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EXHIBIT 4.1
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NORTH FORK BANCORPORATION, INC.
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BANKERS TRUST COMPANY
Trustee
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JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
Dated as of December 31, 1996
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NORTH FORK BANCORPORATION, INC.
Reconciliation and tie between the Trust Indenture Act of 1939
(including cross-references to provisions of Sections 310 to and including 317
which, pursuant to Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended by the Trust Reform Act of 1990, are a part of and govern the Indenture
whether or not physically contained therein) and the Junior Subordinated
Indenture, dated as of December 31, 1996.
Indenture
Trust Indenture Act Section Section
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Section 310(a)(1), (2) and (5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.09
Section 310(a)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
Section 310(a)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
Section 310(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.08, 6.10
Section 310(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
Section 311(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.13
Section 311(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.13
Section 312(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.01, 7.02(a)
Section 312(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.02(b)
Section 312(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.02(c)
Section 313(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.03(a)
Section 313(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.03(b)
Section 313(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.03(a), 7.03(b)
Section 313(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.03(c)
Section 314(a)(1), (2) and (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.04
Section 314(a)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.04
Section 314(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
Section 314(c)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.02
Section 314(c)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.02
Section 314(c)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
Section 314(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
Section 314(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.02
Section 314(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
Section 315(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.01(a)
Section 315(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.02, 7.03(a)
Section 315(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.01(b)
Section 315(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.01(c)
Section 315(d)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.01(c)(1)
Section 315(d)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.01(c)(2)
Section 315(d)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.01(c)(3)
Section 315(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.14
Section 316(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.01
Section 316(a)(1)(A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.12
Section 316(a)(1)(B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.13
Section 316(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
Section 316(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.08
Section 316(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.04(f)
Section 317(a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.03
Section 317(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.04
Section 317(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.03
Section 318(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.07
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to
be a part of the Junior Subordinated Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions of
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General Application
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SECTION 1.01. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
SECTION 1.02. Compliance Certificate and Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
SECTION 1.03. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 1.04. Acts of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 1.05. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.09. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.10. Separability Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.11. Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SECTION 1.12. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 1.13. Non-Business Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
ARTICLE II
Security Forms
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SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 2.02. Form of Face of Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 2.03. Form of Reverse of Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 2.04. Additional Provisions Required in
Global Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 2.05. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
ARTICLE III
The Securities
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SECTION 3.01. Title and Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 3.02. Denominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery
and Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 3.04. Temporary Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 3.05. Global Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 3.06. Registration, Transfer and Exchange
Generally; Certain Transfers and
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Exchanges; Restricted Securities
Legends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 3.07. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 3.08. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 3.09. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 3.10. Cancelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 3.11. Computation of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 3.12. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 3.13. Agreed Tax Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 3.14. CUSIP Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction and Discharge
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SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
ARTICLE V
Remedies
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SECTION 5.01. Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission
and Annulment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits
for Enforcement by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
SECTION 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without
Possession of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
SECTION 5.06. Application of Money Collected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to
Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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ARTICLE VI
The Trustee
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SECTION 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SECTION 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or
Issuance of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 6.06. Money Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 6.08. Disqualification; Conflicting
Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required,
Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
SECTION 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment
of Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
SECTION 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation
or Succession to Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
SECTION 6.15. Trustee's Rights and Obligations
After Qualification of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
ARTICLE VII
Holder's Lists and Reports
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by Trustee and Company
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SECTION 7.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names
and Addresses of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information,
Communications to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
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ARTICLE VIII
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance,
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Transfer or Lease
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SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only
on Certain Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
SECTION 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
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SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures without
Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with
Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to
Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
ARTICLE X
Covenants
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SECTION 10.01 Payment of Principal, Premium
and Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
SECTION 10.03. Money for Security Payments to be
Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
SECTION 10.04. Statement as to Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
SECTION 10.05. Waiver of Certain Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
SECTION 10.06. Payment of the Trust's Costs
and Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
SECTION 10.07. Additional Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
SECTION 10.08. Information Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
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ARTICLE XI
Redemption or Prepayment of Securities
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SECTION 11.01. Applicability of This Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
SECTION 11.02. Election To Redeem; Notice to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
SECTION 11.03. Selection of Securities to be
Redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
SECTION 11.04. Notice of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
SECTION 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
SECTION 11.06. Payment of Securities Called for
Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
SECTION 11.07. Company's Right of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
ARTICLE XII
Exchange and Registration Rights
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SECTION 12.01. Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
SECTION 12.02. Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
SECTION 12.03. Liquidated Damages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
SECTION 12.04. Compliance with Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
ARTICLE XIII
Sinking Funds
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SECTION 13.01. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
SECTION 13.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund
Payments with Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
SECTION 13.03. Redemption of Securities for
Sinking Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
ARTICLE XIV
Subordination of Securities
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SECTION 14.01. Securities Subordinate to Senior
Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
SECTION 14.02. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon
Dissolution, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
SECTION 14.03. Prior Payment to Senior Debt
Upon Acceleration of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
SECTION 14.04. No Payment When Senior Debt in
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Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
SECTION 14.05. Payment Permitted If No Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
SECTION 14.06. Subrogation to Rights of Holders
of Senior Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
SECTION 14.07. Provisions Solely to Define
Relative Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
SECTION 14.08. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
SECTION 14.09. No Waiver of Subordination
Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
SECTION 14.10. Notice to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
SECTION 14.11. Reliance on Judicial Order or
Certificate of Liquidating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
SECTION 14.12.Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders
of Senior Debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
SECTION 14.13. Rights of Trustee as Holder of
Senior Debt; Preservation of
Trustee's Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
SECTION 14.14. Article Applicable to Paying Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
SECTION 14.15. Certain Conversions or Exchanges
Deemed Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Exhibit A - Form of Restricted Securities Certificate
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EXECUTION COPY
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of
December 31, 1996, between NORTH FORK BANCORPORATION,
INC., a bank holding company established under the
laws of Delaware (hereinafter called the "Company")
having its principal office at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, and BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
a New York banking corporation, as Trustee
(hereinafter called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
junior subordinated debt securities in series (hereinafter called the
"Securities") of substantially the tenor hereinafter provided, including,
without limitation, Securities issued to evidence loans made to the Company of
the proceeds from the issuance from time to time by one or more business trusts
(each a "North Fork Capital Trust" and, collectively, the "North Fork Capital
Trusts") of preferred trust interests in such North Fork Capital Trusts (the
"Capital Securities") and common interests in such North Fork Capital Trusts
(the "Common Securities" and, collectively with the Capital Securities, the
"Trust Securities"), and to provide the terms and conditions upon which the
Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered.
