that is being made in lieu of all or a portion of the pre-tax elective deferrals the participant is otherwise eligible to make under the Plan; and
(B) Treated by the employer as includible in the participant’s income at the time the participant would have received that amount in cash if the participant had not made a cash or deferred election.
The Employer may, in its discretion, make a Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution for the Plan Year in any amount necessary to satisfy or help to satisfy the “ADP” test, described in Section 6.03, and/or the “ACP” test, described in Section 6.06. Qualified Nonelective Employer contributions shall be allocated based on Participant’s “testing compensation,” as defined in Subsection 6.01(t), rather than Compensation, as defined in Subsection 2.01(j). Any Qualified Nonelective Employer Contribution shall be allocated only as provided in this Section 5.07 (notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 1.09 or in any other Plan provision).
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Section 1.09 or in any other Plan provision, Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be allocated to Participants who were Active Participants at any time during the Plan Year and are Non-Highly Compensated Employees pursuant to either (a) or (b) below.
eligible Participants who are covered by the resulting component plan that covers the non-excludable Participants.
Subject to subsection (b) hereof, Active Participants shall not be required to satisfy any Hours of Service or employment requirement for the Plan Year in order to receive an allocation of Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions.
Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions shall be distributable only in accordance with the distribution provisions that are applicable to Deferral Contributions; provided, however, that a Participant shall not be permitted to take a hardship withdrawal of amounts credited to his Qualified Nonelective Employer Contributions Account after the later of December 31, 1988 or the last day of the Plan Year ending before July 1, 1989.
| 3. | Section 6.09, “Income or Loss on Distributable Contributions,” is hereby amended in its entirety to provide as follows: |
The income or loss allocable to “excess deferrals”, “excess contributions”, and “excess aggregate contributions” shall be determined under the following method: The income or loss attributable to such distributable contributions shall be the sum of (i) the income or loss on such contributions for the “determination year”, determined under any reasonable method, plus (ii) the income or loss on such contributions for the “gap period”, determined under such reasonable method. Any reasonable method used to determine income or loss hereunder shall be used consistently for all Participants in determining the income or loss allocable to distributable contributions hereunder and shall be the same method that is used by the Plan in allocating income or loss to Participants’ Accounts. For purposes of this paragraph, the “gap period” means the period between the end of the “determination year” and the date of distribution; provided, however, that income or loss for the “gap period” may be determined as of a date that is no more than seven days before the date of distribution.
| 4. | Section 6.10, “Deemed Satisfaction of ‘ADP’ Test,” is hereby amended in its entirety to provide as follows: |
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article 6 to the contrary, for any Plan Year beginning on or after January 1, 1999, if the Employer has elected one of the safe harbor contributions in Subsection 1.10(a)(3) or 1.11(a)(3) of the Adoption Agreement and complies with the notice requirements described herein for such Plan Year, the Plan shall be deemed to have satisfied the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03. The Employer shall provide to each Active Participant during the Plan Year a comprehensive notice of the Active Participant’s rights and obligations
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under the Plan. Such notice shall be written in a manner calculated to be understood by the average Active Participant. The Employer shall provide the notice to each Active Participant within one of the following periods, whichever is applicable:
| (a) | if the employee is an Active Participant 90 days before the beginning of the Plan Year, within the period beginning 90 days and ending 30 days before the first day of the Plan Year; or |
| (b) | if the employee becomes an Active Participant after the date described in subsection (a) above, within the period beginning 90 days before and ending on the date he becomes an Active Participant; |
provided, however, that such notice shall not be required to be provided to an Active Participant earlier than is required under any guidance published by the Internal Revenue Service.
If an Employer that provides notice that the Plan may be amended to provide a safe harbor Nonelective Employer Contribution for the Plan Year does amend the Plan to provide such contribution, the Employer shall provide a supplemental notice to all Active Participants stating that a safe harbor Nonelective Employer Contribution in the specified amount shall be made for the Plan Year. Such supplemental notice shall be provided to Active Participants at least 30 days before the last day of the Plan Year.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Employer has elected a more stringent eligibility requirement in Section 1.04 of the Adoption Agreement for such 401(k) safe harbor contributions than for Deferral Contributions, the Plan may be disaggregated pursuant to Treasury Regulation section 1.401(k)-3(h)(3), consistent with Code section 410(b)(4)(B), and deemed to have satisfied the “ADP” test only with respect to that portion of the Plan that satisfies Code section 401(k)(12). The remainder of the Plan shall be subjected to the “ADP” test described in Section 6.03.
If the Employer elected to provide safe harbor Matching Employer Contributions pursuant to Subsection 1.10(a)(3) of the Adoption Agreement or to have deemed satisfaction of the “ACP” test with respect to Matching Employer Contributions pursuant to the Addendum Re Safe Harbor Nonelective Employer Contribution to the Adoption Agreement, then, notwithstanding any election the Employer might have made pursuant to Subsection 1.10(d) of the Adoption Agreement (except for an election to apply paragraph (6) thereof), no continuing eligibility
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requirements shall apply to any Matching Employer Contributions provided under the Plan (but an election to apply paragraph (6) of Subsection 1.10(d) is unaffected).
In the event that the Plan provides for Catch-up Contributions and the Employer elects to make Safe Harbor Matching Employer Contributions pursuant to Section 1.10(a)(3), then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, in the event that the Addendum Re Safe Harbor Matching Employer Contribution to the Adoption Agreement would otherwise require Matching Employer Contributions to be made with respect to Catch-up Contributions, then the Employer shall provide such Matching Employer Contributions with respect to Catch-up Contributions to the extent necessary to comply with such Matching Employer Contribution requirements.
| 5. | Subsection (a) of Section 10.05, “Hardship Withdrawals,” is hereby amended by replacing paragraph (5) thereof and adding new paragraphs (6) and (7) as provided below: |
| (5) | payments for burial or funeral expenses for the Participant’s deceased parent, spouse, child, or dependent (as defined in Code section 152, and, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2005, without regard to subsection (d)(1)(B) thereof); |
| (6) | expenses for the repair of damage to the Participant’s principal residence that would qualify for the casualty deduction under Code section 165 (determined without regard to whether the loss exceeds 10% of adjusted gross income); or |
| (7) | any other financial need determined to be immediate and heavy under rules and regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate; provided, however, that any such financial need shall constitute an immediate and heavy need under this paragraph (7) no sooner than administratively practicable following the date such rule or regulation is issued. |
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