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. (b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08. (c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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. (d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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. (e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law. (f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice. (g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates. (h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 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 (hto the extent lawful) No all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of a the Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 Trust Certificates have not been registered under the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer of a initial 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 registered in the form name of a Seller Certificate and Investment Letter or a Rule 144A Letter“CNH Capital Receivables LLC” as the initial registered owner thereof. 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) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.8, the Owner Trustee shall 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 evidencing such transferee’s beneficial interest in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by Trust, which Trust Certificates will be issued in amounts equal, in the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such executionaggregate, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that percentage of beneficial interest in the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesTrust transferred by such transferor. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of 3.8, a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates Certificate may be exchanged for other a new Trust Certificates Certificate evidencing the same percentage of beneficial interest in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at as the office of the Trust Certificate Registrarso exchanged. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to 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 Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or 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 Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by by, the Certificateholder thereof or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing.
. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be registered unless the transferee shall have provided (di) if the transferee is not the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller and the transferor is not the Seller or an Affiliate of the Seller, an opinion of counsel that no registration 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 Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) . The Trust Certificates and any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan ERISA) that is subject to Similar Law or the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of plan described in Section 7701(a)(304975(e)(1) of the CodeCode or (c) any entity whose underlying assets include plan assets of any of the foregoing (each a “Benefit Plan”). No transfer of By accepting and holding a Trust Certificate or an interest therein, the Certificateholder thereof shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified deemed to the Issuer in writing have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor Plan. The Trustee shall have no obligation to determine whether or not a Plan that Certificateholder of a Trust Certificate is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration or is not a Benefit Plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or beneficial interest therein) therein shall be permitted (nor allowed, and any such purported transfer shall a be void ab initio, if such transfer would cause the Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or have more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (than 100 partners within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.3851.7704-3(g)(121(h)(1)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member . For purposes of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership determining the number of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (partners in the case of clause (xTrust under Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1), unless such membera 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 case of clause (y)Trust, unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is will be treated as a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member the Trust if more than 50 percent of the consolidated group value of such person’s interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity’s interest (as described direct or indirect) in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)the Trust. No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Trust Certificate (or any beneficial interest therein), whether to another Certificateholder or to a person who is not a Certificateholder, shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be permitted 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 (nor shall a or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the Trust that:
(A) it is acquiring the Trust Certificate for its own account and is the sole beneficial owner of such Trust Certificate;
(B) the transfer is not being effected on or through (x) an “established securities market” within the meaning of Section 7704(a)(1) of the Code, including without limitation, an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations or (y) a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)” within the meaning of Section 7704(a)(2) of the Code and any proposed, temporary or final Treasury Regulations thereunder; and
(C) such transfer will not cause the Trust to be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded classified as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes purposes, and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns purchaser or transferee will not take any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership action, including any subsequent disposition of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns Trust Certificate (or any Notes (in the case of clause (xbeneficial interest therein), unless such member, or in that would cause the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is Trust to be treated as a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
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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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law Investor or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate any of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 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 (hto the extent lawful) No all other rights and remedies with respect to the transfer of a the Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Certificates.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Hyundai Abs Funding Corp), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Abs Funding Corp), Trust Agreement (Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust 2006-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 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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the Section 3.8, and, upon satisfaction of the preceding paragraphconditions set forth below, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, the Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive3.8. 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 such Certificateholder’s 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 (d“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 comply with Section 2.12. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) may Certificate Registrar may, but shall not be 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 Certificates.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for . Notwithstanding the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstandingforegoing, the Owner Trustee shall need not make, make and the Certificate Registrar shall need not register register, transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the any Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Franklin Auto Trust 2005-1), Trust Agreement (Franklin Auto Trust 2004-1), Trust Agreement (Franklin Auto Trust 2006-1)
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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2016-4 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2016-4 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (American Honda 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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law Investor or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08, a Certificate Register in whichRegister, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it . The Certificate Register shall provide for the registration of the Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificates as provided herein. The Owner Trustee is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar for the purpose of registering the Trust Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificates as herein provided. The In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent notifies the Servicer that it is unable to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Servicer shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer City of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant Chicago, Illinois, agreeing 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 act in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance accordance with the Securities Act provisions of this Agreement applicable to it, and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring otherwise acceptable 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 act as successor 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.Registrar hereunder.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any a Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphOwner Trustee Corporate Trust Office, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transfereestransferee, one or more a new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like Certificate having the same aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08amount.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder thereof or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made in a transaction which does not require registration or qualification under the Securities Act of 1933 or qualification under any state securities or “Blue Sky” laws. Neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall effect the registration of any transfer of a Trust Certificate unless prior to such transfer the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel that (x) the transfer of such Trust Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act of 1933 or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and (y) such transfer will not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. Any transferee of a Trust Certificate must be either an Affiliate of the Trust Depositor or a Qualified Institutional Buyer. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate or an interest therein to or on behalf of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan shall be void and of no effect. The Owner Trustee shall not be obligated to register any transfer of a Trust Certificate unless each of the transferor and the transferee have certified to the Owner Trustee that such transfer does not violate any of the transfer restrictions stated herein. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable to any Person for registering any transfer based on such certifications.
