Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2024-4 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2024-4 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2024-3 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Citibank, N.A. shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from Authenticating Agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 10 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2024-C), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2024-C), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2024-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trust shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Trust shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates. The Trustee shall be the “Certificate Registrar” for the purpose of registering Trust Certificates and the transfers of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor theretoor, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Certificate Registrar. The initial Trust Certificate shall be registered in the name of “CNH Capital Receivables LLC” as the initial registered owner thereof. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered evidencing such transferee’s beneficial interest in the Trust, which Trust Certificates will be issued in amounts equal, in the aggregate, to the percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust transferred by such transferor. At the option of a Certificateholder, upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Trust Certificate may be exchanged for a new Trust Certificate evidencing the same percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust as the Trust Certificate so exchanged. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Trust Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Securities Act Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or listed on any securities exchange. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by, the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made registered unless such transfer the transferee shall have provided (i) if the transferee is made pursuant to not the Seller or an effective Affiliate of the Seller and the transferor is not the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an opinion of counsel that no registration statement is required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable State laws, and (ii) if the transferee is the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an Officer’s Certificate as to compliance with Section 6.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates and any applicable state securities laws beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or is exempt from (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets of any of the registration requirements under the Securities Act foregoing (each a “Benefit Plan”). By accepting and such state securities laws. In the event that holding a transfer is to be made in reliance upon Trust Certificate or an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring thereof shall be deemed to effect such transfer have represented and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of warranted that it is not a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeBenefit Plan. The Depositor Trustee shall provide have no obligation to any determine whether or not a Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made a Benefit Plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no transfer of a Trust Certificate or beneficial interest therein shall be allowed, and any such purported transfer shall be void ab initio, if such transfer would cause the Trust to have more than 100 partners within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1). For purposes of determining the number of partners in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf the Trust under Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1), a person owning an interest in a partnership, grantor trust, or S corporation (a “flow-through entity”) that owns, directly or through other flow-through entities, an interest in the Trust, will be treated as a partner in the Trust if more than 50 percent of the Issuer shall cause each value of such person’s interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity’s interest (direct or indirect) in the Trust. No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Trust Certificate (or any beneficial interest therein), whether to contain another Certificateholder or to a legend person who is not a Certificateholder, shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, and no person shall otherwise become a Certificateholder, and none of the Trust, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any of the Certificateholders will recognize such transfer (or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.that:
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Samples: Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2019-A), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2018-B), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2018-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2015-4 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2015-4 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2015-3 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Eligible Lender Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Chase Manhattan Bank shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Eligible Lender Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause The Owner Trustee may appoint an Chase Manhattan Bank as its authenticating agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Eligible Lender Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Trust Certificate Registrarpresented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Eligible Lender Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock Exchange or a commercial bank or trust company. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Eligible Lender Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Eligible Lender Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Eligible Lender Trustee shall promptly appoint not be required to make and the Certificate Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of Trust Certificates for a successor theretoperiod of 15 days preceding any Distribution Date with respect to the Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates have and any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not been registered under be acquired by (a) employee benefit plans (as defined in section 3(3) of ERISA) that are subject to the Securities Act provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) plans described in section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, including individual retirement accounts described in Section 408(a) of the Code or listed on any securities exchangeXxxxx plans, or (c) entities whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in such entities (each, a "Benefit Plan"). No transfer of By accepting and holding a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to or an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring thereof or Certificate Owner thereof shall be deemed to effect such transfer have represented and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of warranted that it is not a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A LetterBenefit Plan, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall is not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the purchasing Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of a Benefit Plan and is not using assets of a Plan to purchase any Certificates and to have agreed that if the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate is deemed to contain be a legend in plan asset, the form set forth on Certificateholder will promptly dispose of the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificate.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (SLM Funding Corp), Trust Agreement (SLM Funding Corp), Trust Agreement (SLM Funding Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Indenture Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring such Trust Certificates with the Issuer assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity deemed to hold assets of the foregoing or (iv) any plan or arrangement that is subject to any law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”). The preparation and delivery of the certificate referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 20.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall any of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2024-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2024-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2023-D)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Delaware Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Delaware Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Delaware Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Delaware Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate Registrarpresented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Delaware Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Delaware Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Trust Certificates, but the Owner Delaware Trustee shall promptly appoint or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a successor theretosum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates have and any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not been registered under be acquired by or with the Securities assets of (a) employee benefit plans, retirement arrangements, individual retirement accounts or Xxxxx plans subject to either Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or listed on Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or (b) entities (including insurance company general accounts) whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of the investment by any securities exchangesuch plans, arrangements or accounts in such entities (a "Benefit Plan Investor"). No transfer Each transferee of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer required to represent (a) that it is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act not a Benefit Plan Investor and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any acquiring such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under with the Securities Act pursuant assets of a Benefit Plan Investor and (b) that if such Trust Certificate is subsequently deemed to be a plan asset, it will dispose of such Trust Certificate. Each Trust Certificate shall bear a legend referring to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made restrictions contained in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.this paragraph.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Collegiate Funding Services Education Loan Trust 2005-A), Trust Agreement (Collegiate Funding Services Education Loan Trust 2003-A), Trust Agreement (College Loan LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trust shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Trust shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates. The Trustee shall be the “Certificate Registrar” for the purpose of registering Trust Certificates and the transfers of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor theretoor, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Certificate Registrar. The initial Trust Certificate shall be registered in the name of “CNH Capital Receivables LLC” as the initial registered owner thereof. Upon surrender for registration of transfer or exchange of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered evidencing such transferee’s beneficial interest in the Trust, which Trust Certificates will be issued in amounts equal, in the aggregate, to the percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust transferred by such transferor. At the option of a Certificateholder, upon surrender of Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Trust Certificate may be exchanged for a new Trust Certificate evidencing the same percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust as the Trust Certificate so exchanged. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Trust Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Securities Act Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or listed on any securities exchange. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by, the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made registered unless such transfer the transferee shall have provided (i) if the transferee is made pursuant to not the Seller or an effective Affiliate of the Seller and the transferor is not the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an opinion of counsel that no registration statement is required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable State laws, and (ii) if the transferee is the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an Officer’s Certificate as to compliance with Section 6.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates and any applicable state securities laws beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or is exempt from (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets of any of the registration requirements under the Securities Act foregoing (each a “Benefit Plan”). By accepting and such state securities laws. In the event that holding a transfer is to be made in reliance upon Trust Certificate or an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring thereof shall be deemed to effect such transfer have represented and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of warranted that it is not a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeBenefit Plan. The Depositor Trustee shall provide have no obligation to any determine whether or not a Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made a Benefit Plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no transfer of a Trust Certificate or beneficial interest therein shall be allowed, and any such purported transfer shall be void ab initio, if such transfer would cause the Trust to have more than 100 partners within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1). For purposes of determining the number of partners in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf the Trust under Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1), a Person owning an interest in a partnership, grantor trust, or S corporation (a “flow-through entity”) that owns, directly or through other flow-through entities, an interest in the Trust, will be treated as a partner in the Trust if more than 50 percent of the Issuer shall cause each value of such Person’s interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity’s interest (direct or indirect) in the Trust. No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Trust Certificate (or any beneficial interest therein), whether to contain another Certificateholder or to a legend Person who is not a Certificateholder, shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, and no Person shall otherwise become a Certificateholder, and none of the Trust, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any of the Certificateholders will recognize such transfer (or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.that:
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Samples: Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2024-C), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2024-B), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2024-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2014-3 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2014-3 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2013-2 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, and, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, the Owner Trustee may appoint an shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as its authenticating agent to act as authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, the Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Trust Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent’s Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. In addition, each such Certificateholder shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchangecomply with Section 2.12. No transfer of a Trust Certificate service charge shall be made unless such for any registration of transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws Owner Trustee or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities lawsCertificate Registrar may, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law but shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder obligated to, require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding Certificates. Notwithstanding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuerforegoing, the Owner Trustee need not make and the Depositor against Certificate Registrar need not register, transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance payment with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each respect to any Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Franklin Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (Franklin Auto Trust 2003-2), Trust Agreement (Franklin Auto Trust 2008-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee _______________ shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from authenticating agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Holder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the Issuer shall cause each due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Bond Securitization LLC), Trust Agreement (Bond Securitization LLC), Trust Agreement (Gs Mortgage Securities Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trust shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Trust shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates. The Paying Agent shall be the “Certificate Registrar” for the purpose of registering Trust Certificates and the transfers of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor theretoor, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Certificate Registrar. The initial Trust Certificate shall be registered in the name of “CNH Capital Receivables LLC” as the initial registered owner thereof. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered evidencing such transferee’s beneficial interest in the Trust, which Trust Certificates will be issued in amounts equal, in the aggregate, to the percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust transferred by such transferor. At the option of a Certificateholder, upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Trust Certificate may be exchanged for a new Trust Certificate evidencing the same percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust as the Trust Certificate so exchanged. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Trust Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Securities Act Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or listed on any securities exchange. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by, the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made registered unless such transfer the transferee shall have provided (i) if the transferee is made pursuant to not the Seller or an effective Affiliate of the Seller and the transferor is not the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an opinion of counsel that no registration statement is required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable State laws, and (ii) if the transferee is the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an Officer’s Certificate as to compliance with Section 6.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates and any applicable state securities laws beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or is exempt from (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets of any of the registration requirements under the Securities Act foregoing (each a “Benefit Plan”). By accepting and such state securities laws. In the event that holding a transfer is to be made in reliance upon Trust Certificate or an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring thereof shall be deemed to effect such transfer have represented and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of warranted that it is not a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeBenefit Plan. The Depositor Trustee shall provide have no obligation to any determine whether or not a Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made a Benefit Plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no transfer of a Trust Certificate or beneficial interest therein shall be allowed, and any such purported transfer shall be void ab initio, if such transfer would cause the Trust to have more than 100 partners within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1). For purposes of determining the number of partners in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf the Trust under Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1), a person owning an interest in a partnership, grantor trust, or S corporation (a “flow-through entity”) that owns, directly or through other flow-through entities, an interest in the Trust, will be treated as a partner in the Trust if more than 50 percent of the Issuer shall cause each value of such person’s interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity’s interest (direct or indirect) in the Trust. No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Trust Certificate (or any beneficial interest therein), whether to contain another Certificateholder or to a legend person who is not a Certificateholder, shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, and no person shall otherwise become a Certificateholder, and none of the Trust, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any of the Certificateholders will recognize such transfer (or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.that:
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Samples: Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2010-A), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2009-B), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2008-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Wilmington Trust Company shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from Authenticating Agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2009-A), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Abs Funding Corp), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2008-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or the Trust shall cause U.S. Bank National Association, as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a like Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of a like aggregate Certificate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that accompanied by a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the written instrument of transfer in the form attached hereto duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter sum sufficient to cover any tax or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel governmental charge that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeTrust Certificates. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder preceding provisions of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuerthis Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Depositor against Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any liability that may result if payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2020-A), Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2020-A), Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2019-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2015-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or the Trust shall cause U.S. Bank National Association, as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a like Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of a like aggregate Certificate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that accompanied by a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the written instrument of transfer in the form attached hereto duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter sum sufficient to cover any tax or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel governmental charge that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeTrust Certificates. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder preceding provisions of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuerthis Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Depositor against Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any liability that may result if payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2016-A), Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2016-A), Trust Agreement (BMW Fs Securities LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Wilmington Trust, National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from Authenticating Agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 10 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2015-B), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2015-A), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2014-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. None of the Issuing Entity, the sponsor, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar or any of their respective affiliates or employees (collectively, the “Transaction Parties”) will act as a fiduciary to any Plan with respect to the decision to acquire or hold a Trust Certificate and is not undertaking to provide impartial investment advice, or to give advice in a fiduciary capacity, with respect to such decision. The decision to acquire and hold a Trust Certificate must be made by each prospective Plan acquirer on an arm’s length basis. In addition, each Plan acquiring Trust Certificates that is subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code must generally be represented by a fiduciary independent of the Transaction Parties (which may not be an IXX owner or spouse of the IXX owner, in the case of an investor that is an IXX, or a participant of a Plan acting in such capacity) that (i) is capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to the prospective investment in the Trust Certificates, (ii) has exercised independent judgment in evaluating whether to invest the assets of such Plan in the Trust Certificates and (iii) is a bank, an insurance carrier, a registered investment adviser, a registered broker-dealer or an independent fiduciary with at least $50 million of assets under management or control. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person that is a Plan subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar have received a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Plan to the foregoing effect. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2018-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2018-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2018-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trust shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates. The Paying Agent shall be the "Certificate Registrar" for the purpose of registering Trust Certificates and the transfers of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor theretoor, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Certificate Registrar. The Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, if the requirements of Section 8-401(l) of the UCC are met, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered in authorized denominations of a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of a Holder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(l) of the UCC are met, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Trust Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Securities Act Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or listed on any securities exchange. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made registered unless such transfer the transferee shall have provided (i) an opinion of counsel that no registration is made pursuant to an effective registration statement required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable state laws, and (ii) an Officer's Certificate as to compliance with Section 6.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates and any applicable state securities laws beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or is exempt from (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the registration requirements under the Securities Act entity (each a "Benefit Plan"). By accepting and such state securities laws. In the event that holding a transfer is to be made in reliance upon Trust Certificate or an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring Holder thereof shall be deemed to effect such transfer have represented and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of warranted that it is not a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeBenefit Plan. The Depositor Trustee shall provide have no obligation to any Certificateholder determine whether or not a Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Benefit Plan.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Case Receivables Ii Inc), Trust Agreement (Case Receivables Ii Inc), MBP Draft (Case Receivables Ii Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Indenture Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2021-D), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2021-D), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2021-C)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or the Trust shall cause U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a like Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of a like aggregate Certificate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that accompanied by a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the written instrument of transfer in the form attached hereto duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter sum sufficient to cover any tax or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel governmental charge that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeTrust Certificates. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder preceding provisions of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuerthis Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Depositor against Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any liability that may result if payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2024-A), Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2024-A), Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2023-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Union Bank, N.A. shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2012-4 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2012-4 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2011-2 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (American Honda Receivables Corp), Trust Agreement (American Honda Receivables Corp), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2002-4 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trust shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Trust shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates. The Trustee shall be the “Certificate Registrar” for the purpose of registering Trust Certificates and the transfers of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor theretoor, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Certificate Registrar. The initial Trust Certificate shall be registered in the name of “CNH Capital Receivables LLC” as the initial registered owner thereof. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered evidencing such transferee’s beneficial interest in the Trust, which Trust Certificates will be issued in amounts equal, in the aggregate, to the percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust transferred by such transferor. At the option of a Certificateholder, upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Trust Certificate may be exchanged for a new Trust Certificate evidencing the same percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust as the Trust Certificate so exchanged. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Trust Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Securities Act Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or listed on any securities exchange. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by, the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made registered unless such transfer the transferee shall have provided (i) if the transferee is made pursuant to not the Seller or an effective Affiliate of the Seller and the transferor is not the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an opinion of counsel that no registration statement is required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable State laws, and (ii) if the transferee is the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an Officer’s Certificate as to compliance with Section 6.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates and any applicable state securities laws beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or is exempt from (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets of any of the registration requirements under the Securities Act foregoing (each a “Benefit Plan”). By accepting and such state securities laws. In the event that holding a transfer is to be made in reliance upon Trust Certificate or an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring thereof shall be deemed to effect such transfer have represented and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of warranted that it is not a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeBenefit Plan. The Depositor Trustee shall provide have no obligation to any determine whether or not a Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made a Benefit Plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no transfer of a Trust Certificate or beneficial interest therein shall be allowed, and any such purported transfer shall be void ab initio, if such transfer would cause the Trust to have more than 100 partners within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1). For purposes of determining the number of partners in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf the Trust under Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1), a Person owning an interest in a partnership, grantor trust, or S corporation (a “flow-through entity”) that owns, directly or through other flow-through entities, an interest in the Trust, will be treated as a partner in the Trust if more than 50 percent of the Issuer shall cause each value of such Person’s interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity’s interest (direct or indirect) in the Trust. No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Trust Certificate (or any beneficial interest therein), whether to contain another Certificateholder or to a legend Person who is not a Certificateholder, shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, and no Person shall otherwise become a Certificateholder, and none of the Trust, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any of the Certificateholders will recognize such transfer (or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.that:
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Samples: Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2021-B), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2021-A), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2020-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Bank of New York Mellon shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2013-1 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2013-1 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2011-3 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee [___________] shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause [ ] as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from authenticating agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Holder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the Issuer shall cause each due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (J P Morgan Acceptance Corp I), Trust Agreement (Directors Asset Conduit Corp), Trust Agreement (Chase Funding Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee [___________] shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause [_______________] as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from authenticating agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Holder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the Issuer shall cause each due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Morgan Stanley Abs Capital I Inc), Trust Agreement (Morgan Stanley Abs Capital I Inc), Trust Agreement (Cwabs Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trust shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Issuer shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates. The Paying Agent shall be the "Certificate Registrar" for the purpose of registering Trust Certificates and the transfers of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor theretoor, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Certificate Registrar. The Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the UCC are met, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered in authorized denominations of a like aggregate principal amount. At the option of a Holder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the UCC are met, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Trust Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Securities Act Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or listed on any securities exchange. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made registered unless such transfer the transferee shall have provided (i) an opinion of counsel that no registration is made pursuant to an effective registration statement required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable state laws, and (ii) an Officer's Certificate as to compliance with Section 6.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates and any applicable state securities laws beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or is exempt from (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the registration requirements under the Securities Act entity (each a "Benefit Plan"). By accepting and such state securities laws. In the event that holding a transfer is to be made in reliance upon Trust Certificate or an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring Holder thereof shall be deemed to effect such transfer have represented and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of warranted that it is not a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeBenefit Plan. The Depositor Trustee shall provide have no obligation to any Certificateholder determine whether or not a Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Benefit Plan.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (CNH Capital Receivables Inc), Trust Agreement (CNH Capital Receivables Inc), Trust Agreement (CNH Capital Receivables Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee [ ] shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from Authenticating Agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 10 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Hyundai Abs Funding LLC), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Abs Funding LLC), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Abs Funding LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee MUFG Union Bank, N.A. shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trust shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Trust shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates. The Trustee shall be the “Certificate Registrar” for the purpose of registering Trust Certificates and the transfers of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor theretoor, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Certificate Registrar. The initial Trust Certificate shall be registered in the name of [“CNH Capital Receivables LLC”] as the initial registered owner thereof. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered evidencing such transferee’s beneficial interest in the Trust, which Trust Certificates will be issued in amounts equal, in the aggregate, to the percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust transferred by such transferor. At the option of a Certificateholder, upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Trust Certificate may be exchanged for a new Trust Certificate evidencing the same percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust as the Trust Certificate so exchanged. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Trust Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Securities Act Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or listed on any securities exchange. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by, the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made registered unless such transfer the transferee shall have provided (i) if the transferee is made pursuant to not the Seller or an effective Affiliate of the Seller and the transferor is not the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an opinion of counsel that no registration statement is required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable State laws, and (ii) if the transferee is the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an Officer’s Certificate as to compliance with Section 6.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates and any applicable state securities laws beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or is exempt from (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets of any of the registration requirements under the Securities Act foregoing (each a “Benefit Plan”). By accepting and such state securities laws. In the event that holding a transfer is to be made in reliance upon Trust Certificate or an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring thereof shall be deemed to effect such transfer have represented and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of warranted that it is not a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeBenefit Plan. The Depositor Trustee shall provide have no obligation to any determine whether or not a Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made a Benefit Plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no transfer of a Trust Certificate or beneficial interest therein shall be allowed, and any such purported transfer shall be void ab initio, if such transfer would cause the Trust to have more than 100 partners within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1). For purposes of determining the number of partners in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf the Trust under Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1), a person owning an interest in a partnership, grantor trust, or S corporation (a “flow-through entity”) that owns, directly or through other flow-through entities, an interest in the Trust, will be treated as a partner in the Trust if more than 50 percent of the Issuer shall cause each value of such person’s interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity’s interest (direct or indirect) in the Trust. No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Trust Certificate (or any beneficial interest therein), whether to contain another Certificateholder or to a legend person who is not a Certificateholder, shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, and no person shall otherwise become a Certificateholder, and none of the Trust, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any of the Certificateholders will recognize such transfer (or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.that:
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Samples: Trust Agreement (CNH Capital Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (CNH Capital Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (CNH Capital Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Indenture Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring such Trust Certificates with the Issuer assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity deemed to hold assets of the foregoing or (iv) any plan or arrangement that is subject to any law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”). The preparation and delivery of the certificate referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 20.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall any of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2022-D), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2022-C), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2023-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Indenture Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring such Trust Certificates with the Issuer assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity deemed to hold assets of the foregoing or (iv) any plan or arrangement that is subject to any law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”). The preparation and delivery of the certificate referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall any of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2024-C), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2024-C), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2024-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee MUFG Union Bank, N.A., shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2021-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2021-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2020-C)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that (i) the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2011-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2011-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2010-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Citibank, National Association shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2012-3 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2012-3 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2011-1 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe "Certificate Registrar") The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the "Transferor Certificate") and Exhibit D (the "Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter"). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni LT), Trust Agreement (World Omni LT), Trust Agreement (World Omni LT)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.08 hereof, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Delaware Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Delaware Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, the Delaware Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Delaware Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof. Every Trust Certificate Registrarpresented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Delaware Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Delaware Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Trust Certificates, but the Owner Delaware Trustee shall promptly appoint or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a successor theretosum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates have and any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not been registered under be acquired by or with the Securities assets of (a) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), whether or listed on any securities exchangenot subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA (including, without limitation, foreign or government plans), (b) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or (c) an entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” by reason of an employee benefit plan’s or other plan’s investment in the entity (each, a “Benefit Plan Investor”). No transfer Each transferee of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant required to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer represent substantially in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment the Representation Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.B (i) that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor and is not acquiring such Trust Certificate with the assets of a Benefit Plan Investor; and (ii) that if such Trust Certificate is subsequently deemed to be a plan asset, it will dispose of such Trust Certificate. Each Trust Certificate shall bear a legend referring to the restrictions contained in this paragraph.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Consolidation Loan Funding Ii, LLC), Trust Agreement (Goal Capital Funding, LLC), Trust Agreement (Goal Capital Funding, LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer Trust Certificate with the assets of any Person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets”(within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any governmental, non-U.S., or church plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Transaction Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a “United States person” (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in the Credit Risk Retention Rules) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the Credit Risk Retention Rules. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni LT), Trust Agreement (World Omni LT), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Leasing LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar Trust shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Trust shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates. The Paying Agent shall be the “Certificate Registrar” for the purpose of registering Trust Certificates and the transfers of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the any Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Depositor shall promptly appoint a successor theretoor, if it elects not to make such an appointment, assume the duties of the Certificate Registrar. The initial Trust Certificate shall be registered in the name of “CNH Capital Receivables LLC” as the initial registered owner thereof. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the UCC are met, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered evidencing such transferee’s beneficial interest in the Trust, which Trust Certificates will be issued in amounts equal, in the aggregate, to the percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust transferred by such transferor. At the option of a Certificateholder, upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Trust Certificate may be exchanged for a new Trust Certificate evidencing the same percentage of beneficial interest in the Trust as the Trust Certificate so exchanged. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, if the requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the UCC are met, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. All Trust Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement as the Securities Act Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or listed on any securities exchange. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by, the Certificateholder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made registered unless such transfer the transferee shall have provided (i) an opinion of counsel that no registration is made pursuant to an effective registration statement required under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable State laws, and (ii) if the transferee is the Seller or an Officiate of the Seller, an Officer’s Certificate as to compliance with Section 6.6 of the Sale and Servicing Agreement. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made to a Certificateholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates and any applicable state securities laws beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or is exempt from (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets of any of the registration requirements under the Securities Act foregoing (each a “Benefit Plan”). By accepting and such state securities laws. In the event that holding a transfer is to be made in reliance upon Trust Certificate or an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring thereof shall be deemed to effect such transfer have represented and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of warranted that it is not a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeBenefit Plan. The Depositor Trustee shall provide have no obligation to any determine whether or not a Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made a Benefit Plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, no transfer of a Trust Certificate or beneficial interest therein shall be allowed, and any such purported transfer shall be void ab initio, if such transfer would cause the Trust to have more than 100 partners within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1). For purposes of determining the number of partners in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf the Trust under Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1), a person owning an interest in a partnership, grantor trust, or S corporation (a “flow-through entity”) that owns, directly or through other flow-through entities, an interest in the Trust, will be treated as a partner in the Trust if more than 50 percent of the Issuer shall cause each value of such person’s interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity’s interest (direct or indirect) in the Trust. No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Trust Certificate (or any beneficial interest therein), whether to contain another Certificateholder or to a legend person who is not a Certificateholder, shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be void ab initio, and no person shall otherwise become a Certificateholder, and none of the Trust, the Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or any of the Certificateholders will recognize such transfer (or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.that:
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Samples: Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2006-A), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2006-B), Trust Agreement (CNH Equipment Trust 2005-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Owner Trustee may appoint an shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause ____________, ____________as its authenticating agent to act as authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Trust Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchangein accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Trust Certificate service charge shall be made unless such for any registration of transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities lawsexchange of Trust Certificates, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, but the Owner Trustee and or the Depositor against Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any liability tax or governmental charge that may result if the be imposed in connection with any transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form exchange of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Chec Asset Receivables Corp), Trust Agreement (Chec Asset Receivables Corp), Trust Agreement (Avco Abs Receivables Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Bankers Trust Company shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Owner Trustee may appoint an shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Bankers Trust Company as its authenticating agent to act as authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Trust Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchangein accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Trust Certificate service charge shall be made unless such for any registration of transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities lawsexchange of Trust Certificates, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, but the Owner Trustee and or the Depositor against Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any liability tax or governmental charge that may result if the be imposed in connection with any transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form exchange of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (TMS Auto Holdings Inc), Trust Agreement (TMS Auto Holdings Inc), Trust Agreement (Money Store Auto Trust 1996-2)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor have received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of, or with the assets of, (i) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” (as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” of any of the foregoing or (iv) any governmental, non-U.S. or church plan subject to applicable law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”). The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder and (iii) such Person is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder also must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Trust Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2012-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Leasing LLC), Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2011-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.08 hereof, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Delaware Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Delaware Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, the Delaware Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Delaware Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof. Every Trust Certificate Registrarpresented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Delaware Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Delaware Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Trust Certificates, but the Owner Delaware Trustee shall promptly appoint or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a successor theretosum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates have and any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not been registered under be acquired by or with the Securities assets of (a) employee benefit plans, retirement arrangements, individual retirement accounts or Kxxxx plans subject to either Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or listed on Section 4975 of the Code; or (b) entities (including insurance company general accounts) whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of the investment by any securities exchangesuch plans, arrangements or accounts in such entities (a “Benefit Plan Investor”). No transfer Each transferee of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant required to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer represent substantially in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment the Representation Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.B (i) that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor and is not acquiring such Trust Certificate with the assets of a Benefit Plan Investor; and (ii) that if such Trust Certificate is subsequently deemed to be a plan asset, it will dispose of such Trust Certificate. Each Trust Certificate shall bear a legend referring to the restrictions contained in this paragraph.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Higher Education Funding I), Trust Agreement (Higher Education Funding I), Trust Agreement (Higher Education Funding I)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.9, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Eligible Lender Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers transfer and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein providedprovided herein. The Owner Eligible Lender Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as be the Certificate Registrar. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any resignation Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.9, and compliance with the provisions set forth in Section 3.5, the Eligible Lender Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver in the name of the Certificate Registrardesignated transferee or transferees, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act date of authentication by the Eligible Lender Trustee or listed on any securities exchangeauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.9. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Eligible Lender Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an entity acceptable to the Eligible Lender Trustee. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Eligible Lender Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Trust Certificate service charge shall be made unless such for any registration of transfer is made pursuant or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Eligible Lender Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and cover any applicable state securities laws tax or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities lawsgovernmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsThe preceding provisions of this Section 3.4 notwithstanding, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law Eligible Lender Trustee shall not be an expense required to make and the Certificate Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer a period of 15 days preceding any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Distribution Date.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Crestar Bank /Va), Trust Agreement (PNC Bank National Association/), Trust Agreement (Crestar Bank /Va)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Eligible Lender Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Eligible Lender Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Eligible Lender Trustee may appoint an shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause First Chicago Trust Company of New York as its authenticating agent to act as authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Eligible Lender Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a holder of the Trust Certificates, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Eligible Lender Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the holder of the Trust Certificates or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in Security Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Owner Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Eligible Lender Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Eligible Lender Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Eligible Lender Trustee shall promptly appoint not be required to make and the Certificate Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of Trust Certificates for a successor theretoperiod of 15 days preceding any Distribution Date with respect to the Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates have and any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not been registered under be acquired by (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to the Securities Act provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) an individual retirement account described in Section 408(a) of the Code or listed on (c) any securities exchangeentity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan"). No transfer of By accepting and holding a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to or an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsinterest therein, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form holder of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as thereof or Certificate Owner thereof shall be necessary deemed to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, have represented and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability warranted that may result if the transfer it is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Benefit Plan.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Key Bank Usa National Association), Trust Agreement (Key Bank Usa National Association), Trust Agreement (Key Bank Usa National Association)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Wilmington Trust Company shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from Authenticating Agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 10 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2012-C), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2012-B), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2012-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Citibank, N.A. shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or the Trust shall cause Citibank, N.A., as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a like Certificate Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of a like aggregate Certificate Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that accompanied by a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the written instrument of transfer in the form attached hereto duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter sum sufficient to cover any tax or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel governmental charge that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeTrust Certificates. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder preceding provisions of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuerthis Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Depositor against Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any liability that may result if payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2011-A), Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2011-A), Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2010-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that (i) the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2008-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2007-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust like Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of a like Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that accompanied by a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the written instrument of transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as satisfactory to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. In addition, each Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt and exchange must be accompanied by a representation letter from the Prospective Holder certifying as to the representations set forth in Section 3.11(a), (b) and (c). Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or is not made exchange shall be canceled and disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the Payment Date with respect to the Certificates. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions or exemptions from the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Securities Act of 1934, as amended, applicable state securities laws. The law or the Investment Company Act of 1940; provided, however, that if a certificate is specifically required to be delivered to the Owner Trustee on behalf by a purchaser or transferee of a Certificate, the Issuer Owner Trustee shall cause each be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Trust Certificate to contain a legend in Agreement and shall promptly notify the form set forth on party delivering the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.same if such certificate does not so conform.
