related to the performance of services, Company or Affiliate performance or otherwise as the Committee may determine and provide for in the applicable Award Agreement. Any grant of Restricted Stock may be a Performance Award, subject to Section 7.5. Any such Risk of Forfeiture may be waived or terminated, or the Restriction Period shortened, at any time by the Committee on such basis as it deems appropriate.
(e) Rights Pending Lapse of Risk of Forfeiture or Forfeiture of Award. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan or the applicable Award Agreement, at all times prior to lapse of any Risk of Forfeiture applicable to, or forfeiture of, an Award of Restricted Stock, the Participant shall have all of the rights of a stockholder of the Company, including the right to vote the shares of Restricted Stock.
(f) Effect of Termination of Employment or Board Member Relationship.
(i) Termination due to death, Disability, or Retirement. If the applicable original grantee incurs a Separation from the Company or any of its Affiliates during the Restriction Period due to such grantee’s death, Disability, or Retirement, then unvested shares of Restricted Stock held by such Participant shall accelerate with respect to the shares of unvested Restricted Stock that were initially scheduled to vest within the two-year period following the Participant’s Separation and the restrictions thereon shall lapse and the Award of such Restricted Stock shall become immediately nonforfeitable (and all Restricted Stock that would vest after such two (2) year period would be forfeited upon such Separation with no further compensation due to the Participant, unless otherwise determined by the Committee at or after grant).
(ii) Other Terminations. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee at or after grant and subject to the applicable provisions of the Award Agreement, if the applicable original grantee incurs a Separation from the Company or any of its Affiliates during the Restriction Period, for any reason other than the grantee’s death, Disability, or Retirement during the Restriction Period, regardless of whether the end of such association is effected by the Company, any such Affiliate or such original grantee (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, including because an entity with which such original grantee has any such association ceases to be an Affiliate of the Company), then all outstanding unvested shares of Restricted Stock granted to such Participant, shall be forfeited or otherwise subject to return to or repurchase by the Company if and to the extent so provided by, and subject to and in accordance with, the terms of the applicable Award Agreement; provided, however, that military or sick leave or other bona fide leave shall not be deemed a termination of employment, if it does not exceed the longer of ninety (90) days or the period during which the absent original grantee’s reemployment rights, if any, are guaranteed by statute or by contract.
(g) Lapse of Restrictions. If and when the Restriction Period expires without a prior forfeiture of the Restricted Stock, the certificates for such shares shall be delivered to the Participant promptly if not theretofore so delivered.
(h) Transferability. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection (h), shares of Restricted Stock shall not be transferable, and no share of Restricted Stock or interest therein may be sold, transferred, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated, other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution (subject always to the provisions of subsection (f) above). The applicable Award Agreement or the Committee (at or after the grant of a share of Restricted Stock) may provide that such share of Restricted Stock may be transferred by the applicable Participant to a family member; provided, however, that any such transfer is without payment of any consideration whatsoever and that no transfer of a share of Restricted Stock shall be valid unless first approved by the Committee, acting in its sole discretion, unless such transfer is permitted under the applicable Award Agreement. For this purpose, “family member” means any child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, spouse, former spouse, sibling, niece, nephew, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, including adoptive relationships, any person sharing the applicable Participant’s household (other than a tenant or employee), a trust in which the foregoing persons and/or the applicable Participant have more than fifty percent (50%) of the beneficial interests, a foundation in which the foregoing persons and/or the applicable Participant control the management of assets, and any other entity in which these persons and/or the applicable Participant own more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting interests. The Committee may at any time or from time to time delegate to one or more officers of the Company the authority to permit transfers of shares of Restricted Stock to third parties pursuant to this subsection (h), which authorization shall be exercised by such officer or officers in accordance with guidelines established by the Committee at any time and from time to time.
(i) Dividends. At the discretion of the Committee, Participants may be entitled to receive payments equivalent to any dividends paid with respect to Common Stock underlying grants of Restricted Stock but only if such Restricted Stock actually vests. Unless the Committee shall provide otherwise, such amounts shall be paid, if at all, without interest or other earnings.
7.3. Restricted Stock Units.
(a) Character. Each Restricted Stock Unit shall entitle the recipient to a share of Common Stock at a close of such Restriction Period as the Committee may establish and subject to a Risk of Forfeiture arising on the basis of such conditions relating to the performance of services, Company or Affiliate performance or otherwise (including any