(e) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of a Trust CertificatesCertificate, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawCertificate.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee canceled and promptly cancelled subsequently destroyed by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2011-2), Trust Agreement (Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2011-2), Trust Agreement (Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2011-1)
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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the CodePlan. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawPlan.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate any of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. (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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are ownedcontrolled, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group expanded group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group expanded group owns any Notes (in the each case of clause (x) and (y), unless such member, or member (and in the case of clause (y), unless each member of ) the relevant member(s) that are partners in the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership Partnership) is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group an expanded group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group expanded group owns any Notes (in the each case of clause (x) and (y), unless such member, or member of such expanded group (it being understood in the case of clause (y), unless each member of ) for this purpose the Section 385 Expanded Group that relevant member(s) is a partner the partner(s) in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership Partnership) is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2017-3 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2017-3 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2017-2 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 3.08, 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate any of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. (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 whichRegister, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it . The Certificate Register shall provide for the registration of the Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificates as provided herein. The Owner Trustee is hereby initially appointed Certificate Registrar for the purpose of registering the Trust Certificates and transfers and exchanges of the Trust Certificates as herein provided. The In the event that, subsequent to the Closing Date, the Owner Trustee shall act as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent notifies the Servicer that it is unable to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee Servicer shall promptly appoint a successor thereto. The Trust Certificates have not been registered under another bank or trust company, having an office or agency located in the Securities Act or listed on any securities exchange. No transfer City of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made pursuant Chicago, Illinois, agreeing 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 act in reliance upon an exemption from the Securities Act and state securities laws, in order to assure compliance accordance with the Securities Act provisions of this Agreement applicable to it, and such laws, the Certificateholder desiring otherwise acceptable 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 act as successor 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.Registrar hereunder.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any a Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphOwner Trustee Corporate Trust Office, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), in the name of the designated transferee or transfereestransferee, one or more a new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like Certificate having the same aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08amount.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder thereof or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless such transfer is made in a transaction which does not require registration or qualification under the Securities Act of 1933 or qualification under any state securities or “Blue Sky” laws. Neither the Owner Trustee nor the Certificate Registrar shall effect the registration of any transfer of a Trust Certificate unless prior to such transfer the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel that (x) the transfer of such Trust Certificate is being made pursuant to an effective registration under the Securities Act of 1933 or is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and (y) such transfer will not cause the Trust to be treated as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. Any transferee of a Trust Certificate must be either an Affiliate of the Trust Depositor or a Qualified Institutional Buyer. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary herein, any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate to or on behalf of a Benefit Plan or utilizing the assets of a Benefit Plan shall be void and of no effect. The Owner Trustee shall not be obligated to register any transfer of a Trust Certificate unless each of the transferor and the transferee have certified to the Owner Trustee that such transfer does not violate any of the transfer restrictions stated herein. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable to any Person for registering any transfer based on such certifications.
