer Securities in lieu of
               having those Qualifying Employer Securities transferred to a
               Diversification Account.

     (d)  Dividends. For purposes of determining dividends, shares of Qualifying
          Employer Securities shall be deemed to be credited to the ESOP
          Matching or Non-Matching Contribution Account of a Participant,
          Beneficiary or Alternate Payee as of the record date of a dividend if
          they are credited to his/her ESOP Matching or Non-Matching
          Contribution Account as of the close of the day prior to the ex-date
          of such dividend (or, if the ex-date is after the record date, as of
          the close of the day prior to the record date).

          (1)  Stock Dividend. In the event of any stock dividend or any stock
               split, such dividend or split shall be credited to the Accounts
               based on the number of shares of Qualifying Employer Securities
               credited to each Account as of the payable date of such dividend
               or split.

          (2)  Cash Dividend. As determined by the Employer, cash dividends paid
               on shares of Qualifying Employer Securities credited to an ESOP
               Matching or Non-Matching Contribution Account of a Participant,
               Beneficiary or Alternate Payee as of the record date of such
               dividend will be either (i) applied to repay an Exempt Loan then
               outstanding (but only if such Qualifying Employer Security is
               attributable to such Exempt Loan); (ii) made subject to the
               election procedure described in paragraph (3) below; or (iii)
               retained in the Trust and treated as net income of the Trust. The
               Employer shall not direct that dividends paid on shares of
               Qualifying Employer Securities held in the ESOP Matching or
               Non-Matching Contribution Accounts be applied to repay an Exempt
               Loan, unless the shares of Qualifying Employer Securities
               released from the Unallocated Reserve will have a value at least
               sufficient to allow for the full allocation required in step one
               under the allocation of ESOP Non-Matching Contributions
               provisions of the ALLOCATIONS SECTION of Article 3 (the Employer
               may make ESOP Non-Matching Contributions necessary to allow for
               such full allocation).

          (3)  Cash Dividend Election. If the Employer elects, cash dividends
               paid on shares of Qualifying Employer Securities credited to an
               ESOP Matching or Non-Matching Account of a Participant,
               Beneficiary or Alternate Payee as of the record date of such
               dividend will be:

               (A)   Paid to the Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee if
                     so elected under the procedure outlined below; or

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               (B)   Otherwise, added to the balance of his/her Account as soon
                     as administratively practicable after such dividends are
                     paid into the Trust Fund.

          A Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee may elect to have cash
          dividends on shares of Qualifying Employer Securities credited to
          his/her ESOP Matching and ESOP Non-Matching Accounts either paid to
          him/her in cash or added to the balance of his/her Account and
          reinvested in Qualifying Employer Securities. Cash dividends that the
          Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee elects to receive in cash
          will be paid on or as soon as administratively practicable following
          the payable date of such dividend. Cash dividends that the
          Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee elects to have reinvested
          in Qualifying Employer Securities will be credited to a separate
          source account that reflects only such cash dividends, and shall be
          reinvested in additional shares of Qualifying Employer Securities on
          or as soon as administratively practicable following the payable date
          of such dividend.

          Shares of Qualifying Employer Securities shall be deemed to be
          credited to the ESOP Matching or ESOP Non-Matching Account of a
          Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee as of the record date of a
          dividend if they are credited to his/her ESOP Matching or ESOP
          Non-Matching Account as of the close of the day prior to the ex-date
          of such dividend (or, if the ex-date is after the record date, as of
          the close of the day prior to the record date).

          An election hereunder must be made in such manner and in accordance
          with such rules as may be prescribed for this purpose by the Plan
          Administrator (including by means of a voice response or other
          electronic system under circumstances so authorized by the Plan
          Administrator). In the absence of an affirmative election received by
          the deadline established for this purpose by the Plan Administrator
          (which shall be no less than thirty (30) days after notice of the
          dividend election is provided), a Participant, Beneficiary or
          Alternate Payee will be deemed to have elected to have cash dividends
          added to his/her Account and reinvested in Qualifying Employer
          Securities. To the extent so prescribed by the Plan Administrator, an
          election hereunder will be "evergreen" - that is, it will continue to
          apply until changed by the Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate
          Payee. Under the rules prescribed by the Plan Administrator, a
          Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee shall be allowed to revise
          his/her election no less than once a year, and if there is a change in
          the terms of the Plan governing the manner in which dividends are paid
          or distributed, a Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee shall be
          allowed a reasonable opportunity to make a new election.

          The Account of a Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee may be
          charged with the distribution costs (for example, the actual
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          fee) of any distribution made at his/her election under this Section.

     (e)  Authorization for Exempt Loan. The Employer may direct that the Plan
          engage in an Exempt Loan that satisfies the following requirements:

          (1)  Lender. The Exempt Loan may be made by the Employer or any lender
               acceptable to the Employer, and may be made or guaranteed by a
               party in interest (as defined in ERISA Section 3(14)) or a
               disqualified person (as defined in Code Section 4975).

          (2)  Use of Loan Proceeds. The Exempt Loan must be used within a
               reasonable time after receipt to acquire shares of Qualifying
               Employer Securities for the Unallocated Reserve or to repay a
               prior Exempt Loan (or for any combination of the foregoing
               purposes).

          (3)  No Recourse Against Trust Fund. The Exempt Loan must be without
               recourse against the Plan except that:

               (i)   The Qualifying Employer Securities acquired with the
                     proceeds of the Exempt Loan may be pledged or otherwise
                     used to secure repayment of the Exempt Loan, and the
                     Qualifying Employer Securities acquired with the proceeds
                     of a prior Exempt Loan which is repaid with the proceeds of
                     the Exempt Loan may be pledged or otherwise used to secure
                     repayment of the Exempt Loan, and

               (ii)  Any ESOP Non-Matching Contributions that are made for the
                     purpose of satisfying the obligations under the Exempt Loan
                     (and earnings thereon) may be pledged or otherwise used to
                     secure repayment of the Exempt Loan, and

               (iii) The earnings attributable to shares of Qualifying Employer
                     Securities acquired with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan may
                     be used to repay that Exempt Loan or any renewal or
                     extension thereof, and

               (iv)  The earnings attributable to unallocated shares of
                     Qualifying Employer Securities that were acquired with the
                     proceeds of an Exempt Loan may be pledged or otherwise used
                     as security for another Exempt Loan.

          (4)  Term of Loan. The Exempt Loan must provide for principal and
               interest to be paid over a specific term, and not payable upon
               demand except in the event of default.

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          (5)  Release of Shares from Unallocated Reserve. The number of shares
               released each Plan Year shall equal "A" multiplied by "B" where:

               "A" = the number of shares held in the Unallocated Reserve
               immediately before the release;

               "B" = a fraction, the numerator of which is equal to the
               principal and interest paid on the Exempt Loan for the Plan Year
               and the denominator of which is equal to the sum of the numerator
               and the total principal and interest scheduled to be paid on the
               Exempt Loan for all future Plan Years (without consideration of
               possible extensions or renewal periods).

               If the interest rate under the Exempt Loan is variable, the
               amount of interest to be paid in future Plan Years shall be
               calculated by using the interest rate in effect on the last day
               of the current Plan Year.

               If an Exempt Loan is repaid as a result of a refinancing by
               another Exempt Loan, such repayment shall not be considered a
               repayment under this subsection and the release of shares
               thereafter shall be determined by aggregating principal and
               interest on the loan and any refinancing of the loan.

          (6)  Interest Rate. The Exempt Loan must bear interest at a fixed or
               variable rate that is not in excess of a reasonable rate of
               interest considering all relevant factors (including, but not
               limited to, the amount and duration of the loan, the security
               given, the guarantees involved, the credit standing of the Plan,
               the Employer, and the guarantors, and the generally prevailing
               rates of interest).

          (7)  Default. The Exempt Loan must provide that, in the event of
               default, the fair market value of Qualifying Employer Securities
               and other assets which can be transferred in satisfaction of the
               loan must not exceed the amount of the loan. If the lender is a
               party in interest or disqualified person, the loan must provide
               for a transfer of Plan assets upon default only upon and to the
               extent of the failure of the Plan to satisfy the payment schedule
               of the Exempt Loan.

          (8)  Restrictions. Unless required under Code Section 409(h), no
               options, puts, call, rights of first refusal or other
               restrictions on alienability will attach to any shares of
               Qualifying Employer Securities acquired with the proceeds of an
               Exempt Loan and held in the Trust Fund or distributed from the
               Plan, whether or not this Plan continues to be an employee stock
               ownership plan with the meaning of Code Section 4975(e)(7).

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     (f)  Valuation of Qualifying Employer Securities. For purposes of
          determining the annual valuation of the Plan, and for reporting to
          Participants and regulatory authorities, the assets of the Plan shall
          be valued at least annually on the Valuation Date which corresponds to
          the last day of the Plan Year. The fair market value of Qualifying
          Employer Securities shall be determined on such Valuation Date. The
          prices of Qualifying Employer Securities as of the date of the
          transaction shall apply for purposes of valuing distributions and
          other transactions of the Plan to the extent such value is
          representative of the fair market value of such securities in the
          opinion of the Plan Administrator. The value of a Participant's
          Account held in the Qualifying Employer Securities Fund may be
          expressed in units.

          If the Qualifying Employer Securities are not publicly traded, or if
          an extremely thin market exists for such securities so that reasonable
          valuation may not be obtained from the market place, then such
          securities must be valued at least annually by an independent
          appraiser who is not associated with the Employer, the Plan
          Administrator, the Trustee, or any person related to any fiduciary
          under the Plan. The independent appraiser may be associated with a
          person who is merely a contract administrator with respect to the
          Plan, but who exercises no discretionary authority and is not a plan
          fiduciary.

          If there is a public market for Qualifying Employer Securities of the
          type held by the Plan, then the Plan Administrator may use as the
          value of the securities the price at which such securities trade in
          such market. If the Qualifying Employer Securities do not trade on the
          relevant date, or if the market is very thin on such date, then the
          Plan Administrator may use for the valuation the next preceding
          trading day on which the trading prices are representative of the fair
          market value of such securities in the opinion of the Plan
          Administrator.

     (g)  Purchases or Sales of Qualifying Employer Securities. The Plan
          Administrator may direct the Trustee to sell, resell, or otherwise
          dispose of Qualifying Employer Securities to any person, including the
          Employer, provided that any such sales to any disqualified person or
          party-in-interest, including the Employer, will be made at not less
          than the fair market value and no commission will be charged. Any such
          sale shall be made in conformance with ERISA Section 408(e). If it is
          necessary to purchase Qualifying Employer Securities for the Trust
          Fund, such purchase may be on the open market or from the Employer or
          any member of the Controlled Group. All purchases of Qualifying
          Employer Securities shall be made at a price, or prices, which, in the
          judgement of the Plan Administrator, do not exceed the fair market
          value of such securities. If shares are purchase from or sold to the
          Employer or a member of the Controlled Group, the

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          purchase or sale will be made at the price determined under paragraph
          (f) above.

          In the event that the Trustee acquires Qualifying Employer Securities
          by purchase from a "disqualified person" as defined in Code Section
          4975(e)(2) or from a "party-in-interest" as defined in ERISA Section
          3(14), the terms of such purchase shall contain the provision that in
          the event there is a final determination by the Internal Revenue
          Service, the Department of Labor, or court of competent jurisdiction
          that the fair market value of such securities as of the date of
          purchase was less than the purchase price paid by the Trustee, then
          the seller shall pay or transfer, as the case may be, to the Trustee
          an amount of cash or shares of Qualifying Employer Securities equal in
          value to the difference between the purchase price and such fair
          market value for all such shares. In the event that cash or shares of
          Qualifying Employer Securities are paid or transferred to the Trustee
          under this provision, such securities shall be valued at their fair
          market value as of the date of such purchase, and interest at a
          reasonable rate from the date of purchase to the date of payment or
          transfer shall be paid by the seller on the amount of cash paid.

     (h)  Compliance with Securities Laws. The Employer is responsible for
          compliance with any applicable Federal or state securities law with
          respect to all aspects of the Plan except for the Trustee's obligation
          to report its ownership of Qualifying Employer Securities. If the
          Qualifying Employer Securities or interest in this Plan are required
          to be registered in order to permit investment in the Qualifying
          Employer Securities Fund as provided in this section, then such
          investment will not be effective until the later of the effective date
          of the Plan or the date such registration or qualification is
          effective. The Employer, at its own expense, will take or cause to be
          taken any and all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to
          effect such registration or qualification. Further, if the Trustee is
          directed to dispose of any Qualifying Employer Securities held under
          the Plan under circumstances which require registration or
          qualification of the securities under applicable Federal or state
          securities laws, then the Employer will, at its own expense, take or
          cause to be taken any and all such action as may be necessary or
          appropriate to effect such registration or qualification. The Employer
          is responsible for all compliance requirements under Section 16 of the
          Securities Act.

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                                    ARTICLE V

BENEFITS

SECTION 5.01--RETIREMENT BENEFITS.

     On a Participant's Retirement Date, his Vested Account shall be distributed
to him according to the distribution of benefits provisions of Article VI and
the provisions of the SMALL AMOUNTS SECTION of Article X.

SECTION 5.02--DEATH BENEFITS.

     If a Participant dies before his Annuity Starting Date, his Vested Account
shall be distributed according to the distribution of benefits provisions of
Article VI and the provisions of the SMALL AMOUNTS SECTION of Article X.

SECTION 5.03--VESTED BENEFITS.

     If an Inactive Participant's Vested Account is not payable under the SMALL
AMOUNTS SECTION of Article X, he may elect, but is not required, to receive a
distribution of his Vested Account after he ceases to be an Employee. The
Participant's election shall be subject to his spouse's consent as provided in
the ELECTION PROCEDURES SECTION of Article VI. A distribution under this
paragraph shall be a retirement benefit and shall be distributed to the
Participant according to the distribution of benefits provisions of Article VI.

     A Participant may not elect to receive a distribution under the provisions
of this section after he again becomes an Employee until he subsequently ceases
to be an Employee and meets the requirements of this section.

     If an Inactive Participant does not receive an earlier distribution, upon
his Retirement Date or death, his Vested Account shall be distributed according
to the provisions of the RETIREMENT BENEFITS SECTION or the DEATH BENEFITS
SECTION of Article V.

     The Nonvested Account of an Inactive Participant who has ceased to be an
Employee shall remain a part of his Account until it becomes a Forfeiture.
However, if he again becomes an Employee so that his Vesting Percentage can
increase, the Nonvested Account may become a part of his Vested Account.

SECTION 5.04--WHEN BENEFITS START.

     (a)  Unless otherwise elected, benefits shall begin before the 60th day
          following the close of the Plan Year in which the latest date below
          occurs:

          (1)  The date the Participant attains age 65 (or Normal Retirement
               Age, if earlier).

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          (2)  The 10th anniversary of the Participant's Entry Date.

          (3)  The date the Participant ceases to be an Employee.

