Common use of Duties of the Servicer Clause in Contracts

Duties of the Servicer. (a) The Servicer shall take or cause to be taken all such actions as it deems necessary or advisable to collect each Pledged Contract from time to time, all in accordance, in all material respects, with applicable laws, rules, regulations and the Credit and Collection Policy. Each of the Borrower, each Lender, each Liquidity Provider, each Managing Agent and the Program Agent hereby appoints as its agent the Servicer, from time to time designated pursuant to Section 6.01, to enforce its respective rights and interests in and under the Pledged Contracts and the other Collateral. (b) Without limiting the foregoing, the Servicer shall perform all aspects of servicing, administering, collecting, liquidating, accounting for and managing (collectively, “administering”, “administer”, or “administration”) the Pledged Contracts it customarily performs in accordance with the Accepted Servicing Practices, which practices are in accordance with applicable law and have been disclosed to the Program Agent, the Lenders and the Managing Agents prior to the date hereof. The administration provided by the Servicer shall include but not be limited to all servicing currently provided by the Servicer, Financed Vehicle titling and lien perfection, customer service, insurance claim tracking and collection, insurance maintenance, Contract enforcement, Contract billing, payment processing, portfolio and Contract accounting, portfolio management, delinquency collection, repossession, foreclosure, resale, and maintaining current Contract Debtor and Financed Vehicle location information (name, address and phone number). The Servicer shall maintain current, accurate, and complete records of activity and comments regarding collection, insurance, payments, and other material events. The records regarding collection history, payments, Contract accounting, customer service notes, Contract Debtor names and addresses and Principal Balance shall be computerized. The Servicer shall administer and otherwise deal with the Contracts in compliance with all applicable laws. The Servicer shall conduct foreclosure sales in a commercially reasonable manner and take the steps necessary to preserve the deficiency liability of the Contract Debtors. (c) The Servicer (so long as it is DTCC) will at all times apply the same standards and follow the same procedures with respect to the decision to commence litigation with respect to the Pledged Contracts, and in prosecuting and litigating with respect to Pledged Contracts, as it applies and follows with respect to retail installment or conditional sales contracts for the purchase of new or used Motor Vehicles serviced by it which are not Pledged Contracts; provided, however, that after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Termination, the Servicer shall commence or settle any legal action to enforce collection of any Charged-Off Contract or to foreclose upon or repossess any Financed Vehicle with respect thereto as directed by the Program Agent. In no event shall the Servicer be entitled to make the Program Agent, any Managing Agent, any Lender or any Liquidity Provider a party to any litigation without the such Person’s express prior written consent. (d) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Pledged Contracts as and when the same shall become due and shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to all comparable automotive receivables that it services for itself or others. The Servicer shall allocate Collections between principal and interest in accordance with its customary servicing procedures. The Servicer shall apply all Collections to the Pledged Contracts owed by the applicable Contract Debtors in a timely manner in accordance with the business practices of DTCC in existence as of the date hereof. In the event the Servicer receives any Collections or other proceeds of the Collateral, it shall hold such Collections and other proceeds on behalf of the Borrower for application and remittance in accordance with Section 2.06 or 2.07, as applicable, and it shall remit the same to the Collection Account to the extent required hereunder. To the extent the Servicer receives a payment from a Contract Debtor with respect to a Pledged Contract with respect to which such Contract Debtor has not identified the Pledged Contract to which such payment should be applied (a payment in the exact amount of an outstanding invoice being sufficient identification), the Servicer shall use its best efforts to contact such Contract Debtor to confirm the Pledged Contract to which such Contract Debtor intended that such payment be applied in accordance with the Servicer’s customary practices and procedures. (e) The Servicer shall, as soon as practicable following receipt, turn over to the Person entitled thereto collections in respect of any Contract which is not a Pledged Contract less, to the extent the Servicer performed any collection or enforcement actions which it was authorized by such Person to perform, all reasonable and appropriate out of pocket costs and expenses of such Servicer incurred in collecting and enforcing such receivable. (f) The Servicer may, in accordance with its Credit and Collection Policy grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a Pledged Contract. The Servicer may in its discretion waive any late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing a Pledged Contract. The Servicer shall not voluntarily agree to any alteration of the interest rate on any Pledged Contract. (g) On behalf of the Borrower and the Program Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, the Servicer shall use its best efforts, consistent with its customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise convert the ownership of the Financed Vehicle securing any Pledged Contract as to which the Servicer shall have determined eventual payment in full is unlikely. From time to time, as appropriate for servicing or foreclosing upon any Pledged Contract, the Borrower shall, upon written request of the Servicer, execute such documents as shall be reasonably necessary to prosecute any such proceedings. The Servicer shall follow such customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable in its servicing of Contracts, which may include reasonable efforts to realize proceeds from the repossession of the related Financed Vehicle. The foregoing shall be subject to the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with the repair or the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its reasonable discretion that such repair and/or repossession will increase the Net Liquidation Proceeds by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses. (h) In the event of a loss or claim under a physical damages insurance policy or comprehensive and collision insurance policy, the Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures take all necessary action to enforce all available rights and claims under such insurance policy. (i) The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the security interest created by each Pledged Contract in the related Financed Vehicle in favor of the Borrower. The Servicer is hereby authorized to take such steps as are necessary to reperfect such security interest on behalf of the Borrower in the event of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle or for any other reason. (j) Upon the occurrence of Servicer Default or a Event of Termination, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Program Agent may instruct the Servicer to take or cause to be taken, such action as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be necessary to perfect or reperfect the security interests in the Financed Vehicles securing the Pledged Contracts in the name of the Program Agent by such reasonable means as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be reasonably necessary or prudent. The Servicer hereby agrees to pay all expenses related to such perfection or reperfection and to take all action reasonably necessary therefor. (k) The Borrower shall deliver to the Servicer, and the Servicer shall hold in trust for the Borrower, the Lenders and the Liquidity Providers in accordance with their respective interests, all Records.