(e) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of a Trust CertificatesCertificate, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawCertificate.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee canceled and promptly cancelled subsequently destroyed by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2009-2), Trust Agreement (Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust 2009-4), Trust Agreement (Harley Davidson Customer 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 3.083.07, 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of as such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (term is defined in the case Credit Risk Retention Rules) of clause (x), unless such member, or World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Credit Risk Retention Rules. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. (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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law Investor or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law Investor or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. (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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law Investor or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, not permitted under or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 3.08, 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law Investor or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted (nor made unless the Certificateholder shall a have first surrendered such Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in to the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation Certificate Registrar for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member registration of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such membertransfer, or in if such Trust Certificate shall have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen, the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Certificateholder must first comply with Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)3.05 hereof.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2016-B), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2016-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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group "majority-owned affiliate" (as described such term is defined in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)17 CFR Part 246.2) which includes such Domestic Corporation)of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)effect.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 3.083.07, 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of as such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (term is defined in the case Credit Risk Retention Rules) of clause (x), unless such member, or World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Credit Risk Retention Rules. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. (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 of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause The Bank of New York as its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 (or interest therein) Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be permitted (nor under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Trust Agreement and shall a Trust Certificate be promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate or opinion does not so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. (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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law Investor or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. (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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the CodePlan. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawPlan.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (American Honda Receivables Corp), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2004-1 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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group “majority-owned affiliate” (as described such term is defined in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)17 CFR Part 246.2) which includes such Domestic Corporation)of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are ownedcontrolled, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a an Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group expanded group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group expanded group owns any Notes (in the each case of clause (x) and (y), unless such member, or member (and in the case of clause (y), unless each member of ) the relevant member(s) that are partners in the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership Partnership) is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming a disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes separate from a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group an expanded group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group expanded group owns any Notes (in the each case of clause (x) and (y), unless such member, or member of such expanded group (it being understood in the case of clause (y), unless each member of ) for this purpose the Section 385 Expanded Group that relevant member(s) is a partner the partner(s) in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership Partnership) is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2017-1 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2017-1 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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of as such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (term is defined in the case Credit Risk Retention Rules) of clause (x), unless such member, or World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Credit Risk Retention Rules. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of as such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (term is defined in the case Credit Risk Retention Rules) of clause (x), unless such member, or World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Credit Risk Retention Rules. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 3.083.07, 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of as such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (term is defined in the case Credit Risk Retention Rules) of clause (x), unless such member, or World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Credit Risk Retention Rules. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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), 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. (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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 3.08, 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 3.08, 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 on behalf 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 (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 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 Certificate Registrar 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 Issuing Entity 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, the Certificate Registrar or the Depositor to any obligation in addition to those undertaken in the Basic Documents; provided, however, that the Certificate Registrar 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 Certificate Registrar 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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2006-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 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 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) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).the
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2002-2 Owner Trust), Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2002-3 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 3.08, 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate any of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 3.083.07, 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, not permitted under or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group "majority-owned affiliate" (as described such term is defined in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)17 CFR Part 246.2) which includes such Domestic Corporation)of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or any “majority-owned affiliate” (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of as such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (term is defined in the case Credit Risk Retention Rules) of clause (x), unless such member, or World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Credit Risk Retention Rules. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 3.083.8, 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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the Section 3.8, and, upon satisfaction of the preceding paragraphconditions set forth below, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate original certificate balance face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive3.8. 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 such Certificateholder’s 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 (d"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 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 Paying Agent) may Certificate Registrar may, but shall not be 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 Certificates.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 10.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate any of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 3.08, 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group "majority-owned affiliate" (as described such term is defined in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)17 CFR Part 246.2) which includes such Domestic Corporation)of World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in 17 CFR Part 246.12. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)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. (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 Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Depositor hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee shall act as 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 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..
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, accompanied by the certification appearing on the reverse of the form of the Certificate Registrar and subject relating to Rule 144A, executed by the satisfaction Holder of the preceding paragraphsuch Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver deliver, (or shall cause the Certificate Registrar as its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver), ) in the name of the designated Designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate original certificate balance face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 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 Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Securitized Asset Backed Receivables LLC), Trust Agreement (Painewebber Asset Acceptance 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 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 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, 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”)) that is 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 that is subject to any federal, state, local or other law that is, to a material extent, similar to Title I of 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 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 has 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 and (ii) such transferee or assignee agrees to take positions for tax purposes consistent with the tax positions agreed to be taken by the Certificateholder. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Automobile Lease Securitization Trust 2009-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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the Section 3.8, and, upon satisfaction of the preceding paragraphconditions set forth below, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance class and Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive3.8. Every Trust Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by (i) in the case of a transfer of a Certificate, an executed Investment Letter referred to in Section 3.10 or an opinion of counsel (furnished at the cost of the transferee or transferor) satisfactory to the Owner Trustee to the effect that the transfer of such Certificate is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and would not result in adverse tax consequences to the Trust, the Noteholders or the Certificateholders and (ii) 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 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 (d"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 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 Paying Agent) may Certificate Registrar may, but shall not be 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 Certificates.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for . Notwithstanding the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstandingforegoing, the Owner Trustee shall not make, make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the any Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option may be subdivided upon transfer or exchange in a manner such that any resulting Certificate(s) or beneficial ownership of a Certificateholder, 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 Certificates (or such other amount as the Depositor may be exchanged for other determine in order to prevent the Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a [1.00]% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or any interest therein) therein shall be permitted 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 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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Noteholder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)effect.
