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SECTION 6
BENEFIT COMMENCEMENT DATE AND
FORM OF PAYMENT FOR BENEFITS NOT SUBJECT TO §409A
6.1 Benefits not Subject to §409A. This Section 6 provides the rules for benefit commencement dates and forms o
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payment for Plan benefits accrued and vested before January 1, 2005 as described in §1.409A-6(a) of the Treasury Regulations.
6.2 Benefit Commencement Date. Subject to Section 10.6 and the following sentence, benefits payable to a Participant
under the Plan shall commence as of the same annuity starting date as the benefits under the Qualified Pension Plan to which
such benefits relate. In addition, mid-career pension enhancement benefits payable under the Plan will not commence until the
Participant has cooperated, to the satisfaction of the Committee, in disclosing the benefits he or she will receive from any
pension plans of a previous employer as described in Section 5.2(b)(ii).
Effective November 6, 2009, any amounts payable under this Plan may be reduced at the time so payable by amounts
owed to the Company at such time.
6.3 Form of Payment. Subject to Section 10.6, benefits payable to a Participant under Section 6 of the Plan shall be
distributed as follows:
(a) if the Participant does not make a timely election (as described under paragraph (b) below), then
(i) if the Participant is not married as of his or her annuity starting date, in the form of an annuity for the
Participant’s life, or
(ii) if the Participant is married as of his or her annuity starting date, and such date is before February 1,
2002, in the form of an annuity for the Participant’s life with a survivor annuity for the life of the Participant’s spouse
where the survivor annuity is 50% of the amount of the annuity payable during
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