Appears in 5 contracts

Samples: Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Acceptance Corp), Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Acceptance Corp), Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Credit Company, LLC)

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Duties of the Servicer. (a) The Servicer shall take or cause to be taken all such actions as it deems necessary or advisable to collect each Pledged Contract from time to time, all in accordance, in all material respects, with applicable laws, rules, regulations and the Credit and Collection Policy. Each of the Borrower, each Lender, each Liquidity Provider, each Managing Agent the Lender and the Program Agent Lender hereby appoints as its agent the Servicer, from time to time designated pursuant to Section 6.01, to enforce its respective rights and interests in and under the Pledged Contracts and the other Collateral. (b) Without limiting the foregoing, the Servicer shall perform all aspects of servicing, administering, collecting, liquidating, accounting for and managing (collectively, “administering”, “administer”, or “administration”) the Pledged Contracts it customarily performs in accordance with the Accepted Servicing Practices, which practices are in accordance with applicable law and have been disclosed to the Program Agent, the Lenders and the Managing Agents Lender prior to the date hereof. The administration provided by the Servicer shall include but not be limited to all servicing currently provided by the Servicer, Financed Vehicle titling and lien perfection, customer service, insurance claim tracking and collection, insurance maintenance, Contract enforcement, Contract billing, payment processing, portfolio and Contract accounting, portfolio management, delinquency collection, repossession, foreclosure, resale, and maintaining current Contract Debtor and Financed Vehicle location information (name, address and phone number). The Servicer shall maintain current, accurate, and complete records of activity and comments regarding collection, insurance, payments, and other material events. The records regarding collection history, payments, Contract accounting, customer service notes, Contract Debtor names and addresses and Principal Balance shall be computerized. The Servicer shall administer and otherwise deal with the Contracts in compliance with all applicable laws. The Servicer shall conduct foreclosure sales in a commercially reasonable manner and take the steps necessary to preserve the deficiency liability of the Contract Debtors. (c) The Servicer (so long as it is DTCC) will at all times apply the same standards and follow the same procedures with respect to the decision to commence litigation with respect to the Pledged Contracts, and in prosecuting and litigating with respect to Pledged Contracts, as it applies and follows with respect to retail installment or conditional sales contracts for the purchase of new or used Motor Vehicles serviced by it which are not Pledged Contracts; provided, however, that from and after the occurrence Term Loan Commitment Termination Date and during until the continuance of an Event of TerminationFinal Collection Date, the Servicer shall commence or settle any legal action to enforce collection of any Charged-Off Contract or to foreclose upon or repossess any Financed Vehicle with respect thereto as directed by the Program AgentLender. In no event shall the Servicer be entitled to make the Program Agent, any Managing Agent, any Lender or any Liquidity Provider a party to any litigation without the such Person’s express prior written consent. (d) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Pledged Contracts as and when the same shall become due and shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to all comparable automotive receivables that it services for itself or others. The Servicer shall allocate Contract Collections between principal and interest in accordance with its customary servicing procedures. The Servicer shall apply all Contract Collections to the Pledged Contracts owed by the applicable Contract Debtors in a timely manner in accordance with the business practices of DTCC in existence as of the date hereof. In the event the Servicer receives any Collections or other proceeds of the Collateral, it shall hold such Collections and other proceeds on behalf of the Borrower for application and remittance in accordance with Section 2.06 2.07 or 2.072.08, as applicable, and it shall remit the same to the Collection Account to the extent required hereunder. To the extent the Servicer receives a payment from a Contract Debtor with respect to a Pledged Contract with respect to which such Contract Debtor has not identified the Pledged Contract to which such payment should be applied (a payment in the exact amount of an outstanding invoice being sufficient identification), the Servicer shall use its best efforts to contact such Contract Debtor to confirm the Pledged Contract to which such Contract Debtor intended that such payment be applied in accordance with the Servicer’s customary practices and procedures. (e) The Servicer shall, as soon as practicable following receipt, turn over to the Person entitled thereto collections in respect of any Contract which is not a Pledged Contract less, to the extent the Servicer performed any collection or enforcement actions which it was authorized by such Person to perform, all reasonable and appropriate out of pocket costs and expenses of such Servicer incurred in collecting and enforcing such receivable. (f) The Servicer may, in accordance with its Credit and Collection Policy grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a Pledged Contract. The Servicer may in its discretion waive any late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing a Pledged Contract. The Servicer shall not voluntarily agree to any alteration of the interest rate on any Pledged Contract. (g) On behalf of the Borrower and the Program Agent for the benefit of the LendersLender, the Servicer shall use its best efforts, consistent with its customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise convert the ownership of the Financed Vehicle securing any Pledged Contract as to which the Servicer shall have determined eventual payment in full is unlikely. From time to time, as appropriate for servicing or foreclosing upon any Pledged Contract, the Borrower shall, upon written request of the Servicer, execute such documents as shall be reasonably necessary to prosecute any such proceedings. The Servicer shall follow such customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable in its servicing of Contracts, which may include reasonable efforts to realize proceeds from the repossession of the related Financed Vehicle. The foregoing shall be subject to the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with the repair or the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its reasonable discretion that such repair and/or repossession will increase the Net Liquidation Proceeds by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses. (h) In the event of a loss or claim under a physical damages insurance policy or comprehensive and collision insurance policy, the Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures take all necessary action to enforce all available rights and claims under such insurance policy. (i) The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the security interest created by each Pledged Contract in the related Financed Vehicle in favor of the Borrower. The Servicer is hereby authorized to take such steps as are necessary to reperfect re-perfect such security interest on behalf of the Borrower in the event of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle or for any other reason. (j) Upon the occurrence of Servicer Default or a Event of Termination, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Program Agent Lender may instruct the Servicer to take or cause to be taken, such action as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program AgentLender, be necessary to perfect or reperfect the security interests in the Financed Vehicles securing the Pledged Contracts in the name of the Program Agent Lender by such reasonable means as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program AgentLender, be reasonably necessary or prudent. The Servicer hereby agrees to pay all expenses related to such perfection or reperfection and to take all action reasonably necessary therefor. (k) The Borrower shall deliver to the Servicer, and the Servicer shall hold in trust for the Borrower, the Lenders Borrower and the Liquidity Providers Lender in accordance with their respective interests, all Records.