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Samples: Deposit Trust Agreement (Residential Asset Funding Corp), Deposit Trust Agreement (Prudential Securities Secured Financing Corp), Deposit Trust Agreement (Residential Asset Funding Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust like Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates of a like Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that accompanied by a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the written instrument of transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as satisfactory to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. In addition, each Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt and exchange must be accompanied by a letter from the Prospective Holder certifying as to the representations set forth in Section 3.11(a), (b), and (c). Each Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or is not made exchange shall be canceled and disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfer or exchanges of Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate Payment Date with respect to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Deposit Trust Agreement (Residential Resources Inc), Deposit Trust Agreement (Union Planters Mortgage Finance Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Wilmington Trust Company shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Citibank, N.A. as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust like Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under Percentage Interest dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from authenticating agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate Certificate Percentage Interest upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (BMW Fs Securities LLC), Trust Agreement (BMW Vehicle Owner Trust 2004-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Indenture Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 20.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Select Auto Trust 2021-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Select Auto Trust 2021-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that (i) the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2012-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2012-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Bank of New York Mellon shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that (i) the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2012-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2012-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe "Certificate Registrar") The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the "Transferor Certificate") and Exhibit D (the "Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter"). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA") that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a "plan" described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to the foregoing provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code ("Similar Law") (each, a "Plan") or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be "plan assets" subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. None of the Issuing Entity, the sponsor, the Depositor, the Servicer, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar or any of their respective affiliates or employees (collectively, the "Transaction Parties") will act as a fiduciary to any Plan with respect to the decision to acquire or hold a Trust Certificate and is not undertaking to provide impartial investment advice, or to give advice in a fiduciary capacity, with respect to such decision. The decision to acquire and hold a Trust Certificate must be made by each prospective Plan acquirer on an arm’s length basis. In addition, each Plan acquiring Trust Certificates that is subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code must generally be represented by a fiduciary independent of the Transaction Parties (which may not be an IXX owner or spouse of the IXX owner, in the case of an investor that is an IXX, or a participant of a Plan acting in such capacity) that (i) is capable of evaluating investment risks independently, both in general and with regard to the prospective investment in the Trust Certificates, (ii) has exercised independent judgment in evaluating whether to invest the assets of such Plan in the Trust Certificates and (iii) is a bank, an insurance carrier, a registered investment adviser, a registered broker-dealer or an independent fiduciary with at least $50 million of assets under management or control. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person that is a Plan subject to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar have received a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Plan to the foregoing effect. The preparation and delivery of the certificate referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of the foregoing restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any "majority-owned affiliate" (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni LT), Trust Agreement (World Omni LT)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee [ ] shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (American Honda Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (American Honda Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe "Certificate Registrar") The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the "Transferor Certificate") and Exhibit D (the "Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter"). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA") that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a "plan" described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to the foregoing provisions of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code ("Similar Law") (each, a "Plan") or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be "plan assets" subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any "majority-owned affiliate" (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2018-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2018-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Bank of New York Mellon shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2016-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2016-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee MUFG Union Bank, N.A. shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 20.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee [___] shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause ____________, as its authenticating agent, to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Trust Certificates may appoint be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchangein accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Trust Certificate service charge shall be made unless such for any registration of transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities lawsexchange of Trust Certificates, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, but the Owner Trustee and or the Depositor against Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any liability tax or governmental charge that may result if the be imposed in connection with any transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form exchange of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Structured Asset Mortgage Investments Inc), Trust Agreement (Structured Asset Mortgage Investments Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2022-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2022-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Citibank, N.A. shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2009-2 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2005-1 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that (i) the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2009-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee [CERTIFICATE REGISTRAR] shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause [AUTHENTICATING AGENT] as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from authenticating agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (National City Bank /), Trust Agreement (Regions Acceptance LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Indenture Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring such Trust Certificates with the Issuer assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity deemed to hold assets of the foregoing or (iv) any plan or arrangement that is subject to any law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”). The preparation and delivery of the certificate referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 20.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall any of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Select Auto Trust 2023-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Select Auto Trust 2023-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank Trust National Association shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2010-3 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2010-3 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Administrator shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause the Administrator as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of an Owner, Trust Certificate shall Certificates may be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case like aggregate amount upon surrender of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Owner or his attorney duly authorized in writing. In addition, each Residual Interest Instrument presented or surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt and exchange must be accompanied by a letter from the Prospective Owner certifying as to the representations set forth in Section 3.14(a) and (b). Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or is not made exchange shall be canceled disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf of shall not make and the Issuer Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form not register transfer or exchanges of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Firstplus Investment Corp), Trust Agreement (Firstplus Investment Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association, shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2020-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2020-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank Trust National Association shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2008-1 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2006-2 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer Trust Certificate with the assets of any Person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets”(within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any governmental, non-U.S., or church plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a United States person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in the Credit Risk Retention Rules) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the Credit Risk Retention Rules. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2020-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2020-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2008-2 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2005-5 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee ____ shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, and, upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth below, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Trust Certificates may appoint be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchangein accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Trust Certificate service charge shall be made unless such for any registration of transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws Owner Trustee or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities lawsCertificate Registrar may, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law but shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder obligated to, require payment of a Trust Certificate and sum sufficient to cover any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability tax or governmental charge that may result if the be imposed in connection with any transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form exchange of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Mellon Auto Receivables Corp), Trust Agreement (Barnett Auto Receivables Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Indenture Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring such Trust Certificates with the Issuer assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall any of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2022-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2022-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause [ ], as its authenticating agent, to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Trust Certificates may appoint be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing, with such signature guaranteed by an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation "eligible guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Securities Transfer Agent's Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Exchange Act. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchangein accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Trust Certificate service charge shall be made unless such for any registration of transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities lawsexchange of Trust Certificates, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, but the Owner Trustee and or the Depositor against Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any liability tax or governmental charge that may result if the be imposed in connection with any transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form exchange of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Gs Mortgage Securities Corp), Trust Agreement (Gs Mortgage Securities Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer Trust Certificate with the assets of any Person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account deemed to hold “plan assets” of the foregoing or (iv) any governmental, non-U.S., or church plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”). The preparation and delivery of the certificate referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a “United States person” (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 20.