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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. 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a 1.00% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (World Omni Auto Receivables Trust 2008-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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.07, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate on behalf of the Trust, and deliver (the Owner Trustee or the Certificate Registrar shall cause 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesCertificate Registrar. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
3.07. No Certificate (cother than the Certificates issued to and held by the Depositor or its Affiliates) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for 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 Certificates in authorized denominations of from being treated as a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender "publicly traded partnership" under Section 7704 of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at Code, but in no event less than a [1.00]% fractional undivided interest in the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receiveTrust). 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen ([15) ] days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 in this Section 3.03 and subject to Section 7.01, neither the 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 a Trust Certificate 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 (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Groupand/or registration thereof) that has an expanded group partner (within is not permitted under or in accordance with this Agreement. During the meaning period described in 17 CFR Part 246.12(f)(1), no Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member any Certificate until the expiration of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns period; provided, that, during such period, such Certificateholder may sell, transfer, assign, participate, pledge or otherwise dispose of any Notes Certificate to World Omni or any "majority-owned affiliate" (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of as such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (term is defined in the case Credit Risk Retention Rules) of clause (x), unless such member, or World Omni in accordance with the restrictions contained in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Credit Risk Retention Rules. No Any purported transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) not in accordance with this paragraph of Section 3.03 shall be permitted (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 a Trust Certificate either of them be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation liable to any investor, Holder, party or any other Person whatsoever for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership violation of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (rules or requirements or such similar provisions now or hereafter in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)effect.
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Samples: 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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2006-2 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 3.083.9, 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 to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon .
(b) No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of 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 or interest therein shall be made unless such that transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition (i) complies with the requirements and restrictions set forth in the related Purchase Agreement (except that for the initial transfer of the Certificate to the Depositor, the requirements for transfer shall be deemed to have been met by the Depositor) and (ii) is made pursuant to an effective exempt from the registration statement under and/or qualification requirements of the Securities Act 1933 Act, and any applicable state securities laws laws, or is exempt from Amended and Restated Trust Agreement otherwise made in accordance with the registration requirements under the Securities 1933 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 Any 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 Certificates 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 interest therein shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerTrust, each of the Initial Beneficiary, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf .
(c) Neither the Trust nor the Trust Estate has been registered as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Issuer Agreement, the Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate refuse to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form register any transfer of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates if such registration of transfer would cause the Trust Certificates to be “beneficially owned” by more than five (5) persons (in each case within the meaning of section 3(c)(1) of the 1940 Act). Any transfer of Trust Certificates that would cause the Trust Certificates to be so owned shall be, to the fullest extent permitted by law, void ab initio and of no force and effect whatsoever.
(bd) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.9, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate be authenticated and deliverdelivered), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.9.
(ce) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice.
(df) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer Each purchaser (including any transferee) of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if must satisfy the transfer restrictions as set forth herein and in the applicable transfer certificate attached to the form Purchase Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit D.
(i) it causes The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the Issuer extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more the transfer of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation Certificates. Amended and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Restated Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).Agreement
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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 Owner Trustee 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 .
(b) No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of 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 or interest therein shall be made unless such that transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition (i) complies with the requirements and restrictions set forth in the related Purchase Agreement (except that for the initial transfer of the Certificate to the Depositor, the requirements for transfer shall be deemed to have been met by the Depositor) and (ii) is made pursuant to an effective exempt from the registration statement under and/or qualification requirements of the Securities Act 1933 Act, and any applicable state securities laws laws, or is exempt from otherwise made in accordance with the registration requirements under the Securities 1933 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 Any 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 Certificates 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 interest therein shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerTrust, each of the Initial Beneficiary, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf .
(c) Neither the Trust nor the Trust Estate has been registered as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Issuer Agreement, the Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate refuse to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form register any transfer of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates if such registration of transfer would cause the Trust Certificates to be “beneficially owned” by more than five (5) persons (in each case within the meaning of section 3(c)(1) of the 1940 Act). Any transfer of Trust Certificates that would cause the Trust Certificates to be so owned shall be, to the fullest extent permitted by law, void ab initio and of no force and effect whatsoever.
(bd) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.9, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate be authenticated and deliverdelivered), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.3.9. Amended and Restated Trust Agreement
(ce) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice.
(df) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer Each purchaser (including any transferee) of a Trust Certificate must satisfy the transfer restrictions as set forth herein and in the applicable transfer certificate attached hereto as Exhibit G-1 (or interest thereinthe “Regulation S Transfer Certificate”) shall be permitted and Exhibit G-2 (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e.“Rule 144A Transfer Certificate” and, 80 percent or more of together with the Issuer’s ownership interests are ownedRegulation S Transfer Certificate, directly or indirectlythe “Transfer Certificates”), by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (and, in the case of clause a purchaser taking delivery in the form of an interest in a Rule 144A Global Certificate or a Regulation S Global Certificate, as the case may be, by its acceptance of a beneficial interest in the Certificates, shall be deemed to have made the representations and warranties set forth in the applicable Transfer Certificate. In addition, each purchaser (xincluding any transferee) of a Certificate, prior to the time that it sells or otherwise transfers any or all of its interest in the Certificate, shall furnish a certificate substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit I (the “Transferor Certificate”), unless such member, or in . In the case of clause (y)the sale of an interest in a Global Certificate, unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) seller shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if deemed to have made the representations and warranties set forth in the Transferor Certificate.
(i) it results in The provisions of this Article III are exclusive and shall preclude (to the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes extent lawful) all other rights and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in remedies with respect to the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member transfer of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Certificates.
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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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law Investor or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 Certificate Registrar shall provide for the registration of Trust Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Trust Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Depositor hereby appoints the Indenture Trustee shall act as 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 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..
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, accompanied by the certification appearing on the reverse of the form of the Certificate Registrar and subject relating to Rule 144A, executed by the satisfaction Holder of the preceding paragraphsuch Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver deliver, (or shall cause the Certificate Registrar as its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.8.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 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 Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Prudential Securities Secured Financing 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 Wells Fargo Bank, National Associxxxxx 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 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 Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar 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 All transfers of Trust Certificates shall be subject to the transfer restrictions described in Section 11.13 of this Agreement. Furthermore, 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 legend certificate in the form set forth on of paragraphs 3 and 4 to the form of Trust Certificate Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) C from such Person to the effect that such Person is not a Benefit Plan. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Wells Fargo Bank, National Associxxxxx as its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Certificate Registrar nor the Owner Trustee shall 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 or the Certificate Registrar by a purchaser or transferee of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be permitted (nor under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Trust Agreement and shall a Trust Certificate be promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate or opinion does not so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)conform.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Morgan Stanley Auto Loan Trust 2004-Hb1)
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 Owner Trustee 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 .
(b) No transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition of 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 or interest therein shall be made unless such that transfer, sale, pledge or other disposition (i) complies with the requirements and restrictions set forth in the related Purchase Agreement (except that for the initial transfer of the Certificate to the Depositor, the requirements for transfer shall be deemed to have been met by the Depositor) and (ii) is made pursuant to an effective exempt from the registration statement under and/or qualification requirements of the Securities Act 1933 Act, and any applicable state securities laws laws, or is exempt from otherwise made in accordance with the registration requirements under the Securities 1933 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 Any 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 Certificates 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 interest therein shall, and does hereby agree to, indemnify the IssuerTrust, each of the Initial Beneficiary, the Owner Trustee and the Depositor Certificate Registrar against any liability that may result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such federal and state securities laws. The Owner Trustee on behalf .
(c) Neither the Trust nor the Trust Estate has been registered as an “investment company” under the 1940 Act, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Issuer Agreement, the Certificate Registrar shall cause each Trust Certificate refuse to contain a legend in the form set forth on the form register any transfer of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.Certificates if such registration of transfer would cause the Trust Certificates to be “beneficially owned” by more than five (5) persons (in each case within the meaning of section 3(c)(1) of the 1940 Act). Any transfer of Trust Certificates that would cause the Trust Certificates to be so owned shall be, to the fullest extent permitted by law, void ab initio and of no force and effect whatsoever.
