Trust Certificates and Transfer of Interests Section 3.01
Form of the Certificates (a) The Certificates shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A. The Certificates shall represent the entire beneficial interest in the Trust. The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of a Responsible Officer of the Owner Trustee. Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be duly issued, fully paid and non-assessable beneficial interests in the Trust, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and delivery of such Certificates. (b) The Certificates shall be typewritten, printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination of these methods (with or without steel engraved borders) all as determined by the officers executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of such Certificates. The Certificates shall be fully registered. (c) The Certificates shall be issued in fully-registered form. The terms of the Certificates set forth in Exhibit A shall form part of this Agreement.
Certificates and Transfer of Interests Section 4.01. Initial Ownership 12 Section 4.02. The Certificates 12 Section 4.03. Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Certificates 12 Section 4.04. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates 12 Section 4.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates 13 Section 4.06. Persons Deemed Owners 14 Section 4.07. Access to List of Certificateholders’ Names and Addresses 14 Section 4.08. Maintenance of Office or Agency 14 Section 4.09. Restrictions on Transfers of Certificates 14
Class PO Certificates Private Certificates..................................... Class P, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates. Rating Agencies.......................................... Fitch and S&P. Regular Certificates..................................... All Classes of Certificates other than the Class A-R Certificates. Residual Certificate..................................... Class A-R Certificates.
Certificate and Transfer of Interest 8 SECTION 3.1 Ownership ................................................................ 8 SECTION 3.2 The Certificate .......................................................... 8 SECTION 3.3 Authentication of Certificate ............................................ 8 SECTION 3.4 Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificate ..................... 9 SECTION 3.5 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates ........................ 9
Transfer of Purchased Certificates (a) The Purchaser understands that the Purchased Certificates have not been registered under the Act, or any state securities laws and that no transfer may be made unless the Purchased Certificates are registered under the Act and under applicable state law or unless an exemption from registration is available. The Purchaser further understands that neither Washington Mutual nor the Trust is under any obligation to register the Purchased Certificates or make an exemption available. In the event that such a transfer is to be made within two years from the Closing Date without registration under the Act or applicable state securities laws, (i) the Trustee shall require, in order to assure compliance with such laws, that the Certificateholder's prospective transferee each certify to Washington Mutual, the Trustee and the Trust as to the factual basis for the registration or qualification exemption relied upon, and (ii) the Trustee or Washington Mutual may require an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Act and state securities laws, which Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trust, the Trustee or Washington Mutual. Any such Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Trust, the Trustee and Washington Mutual against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state laws. (b) No transfer of a Purchased Certificate shall be made unless the transferee provides Washington Mutual and the Trustee with (i) a Transferee's Agreement, substantially in the form of this Agreement, (ii) an affidavit substantially in the form of Exhibit N to the Pooling Agreement and (iii) if so indicated in such affidavit, a Benefit Plan Opinion (as defined in Section 1.01 of the Pooling Agreement).
Class R Certificates Subordinated Certificates.... Class M-1, Class M-2, Class M-3, Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3 and Class B-4 Certificates.