Appears in 4 contracts

Samples: Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Acceptance Corp), Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Credit Company, LLC), Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Credit Company, LLC)

Duties of the Servicer. (a) The Servicer shall take or cause to be taken all such actions as it deems necessary or advisable to collect each Pledged Contract from time to time, all in accordance, in all material respects, with applicable laws, rules, regulations and the Credit and Collection Policy. Each of the Borrower, each Lender, each Liquidity Provider, each Managing Agent and the Program Agent hereby appoints as its agent the Servicer, from time to time designated pursuant to Section 6.01, to enforce its respective rights and interests in and under the Pledged Contracts and the other Collateral. (b) Without limiting the foregoing, the Servicer shall perform all aspects of servicing, administering, collecting, liquidating, accounting for and managing (collectively, “administering”, “administer”, or “administration”) the Pledged Contracts it customarily performs in accordance with the Accepted Servicing Practices, which practices are in accordance with applicable law and have been disclosed to the Program Agent, the Lenders and the Managing Agents prior to the date hereof. The administration provided by the Servicer shall include but not be limited to all servicing currently provided by the Servicer, Financed Vehicle titling and lien perfection, customer service, insurance claim tracking and collection, insurance maintenance, Contract enforcement, Contract billing, payment processing, portfolio and Contract accounting, portfolio management, delinquency collection, repossession, foreclosure, resale, and maintaining current Contract Debtor and Financed Vehicle location information (name, address and phone number). The Servicer shall maintain current, accurate, and complete records of activity and comments regarding collection, insurance, payments, and other material events. The records regarding collection history, payments, Contract accounting, customer service notes, Contract Debtor names and addresses and Principal Balance shall be computerized. The Servicer shall administer and otherwise deal with the Contracts in compliance with all applicable laws. The Servicer shall conduct foreclosure sales in a commercially reasonable manner and take the steps necessary to preserve the deficiency liability of the Contract Debtors. (c) The Servicer (so long as it is DTCC) will at all times apply the same standards and follow the same procedures with respect to the decision to commence litigation with respect to the Pledged Contracts, and in prosecuting and litigating with respect to Pledged Contracts, as it applies and follows with respect to retail installment or conditional sales contracts for the purchase of new or used Motor Vehicles serviced by it which are not Pledged Contracts; provided, however, that after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Termination, the Servicer shall commence or settle any legal action to enforce collection of any Charged-Off Contract or to foreclose upon or repossess any Financed Vehicle with respect thereto as directed by the Program Agent. In no event shall the Servicer be entitled to make the Program Agent, any Managing Agent, any Lender or any Liquidity Provider a party to any litigation without the such Person’s express prior written consent. (d) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Pledged Contracts as and when the same shall become due and shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to all comparable automotive receivables that it services for itself or others. The Servicer shall allocate Collections between principal and interest in accordance with its customary servicing procedures. The Servicer shall apply all Collections to the Pledged Contracts owed by the applicable Contract Debtors in a timely manner in accordance with the business practices of DTCC in existence as of the date hereof. In the event the Servicer receives any Collections or other proceeds of the Collateral, it shall hold such Collections and other proceeds on behalf of the Borrower for application and remittance in accordance with Section 2.06 or 2.07, as applicable, and it shall remit the same to the Collection Account to the extent required hereunder. To the extent the Servicer receives a payment from a Contract Debtor with respect to a Pledged Contract with respect to which such Contract Debtor has not identified the Pledged Contract to which such payment should be applied (a payment in the exact amount of an outstanding invoice being sufficient identification), the Servicer shall use its best efforts to contact such Contract Debtor to confirm the Pledged Contract to which such Contract Debtor intended that such payment be applied in accordance with the Servicer’s customary practices and procedures. (e) The Servicer shall, as soon as practicable following receipt, turn over to the Person entitled thereto collections in respect of any Contract which is not a Pledged Contract less, to the extent the Servicer performed any collection or enforcement actions which it was authorized by such Person to perform, all reasonable and appropriate out of pocket costs and expenses of such Servicer incurred in collecting and enforcing such receivable. (f) The Servicer may, in accordance with its Credit and Collection Policy grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a Pledged Contract. The Servicer may in its discretion waive any late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing a Pledged Contract. The Servicer shall not voluntarily agree to any alteration of the interest rate on any Pledged Contract. (g) On behalf of the Borrower and the Program Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, the Servicer shall use its best efforts, consistent with its customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise convert the ownership of the Financed Vehicle securing any Pledged Contract as to which the Servicer shall have determined eventual payment in full is unlikely. From time to time, as appropriate for servicing or foreclosing upon any Pledged Contract, the Borrower shall, upon written request of the Servicer, execute such documents as shall be reasonably necessary to prosecute any such proceedings. The Servicer shall follow such customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable in its servicing of Contracts, which may include reasonable efforts to realize proceeds from the repossession of the related Financed Vehicle. The foregoing shall be subject to the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with the repair or the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its reasonable discretion that such repair and/or repossession will increase the Net Liquidation Proceeds by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses. (h) In the event of a loss or claim under a physical damages insurance policy or comprehensive and collision insurance policy, the Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures take all necessary action to enforce all available rights and claims under such insurance policy. (i) The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the security interest created by each Pledged Contract in the related Financed Vehicle in favor of the Borrower. The Servicer is hereby authorized to take such steps as are necessary to reperfect re-perfect such security interest on behalf of the Borrower in the event of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle or for any other reason. (j) Upon the occurrence of Servicer Default or a Event of Termination, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Program Agent may instruct the Servicer to take or cause to be taken, such action as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be necessary to perfect or reperfect the security interests in the Financed Vehicles securing the Pledged Contracts in the name of the Program Agent by such reasonable means as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be reasonably necessary or prudent. The Servicer hereby agrees to pay all expenses related to such perfection or reperfection and to take all action reasonably necessary therefor. (k) The Borrower shall deliver to the Servicer, and the Servicer shall hold in trust for the Borrower, the Lenders and the Liquidity Providers in accordance with their respective interests, all Records.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Credit Company, LLC), Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Credit Company, LLC), Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Acceptance Corp)