     Notwithstanding the foregoing, the failure of a Participant and spouse to
consent to a distribution while a benefit is immediately distributable, within
the meaning of the ELECTION PROCEDURES SECTION of Article VI, shall be deemed to
be an election to defer the start of benefits sufficient to satisfy this
section.

     The Participant may elect to have his benefits begin after the latest date
for beginning benefits described above, subject to the following provisions of
this section. The Participant shall make the election in writing. Such election
must be made before his Normal Retirement Date or the date he ceases to be an
Employee, if later. The election must describe the form of distribution and the
date benefits will begin. The Participant shall not elect a date for beginning
benefits or a form of distribution that would result in a benefit payable when
he dies which would be more than incidental within the meaning of governmental
regulations.

     Benefits shall begin on an earlier date if otherwise provided in the Plan.
For example, the Participant's Retirement Date or Required Beginning Date, as
defined in the DEFINITIONS SECTION of Article VII.

     (b)  The Participant's Vested Account which results from Elective Deferral
          Contributions may not be distributed to a Participant or to his
          Beneficiary (or Beneficiaries) in accordance with the Participant's or
          Beneficiary's (or Beneficiaries') election, earlier than separation
          from service, death, or disability. Such amount may also be
          distributed upon:

          (1)  Termination of the Plan, as permitted in Article VIII.

          (2)  The disposition by the Employer, if the Employer is a
               corporation, to an unrelated corporation of substantially all of
               the assets, within the meaning of Code Section 409(d)(2), used in
               a trade or business of the Employer if the Employer continues to
               maintain the Plan after the disposition, but only with respect to
               Employees who continue employment with the corporation acquiring
               such assets.

          (3)  The disposition by the Employer, if the Employer is a
               corporation, to an unrelated entity of the Employer's interest in
               a subsidiary, within the meaning of Code Section 409(d)(3), if
               the Employer continues to maintain the Plan, but only with
               respect to Employees who continue employment with such
               subsidiary.

          (4)  The hardship of the Participant as permitted in the WITHDRAWAL
               BENEFITS SECTION of this article.

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          All distributions that may be made pursuant to one or more of the
          foregoing distributable events will be a retirement benefit and shall
          be distributed to the Participant according to the distribution of
          benefit provisions of Article VI. In addition, distributions that are
          triggered by (1), (2) and (3) above must be made in a lump sum. A lump
          sum shall include a distribution of an annuity contract.

     (c)  The Participant's Vested Account which results from ESOP Matching
          Contributions and ESOP Non-Matching Contributions are subject to the
          following special distribution rights:

          (1)  After a Participant attains age 62, the Participant, until he or
               she retires, has a continuing right to elect to receive all of
               his or her Vested ESOP Non-Matching Contribution Account.

          (2)  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,
               the Trustee shall distribute the portion of the Participant's
               ESOP Matching and Non-Matching Contribution Accounts attributable
               to Qualifying Employer Securities (the "Eligible Portion") no
               later that time prescribed below:

               (A)   If the Participant terminated employment by reason of the
                     attainment of Normal Retirement Age, death or disability,
                     the Plan Administrator shall 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 terminates employment for any other
                     reason, the Plan Administrator shall direct the Trustee to
                     distribute the Eligible Portion not later than one year
                     after the close of the Plan Year in which the Participant
                     terminated employment. If the Participant resumes
                     employment with an Employer on or before the last day of
                     the fifth Plan Year following the Plan Year of his
                     termination of employment, the distribution of this
                     subparagraph (B) do not apply.

     For purposes of this paragraph (2), Qualifying Employer Securities do not
include any Qualifying Employer Securities 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.

SECTION 5.05--WITHDRAWAL BENEFITS.

     A Participant may withdraw any part of his Vested Account which results
from the following Contributions:

     Elective Deferral Contributions

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     Rollover Contributions

in the event of hardship due to an immediate and heavy financial need.
Withdrawals from the Participant's Account resulting from Elective Deferral
Contributions shall be limited to the amount of the Participant's Elective
Deferral Contributions. Immediate and heavy financial need shall be limited to:
(i) expenses incurred or necessary for medical care, described in Code Section
213(d), of the Participant, the Participant's spouse, or any dependents of the
Participant (as defined in Code Section 152); (ii) purchase (excluding mortgage
payments) of a principal residence for the Participant; (iii) payment of
tuition, related educational fees, and room and board expenses, for the next 12
months of post-secondary education for the Participant, his spouse, children, or
dependents; (iv) the need to prevent the eviction of the Participant from his
principal residence or foreclosure on the mortgage of the Participant's
principal residence; or (v) any other distribution which is deemed by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue to be made on account of immediate and heavy
financial need as provided in Treasury regulations.

     No withdrawal shall be allowed which is in excess of the amount required to
relieve the financial need or if such need can be satisfied from other resources
that are reasonably available to the Participant. The amount of an immediate and
heavy financial need may include any amount necessary to pay any Federal, state,
or local income taxes or penalties reasonably anticipated to result from the
distribution. The Participant's request for a withdrawal shall include his
written statement that the amount requested does not exceed the amount needed to
meet the financial need. The Participant's request for a withdrawal shall
include his written statement that the need cannot be relieved: (i) through
reimbursement or compensation by insurance or otherwise; (ii) by reasonable
liquidation of the Participant's assets, to the extent such liquidation would
not itself cause immediate and heavy financial need; (iii) by cessation of
elective contributions or participant contributions under the Plan; or (iv) by
other distributions or nontaxable (at the time of the loan) loans currently
available from plans maintained by the Employer or any other employer (including
currently available cash dividends on Qualifying Employer Securities), or by
borrowing from commercial sources on reasonable commercial terms.

     A request for withdrawal shall be made in such manner and in accordance
with such rules as the Employer will prescribe for this purpose (including by
means of voice response or other electronic means under circumstances the
Employer permits). Withdrawals shall be a retirement benefit and shall be
distributed to the Participant according to the distribution of benefits
provisions of Article VI. A forfeiture shall not occur solely as a result of a
withdrawal.

SECTION 5.06--LOANS TO PARTICIPANTS.

     Loans shall be made available to all Participants on a reasonably
equivalent basis. For purposes of this section, and unless otherwise specified,
Participant means any Participant or Beneficiary who is a party-in-interest as
defined in ERISA. Loans shall not be made to Highly Compensated Employees in an
amount greater than the amount made available to other Participants.

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     No loans will be made to any shareholder-employee or Owner-employee. For
purposes of this requirement, a shareholder-employee means an employee or
officer of an electing small business (Subchapter S) corporation who owns (or is
considered as owning within the meaning of Code Section 318(a)(1)), on any day
during the taxable year of such corporation, more than 5 percent of the
outstanding stock of the corporation.

     A loan to a Participant shall be a Participant-directed investment of his
Account. The loan is a Trust Fund investment but no Account other than the
borrowing Participant's Account shall share in the interest paid on the loan or
bear any expense or loss incurred because of the loan.

     Loans shall be made from a Participant's Vested Account attributable to his
Elective Deferral Contributions and Rollover Contributions only.

     The number of outstanding loans shall be limited to one. No more than one
loan shall be approved for any Participant in any 12-month period. The minimum
amount of any loan shall be $1,000.

     Loans must be adequately secured and bear a reasonable rate of interest.

     The amount of the loan shall not exceed the maximum amount that may be
treated as a loan under Code Section 72(p) (rather than a distribution) to the
Participant and shall be equal to the lesser of (a) or (b) below:

     (a)  $50,000, reduced by the highest outstanding loan balance of loans
          during the one-year period ending on the day before the new loan is
          made.

     (b)  The greater of (1) or (2), reduced by (3) below:

          (1)  One-half of the Participant's Vested Account.

          (2)  $10,000.

          (3)  Any outstanding loan balance on the date the new loan is made.

For purposes of this maximum, a Participant's Vested Account does not include
any accumulated deductible employee contributions, as defined in Code Section
72(o)(5)(B), and all qualified employer plans, as defined in Code Section
72(p)(4), of the Employer and any Controlled Group member shall be treated as
one plan.

     The foregoing notwithstanding, the amount of such loan shall not exceed 50
percent of the amount of the Participant's Vested Account. For purposes of this
maximum, a Participant's Vested Account does not include any accumulated
deductible employee contributions, as defined in Code Section 72(o)(5)(B). No
collateral other than a portion of the Participant's Vested Account (as limited
above) shall be accepted. The Loan Administrator shall determine if the
collateral is adequate for the amount of the loan requested.

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     A Participant must obtain the consent of his spouse, if any, to the use of
the Vested Account as security for the loan. Spousal consent shall be obtained
no earlier than the beginning of the 90-day period that ends on the date on
which the loan to be so secured is made. The consent must be in writing, must
acknowledge the effect of the loan, and must be witnessed by a plan
representative or a notary public. Such consent shall thereafter be binding with
respect to the consenting spouse or any subsequent spouse with respect to that
loan. A new consent shall be required if the Vested Account is used for
collateral upon renegotiation, extension, renewal, or other revision of the
loan. No consent shall be required if subparagraph (d) of the ELECTION
PROCEDURES SECTION of Article VI applies.

     If a valid spousal consent has been obtained in accordance with the above,
or spousal consent is not required, then, notwithstanding any other provision of
this Plan, the portion of the Participant's Vested Account used as a security
interest held by the Plan by reason of a loan outstanding to the Participant
shall be taken into account for purposes of determining the amount of the Vested
Account payable at the time of the death or distribution, but only if the
reduction is used as repayment of the loan. If spousal consent is required and
less than 100 percent of the Participant's Vested Account (determined without
regard to the preceding sentence) is payable to the surviving spouse, then the
Vested Account shall be adjusted by first reducing the Vested Account by the
amount of the security used as repayment of the loan, and then determining the
benefit payable to the surviving spouse.

     Each loan shall bear a reasonable fixed rate of interest to be determined
by the Loan Administrator. In determining the interest rate, the Loan
Administrator shall take into consideration fixed interest rates currently being
charged by commercial lenders for loans of comparable risk on similar terms and
for similar durations, so that the interest will provide for a return
commensurate with rates currently charged by commercial lenders for loans made
under similar circumstances. The Loan Administrator shall not discriminate among
Participants in the matter of interest rates; but loans granted at different
times may bear different interest rates in accordance with the current
appropriate standards.

     The loan shall by its terms require that repayment (principal and interest)
be amortized in level payments, not less frequently than quarterly, over a
period not extending beyond five years from the date of the loan. The period of
repayment for any loan shall be arrived at by mutual agreement between the Loan
Administrator and the Participant.

     The Participant shall make an application for a loan in such manner and in
accordance with such rules as the Employer shall prescribe for this purpose
(including by means of voice response or other electronic means under
circumstances the Employer permits). The application must specify the amount and
duration requested.

     Information contained in the application for the loan concerning the
income, liabilities, and assets of the Participant will be evaluated to
determine whether there is a reasonable expectation that the Participant will be
able to satisfy payments on the loan as due. Additionally, the Loan
Administrator will pursue any appropriate further investigations concerning the
creditworthiness and credit history of the Participant to determine whether a
loan should be approved.

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     Each loan shall be fully documented in the form of a promissory note signed
by the Participant for the face amount of the loan, together with interest
determined as specified above.

     There will be an assignment of collateral to the Plan executed at the time
the loan is made.

     In those cases where repayment through payroll deduction is available,
installments are so payable, and a payroll deduction agreement shall be executed
by the Participant at the time the loan is made. Loan repayments that are
accumulated through payroll deduction shall be paid to the Trustee by the
earlier of (i) the date the loan repayments can reasonably be segregated from
the Employer's assets, or (ii) the 15th business day of the month following the
month in which such amounts would otherwise have been paid in cash to the
Participant.

     Where payroll deduction is not available, payments in cash are to be timely
made. Any payment that is not by payroll deduction shall be made payable to the
Employer or the Trustee, as specified in the promissory note, and delivered to
the Loan Administrator, including prepayments, service fees and penalties, if
any, and other amounts due under the note. The Loan Administrator shall deposit
such amounts into the Plan as soon as administratively practicable after they
are received, but in no event later than the 15th business day of the month
after they are received.

     The promissory note may provide for reasonable late payment penalties and
service fees. Any penalties or service fees shall be applied to all Participants
in a nondiscriminatory manner. If the promissory note so provides, such amounts
may be assessed and collected from the Account of the Participant as part of the
loan balance.

     Each loan may be paid prior to maturity, in part or in full, without
penalty or service fee, except as may be set out in the promissory note.

     The Plan shall suspend loan payments for a period not exceeding one year
during which an approved unpaid leave of absence occurs other than a military
leave of absence. The Loan Administrator shall provide the Participant a written
explanation of the effect of the suspension of payments upon his loan.

     If a Participant separates from service (or takes a leave of absence) from
the Employer because of service in the military and does not receive a
distribution of his Vested Account, the Plan shall suspend loan payments until
the Participant's completion of military service or until the Participant's
fifth anniversary of commencement of military service, if earlier, as permitted
under Code Section 414(u). The Loan Administrator shall provide the Participant
a written explanation of the effect of his military service upon his loan.

     If any payment of principal and interest, or any portion thereof, remains
unpaid for more than 90 days after due, the loan shall be in default. For
purposes of Code Section 72(p), the Participant shall then be treated as having
received a deemed distribution regardless of whether or not a distributable
event has occurred.

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     Upon default, the Plan has the right to pursue any remedy available by law
to satisfy the amount due, along with accrued interest, including the right to
enforce its claim against the security pledged and execute upon the collateral
as allowed by law. The entire principal balance whether or not otherwise then
due, along with accrued interest, shall become immediately due and payable
without demand or notice, and subject to collection or satisfaction by any
lawful means, including specifically, but not limited to, the right to enforce
the claim against the security pledged and to execute upon the collateral as
allowed by law.

     In the event of default, foreclosure on the note and attachment of security
or use of amounts pledged to satisfy the amount then due shall not occur until a
distributable event occurs in accordance with the Plan, and shall not occur to
an extent greater than the amount then available upon any distributable event
which has occurred under the Plan.

     All reasonable costs and expenses, including but not limited to attorney's
fees, incurred by the Plan in connection with any default or in any proceeding
to enforce any provision of a promissory note or instrument by which a
promissory note for a Participant loan is secured, shall be assessed and
collected from the Account of the Participant as part of the loan balance.

     If payroll deduction is being utilized, in the event that a Participant's
available payroll deduction amounts in any given month are insufficient to
satisfy the total amount due, there will be an increase in the amount taken
subsequently, sufficient to make up the amount that is then due. If any amount
remains past due more than 90 days, the entire principal amount, whether or not
otherwise then due, along with interest then accrued, shall become due and
payable, as above.

     If no distributable event has occurred under the Plan at the time that the
Participant's Vested Account would otherwise be used under this provision to pay
any amount due under the outstanding loan, this will not occur until the time,
or in excess of the extent to which, a distributable event occurs under the
Plan. An outstanding loan will become due and payable in full 60 days after a
Participant ceases to be an Employee and a party-in-interest as defined in ERISA
or after complete termination of the Plan.

