You may designate a beneficiary to receive payment in connection with the Restricted Stock Units awarded hereunder in the event of your death while in service with [[Bank of America:Organization]] or its Subsidiaries in accordance with [[Bank of America:Organization]]’s beneficiary designation procedures, as in effect from time to time. Any beneficiary designation in effect at the time of your termination of employment with [[Bank of America:Organization]] and its Subsidiaries (other than a termination of employment due to your death) will remain in effect following your termination of employment unless you change your beneficiary designation or it otherwise ceases to be enforceable and/or valid in accordance with [[Bank of America:Organization]]`s beneficiary designation procedures, as in effect from time to time. If you do not designate a beneficiary or if your designated beneficiary does not survive you, then your beneficiary will be your estate.

“Beneficiary” means the Person or Persons designated in writing as such by Executive and filed with the Company at any time. Any such designation may be withdrawn or changed in writing by Executive, but only the last such designation on file shall be effective. If the Beneficiary predeceases Executive and no contingent Beneficiary was designated, or if Executive failed to designate a Beneficiary, then the Beneficiary shall be Executive’s estate.

Divorce revokes spousal Beneficiary designation. Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, unless otherwise elected in [Appendix A] to the Adoption Agreement (Special Effective Dates and Other Permitted Elections), if a Participant has designated the Spouse as a Beneficiary, then a divorce decree that relates to such Spouse shall revoke the Participant's designation of the Spouse as a Beneficiary unless the decree or a "qualified domestic relations order" (within the meaning of Code §414(p)) provides otherwise or a subsequent Beneficiary designation is made.

If a participant has not commenced distribution from the 401(k) Plan prior to his or her death and did not designate a beneficiary under this Plan but has an effective beneficiary designation on file for the 401(k) Plan, the beneficiary designation on file for the 401(k) Plan shall apply to this Plan

The failure of any Participant to obtain any recommended signature on the form will not invalidate the beneficiary designation or prohibit Alcoa from treating such designation as valid and effective. No beneficiary will acquire any beneficial or other interest in any Special Retention Award prior to the death of the Participant who designated such beneficiary.

beneficiary designation procedures, as in effect from time to time. If you do not designate a beneficiary or if your designated beneficiary does not survive you, then your beneficiary will be your estate.

A Certificate of Insurance shall be provided to the Director. The beneficiary of the insurance will be the beneficiary recorded on a beneficiary designation provided by the Company.

No designation or change in designation of a Beneficiary shall be effective until received and accepted by the Committee or its designated agent.

A Participant may file with the Administrator a written designation of a beneficiary on such form as may be prescribed by the Administrator and may, from time to time, amend or revoke such designation. If no designated beneficiary survives the Participant, the executor or administrator of the Participant’s estate shall be deemed to be the Participant’s beneficiary.

Form and Method of Designation. The affirmative designation of any beneficiary and any elected change or revocation thereof by a Participant shall be made on forms provided by the Committee