Duties of the Servicer. (a) The Servicer shall take or cause to be taken all such actions as it deems necessary or advisable to collect each Pledged Contract from time to time, all in accordance, in all material respects, with applicable laws, rules, regulations and the Credit and Collection Policy. Each of the Borrower, each Lender, each Liquidity Provider, each Managing Agent and the Program Agent hereby appoints as its agent the Servicer, from time to time designated pursuant to Section 6.01, Section 6.01 to enforce its respective rights and interests in and under the Pledged Contracts and the other Collateral. (b) Without limiting the foregoing, the Servicer shall perform all aspects of servicing, administering, collecting, liquidating, accounting for and managing (collectively, “administering”, “administer”, or “administration”) the Pledged Contracts it customarily performs in accordance with the Accepted Servicing Practices, which practices are in accordance with applicable law and have been disclosed to the Program Agent, the Lenders and the Managing Agents prior to the date hereof. The administration provided by the Servicer shall include but not be limited to all servicing currently provided by the Servicer, Financed Vehicle titling and lien perfection, customer service, insurance claim tracking and collection, insurance maintenance, Contract enforcement, Contract billing, payment processing, portfolio and Contract accounting, portfolio management, delinquency collection, repossession, foreclosure, resale, and maintaining current Contract Debtor and Financed Vehicle location information (name, address and phone number). The Servicer shall maintain current, accurate, and complete records of activity and comments regarding collection, insurance, payments, and other material events. The records regarding collection history, payments, Contract accounting, customer service notes, Contract Debtor names and addresses and Principal Balance shall be computerized. The Servicer shall administer and otherwise deal with the Contracts in compliance with all applicable laws. The Servicer shall conduct foreclosure sales in a commercially reasonable manner and take the steps necessary to preserve the deficiency liability of the Contract Debtors. (c) The Servicer (so long as it is DTCC) will at all times apply the same standards and follow the same procedures with respect to the decision to commence litigation with respect to the Pledged Contracts, and in prosecuting and litigating with respect to Pledged Contracts, as it applies and follows with respect to retail installment or conditional sales contracts for the purchase of new or used Motor Vehicles serviced by it which are not Pledged Contracts; provided, however, that after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Termination, the Servicer shall commence or settle any legal action to enforce collection of any Charged-Off Contract or to foreclose upon or repossess any Financed Vehicle with respect thereto as directed by the Program Agent. In no event shall the Servicer be entitled to make the Program Agent, any Managing Agent, any Lender or any Liquidity Provider a party to any litigation without the such Person’s express prior written consent. (d) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Pledged Contracts as and when the same shall become due and shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to all comparable automotive receivables that it services for itself or others. The Servicer shall allocate Collections between principal and interest in accordance with its customary servicing procedures. The Servicer shall apply all Collections to the Pledged Contracts owed by the applicable Contract Debtors in a timely manner in accordance with the business practices of DTCC in existence as of the date hereof. In the event the Servicer receives any Collections or other proceeds of the Collateral, it shall hold such Collections and other proceeds on behalf of the Borrower for application and remittance in accordance with Section 2.06 or 2.07, as applicable, and it shall remit the same to the Collection Account to the extent required hereunder. To the extent the Servicer receives a payment from a Contract Debtor with respect to a Pledged Contract with respect to which such Contract Debtor has not identified the Pledged Contract to which such payment should be applied (a payment in the exact amount of an outstanding invoice being sufficient identification), the Servicer shall use its best efforts to contact such Contract Debtor to confirm the Pledged Contract to which such Contract Debtor intended that such payment be applied in accordance with the Servicer’s customary practices and procedures. (e) The Servicer shall, as soon as practicable following receipt, turn over to the Person entitled thereto collections in respect of any Contract which is not a Pledged Contract less, to the extent the Servicer performed any collection or enforcement actions which it was authorized by such Person to perform, all reasonable and appropriate out of pocket costs and expenses of such Servicer incurred in collecting and enforcing such receivable. (f) The Servicer may, in accordance with its Credit and Collection Policy grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a Pledged Contract. The Servicer may in its discretion waive any late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing a Pledged Contract. The Servicer shall not voluntarily agree to any alteration of the interest rate on any Pledged Contract. (g) On behalf of the Borrower and the Program Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, the Servicer shall use its best efforts, consistent with its customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise convert the ownership of the Financed Vehicle securing any Pledged Contract as to which the Servicer shall have determined eventual payment in full is unlikely. From time to time, as appropriate for servicing or foreclosing upon any Pledged Contract, the Borrower shall, upon written request of the Servicer, execute such documents as shall be reasonably necessary to prosecute any such proceedings. The Servicer shall follow such customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable in its servicing of Contracts, which may include reasonable efforts to realize proceeds from the repossession of the related Financed Vehicle. The foregoing shall be subject to the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with the repair or the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its reasonable discretion that such repair and/or repossession will increase the Net Liquidation Proceeds by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses. (h) In the event of a loss or claim under a physical damages insurance policy or comprehensive and collision insurance policy, the Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures take all necessary action to enforce all available rights and claims under such insurance policy. (i) The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the security interest created by each Pledged Contract in the related Financed Vehicle in favor of the Borrower. The Servicer is hereby authorized to take such steps as are necessary to reperfect re-perfect such security interest on behalf of the Borrower in the event of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle or for any other reason. (j) Upon the occurrence of Servicer Default or a Event of Termination, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Program Agent may instruct the Servicer to take or cause to be taken, such action as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be necessary to perfect or reperfect the security interests in the Financed Vehicles securing the Pledged Contracts in the name of the Program Agent by such reasonable means as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be reasonably necessary or prudent. The Servicer hereby agrees to pay all expenses related to such perfection or reperfection and to take all action reasonably necessary therefor. (k) The Borrower shall deliver to the Servicer, and the Servicer shall hold in trust for the Borrower, the Lenders and the Liquidity Providers in accordance with their respective interests, all Records.