SECTION 5.07--DISTRIBUTIONS UNDER QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDERS.

     The Plan specifically permits distributions to an Alternate Payee under a
qualified domestic relations order as defined in Code Section 414(p), at any
time, irrespective of whether the Participant has attained his earliest
retirement age, as defined in Code Section 414(p), under the Plan. A
distribution to an Alternate Payee before the Participant has attained his
earliest retirement age is available only if the order specifies that
distribution shall be made prior to the earliest retirement age or allows the
Alternate Payee to elect a distribution prior to the earliest retirement age.

     Nothing in this section shall permit a Participant to receive a
distribution at a time otherwise not permitted under the Plan nor shall it
permit the Alternate Payee to receive a form of payment not permitted under the
Plan.

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     The benefit payable to an Alternate Payee shall be subject to the
provisions of the SMALL AMOUNTS SECTION of Article X if the value of the benefit
does not exceed $5,000 ($3,500 for Plan Years beginning before August 6, 1997).

     The Plan Administrator shall establish reasonable procedures to determine
the qualified status of a domestic relations order. Upon receiving a domestic
relations order, the Plan Administrator shall promptly notify the Participant
and the Alternate Payee named in the order, in writing, of the receipt of the
order and the Plan's procedures for determining the qualified status of the
order. Within a reasonable period of time after receiving the domestic relations
order, the Plan Administrator shall determine the qualified status of the order
and shall notify the Participant and each Alternate Payee, in writing, of its
determination. The Plan Administrator shall provide notice under this paragraph
by mailing to the individual's address specified in the domestic relations
order, or in a manner consistent with Department of Labor regulations. The Plan
Administrator may treat as qualified any domestic relations order entered into
before January 1, 1985, irrespective of whether it satisfies all the
requirements described in Code Section 414(p).

     If any portion of the Participant's Vested Account is payable during the
period the Plan Administrator is making its determination of the qualified
status of the domestic relations order, a separate accounting shall be made of
the amount payable. If the Plan Administrator determines the order is a
qualified domestic relations order within 18 months of the date amounts are
first payable following receipt of the order, the payable amounts shall be
distributed in accordance with the order. If the Plan Administrator does not
make its determination of the qualified status of the order within the 18-month
determination period, the payable amounts shall be distributed in the manner the
Plan would distribute if the order did not exist and the order shall apply
prospectively if the Plan Administrator later determines the order is a
qualified domestic relations order.

     If a domestic relations order divides an Account that is invested in the
Qualifying Employer Securities Fund, and a cash dividend on Qualifying Employer
Securities becomes payable during the period the Plan Administrator is making
its determination of the qualified status of the domestic relations order then
the following will apply:

     (a)  If the division date specified in the order is prior to the ex-date of
          such dividend, then so much of the dividend that is attributable to
          the Alternate Payee's share of the investment in the Qualifying
          Employer Security Fund shall be deemed to be earnings on the Alternate
          Payee share. If the Participant has elected to receive the dividend in
          cash, the Alternate Payee's portion of the dividend shall be drawn
          from the remaining portion of the Account after payment of the
          dividend to the Participant.

     (b)  If the division date specified in the order is on or after the ex-date
          of such dividend, then no portion of the dividend shall be attributed
          to the Alternate Payee.

     The Plan shall make payments or distributions required under this section
by separate benefit checks or other separate distribution to the Alternate
Payee(s).

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                                   ARTICLE VI

                            DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS

SECTION 6.01--AUTOMATIC FORMS OF DISTRIBUTION.

     Unless an optional form of benefit is selected pursuant to a qualified
election within the election period (see the ELECTION PROCEDURES SECTION of this
article), the automatic form of benefit payable to or on behalf of a Participant
is determined as follows:

     (a)  Retirement Benefits. The automatic form of retirement benefit for a
          Participant who does not die before his Annuity Starting Date shall
          be:

          (1)  The Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity for a Participant who
               has a spouse.

          (2)  The Normal Form for a Participant who does not have a spouse.

     (b)  Death Benefits. The automatic form of death benefit for a Participant
          who dies before his Annuity Starting Date shall be:

          (1)  A Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity for a Participant who
               has a spouse to whom he has been continuously married throughout
               the one-year period ending on the date of his death. The spouse
               may elect to start receiving the death benefit on any first day
               of the month on or after the Participant dies and by the date the
               Participant would have been age 70 1/2. If the spouse dies before
               benefits start, the Participant's Vested Account, determined as
               of the date of the spouse's death, shall be paid to the spouse's
               Beneficiary.

          (2)  A single-sum payment to the Participant's Beneficiary for a
               Participant who does not have a spouse who is entitled to a
               Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity.

               Before a death benefit will be paid on account of the death of a
               Participant who does not have a spouse who is entitled to a
               Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity, it must be established
               to the satisfaction of a plan representative that the Participant
               does not have such a spouse.

SECTION 6.02--OPTIONAL FORMS OF DISTRIBUTION.

     (a)  Retirement Benefits. The optional forms of retirement benefit shall be
          the following: (i) a straight life annuity; (ii) single life annuities
          with certain periods of 5, 10 or 15 years; (iii) a single life annuity
          with installment refund; (iv) survivorship

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          life annuities with installment refund and survivorship percentages of
          50%, 66 2/3% or 100%; (v) fixed period annuities for any period of
          whole months which is not less than 60 and does not exceed the Life
          Expectancy, as defined in Article VII, of the Participant where the
          Life Expectancy is not recalculated; and (vi) a full flexibility
          option. A single sum payment is also available.

          The full flexibility option is an optional form of benefit under which
          the Participant receives a distribution each calendar year, beginning
          with the calendar year in which his Annuity Starting Date occurs. The
          Participant may elect the amount to be distributed each year (not less
          than $1,000). The amount payable in his first Distribution Calendar
          Year, as defined in Article VII, must satisfy the minimum distribution
          requirements of Article VII for such year. Distributions for later
          Distribution Calendar Years, as defined in Article VII, must satisfy
          the minimum distribution requirements of Article VII for such years.
          If the Participant's Annuity Starting Date does not occur until his
          second Distribution Calendar Year, as defined in Article VII, the
          amount payable for such year must satisfy the minimum distribution
          requirements of Article VII for both the first and second Distribution
          Calendar Years, as defined in Article VII.

          If the Plan is amended to eliminate or restrict an optional form of
          distribution and the Plan provides a single sum distribution form that
          is otherwise identical to the optional form of distribution eliminated
          or restricted, the amendment shall not apply to any distribution with
          an Annuity Starting Date earlier than the first day of the second Plan
          Year following the Plan Year in which the amendment is adopted.

          Election of an optional form is subject to the qualified election
          provisions of the ELECTION PROCEDURES SECTION of this article and the
          distribution requirements of Article VII.

          Any annuity contract distributed shall be nontransferable. The terms
          of any annuity contract purchased and distributed by the Plan to a
          Participant or spouse shall comply with the requirements of this Plan.

     (b)  Death Benefits. The optional forms of death benefit are a single-sum
          payment and any annuity that is an optional form of retirement
          benefit. However, the full flexibility option shall not be available
          if the Beneficiary is not the spouse of the deceased Participant.

          Election of an optional form is subject to the qualified election
          provisions of the ELECTION PROCEDURES SECTION of this article and the
          distribution requirements of Article VII.

SECTION 6.03--ELECTION PROCEDURES.

     The Participant, Beneficiary, or spouse shall make any election under this
section in

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writing. The Plan Administrator may require such individual to complete and sign
any necessary documents as to the provisions to be made. Any election permitted
under (a) and (b) below shall be subject to the qualified election provisions of
(c) below.

     (a)  Retirement Benefits. A Participant may elect his Beneficiary or
          Contingent Annuitant and may elect to have retirement benefits
          distributed under any of the optional forms of retirement benefit
          available in the OPTIONAL FORMS OF DISTRIBUTION SECTION of this
          article.

     (b)  Death Benefits. A Participant may elect his Beneficiary and may elect
          to have death benefits distributed under any of the optional forms of
          death benefit available in the OPTIONAL FORMS OF DISTRIBUTION SECTION
          of this article.

          If the Participant has not elected an optional form of distribution
          for the death benefit payable to his Beneficiary, the Beneficiary may,
          for his own benefit, elect the form of distribution, in like manner as
          a Participant.

          The Participant may waive the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity
          by naming someone other than his spouse as Beneficiary.

          In lieu of the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity described in
          the AUTOMATIC FORMS OF DISTRIBUTION SECTION of this article, the
          spouse may, for his own benefit, waive the Qualified Preretirement
          Survivor Annuity by electing to have the benefit distributed under any
          of the optional forms of death benefit available in the OPTIONAL FORMS
          OF DISTRIBUTION SECTION of this article.

     (c)  Qualified Election. The Participant, Beneficiary or spouse may make an
          election at any time during the election period. The Participant,
          Beneficiary, or spouse may revoke the election made (or make a new
          election) at any time and any number of times during the election
          period. An election is effective only if it meets the consent
          requirements below.

          (1)  Election Period for Retirement Benefits. The election period as
               to retirement benefits is the 90-day period ending on the Annuity
               Starting Date. An election to waive the Qualified Joint and
               Survivor Annuity may not be made before the date the Participant
               is provided with the notice of the ability to waive the Qualified
               Joint and Survivor Annuity. If the Participant elects a full
               flexibility option, he may revoke his election at any time before
               his first Distribution Calendar Year, as defined in Article VII.
               When he elects to have benefits begin again, he shall have a new
               Annuity Starting Date. His election period for this election is
               the 90-day period ending on the Annuity Starting Date for the
               optional form of retirement benefit elected.

          (2)  Election Period for Death Benefits. A Participant may make an
               election as

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               to death benefits at any time before he dies. The spouse's
               election period begins on the date the Participant dies and ends
               on the date benefits begin. The Beneficiary's election period
               begins on the date the Participant dies and ends on the date
               benefits begin.

               An election to waive the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity
               may not be made by the Participant before the date he is provided
               with the notice of the ability to waive the Qualified
               Preretirement Survivor Annuity. A Participant's election to waive
               the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity which is made before
               the first day of the Plan Year in which he reaches age 35 shall
               become invalid on such date. An election made by a Participant
               after he ceases to be an Employee will not become invalid on the
               first day of the Plan Year in which he reaches age 35 with
               respect to death benefits from that part of his Account resulting
               from Contributions made before he ceased to be an Employee.

          (3)  Consent to Election. If the Participant's Vested Account exceeds
               $5,000 ($3,500 for Plan Years beginning before August 6, 1997),
               any benefit which is (i) immediately distributable or (ii)
               payable in a form other than a Qualified Joint and Survivor
               Annuity or a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity, requires
               the consent of the Participant and the Participant's spouse (or
               where either the Participant or the spouse has died, the
               survivor). Such consent shall also be required if the
               Participant's Vested Account at the time of any prior
               distribution exceeded $5,000 ($3,500 for Plan Years beginning
               before August 6, 1997). The rule in the preceding sentence shall
               not apply effective October 17, 2000. However, consent will still
               be required if the Participant had previously had an Annuity
               Starting Date with respect to any portion of such Vested Account.

               The consent of the Participant or spouse to a benefit which is
               immediately distributable must not be made before the date the
               Participant or spouse is provided with the notice of the ability
               to defer the distribution. Such consent shall be made in writing.

               The consent shall not be made more than 90 days before the
               Annuity Starting Date. Spousal consent is not required for a
               benefit which is immediately distributable in a Qualified Joint
               and Survivor Annuity. Furthermore, if spousal consent is not
               required because the Participant is electing an optional form of
               retirement benefit that is not a life annuity pursuant to (d)
               below, only the Participant need consent to the distribution of a
               benefit payable in a form that is not a life annuity and which is
               immediately distributable. Neither the consent of the Participant
               nor the Participant's spouse shall be required to the extent that
               a distribution is required to satisfy Code Section 401(a)(9) or
               Code Section 415.

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               In addition, upon termination of this Plan, if the Plan does not
               offer an annuity option (purchased from a commercial provider),
               and if the Employer (or any entity within the same Controlled
               Group) does not maintain another defined contribution plan (other
               than an employee stock ownership plan as defined in Code Section
               4975(e)(7)), the Participant's Account balance will, without the
               Participant's consent, be distributed to the Participant.
               However, if any entity within the same Controlled Group maintains
               another defined contribution plan (other than an employee stock
               ownership plan as defined in Code Section 4975(e)(7)) then the
               Participant's Account will be transferred, without the
               Participant's consent, to the other plan if the Participant does
               not consent to an immediate distribution.

               A benefit is immediately distributable if any part of the benefit
               could be distributed to the Participant (or surviving spouse)
               before the Participant attains (or would have attained if not
               deceased) the older of Normal Retirement Age or age 62.

               If the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity is waived, the spouse
               has the right to limit consent only to a specific Beneficiary or
               a specific form of benefit. The spouse can relinquish one or both
               such rights. Such consent shall be made in writing. The consent
               shall not be made more than 90 days before the Annuity Starting
               Date. If the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity is waived,
               the spouse has the right to limit consent only to a specific
               Beneficiary. Such consent shall be in writing. The spouse's
               consent shall be witnessed by a plan representative or notary
               public. The spouse's consent must acknowledge the effect of the
               election, including that the spouse had the right to limit
               consent only to a specific Beneficiary or a specific form of
               benefit, if applicable, and that the relinquishment of one or
               both such rights was voluntary. Unless the consent of the spouse
               expressly permits designations by the Participant without a
               requirement of further consent by the spouse, the spouse's
               consent must be limited to the form of benefit, if applicable,
               and the Beneficiary (including any Contingent Annuitant), class
               of Beneficiaries, or contingent Beneficiary named in the
               election.

               Spousal consent is not required, however, if the Participant
               establishes to the satisfaction of the plan representative that
               the consent of the spouse cannot be obtained because there is no
               spouse or the spouse cannot be located. A spouse's consent under
               this paragraph shall not be valid with respect to any other
               spouse. A Participant may revoke a prior election without the
               consent of the spouse. Any new election will require a new
               spousal consent, unless the consent of the spouse expressly
               permits such election by the Participant without further consent
               by the spouse. A spouse's consent may be revoked at any time
               within the Participant's election period.

     (d)  Special Rule for Profit Sharing Plans. This subparagraph (d) applies
          if the Plan is

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          not a direct or indirect transferee after December 31, 1984, of a
          defined benefit plan, money purchase plan, target benefit plan, stock
          bonus plan, or profit sharing plan which is subject to the survivor
          annuity requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(11) and 417. If the above
          condition is met, spousal consent is not required for electing an
          optional form of retirement benefit that is not a life annuity. If
          such condition is not met, such consent requirements shall be
          operative.

     (e)  Dividend Distributions. Cash dividends that are available to a
          Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee shall not be subject to
          the distribution form and notice requirements of this Article. If a
          Participant, Beneficiary or Alternate Payee elects to receive such
          dividends, such dividends shall be payable in a lump-sum (and only a
          lump-sum) in cash, and are payable without regard to any notice and
          consent otherwise required under the Plan.

