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This excerpt taken from the NKE 10-K filed Jul 27, 2009. MISCELLANEOUS 9.1 Unsecured General Creditor. Participants and their Beneficiaries, heirs, successors, and assigns shall have no legal or equitable rights, claims, or interests in any specific property or assets of the Company or any Participating Employer. No assets of the Company or a Participating Employer shall be held in any way as collateral security for the fulfilling of the obligations of the Company under this Plan. Any and all of the Companys and Participating Employers assets shall be, and remain, the general unpledged, unrestricted assets of the Company or Participating Employers, as applicable. The Companys obligation under the Plan shall be merely that of an unfunded and unsecured promise of the Company to pay money in the future, and the rights of the Participants and Beneficiaries shall be no greater than those of unsecured general creditors. 9.2 Restriction Against Assignment. The Company shall pay all amounts payable hereunder only to the person or persons designated by the Plan and not to any other person or entity. No part of a Participants Account shall be liable for the debts, contracts, or engagements of any Participant, his or her Beneficiary, or successors in interest, nor shall a Participants Account be subject to execution by levy, attachment, or garnishment or by any other legal or equitable proceeding, nor shall any such person have any right to alienate, anticipate, commute, pledge, encumber, or assign any benefits or payments hereunder in any manner whatsoever. 9.3 Withholding. There shall be withheld from each payment made under the Plan all taxes which are required to be withheld by the Company in respect to such payment. The Company shall have the right to reduce any payment by the amount of cash sufficient to provide the amount of said taxes. 9.4 Amendment, Modification, Suspension or Termination. The Retirement Committee may amend, modify, suspend or terminate the Plan in whole or in part, except that no amendment, modification, suspension or termination shall have any retroactive effect to reduce any vested amounts allocated to a Participants Account, provided that a termination or suspension of the Plan or any Plan amendment or modification that will significantly increase costs to the Company shall be approved by the Board. For purposes of this Section 9.4, a suspension refers to a decision to discontinue acceptance of new or continued deferral elections without affecting deferral elections that are irrevocable at the time of the suspension or the operation of the Plan with respect to amounts previously deferred under the Plan. For purposes of this Section 9.4, a termination refers to a decision to terminate the Plan and accelerate the payment of Account balances. The Plan shall not be terminated unless such termination complies with an exception (set forth in regulations or other guidance of the Internal Revenue Service) to the prohibition on acceleration of deferred compensation under Code Section 409A. 9.5 Governing Law. This Plan shall be construed, governed and administered in accordance with the laws of the State of Oregon, except to the extent pre-empted by federal law. 9.6 Entire Agreement. This Plan document constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to deferred compensation. Only the Retirement Committee is authorized to construe and interpret this Plan. No employee or agent of the Company or a Participating Employer is
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authorized to modify or amend the terms of this Plan, or to make promises or to commit the Company or Participating Employers to provide additional benefits or other benefits not expressly provided for in this Plan document. In the event of conflict between this Plan document and any other oral or written communication regarding the Plan, this Plan document shall be controlling. 9.7 Receipt or Release. Any payment to a Participant or the Participants Beneficiary in accordance with the provisions of the Plan shall, to the extent thereof, be in full satisfaction of all claims against the Retirement Committee, the Company, and the Participating Employers. The Retirement Committee may require such Participant or Beneficiary, as a condition precedent to such payment, to execute a receipt and release to such effect. 9.8 Payments on Behalf of Persons Under Incapacity. In the event that any amount becomes payable under the Plan to a person who, in the sole judgment of the Retirement Committee, is considered by reason of physical or mental condition to be unable to give a valid receipt therefore, the Retirement Committee may direct that such payment be made to any person found by the Retirement Committee, in its sole judgment, to have assumed the care of such person. Any payment made pursuant to such determination shall constitute a full release and discharge of the Retirement Committee, the Company, and the Participating Employers. 9.9 No Employment Rights. Participation in this Plan shall not confer upon any person any right to be employed by the Company or a Participating Employer or any other right not expressly provided hereunder. 9.10 Headings Not Part of Agreement. Headings and subheadings in this Plan are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in the construction of the provisions hereof. 9.11 Tax Liabilities from Plan. If a tax liability (including a tax liability under Code Section 409A) is generated before a Participant is eligible to receive a Plan benefit, the Retirement Committee may, in its discretion, order a distribution of funds sufficient to meet such liability (including additions to tax, penalties and interest) or any other amount up to the amount required to be included in the Participants income. Such a distribution shall reduce the benefits to be paid under Article VI of the Plan. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this document to be executed by its duly authorized officer effective as of this 23rd day of October, 2008.
