7. Limitations on Payment of and Eligibility for Retirement Benefit: Executive’s entitlement to, and Bank’s obligation to pay, the Retirement Benefit to Executive under this Agreement are subject to the following general limitations which shall take precedence to any other provision hereof:
A. Excess Parachute or Golden Parachute Payment: Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if the Retirement Benefit provided under this Agreement, when added to all other amounts or benefits provided to or on behalf of Executive in connection with his termination of employment, would result in the imposition of an excise tax under Code Section 4999, such payments shall be retroactively (if necessary) reduced to the extent necessary to avoid such excise tax imposition or shall be forfeited to the extent the benefit would be a prohibited golden parachute payment pursuant to 12 C.F.R. §359.2 and for which the appropriate federal banking agency had not given written consent to pay pursuant to 12 C.F.R. §359.4. Upon written notice to Executive, together with calculations of Bank’s Independent auditors, Executive shall remit to Bank the amount of the reduction plus such interest as may be necessary to avoid the imposition of such excise tax. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any portion of the amount herein payable to the Executive is determined to be non-deductible pursuant to the regulations promulgated under Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), Bank shall be required only to pay to Executive the amount determined to be deductible under Section 280G.
B. Termination for Cause. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Retirement Benefit provided under this Agreement shall be forfeited if Bank terminates Executive’s employment for “Cause” as defined in the Existing Agreement.
C. Removal. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, Bank shall not pay any benefit under this Agreement if Executive is subject to a final removal or prohibition order issued by an appropriate federal banking authority pursuant to Section 8(e) of the Federal Deposit insurance Act.
D. Non-Competition Provision:
(1) General Rule: Except as provided in the following subparagraph 7(D)(2), Executive shall forfeit his right to any Retirement Benefit not yet paid to Executive, if Executive, without the prior written consent of Bank, at any time during the period encompassing Executive’s employment with Bank and continuing after the termination (regardless of reason) of Executive’s employment with Bank throughout the period the Retirement Benefit would otherwise be payable:
(a) engages in, directly or indirectly, either for his own account or as agent, consultant, employee, partner, officer, director, proprietor, investor (except as an investor owning less than 5% of the stock of a publicly owned company) or otherwise on behalf of any person, firm, corporation or enterprise: (1) the banking (including bank or financial institution holding company), insurance or financial services industry, or (2) any other activity in which Bank engages during the Executive’s employment with Bank in the marketing area (the “Non-Competition Area”), of Bank, the Non-Competition Area being defined for purposes of this Agreement as: (a) Columbia, Montour, Northumberland, and Luzerne Counties in Pennsylvania; (b) those additional counties, if any, in which Bank and any affiliate or subsidiary of Bank, during Executive’s continued employment with Bank, maintains a physical presence (such as a bank or investment brokerage facillty); and, (c) all those additional counties that adjoin any of the counties encompassed within (a) and (b) preceding; or
(b) either directly or indirectly in any capacity whatsoever (a) obtains, solicits, diverts, appeals to, attempts to obtain, attempts to solicit, attempts to divert, or attempts to appeal to any customers, clients or referral sources of Bank to divert their business from the Bank; or, (b) solicits any person who is employed by Bank to leave the employ of Bank. “Customers, clients, and referral sources” shall include all persons who are or were customers, clients or referral sources of Bank at any time during the employment of Executive by the Bank, including employment with Bank that predates this Agreement.
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