Scope of Appointment A. Subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement, Fund hereby employs and appoints Service Company as Transfer Agent and Dividend Disbursing Agent effective the date hereof.
B. Service Company hereby accepts such employment and appointment and agrees that it will act as Fund's Transfer Agent and Dividend Disbursing Agent. Service Company agrees that it will also act as agent in connection with Fund's periodic withdrawal payment accounts and other open-account or similar plans for shareholders, if any.
C. Service Company agrees to provide the necessary facilities, equipment and personnel to perform its duties and obligations hereunder in accordance with industry practice.
D. Fund agrees to use all reasonable efforts to deliver to Service Company in Kansas City, Missouri, as soon as they are available, all its shareholder account records.
E. Subject to the provisions of Sections 20 and 21 hereof, Service Company agrees that it will perform all the usual and ordinary services of Transfer Agent and Dividend Disbursing Agent and as agent for the various shareholder accounts, including, without limitation, the following: issuing, transferring and cancelling share certificates, maintaining all shareholder accounts, preparing shareholder meeting lists, mailing proxies, receiving and tabulating proxies, mailing shareholder reports and prospectuses, withholding federal income taxes, preparing and mailing checks for disbursement of income and capital gains dividends, preparing and filing all required U.S. Treasury Department information returns for all shareholders, preparing and mailing confirmation forms to shareholders and dealers with respect to all purchases and liquidations of Fund shares and other transactions in shareholder accounts for which confirmations are required, recording reinvestments of dividends and distributions in Fund shares, recording redemptions of Fund shares and preparing and mailing checks for payments upon redemption and for disbursements to systematic withdrawal plan shareholders.
Terms of Appointment Every separate trustee and co-trustee will be appointed and act subject to the following:
(i) all rights, powers and obligations of the Indenture Trustee will apply to and will be exercised or performed by the Indenture Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee and the separate trustee or co-trustee jointly (it being understood that the separate trustee or co-trustee will not be authorized to act separately without the Indenture Trustee joining in the act), except if under the law of a jurisdiction in which a particular act or acts are to be performed the Indenture Trustee will be incompetent or unqualified to perform those act or acts, in which event those acts will be exercised and performed singly by the separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the Indenture Trustee;
(ii) no trustee will be personally liable by reason of an act or omission of another trustee under this Indenture; and
(iii) the Indenture Trustee may accept the resignation of or remove a separate trustee or co-trustee.
ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT The Adviser accepts that appointment and agrees to render the services herein set forth, for the compensation herein provided. The assets of the Allocated Portion will be maintained in the custody of a custodian (who shall be identified by the Manager in writing). The Adviser will not have custody of any securities, cash or other assets of the Fund and will not be liable for any loss resulting from any act or omission of the custodian other than acts or omissions arising in reliance on instructions of the Adviser.
Perfection of Appointment Should any deed, conveyance or instrument of any nature be required from Grantor by any successor Trustee to more fully and certainly vest in and confirm to such successor Trustee such estates, rights, powers and duties, then, upon request by such Trustee, all such deeds, conveyances and instruments shall be made, executed, acknowledged and delivered and shall be caused to be recorded and/or filed by Grantor.
TERMINATION OF APPOINTMENT 6.1 The Issuer may terminate the appointment of the Calculation Agent at any time by giving to the Calculation Agent at least 45 days' prior written notice to that effect, provided that, so long as any of the Relevant Notes is outstanding:
(a) the notice shall not expire less than 45 days before any date on which any calculation is due to be made in respect of any Relevant Notes; and
(b) notice shall be given in accordance with the Conditions to the holders of the Relevant Notes at least 30 days before any removal of the Calculation Agent.
6.2 Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause 6.1, if at any time:
(a) the Calculation Agent becomes incapable of acting, or is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or files a voluntary petition in bankruptcy or makes an assignment for the benefit of its creditors or consents to the appointment of an administrator, liquidator or administrative or other receiver of all or any substantial part of its property, or admits in writing its inability to pay or meet its debts as they may mature or suspends payment of its debts, or if any order of any court is entered approving any petition filed by or against it under the provisions of any applicable bankruptcy or insolvency law or if a receiver of it or of all or a substantial part of its property is appointed or if any officer takes charge or control of the Calculation Agent or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation; or
(b) the Calculation Agent fails duly to perform any function or duty imposed on it by the Conditions and this Agreement, the Issuer may immediately without notice terminate the appointment of the Calculation Agent, in which event notice of the termination shall be given to the holders of the Relevant Notes in accordance with the Conditions as soon as practicable.