SECTION 6.04--NOTICE REQUIREMENTS.

     (a)  Optional Forms of Retirement Benefit and Right to Defer. The Plan
          Administrator shall furnish to the Participant and the Participant's
          spouse a written explanation of the optional forms of retirement
          benefit in the OPTIONAL FORMS OF DISTRIBUTION SECTION of this article,
          including the material features and relative values of these options,
          in a manner that would satisfy the notice requirements of Code Section
          417(a)(3) and the right of the Participant and the Participant's
          spouse to defer distribution until the benefit is no longer
          immediately distributable.

          The Plan Administrator shall furnish the written explanation by a
          method reasonably calculated to reach the attention of the Participant
          and the Participant's spouse no less than 30 days, and no more than 90
          days, before the Annuity Starting Date.

          The Participant (and spouse, if applicable) may waive the 30-day
          election period if the distribution of the elected form of retirement
          benefit begins more than 7 days after the Plan Administrator provides
          the Participant (and spouse, if applicable) the written explanation
          provided that: (i) the Participant has been provided with information
          that clearly indicates that the Participant has at least 30 days to
          consider the decision of whether or not to elect a distribution and a
          particular distribution option, (ii) the Participant is permitted to
          revoke any affirmative distribution election at least until the
          Annuity Starting Date or, if later, at any time prior to the
          expiration of the 7-day period that begins the day after the
          explanation is provided to the Participant, and (iii) the Annuity
          Starting Date is a date after the date that the written explanation
          was provided to the Participant.

     (b)  Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity. The Plan Administrator shall
          furnish to the Participant a written explanation of the following: the
          terms and conditions of the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity; the
          Participant's right to make, and the effect

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          of, an election to waive the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity; the
          rights of the Participant's spouse; and the right to revoke an
          election and the effect of such a revocation.

          The Plan Administrator shall furnish the written explanation by a
          method reasonably calculated to reach the attention of the Participant
          no less than 30 days, and no more than 90 days, before the Annuity
          Starting Date.

          The Participant (and spouse, if applicable) may waive the 30-day
          election period if the distribution of the elected form of retirement
          benefit begins more than 7 days after the Plan Administrator provides
          the Participant (and spouse, if applicable) the written explanation
          provided that: (i) the Participant has been provided with information
          that clearly indicates that the Participant has at least 30 days to
          consider whether to waive the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity and
          elect (with spousal consent, if applicable) a form of distribution
          other than a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity, (ii) the
          Participant is permitted to revoke any affirmative distribution
          election at least until the Annuity Starting Date or, if later, at any
          time prior to the expiration of the 7-day period that begins the day
          after the explanation of the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity is
          provided to the Participant, and (iii) the Annuity Starting Date is a
          date after the date that the written explanation was provided to the
          Participant.

          After the written explanation is given, a Participant or spouse may
          make a written request for additional information. The written
          explanation must be personally delivered or mailed (first class mail,
          postage prepaid) to the Participant or spouse within 30 days from the
          date of the written request. The Plan Administrator does not need to
          comply with more than one such request by a Participant or spouse.

          The Plan Administrator's explanation shall be written in nontechnical
          language and will explain the terms and conditions of the Qualified
          Joint and Survivor Annuity and the financial effect upon the
          Participant's benefit (in terms of dollars per benefit payment) of
          electing not to have benefits distributed in accordance with the
          Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity.

     (c)  Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity. The Plan Administrator shall
          furnish to the Participant a written explanation of the following: the
          terms and conditions of the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity;
          the Participant's right to make, and the effect of, an election to
          waive the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity; the rights of the
          Participant's spouse; and the right to revoke an election and the
          effect of such a revocation.

          The Plan Administrator shall furnish the written explanation by a
          method reasonably calculated to reach the attention of the Participant
          within the applicable period. The applicable period for a Participant
          is whichever of the following periods ends last:

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          (1)  the period beginning one year before the date the individual
               becomes a Participant and ending one year after such date; or

          (2)  the period beginning one year before the date the Participant's
               spouse is first entitled to a Qualified Preretirement Survivor
               Annuity and ending one year after such date.

          If such notice is given before the period beginning with the first day
          of the Plan Year in which the Participant attains age 32 and ending
          with the close of the Plan Year preceding the Plan Year in which the
          Participant attains age 35, an additional notice shall be given within
          such period. If a Participant ceases to be an Employee before
          attaining age 35, an additional notice shall be given within the
          period beginning one year before the date he ceases to be an Employee
          and ending one year after such date.

          After the written explanation is given, a Participant or spouse may
          make a written request for additional information. The written
          explanation must be personally delivered or mailed (first class mail,
          postage prepaid) to the Participant or spouse within 30 days from the
          date of the written request. The Plan Administrator does not need to
          comply with more than one such request by a Participant or spouse.

          The Plan Administrator's explanation shall be written in nontechnical
          language and will explain the terms and conditions of the Qualified
          Preretirement Survivor Annuity and the financial effect upon the
          spouse's benefit (in terms of dollars per benefit payment) of electing
          not to have benefits distributed in accordance with the Qualified
          Preretirement Survivor Annuity.

SECTION 6.05--FORM OF DISTRIBUTION FROM ESOP MATCHING AND NON-MATCHING
CONTRIBUTION ACCOUNTS.

     Notwithstanding any provision of this Article VI to the contrary,
distributions from a Participant's ESOP Matching and Non-Matching Contribution
Accounts shall be governed by this Section 6.05 and Section 6.06.

     (a)  Distribution in Cash. The part of a Participant's Vested ESOP
          Matching, Non-Matching and Diversification Accounts will be
          distributed in cash unless the Participant affirmatively elects under
          paragraph (b) below to receive the distribution in the form of
          Qualifying Employer Securities with cash in lieu of fractional shares.
          The cash value of Qualifying Employer Securities shall be equal to the
          fair market value of such stock determined as of the last Valuation
          Date prior to the date of distribution.

     (b)  Distribution in Qualifying Employer Securities. Unless subsection (c)
          applies, a Participant may elect to have the Participant's Vested ESOP
          Matching and Non-Matching Contribution Accounts distributed in the
          form of Qualifying Employer

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          Securities with cash in lieu of fractional shares. Any cash or other
          property in the Participant's Vested ESOP Matching or Non-Matching
          Contribution Account ("non-stock assets") shall be used to acquire
          Qualifying Employer Securities for distribution but only if such
          Participant further elects and only if such Qualifying Employer
          Securities are available for purchase on the open market.

     (c)  Distribution in Qualifying Employer Securities Prohibited. If the
          Employer's corporate charter or by-law provisions restrict ownership
          of substantially all outstanding Qualifying Employer Securities to
          Employees or to a plan or trust described in Code Section 401(a), then
          any distribution of a Participant's ESOP Matching and ESOP
          Non-Matching Accounts shall only be in cash.

SECTION 6.06--PUT OPTION.

     If shares of Qualifying Employer Securities are distributed from the Fund,
and if such shares are not publicly traded when distributed or are subject to a
trading limitation when distributed, then such shares shall be subject to an
initial and second put option as follows:

     (a)  The put option shall be exercisable by the distributee (whether the
          Participant or a Beneficiary), any person to whom shares of Qualifying
          Employer Securities have passed by gift from the distributee, or any
          person (including an estate or the distributee from an estate) to whom
          the shares of Qualifying Employer Securities passed upon the death of
          the distributee (hereinafter referred to as the "holder").

     (b)  The initial put option must be exercised during the 60-day period
          which begins on the date the shares of Qualifying Employer Securities
          are distributed from the Fund. If not exercised during that period,
          the initial put option shall lapse.

     (c)  As soon as is reasonably practicable following the last day of the
          Plan Year in which the initial 60-day period expires, the Employer
          shall notify all of the non-electing holders of the valuation of such
          Qualifying Employer Securities as of the most recent Valuation Date.
          During the 60-day period following the receipt of such valuation
          notice, any such non-electing holder shall have a second put option.

     (d)  The period during which the put option is exercisable shall not
          include any time when a holder is unable to exercise the put option
          because the Employer is prohibited from honoring the put option by
          federal or state law. If the shares of Qualifying Employer Securities
          are publicly traded without restriction when distributed but cease to
          be traded within either of the 60-day periods described herein after
          distribution, the Employer must notify each holder in writing on or
          before the tenth day after the date the shares cease to be so traded
          that for the remainder of the applicable 60-day period the shares are
          subject to a put option. The number of days between such tenth day and
          the date on which notice is actually given, if later than the tenth
          day, must be added to the duration of the put option. The notice must
          inform the holders of the terms of the put option.

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     (e)  The put option may be exercised by written notice of exercise to the
          Employer or its designee made on such form and in accordance with such
          rules as may be prescribed for this purpose by the Plan Administrator.

     (f)  Upon receipt of such notice, the Employer shall tender to the holder
          the fair market value of the Qualifying Employer Securities (as
          determined under Sections 4.02(e) and (f)) for such shares.

          (i)   If the Qualifying Employer Securities were distributed in a
                total distribution then the Employer may pay either in a lump
                sum or substantially equal installments (bearing a reasonable
                rate of interest and providing adequate security to the holder)
                over a period beginning within 30 days following the date the
                put option is exercised and ending not more than five years
                after the date the put option is exercised.

          (ii)  If the Qualifying Employer Securities were not distributed in a
                total distribution then the Employer must pay the holder in a
                single lump sum payment.

          (iii) If payment is made in installments, the Employer shall, within
                30 days of the date the holder exercises the put option, give
                the holder a promissory note for the full unpaid balance of the
                options price. Such note shall, at a minimum, provide adequate
                security, state a rate of interest reasonable under the
                circumstances (but at least equal to the imputed compound rate
                in effect as of the exercise date pursuant to the regulations
                promulgated under Code Sections 483 or 1274, whichever shall be
                applicable) and provide that the full amount of such note shall
                accelerate and become due immediately in the even that the
                Employer defaults in the payment of a scheduled payment.

     (g)  The Plan Fund is not bound to purchase shares of Qualifying Employer
          Securities pursuant to the put option, but the Employer may direct the
          Trustee to cause the Plan Fund to assume the Employer's rights and
          obligations to acquire shares of Qualifying Employer Securities under
          the put option.

     (h)  A "trading limitation" for this purpose means a restriction under any
          federal or state securities law or under any agreement affecting the
          shares that would make the shares not as freely tradable as shares not
          subject to such restriction.

     (i)  A "total distribution" for this purpose means a distribution to a
          Participant or Beneficiary within one taxable year of such recipient
          to the entire balance to the credit of the Participant.

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                                   ARTICLE VII

                            DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS

SECTION 7.01--APPLICATION.

     The optional forms of distribution are only those provided in Article VI.
An optional form of distribution shall not be permitted unless it meets the
requirements of this article. The timing of any distribution must meet the
requirements of this article.

SECTION 7.02--DEFINITIONS.

     For purposes of this article, the following terms are defined:

     Applicable Life Expectancy means Life Expectancy (or Joint and Last
Survivor Expectancy) calculated using the attained age of the Participant (or
Designated Beneficiary) as of the Participant's (or Designated Beneficiary's)
birthday in the applicable calendar year reduced by one for each calendar year
which has elapsed since the date Life Expectancy was first calculated. If Life
Expectancy is being recalculated, the Applicable Life Expectancy shall be the
Life Expectancy so recalculated. The applicable calendar year shall be the first
Distribution Calendar Year, and if Life Expectancy is being recalculated, such
succeeding calendar year.

     Designated Beneficiary means the individual who is designated as the
beneficiary under the Plan in accordance with Code Section 401(a)(9) and the
regulations thereunder.

     Distribution Calendar Year means a calendar year for which a minimum
distribution is required. For distributions beginning before the Participant's
death, the first Distribution Calendar Year is the calendar year immediately
preceding the calendar year which contains the Participant's Required Beginning
Date. For distributions beginning after the Participant's death, the first
Distribution Calendar Year is the calendar year in which distributions are
required to begin pursuant to (e) of the DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS SECTION of
this article.

     5-percent Owner means a 5-percent owner as defined in Code Section 416. A
Participant is treated as a 5-percent Owner for purposes of this article if such
Participant is a 5-percent Owner at any time during the Plan Year ending with or
within the calendar year in which such owner attains age 70 1/2.

     In addition, a Participant is treated as a 5-percent Owner for purposes of
this article if such Participant becomes a 5-percent Owner in a later Plan Year.
Such Participant's Required Beginning Date shall not be later than the April 1
of the calendar year following the calendar year in which such later Plan Year
ends.

     Once distributions have begun to a 5-percent Owner under this article, they
must continue to be distributed, even if the Participant ceases to be a
5-percent Owner in a subsequent year.

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     Joint and Last Survivor Expectancy means joint and last survivor expectancy
computed using the expected return multiples in Table VI of section 1.72-9 of
the Income Tax Regulations.

     Unless otherwise elected by the Participant by the time distributions are
required to begin, life expectancies shall be recalculated annually. Such
election shall be irrevocable as to the Participant and shall apply to all
subsequent years. The life expectancy of a nonspouse Beneficiary may not be
recalculated.

     Life Expectancy means life expectancy computed using the expected return
multiples in Table V of section 1.72-9 of the Income Tax Regulations.

     Unless otherwise elected by the Participant (or spouse, in the case of
distributions described in (e)(2)(ii) of the DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS SECTION
of this article) by the time distributions are required to begin, life
expectancy shall be recalculated annually. Such election shall be irrevocable as
to the Participant (or spouse) and shall apply to all subsequent years. The life
expectancy of a nonspouse Beneficiary may not be recalculated.

     Participant's Benefit means:

     (a)  The Account balance as of the last Valuation Date in the calendar year
          immediately preceding the Distribution Calendar Year (valuation
          calendar year) increased by the amount of any contributions or
          forfeitures allocated to the Account balance as of the dates in the
          valuation calendar year after the Valuation Date and decreased by
          distributions made in the valuation calendar year after the Valuation
          Date.

     (b)  Exception for Second Distribution Calendar Year. For purposes of (a)
          above, if any portion of the minimum distribution for the first
          Distribution Calendar Year is made in the second Distribution Calendar
          Year on or before the Required Beginning Date, the amount of the
          minimum distribution made in the second Distribution Calendar Year
          shall be treated as if it had been made in the immediately preceding
          Distribution Calendar Year.

     Required Beginning Date means, for a Participant who is a 5-percent Owner,
the April 1 of the calendar year following the calendar year in which he attains
age 70 1/2.

     Required Beginning Date means, for any Participant who is not a 5-percent
Owner, the April 1 of the calendar year following the later of the calendar year
in which he attains age 70 1/2 or the calendar year in which he retires.

