Resignation of the Servicer and the Subservicers. (a) The Servicer shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed on it except upon a determination that (i) the performance of its duties hereunder is no longer permissible under applicable law and (ii) there is no reasonable action which the Servicer could take to make the performance of its duties hereunder permissible under applicable law. Any determination permitting the resignation of the Servicer shall be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel to such effect delivered to the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee. No resignation shall become effective until a Successor Servicer (which shall be the Back-up Servicer unless the Back-up Servicer is the resigning Servicer) or the Indenture Trustee shall have assumed the responsibilities and obligations of the Servicer in accordance with Section 8.02 hereof (other than in the case of the Back-up Servicer, any such duty or obligation that it is not required to assume under the express terms of the Back-up Servicing Agreement). If within one hundred twenty (120) days of the date of the determination that the Servicer may no longer act as Servicer as described above the Indenture Trustee is unable to appoint a Successor Servicer, the Indenture Trustee shall serve as Successor Servicer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indenture Trustee shall, if it is legally unable so to act, petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint any established institution qualifying as an Eligible Servicer as the Successor Servicer hereunder. The Issuer shall give prompt notice to each Rating Agency upon the appointment of a Successor Servicer.
