9. Miscellaneous
All expenses of the Plan will be borne by the Company.
This Plan is not intended to, nor does it constitute, a contract or guarantee of continued employment. Nothing in the Plan or in any notice of a RPP Award will affect the right of the Company or any of its affiliates to terminate the employment or service of any Participant or to increase or decrease the compensation payable to the Participant from the rate in effect at the commencement of a year or to otherwise modify the terms of such Participant’s employment.
Except to the extent required by applicable law, no RPP Award or payment thereof nor any right or benefit under the Plan will be subject to anticipation, alienation, sale, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, garnishment, execution or levy of any kind or charge, and any attempt to anticipate, alienate, sell, assign, pledge, encumber, charge, garnish, execute upon or levy upon the same will be void and will not be recognized or given effect by the Company.
No person will have any claim or right to participate in the Plan or to receive any RPP Award for any particular year. Accordingly, any RPP Award is completely independent of any other award or grant and is made at the sole discretion of the Company.
The Company reserves the right to amend, suspend or terminate the Plan at any time without notice.
The Plan has not been, nor is it required to be, approved by shareholders.
No member of the Compensation Committee and no other director or TSM of the Company or its affiliates to whom any duty or power relating to the administration or interpretation of the Plan has been delegated will be liable for any action, omission, or determination relating to the Plan, and the Company will indemnify and hold harmless each member of the Compensation Committee and each other director or TSM of the Company or its affiliates to whom any duty or power relating to the administration or interpretation of the Plan has been delegated against any cost or expense (including counsel fees, which fees shall be paid as incurred) or liability (including any sum paid in settlement of a claim with the approval of the Compensation Committee) arising out of or in connection with any action, omission or determination relating to the Plan, unless, in each case, such action, omission or determination was taken or made by such member, director or TSM in bad faith and without reasonable belief that it was in the best interests of the Company. The foregoing provisions of this paragraph are in addition to and shall not be deemed to limit or modify, any exculpatory rights or rights to indemnification or the advancement of expenses that any such persons may now or hereafter have, whether under the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as may be amended), the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (as may be amended), the Delaware General Corporation Law or otherwise.
In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained in the Plan will, for any reason, be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability will not affect any other provision of the Plan and the Plan will be construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions had never been contained therein.
The Company will have the right to make any provisions that it deems necessary or appropriate to satisfy any obligations it may have under law to withhold federal, state or local income or other taxes incurred by reason of payments pursuant to the Plan.
The Plan and any amendments thereto will be construed, administered, and governed in all respects in accordance with the laws of the State of New York (regardless of the law that might otherwise govern under applicable principles of conflict of laws).
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