Compliance With Irc Section 409a Contract Clauses (79)

Compliance With Irc Section 409a. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) if at the time of the Participant's termination of Employment with the Company and its Affiliates -6- the Participant is a "specified employee" as defined in Section 409A of the Code and the deferral of the commencement of any payments or benefits otherwise payable hereunder as a result of such termination of Employment is necessary in order to prevent any accelerated or additional tax under Section 409A of the Code, then the Company will... defer the commencement of the payment of any such payments or benefits hereunder (without any reduction in such payments or benefits ultimately paid or provided to the Participant) until the date that is six months following the Participant's termination of Employment with the Company and its Affiliates (or the earliest date as is permitted under Section 409A of the Code) and (ii) if any other payments or other benefits due to the Participant hereunder could cause the application of an accelerated or additional tax under Section 409A of the Code, such payments or other benefits shall be deferred if deferral will make such payment or other benefits compliant under Section 409A of the Code, or otherwise such payment or other benefits shall be restructured, to the extent possible, in a manner, determined by the Committee, that does not cause such an accelerated or additional tax. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to implement the provisions of this Section 17 in good faith; provided that neither the Company, the Committee nor any of the Company's employees, directors or representatives shall have any liability to the Participant with respect to this Section 17. View More

Compliance With Irc Section 409a. This Agreement is intended to comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, and shall be interpreted and construed consistently with such intent. The payments to the Executive pursuant to this Agreement are also intended to be exempt from Section 409A of the Code to the maximum extent possible, under either the separation pay exemption pursuant to Treasury regulation §1.409A-1(b)(9)(iii) or as short-term deferrals pursuant to Treasury regulation §1.409A-1(b)(4), and for this purpose... each payment shall constitute a "separately identified" amount within the meaning of Treasury Regulation §1.409A-2(b)(2). In the event the terms of this Agreement would subject the Executive to taxes or penalties under Section 409A of the Code ("409A Penalties"), the Company and the Executive shall cooperate diligently to amend the terms of this Agreement to avoid such 409A Penalties, to the extent possible; provided that in no event shall the Company be responsible for any 409A Penalties that arise in connection with any amounts payable under this Agreement. To the extent any amounts under this Agreement are payable by reference to the Executive's "termination of employment," such term shall be deemed to refer to Executive's "separation from service," within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, if the Executive is a "specified employee," as defined in Section 409A of the Code, as of the date of Executive's separation from service, then to the extent any amount payable to the Executive (i) constitutes the payment of 13 nonqualified deferred compensation, within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code, (ii) is payable upon the Executive's separation from service and (iii) under the terms of this Agreement would be payable prior to the six-month anniversary of the Executive's separation from service, such payment shall be delayed until the earlier to occur of (a) the first business day following the six-month anniversary of the separation from service and (b) the date of Executive's death. Any reimbursement or advancement payable to the Executive pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise shall be conditioned on the submission by the Executive of all expense reports reasonably required by the Company under any applicable expense reimbursement policy, and shall be paid to the Executive as soon as practicable following receipt of such expense reports, but in no event later than the last day of the calendar year following the calendar year in which the Executive incurred the reimbursable expense. Any amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefit provided, during a calendar year shall not affect the amount of expenses eligible for reimbursement, or in-kind benefit to be provided, during any other calendar year. The right to any reimbursement or in-kind benefit pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise shall not be subject to liquidation or exchange for any other benefit. View More

Compliance With Irc Section 409a. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing Sections E.1 and E.2., and notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, the Plan and awards issued under it shall be interpreted in accordance with the requirements of IRC Section 409A and payments under the Plan are anticipated to be made within the time frames anticipated by IRC Section 409A. In addition, if the Committee determines that any amounts 2 payable under the Plan will be taxable to a participant under IRC Section 409A, then... prior to payment to such participant of such amount, the Committee may: a. Adopt such amendments to the Plan and awards and appropriate policies and procedures, including amendments and policies with retroactive effect, that the Committee determines are necessary or appropriate to preserve the intended tax treatment of the benefits provided by the Plan and awards hereunder; and/orb.Take such other actions as the Committee determines are necessary or appropriate to comply with the requirements of IRC Section 409A. View More