Dividend Reinvestment Plan
SALISBURY BANCORP, INC. DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT AND STOCK PURCHASE PLAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The following prospectus describes, in a question and answer format, the Terms and Conditions under which the Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan (the "Plan") will be administered for Salisbury Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company"). The Plan provides you with an economical means of purchasing additional shares of the Company and growing your share ownership through the reinvestment of dividends and optional cash payments. It also provides a convenient method of safekeeping and selling shares.
Purpose
1. What is the purpose of the Plan?
The purpose of the Plan is to provide employees and eligible owners of the Common Stock of the Company with a simple and convenient means of investing cash dividends and making additional cash purchases of common stock on a quarterly basis.
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2. What are the advantages of the Plan?
The Plan provides you with the ability to:
a) Reinvest automatically 25%, 50%, 75% or all of your cash dividends in additional shares of Common Stock. The Company pays service fees for the reinvestment of dividends. Currently, the Company absorbs any brokerage fees incurred.
b) If you are an employee of the Company or any subsidiary who is not currently a shareholder, you may become a shareholder by purchasing shares through the Plan
c) Make quarterly cash purchases of additional shares of Common Stock of the Company. The minimum purchase amount is $100. The maximum purchase amount is $2,500 per quarter. A service fee of $2.50 will be deducted from each cash investment. Currently, the Company absorbs any brokerage fees incurred.
d) Invest the full amount of cash dividends you elect to reinvest and optional cash payments (less applicable fees as noted above), since purchases of shares made through the Plan are calculated to four decimal places.
e) Deposit certificates into your Plan account, avoiding cumbersome safekeeping requirements and the risk of losing your certificates. There is a $5.00 fee each time you deposit certificates into safekeeping.
f) Avoid the inconvenience and expense of recordkeeping through the free reporting provisions of the Plan.
g) Sell shares through the Plan by directing the Plan Administrator to sell some or all of the shares held in your account in the Plan. You will be charged a $15.00 fee for each sell request and will pay a pro rata portion of any brokerage commissions incurred.
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3. Who administers the Plan for participants?
Registrar and Transfer Company (the "Plan Administrator"), a corporation independent of and not affiliated with the Company, administers the Plan for participants, keeps records, sends statements of account to participants and performs other duties related to the Plan. Shares purchased through the Plan or deposited into safekeeping will be registered in the name of the Plan Administrator or its nominee as agent for participants in the Plan.
All inquiries and communications regarding the Plan should include your account number and should be directed to the Plan Administrator at:
Registrar and Transfer Company
Attention: Dividend Reinvestment Department
P.O. Box 664
Cranford, NJ 07016
Phone: 1-800-368-5948
www.rtco.com
The Plan Administrator or the Company may terminate or suspend the Plan at any time by written notice to you. These "Terms and Conditions" of the Plan may be amended by the Plan Administrator, with the concurrence of the Company, at any time by mailing an appropriate notice to you at least 30 days prior to the effective date of the amendment (see Question 30). See Question 28 for additional information regarding the responsibilities of the Plan Administrator.
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4. Who is eligible to participate?
Employees of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company who are not shareholders are eligible to enroll in the Plan by making an optional cash payment as described in Questions 5 and 9.
Record owners of Common Stock holding 25 or more shares registered in their name are eligible to enroll in the Plan. Beneficial owners whose shares are registered in names other than their own (for example, in the name of a broker, bank or other nominee) are also eligible to enroll in the Plan.
5. How do you become a participant?
Any employee or eligible shareholder may join the Plan by completing an Enrollment Form and returning it to the Plan Administrator at the address provided in Question 3. You may obtain Enrollment Forms at any time by contacting the Company or the Plan Administrator. Employees who are not shareholders should send an optional cash payment with their Enrollment Form at least five days and not more than 30 days prior to a cash dividend record date, as described in Question 9. Eligible shareholders who wish to make an optional cash payment with their Enrollment Form must submit the Enrollment Form at least five days and not more than 30 days prior to a cash dividend record date, as described in Question 9.
6. What options are available to you?
Reinvestment of Dividends and Purchase of Shares
By marking the appropriate space on the Enrollment Form, you may choose to automatically reinvest 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% of the cash dividends on all shares of Common Stock of which you are the owner of record. However, if you have shares of Common Stock registered in more than one name or account, then you may elect to have the cash dividends on shares registered in one name or account reinvested under the Plan, but decline to have the cash dividends on shares registered in the other name or account reinvested under the Plan.