     The pre-retirement age 70 1/2 distribution option is only eliminated with
respect to Participants who reach age 70 1/2 in or after a calendar year that
begins after the later of December 31, 1998, or the adoption date of the
amendment which eliminated such option. The pre-retirement age 70 1/2
distribution is an optional form of benefit under which benefits payable in a
particular distribution form (including any modifications that may be elected
after benefits begin) begin at a time during the period that begins on or after
January 1 of the calendar year in which the

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Participant attains age 70 1/2 and ends April 1 of the immediately following
calendar year.

     The options available for Participants who are not 5-percent Owners and
attained age 70 1/2 in calendar years before the calendar year that begins after
the later of December 31, 1998, or the adoption date of the amendment which
eliminated the preretirement age 70 1/2 distribution shall be the following. Any
such Participant attaining age 70 1/2 in years after 1995 may elect by April 1
of the calendar year following the calendar year in which he attained age 70 1/2
(or by December 31, 1997 in the case of a Participant attaining age 70 1/2 in
1996) to defer distributions until the calendar year following the calendar year
in which he retires. Any such Participant attaining age 70 1/2 in years prior to
1997 may elect to stop distributions which are not purchased annuities and
recommence by the April 1 of the calendar year following the year in which he
retires. There shall be a new Annuity Starting Date upon recommencement.

SECTION 7.03--DISTRIBUTION REQUIREMENTS.

     (a)  General Rules.

          (1)  Subject to the AUTOMATIC FORMS OF DISTRIBUTION SECTION of Article
               VI, joint and survivor annuity requirements, the requirements of
               this article shall apply to any distribution of a Participant's
               interest and shall take precedence over any inconsistent
               provisions of this Plan. Unless otherwise specified, the
               provisions of this article apply to calendar years beginning
               after December 31, 1984.

          (2)  All distributions required under this article shall be determined
               and made in accordance with the proposed regulations under Code
               Section 401(a)(9), including the minimum distribution incidental
               benefit requirement of section 1.401(a)(9)-2 of the proposed
               regulations.

          (3)  With respect to distributions under the Plan made on or after
               June 14, 2001, for calendar years beginning on or after January
               1, 2001, the Plan will apply the minimum distribution
               requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) in accordance with the
               regulations under Code Section 401(a)(9) that were proposed on
               January 17, 2001 (the 2001 Proposed Regulations), notwithstanding
               any provision of the Plan to the contrary. If the total amount of
               required minimum distributions made to a Participant for 2001
               prior to June 14, 2001, are equal to or greater than the amount
               of required minimum distributions determined under the 2001
               Proposed Regulations, then no additional distributions are
               required for such Participant for 2001 on or after such date. If
               the total amount of required minimum distributions made to a
               Participant for 2001 prior to June 14, 2001, are less than the
               amount determined under the 2001 Proposed Regulations, then the
               amount of required minimum distributions for 2001 on or after
               such date will be determined so that the total amount of required
               minimum distributions for 2001 is the amount determined under the
               2001 Proposed Regulations.

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               These provisions shall continue in effect until the last calendar
               year beginning before the effective date of final regulations
               under Code Section 401(a)(9) or such other date as may be
               published by the Internal Revenue Service.

     (b)  Required Beginning Date. The entire interest of a Participant must be
          distributed or begin to be distributed no later than the Participant's
          Required Beginning Date.

     (c)  Limits on Distribution Periods. As of the first Distribution Calendar
          Year, distributions, if not made in a single sum, may only be made
          over one of the following periods (or combination thereof):

          (1)  the life of the Participant,

          (2)  the life of the Participant and a Designated Beneficiary,

          (3)  a period certain not extending beyond the Life Expectancy of the
               Participant, or
          (4)  a period certain not extending beyond the Joint and Last Survivor
               Expectancy of the Participant and a Designated Beneficiary.

     (d)  Determination of Amount to be Distributed Each Year. If the
          Participant's interest is to be distributed in other than a single
          sum, the following minimum distribution rules shall apply on or after
          the Required Beginning Date:

          (1)  Individual Account.

               (i)   If a Participant's Benefit is to be distributed over

                     A.  a period not extending beyond the Life Expectancy of
                         the Participant or the Joint Life and Last Survivor
                         Expectancy of the Participant and the Participant's
                         Designated Beneficiary, or

                     B.  a period not extending beyond the Life Expectancy of
                         the Designated Beneficiary,

                     the amount required to be distributed for each calendar
                     year beginning with the distributions for the first
                     Distribution Calendar Year, must be at least equal to the
                     quotient obtained by dividing the Participant's Benefit by
                     the Applicable Life Expectancy.

               (ii)  For calendar years beginning before January 1, 1989, if the
                     Participant's spouse is not the Designated Beneficiary, the
                     method of distribution selected must assure that at least
                     50 percent of the

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                     present value of the amount available for distribution is
                     paid within the Life Expectancy of the Participant.

               (iii) For calendar years beginning after December 31, 1988, the
                     amount to be distributed each year, beginning with
                     distributions for the first Distribution Calendar Year
                     shall not be less than the quotient obtained by dividing
                     the Participant's Benefit by the lesser of:

                     A.  the Applicable Life Expectancy, or

                     B.  if the Participant's spouse is not the Designated
                         Beneficiary, the applicable divisor determined from the
                         table set forth in Q&A-4 of section 1.401(a)(9)-2 of
                         the proposed regulations.

                     Distributions after the death of the Participant shall be
                     distributed using the Applicable Life Expectancy in (1)(i)
                     above as the relevant divisor without regard to section
                     1.401(a)(9)-2 of the proposed regulations.

               (iv)  The minimum distribution required for the Participant's
                     first Distribution Calendar Year must be made on or before
                     the Participant's Required Beginning Date. The minimum
                     distribution for other calendar years, including the
                     minimum distribution for the Distribution Calendar Year in
                     which the Participant's Required Beginning Date occurs,
                     must be made on or before December 31 of that Distribution
                     Calendar Year.

          (2)  Other Forms. If the Participant's Benefit is distributed in the
               form of an annuity purchased from an insurance company,
               distributions thereunder shall be made in accordance with the
               requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) and the proposed
               regulations thereunder.

     (e)  Death Distribution Provisions.

          (1)  Distribution Beginning Before Death. If the Participant dies
               after distribution of his interest has begun, the remaining
               portion of such interest will continue to be distributed at least
               as rapidly as under the method of distribution being used prior
               to the Participant's death.

          (2)  Distribution Beginning After Death.

               (i)   If the Participant dies before distribution of his interest
                     begins, distribution of the Participant's entire interest
                     shall be completed by December 31 of the calendar year
                     containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant's death
                     except to the extent that an election is made to

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                     receive distributions in accordance with A or B below:

                     A.  if any portion of the Participant's interest is payable
                         to a Designated Beneficiary, distributions may be made
                         over the life or over a period certain not greater than
                         the Life Expectancy of the Designated Beneficiary
                         beginning on or before December 31 of the calendar year
                         immediately following the calendar year in which the
                         Participant died;

                     B.  if the Designated Beneficiary is the Participant's
                         surviving spouse, the date distributions are required
                         to begin in accordance with A above shall not be
                         earlier than the later of:

                         1.  December 31 of the calendar year immediately
                             following the calendar year in which the
                             Participant died, or

                         2.  December 31 of the calendar year in which the
                             Participant would have attained age 70 1/2.

               (ii)  If the Participant has not made an election pursuant to
                     this (e)(2) by the time of his death, the Participant's
                     Designated Beneficiary must elect the method of
                     distribution no later than the earlier of:

                     A.  December 31 of the calendar year in which distributions
                         would be required to begin under this subparagraph, or

                     B.  December 31 of the calendar year which contains the
                         fifth anniversary of the date of death of the
                         Participant.

               (iii) If the Participant has no Designated Beneficiary, or if the
                     Designated Beneficiary does not elect a method of
                     distribution, distribution of the Participant's entire
                     interest must be completed by December 31 of the calendar
                     year containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant's
                     death.

          (3)  For purposes of (e)(2) above, if the surviving spouse dies after
               the Participant, but before payments to such spouse begin, the
               provisions of (e)(2) above, with the exception of (e)(2)(i)(B)
               therein, shall be applied as if the surviving spouse were the
               Participant.

          (4)  For purposes of this (e), distribution of a Participant's
               interest is considered to begin on the Participant's Required
               Beginning Date (or if (e)(3) above is applicable, the date
               distribution is required to begin to the surviving spouse
               pursuant to (e)(2) above). If distribution in the form of an
               annuity

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               irrevocably begins to the Participant before the Required
               Beginning Date, the date distribution is considered to begin is
               the date distribution actually begins.

                                  ARTICLE VIII

                             TERMINATION OF THE PLAN

     The Employer expects to continue the Plan indefinitely but reserves the
right to terminate the Plan in whole or in part at any time upon giving written
notice to all parties concerned. Complete discontinuance of Contributions
constitutes complete termination of the Plan.

     The Account of each Participant shall be fully (100%) vested and
nonforfeitable as of the effective date of complete termination of the Plan. The
Account of each Participant who is included in the group of Participants deemed
to be affected by the partial termination of the Plan shall be fully (100%)
vested and nonforfeitable as of the effective date of the partial termination of
the Plan. The Participant's Account shall continue to participate in the
earnings credited, expenses charged, and any appreciation or depreciation of the
Investment Fund until his Vested Account is distributed.

     A Participant's Account which does not result from the Contributions listed
below may be distributed to the Participant after the effective date of the
complete termination of the Plan:

     Elective Deferral Contributions

     A Participant's Account resulting from such Contributions may be
distributed upon complete termination of the Plan, but only if neither the
Employer nor any Controlled Group member maintain or establish a successor
defined contribution plan (other than an employer stock ownership plan as
defined in Code Section 4975(e)(7), a simplified employee pension plan as
defined in Code Section 408(k) or a SIMPLE IRA plan as defined in Code Section
408(p)) and such distribution is made in a lump sum. A distribution under this
article shall be a retirement benefit and shall be distributed to the
Participant according to the provisions of Article VI.

     The Participant's entire Vested Account shall be paid in a single sum to
the Participant as of the effective date of complete termination of the Plan if
(i) the requirements for distribution of Elective Deferral Contributions in the
above paragraph are met and (ii) consent of the Participant is not required in
the ELECTION PROCEDURES SECTION of Article VI to distribute a benefit which is
immediately distributable. This is a small amounts payment. The small amounts
payment is in full settlement of all benefits otherwise payable.

     Upon complete termination of the Plan, no more Employees shall become
Participants and no more Contributions shall be made.

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     The assets of this Plan shall not be paid to the Employer at any time,
except that, after the satisfaction of all liabilities under the Plan, any
assets remaining may be paid to the Employer. The payment may not be made if it
would contravene any provision of law.

                                   ARTICLE IX

                           ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN

SECTION 9.01--ADMINISTRATION.

     Subject to the provisions of this article, the Plan Administrator has
complete control of the administration of the Plan. The Plan Administrator has
all the powers necessary for it to properly carry out its administrative duties.
Not in limitation, but in amplification of the foregoing, the Plan Administrator
has complete discretion to construe or interpret the provisions of the Plan,
including ambiguous provisions, if any, and to determine all questions that may
arise under the Plan, including all questions relating to the eligibility of
Employees to participate in the Plan and the amount of benefit to which any
Participant, Beneficiary, spouse or Contingent Annuitant may become entitled.
The Plan Administrator's decisions upon all matters within the scope of its
authority shall be final.

     Unless otherwise set out in the Plan or Annuity Contract, the Plan
Administrator may delegate recordkeeping and other duties which are necessary
for the administration of the Plan to any person or firm which agrees to accept
such duties. The Plan Administrator shall be entitled to rely upon all tables,
valuations, certificates and reports furnished by the consultant or actuary
appointed by the Plan Administrator and upon all opinions given by any counsel
selected or approved by the Plan Administrator.

     The Plan Administrator shall receive all claims for benefits by
Participants, former Participants, Beneficiaries, spouses, and Contingent
Annuitants. The Plan Administrator shall determine all facts necessary to
establish the right of any Claimant to benefits and the amount of those benefits
under the provisions of the Plan. The Plan Administrator may establish rules and
procedures to be followed by Claimants in filing claims for benefits, in
furnishing and verifying proofs necessary to determine age, and in any other
matters required to administer the Plan.

SECTION 9.02--EXPENSES.

     Expenses of the Plan, to the extent that the Employer does not pay such
expenses, may be paid out of the assets of the Plan provided that such payment
is consistent with ERISA. Such expenses include, but are not limited to,
expenses for bonding required by ERISA; expenses for recordkeeping and other
administrative services; fees and expenses of the Trustee or Annuity Contract;
expenses for investment education service; and direct costs that the Employer
incurs with respect to the Plan.

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SECTION 9.03--RECORDS.

     All acts and determinations of the Plan Administrator shall be duly
recorded. All these records, together with other documents necessary for the
administration of the Plan, shall be preserved in the Plan Administrator's
custody.

     Writing (handwriting, typing, printing), photostating, photographing,
microfilming, magnetic impulse, mechanical or electrical recording, or other
forms of data compilation shall be acceptable means of keeping records.

SECTION 9.04--INFORMATION AVAILABLE.

     Any Participant in the Plan or any Beneficiary may examine copies of the
Plan description, latest annual report, any bargaining agreement, this Plan, the
Annuity Contract or any other instrument under which the Plan was established or
is operated. The Plan Administrator shall maintain all of the items listed in
this section in its office, or in such other place or places as it may designate
in order to comply with governmental regulations. These items may be examined
during reasonable business hours. Upon the written request of a Participant or
Beneficiary receiving benefits under the Plan, the Plan Administrator shall
furnish him with a copy of any of these items. The Plan Administrator may make a
reasonable charge to the requesting person for the copy.

SECTION 9.05--CLAIM AND APPEAL PROCEDURES.

     A Claimant must submit any required forms and pertinent information when
making a claim for benefits under the Plan.

     If a claim for benefits under the Plan is denied, the Plan Administrator
shall provide adequate written notice to the Claimant whose claim for benefits
under the Plan has been denied. The notice must be furnished within 90 days of
the date that the claim is received by the Plan Administrator. The Claimant
shall be notified in writing within this initial 90-day period if special
circumstances require an extension of time needed to process the claim and the
date by which the Plan Administrator's decision is expected to be rendered. The
written notice shall be furnished no later than 180 days after the date the
claim was received by the Plan Administrator.

     The Plan Administrator's notice to the Claimant shall specify the reason
for the denial; specify references to pertinent Plan provisions on which denial
is based; describe any additional material and information needed for the
Claimant to perfect his claim for benefits; explain why the material and
information is needed; inform the Claimant that any appeal he wishes to make
must be in writing to the Plan Administrator within 60 days after receipt of the
Plan Administrator's notice of denial of benefits and that failure to make the
written appeal within such 60-day period renders the Plan Administrator's
determination of such denial final, binding and conclusive.