(bd) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.9, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate be authenticated and deliverdelivered), in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance Percentage Interest dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance Percentage Interest upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.083.9.
(ce) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Certificate Registrar in accordance with its customary practice.
(df) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer Each purchaser (including any transferee) of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if must satisfy the transfer restrictions as set forth herein and in the applicable transfer certificate attached to the form Purchase Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit D.
(i) it causes The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the Issuer extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more the transfer of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Certificates.
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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 3.08SECTION 3.8, a Certificate Register register (the "CERTIFICATE 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 thereto. The Trust Certificates have or, if it elects not been registered under to make such an appointment, assume 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 duties of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeCertificate Registrar. 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) 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 Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphUCC are met, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesprincipal amount. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations denominations, of a like aggregate original certificate balance principal amount, upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate RegistrarSECTION 3.8. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, if the Owner Trustee on behalf requirements of Section 8-401(a) of the Issuer UCC are met, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to 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 Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or 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 Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by by, the Certificateholder Holder thereof or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing.
. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be registered unless the transferee shall have provided (di) an opinion of counsel that no registration is 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 Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) . The Trust Certificates and any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan ERISA) that is subject to Similar Law or the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of plan described in Section 7701(a)(304975(e)(1) of the CodeCode or (c) any entity 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 or an interest therein, the Holder thereof shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified deemed to the Issuer in writing have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor Plan. The Trustee shall have no obligation to determine whether or not a Plan that Holder of a Trust Certificate is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration or is not a Benefit Plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or beneficial interest therein) therein shall be permitted (nor allowed, and any such purported transfer shall a be void AB INITIO, if such transfer would cause the Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or have more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (than 100 partners within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.3851.7704-3(g)(121(h)(1)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member . For purposes of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership determining the number of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (partners in the case of clause (xTrust under Treasury Regulation section 1.7704-1(h)(1), unless such membera 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 case of clause (y)Trust, unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is will be treated as a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member the Trust if more than 50 percent of the consolidated group value of such person's interest in the flow-through entity is attributable to the flow-through entity's interest (as described direct or indirect) in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)the Trust. No transfer (or purported transfer) of a Trust Certificate (or any beneficial interest therein), whether to another Certificateholder or to a person who is not a Certificateholder, shall be effective, and any such transfer (or purported transfer) shall be permitted 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 (nor shall a or purported transfer), unless the transferee has first represented and warranted in writing to the Trust that:
(A) it is acquiring the Trust Certificate for its own account and is the sole beneficial owner of such Trust Certificate;
(B) the transfer is not being effected on or through (x) an "established securities market" within the meaning of Section 7704(a)(1) of the Code, including without limitation, an over-the-counter market or an interdealer quotation system that regularly disseminates firm buy or sell quotations or (y) a "secondary market (or the substantial equivalent thereof)" within the meaning of Section 7704(a)(2) of the Code and any proposed, temporary or final Treasury Regulations thereunder; and
(C) such transfer will not cause the Trust to be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded classified as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes purposes, and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns purchaser or transferee will not take any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership action, including any subsequent disposition of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns Trust Certificate (or any Notes (in the case of clause (xbeneficial interest therein), unless such member, or in that would cause the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is Trust to be treated as a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)publicly traded partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
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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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2007-3 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 U.S. Bank National Association is hereby appointed as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the initial 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the CodePlan. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawPlan.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 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 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 C 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain has received (a) a legend certificate in the form set forth on of paragraph 3 to the form of Trust Certificate Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit A.
D 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. No transfer, pledge or encumbrance of Trust Certificates shall be made to any Person unless such Person is a Rated Entity, an SPV or a business trust established under the Business Trust Statute 12 Del. C. ss. 3801 et seq. or Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. In addition, no transfer of Trust Certificates shall be made to any Person unless the Owner Trustee has received an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Depositor to the effect that such transfer will not cause the Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and that such transfer will not result in any materially adverse federal income tax consequences to the Noteholders. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause Citibank, N.A. as its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . 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 (or interest therein) Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be permitted (nor under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Trust Agreement and shall a Trust Certificate be promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate or opinion does not so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)conform.