You may elect to reinvest 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% of the cash dividends on the shares of Common Stock held in your account by your broker, bank or other nominee.
You may also elect to make optional cash payments, in amounts ranging from a $100 minimum to a $2,500 maximum per quarter per participant (less a $2.50 transaction fee charged by the Plan Administrator). Dividends and cash received for the purchase of Common Stock of the Company may be commingled for purposes of purchasing shares. See Question 9.
Deposit of Shares and Shares Held by Plan Administrator for Participants
All shares of Common Stock purchased through the Plan, whether with reinvested dividends or optional cash payments, will be held for you in the Plan by the Plan Administrator. Dividends on these shares will be reinvested automatically at the same rate (25%, 50%, 75% or 100%) you elect for shares registered in your name, held in your account by your broker, bank or other nominee or deposited with the Plan Administrator.
Selling Shares by Plan Participants
You may sell some or all of the shares held by the Plan for your benefit. There is a $15.00 fee charged for each sale. Brokerage commissions, if any, will be paid by you. If all of the shares held in the Plan for you are sold, then Plan participation will be terminated.
7. When do your investments begin through the Plan?
If your Enrollment Form specifying reinvestment of cash dividends is received by the Plan Administrator at least five business days before the record date of a cash dividend payment, reinvestment will commence with the following dividend payment. If your Enrollment Form is received after that date, the reinvestment of cash dividends through the Plan will begin with the next cash dividend payment following the next record date.
Optional cash payments will be invested as specified in Question 9.
8. May you change your method of participation after enrollment?
You may terminate your Plan participation at any time by sending a notification of termination or change the rate at which your dividends are reinvested (to 25%, 50%. 75% or 100%) by sending a revised Enrollment Form to the Plan Administrator at the address noted in Question 3. The termination or change becomes effective immediately as long as your notification of termination is received by the Plan Administrator not less than five business days prior to a cash dividend record date. Enrollment Forms may be obtained by contacting the Company or Plan Administrator.
If you elect to participate through the reinvestment of cash dividends and later decide to make optional cash payments, no new Enrollment Form is needed.
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9. When and how can optional cash payments be made?
Optional cash payments will be invested once quarterly on the Investment Date described in Question 13. Optional cash payments of at least $100 and not more than $2,500 per quarter should be received by the Plan Administrator from you at least five days and not more than 30 days prior to a cash dividend payment date. The payments, less a $2.50 service charge, will be applied to the purchase of shares for your account beginning on that dividend payment date. Cash received for investment may be commingled by the Plan Administrator with dividends and other participant's cash for the purposes of making a purchase of stock. You cannot specify the price or timing nor make any other limitations on the purchase of shares other than those specified under these Terms and Conditions.
No interest will be paid on optional cash payments pending investment. To avoid unnecessary accumulations, such payments must be sent so that they will be received by the Plan Administrator at least five days but not more than 30 days before a cash dividend payment date. Cash received earlier than this date will be returned by the Plan Administrator. You may obtain the return of any optional cash payment by written request received by the Plan Administrator not less than two business days before it is to be invested. Normal dividend payment dates are described in Question 13.
An initial optional cash payment may be made when you join the Plan provided the Enrollment Form is received at least five days and not more than 30 days prior to a cash dividend record date. Thereafter, optional cash payments may be made through the use of Cash Payment Forms sent to you as part of your account statement if they are received by the Plan Administrator at least five days and not more than 30 days prior to a cash dividend payment date. Optional cash payments may be made by sending a personal check, drawn on a U.S. bank payable in U.S. currency, made payable to Registrar and Transfer Company and returned along with the Enrollment Form or Cash Payment Form.
10. What are the limitations on making optional cash payments?
Any optional cash payment you wish to make must be not less than $100 per check nor more than $2,500 per quarter. Any number of optional cash payments may be made, subject to the foregoing limitations. There is no obligation to make any optional cash payment at any time and cash payments need not be in the same amount of money each quarter.
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11. Are there any expenses to you in connection with purchases through the Plan?
The following are the fees and other expenses relating to the Plan charged to you by the Plan Administrator:
• Dividend Reinvestment: All fees and brokerage commissions are absorbed by the Company.
• Cash Investment: A $2.50 fee. Brokerage commissions are absorbed by the Company.
• Certificate Deposit: A $5.00 fee per deposit.