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     If the Claimant appeals to the Plan Administrator, the Claimant (or his
authorized representative) may submit in writing whatever issues and comments
the Claimant (or his authorized representative) feels are pertinent. The
Claimant (or his authorized representative) may review pertinent Plan documents.
The Plan Administrator shall reexamine 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 shall advise the Claimant of its
decision within 60 days of his written request for review, unless special
circumstances (such as a hearing) would make rendering a decision within the
60-day limit unfeasible. The Claimant must be notified within the 60-day limit
if an extension is necessary. The Plan Administrator shall render a decision on
a claim for benefits no later than 120 days after the request for review is
received.

SECTION 9.06--DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY.

     All or any part of the administrative duties and responsibilities under
this article may be delegated by the Plan Administrator to a retirement
committee. The duties and responsibilities of the retirement committee shall be
set out in a separate written agreement.

SECTION 9.07--EXERCISE OF DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY.

     The Employer, Plan Administrator, and any other person or entity who has
authority with respect to the management, administration, or investment of the
Plan may exercise that authority in its/his full discretion, subject only to the
duties imposed under ERISA. This discretionary authority includes, but is not
limited to, the authority to make any and all factual determinations and
interpret all terms and provisions of the Plan documents relevant to the issue
under consideration. The exercise of authority will be binding upon all persons;
will be given deference in all courts of law; and will not be overturned or set
aside by any court of law unless found to be arbitrary and capricious or made in
bad faith.

SECTION 9.08--VOTING AND TENDER OF QUALIFYING EMPLOYER SECURITIES.

     (a)  Tenders For Employer Securities.

          (1)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan to the contrary,
               if any, but subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3),
               (4), (5) and (6) of this subsection (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 Qualifying Employer
               Securities 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
               (i) with respect to any Qualifying Employer Securities held by
               the Trustee subject to such Offer and allocated to the Account of
               any Participant, by each

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               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 9.08 as "named fiduciary") and
               (ii) with respect to any Qualifying Employer Securities held by
               the Trustee subject to such Offer and not allocated to the
               Account of any Participant, by each Participant who has
               Qualifying Employer Securities allocated to his or her Account,
               as named fiduciary, with respect to an amount of such unallocated
               Qualifying Employer Securities equal to the total amount of
               unallocated Qualifying Employer Securities, multiplied by a
               fraction the numerator of which is the amount of Qualifying
               Employer Securities allocated to the Participant's Account under
               the Plan and the denominator of which is the total amount of
               Qualifying 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 paragraphs (3), (4) and (6) of this
               subsection (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 Qualifying Employer Securities 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 the sale, exchange or
               transfer of securities pursuant to such Offer.

          (2)  In the event that an Offer for fewer than all of the shares of
               Qualifying Employer Securities held by the Trustee in the Trust
               shall be received by the Trustee, each Participant who has been
               allocated any of such Qualifying Employer Securities subject to
               such Offer shall be entitled to direct the Trustee as to the
               acceptance or rejection of such Offer (as provided by paragraph
               (1) of this subsection (a)) with respect to the largest portion
               of such Qualifying Employer Securities as may be possible given
               the total number or amount of shares of Qualifying Employer
               Securities 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 Accounts.

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          (3)  Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this
               subsection to the contrary, in the event that an Offer for fewer
               than 10 percent of all Qualifying Employer Securities 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
               Qualifying Employer Securities pursuant to such Offer, taking
               into consideration items set forth in paragraph (6) of this
               subsection (a); provided, however, if there are multiple Offers
               within any twelve month period (each Offer being for fewer than
               10 percent of the Qualifying Employer Securities held by the
               Trustee), the Trustee shall be required to solicit directions
               from Participants, as named fiduciaries, pursuant to the
               provisions of this Section 9.08 with respect to each outstanding
               Offer that, after taking into account all Qualifying Employer
               Securities sold, exchanged or transferred in accordance with any
               other Offer within the preceding 12 months and all outstanding
               Offers for Qualifying Employer Securities, 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 Qualifying Employer Securities 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 paragraph (1) of this subsection (a) regarding such
               Offer, and prior to termination of such Offer, another Offer is
               received by the Trustee for the Qualifying Employer Securities
               subject to the first Offer, the Trustee shall use its best
               efforts under the circumstances to solicit instructions from the
               Participants to the Trustee (i) with respect to Qualifying
               Employer Securities 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 Qualifying
               Employer Securities so withdrawn for sale, exchange or transfer
               pursuant to the second Offer and (ii) with respect to Qualifying
               Employer Securities not tendered for sale, exchange or transfer
               pursuant to the first Offer, whether to tender or not to tender
               such Qualifying Employer Securities 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 (a) of this subsection (a). With respect
               to any further Offer for any Qualifying Employer Securities
               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 Qualifying Employer Securities 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

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               of such Offer pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (4) of this
               subsection (a), (i) the Employer 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; (ii) 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 Qualifying Employer Securities subject to such Offer,
               including unallocated Qualifying Employer Securities, and of the
               obligation of the Trustee to follow such directions; (iii) 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 Qualifying Employer Securities to whom such
               Offer is made or is available; and (iv) 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 Employer) relating to the Offer. The
               Employer and the Plan Administrator 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 Employer or
               other interested parties or public communications directed
               generally to the owners of the Qualifying Employer Securities
               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 ERISA Section 510 shall apply to any
               communication which threatens or intimates that actions which
               would violate ERISA Section 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 Employer.

          (6)  In the event a court of competent jurisdiction shall issue to the
               Plan, the Employer or the Trustee an opinion or order, which
               shall, in the opinion of counsel to the Employer or the Trustee,
               invalidate under ERISA, in all circumstances or in any particular
               circumstances, any provision or provisions of this subsection (a)
               regarding the determination to be made as to whether or not
               Qualifying Employer Securities 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 thereof to
               the Employer or the Trustee, as the case may be, such invalid or
               conflicting provisions of this subsection (a) shall be given no
               further force or effect. In such circumstances the Trustee shall
               have no discretion to tender or not to tender Qualifying Employer
               Securities 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

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               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
               Employer 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 Qualifying Employer Securities held in the
               Unallocated Reserve).

          (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 Qualifying
               Employer Securities pursuant to an Offer shall be reinvested in
               Qualifying Employer Securities by the Trustee, if such securities
               are available for purchase and if not, to the extent attributable
               to unallocated stock in the Unallocated Reserve, shall be used to
               pay down the Exempt Loan. The balance of the proceeds, if any,
               and the proceeds attributable to allocated Qualifying Employer
               Securities 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 Plan Administrator 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 Employer Securities; 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
               Qualifying Employer Securities held in the Trust by the Trustee
               on any matter presented for a vote by the stockholders of the
               Employer except in accordance with timely directions received by
               the Trustee from Participants who have Qualifying Employer
               Securities 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 Qualifying Employer Securities and, upon timely
               receipt of such instructions, the Trustee shall vote the
               Qualifying Employer Securities held in the Trust pursuant to the
               directions of Participants giving instructions to the Trustee as
               set forth below.

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               (i)   Qualifying Employer Securities in Accounts. Each
                     Participant who has Qualifying Employer Securities
                     allocated to his or her Account shall provide directions to
                     the Trustee on any matter to be presented for a vote by the
                     stockholders of the Employer with respect to Qualifying
                     Employer Securities allocated to the Account of the
                     Participant under the Plan and the Trustee shall follow
                     such directions.

                     With respect to Qualifying Employer Securities in any
                     Account for which no instructions were timely received by
                     the Trustee, the Trustee shall vote such Qualifying
                     Employer Securities 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 Qualifying Employer
                     Securities with respect to which timely instructions were
                     given.

               (ii)  Qualifying Employer Securities in the Unallocated Reserve
                     and other Unallocated Qualifying Employer Securities. Each
                     Participant who has been allocated Qualifying Employer
                     Securities to his or her Account shall, as named fiduciary,
                     direct the Trustee with respect to the vote of Qualifying
                     Employer Securities held by the Trustee in the Unallocated
                     Reserve and all other unallocated Qualifying Employer
                     Securities, and the Trustee shall follow the directions of
                     those Participants who provide timely instructions to the
                     Trustee. Each Participant who has been allocated Qualifying
                     Employer Securities 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 Qualifying Employer
                     Securities 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 Qualifying Employer Securities 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 Qualifying
                     Employer Securities allocated to the Participant's Account
                     and the denominator of which is the total number of votes
                     attributable to such Qualifying Employer Securities
                     allocated to the Account of all such Participants who have
                     provided directions to the Trustee under this subparagraph.

               (iii) The Trustee shall use its best efforts to communicate or
                     cause to be communicated to all Participants the provisions
                     of this Plan and the

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                     Trust Agreement relating to the right of Participants to
                     direct the Trustee with respect to the voting of Qualifying
                     Employer Securities allocated to their Accounts under the
                     Plan and of Qualifying Employer Securities not allocated to
                     the Account of any Participant. The Trustee shall use its
                     best efforts to distribute or cause to be distributed to
                     Participants all communications directed generally to the
                     owners of Qualifying Employer Securities 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 Employer) relating to the matters being presented for a
                     vote by the stockholders of the Employer. The Employer and
                     the Plan Administrator 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 Employer by the Employer or other interested parties
                     or public communications directed generally to the
                     stockholders of the Employer be deemed to be interference
                     in the making of a decision by any Participant as to the
                     voting of Qualifying Employer Securities; provided,
                     however, that ERISA Section 510 shall apply to any
                     communication which threatens or intimates that actions
                     which would violate ERISA Section 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
                     Employer.

               (iv)  In the event a court of competent jurisdiction shall issue
                     an opinion or order to the Plan, the Employer or the
                     Trustee which shall, in the opinion of counsel to the
                     Employer or the Trustee, invalidate under ERISA, in all
                     circumstances or in any particular circumstances, any
                     provision or provisions of this subsection (b) regarding
                     the manner in which Qualifying Employer Securities held in
                     the Trust shall be voted or cause any such provision or
                     provisions to conflict with ERISA, then, upon notice
                     thereof to the Employer or the Trustee, as the case may be,
                     such invalid or conflicting provision of this subsection
                     (b) shall be given no further force or effect. In such
                     circumstances the Trustee shall nevertheless have no
                     discretion to vote Qualifying Employer Securities 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

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                     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 Employer 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 Qualifying Employer
                     Securities held in the Unallocated Reserve).

          (2)  In the event that any option, right, warrant or similar property
               derived from or attributable to the ownership of Qualifying
               Employer Securities 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 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 by obtaining appropriate written direction and
               authorization from the Participant respecting one or more of (i)
               if and to the extent necessary, the transfer and use, as he or
               she may designate, of the balance of his or her Account that is
               not invested in Qualifying Employer Securities; and (ii) 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.
               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 shall distribute such options,
               rights, warrants or similar property provided, as certified by
               the Plan Administrator, (a) the Participant is age

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               65 or more or has five or more years of Vesting Service and (b)
               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 fails or refuses to file,
               with the Plan Administrator, an election not to withhold any
               Federal taxes upon such distribution, the Trustee shall be deemed
               to be authorized, to the extent necessary, as instructed by the
               Plan Administrator, 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 Plan Administrator 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 paragraph (2) of subsection (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 Qualifying Employer Securities
               not yet allocated to any Participant's 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
               Qualifying Employer Securities held in the Unallocated Reserve 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 out in subparagraph (b)(1)(iv), 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.

     (c)  Beneficiaries and Alternate Payees. For purposes of this section,
          references to a Participant include a Beneficiary of a deceased
          Participant and an Alternate Payee under a qualified domestic
          relations order.

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                                    ARTICLE X

                               GENERAL PROVISIONS

SECTION 10.01--AMENDMENTS.

     The Employer may amend this Plan at any time, including any remedial
retroactive changes (within the time specified by Internal Revenue Service
regulations), to comply with any law or regulation issued by any governmental
agency to which the Plan is subject.

     An amendment may not diminish or adversely affect any accrued interest or
benefit of Participants or their Beneficiaries nor allow reversion or diversion
of Plan assets to the Employer at any time, except as may be required to comply
with any law or regulation issued by any governmental agency to which the Plan
is subject.

     No amendment to this Plan shall be effective to the extent that it has the
effect of decreasing a Participant's accrued benefit. However, a Participant's
Account may be reduced to the extent permitted under Code Section 412(c)(8). For
purposes of this paragraph, a Plan amendment which has the effect of decreasing
a Participant's Account with respect to benefits attributable to service before
the amendment shall be treated as reducing an accrued benefit. Furthermore, if
the vesting schedule of the Plan is amended, in the case of an Employee who is a
Participant as of the later of the date such amendment is adopted or the date it
becomes effective, the nonforfeitable percentage (determined as of such date) of
such Employee's right to his employer-derived accrued benefit shall not be less
than his percentage computed under the Plan without regard to such amendment.

     No amendment to the Plan shall be effective to eliminate or restrict an
optional form of benefit with respect to benefits attributable to service before
the amendment except as provided in the MERGERS AND DIRECT TRANSFERS SECTION of
this article and below:

     (a)  The Plan is amended to eliminate or restrict the ability of a
          Participant to receive payment of his Account balance under a
          particular optional form of benefit and the amendment satisfies the
          condition in (1) and the Plan satisfies the condition in (2) below:

          (1)  The amendment provides a single sum distribution form that is
               otherwise identical to the optional form of benefit eliminated or
               restricted. For purposes of this condition (1), a single sum
               distribution form is otherwise identical only if it is identical
               in all respects to the eliminated or restricted optional form of
               benefit (or would be identical except that it provides greater
               rights to the Participant) except with respect to the timing of
               payments after commencement.

          (2)  The Plan provides that the amendment shall not apply to any
               distribution with an Annuity Starting Date earlier than the
               earlier of:

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               (i)  the 90th day after the date the Participant receiving the
                    distribution has been furnished a summary that reflects the
                    amendment and that satisfies the ERISA requirements at 29
                    CFR 2520.104b-3 relating to a summary of material
                    modifications, or

               (ii) the first day of the second Plan Year following the Plan
                    Year in which the amendment is adopted.

     (b)  The Plan is amended to eliminate or restrict in-kind distributions and
          the conditions in Q&A 2(b)(2)(iii) in section 1.411(d)-4 of the
          regulations are met.

     If, as a result of an amendment, an Employer Contribution is removed that
is not 100% immediately vested when made, the applicable vesting schedule shall
remain in effect after the date of such amendment. The Participant shall not
become immediately 100% vested in such Contributions as a result of the
elimination of such Contribution except as otherwise specifically provided in
the Plan.