Appears in 3 contracts

Samples: Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Credit Company, LLC), Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Credit Company, LLC), Loan and Servicing Agreement (DT Acceptance Corp)

Duties of the Servicer. (a) The Servicer shall take or cause to be taken all such actions as it deems necessary or advisable to collect each Pledged Contract from time to time, all in accordance, in all material respects, with applicable laws, rules, regulations and the Credit and Collection Policy. Each of the Borrower, each Lender, each Liquidity Provider, each Managing Agent the Lender and the Program Agent Lender hereby appoints as its agent the Servicer, from time to time designated pursuant to Section 6.01, to enforce its respective rights and interests in and under the Pledged Contracts and the other Collateral. (b) Without limiting the foregoing, the Servicer shall perform all aspects of servicing, administering, collecting, liquidating, accounting for and managing (collectively, “administering”, “administer”, or “administration”) the Pledged Contracts it customarily performs in accordance with the Accepted Servicing Practices, which practices are in accordance with applicable law and have been disclosed to the Program Agent, the Lenders and the Managing Agents Lender prior to the date hereof. The administration provided by the Servicer shall include but not be limited to all servicing currently provided by the Servicer, Financed Vehicle titling and lien perfection, customer service, insurance claim tracking and collection, insurance maintenance, Contract enforcement, Contract billing, payment processing, portfolio and Contract accounting, portfolio management, delinquency collection, repossession, foreclosure, resale, and maintaining current Contract Debtor and Financed Vehicle location information (name, address and phone number). The Servicer shall maintain current, accurate, and complete records of activity and comments regarding collection, insurance, payments, and other material events. The records regarding collection history, payments, Contract accounting, customer service notes, Contract Debtor names and addresses and Principal Balance shall be computerized. The Servicer shall administer and otherwise deal with the Contracts in compliance with all applicable laws. The Servicer shall conduct foreclosure sales in a commercially reasonable manner and take the steps necessary to preserve the deficiency liability of the Contract Debtors. (c) The Servicer (so long as it is DTCC) will at all times apply the same standards and follow the same procedures with respect to the decision to commence litigation with respect to the Pledged Contracts, and in prosecuting and litigating with respect to Pledged Contracts, as it applies and follows with respect to retail installment or conditional sales contracts for the purchase of new or used Motor Vehicles serviced by it which are not Pledged Contracts; provided, however, that from and after the occurrence Term Loan Commitment Termination Date and during until the continuance of an Event of TerminationFinal Collection Date, the Servicer shall commence or settle any legal action to enforce collection of any Charged-Off Contract or to foreclose upon or repossess any Financed Vehicle with respect thereto as directed by the Program AgentLender. In no event shall the Servicer be entitled to make the Program Agent, any Managing Agent, any Lender or any Liquidity Provider a party to any litigation without the such Person’s express prior written consent. (d) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Pledged Contracts as and when the same shall become due and shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to all comparable automotive receivables that it services for itself or others. The Servicer shall allocate Contract Collections between principal and interest in accordance with its customary servicing procedures. The Servicer shall apply all Contract Collections to the Pledged Contracts owed by the applicable Contract Debtors in a timely manner in accordance with the business practices of DTCC in existence as of the date hereof. In the event the Servicer receives any Collections or other proceeds of the Collateral, it shall hold such Collections and other proceeds on behalf of the Borrower for application and remittance in accordance with Section 2.06 2.07 or 2.072.08, as applicable, and it shall remit the same to the Collection Account to the extent required hereunder. To the extent the Servicer receives a payment from a Contract Debtor with respect to a Pledged Contract with respect to which such Contract Debtor has not identified the Pledged Contract to which such payment should be applied (a payment in the exact amount of an outstanding invoice being sufficient identification), the Servicer shall use its best efforts to contact such Contract Debtor to confirm the Pledged Contract to which such Contract Debtor intended that such payment be applied in accordance with the Servicer’s customary practices and procedures. (e) The Servicer shall, as soon as practicable following receipt, turn over to the Person entitled thereto collections in respect of any Contract which is not a Pledged Contract less, to the extent the Servicer performed any collection or enforcement actions which it was authorized by such Person to perform, all reasonable and appropriate out of pocket costs and expenses of such Servicer incurred in collecting and enforcing such receivable. (f) The Servicer may, in accordance with its Credit and Collection Policy grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a Pledged Contract. The Servicer may in its discretion waive any late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing a Pledged Contract. The Servicer shall not voluntarily agree to any alteration of the interest rate on any Pledged Contract. (g) On behalf of the Borrower and the Program Agent for the benefit of the LendersLender, the Servicer shall use its best efforts, consistent with its customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise convert the ownership of the Financed Vehicle securing any Pledged Contract as to which the Servicer shall have determined eventual payment in full is unlikely. From time to time, as appropriate for servicing or foreclosing upon any Pledged Contract, the Borrower shall, upon written request of the Servicer, execute such documents as shall be reasonably necessary to prosecute any such proceedings. The Servicer shall follow such customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable in its servicing of Contracts, which may include reasonable efforts to realize proceeds from the repossession of the related Financed Vehicle. The foregoing shall be subject to the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with the repair or the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its reasonable discretion that such repair and/or repossession will increase the Net Liquidation Proceeds by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses. (h) In the event of a loss or claim under a physical damages insurance policy or comprehensive and collision insurance policy, the Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures take all necessary action to enforce all available rights and claims under such insurance policy. (i) The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the security interest created by each Pledged Contract in the related Financed Vehicle in favor of the Borrower. The Servicer is hereby authorized to take such steps as are necessary to reperfect re-perfect such security interest on behalf of the Borrower in the event of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle or for any other reason. (j) Upon the occurrence of Servicer Default or a Event of Termination, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Program Agent Lender may instruct the Servicer to take or cause to be taken, such action as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program AgentLender, be necessary to perfect or reperfect the security interests in the Financed Vehicles securing the Pledged Contracts in the name of the Program Agent Lender by such reasonable means as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program AgentLender, be reasonably - 84 - necessary or prudent. The Servicer hereby agrees to pay all expenses related to such perfection or reperfection and to take all action reasonably necessary therefor. (k) The Borrower shall deliver to the Servicer, and the Servicer shall hold in trust for the Borrower, the Lenders Borrower and the Liquidity Providers Lender in accordance with their respective interests, all Records.

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Samples: Loan and Servicing Agreement (Drivetime Automotive Group Inc)