• Sale of shares held in the Plan: $15.00 per sale plus applicable brokerage commissions, if any.
• Withdrawal from the Plan: A $10.00 fee.
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12. How many shares of Common Stock will be purchased for you and what is the source of shares purchased through the Plan?
The number of shares purchased for your account, including a fractional share computed to four decimal places, will be equal to the total amount invested by you (the amount of cash dividends reinvested and any optional cash payments less the $2.50 fee), divided by the purchase price per share.
The Company has the option to issue new Common Stock for all or a portion of the shares to be purchased on any Investment Date or to direct the Plan Administrator, acting as your agent, to purchase all or a portion of the shares of Common Stock to be purchased on any Investment Date on any securities exchange where the shares are traded. If Common Stock is purchased on the open market, neither you nor the Company can exercise any direct or indirect control over the price, timing or number of shares to be purchased or select the registered broker or dealer through or from whom such purchases will be made, which registered broker-dealer shall be unaffiliated with the Plan Administrator.
If the Company has determined that shares of Common Stock are to be purchased on the open market and if the registered broker or dealer through or from whom such purchases are to be made determines in its sole judgment that sufficient additional open-market purchases are not practicable or could have a material impact on the market price of the Company's Common Stock, the broker or dealer may request that the Company sell directly to the Plan Administrator that number of newly-issued shares of Common Stock necessary to meet the Plan's share purchase requirements for the applicable Investment Date. The Company, in its sole discretion, will decide whether or not to sell newly-issued shares to the Plan
Administrator. If the Company determines not to issue new shares of Common Stock under the Plan and applicable law or the closing of the securities markets requires temporary curtailment or suspension of open-market purchases of shares of Common Stock, the Plan Administrator is not accountable for its inability to make purchases at such time. If a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock is not available for purchase for a period of thirty (30) days, the Plan Administrator will promptly mail to you a check for the amount of any unapplied funds in your Plan accounts.
Funds received from either cash dividends or optional cash payments may be commingled for purposes of purchasing shares for the Plan. Your price will be the weighted average price of all shares purchased for the relevant Investment Date (see Questions 13 and 14 below).
13. When will shares of Common Stock be purchased through the Plan?
Purchases under the Plan will be made as soon as practicable during each calendar quarter beginning on the dividend payment date and ending on the date when all funds available have been invested (together, such dates are the "Investment Date"). Dividends, when declared, are generally paid the last Friday of January, April, July and October. The corresponding record dates are generally about the last day of December, March, June and September prior to the dividend payment date.
You will become the owner of the shares purchased for you through the Plan on the date the shares purchased are settled (credited to the account of the Plan Administrator at the registered broker-dealer for the benefit of Plan participants).
If, within 30 days of the dividend payment date, the Plan Administrator cannot buy the shares due to an inadequate supply of shares and the Company has not sold the shares to the Plan Administrator, then the Plan Administrator will send you a check for the amount of the dividend due and any cash contributed by you which remains uninvested.
14. At what price will shares of Common Stock be purchased through the Plan?
The price at which the Plan Administrator will be deemed to have acquired shares for your account under the Plan on the open-market will be the average price of all shares purchased by the Plan Administrator on the open market with respect to a particular Investment Date. The average price will be calculated as the total price paid for all shares purchased with the proceeds of reinvested cash dividends and optional cash payments divided by the number of shares so acquired.
The purchase price per share of any newly-issued shares of Common Stock purchased directly from the Company through the Plan on any Investment Date will be 100% of the fair market value of the shares as of the Investment Date, which for this purpose will be the average closing price of the Company's Common Stock as reported on the American Stock Exchange on the last five (5) trading days ending with, and including, the Investment Date.
In the event that both open market purchases and original issue purchases from the Company are made from dividends and optional cash payments, such combination of shares will be allocated to your individual account on a pro rata basis or otherwise at the discretion of the Company.
The Plan Administrator will make every effort to invest funds in Common Stock as soon as practicable on or after each Investment Date. Shares acquired in the open market will be purchased as soon as practicable by the Plan Administrator beginning on the Investment Date and in no event later than thirty (30) days after the Investment Date, except where and to the extent necessary under any applicable federal securities laws or other government or stock exchange regulations, and except that the Plan Administrator may institute purchase transactions for the investment of dividends prior to the actual payment of dividends in order to minimize, to the extent possible, the delay between the payment of dividends and the settlement of purchase transactions.
