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These excerpts taken from the MRO 10-K filed Feb 27, 2009. ARTICLE VII. General Provisions
Each Participant entitled to benefits under the Excess Benefit Plan must file in writing with the Plan Administrator such Participants post office address and each change of post office address. Any communication, statement or notice addressed to any such Participant at the last post office address filed with the Plan Administrator will be binding upon such person for all purposes of the Excess Benefit Plan, and the Plan Administrator shall not be obligated to search for or ascertain the whereabouts of any Participant. Any notice or document required to be given or filed with the Plan Administrator shall be considered as given or filed if delivered or mailed by registered mail, postage prepaid, to Rodney P. Nichols, Vice President of Human Resources, Marathon Petroleum Company LLC, P. O. Box 1, Findlay, Ohio 45839-0001.
The Excess Benefit Plan does not constitute a contract of employment, and participation in the Excess Benefit Plan will not give any Participant the right to be retained in the employ of the Company nor any right or claim to any benefit under the Excess Benefit Plan, unless such right or claim has specifically accrued under the terms of the Excess Benefit Plan.
Except as may be required by law, including the federal income and employment tax withholding provisions of the Code, or of an applicable states income tax act, the interests of Participants and their Beneficiaries under this Excess Benefit Plan are not subject to the claims of their creditors and may not be voluntarily or involuntarily sold, transferred, alienated, assigned or encumbered. Notwithstanding any provision of the Excess Benefit Plan to the contrary, the Excess Benefit Plan shall not recognize or give effect to any domestic relations order attempting to alienate, transfer or assign any Participant benefits. The preceding shall not preclude the Employer from asserting any claim for damages or for any debt that the Employer may have with respect to the Participant; provided that any offset shall apply only where such debt is incurred in the ordinary course of the service relationship between the Employer and the Participant, the entire amount of reduction in any of the Participants taxable years does not exceed $5,000, and the reduction is made at the same time and in the same amount as the debt otherwise would have been due and collected from the Participant.
When a Participant entitled to benefits under the Excess Benefit Plan is under a legal disability, or, in the Plan Administrators opinion, is in any way incapacitated so as to be unable to manage their financial affairs, the Plan Administrator may direct that the benefits to which such Participant otherwise would be entitled shall be made to such Participants legal representative, or to such other person or persons as the Plan Administrator may direct the application of the benefits for the benefit of such Participant. Any payment made in accordance with such provisions of this Section 7.4 shall be a full and complete discharge of any liability for such payment.
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To the extent not superseded by the laws of the United States, the laws of the State of Ohio shall be controlling in all matters relating to the Excess Benefit Plan.
In case any provisions of the Excess Benefit Plan shall be held illegal or invalid for any reason, such illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remaining provisions of the Excess Benefit Plan, and the Excess Benefit Plan shall be construed and enforced as if such illegal and invalid provisions had never been set forth in the Excess Benefit Plan.
All references to the Code and ERISA include reference to any comparable or succeeding provisions of any legislation, which amends, supplements or replaces such section or subsection.
Section headings and titles are for reference only. In the event of a conflict between a title and the content of a section, the content of the section shall control.
It is the intention of the Company that this Excess Benefit Plan meet all requirements of the Code so that the benefits provided be non-taxable during the period of deferral and until actual distribution is made.
Any benefit payable under the Retirement Plan shall be paid solely in accordance with the terms and provisions of that Plan, and nothing in the Excess Benefit Plan shall operate or be construed in any way to modify, amend, or affect the terms and provisions of the Retirement Plan.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Marathon Oil Company has caused its name to be hereunto subscribed by its Vice President, Marathon Oil Company, and its corporate seal to be hereto affixed.
On this 16th day of December, 2008, before me, a notary public within and for the State of Texas, personally appeared Eileen M. Campbell to me personally known, who being by me first duly sworn, did depose and say that they are the Vice President, Human Resources of Marathon Oil Company, the Corporation named in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that the seal affixed to the instrument (if any) is the seal of said corporation, and that said instrument was signed and sealed on behalf of said corporation by authority of its Board of Directors; and they acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.
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