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 20.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in the Credit Risk Retention Rules) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the Credit Risk Retention Rules. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni LT), Trust Agreement (World Omni LT)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe "Certificate Registrar") The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. [The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto]. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the "Transferor Certificate") and Exhibit D (the "Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter"). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni LT), Trust Agreement (World Omni LT)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association, shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 20.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2020-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2020-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Owner Trustee has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity (each, a “Benefit Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuer being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee will not require such certificate or opinion in the event that, as a result of a change of law or otherwise, counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee has rendered an opinion to the effect that the purchase and holding of a Trust Certificate by a Benefit Plan or a Person that is purchasing or holding such a Trust Certificate with the assets of a Benefit Plan will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above shall not be an expense of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2005-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that (i) the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2013-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2013-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.08 hereof, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Delaware Trustee shall provide for the registration of the Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Delaware Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof, the Delaware Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Delaware Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08 hereof. Every Trust Certificate Registrarpresented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Delaware Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Delaware Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Trust Certificates, but the Owner Delaware Trustee shall promptly appoint or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a successor theretosum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The Trust Certificates have and any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not been registered under be acquired by or with the Securities assets of (a) employee benefit plans, retirement arrangements, individual retirement accounts or Xxxxx plans subject to either Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or listed on Section 4975 of the Code; or (b) entities (including insurance company general accounts) whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of the investment by any securities exchangesuch plans, arrangements or accounts in such entities (a "Benefit Plan Investor"). No transfer Each transferee of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant required to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer represent substantially in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment the Representation Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.B (i) that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor and is not acquiring such Trust Certificate with the assets of a Benefit Plan Investor; and (ii) that if such Trust Certificate is subsequently deemed to be a plan asset, it will dispose of such Trust Certificate. Each Trust Certificate shall bear a legend referring to the restrictions contained in this paragraph.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (College Loan Corp Trust I), Trust Agreement (College Loan Corp Trust I)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer Trust Certificate with the assets of any Person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets”(within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any governmental, non-U.S., or church plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a United States person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in the Credit Risk Retention Rules) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the Credit Risk Retention Rules. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2019-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2019-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee MUFG Union Bank, N.A. shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a “United States person” within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 20.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Select Auto Trust 2020-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Select Auto Trust 2020-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Indenture Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”)) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the prohibited transaction provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that (i) the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2011-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2011-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. hereby appoints The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent Bank of New York to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation , and The Bank of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor theretoNew York hereby accepts such appointment. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities said Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit B and Exhibit C (the "Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter"). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) Opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or the Seller; provided, that such Opinion of Counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor Upon request, the Owner Trustee shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Holder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall which is in the possession of the Owner Trustee or which can be necessary obtained by the Owner Trustee without undue burden or expense in order to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerTrust, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Owner Trustee on behalf of or the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain Registrar and the Depositor have received (a) a legend certificate in the form set forth on of paragraph three (3) to the form of Trust Certificate Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit A.C from such Person to the effect that such Person is not a Benefit Plan, or (b) an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Trust being deemed to be "plan assets" subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee will not require such certificate or opinion in the event that, as a result of a change of law or otherwise, counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee has rendered an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the purchase and holding of a Trust Certificate by a Benefit Plan or a Person that is purchasing or holding such a Trust Certificate with the assets of a Benefit Plan will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause The Bank of New York as its authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions or exemptions from the Securities Act, the Securities Act of 1934, as amended, applicable state securities law or the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; provided, however, that if a certificate or opinion is specifically required to be delivered to the Owner Trustee by a purchaser or transferee of a Trust Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Trust Agreement and shall promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate or opinion does not so conform.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Regions Auto Receivables Trust 2002-1), Trust Agreement (Regions Auto Receivables Trust 2003-1)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe "Certificate Registrar") The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the "Transferor Certificate") and Exhibit D (the "Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter"). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni LT), Trust Agreement (World Omni LT)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee _______________ shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the Certificate Registrardesignated transferee or transferees, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act date of authentication by the Trustee or listed on any securities exchangeauthenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No transfer of a Trust Certificate service charge shall be made unless such for any registration of transfer is made pursuant or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and cover any applicable state securities laws tax or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities lawsgovernmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such lawsThe preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer Trustee shall not make, and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee the Certificate Registrar shall each certify not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Gs Mortgage Securities Corp), Trust Agreement (Goldman Sachs Asset Backed Securities Corp)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Citibank, N.A. shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent 6 (2017-B Amended and Restated Trust Agreement) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate RegistrarSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer in authorized denominations of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under like aggregate amount dated the Securities Act and date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from Authenticating Agent. At the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form option of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion like aggregate amount upon surrender of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and to be exchanged at the Receivables and such other information as office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be necessary accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if Certificate Registrar duly executed by the related Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer is not so exempt or is not made exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with federal and state securities lawsits customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee on behalf shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 10 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2017-B), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2017-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Union Bank, N.A. shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2014-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2014-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Wilmington Trust Company shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities said Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the "Transferor Certificate") and Exhibit D (the "Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter"). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or NAL; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Holder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Owner Trustee has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA")) that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan"), (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate will not constitute or result in the assets of the Issuer being deemed to be "plan assets" subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents or (C) if such Person is an insurance company, a representation that such Person is an insurance company that is purchasing such Certificates with funds contained in an "insurance company general account" (as such term is defined in section v(e) of Prohibited Transaction Class Exemption 95-60 ("PTCE 95-60")) and that the purchase and holding of such Certificates and any deemed extension of credit from a Certificateholder which is a party in interest to a Plan, the assets of which are held by such "Insurance Company" are covered under PTCE 95-60; provided, however, that the Owner Trustee will not require such certificate or opinion in the event that, as a result of a change of law or otherwise, counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee has rendered an opinion to the effect that the purchase and holding of a Trust Certificate by a Benefit Plan or a Person that is purchasing or holding such a Trust Certificate with the assets of a Benefit Plan will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above shall not be an expense of the Issuer, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Servicer or the Depositor. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Holder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Nal Financial Group Inc), Trust Agreement (Nal Financial Group Inc)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer Trust Certificate with the assets of any Person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as defined in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account deemed to hold “plan assets” of the foregoing or (iv) any governmental, non-U.S., or church plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”). The preparation and delivery of the certificate referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a “United States person” (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in the Credit Risk Retention Rules) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the Credit Risk Retention Rules. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni LT), Trust Agreement (World Omni LT)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee MUFG Union Bank, N.A. shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2019-C), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2019-C)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets”(within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2019-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2019-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2017-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2017-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. (a) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee Citibank, N.A. shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder Holder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in the form of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter. Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided a Rule 144A Letter, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer an Opinion of Counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) of Counsel and memorandum of law shall not be an expense of the Issuer or the Owner Trustee. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such CertificateholderHolder, information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder Holder of a Trust Certificate desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the Issuer, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (American Honda Receivables 2006-1 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2007-3 Owner Trust)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such CertificateholderHolder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer Trust Certificate with the assets of any Person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” as described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets”(within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any governmental, non-U.S., or church plan or any other employee benefit plan or arrangement that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Transaction Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership), in either case, taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a “United States person” (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in the Credit Risk Retention Rules) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the Credit Risk Retention Rules. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2020-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2020-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee MUFG Union Bank, N.A. shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and is not acting on behalf of (i) an employee benefit plan subject to Title I of the Issuer Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), (ii) a plan subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets by reason of a plan’s investment in the entity or (iv) any plan that is subject to any federal, state or local law that is, to a material extent, similar to the foregoing provisions of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” subject to the prohibited transactions provisions of ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not constitute or result in a prohibited transaction under ERISA, Section 4975 of the Code or Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2015-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2015-B)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe "Certificate Registrar") The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.07, a certificate register (the "Certificate Register Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Owner Trustee shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s Holder's prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the "Transferor Certificate") and Exhibit D (the "Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter"). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer or Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Indenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables Transaction Units and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer Trust Certificate with the assets of any Person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Code subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets”(within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless (i) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received an opinion of independent counsel that such action will not cause the trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes, (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder, (iii) such Person is a United States Person (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) and has delivered to the Certificate Registrar a certificate to that effect and (iv) the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor have received on or prior to the date such person becomes a Certificateholder under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Depositor), executed originals of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Certificateholder is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax. For the avoidance of doubt, any transfer of a Trust Certificate by a Certificateholder other than the initial Certificateholder must comply with the forgoing provision. No Trust Certificate (other than the Trust Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Trust Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Trust Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, on behalf of the Trust, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.07. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that the resulting Certificate represents less than 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. Notwithstanding any other provision herein or elsewhere, other than to determine that any Transferor Certificate, Investment Letter, opinion of counsel, certificate, written instrument of transfer or other document or instrument delivered to the Certificate Registrar or Owner Trustee pursuant to this Section 3.03 substantially complies on its face with the requirements set forth on in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the form Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any obligation to determine whether or not any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer of Trust a Certificate attached hereto complies with applicable law or is permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement, and neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall have any personal liability to any Person in connection with any transfer or exchange or proposed or purported transfer or exchange (and/or registration thereof) that is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any "majority-owned affiliate" (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2019-A), Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2019-A)
Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Trust Certificates. The certificate registrar (athe “Certificate Registrar”) The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a certificate register (the “Certificate Register Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it the Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee U.S. Bank National Association shall act as be the initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or and will not be listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities laws or is exempt from the registration requirements under the Securities Act and such state securities laws. In the event that a transfer is to be made in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance with the Securities Act and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring to effect such transfer and such Certificateholder’s prospective transferee shall each certify to the Issuer Owner Trustee and the Depositor in writing the facts surrounding the transfer in substantially the form of a Seller Certificate forms set forth in Exhibit C (the “Transferor Certificate”) and Exhibit D (the “Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter”). Except in the case of a transfer as to which the proposed transferee has provided an Investment Letter with respect to a Rule 144A Lettertransaction, there shall also be delivered to the Issuer Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor an Opinion opinion of Counsel counsel that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel or memorandum of law that such transfer may be made pursuant to an exemption from state securities laws, which Opinion(s) opinion of Counsel and memorandum of law counsel shall not be an expense of the Issuer Trust, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeIndenture Trustee (unless it is the transferee from whom such opinion is to be obtained) or of the Depositor or World Omni; provided that such opinion of counsel in respect of the applicable state securities laws may be a memorandum of law rather than an opinion if such counsel is not licensed in the applicable jurisdiction. The Depositor shall provide to any Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate and any prospective transferee designated by any such Certificateholder, Certificateholder information regarding the Trust Certificates and the Receivables and such other information as shall be necessary to satisfy the condition to eligibility set forth in Rule 144A(d)(4) for transfer of any such Trust Certificate without registration thereof under the Securities Act pursuant to the registration exemption provided by Rule 144A. Each Certificateholder desiring to effect such a transfer shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerIssuing Entity, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Depositor and World Omni (in any capacity) against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 3 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is not and will not be and is not acting on behalf of or acquiring the Issuer notes with the assets of any person that is or will be (i) an “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a “plan” described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended (the “Code”) subject to Section 4975 of the Code, (iii) any entity or account whose underlying assets include “plan assets” (within the meaning of the U.S. Department of Labor regulation located at 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA (the “Plan Asset Regulation”)) or (iv) any U.S. governmental plan, non-U.S. plan, church plan or any other employee benefit plan, account or arrangement that is subject to any U.S. federal, state, local or non-U.S. law that is substantially similar to Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”) (each, a “Plan”) or (B) an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that the purchase and holding of such Trust Certificate by such Person (i) will not result in the assets of the Issuing Entity being deemed to be “plan assets” (within meaning of the Plan Asset Regulation) or subject to Similar Law and will not subject the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Servicer or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents and (ii) will not give rise to a nonexempt prohibited transaction under ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code or a violation of Similar Law. The preparation and delivery of the certificate and opinions referred to above with respect to a proposed transfer shall not be an expense of the Issuing Entity, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, World Omni (in any capacity) or the Depositor. Any attempted or purported transfer in violation of these transfer restrictions will be null and void and will vest no rights in any purported transferee. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made to any Person unless the Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar has received (A) a certificate in the form of paragraph 4 to the Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit D from such Person to the effect that such Person is a U.S. Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and (B) the Depositor, the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee shall have received an opinion of counsel (which counsel is independent from the Depositor and the Trust) that such action shall not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and such transferee or assignee shall agree to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions set forth in Section 2.06 of this Agreement as agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. The Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain a legend stating that transfer of the Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the Certificates to the terms of this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, and the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any authenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. No Certificate (other than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificate held through a party considered a nominee for U.S. federal income tax purposes represent(s) less than a 2.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust (or such other amount as the Depositor may determine in order to prevent the Trust from being treated as a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the Trust). Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form set forth on satisfactory to the form Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by the Certificateholder or such Certificateholder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Trust Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Owner Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate attached hereto Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates. The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. No transfer of a Trust Certificate or any interest therein shall be made unless the Certificateholder shall have first surrendered such Trust Certificate to the Certificate Registrar for registration of transfer, or if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 3.05 hereof. During the period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate until the expiration of such period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, finance, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (as Exhibit A.such term is defined in 17 CFR Part 246.2) of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. Any purported transfer of a Certificate not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.04 shall be null and void and shall not be given effect for any purpose whatsoever. In no event shall the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar have any responsibility to monitor compliance with or be charged with knowledge of the Credit Risk Retention Rules, nor shall either of them be liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for violation of such rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2019-B)