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Duties of the Servicer. (a) The Servicer shall take or cause to be taken all such actions as it deems necessary or advisable to collect each Pledged Contract from time to time, all in accordance, in all material respects, with applicable laws, rules, regulations and the Credit and Collection Policy. Each of the Borrower, each Lender, each Liquidity Provider, each Managing Agent and the Program Agent hereby appoints as its agent the Servicer, from time to time designated pursuant to Section 6.01, to enforce its respective rights and interests in and under the Pledged Contracts and the other Collateral. (b) Without limiting the foregoing, the Servicer shall perform all aspects of servicing, administering, collecting, liquidating, accounting for and managing (collectively, “administering”, “administer”, or “administration”) the Pledged Contracts it customarily performs in accordance with the Accepted Servicing Practices, which practices are in accordance with applicable law and have been disclosed to the Program Agent, the Lenders and the Managing Agents prior to the date hereof. The administration provided by the Servicer shall include but not be limited to all servicing currently provided by the Servicer, and Financed Vehicle titling and lien perfection, customer service, insurance claim tracking and collection, insurance maintenance, Contract enforcement, Contract billing, payment processing, portfolio and Contract accounting, portfolio management, delinquency collection, repossession, foreclosure, resale, and maintaining current Contract Debtor and Financed Vehicle location information (name, address and phone number). The Servicer shall maintain current, accurate, and complete records of activity and comments regarding collection, insurance, payments, and other material events. The records regarding collection history, payments, Contract accounting, customer service notes, Contract Debtor names and addresses and Principal Balance shall be computerized. The Servicer shall administer and otherwise deal with the Contracts in compliance with all applicable laws. The Servicer shall conduct foreclosure sales in a commercially reasonable manner and take the steps necessary to preserve the deficiency liability of the Contract Debtors. (c) The Servicer (so long as it is DTCC) will at all times apply the same standards and follow the same procedures with respect to the decision to commence litigation with respect to the Pledged Contracts, and in prosecuting and litigating with respect to Pledged Contracts, as it applies and follows with respect to retail installment or conditional sales contracts for the purchase of new or used Motor Vehicles serviced by it which are not Pledged Contracts; provided, however, that from and after the occurrence Termination Date and during until the continuance of an Event of TerminationFinal Collection Date, the Servicer shall commence or settle any legal action to enforce collection of any Charged-Off Contract or to foreclose upon or repossess any Financed Vehicle with respect thereto as directed by the Program Agent. In no event shall the Servicer be entitled to make the Program Agent, any Managing Agent, any Lender or any Liquidity Provider a party to any litigation without the such Person’s express prior written consent. (d) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Pledged Contracts as and when the same shall become due and shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to all comparable automotive receivables that it services for itself or others. The Servicer shall allocate Collections between principal and interest in accordance with its customary servicing procedures. The Servicer shall apply all Collections to the Pledged Contracts owed by the applicable Contract Debtors in a timely manner in accordance with the business practices of DTCC in existence as of the date hereof. In the event the Servicer receives any Collections or other proceeds of the Collateral, it shall hold such Collections and other proceeds on behalf of the Borrower for application and remittance in accordance with Section 2.06 or 2.07, as applicable, and it shall remit the same to the Collection Account to the extent required hereunder. To the extent the Servicer receives a payment from a Contract Debtor with respect to a Pledged Contract with respect to which such Contract Debtor has not identified the Pledged Contract to which such payment should be applied (a payment in the exact amount of an outstanding invoice being sufficient identification), the Servicer shall use its best efforts to contact such Contract Debtor to confirm the Pledged Contract to which such Contract Debtor intended that such payment be applied in accordance with the Servicer’s customary practices and procedures. (e) The Servicer shall, as soon as practicable following receipt, turn over to the Person entitled thereto collections in respect of any Contract which is not a Pledged Contract less, to the extent the Servicer performed any collection or enforcement actions which it was authorized by such Person to perform, all reasonable and appropriate out of pocket costs and expenses of such Servicer incurred in collecting and enforcing such receivable. (f) The Servicer may, in accordance with its Credit and Collection Policy grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a Pledged Contract. The Servicer may in its discretion waive any late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing a Pledged Contract. The Servicer shall not voluntarily agree to any alteration of the interest rate on any Pledged Contract. (g) On behalf of the Borrower and the Program Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, the Servicer shall use its best efforts, consistent with its customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise convert the ownership of the Financed Vehicle securing any Pledged Contract as to which the Servicer shall have determined eventual payment in full is unlikely. From time to time, as appropriate for servicing or foreclosing upon any Pledged Contract, the Borrower shall, upon written request of the Servicer, execute such documents as shall be reasonably necessary to prosecute any such proceedings. The Servicer shall follow such customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable in its servicing of Contracts, which may include reasonable efforts to realize proceeds from the repossession of the related Financed Vehicle. The foregoing shall be subject to the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with the repair or the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its reasonable discretion that such repair and/or repossession will increase the Net Liquidation Proceeds by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses. (h) In the event of a loss or claim under a physical damages insurance policy or comprehensive and collision insurance policy, the Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures take all necessary action to enforce all available rights and claims under such insurance policy. (i) The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the security interest created by each Pledged Contract in the related Financed Vehicle in favor of the Borrower. The Servicer is hereby authorized to take such steps as are necessary to reperfect re-perfect such security interest on behalf of the Borrower in the event of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle or for any other reason. (j) Upon the occurrence of Servicer Default or a Event of Termination, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Program Agent may instruct the Servicer to take or cause to be taken, such action as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be necessary to perfect or reperfect the security interests in the Financed Vehicles securing the Pledged Contracts in the name of the Program Agent by such reasonable means as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be reasonably necessary or prudent. The Servicer hereby agrees to pay all expenses related to such perfection or reperfection and to take all action reasonably necessary therefor. (k) The Borrower shall deliver to the Servicer, and the Servicer shall hold in trust for the Borrower, the Lenders and the Liquidity Providers in accordance with their respective interests, all Records.

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Samples: Loan and Servicing Agreement (DriveTime Automotive, Inc.)

