SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2017-02-28

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<div><a name="sE5CF597F4260714325985209CA6AE580"></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 style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:right;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">Exhibit 10.2</font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:24px;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">SECOND AMENDMENT <br>TO THE <br>PNM RESOURCES, INC. <br>2014 PERFORMANCE EQUITY PLAN</font></div><div style="line-height:240%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">PNM Resources, Inc. (the &#8220;Company&#8221;) previously established the PNM Resources, Inc. 2014 Performance Equity Plan (the &#8220;Plan&#8221;). The Plan has been previously amended on one occasion. By this instrument, the Company wishes to amend the Plan as set forth below. </font></div><div style="line-height:240%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">1.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;This Second Amendment shall be effective as of January&#160;1, 2017.</font></div><div style="line-height:240%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">2.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Section&#160;16.1 (&#8220;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">Tax Withholding</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#8221;) of the Plan is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:justify;padding-left:96px;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-weight:bold;">16.1 &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Tax Withholding</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">. The Company shall have the power to withhold, or require a Participant to remit to the Company, up to the maximum amount necessary to satisfy federal, state, and local withholding tax requirements in the applicable jurisdiction on any Award under the Plan. The Company shall have discretion to determine the withholding amount, or the Company may (but is not required to) permit a Participant to elect the withholding amount, within permissible limits as it deems appropriate, but in no event will such withholding amount be less than the minimum or more than the maximum amount necessary to satisfy federal, state, and local tax withholding requirements in the applicable jurisdiction on any Award under the Plan. To the extent that alternative methods of withholding are available under applicable tax laws, the Company shall have the power to choose among such methods.</font></div><div style="line-height:240%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">3.&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;This Second Amendment amends only the provisions of the Plan as noted above, and those provisions not expressly amended shall be considered in full force and effect. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Second Amendment shall supersede the provisions of the Plan to the extent those provisions are inconsistent with the provisions and intent of this Second Amendment.</font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div></div><div><br></div><div style="line-height:240%;text-align:justify;text-indent:48px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, PNM Resources, Inc. has caused this Second Amendment to be executed as of this </font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#32;&#32;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">10</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#32;&#32;</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#32;day of January, 2017.</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;text-align:justify;padding-left:288px;font-size:14pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:14pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:138%;text-align:justify;padding-left:288px;font-size:14pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:14pt;">PNM RESOURCES, INC.</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:justify;padding-left:288px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;"><br></font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:justify;padding-left:288px;text-indent:409px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:justify;padding-left:288px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">By:</font><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;text-decoration:underline;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;/s/ Patrick V. Apodaca&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</font></div><div style="line-height:138%;padding-bottom:13px;text-align:justify;padding-left:288px;font-size:12pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:12pt;">&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;&#32;Patric