Representations and Warranties of Owner The Owner warrants and represents to and covenants with the Servicer that as of the date hereof, and as of each Effective Date as to the Mortgage Loans the servicing obligations with respect to which are transferred to the Servicer thereon, or as of such other date specifically provided herein:
(a) The Owner is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. The Owner is qualified or registered to transact business, and is duly licensed, in each jurisdiction in which the ownership of property or the conduct of its respective business requires such qualification, registration or licensing, except to the extent that there is an applicable exemption or where the failure to be so licensed, registered, qualified or in good standing is not material.
(b) The Owner has the power, authority and legal right to enter into and perform this Agreement and to perform the obligations required of it hereunder, and this Agreement and any document or instrument to be delivered to the Servicer by the Owner pursuant hereto has been duly authorized, executed and delivered.
(c) This Agreement and any documents or instruments now or hereafter executed and delivered to the Servicer by the Owner pursuant to this Agreement constitute (or shall, when delivered to the Servicer by the Owner, constitute) valid and legally binding obligations of the Owner enforceable against the Owner in accordance with their respective terms, subject to bankruptcy laws and other similar laws of general application affecting the rights of creditors and subject to the application of the rules of equity, including those respecting the availability of specific performance.
(d) None of the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby and hereby, or the fulfillment of or compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement will conflict with any of the terms, conditions or provisions of the Owner’s articles of incorporation or by-laws or materially conflict with or result in a material breach of any of the terms, conditions or provisions of any legal restriction or any agreement or instrument to which the Owner is now a party or by which it is bound, or constitute a default or result in an acceleration under any of the foregoing, or result in the material violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree to which the Owner or its property is subject.
(e) No consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Owner of or compliance by the Owner with this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement except for consents, approvals, authorizations and orders which have been obtained.
(f) The Owner shall, on or before the related Effective Date, deliver or cause to be delivered to the Servicer or the Custodian, as applicable, all of the books, records, data, files and Mortgage Loan Documents, including records on microfiche or its equivalent, reasonably required by the Servicer to document and service each Mortgage Loan; such books, records, data, files and documents contain all of the items (including hazard insurance policies, flood insurance policies and private mortgage insurance policies) which are required by the Qualified Insurers or by Accepted Servicing Practices to service the Mortgage Loans; are true, accurate and complete in all material respects; and it is reasonable for the Servicer to rely thereon.
(g) As of the applicable Effective Date, if any Mortgage Loan is secured by a Mortgaged Property located in Federal Emergency Management Agency designated flood areas, then (to the extent required by Accepted Servicing Practices) flood insurance policies are in full force and effect in the amounts required by Accepted Servicing Practices or are insured through the Owner’s or the Prior Servicer’s “gap coverage” flood insurance policy.
(h) As of the applicable Effective Date, all Mortgaged Property is currently insured against fire and has extended coverage insurance in the amounts required under Accepted Servicing Practices; all insurance premiums on such insurance policies have been paid in a timely manner; and there have been no fire losses on any Mortgaged Property where the Owner’s estimate of loss is materially greater than the net recovery from the fire insurance carrier. To the Owner’s knowledge, there have been no fire losses on any Mortgaged Property as to which there is a pending coinsurance claim.
(i) There is no litigation pending or, to the Owner’s knowledge, threatened with respect to the Owner which is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the execution, delivery or enforceability of this Agreement, or which is reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the servicing or the financial condition of the Owner.
(j) As of the applicable Effective Date, all of the Mortgage Loans have, or the Owner shall promptly cause to be obtained, a valid, fully paid, freely transferable, life of the loan tax service contract and flood service contract.
(k) There are no accounts of Mortgagors that are pledged in lieu of the maintenance of an escrow account for taxes, assessments, insurance or other escrow items owed by the Mortgagor.
(l) As of the applicable Effective Date, all calculations required to be made by the Owner with respect to the amount of principal, interest, escrow payments and other amounts due and owing by a Mortgagor from time to time under each Mortgage Loan have been made in compliance with Accepted Servicing Practices. All invoices transmitted to the Mortgagors by the Owner for principal, interest, escrow payments and all other amounts due and payable under each Mortgage Loan have been prepared, and the funds collected from the Mortgagors have been applied for the payment of such amounts, in compliance with Accepted Servicing Practices.
(m) No written statement, report or other document furnished or to be furnished pursuant to the Agreement contains or will contain any statement that is or will be inaccurate or misleading in any material respect or omits to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the information and statements therein not misleading.
General Representations and Warranties The Contractor represents, warrants and covenants that:
(i) The Contractor has all requisite power and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Contract and the execution, delivery and performance of this Contract by the Contractor has been duly authorized by the Contractor.
(ii) There is no pending litigation, arbitrated matter or other dispute to which the Contractor is a party which, if decided unfavorably to the Contractor, would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the Contractor’s ability to fulfill its obligations under this Contract.
(iii) The Contractor will comply with all laws applicable to its performance of the services and otherwise to the Contractor in connection with its obligations under this Contract.
(iv) The Contractor (a) owns, or has the right to use under valid and enforceable agreements, all intellectual property rights reasonably necessary for and related to delivery of the services and provision of the services as set forth in this Contract; (b) shall be responsible for and have full authority to license all proprietary and/or third party software modules, including algorithms and protocols, that Contractor incorporates into its product; and (c) none of the services or other materials or technology provided by the Contractor to the State will infringe upon or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
(v) The Contractor has adequate resources to fulfill its obligations under this Contract.