     An amendment shall not decrease a Participant's vested interest in the
Plan. If an amendment to the Plan, or a deemed amendment in the case of a change
in top-heavy status of the Plan as provided in the MODIFICATION OF VESTING
REQUIREMENTS SECTION of Article XI, changes the computation of the percentage
used to determine that portion of a Participant's Account attributable to
Employer Contributions which is nonforfeitable (whether directly or indirectly),
each Participant or former Participant

     (c)  who has completed at least three Years of Service on the date the
          election period described below ends (five Years of Service if the
          Participant does not have at least one Hour-of-Service in a Plan Year
          beginning after December 31, 1988) and

     (d)  whose nonforfeitable percentage will be determined on any date after
          the date of the change

may elect, during the election period, to have the nonforfeitable percentage of
his Account that results from Employer Contributions determined without regard
to the amendment. This election may not be revoked. If after the Plan is
changed, the Participant's nonforfeitable percentage will at all times be as
great as it would have been if the change had not been made, no election needs
to be provided. The election period shall begin no later than the date the Plan
amendment is adopted, or deemed adopted in the case of a change in the top-heavy
status of the Plan, and end no earlier than the 60th day after the latest of the
date the amendment is adopted (deemed adopted) or becomes effective, or the date
the Participant is issued written notice of the amendment (deemed amendment) by
the Employer or the Plan Administrator.

SECTION 10.02--DIRECT ROLLOVERS.

     Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary that would
otherwise limit a Distributee's election under this section, a Distributee may
elect, at the time and in the manner

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prescribed by the Plan Administrator, to have any portion of an Eligible
Rollover Distribution paid directly to an Eligible Retirement Plan specified by
the Distributee in a Direct Rollover.

     Any distributions made under the SMALL AMOUNTS SECTION of this article (or
which are small amounts payments made under Article VIII at complete termination
of the Plan) which are Eligible Rollover Distributions and for which the
Distributee has not elected to either have such distribution paid to him or to
an Eligible Retirement Plan shall be paid to the Distributee.

SECTION 10.03--MERGERS AND DIRECT TRANSFERS.

     The Plan may not be merged or consolidated with, nor have its assets or
liabilities transferred to, any other retirement plan, unless each Participant
in the plan would (if the plan then terminated) receive a benefit immediately
after the merger, consolidation, or transfer which is equal to or greater than
the benefit the Participant would have been entitled to receive immediately
before the merger, consolidation, or transfer (if this Plan had then
terminated). The Employer may enter into merger agreements or direct transfer of
assets agreements with the employers under other retirement plans which are
qualifiable under Code Section 401(a), including an elective transfer, and may
accept the direct transfer of plan assets, or may transfer plan assets, as a
party to any such agreement. The Employer shall not consent to, or be a party to
a merger, consolidation, or transfer of assets with a defined benefit plan if
such action would result in a defined benefit feature being maintained under
this Plan.

     Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, to the extent
any optional form of benefit under the Plan permits a distribution prior to the
Employee's retirement, death, disability, or severance from employment, and
prior to plan termination, the optional form of benefit is not available with
respect to benefits attributable to assets (including the post-transfer earnings
thereon) and liabilities that are transferred, within the meaning of Code
Section 414(l), to this Plan from a money purchase pension plan qualified under
Code Section 401(a) (other than any portion of those assets and liabilities
attributable to voluntary employee contributions).

     The Plan may accept a direct transfer of plan assets on behalf of an
Eligible Employee. If the Eligible Employee is not an Active Participant when
the transfer is made, the Eligible Employee shall be deemed to be an Active
Participant only for the purpose of investment and distribution of the
transferred assets. Employer Contributions shall not be made for or allocated to
the Eligible Employee, until the time he meets all of the requirements to become
an Active Participant.

     The Plan shall hold, administer, and distribute the transferred assets as a
part of the Plan. The Plan shall maintain a separate account for the benefit of
the Employee on whose behalf the Plan accepted the transfer in order to reflect
the value of the transferred assets.

     Unless a transfer of assets to the Plan is an elective transfer as
described below, the Plan shall apply the optional forms of benefit protections
described in the AMENDMENTS SECTION of this article to all transferred assets.

     A Participant's protected benefits may be eliminated upon transfer between
qualified defined

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contribution plans if the conditions in Q&A 3(b)(1) in section 1.411(d)-4 of the
regulations are met. The transfer must meet all of the other applicable
qualification requirements.

     A Participant's protected benefits may be eliminated upon transfer between
qualified plans (both defined benefit and defined contribution) if the
conditions in Q&A 3(c)(1) in section 1.411(d)-4 of the regulations are met.
Beginning January 1, 2002, if the Participant is eligible to receive an
immediate distribution of his entire nonforfeitable accrued benefit in a single
sum distribution that would consist entirely of an eligible rollover
distribution under Code Section 401(a)(31), such transfer will be accomplished
as a direct rollover under Code Section 401(a)(31). The rules applicable to
distributions under the plan would apply to the transfer, but the transfer would
not be treated as a distribution for purposes of the minimum distribution
requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9).

SECTION 10.04--PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE INSURER AND OTHER PARTIES.

     The obligations of an Insurer shall be governed solely by the provisions of
the Annuity Contract. The Insurer shall not be required to perform any act not
provided in or contrary to the provisions of the Annuity Contract. Each Annuity
Contract when purchased shall comply with the Plan. See the CONSTRUCTION SECTION
of this article.

     Any issuer or distributor of investment contracts or securities is governed
solely by the terms of its policies, written investment contract, prospectuses,
security instruments, and any other written agreements entered into with the
Trustee with regard to such investment contracts or securities.

     Such Insurer, issuer or distributor is not a party to the Plan, nor bound
in any way by the Plan provisions. Such parties shall not be required to look to
the terms of this Plan, nor to determine whether the Employer, the Plan
Administrator, the Trustee, or the Named Fiduciary have the authority to act in
any particular manner or to make any contract or agreement.

     Until notice of any amendment or termination of this Plan or a change in
Trustee has been received by the Insurer at its home office or an issuer or
distributor at their principal address, they are and shall be fully protected in
assuming that the Plan has not been amended or terminated and in dealing with
any party acting as Trustee according to the latest information which they have
received at their home office or principal address.

SECTION 10.05--EMPLOYMENT STATUS.

     Nothing contained in this Plan gives an Employee the right to be retained
in the Employer's employ or to interfere with the Employer's right to discharge
any Employee.

SECTION 10.06--RIGHTS TO PLAN ASSETS.

     An Employee shall not have any right to or interest in any assets of the
Plan upon termination of employment or otherwise except as specifically provided
under this Plan, and then only to the extent of the benefits payable to such
Employee according to the Plan provisions.

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     Any final payment or distribution to a Participant or his legal
representative or to any Beneficiaries, spouse or Contingent Annuitant of such
Participant under the Plan provisions shall be in full satisfaction of all
claims against the Plan, the Named Fiduciary, the Plan Administrator, the
Insurer, the Trustee, and the Employer arising under or by virtue of the Plan.

SECTION 10.07--BENEFICIARY.

     Each Participant may name a Beneficiary to receive any death benefit (other
than any income payable to a Contingent Annuitant) that may arise out of his
participation in the Plan. The Participant may change his Beneficiary from time
to time. Unless a qualified election has been made, for purposes of distributing
any death benefits before the Participant's Retirement Date, the Beneficiary of
a Participant who has a spouse who is entitled to a Qualified Preretirement
Survivor Annuity shall be the Participant's spouse. The Participant's
Beneficiary designation and any change of Beneficiary shall be subject to the
provisions of the ELECTION PROCEDURES SECTION of Article VI. It is the
responsibility of the Participant to give written notice to the Insurer of the
name of the Beneficiary on a form furnished for that purpose.

     With the Employer's consent, the Plan Administrator may maintain records of
Beneficiary designations for Participants before their Retirement Dates. In that
event, the written designations made by Participants shall be filed with the
Plan Administrator. If a Participant dies before his Retirement Date, the Plan
Administrator shall certify to the Insurer the Beneficiary designation on its
records for the Participant.

     If there is no Beneficiary named or surviving when a Participant dies, the
Participant's Beneficiary shall be the Participant's surviving spouse, or where
there is no surviving spouse, the executor or administrator of the Participant's
estate.

SECTION 10.08--NONALIENATION OF BENEFITS.

     Benefits payable under the Plan are not subject to the claims of any
creditor of any Participant, Beneficiary, spouse or Contingent Annuitant. A
Participant, Beneficiary, spouse or Contingent Annuitant does not have any
rights to alienate, anticipate, commute, pledge, encumber, or assign any of such
benefits, except in the case of a loan as provided in the LOANS TO PARTICIPANTS
SECTION of Article V. The preceding sentences shall also apply to the creation,
assignment, or recognition of a right to any benefit payable with respect to a
Participant according to a domestic relations order, unless such order is
determined by the Plan Administrator to be a qualified domestic relations order,
as defined in Code Section 414(p), or any domestic relations order entered
before January 1, 1985. The preceding sentences shall not apply to any offset of
a Participant's benefits provided under the Plan against an amount the
Participant is required to pay the Plan with respect to a judgement, order, or
decree issued, or a settlement entered into, on or after August 5, 1997, which
meets the requirements of Code Sections 401(a)(13)(C) or (D).

SECTION 10.09--CONSTRUCTION.

     The validity of the Plan or any of its provisions is determined under and
construed according

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to Federal law and, to the extent permissible, according to the laws of the
state in which the Employer has its principal office. In case any provision of
this Plan is held illegal or invalid for any reason, such determination shall
not affect the remaining provisions of this Plan, and the Plan shall be
construed and enforced as if the illegal or invalid provision had never been
included.

     In the event of any conflict between the provisions of the Plan and the
terms of any Annuity Contract or Insurance Policy issued hereunder, the
provisions of the Plan control.

SECTION 10.10--LEGAL ACTIONS.

     No person employed by the Employer; no Participant, former Participant, or
their Beneficiaries; nor any other person having or claiming to have an interest
in the Plan is entitled to any notice of process. A final judgment entered in
any such action or proceeding shall be binding and conclusive on all persons
having or claiming to have an interest in the Plan.

SECTION 10.11--SMALL AMOUNTS.

     If consent of the Participant is not required for a benefit which is
immediately distributable in the ELECTION PROCEDURES SECTION of Article VI, a
Participant's entire Vested Account shall be paid in a single sum as of the
earliest of his Retirement Date, the date he dies, or the date he ceases to be
an Employee for any other reason (the date the Employer provides notice to the
record keeper of the Plan of such event, if later). For purposes of this
section, if the Participant's Vested Account is zero, the Participant shall be
deemed to have received a distribution of such Vested Account. If a Participant
would have received a distribution under the first sentence of this paragraph
but for the fact that the Participant's consent was needed to distribute a
benefit which is immediately distributable, and if at a later time consent would
not be needed to distribute a benefit which is immediately distributable and
such Participant has not again become an Employee, such Vested Account shall be
paid in a single sum. This is a small amounts payment.

     If a small amounts payment is made as of the date the Participant dies, the
small amounts payment shall be made to the Participant's Beneficiary (spouse if
the death benefit is payable to the spouse). If a small amounts payment is made
while the Participant is living, the small amounts payment shall be made to the
Participant. The small amounts payment is in full settlement of benefits
otherwise payable.

     No other small amounts payments shall be made.

SECTION 10.12--WORD USAGE.

     The masculine gender, where used in this Plan, shall include the feminine
gender and the singular words, as used in this Plan, may include the plural,
unless the context indicates otherwise.

     The words "in writing" and "written," where used in this Plan, shall
include any other forms, such as voice response or other electronic system, as
permitted by any governmental agency to which the Plan is subject.

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SECTION 10.13--CHANGE IN SERVICE METHOD.

     (a)  Change of Service Method Under This Plan. If this Plan is amended to
          change the method of crediting service from the elapsed time method to
          the hours method for any purpose under this Plan, the Employee's
          service shall be equal to the sum of (1), (2), and (3) below:

          (1)  The number of whole years of service credited to the Employee
               under the Plan as of the date the change is effective.

          (2)  One year of service for the applicable computation period in
               which the change is effective if he is credited with the required
               number of Hours-of-Service. If the Employer does not have
               sufficient records to determine the Employee's actual
               Hours-of-Service in that part of the service period before the
               effective date of the change, the Hours-of-Service shall be
               determined using an equivalency. For any month in which he would
               be required to be credited with one Hour-of-Service, the Employee
               shall be deemed for purposes of this section to be credited with
               190 Hours-of-Service.

          (3)  The Employee's service determined under this Plan using the hours
               method after the end of the computation period in which the
               change in service method was effective.

          If this Plan is amended to change the method of crediting service from
          the hours method to the elapsed time method for any purpose under this
          Plan, the Employee's service shall be equal to the sum of (4), (5),
          and (6) below:

          (4)  The number of whole years of service credited to the Employee
               under the Plan as of the beginning of the computation period in
               which the change in service method is effective.

          (5)  the greater of (i) the service that would be credited to the
               Employee for that entire computation period using the elapsed
               time method or (ii) the service credited to him under the Plan as
               of the date the change is effective.

          (6)  The Employee's service determined under this Plan using the
               elapsed time method after the end of the applicable computation
               period in which the change in service method was effective.

     (b)  Transfers Between Plans with Different Service Methods. If an Employee
          has been a participant in another plan of the Employer which credited
          service under the elapsed time method for any purpose which under this
          Plan is determined using the hours method, then the Employee's service
          shall be equal to the sum of (1), (2), and (3) below:

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          (1)  The number of whole years of service credited to the Employee
               under the plan as of the date he became an Eligible Employee
               under this Plan.

          (2)  One year of service for the applicable computation period in
               which he became an Eligible Employee if he is credited with the
               required number of Hours-of-Service. If the Employer does not
               have sufficient records to determine the Employee's actual
               Hours-of-Service in that part of the service period before the
               date he became an Eligible Employee, the Hours-of-Service shall
               be determined using an equivalency. For any month in which he
               would be required to be credited with one Hour-of-Service, the
               Employee shall be deemed for purposes of this section to be
               credited with 190 Hours-of-Service.

          (3)  The Employee's service determined under this Plan using the hours
               method after the end of the computation period in which he became
               an Eligible Employee.

          If an Employee has been a participant in another plan of the Employer
          which credited service under the hours method for any purpose which
          under this Plan is determined using the elapsed time method, then the
          Employee's service shall be equal to the sum of (4), (5), and (6)
          below:

          (4)  The number of whole years of service credited to the Employee
               under the other plan as of the beginning of the computation
               period under that plan in which he became an Eligible Employee
               under this Plan.

          (5)  The greater of (i) the service that would be credited to the
               Employee for that entire computation period using the elapsed
               time method or (ii) the service credited to him under the other
               plan as of the date he became an Eligible Employee under this
               Plan.

          (6)  The Employee's service determined under this Plan using the
               elapsed time method after the end of the applicable computation
               period under the other plan in which he became an Eligible
               Employee.

     If an Employee has been a participant in a Controlled Group member's plan
which credited service under a different method than is used in this Plan, in
order to determine entry and vesting, the provisions in (b) above shall apply as
though the Controlled Group member's plan were a plan of the Employer.

     Any modification of service contained in this Plan shall be applicable to
the service determined pursuant to this section.

SECTION 10.14--MILITARY SERVICE.

     Notwithstanding any provision of this Plan to the contrary, the Plan shall
provide contributions,

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benefits, and service credit with respect to qualified military service in
accordance with Code Section 414(u). Loan repayments shall be suspended under
this Plan as permitted under Code Section 414(u).