6.3 The termination of the appointment of the Calculation Agent under subclauses 6.1 or 6.2 shall not entitle the Calculation Agent to any amount by way of compensation but shall be without prejudice to any amount then accrued due.
6.4 The Calculation Agent may resign its appointment under this Agreement at any time by giving to the Issuer at least 90 days' prior written notice to that effect. Following receipt of a notice of resignation from the Calculation Agent, the Issuer shall promptly give notice of the resignation to the holders of the Relevant Notes in accordance with the Conditions.
6.5 Notwithstanding the provisions of subclauses 6.1, 6.2 and 6.4, so long as any of the Relevant Notes is outstanding, the termination of the appointment of the Calculation Agent (whether by the Issuer or by the resignation of the Calculation Agent) shall not be effective unless upon the expiry of the relevant notice a successor Calculation Agent has been appointed. The Issuer agrees with the Calculation Agent that if, by the day falling 10 days before the expiry of any notice under subclause 6.4, the Issuer has not appointed a replacement Calculation Agent, the Calculation Agent shall be entitled, on behalf of the Issuer, to appoint as a successor Calculation Agent in its place a reputable financial institution of good standing which the Issuer shall approve.
6.6 Upon its appointment becoming effective, a successor Calculation Agent shall without any further action, become vested with all the authority, rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor with the same effect as if originally named as the Calculation Agent under this Agreement.
6.7 If the appointment of the Calculation Agent under this Agreement is terminated (whether by the Issuer or by the resignation of the Calculation Agent), the Calculation Agent shall on the date on which the termination takes effect deliver to the successor Calculation Agent any records concerning the Relevant Notes maintained by it (except those documents and records which it is obliged by law or regulation to retain or not to release), but shall have no other duties or responsibilities under this Agreement.
6.8 Any corporation into which the Calculation Agent may be merged or converted, or any corporation with which the Calculation Agent may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Calculation Agent shall be a party, or any corporation to which the Calculation Agent shall sell or otherwise transfer all or substantially all of its assets shall, on the date when the merger, consolidation or transfer becomes effective and to the extent permitted by any applicable laws, become the successor Calculation Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Agreement, unless otherwise required by the Issuer, and after the said effective date all references in this Agreement to the Calculation Agent shall be deemed to be references to such successor corporation. Written notice of any such merger, conversion, consolidation or transfer shall immediately be given to the Issuer and the Agent by the Calculation Agent.
Types of Appointment 1. A regular appointment shall be one which creates an interest in employment for a specified term of one (1) year or less. All employees holding regular appointments shall be subject to non-reappointment without cause.
2. A tenured appointment may be offered only to those faculty members in the ranks of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor, and to Professional Staff.
3. The appointment year for unit professional staff appointments shall be July 1 – June 30. All appointments which take initial effect subsequent to July 1 shall be deemed to end on the June 30 next following any such appointment.
Term of Appointment A regular appointment is made for a term of up to five years. When a vacancy exists, either because there is no incumbent or because the incumbent is temporarily absent, the University may make an acting appointment for a period of not more than twelve months.
Letter of Appointment At the time of hire, or upon change in status, each Nurse shall be provided in writing, with the Nurse’s status as a Regular Nurse; the Nurse’s placement on the increment scale; and where the Nurse is in a Regular or Temporary Position, information describing the Nurse’s position with the Employer, including the designation as to his or her percentage of Full-Time hours.
CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENT (1) The Agent shall be entitled to deal with money paid to it by any Issuer for the purpose of this Agreement in the same manner as other money paid to a banker by its customers except:
(a) that it shall not exercise any right of set-off, lien or similar claim in respect thereof;
(b) as provided in Subclause 19(2) below; and
(c) that it shall not be liable to account to any Issuer for any interest thereon except as otherwise agreed between the relevant Issuer and the Agent.
(2) In acting hereunder and in connection with the Notes, the Agent and the Paying Agents shall act solely as agents of the Issuers and will not thereby assume any obligations towards or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or holders of the Notes, Coupons or Talons. Moneys paid by any Issuer to the Agent for the payment of principal or interest on Notes remaining unclaimed at the end of five years after such principal or interest shall become due and payable shall be repaid to the relevant Issuer as provided and in the manner set forth in the Notes whereupon all liability of the Agent with respect thereto shall cease. All funds held by the Agent or the Paying Agents need not be segregated from other funds, except as required by law.