The Company reserves the right in its sole discretion to refuse to make any shares available for purchase under the Plan for any reason. Shares acquired from the Company will be purchased for your account as of the close of business on the Investment Date.
Dividend and voting rights will commence on settlement, which is normally three (3) business days after purchase, whether from the Company or any other source.
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15. How may you sell your shares of Common Stock?
You may sell your shares of Common Stock held under the Plan in either of two ways. First, you may request a certificate(s) for some or all of your full shares and arrange for the sale of these shares through a broker-dealer of your choice. There is a $10.00 fee for withdrawing shares from the Plan. The Plan Administrator will send you a check for any fractional shares held in your account if you request certificate(s) for all of your full shares. The price for the fractional shares will be determined by the Plan Administrator by either: a) selling shares on the open market through an unaffiliated, registered broker-dealer; or b) by using the closing price of the Common Stock on any listing exchange or as quoted by a registered broker-dealer on the date your request is received.
Alternatively, you may request that the Plan Administrator sell for you some or all of your shares held by the Plan. The Plan Administrator will sell shares for you through a registered broker-dealer selected by the Plan Administrator in its sole discretion. All broker-dealers used by the Plan Administrator for these sales will be independent of, and not affiliated with, the Plan Administrator or the Company. If you request that the Plan Administrator arrange for the sale of your shares, you will be charged a fee of $15.00 and the brokerage commissions, if any, charged by the broker-dealer selected by the Plan Administrator. These amounts will be deducted from the cash proceeds paid to you. The amount of the commission will vary depending on the broker-dealer selected and other factors. Shares being sold for you may be aggregated with those of other Plan participants who have requested sales. In that case, you will receive proceeds based on the average sale price of all shares sold, less your pro rata share of brokerage commissions. If the proceeds of the sale are insufficient to cover the transaction fee, you will not receive a check, but you will not be billed any additional amount. You may not set any price limits or other restrictions for the sales. A Medallion Signature Guarantee is required for sale requests of $10,000 or higher.
If all shares held for you in the Plan are sold, your Plan participation will be terminated.
16. When will shares of Common Stock be sold?
If you request the sale of shares held by the Plan for you, the Plan Administrator will sell such shares as your agent as soon as practicable after receipt of your written request. Payment will be made by check and mailed to you as soon as practicable after the sale.
The Plan Administrator will use its best efforts to sell your shares on the open market within 10 business days after receipt of your written instructions to such effect or as soon as otherwise practicable. There can be no assurances with respect to the ability of the Plan Administrator to sell your shares or the price, timing or terms on which a sale may be made. The Company and the Plan Administrator have no obligation under the Plan, and assume no responsibility, to purchase full shares credited to your Plan account if such shares cannot be sold by the Plan Administrator.
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17. Will you be credited with dividends on shares held in your Plan account?
The Plan Administrator will receive the cash dividends (less the amount of tax withheld, if any) for all shares held in the Plan due to the reinvestment of dividends on the dividend record date and credit them to participant's accounts on the basis of full shares and any fractional share held. The entire amount of these dividends received will be reinvested automatically in additional shares of Common Stock as a dividend reinvestment. Dividends on shares held in your Plan account due to the deposit of certificates by you will be reinvested at the rate (25%, 50%, 75% or 100%) requested by you.
If you wish to receive dividends in cash on shares purchased through, and held in, the Plan, you must terminate your participation in the Plan and request a certificate for the full number of shares held in your Plan account.
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18. What reports will be sent to you?
As soon as practicable after each transaction, you will receive a statement showing account information, including amounts invested, purchase and/or sale prices, and shares purchased and/or sold. This statement will provide you a cost record of purchases under the Plan and you should retain it for tax purposes. In addition, you will receive the same material sent to every other holder of Common Stock, including the Company's annual reports to shareholders, notices of shareholder's meetings, proxy statements, and information for income tax reporting.
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19. Will certificates be issued for shares of Common Stock purchased through the Plan?
Certificates of shares of Common Stock purchased through the Plan will not be issued to you unless you request them. All shares credited to your Plan account will be issued to the Plan Administrator or its nominees as your agent. The number of shares credited to your account will be shown on your account statement. This convenience protects against loss, theft or destruction of stock certificates and reduces the costs to be borne by the Company. A certificate for any number of full shares credited to your Plan account will be issued to you upon receipt of a written request by the Plan Administrator. Certificates for fractional shares will not be issued under any circumstances.