                                   ARTICLE XI

                           TOP-HEAVY PLAN REQUIREMENTS

SECTION 11.01--APPLICATION.

     The provisions of this article shall supersede all other provisions in the
Plan to the contrary.

     For the purpose of applying the Top-heavy Plan requirements of this
article, all members of the Controlled Group shall be treated as one Employer.
The term Employer, as used in this article, shall be deemed to include all
members of the Controlled Group, unless the term as used clearly indicates only
the Employer is meant.

     The accrued benefit or account of a participant which results from
deductible employee contributions shall not be included for any purpose under
this article.

     The minimum vesting and contribution provisions of the MODIFICATION OF
VESTING REQUIREMENTS and MODIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS SECTIONS of this article
shall not apply to any Employee who is included in a group of Employees covered
by a collective bargaining agreement which the Secretary of Labor finds to be a
collective bargaining agreement between employee representatives and one or more
employers, including the Employer, if there is evidence that retirement benefits
were the subject of good faith bargaining between such representatives. For this
purpose, the term "employee representatives" does not include any organization
more than half of whose members are employees who are owners, officers, or
executives.

SECTION 11.02--DEFINITIONS.

     For purposes of this article the following terms are defined:

     Aggregation Group means:

     (a)  each of the Employer's qualified plans in which a Key Employee is a
          participant during the Plan Year containing the Determination Date
          (regardless of whether the plan was terminated) or one of the four
          preceding Plan Years,

     (b)  each of the Employer's other qualified plans which allows the plan(s)
          described in (a) above to meet the nondiscrimination requirement of
          Code Section 401(a)(4) or the minimum coverage requirement of Code
          Section 410, and

     (c)  any of the Employer's other qualified plans not included in (a) or (b)
          above which the Employer desires to include as part of the Aggregation
          Group. Such a qualified plan shall be included only if the Aggregation
          Group would continue to satisfy the

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          requirements of Code Section 401(a)(4) and Code Section 410.

     The plans in (a) and (b) above constitute the "required" Aggregation Group.
     The plans in (a), (b), and (c) above constitute the "permissive"
     Aggregation Group.

     Compensation means compensation as defined in the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION
SECTION of Article III. For purposes of determining who is a Key Employee in
years beginning before January 1, 1998, Compensation shall include, in addition
to compensation as defined in the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION SECTION of Article
III, elective contributions. Elective contributions are amounts excludible from
the gross income of the Employee under Code Sections 125, 402(e)(3),
402(h)(1)(B), or 403(b), and contributed by the Employer, at the Employee's
election, to a Code Section 401(k) arrangement, a simplified employee pension,
cafeteria plan, or tax-sheltered annuity. Elective contributions also include
amounts deferred under a Code Section 457 plan maintained by the Employer.

     Determination Date means as to any plan, for any plan year subsequent to
the first plan year, the last day of the preceding plan year. For the first plan
year of the plan, the last day of that year.

     Key Employee means any Employee or former Employee (and the Beneficiaries
of such Employee) who at any time during the determination period was:

     (a)  an officer of the Employer if such individual's annual Compensation
          exceeds 50 percent of the dollar limitation under Code Section
          415(b)(1)(A),

     (b)  an owner (or considered an owner under Code Section 318) of one of the
          ten largest interests in the Employer if such individual's annual
          Compensation exceeds 100 percent of the dollar limitation under Code
          Section 415(c)(1)(A),

     (c)  a 5-percent owner of the Employer, or

     (d)  a 1-percent owner of the Employer who has annual Compensation of more
          than $150,000.

     The determination period is the Plan Year containing the Determination Date
and the four preceding Plan Years.

     The determination of who is a Key Employee shall be made according to Code
Section 416(i)(1) and the regulations thereunder.

     Non-key Employee means any Employee who is not a Key Employee.

     Present Value means the present value of a participant's accrued benefit
under a defined benefit plan. For purposes of establishing Present Value to
compute the Top-heavy Ratio, any benefit shall be discounted only for 7.5%
interest and mortality according to the 1971 Group Annuity Table (Male) without
the 7% margin but with projection by Scale E from 1971 to the later of (a) 1974,
or (b) the year

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determined by adding the age to 1920, and wherein for females the male age six
years younger is used.

     Top-heavy Plan means a plan which is top-heavy for any plan year beginning
after December 31, 1983. This Plan shall be top-heavy if any of the following
conditions exist:

     (a)  The Top-heavy Ratio for this Plan exceeds 60 percent and this Plan is
          not part of any required Aggregation Group or permissive Aggregation
          Group.

     (b)  This Plan is a part of a required Aggregation Group, but not part of a
          permissive Aggregation Group, and the Top-heavy Ratio for the required
          Aggregation Group exceeds 60 percent.

     (c)  This Plan is a part of a required Aggregation Group and part of a
          permissive Aggregation Group and the Top-heavy Ratio for the
          permissive Aggregation Group exceeds 60 percent.

     Top-heavy Ratio means:

     (a)  If the Employer maintains one or more defined contribution plans
          (including any simplified employee pension plan) and the Employer has
          not maintained any defined benefit plan which during the five-year
          period ending on the Determination Date(s) has or has had accrued
          benefits, the Top-heavy Ratio for this Plan alone or for the required
          or permissive Aggregation Group, as appropriate, is a fraction, the
          numerator of which is the sum of the account balances of all Key
          Employees as of the Determination Date(s) (including any part of any
          account balance distributed in the five-year period ending on the
          Determination Date(s)), and the denominator of which is the sum of all
          account balances (including any part of any account balance
          distributed in the five-year period ending on the Distribution
          Date(s)), both computed in accordance with Code Section 416 and the
          regulations thereunder. Both the numerator and denominator of the
          Top-heavy Ratio are increased to reflect any contribution not actually
          made as of the Determination Date, but which is required to be taken
          into account on that date under Code Section 416 and the regulations
          thereunder.

     (b)  If the Employer maintains one or more defined contribution plans
          (including any simplified employee pension plan) and the Employer
          maintains or has maintained one or more defined benefit plans which
          during the five-year period ending on the Determination Date(s) has or
          has had accrued benefits, the Top-heavy Ratio for any required or
          permissive Aggregation Group, as appropriate, is a fraction, the
          numerator of which is the sum of the account balances under the
          aggregated defined contribution plan or plans of all Key Employees
          determined in accordance with (a) above, and the Present

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          Value of accrued benefits under the aggregated defined benefit plan or
          plans for all Key Employees as of the Determination Date(s), and the
          denominator of which is the sum of the account balances under the
          aggregated defined contribution plan or plans for all participants,
          determined in accordance with (a) above, and the Present Value of
          accrued benefits under the defined benefit plan or plans for all
          participants as of the Determination Date(s), all determined in
          accordance with Code Section 416 and the regulations thereunder. The
          accrued benefits under a defined benefit plan in both the numerator
          and denominator of the Top-heavy Ratio are increased for any
          distribution of an accrued benefit made in the five-year period ending
          on the Determination Date.

     (c)  For purposes of (a) and (b) above, the value of account balances and
          the Present Value of accrued benefits will be determined as of the
          most recent Valuation Date that falls within or ends with the 12-month
          period ending on the Determination Date, except as provided in Code
          Section 416 and the regulations thereunder for the first and second
          plan years of a defined benefit plan. The account balances and accrued
          benefits of a participant (i) who is not a Key Employee but who was a
          Key Employee in a prior year or (ii) who has not been credited with at
          least an hour of service with any employer maintaining the plan at any
          time during the five-year period ending on the Determination Date will
          be disregarded. The calculation of the Top-heavy Ratio and the extent
          to which distributions, rollovers, and transfers are taken into
          account will be made in accordance with Code Section 416 and the
          regulations thereunder. Deductible employee contributions will not be
          taken into account for purposes of computing the Top-heavy Ratio. When
          aggregating plans, the value of account balances and accrued benefits
          will be calculated with reference to the Determination Dates that fall
          within the same calendar year.

          The accrued benefit of a participant other than a Key Employee shall
          be determined under (i) the method, if any, that uniformly applies for
          accrual purposes under all defined benefit plans maintained by the
          Employer, or (ii) if there is no such method, as if such benefit
          accrued not more rapidly than the slowest accrual rate permitted under
          the fractional rule of Code Section 411(b)(1)(C).

SECTION 11.03--MODIFICATION OF VESTING REQUIREMENTS.

     If a Participant's Vesting Percentage determined under Article I is not at
least as great as his Vesting Percentage would be if it were determined under a
schedule permitted in Code Section 416, the following shall apply. During any
Plan Year in which the Plan is a Top-heavy Plan, the Participant's Vesting
Percentage for Employer Contributions other than ESOP Non-Matching Contributions
shall be the greater of the Vesting Percentage determined under Article I or the
schedule below.

     VESTING SERVICE              NONFORFEITABLE
     (whole years)                  PERCENTAGE

     Less than 2                        0
     2                                  20
     3                                  40
     4                                  60
     5                                  80
     6 or more                          100

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During any Plan Year in which the Plan is a Top-heavy Plan, the Participant's
Vesting Percentage for ESOP Non-Matching Contributions shall be the greater of
the Vesting Percentage determined under Article I or the schedule below.

     VESTING SERVICE              NONFORFEITABLE
     (whole years)                  PERCENTAGE

     Less than 2                        0
     2                                  20
     3                                  40
     4                                  60
     5 or more                          100

     The schedules above shall not apply to Participants who are not credited
with an Hour-of-Service after the Plan first becomes a Top-heavy Plan. The
Vesting Percentages determined above apply to the portion of the Participant's
Account which is multiplied by a Vesting Percentage to determine his Vested
Account, including benefits accrued before the effective date of Code Section
416 and benefits accrued before this Plan became a Top-heavy Plan.

     If, in a later Plan Year, this Plan is not a Top-heavy Plan, a
Participant's Vesting Percentages shall be determined under Article I. A
Participant's Vesting Percentages determined under either Article I or the
schedule above shall never be reduced and the election procedures of the
AMENDMENTS SECTION of Article X shall apply when changing to or from the
schedule as though the automatic change were the result of an amendment.

     The part of the Participant's Vested Account resulting from the minimum
contributions required pursuant to the MODIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS SECTION of
this article (to the extent required to be nonforfeitable under Code Section
416(b)) may not be forfeited under Code Section 411(a)(3)(B) or (D).

SECTION 11.04--MODIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS.

     During any Plan Year in which this Plan is a Top-heavy Plan, the Employer
shall make a minimum contribution as of the last day of the Plan Year for each
Non-key Employee who is an Employee on the last day of the Plan Year and who was
an Active Participant at any time during the Plan Year. A Non-key Employee is
not required to have a minimum number of Hours-of-Service or minimum amount of
Compensation in order to be entitled to this minimum. A Non-key Employee who
fails to be an Active Participant merely because his Compensation is less than a
stated amount or merely because of a failure to make mandatory participant
contributions or, in the case of a cash or deferred arrangement, elective
contributions shall be treated as if he were an Active Participant. The minimum
is the lesser of (a) or (b) below:

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     (a)  3 percent of such person's Compensation for such Plan Year.

     (b)  The "highest percentage" of Compensation for such Plan Year at which
          the Employer's contributions are made for or allocated to any Key
          Employee. The highest percentage shall be determined by dividing the
          Employer Contributions made for or allocated to each Key Employee
          during the Plan Year by the amount of his Compensation for such Plan
          Year, and selecting the greatest quotient (expressed as a percentage).
          To determine the highest percentage, all of the Employer's defined
          contribution plans within the Aggregation Group shall be treated as
          one plan. The minimum shall be the amount in (a) above if this Plan
          and a defined benefit plan of the Employer are required to be included
          in the Aggregation Group and this Plan enables the defined benefit
          plan to meet the requirements of Code Section 401(a)(4) or 410.

     For purposes of (a) and (b) above, Compensation shall be limited by Code
Section 401(a)(17).

     If the Employer's contributions and allocations otherwise required under
the defined contribution plan(s) are at least equal to the minimum above, no
additional contribution shall be required. If the Employer's total contributions
and allocations are less than the minimum above, the Employer shall contribute
the difference for the Plan Year.

     The minimum contribution applies to all of the Employer's defined
contribution plans in the aggregate which are Top-heavy Plans. A minimum
contribution under a profit sharing plan shall be made without regard to whether
or not the Employer has profits.

     If a person who is otherwise entitled to a minimum contribution above is
also covered under another defined contribution plan of the Employer's which is
a Top-heavy Plan during that same Plan Year, any additional contribution
required to meet the minimum above shall be provided in this Plan.

     If a person who is otherwise entitled to a minimum contribution above is
also covered under a defined benefit plan of the Employer's which is a Top-heavy
Plan during that same Plan Year, the minimum benefits for him shall not be
duplicated. The defined benefit plan shall provide an annual benefit for him on,
or adjusted to, a straight life basis equal to the lesser of:

     (c)  2 percent of his average compensation multiplied by his years of
          service, or

     (d)  20 percent of his average compensation.

     Average compensation and years of service shall have the meaning set forth
in such defined benefit plan for this purpose.

     For purposes of this section, any employer contribution made according to a
salary reduction or similar arrangement and employer contributions which are
matching contributions, as defined in Code Section 401(m), shall not apply in
determining if the minimum contribution requirement has been met, but shall
apply in determining the minimum contribution required.

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     The requirements of this section shall be met without regard to any Social
Security contribution.

SECTION 11.05--MODIFICATION OF CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION.

     If the provisions of subparagraph (g) of the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION
SECTION of Article III are applicable for any Limitation Year during which this
Plan is a Top-heavy Plan, the contribution limitations shall be modified. The
definitions of Defined Benefit Plan Fraction and Defined Contribution Plan
Fraction in the CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION SECTION of Article III shall be modified
by substituting "100 percent" in lieu of "125 percent." In addition, an
adjustment shall be made to the numerator of the Defined Contribution Plan
Fraction. The adjustment is a reduction of that numerator similar to the
modification of the Defined Contribution Plan Fraction described in the
CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION SECTION of Article III, and shall be made with respect
to the last Plan Year beginning before January 1, 1984.

     The modifications in the paragraph above shall not apply with respect to a
Participant so long as employer contributions, forfeitures, or nondeductible
employee contributions are not credited to his account under this or any of the
Employer's other defined contribution plans and benefits do not accrue for such
Participant under the Employer's defined benefit plan(s), until the sum of his
Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit Plan Fractions is less than 1.0.

     This section shall cease to apply effective as of the first Limitation Year
beginning on or after January 1, 2000.

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     By executing this Plan, the Primary Employer acknowledges having counseled
to the extent necessary with selected legal and tax advisors regarding the
Plan's legal and tax implications.

     Executed this 28th day of April, 2003.

                                        CASEY'S GENERAL STORES, INC.

                                        By:      /s/  William J. Walljasper
                                           -----------------------------------
                                        Title:  Vice President Human Resources

Defined Contribution Plan 8.0

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