Duties of the Servicer. (a) The Servicer shall take or cause to be taken all such actions as it deems necessary or advisable to collect each Pledged Contract from time to time, all in accordance, in all material respects, with applicable laws, rules, regulations and the Credit and Collection Policy. Each of the Borrower, each Lender, each Liquidity Provider, each Managing Agent and the Program Agent hereby appoints as its agent the Servicer, from time to time designated pursuant to Section 6.01, to enforce its respective rights and interests in and under the Pledged Contracts and the other Collateral. (b) Without limiting the foregoing, the Servicer shall perform all aspects of servicing, administering, collecting, liquidating, accounting for and managing (collectively, “administering”, “administer”, or “administration”) the Pledged Contracts it customarily performs in accordance with the Accepted Servicing Practices, which practices are in accordance with applicable law and have been disclosed to the Program Agent, the Lenders and the Managing Agents prior to the date hereof. The administration provided by the Servicer shall include but not be limited to all servicing currently provided by the Servicer, Financed Vehicle titling and lien perfection, customer service, insurance claim tracking and collection, insurance maintenance, Contract enforcement, Contract billing, payment processing, portfolio and Contract accounting, portfolio management, delinquency collection, repossession, foreclosure, resale, and maintaining current Contract Debtor and Financed Vehicle location information (name, address and phone number). The Servicer shall maintain current, accurate, and complete records of activity and comments regarding collection, insurance, payments, and other material events. The records regarding collection history, payments, Contract accounting, customer service notes, Contract Debtor names and addresses and Principal Balance shall be computerized. The Servicer shall administer and otherwise deal with the Contracts in compliance with all applicable laws. The Servicer shall conduct foreclosure sales in a commercially reasonable manner and take the steps necessary to preserve the deficiency liability of the Contract Debtors. (c) The Servicer (so long as it is DTCC) will at all times apply the same standards and follow the same procedures with respect to the decision to commence litigation with respect to the Pledged Contracts, and in prosecuting and litigating with respect to Pledged Contracts, as it applies and follows with respect to retail installment or conditional sales contracts for the purchase of new or used Motor Vehicles serviced by it which are not Pledged Contracts; provided, however, that after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Termination, the Servicer shall commence or settle any legal action to enforce collection of any Charged-Off Contract or to foreclose upon or repossess any Financed Vehicle with respect thereto as directed by the Program Agent. In no event shall the Servicer be entitled to make the Program Agent, any Managing Agent, any Lender or any Liquidity Provider a party to any litigation without the such Person’s express prior written consent.. ACTIVE 200146376v.2 (d) The Servicer shall make reasonable efforts to collect all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Pledged Contracts as and when the same shall become due and shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to all comparable automotive receivables that it services for itself or others. The Servicer shall allocate Collections between principal and interest in accordance with its customary servicing procedures. The Servicer shall apply all Collections to the Pledged Contracts owed by the applicable Contract Debtors in a timely manner in accordance with the business practices of DTCC in existence as of the date hereof. In the event the Servicer receives any Collections or other proceeds of the Collateral, it shall hold such Collections and other proceeds on behalf of the Borrower for application and remittance in accordance with Section 2.06 or 2.07, as applicable, and it shall remit the same to the Collection Account to the extent required hereunder. To the extent the Servicer receives a payment from a Contract Debtor with respect to a Pledged Contract with respect to which such Contract