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% <br /> of the employee, otherwise, such single-sum payment shall be made <br /> by the end of such calendar year. <br /> (b) a spousal beneficiary may elect a single-sum payment or distribution payable <br /> over a period not extending beyond the life expectancy of the spousal <br /> beneficiary. Distribution to the spousal beneficiary must commence on or <br /> before the later of: (i) the calendar year immediately following the calendar <br /> year in which the Participant died; or (ii) the year the deceased Participant <br /> would have reached age 70-1/2. <br /> Minimum Distribution Requirements — Notwithstanding anything in this plan to the <br /> contrary, distribution from the Plan shall commence and be made in accordance with <br /> Section 401(a)(9) of the Code and, until the last calendar year beginning before the <br /> effective date of the final regulations under section 401(a)(9) or such other date as may <br /> be published by the Internal Revenue Service, the regulations under section 401(a)(9) <br /> that were proposed on January 17, 2001. Participants must commence distribution no <br /> later than April 1st following the later of (i) the calendar year in which the Participant <br /> attains age 70-1/2 or (ii) the calendar year in which the Participant retires. <br /> Domestic Relations Orders — No benefit or interest available hereunder will be subject <br /> to assignment or alienation, either voluntarily or involuntarily pursuant to a domestic <br /> relations order, unless such order is determined to be a qualified domestic relations <br /> order, as defined under Section 414(p) of the Code. <br /> Direct Rollovers — A distributee may elect to have all or any portion of an Eligible <br /> Rollover Distribution paid directly to an Eligible Retirement Plan specified by the <br /> distributee. <br /> For purposes of this section an Eligible Rollover Distribution means any distribution of <br /> all or any portion of the balance to the credit for the distrbutee, except that an Eligible <br /> Rollover Distribution does not include: any distribution that is one of a series of <br /> substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) made for the <br /> life (or life expectancy) of the distributee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of <br /> the distributee and the distributee's designated Beneficiary, or for a specified period of <br /> ten years or more; any distribution to the extent such distribution is required under <br /> Section 401(a)(9) of the Code; or any amount that is distributed on account of hardship. <br /> For purposes of this section an Eligible Retirement Plan means an eligible retirement <br /> plan that is an individual retirement account described in Section 408(a) of the Code, an <br /> individual retirement annuity described in Section 408(b) of the Code, an eligible <br /> deferred compensation plan described in Section 457(b) of the Code which is <br /> maintained by an eligible employer described in Section 457(e)(1)(A) of the Code, an <br /> annuity plan described in Section 403(a) of the Code, an annuity contract described in <br /> section 403(b) of the Code, or a qualified trust described in Section 401(a) of the Code, <br /> that accepts the distributee's eligible rollover distribution. The definition of eligible <br /> retirement plan shall also apply in the case of a distribution to a surviving spouse, or to <br />