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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 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 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 in stating that transfer of the form set forth on Certificates is subject to certain restrictions and referring prospective purchasers of the form Certificates to the terms of Trust Certificate attached hereto as Exhibit A.
(b) this Agreement with respect to such restrictions. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 JPMorgan Chase Bank 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the CodePlan. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawPlan.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2004-2 Owner Tust)
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 of California, 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2007-1 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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (American Honda Receivables 2006-1 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 Chase Manhattan Bank is hereby appointed as initial Certificate Registrar. The Owner Trustee may appoint an agent to act as Certificate Registrar. Upon any resignation of the initial 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such Certificateholder’s Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the CodePlan. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawPlan.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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 JPMorgan Chase Bank 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 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 Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Certificate Registrar 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 All transfers of Trust Certificates shall be subject to the transfer restrictions described in Section 11.13 of this Agreement. Furthermore, 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 legend certificate in the form set forth on of paragraphs 3 and 4 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 and that such person is not a partnership, grantor trust, or S Corporation (bas defined in the Code) in which, after giving effect to the proposed transfer, 65% or more of the value of each beneficial ownership interest of such entity is attributable to the Trust Certificates and/or the Notes and that such Trust Certificates have not been transferred through an "established securities market" within the meaning of Section 7704(b) of the Code. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause JPMorgan Chase Bank as its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Certificate Registrar nor the Owner Trustee shall 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 or the Certificate Registrar by a purchaser or transferee of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) Certificate, the Owner Trustee shall be permitted (nor under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Trust Agreement and shall a Trust Certificate be promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate or opinion does not so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)conform.
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Samples: 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 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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the CodePlan. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawPlan.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2005-2 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 Certificate Register register (the "CERTIFICATE 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 thereto. The Trust Certificates have or, if it elects not been registered under to make such an appointment, assume 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 duties of the Issuer or the Owner TrusteeCertificate Registrar. 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) 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 Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphUCC are met, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesprincipal amount. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations denominations, of a like aggregate original certificate balance principal amount, upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar3.8. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, if the Owner Trustee on behalf requirements of Section 8-401(l) of the Issuer UCC are met, the Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to 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 Trust Certificates surrendered upon such registration of transfer or 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 Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar duly executed by by, the Certificateholder Holder thereof or such Certificateholder’s his attorney duly authorized in writing.
. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be registered unless the transferee shall have provided (di) an opinion of counsel that no registration is 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 Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) Certificate Xxxxxxxxx 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.
(e) . The Trust Certificates and any beneficial interest in such Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account by: (a) an employee benefit plan (as defined in Section 3(3) of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan ERISA) that is subject to Similar Law or the provisions of Title I of ERISA, (b) a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of plan described in Section 7701(a)(304975(e)(1) of the CodeCode or (c) any entity 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 or an interest therein, the Holder thereof shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified deemed to the Issuer in writing have represented and warranted that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this AgreementPlan. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstanding, the Owner Trustee shall have no obligation to determine whether or not make, and the Certificate Registrar shall not register transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer Holder of a Trust Certificate (is or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall is not a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)Benefit Plan.
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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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the CodePlan. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawPlan.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2004-3 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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2009-2 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 JPMorgan Chase Bank 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, 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 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 Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar 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 Trust, the Owner Trustee or the Owner TrusteeCertificate Registrar (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 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 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. 144A, provided that such information shall have been provided to the Owner Trustee by the Depositor. 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 Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Indenture Trustee, the Bond Administrator 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 Depositor, the Owner Trustee on behalf of and the Issuer shall cause each Trust Certificate to contain Registrar have received (a) a legend certificate in the form set forth on of paragraph 3 to the form of Trust Certificate Investment Letter attached hereto as Exhibit A.
D 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, the Certificate Registrar 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 Depositor, the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar 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. No transfer, pledge or encumbrance of Trust Certificates shall be made to any Person unless such Person is a Rated Entity, an SPV or a statutory trust established under the Statutory Trust Statute 12 Del. C. ss. 3801 et seq. or Salomon Smith Barney Inc. or an Afxxxxxxx xxxxxox. Xx addition, no transfer of Trust Certificates shall be made to any Person unless the Owner Trustee and the Certificate Registrar have received an Opinion of Counsel satisfactory to the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and the Depositor to the effect that such transfer will not cause the Trust to be treated as an association or publicly traded partnership taxable as a corporation for federal income tax purposes and that such transfer will not result in any materially adverse federal income tax consequences to the Noteholders. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraphSection 3.08, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause JPMorgan Chase Bank as its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) . 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 Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No . Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Certificate Registrar nor the Owner Trustee shall 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 or the Certificate Registrar by a purchaser or transferee of a Trust Certificate, the Owner Trustee or the Certificate (or interest therein) Registrar, as the case may be, shall be permitted (nor under a duty to examine the same to determine whether it conforms to the requirements of this Trust Agreement and shall a Trust Certificate be promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate or opinion does not so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation)conform.
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Samples: Trust Agreement (SSB Vehicle Securities Inc SSB Auto Loan Trust 2002-1)
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 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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject or agency maintained pursuant to the Section 3.8, and, upon satisfaction of the preceding paragraphconditions set forth below, the Owner Trustee shall 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 in authorized denominations of a like class and aggregate original certificate balance face amount dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposesauthenticating agent. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of the same class in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance amount upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive3.8. 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 such Certificateholder’s 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 (d"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 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 Paying Agent) may Certificate Registrar may, but shall not be 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 Certificates.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for . Notwithstanding the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar Law.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) The preceding provisions of this Section notwithstandingforegoing, the Owner Trustee shall not make, make and the Certificate Registrar shall not register register, transfers or exchanges of, Trust Certificates for a period of fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the any Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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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.
(b) Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Trust Certificate at the office of the Certificate Registrar and subject to the satisfaction of the preceding paragraph, the Owner Trustee shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent 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 original certificate balance dated the date of authentication by the Owner Trustee or any Authenticating Agentauthenticating agent; provided that prior to such execution, authentication and delivery, the Owner Trustee shall have received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the proposed transfer will not cause the Issuer to be characterized characterized, as an association (or a publicly traded partnership) taxable as a corporation or alter the tax characterization of the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes. At the option of a CertificateholderHolder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates of authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.08.
(c) At the option of a Certificateholder, Trust Certificates may be exchanged for other Trust Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate original certificate balance upon surrender of the Trust Certificates to be exchanged at the office of the Certificate Registrar. Whenever any Trust Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Issuer shall execute, authenticate and deliver (or shall cause its Authenticating Agent authenticating agent to authenticate and deliver) the Trust Certificates that the Certificateholder making the exchange is entitled to receive. 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 Holder or such CertificateholderHolder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Trust Certificates, but the Owner Trustee (or the Paying Agent) 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.
(e) The Trust Certificates may not be acquired or held by or for the account of a Benefit Plan Investor, a Plan that is subject to Similar Law or a person who is not a United States Person within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. No transfer of a Trust Certificate shall be made unless the prospective transferee has certified to the Issuer in writing that it is not a Benefit Plan Investor or a Plan that is subject to Similar LawInvestor.
(f) All Trust Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, if surrendered to the Issuer or any agent of the Owner Trustee or the Issuer under this Agreement, shall be delivered to the Owner Trustee and promptly cancelled by it, or, if surrendered to the Owner Trustee, shall be promptly cancelled by it, and no Trust Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall dispose of cancelled Trust Certificates in accordance with its normal practice.
(g) 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 fifteen (15) 15 days preceding the due date for any payment with respect to the Trust Certificates.
(h) No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it causes the Issuer to be a Section 385 Controlled Partnership (i.e., 80 percent or more of the Issuer’s ownership interests are owned, directly or indirectly, by one or more members of a Section 385 Expanded Group) that has an expanded group partner (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation section 1.385-3(g)(12)) which is a Domestic Corporation and (ii) either (x) a member of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation). No transfer of a Trust Certificate (or interest therein) shall be permitted (nor shall a Trust Certificate be so held) if (i) it results in the Issuer becoming disregarded as an entity separate from a Domestic Corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and (ii) either (x) a member of a Section 385 Expanded Group that includes such Domestic Corporation owns any Notes or (y) a Section 385 Controlled Partnership of such Section 385 Expanded Group owns any Notes (in the case of clause (x), unless such member, or in the case of clause (y), unless each member of the Section 385 Expanded Group that is a partner in such Section 385 Controlled Partnership is a member of the consolidated group (as described in Treasury Regulation section 1.1502-1(h)) which includes such Domestic Corporation).
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Samples: Trust Agreement (Honda Auto Receivables 2009-3 Owner Trust)