SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2018-05-02

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<div><a name="s169C83206899CDCC81A216BD2B6183DA"></a></div><div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:right;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Exhibit 10(a)3</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">FIRST AMENDMENT TO</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">AMENDED AND RESTATED <br>SOUTHERN COMPANY <br>CHANGE IN CONTROL BENEFITS PROTECTION PLAN</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Southern Company Services, Inc. (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Company</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) hereby adopts this First Amendment (this &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Amendment</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) to the Amended and Restated Southern Company Change in Control Benefits Protection Plan (effective December 31, 2008) (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Plan</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;), effective as of March 1, 2018 (the &#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Amendment Effective Date</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;). This Amendment will be effective as described herein.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Company to amend the Plan, effective as of the Amendment Effective Date, to (1) modify the treatment of PPP awards under the Plan and (2)&#160;clarify the treatment of Performance Shares under the Plan; and</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">WHEREAS, the Board of Directors may amend the Plan for this purpose pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Plan.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">NOW, THEREFORE, effective as of the Amendment Effective Date, the Board of Directors hereby amends the Plan as follows:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">I.</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">Article II of the Plan is hereby amended by inserting the following new Section 2.1A immediately after Section 2.1 thereof:</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:16px;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8220;2.1A&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Average Actual Payout Percentage</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221; shall mean the average of the PPP payout percentages, as determined by the Compensation and Management Succession Committee of the Southern Company Board of Directors (but excluding any individual performance adjustments), for the applicable Employing Company or business unit of the Employing Company, as applicable under the PPP, in the three fiscal years ending immediately prior to the fiscal year in which occurs the Southern Change in Control, Plan Termination, Subsidiary Change in Control or Southern Termination, as applicable; </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">provided</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">, </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">however</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">, that, in the event the applicable Employing Company was not a participant in the PPP for any one or more of such three fiscal years involved in such calculation of Average Actual Payout Percentage, such fiscal year or years, as applicable, will not be included in such Average Actual Payout Percentage calculation; and </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">provided</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">, </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">further</font><font style="font-f