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GENERAL:
Indicate the extent to which Participants may exercise voting rights with respect to the assets held in Accounts other than ESOP Accounts.
BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT:
Section 9.06 Voting Rights:
(a) Accounts other than ESOP Accounts. To the extent provided in the Adoption Agreement, a Participant and a Beneficiary of a deceased Participant shall have the right to direct the Trustee as to the exercise of voting rights with respect to investments allocated to Accounts other than ESOP Accounts. An individual's allocable share of investment in the applicable Accounts shall be determined in the discretion of the Plan Administrator. Any investments for which no instructions are received by the Trustee within such time specified by notice and, unless otherwise required by applicable law, any shares which are not allocated to Participants' Accounts shall be voted by the Trustee in the same proportion that the shares for which instructions are received are voted.
(b) ESOP Accounts. Except as provided below, all Company Stock held in the Trust and allocated to ESOP Accounts shall generally be voted by the Trustee, as directed by the Plan Administrator.
(1) In General. Each Participant or, if applicable, his Beneficiary shall be entitled to direct the Trustee as to the exercise of any voting rights attributable to shares of Company Stock then allocated to his ESOP Accounts.
(2) Nonregistered Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Subsection (b)(2) shall apply if the Company Stock does not constitute registration-type securities within the meaning of Code section 409(e). A Participant or Beneficiary shall only be entitled to direct the Trustee with respect to the approval or disapproval of any corporate merger or consolidation, recapitalization, reclassification, liquidation, dissolution, sale of substantially all of the assets of a trade or business, or such other transactions which may be prescribed by applicable Treasury regulations promulgated under Code section 409(e). Each participant shall be entitled to one vote with respect to such issues.
(3) Instructions. If Participants are entitled to so direct the Trustee as to the voting of Company Stock pursuant to Subsection (b)(1) or (b)(2), all such Company Stock as to which such instructions have been received (which may include an instruction to abstain) shall be voted in accordance with such instructions. However, the Trustee shall vote any unallocated Company Stock in the Trust Fund, or any allocated Company Stock as to which no voting instructions have been received, in the same proportion as Company Stock as to which voting instructions have been received, unless otherwise directed by the Plan Administrator.
(4) Exempt Loan Subject to Code Section 133. Each Participant or, if applicable, his Beneficiary shall be entitled to direct the Trustee as to the exercise of any and all voting rights attributable to shares of Company Stock then allocated to his Account that were acquired with the proceeds of an Exempt Loan that is subject to the full pass through voting requirements of Code section 133.
(5) Tender Offer. In the event of a tender offer for any Common Stock, the Plan Administrator shall direct the Trustee to accept or reject the offer with respect to the shares of Company Stock held in the Trust Fund.
(c) General Rules. As soon as practicable prior to the occasion for the exercise of voting rights described in this Section, the Trustee shall deliver or cause to be delivered, to each Participant and Beneficiary of a deceased Participant entitled to vote all notices, prospectuses, financial statements, proxies and proxy soliciting material relating to such investment allocated to the Participant's Account. Instructions by Participants and Beneficiaries to the Trustee shall be in such form and pursuant to such regulations as the Plan Administrator shall prescribe. Any such instructions shall remain in the strict confidence of the Trustee. With respect to fractional shares for which instructions are received by the Trustee, the Trustee shall aggregate all such fractional shares for which the same instructions are received into whole shares and shall vote such whole shares as instructed. Any remaining fractional shares shall be voted by the Trustee in the same proportion that the shares for which instructions are received are voted.
The foregoing is only intended to be a brief overview of applicable plan provisions. You should carefully review the entire Adoption Agreement and the entire Basic Plan Document to ensure that your responses to the Adoption Agreement questions accurately reflect the intended design of the plan.
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