Contributions. The Employer shall provide the Administrator with all information required by the Administrator to make a proper allocation of Employer contributions for each Plan Year. Within a reasonable period of time after the date of receipt by the Administrator of such information, the Administrator shall allocate contributions as follows:

Contributions. In order to meet its obligations hereunder, the Company may, in its sole discretion, contribute to a trust the funds necessary to provide the benefits hereunder. The assets of any such trust shall remain subject to the claims of the Company’s general creditors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company’s obligations hereunder shall constitute general, unsecured obligations, payable solely out of its general assets, and no Participant or other person shall have any right to specific assets. Title to and beneficial ownership of any assets, whether cash or investments, that the Company may set aside or earmark to meet its obligations hereunder, shall at all times remain in the Company; provided that legal title to any assets placed in a trust shall be in the trustee.

Matching Contributions. The Employer shall make a matching contribution for each pay period equal to 50% of the deferral contribution made by the Participant for such pay period; provided, however, that a Participant’s deferral contributions in excess of 6% of Compensation for such pay period shall not be eligible for matching contributions. Notwithstanding the immediately preceding sentence, an Employer, by resolution of its board of directors or other governing body and subject to the approval of the Committee, may provide for a matching contribution on behalf of Participants employed by such Employer that differs from the matching contribution stated above. In such a case, the matching contribution so adopted by such Employer and approved by the Committee shall be set forth in [Schedule B] and shall be applicable to such Employer in lieu of the matching contribution stated above until changed by action of such Employer’s board of directors or other governing body and approved by the Committee. Matching contributions on behalf of a Participant shall be made in cash and credited to the Participant’s Matching Contribution Account.

Employer Contributions. Each Employer, in its sole discretion, may make either or both of the following types of contributions to the Plan on behalf of Participants employed by that Employer.

Rollover Contributions. At the direction of the Committee, and in accordance with such uniform rules as the Committee may from time to time establish, rollovers described in Code Section 402(c), rollovers from an annuity contract described in Code Section 403(b), rollovers from an eligible plan under Code Section 457(b) that is maintained by a state, a political subdivision of a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state and that is not tax-exempt, and rollovers from another plan that meets the requirements of Code Section 401(a) or 403(a), including after-tax employee contributions and designated Roth accounts, may be received by the Trustee and will be credited to an Account established in the name of the Eligible Employee. Any rollover contribution made in accordance with the preceding sentence must be made in cash; rollover contributions of property other than cash will not be accepted. Any amount received by the Trustee for an Eligible Employee in accordance with this [Section 3.9] shall be adjusted during each accounting period for their pro rata share of any change in the value of the Investment Funds. Eligible Employees shall be fully vested in their Rollover Account. Loans from a terminated plan of an acquired company may be accepted.

Nonelective Contributions. For any "year," instead of a matching contribution, the Employer may elect to contribute a Nonelective Contribution of two percent (2%) of "compensation" for the full "year" for each "eligible employee" who received at least ​ of "compensation" from the Employer for the "year."

Future contributions of the Parties, required in the interest of the Joint Venture, shall upon decision by the Board be in proportion to each Party's share in the Joint Venture, being understood that the Parties’ respective participation in the Joint Venture shall be determined at the moment such future additional contribution is required, in accordance with the provisions of [Section 7.2] and following subsections below.

Rollover Contributions. This Plan shall not accept a direct rollover or rollover contribution of an “eligible rollover distribution” as such term is defined in [Section 10.9-1]1] of the Plan.

Minimum Contributions. For any Top-Heavy Year, each Employer shall make a special contribution on behalf of each Participant to the extent that the total allocations to his or her Account pursuant to [Section 4] is less than the lesser of:

ESOP Contributions: For each Plan Year during which an Exempt Loan is outstanding, the Employer shall make an ESOP Contribution to the Trust in such amount and at such times as shall be determined by the Company.

SKERP Contributions. You will receive your employer-provided SKERP contributions from the period ​ through the end of the Employment Period, including an Additional Supplemental Company Contribution equal to 5% of salary earned by you through the end of the Employment Period and 5% of the bonus earned by you for the fiscal year ended ​, which was paid in ​.

No Company contribution shall be made to any Prior Profit Sharing Account with respect to any period after ​, but such a contribution may be made after ​, with respect to a prior period.

Employee Contributions. Each eligible employee may authorize payroll deductions at a minimum of 1 percent up to a maximum of 15 percent of such employee’s Compensation for each pay period. The Company will maintain book accounts showing the amount of payroll deductions made by each Participant for each Offering. No interest will accrue or be paid on payroll deductions.

Corrective Contributions. If, with respect to any Plan Year, # an error is made in crediting Company Matching Contributions or earnings to a Participant’s Account, # an error is made with respect to the administration of the Participant’s Account or with respect to the investment of the assets of the Trust Fund, or # a market value adjustment is made upon termination of an investment, which error or market value adjustment results in an incorrect amount being credited to the Participant’s Account or to any amount being incorrectly deducted from a Participant’s Account, remedial action may be taken to correct such error or adjustment in accordance with this [Section 4.4(e)]. In such event, the Account balances of such affected Participants may be adjusted to the extent necessary to reflect the Account balances which would have existed had no such error or adjustment been made. The Employer may make additional contributions to the Account of any affected Participant to place the affected Participant’s Account in the position that would have existed if the error or adjustment had not been made. Any Account adjustments or additional contributions made under this [Section 4.4(e)] shall be made on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis.

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Making of Contributions. Once each month, or as otherwise determined by the Committee subject to the Employer’s consent, the Employer will pay over contributions to the Trustee to be held in trust and invested as herein provided and as set out more fully in the Trust Agreement. The Employer’s matching contributions, profit sharing contributions, and retirement contributions for each Plan Year, if any, shall not be made later than the due date for filing the Employer’s federal income tax return for the taxable year with or within which such Plan Year ends, including extensions thereof. The contributions to this Plan when taken together with all other contributions made by the Employer to other qualified retirement plans shall not exceed the maximum amount deductible under Code Section 404.

Investment of Contributions. Contributions added to a Participant’s Investment Account shall be credited to the AEP Stock Fund and credited with earnings as if invested in the AEP Stock Fund.

Deferred Compensation Contributions. Subject to Executive’s continued employment hereunder, the Company will continue to make contributions to Executive’s account under the ​ Deferred Compensation Plan (each, a “Contribution”) through ​. Such Contributions shall consist of a ​ Contribution on ​ and a ​ Contribution on ​. In addition, subject to Executive’s continued employment through the payment date and Executive’s execution and nonrevocation of the Supplemental Release (as defined below), the Company will pay Executive a lump sum of ​ within thirty (30) days following the Separation Date in lieu of any additional Contributions to such plan.

Catch-Up Contributions. If selected in the Adoption Agreement, all Employees who are eligible to make Elective Deferrals under this Plan and who have attained age 50 before the close of the taxable year shall be eligible to make Catch -Up Contributions in accordance with, and subject to the dollar limitations of, Code §414(v)(2)(B)(i) for the taxable year. The limit will be adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury for cost-of-living increases under Code §414(v)(2)(C). Such Catch-Up Contributions shall not be taken into account for purposes of the provisions of the Plan implementing the required limitations of Code §§402( g) and 415. The Plan shall not be treated as failing to satisfy the provisions of the Plan implementing the requirements of Code §401(k)(3), 401(k)(11), 401(k)(12),