(vi) Neither Contractor nor Contractor’s subcontractors has past state or federal violations, convictions or suspensions relating to miscoding of employees in NCCI job codes for purposes of differentiating between independent contractors and employees.
Representations and Warranties of Contractor Contractor represents and warrants to Company the following:
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF SPAC SPAC hereby represents and warrants to each Company Shareholder and the Company during the Exclusivity Period as follows:
Representations and Warranties of Owner Trustee The Owner Trustee hereby represents and warrants to the Depositor, for the benefit of the Certificateholders, that:
(a) It is a banking corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of its incorporation. It has satisfied the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 6.13.
(b) It has full power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform this Agreement, and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement.
(c) The execution, delivery and performance by it of this Agreement (i) shall not violate any provision of any law or regulation governing the banking and trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any order, writ, judgment or decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority applicable to the Owner Trustee or any of its assets, (ii) shall not violate any provision of the corporate charter or by-laws of the Owner Trustee or (iii) shall not violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien on any properties included in the Trust pursuant to the provisions of any mortgage, indenture, contract, agreement or other undertaking to which it is a party, which violation, default or lien could reasonably be expected to have a materially adverse effect on the Owner Trustee’s performance or ability to perform its duties as Owner Trustee under this Agreement or on the transactions contemplated in this Agreement.
(d) This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Owner Trustee and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the Owner Trustee, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights in general and by general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.
Representations and Warranties of the Owner The Owner, as a condition to the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, makes the following representations and warranties to the Servicer as of each Closing Date:
Reciprocal Representations and Warranties The Seller/Servicer and Residential Funding each represents and warrants to the other that as of the date of this Contract:
(1) Each party is duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, is qualified, if necessary, to do business and in good standing in each jurisdiction in which it is required to be so qualified, and has the requisite power and authority to enter into this Contract and all other agreements which are contemplated by this Contract and to carry out its obligations hereunder and under the Guides and under such other agreements.
(2) This Contract has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each party and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of each party enforceable in accordance with its terms.
(3) There is no action, proceeding or investigation pending or threatened, and no basis therefor is known to either party, that could affect the validity or prospective validity of this Contract.
(4) Insofar as its capacity to carry out any obligation under this Contract is concerned, neither party is in violation of any charter, articles of incorporation, bylaws, mortgage, indenture, indebtedness, agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or regulation and none of the foregoing adversely affects its capacity to fulfill any of its obligations under this Contract. Its execution of, and performance pursuant to, this Contract will not result in a violation of any of the foregoing.
Additional Representations and Warranties (A) Each Receivable is being serviced by TMCC as of the Closing Date; (B) as of the Cutoff Date, each Receivable is secured by a new or used car, crossover utility vehicles, light-duty truck or sport utility vehicle; (C) no Receivable was more than 29 days past due as of the Cutoff Date; and (D) as of the Cutoff Date, no Receivable was noted in the records of TMCC or the Servicer as being the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding or insolvency proceeding.
Additional Representations and Warranties of the Company (i) The Company shall be deemed to represent to the Purchaser and to any Depositor, as of the date on which information is first provided to the Purchaser or any Depositor under Section 2(c) and as of the Closing Date of each related Securitization Transaction that, except as disclosed in writing to the Purchaser or such Depositor prior to such date: (i) the Company is not aware and has not received notice that any default, early amortization or other performance triggering event has occurred as to any other securitization due to any act or failure to act of the Company; (ii) the Company has not been terminated as servicer in a residential mortgage loan securitization, either due to a servicing default or to application of a servicing performance test or trigger; (iii) no material noncompliance with the applicable servicing criteria with respect to other securitizations of residential mortgage loans involving the Company as servicer has been disclosed or reported by the Company; (iv) no material changes to the Company’s policies or procedures with respect to the servicing function it will perform under this Agreement and any Reconstitution Agreement for mortgage loans of a type similar to the Mortgage Loans have occurred during the three-year period immediately preceding the related Securitization Transaction; (v) there are no aspects of the Company’s financial condition that could have a material adverse effect on the performance by the Company of its servicing obligations under this Agreement or any Reconstitution Agreement; (vi) there are no material legal or governmental proceedings pending (or known to be contemplated) against the Company, any Subservicer or any Third-Party Originator; and (vii) there are no affiliations, relationships or transactions relating to the Company, any Subservicer or any Third-Party Originator with respect to any Securitization Transaction and any party thereto identified by the related Depositor of a type described in Item 1119 of Regulation AB.
(ii) If so requested by the Purchaser or any Depositor on any date following the date on which information is first provided to the Purchaser or any Depositor under Section 2(c), the Company shall make reasonable best efforts within five Business Days but in no event later than ten Business Days following such request, confirm in writing the accuracy of the representations and warranties set forth in paragraph (i) of this Section or, if any such representation and warranty is not accurate as of the date of such request, provide reasonably adequate disclosure of the pertinent facts, in writing, to the requesting party.
Representations and Warranties of Vendor Vendor represents and warrants that the following shall be true and correct as of the effective date of this Agreement and shall continue to be true and correct during the Term of this Agreement:
