Eligible Employee. An Employee who participates in the Retirement Plan and whose benefits are reduced by Limitations or whose taxable compensation has been reduced as a result of an election by the Employee to defer compensation pursuant to a deferred compensation plan maintained by an Employer.

Eligible Employee. Eligible Employee means any Employee who is a senior officer of the Company or a Subsidiary and designated by the Committee as an Eligible Employee.

Newly Eligible Employee. “Newly Eligible Employee” means an Employee who either # was not previously eligible to participate in this Plan or any other non-qualified, deferred compensation plans maintained by a Participating Employer or other Affiliate, # had been paid all amounts previously deferred under all non-qualified, deferred compensation plans maintained by a Participating Employer or other Affiliate and had ceased to be eligible to continue to participate in such plans on or before the date of payment of all amounts due under such plans, or # was not eligible to participate in any non-qualified deferred compensation plans (other than the accrual of earnings) maintained by a Participating Employer or other Affiliate at any time during the 24-month period ending on the date the Employee has again become eligible to participate in the Plan.

Omission of Eligible Employee. If, in any Plan Year, any Eligible Employee who should be included as a Participant in the Plan is erroneously omitted and discovery of such omission is not made until after a contribution by his or her Employer for the year has been made, the Employer shall make a subsequent contribution with respect to the omitted Eligible Employee in the amount which the said Employer would have contributed regardless of whether or not it is deductible in whole or in part in any taxable year under applicable provisions of the Code.

Election by Eligible Employee. Each Option shall entitle the Eligible Employee to whom it is granted to purchase up to the total number of shares of Common Stock calculated in Section 6 above, and to purchase all or any portion of such shares at the time and in the manner specified below.

DTC Eligible. The Company’s common stock is DTC eligible and DTC has not placed a “freeze” or a “chill” on such securities and neither the Company nor to the best of the Company’s Knowledge, any director or officer thereof has any reason to believe that DTC has any intention to make its common stock not DTC eligible, or place a “freeze” or “chill” on such securities.

Retirement Eligible. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee, if a Participant Terminates Employment while Retirement eligible, the Participant's Option may be exercised, to the extent then exercisable: # for a period of five (5) years from the date of Retirement or # until the expiration of the stated term of such Option, whichever period is shorter.

Eligible Employees. Subject to Section 3.2, below, any person who is an Employee, with the exception of any Employee whose customary employment is not for more than 20 hours per week or five months per year, on the Offering Date in a given Offering Period will be eligible to participate in the Plan for that Offering Period subject to the requirements of Article IV and the limitations imposed by Section 423(b) of the Code; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee may, on a prospective basis, # impose an eligibility service requirement of up to two years of employment, and # exclude from participation in the Plan a designated group of highly compensated employees (within the meaning of Section 414(q) of the Code) (each Employee eligible to participate in the Plan pursuant to this Article III, an “Eligible Employee”); provided, however, that an Eligible Employee who works for a Participating Subsidiary and is a citizen or resident of a jurisdiction other than the United States (without regard to whether such individual also is a citizen or resident of the United States or is a resident alien (within the meaning of [Section 7701(b)(1)(A)] of the Code)) may be excluded from participation in the Plan or an Offering if the participation of such Eligible Employee is prohibited under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction or if complying with the laws of the applicable jurisdiction would cause the Plan to violate Section 423 of the Code; and, provided further, that, an Eligible Employee (or group of Eligible Employees) may be excluded from participation if the Committee has determined, in its sole discretion, that participation of such Eligible Employee(s) is not advisable or practicable for any reason, provided, however, that no such exclusion shall occur in the event it would jeopardize the compliance of the Plan with the requirements of Section 423 of the Code.

Eligible Adoptee. For purposes of this section, an “Eligible Adoptee” means any individual (other than a child of the Participant’s spouse) who # has not attained age 18 or # is physically or mentally incapable of self-support. For purposes of this [Section 12.14(a)], an individual shall be considered “physically or mentally incapable of self-support” if such person is disabled within the meaning of Code Section 72(m)(7).

All executive officers, chairmen and vice chairmen of boards, presidents, executive vice presidents, senior vice presidents and vice presidents of Commerce or any of its affiliated banks or subsidiary companies shall be eligible to participate in the Plan, together with such other officers or employees of Commerce and its affiliated banks and subsidiary companies as the Committee shall determine.