Restrictions on Sale and Lease Back Transactions. The Company will not enter into any direct or indirect arrangement with any Person providing for the lease to the Company of any property of the Company (except for temporary leases for a term, including any renewal thereof, of not more than three years), which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company to such Person or to any other Person by whom funds have been or are to be advanced on the security of such property (a “Sale and Lease-back Transaction”) unless the proceeds of such sale are at least equal to the fair value of such property being sold and leased-back and either: (a) the Company would be entitled, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.07(a)(i) or Section 4.07(b) to incur Debt secured by a Lien on such property without equally and ratably securing the Notes; or (b) within 180 days of the effective date of the Sale and Lease-back Transaction, the Company applies, or covenants that it will apply, an amount not less than the fair value of such property to one or more of: (i) the payment or other retirement of Funded Debt incurred or assumed by the Company which ranks senior to or pari passu with the Notes (other than Funded Debt owned by the Company), or (ii) the purchase of property at not more than its fair value (other than the property involved in such sale).
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Samples: Fifth Supplemental Indenture (Southwest Gas Corp), Fourth Supplemental Indenture (Southwest Gas Corp), Third Supplemental Indenture (Southwest Gas Corp)
Restrictions on Sale and Lease Back Transactions. The Company will not enter into any direct or indirect arrangement with any Person providing for the lease to the Company of any property of the Company (except for temporary leases for a term, including any renewal thereof, of not more than three years), which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company to such Person or to any other Person by whom funds have been or are to be advanced on the security of such property (a “Sale and Lease-back Transaction”) unless the proceeds of such sale are at least equal to the fair value of such property being sold and leased-back and either:
(a1) the Company would be entitled, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.07(a)(i908(1)(A) or Section 4.07(b908(2) to incur Debt secured by a Lien on such property without equally and ratably securing the Notes; or
(b2) within 180 days of the effective date of the Sale and Lease-back Transaction, the Company applies, or covenants that it will apply, an amount not less than the fair value of such property to one or more of:
(iA) the payment or other retirement of Funded Debt incurred or assumed by the Company which ranks senior to or pari passu with the Notes (other than Funded Debt owned by the Company), or
(iiB) the purchase of property Property of the Company at not more than its fair value (other than the property involved in such sale).
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Samples: Indenture (Southwest Gas Corp), Indenture (Southwest Gas Corp)
Restrictions on Sale and Lease Back Transactions. The Company will not enter into any direct or indirect arrangement with any Person providing for the lease to the Company of any property of the Company (except for temporary leases for a term, including any renewal thereof, of not more than three years), which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company to such Person or to any other Person by whom funds have been or are to be advanced on the security of such property (a “Sale and Lease-back Transaction”) unless the proceeds of such sale are at least equal to the fair value of such property being sold and leased-back and either:
(a1) the Company would be entitled, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.07(a)(i908(1)(A) or Section 4.07(b908(2) to incur Debt secured by a Lien on such property without equally and ratably securing the Notes; or
(b2) within 180 days of the effective date of the Sale and Lease-back Transaction, the Company applies, or covenants that it will apply, an amount not less than the fair value of such property to one or more of:
(iA) the payment or other retirement of Funded Debt incurred or assumed by the Company which ranks senior to or pari passu with the Notes (other than Funded Debt owned by the Company), or
(iiB) the purchase of property of the Company at not more than its fair value (other than the property involved in such sale).
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Samples: Indenture (Southwest Gas Corp), Indenture (Southwest Gas Corp)
Restrictions on Sale and Lease Back Transactions. The Company will not enter into any direct or indirect arrangement with any Person providing for the lease to the Company of any property of the Company (except for temporary leases for a term, including any renewal thereof, of not more than three years), which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company to such Person or to any other Person by whom funds have been or are to be advanced on the security of such property (a “Sale and Lease-back Transaction”) unless the proceeds of such sale are at least equal to the fair value of such property being sold and leased-back and either:
(a1) the Company would be entitled, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.07(a)(i908(1)(A) or Section 4.07(b908(2) to incur Debt secured by a Lien on such property without equally and ratably securing the Notes; or
(b2) within 180 days of the effective date of the Sale and Lease-back Transaction, the Company applies, or covenants that it will apply, an amount not less than the fair value of such property to one or more of:
(iA) the payment or other retirement of Funded Debt incurred or assumed by the Company which ranks senior to or pari passu with the Notes (other than Funded Debt owned by the Company), or
(iiB) the purchase of property at not more than its fair value (other than the property involved in such sale).
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Samples: Indenture (Southwest Gas Corp)
Restrictions on Sale and Lease Back Transactions. The Company will not enter into any direct or indirect arrangement with any Person providing for the lease to the Company of any property of the Company (except for temporary leases for a term, including any renewal thereof, of not more than three years), which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company to such Person or to any other Person by whom funds have been or are to be advanced on the security of such property (a ““ Sale and Lease-back Transaction”) unless the proceeds of such sale are at least equal to the fair value of such property being sold and leased-back and either:
(a) the Company would be entitled, pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.07(a)(i) or Section 4.07(b) to incur Debt secured by a Lien on such property without equally and ratably securing the Notes; or
(b) within 180 days of the effective date of the Sale and Lease-back Transaction, the Company applies, or covenants that it will apply, an amount not less than the fair value of such property to one or more of:
(i) the payment or other retirement of Funded Debt incurred or assumed by the Company which ranks senior to or pari passu with the Notes (other than Funded Debt owned by the Company), or
(ii) the purchase of property at not more than its fair value (other than the property involved in such sale).
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