Debtor has not identified the Pledged Contract to which such payment should be applied (a payment in the exact amount of an outstanding invoice being sufficient identification), the Servicer shall use its best efforts to contact such Contract Debtor to confirm the Pledged Contract to which such Contract Debtor intended that such payment be applied in accordance with the Servicer’s customary practices and procedures. (e) The Servicer shall, as soon as practicable following receipt, turn over to the Person entitled thereto collections in respect of any Contract which is not a Pledged Contract less, to the extent the Servicer performed any collection or enforcement actions which it was authorized by such Person to perform, all reasonable and appropriate out of pocket costs and expenses of such Servicer incurred in collecting and enforcing such receivable. (f) The Servicer may, in accordance with its Credit and Collection Policy grant extensions, rebates or adjustments on a Pledged Contract. The Servicer may in its discretion waive any late payment charge or any other fees that may be collected in the ordinary course of servicing a Pledged Contract. The Servicer shall not voluntarily agree to any alteration of the interest rate on any Pledged Contract. (g) On behalf of the Borrower and the Program Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, the Servicer shall use its best efforts, consistent with its customary servicing procedures, to repossess or otherwise convert the ownership of the Financed Vehicle securing any Pledged Contract as to which the Servicer shall have determined eventual payment in full is unlikely. From time to time, as appropriate for servicing or foreclosing upon any Pledged Contract, the Borrower shall, upon written request of the Servicer, execute such documents as shall be reasonably necessary to prosecute any such proceedings. The Servicer shall follow such customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or advisable in its servicing of Contracts, which may include reasonable efforts to realize proceeds from the repossession of the related Financed Vehicle. The foregoing shall be subject to the provision that, in any case in which the Financed Vehicle shall have suffered damage, the Servicer shall not expend funds in connection with the repair or the repossession of such Financed Vehicle unless it shall determine in its reasonable discretion that such repair and/or repossession will increase the Net Liquidation Proceeds by an amount greater than the amount of such expenses. (h) In the event of a loss or claim under a physical damages insurance policy or comprehensive and collision insurance policy, the Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures take all necessary action to enforce all available rights and claims under such insurance policy. (i) The Servicer shall, in accordance with its customary servicing procedures, take such steps as are necessary to maintain perfection of the security interest created by each Pledged Contract in the related Financed Vehicle in favor of the Borrower. The Servicer is hereby authorized to take such steps as ACTIVE 200146376v.2 are necessary to reperfect such security interest on behalf of the Borrower in the event of the relocation of a Financed Vehicle or for any other reason. (j) Upon the occurrence of Servicer Default or a Event of Termination, and subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, the Program Agent may instruct the Servicer to take or cause to be taken, such action as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be necessary to perfect or reperfect the security interests in the Financed Vehicles securing the Pledged Contracts in the name of the Program Agent by such reasonable means as may, in the opinion of counsel to the Program Agent, be reasonably necessary or prudent. The Servicer hereby agrees to pay all expenses related to such perfection or reperfection and to take all action reasonably necessary therefor. (k) The Borrower shall deliver to the Servicer, and the Servicer shall hold in trust for the Borrower, the Lenders and the Liquidity Providers in accordance with their respective interests, all Records.

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Samples: Loan and Servicing Agreement (Drivetime Automotive Group Inc)

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