(3) The Agent and the Paying Agents hereby undertake to the Issuers to perform such obligations and duties, and shall be obliged to perform such duties and only such duties, as are herein (including Appendix F hereto in the case of the Agent), in the Conditions and in the Procedures Memorandum specifically set forth, or are otherwise agreed to in writing by the relevant Issuer, the Agent and the Paying Agents as applicable, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement or the Notes against the Agent and the Paying Agents other than the duty to act honestly and in good faith and to exercise the diligence of a reasonably prudent agent in comparable circumstances. Each of the Paying Agents (other than the Agent) agrees that if any information that is required by the Agent to perform the duties set out in Appendix F hereto becomes known to it, it will promptly provide such information to the Agent.
(4) The Agent may consult with legal and other professional advisers and the opinion of such advisers shall be full and complete protection in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered hereunder in good faith and in accordance with the opinion of such advisers.
(5) Each of the Agent and the Paying Agents shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, omitted or suffered in reliance upon any instruction, request or order from any of the Issuers or any notice, resolution, direction, consent, certificate, affidavit, statement, cable or other paper or document which it reasonably believes to be genuine and to have been delivered, signed or sent by the proper party or parties or upon written instructions from any of the Issuers.
(6) Any of the Agent and the Paying Agents and their officers, directors and employees may become the owner of, or acquire any interest in, any Notes, Coupons or Talons with the same rights that it, he or she would have if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, concerned were not appointed hereunder, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with any of the Issuers and may act on, or as depositary, trustee or agent for, any committee or body of holders of Notes or Coupons or in connection with any other obligations of the Issuers as freely as if the Agent or the relevant Paying Agent, as the case may be, were not appointed hereunder.
(7) Each Issuer shall provide the Agent with a certified copy of the list of persons authorised to execute documents and take action on its behalf in connection with this Agreement and shall notify the Agent promptly in writing if any of such persons ceases to be so authorised or if any additional person becomes so authorised together, in the case of an additional authorised person, with evidence satisfactory to the Agent that such person has been so authorised.
(8) The amount of the Programme may be increased by the Issuers in accordance with the procedure set out in the Programme Agreement. Upon any increase being effected, all references in this Agreement to the amount of the Programme shall be deemed to be references to the increased amount.
(9) The Agent and each Paying Agent shall be a person payments to whom are free from FATCA Withholding Tax at the time of such Agent’s or Paying Agent’s appointment.
(10) Payments made by TMCC are from U.S. source for U.S. federal tax purposes and are “withholdable payments” within the meaning of Section 1473(1) of the Code. Each of TMF, TCCI and TFA is an “NFFE” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(80), and each of TMF, TCCI and TFA will advise the Agent if its status as an NFFE were to change, in which event, the relevant Issuer will provide the Agent with sufficient information to determine if and the amount of any payment to be made by such Issuer pursuant to this Agreement and the Conditions, if any, that constitutes a “passthru payment” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-1(b)(95) so as to enable the Agent to determine whether and in what amount the Agent or any other Paying Agent is obliged to make any withholding or deduction of applicable FATCA Withholding Tax. In the event that any Notes that were not subject to FATCA Withholding Tax by reason of being “grandfathered” lose such grandfathered status as a result of undergoing a “significant modification” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1001-3(e), the relevant Issuer will inform the Agent and any other Paying Agent of any such loss of grandfathered status prior to the date on which any payments on such Notes would become subject to FATCA Withholding Tax.
(11) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement not a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a financial institution within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(5), (ii) confirms that it will comply with all withholding requirements imposed on payments with respect to the Notes under Sections 1441, 1442, and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act and (iii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-9.
(12) The Agent and any Paying Agent that is for the purposes of receiving payments under this Agreement a “foreign person” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(c)(2): (i) represents that it is a “qualified intermediary” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 1.1441-1(e)(5)(ii), will remain so, and will assume primary chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting and (ii) agrees that upon its appointment it will provide the Issuers with a properly completed, signed and valid IRS Form W-8IMY, with its Global Intermediary Identification Number included thereon and identifying itself as a qualified intermediary that has undertaken primary responsibility for chapter 3 and chapter 4 withholding and 1099 reporting.
Appointment of Asset Manager; Acceptance of Appointment The Series hereby appoints the Asset Manager as asset manager to the Series for the purpose of managing the Series #TICKER Asset. The Asset Manager hereby accepts such appointment.