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This excerpt taken from the NKE 10-K filed Jul 28, 2008. MISCELLANEOUS 9.1 Unsecured General Creditor Participants and their Beneficiaries, heirs, successors, and assigns shall have no legal or equitable rights, claims, or interests in any specific property or assets of the Company or any Participating Employer. No assets of the Company or a Participating Employer shall be held in any way as collateral security for the fulfilling of the obligations of the Company under this Plan. Any and all of the Companys and Participating Employers assets shall be, and remain, the general unpledged, unrestricted assets of the Company or Participating Employers, as applicable. The Companys obligation under the Plan shall be merely that of an unfunded and unsecured promise of the Company to pay money in the future, and the rights of the Participants and Beneficiaries shall be no greater than those of unsecured general creditors. 9.2 Restriction Against Assignment The Company shall pay all amounts payable hereunder only to the person or persons designated by the Plan and not to any other person or entity. No part of a Participants Account shall be liable for the debts, contracts, or engagements of any Participant, his or her Beneficiary, or successors in interest, nor shall a Participants Account be subject to execution by levy, attachment, or garnishment or by any other legal or equitable proceeding, nor shall any such person have any right to alienate, anticipate, commute, pledge, encumber, or assign any benefits or payments hereunder in any manner whatsoever. If any Participant, Beneficiary or successor in interest is adjudicated bankrupt or purports to anticipate, alienate, sell, transfer, assign, pledge, encumber or charge any distribution or payment from the Plan, voluntarily or involuntarily, the Retirement Committee, in its discretion, may cancel such distribution or payment (or any part thereof) to or for the benefit of such Participant, Beneficiary or successor in interest in such manner as the Retirement Committee shall direct. 9.3 Withholding There shall be withheld from each payment made under the Plan all taxes, which are required to be withheld by the Company in respect to such payment. The Company shall have the right to reduce any payment by the amount of cash sufficient to provide the amount of said taxes. 9.4 Amendment, Modification, Suspension or Termination The Retirement Committee may amend, modify, suspend or terminate the Plan in whole or in part, except that no amendment, modification, suspension or termination shall have any retroactive effect to reduce any vested amounts allocated to a Participants Account, provided that a termination or suspension of the Plan or any Plan amendment or modification that will significantly increase costs to the Company shall be approved by the Board. In the event that this Plan is terminated, the timing of the disposition of the amounts credited to a Participants
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Account shall occur in accordance with Section 6.1 or 6.2, whichever is applicable, subject to earlier distribution at the discretion of the Retirement Committee to the extent that earlier distribution would not result in imposition of additional tax under Code Section 409A. 9.5 Governing Law This Plan shall be construed, governed and administered in accordance with the laws of the State of Oregon, except to the extent pre-empted by federal law. 9.6 Entire Agreement This Plan document constitutes the entire agreement of the parties with respect to deferred compensation. Only the Retirement Committee is authorized to construe and interpret this Plan. No employee or agent of the Company or a Participating Employer is authorized to modify or amend the terms of this Plan, or to make promises or to commit the Company or Participating Employers to provide additional benefits or other benefits not expressly provided for in this Plan document. In the event of conflict between this Plan document and any other oral or written communication regarding the Plan, this Plan document shall be controlling. 9.7 Receipt or Release Any payment to a Participant or the Participants Beneficiary in accordance with the provisions of the Plan shall, to the extent thereof, be in full satisfaction of all claims against the Retirement Committee, the Company, and the Participating Employers. The Retirement Committee may require such Participant or Beneficiary, as a condition precedent to such payment, to execute a receipt and release to such effect. 9.8 Payments on Behalf of Persons Under Incapacity In the event that any amount becomes payable under the Plan to a person who, in the sole judgment of the Retirement Committee, is considered by reason of physical or mental condition to be unable to give a valid receipt therefore, the Retirement Committee may direct that such payment be made to any person found by the Retirement Committee, in its sole judgment, to have assumed the care of such person. Any payment made pursuant to such determination shall constitute a full release and discharge of the Retirement Committee, the Company, and the Participating Employers. 9.9 No Employment Rights Participation in this Plan shall not confer upon any person any right to be employed by the Company or a Participating Employer or any other right not expressly provided hereunder. 9.10 Headings, etc. Not Part of Agreement Headings and subheadings in this Plan are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in the construction of the provisions hereof.
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9.11 Tax Liabilities from Plan If, due to a change in applicable law or regulations or enforcement activity by the Internal Revenue Service, all or any portion of a Participants benefit under this Plan generates a state or federal income tax liability to the Participant prior to receipt, the provision or provisions of the Plan that would generate such taxation shall be considered null and void to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to avoid the tax liability. If, notwithstanding the actions taken to avoid the tax liability, a tax liability (including a tax liability under Code Section 409A) is generated before a Participant is eligible to receive a Plan benefit, the Retirement Committee may, in its discretion, order a distribution of funds sufficient to meet such liability (including additions to tax, penalties and interest). The Retirement Committees instructions shall provide for a distribution to the Participant of immediately available funds in an amount equal to that Participants federal, state and local tax liability associated with such taxation, which liability shall be measured by using that Participants then current highest federal, state and local marginal tax rate, plus the rates or amounts for the applicable additions to tax, penalties and interest. At the discretion of the Company, this distribution may or may not include an additional amount to gross up the tax liability distribution to include all applicable taxes on the tax liability distribution and the grossed up amount. The tax liability distribution (including gross-up, if any) shall be made within 90 days after the date when the Retirement Committee orders the distribution. Such a distribution shall reduce the benefits to be paid under Article VI of the Plan. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this document to be executed by its duly authorized officer effective as of this first day of November, 2007.
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