Defined Contribution Plan Document
ARTICLE XI
TOP HEAVY PROVISIONS
Section 4. Determination of Top Heavy Status.
The Board shall determine, on a year by year basis, the Top Heavy status of the
Plan. Such determination shall be made pursuant to this paragraph of the Plan
and Section 416 of the Internal Revenue Code. For any Plan Year in which this
Plan is a Top Heavy Plan, the Top Heavy provisions of the Plan will be followed.
For purposes of determining Top Heavy status, the following special rules shall
apply:
- If any Participant is a Non–Key Employee for any Plan Year, but such
Participant was a Key Employee for any prior Plan Year, such
Participant's Present Value of Accrued Benefit shall not be taken into
account for purposes of determining whether this Plan is a Top Heavy
Plan (or whether any Aggregation Group which includes this Plan is a Top
Heavy Group).
- For purposes of determining a Participant's account, such account shall:
- Include the present value of Accrued Benefit using the following
actuarial assumptions of the Plan;
- Include any Plan distributions made to such Participant during the
one–year period ending on the Determination Date, except that in
the case of a distribution made for a reason other than severance
from employment, death or disability, this provision shall be
applied by substituting five-year period for one-year period. For
purposes of this paragraph, a Participant shall include any
Employee who is not employed as of the Determination Date but
who was employed at any time during the one–year period. The
foregoing shall also apply to distributions under a terminated
qualified plan of the Employer which, if it had not been terminated,
would have been required to be included in an aggregation group;
- Include any non–deductible Employee contributions, whether
voluntary or mandatory;
- Not include, except as otherwise provided in the Treasury
Regulations, Employee initiated rollover contributions or similar
transfers to the transferee Plan;
- Include any rollover contributions, plan–to–plan transfers or similar
transfers initiated by the Employer or made to a plan maintained by
an Affiliated Company; and
- Not include the Accounts and Accrued Benefits of a Participant
who has not received Compensation from the Employer
maintaining the Plan during the one–year period ending on the
Determination Date.