This excerpt taken from the SMG 8-K filed Feb 2, 2005.
6.03 Delivery of Shares; Participants
Custodial Accounts.
[1] At or as
promptly as practicable after the end of each Offering Period,
the Company will deliver the shares of Stock purchased by a
Participant during that Offering Period to the custodian for
deposit into that Participants Custodial Account.
[2] Unless the
Committee decides otherwise, cash dividends on any shares of
Stock credited to a Participants Custodial Account will be
automatically reinvested in additional whole and fractional
shares of Stock unless the Participant has affirmatively elected
to receive the dividend in cash. All cash dividends credited to
Participants Custodial Accounts will be paid over by the
Company to the custodian at the dividend payment date and all
cash dividends to be paid to a Participant in cash will be
distributed at the dividend payment date. Purchases of Stock for
purposes of dividend reinvestment will be made as promptly as
practicable (but not more than 30 days) after a dividend
payment date. The custodian will make these purchases, as
directed by the Committee, either [a] in transactions on
any securities exchange upon which shares of Stock are traded,
otherwise in the over-the-counter market, or in negotiated
transactions, or [b]directly from the Company at
100 percent of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on
the dividend payment date. These shares will be distributed as
provided in Section 7.00.
[3] Each
Participants Custodial Account will be credited with any
shares of Stock distributed as a dividend or distribution in
respect of shares of Stock credited to that Participants
Custodial Account or in connection with a split of Stock
credited to that Participants Custodial Account
[4] As soon as
reasonably practicable after receipt, the custodian will sell
any noncash dividends (other than Stock) received with respect
to any Stock held in a Participants Custodial Account and
apply the proceeds of that sale to purchase additional shares of
Stock in the manner described in Section 6.03[2]. After
this transaction is completed, the custodian will credit the
purchased shares of
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Stock to the Custodial Account to which was
credited the Stock with respect to which the noncash dividend
was distributed.
[5] Each Participant
will be entitled to vote the number of shares of Stock credited
to his or her Custodial Account (including any fractional
shares) on any matter as to which the approval of the
Companys shareholders is sought. If a Participant does not
vote or grant a valid proxy with respect to shares credited to
his or her Custodial Account, those shares will be voted by the
custodian in accordance with any stock exchange or other rules
governing the custodian in the voting of shares held for
customer accounts. Similar procedures will apply in the case of
any consent solicitation of Company shareholders.
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