Distributions on the Certificates (a) Interest and principal on the Certificates will be distributed monthly on each Distribution Date, commencing in January 2002, in an aggregate amount equal to the sum of the Available Funds for such Distribution Date. (i) On each Distribution Date, the Available Funds shall be distributed as follows: (A) On each Distribution Date prior to the Cross-Over Date, the Group 1 Available Funds will be distributed in the following order of priority among the Group 1 Senior Certificates: first, to the Class I-A Certificates, the Accrued Certificate Interest on such Class for such Distribution Date; second, to the Class I-A Certificates, any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining undistributed from previous Distribution Dates, to the extent of remaining Group 1 Available Funds; third, to the Group 1 Senior Certificates, the Group 1 Optimal Principal Amount for such Distribution Date to the extent of remaining Group 1 Available Funds, until the Current Principal Amount of the Group 1 Senior Certificates has been reduced to zero. (B) On each Distribution Date prior to the Cross-Over Date, the Group 2 Available Funds will be distributed to the Group 2 Senior Certificates as follows: first, to the Group 2 Senior Certificates, the Accrued Certificate Interest on such Class for such Distribution Date; second, to the Group 2 Senior Certificates, any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining undistributed from previous Distribution Dates, to the extent of remaining Group 2 Available Funds; third, sequentially, in the following order, to the Class R-I, Class R-II and Class II-A Certificates, in reduction of the Current Principal Amounts thereof, the Group 2 Senior Optimal Principal Amount for such Distribution Date to the extent of remaining Group 2 Available Funds, until the Current Principal Amounts thereof have been reduced to zero; (C) Except as provided in (D) and (E) below, on each Distribution Date prior to the Cross-Over Date, an amount equal to any remaining Group 1 and Group 2 Available Funds after the distributions in (A) and (B) above will be distributed sequentially, in the following order, to the Class B-1, Class B-2, Class B-3, Class B-4, Class B-5 and Class B-6 Certificates, in each case up to an amount equal to and in the following order: (a) the Accrued Certificate Interest thereon for such Distribution Date, (b) any Accrued Certificate Interest thereon remaining undistributed from previous Distribution Dates and (c) such Class's Allocable Share for such Distribution Date, in each case, to the extent of remaining Available Funds. (D) On each Distribution Date prior to the Cross-Over Date, but after the reduction of the Current Principal Amount of the Group 1 or Group 2 Senior Certificates to zero, the remaining Class or Classes of Senior Certificates will be entitled to receive in reduction of their Current Principal Amounts, pro rata based upon their Current Principal Amounts immediately prior to such Distribution Date, in addition to any Principal Prepayments related to such remaining Senior Certificates' respective Loan Group allocated to such Group of Senior Certificates, 100% of the Principal Prepayments on any Mortgage Loan in the Loan Group relating to the fully repaid Class of Senior Certificates; provided, however, that if (A) the weighted average Subordinate Percentage equals or exceeds 6.20% on such Distribution Date and (B) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans delinquent 60 days or more (including for this purpose any such Mortgage Loans in foreclosure and Mortgage Loans with respect to which the related Mortgaged Property has been acquired by the Trust), averaged over the last six months, as a percentage of the sum of the aggregate Current Principal Amount of the Subordinate Certificates does not exceed 100%, then the additional allocation of Principal Prepayments to the Senior Certificates in accordance with this clause (D) will not be made. (E) If on any Distribution Date on which the aggregate Current Principal Amount of any Class or Classes of Senior Certificates would be greater than the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in its related Loan Group and any Subordinate Certificates are still outstanding in each case after giving effect to distributions to be made on such Distribution Date, (i) 100% of amounts otherwise allocable to the Subordinate Certificates in respect of principal will be distributed to such Class or Classes of Senior Certificates in reduction of the Current Principal Amounts thereof, until the aggregate Current Principal Amount of such Class or Classes of Senior Certificates is an amount equal to the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in its related Loan Group, and (ii) the Accrued Certificate Interest otherwise allocable to the Subordinate Certificates on such Distribution Date will be reduced, if necessary, and distributed to such Class or Classes of Senior Certificates in an amount equal to the Accrued Certificate Interest for such Distribution Date on the excess of (x) the aggregate Current Principal Balance of such Class or Classes of Senior Certificates over (y) the aggregate Scheduled Principal Balance of the Mortgage Loans in the related Loan Group. Any such reduction in the Accrued Certificate Interest on the Subordinate Certificates will be allocated in reverse order of the Subordinate Certificates numerical designations, commencing with the Class B-6 Certificates.
Registration of the Certificates Wilmington Trust, National Association, as an agent of the Issuer, in its capacity as “Certificate Registrar” (the “Certificate Registrar”) shall maintain at its Corporate Trust Office, or at the office of any agent appointed by it and approved in writing by the Certificateholders at the time of such appointment, a register (the “Certificate Register”) for the registration and transfer of any Certificate. Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer of any Certificate, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Certificate Registrar or any agent of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall treat the Person in whose name any Certificate is registered (as of the applicable Record Date) as the owner of such Certificate for the purpose of receiving distributions on such Certificate and for all other purposes whatsoever. For the avoidance of doubt, a Certificate is not negotiable, and the records maintained by the Certificate Registrar in the Certificate Register with respect to each Certificate and its related registered owner are intended to cause the Certificates to be issued in registered form, within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 5f.103-1(c), and shall record (a) the Percentage Interest evidenced by each Certificate and (b) all distributions made to each Certificateholder with respect to the Issuer’s assets. The entries in the Certificate Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error.