Shares credited to your account may not be assigned or pledged in any way. If you wish to assign or pledge the full shares credited to your account, you must request that certificates for those shares be issued in your name.
Plan accounts will be maintained in the name in which your certificates are registered at the time you enter the Plan or in the name in which they are held by your broker, bank or other nominee. Certificates for full shares will be registered in the same manner when issued to you.
20. May you send your Common Stock certificates to be credited to your Plan account for safekeeping?
You may deposit for safekeeping any shares of Common Stock to be held for your Plan account by the Plan Administrator. The shares will be credited to your Plan account and will be issued to the Plan Administrator or its nominees as your agent. A service fee of $5.00 is charged by the Plan Administrator for the deposit of one or more certificates. A check for $5.00 made payable to Registrar and Transfer Company must accompany your request. If you desire to deposit certificate(s) into the Plan, you should mail them by certified or registered mail to the Plan Administrator with a note requesting that they be so credited. You should insure the certificate(s) for 2% of the current market value when mailing the certificate(s). This is the amount that is usually charged for surety protection should the certificate(s) become lost in the mail.
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21. How can participation in the Plan be terminated?
Participation in the Plan is entirely voluntary. You may terminate your participation in the Plan at any time by written instructions to the Plan Administrator. A fee of $10.00 will be imposed if you withdraw from the Plan. When your notice of termination is received, the Plan Administrator will issue certificates for full shares credited to your account under the Plan and a cash payment will be made to you for any fractional share. If your notice of termination is received by the Plan Administrator less than five business days prior to a cash dividend record date, then that cash dividend will be reinvested for your account. When your account is terminated, subsequent cash dividends on certificated shares will be paid to you.
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22. What are the federal income tax consequences of participating in the Plan?
Distributions by the Company to shareholders will generally be taxed as ordinary dividend income. If open market purchases of shares of Common Stock are made for you through the Plan with reinvested cash dividends, you will be deemed to have received a taxable dividend in the amount of the cash dividend reinvested. Your cost basis for purposes of calculating capital gains upon the sale of the shares will equal the amount of the cash dividend.
You will not realize any taxable income at the time of investment of optional cash payments in additional shares of Common Stock. The tax basis of shares purchased on the open market with an optional cash payment will be the amount of such payment.
The holding period of shares of Common Stock acquired through the Plan, whether purchased with reinvested dividends or optional cash payments, will begin on the day the transaction is settled.
You will not realize any taxable income when you receive certificates for full shares credited to your account, either upon your written request for such certificates or upon withdrawal from or termination of the Plan. However, you will recognize taxable gain or loss (which, for most participants, will be capital gain or loss) when full shares acquired under the Plan are sold or exchanged for you and when you receive the cash payment for a fractional share credited to your account. The amount of such gain or loss will be the difference between the amount that you receive for your shares or fractional share (net of brokerage commissions and other costs of sale) and the tax basis thereof. Any fees and commissions absorbed by the company may be interpreted as taxable income by the Internal Revenue Service. You must determine your own tax liability requirements as a result of your participation in the Plan.
Foreign participants who elect to have their cash dividends reinvested and whose dividends are subject to United States income tax withholding will have the applicable taxes withheld prior to the reinvestment of the cash dividends. Other participants for whom federal income tax withholding on dividends is required will have these taxes withheld prior to the reinvestment of the dividend. Foreign shareholder participants are urged to consult their legal advisors with respect to any local exchange, control, tax, or other law or regulation that may affect their participation in the Plan. The Company and the Plan Administrator assume no responsibility regarding such laws or regulations and will not be liable for any act or omission in respect thereof.
The foregoing is only an outline of the Company's understanding of some of the applicable federal income tax provisions. The outline is general in nature and does not purport to cover every situation. Moreover, it does not include a discussion of state and local income tax consequences of participation in the Plan. For specific information on the tax consequences of participation in the Plan, including any future changes in applicable law or interpretation thereof, you should consult your own tax advisor.
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23. What happens if you sell a portion of the shares of Common Stock registered in your name or held in your account by your broker, bank or other nominee?
If you have authorized the reinvestment of cash dividends on shares registered in your name or held in your account by your broker, bank or other nominee with respect to which you participate in the Plan and then dispose of a portion of these shares, the cash dividends on the remaining shares will continue to be reinvested.
24. What happens when you sell or transfer all of the shares registered in your name or held in your account by your broker, bank or other nominee or stop all purchases?
If you dispose of all shares registered in your name or held in your account by your broker, bank or other nominee with respect to which you participate in the Plan or stop purchases through optional cash payments, the cash dividends on the shares credited to your Plan account that remain in the Plan will continue to be reinvested. If you cease to be a record owner of any shares of Common Stock (other than by depositing shares into the Plan) or cease to hold any shares in your account at your broker, bank or other nominee, the Plan Administrator, in its discretion, may request your instructions on the disposition of stock in your Plan account. If the Plan Administrator does not receive such instructions from you within 30 days, the Plan Administrator, in its discretion, may terminate your Plan account.
25. If the Company has a rights offering, how will rights on the Plan shares be handled?
No preemptive rights attach to the Common Stock of the Company. If the Company, nevertheless, makes available to holders of Common Stock rights or warrants to purchase additional shares of Common Stock or other securities, such rights or warrants will be made available to you. This allocation will be based on the number of shares (including any fractional interests to the extent practicable) held for you in your Plan account on the record date established for determining the holders of Common Stock entitled to such rights or warrants.
26. What happens if the Company issues a stock dividend or declares a stock split?
Any stock dividend or split shares in the form of Common Stock distributed by the Company on shares of Common Stock held by you in certificated form or held in your account by your broker, bank or other nominee or for you in your Plan account will be credited to your account in the Plan. Both full and fractional shares, where applicable, will be credited to your account.
A stock dividend or split shares distribution in the form of Common Stock will increase automatically by that amount the number of shares on which cash dividends are being reinvested.
27. How will your shares be voted at meetings of shareholders?
Shares held under the Plan will not be voted by the Plan Administrator. You will receive a proxy indicating the total number of shares of Common Stock registered in your name and shares of Common Stock credited to your Plan account or, if your shares are held in your account by your broker, bank or other nominee, the number of shares of Common Stock credited to your Plan account.
If your proxy is returned properly signed and marked for voting, all shares covered by the proxy, including those registered in your name and those held for you under the Plan, will be voted as marked. If your proxy is returned properly signed but without indicating instructions on the manner in which shares are to be voted with respect to any item thereon, all of your shares, including those registered in your name and those held for you under the Plan, will be voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Directors of the Company.
If your proxy is not returned, or if it is returned not executed or improperly executed, your shares will be voted only if you vote in person.
28. What is the responsibility of the Company and the Plan Administrator for the Plan?
The Plan Administrator has no responsibility with respect to the preparation and the contents of this Prospectus. Neither the Company nor the Plan Administrator or its nominee(s), in administering the Plan, will be liable for any act done in good faith. Neither the Company nor the Plan Administrator will be liable for any good faith omission to act, including, without limitation, any claims of liability arising out of: (i) failure to terminate a participant's account upon the participant's death prior to the receipt of notice in writing of the death; (ii) the prices and times at which shares of Common Stock are purchased or sold for the participant's account or the terms on which such purchases or sales are made; or (iii) fluctuations in the market value of the Common Stock.
Neither the Company nor the Plan Administrator can assure you of a profit or protect you against a loss from the shares purchased or sold through the Plan. An investment in the Common Stock, as is the case with all equity investments, is subject to significant market fluctuations. The Company can neither control purchases by the Plan Administrator under the Plan nor guarantee that dividends on the Common Stock will not be reduced or eliminated.
29. Who regulates and interprets the Plan?
The Company and the Plan Administrator reserve the right to interpret and regulate the Plan as they deem necessary or desirable. Any such interpretation or regulation will be final. The Plan, related Plan documentation and Plan accounts will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New Jersey, where the Plan Administrator is based.
30. May the Plan be changed or discontinued?
While the Company hopes to continue the Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase Plan indefinitely, the Company and the Plan Administrator reserve the right to suspend the Plan at any time by written notice to you. The terms and conditions of the Plan may also be amended by the Plan Administrator, with the concurrence of the Company, at any time by mailing an appropriate notice to you at least 30 days prior to the effective date of such amendment. The Company may amend the Plan by mailing an appropriate notice to you at least 30 days prior to the effective date of such amendment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such amendments to the Plan as may be required from time to time due to changes in or new rules and regulations under the federal or state securities laws may be made by the Plan Administrator prior to notice to you.
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