including documentation specifying individual performance goals, Award opportunities and the like; (vi) establish and interpret rules and procedures (written or by practice) for the administration of the Plan; and (vii) make all other determinations and take all other actions necessary or desirable for the administration or interpretation of this Plan. All actions, decisions and interpretations of such individuals shall be final, conclusive and binding on all parties.
B. No Right to Continued Employment.
Nothing in this Plan shall be deemed by implication, action or otherwise to constitute a contract of employment, or otherwise to provide a Participant with any right of continued employment or impose any limitation on any right of the Company to terminate a Participant’s employment at any time.
C. No Assignment.
A Participant or Participant’s beneficiary shall have no right to anticipate, alienate, sell, transfer, assign, pledge or encumber any right to receive any Award made under the Plan, nor will any Participant or Participant’s beneficiary have any lien on any assets of the Company, or any affiliate thereof, by reason of any Award made under the Plan. No Award shall be in any manner subject to the debts, contracts, liabilities, engagements, or torts of any Participant.
D. Withholding.
The Company shall have the right to deduct or withhold, or require a Participant to remit to the Company, any taxes required by law to be withheld from Awards made under this Plan.
E. Amendment of Plan.
The Plan may be amended, suspended or terminated at any time and from time to time, by action of the O&C Committee, provided no such amendment, suspension or termination adversely affects any Participant’s right to receive any amount to which they have become entitled under the terms of this Plan prior to such amendment, suspension or termination. In order to be effective, any amendment of this Plan or any Award must be in writing. No oral statement, representation or the like shall have the effect of amending or modifying this Plan or any Award, or otherwise have any binding effect on the Company, the O&C Committee, the Executive Team, or any individual who has been delegated authority by the O&C Committee or the Executive Team to administer this Plan.
F. No Obligation to Continue Plan.
The adoption of the Plan does not imply any commitment to continue to maintain the Plan, or any modified version of the Plan, or any other plan for incentive compensation, for any succeeding year.
G. Governing Law.
The Plan shall be construed in accordance with, and governed by, the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflicts of laws doctrine. Any disputes arising under this Plan and any action to enforce any provisions hereof, shall be maintained exclusively in the appropriate courts of Dallas County, Texas.
H. Severability.
In case any provision of the Plan shall be held illegal or void, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remaining provisions of this Plan, but shall be fully severable, and the Plan shall be construed and enforced as if said illegal or invalid provisions had never been inserted herein.
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