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ARTICLE VI
<br />MISCELLANEOUS
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<br />EXHIBIT A
<br />5.3 Termination of the Trust. The Employer reserves the right to terminate the
<br />Trust at any time for any reason. Upon termination of the Trust, any assets remaining in the
<br />Trust will be used to satisfy the Employer's OPEB liability, determined as of the date of such
<br />termination, and to pay taxes due and expenses of administering the Trust. Any assets
<br />remaining in the Trust after such liabilities are satisfied will revert to the Employer.
<br />5.4 No "Vested Rights The Employer may, at any time, without limitation,
<br />terminate or reduce any contributions that may be made to the Trust. The Employer also may,
<br />at any time and without limitation, amend or terminate the Trust in any manner whatsoever,
<br />subject to Sections 5.2 and 5.3. No Participant or other person will have any right to limit the
<br />exercise of the powers set forth in the preceding sentences. In addition, no person will have
<br />any "vested rights" under California or federal law to have any contributions made to the Trust,
<br />or to have the Trust continued at all or continued in whatever form it takes at any point in time.
<br />6.1 Reliance. The Employer and the Trustee will be protected in acting upon any
<br />notice, resolution, request, consent order, certificate, report, opinion, statement or other
<br />document which they reasonably believed to be genuine and to have been signed by the proper
<br />party or parties or by a person or persons authorized to act on its behalf.
<br />6.2 Person Dealing with the Trustee. No person dealing with the Trustee will be
<br />under any obligation to inquire into the validity, expediency or propriety of any action by the
<br />Trustee or of any exercise by it of any of the powers conferred upon it by this Trust. The
<br />execution by the Trustee of any instrument, document or paper in connection with the exercise
<br />of any of the powers enumerated herein will, of itself, be conclusive evidence to all persons of
<br />the authority of the Trustee to execute the same and to exercise the powers incident thereto.
<br />6.3 No Right to Information. Except as required by law or as specifically directed
<br />by the Employer, no person other than the Employer and the Committee will have any right to
<br />receive information, from the Trustee or any other person, as to the assets, liabilities, income, or
<br />expenses of the Trust. If section 16062 of the California Probate Code is held to apply to the
<br />Trust, its provisions are waived to the fullest extent permitted under section 16064 of such
<br />Probate Code.
<br />6.4 Anti Alienation. No right or claim to, or interest in, any part of the Trust, will be
<br />subject to anticipation, alienation, sale, transfer, assignment, mortgage, pledge, encumbrance,
<br />hypothecation, commutation, garnishment, charge, or any other process of any court except as
<br />specifically permitted under this Trust or as required by law. No portion of the benefits payable
<br />under the Trust will be subject to the bankruptcy estate of any Participant, except as required by
<br />law.
<br />6.5 Notices. All orders, requests, directions and instructions of the Committee to the
<br />Trustee will be in writing, signed by a person authorized to act on its behalf. Unless the Trustee
<br />knows or has reason to know (through its exercise of its fiduciary duties or otherwise) that the
<br />direction constitutes a breach of the Committee's duties or responsibilities, the Trustee shall act
<br />and will be fully protected in acting in accordance with such orders, requests, directions and
<br />instructions. In the absence of knowledge of, or reason to know, that the direction constitutes
<br />such a breach, the Trustee will be entitled to rely conclusively on such direction, and will have
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