NOW THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: For and in
consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders
thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate
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benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application
SECTION 1.01. Definitions. For all purposes of this
Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the
singular.
(2) All other terms used herein which are defined in the
Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein.
(3) All accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have
the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, and the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with
respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such
accounting principles which are generally accepted at the date or time of such
computation; provided, that when two or more principles are so generally
accepted, it shall mean that set of principles consistent with those in use by
the Company.
(4) The words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 1.04.
"Additional Interest" means the interest, if any, that shall
accrue on any interest on the Securities of any series the payment of which has
not been made on the applicable Interest Payment Date and which shall accrue at
the rate per annum specified or determined as specified in any Officers'
Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture.
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"Additional Sums" has the meaning specified in Section 10.06.
"Adjusted Treasury Rate" means, with respect to any prepayment
date, the rate per annum equal to (i) the yield, under the heading which
represents the average for the immediately prior week, appearing in the most
recently published statistical release designated "H.15 (519)" or any successor
publication which is published weekly by the Federal Reserve and which
establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities
adjusted to constant maturity under the caption "Treasury Constant Maturities,"
for the maturity corresponding to the Remaining Life (if no maturity is within
three months before or after the Remaining Life, yields for the two published
maturities most closely corresponding to the Remaining Life shall be determined
and the Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such
yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (ii) if such
release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding
the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal
to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury
Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as
a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price
for such prepayment date, in each case calculated on the third Business Day
preceding the prepayment date, plus in each case (a) 1.25% if such prepayment
occurs on or prior to December 15, 1997 and (b) 0.50% in all other cases.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person; provided, however, that an Affiliate
of the Company shall not be deemed to include any North Fork Capital Trust to
which Securities have been issued. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
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"Agent Member" means any member of, or participant in, the
Depositary.
"Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust" for each series of
Securities has the meaning specified in the Officers' Certificate for such
series delivered pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Indenture.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of one or more series.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of
the Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly
adopted by the Board of Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors
or officers of the Company to which authority to act on behalf of the Board of
Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date of
such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day other than (i) a Saturday or
Sunday, (ii) a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are
authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed, or (iii) a
day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, or, with respect to the
Securities of a series issued to a North Fork Capital Trust, the principal
office of the Property Trustee under the related Trust Agreement, is closed for
business.
"Capital Securities" has the meaning specified in the first
recital of this Indenture, and shall include, where appropriate, Exchange
Capital Securities as defined in Article XII.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, or if at any time under the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties
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now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such
duties on such date.
"Common Securities" has the meaning specified in the first
recital of this Indenture.
"Common Stock" means the common stock, $2.50 par value, of the
Company.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, the
written request or order signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman,
Chief Executive Officer, President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer,
an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury
security selected by the Quotation Agent as having a maturity comparable to the
Remaining Life of the Security to be prepaid that would be utilized, at the
time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in
pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity with the
Remaining Life of the Securities. If no United States Treasury Security has a
maturity which is within a period from three months before to three months
after December 15, 2006, the two most closely corresponding United States
Treasury securities shall be used as the Comparable Treasury Issue, and the
Adjusted Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated on a straight-line
basis, rounding to the nearest month using such securities.
"Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any
prepayment date, (i) the average of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable
Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount)
on the third Business Day preceding such prepayment date, as set forth in the
daily statistical release (or any successor release) published by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York and designated "Composite 3:30 p.m. Quotations
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for U.S. Government Securities" or (ii) if such release (or any successor
release) is not published or does not contain such prices on such Business Day,
(a) the average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such
prepayment date, after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference
Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (b) if the Trustee obtains fewer than five such
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered, which office as of the date of this Indenture is located at Four
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust and Agency
Group--Corporate Market Services.
"Corporation" includes a corporation, association, company,
joint-stock company or business trust.
"Declaration of Trust" for each series of Securities has the
meaning specified in the Officers' Certificate for such series delivered
pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Indenture.
"Debt" means (i) the principal of and premium, if any, and
unpaid interest on indebtedness for money borrowed, (ii) purchase money and
similar obligations, (iii) obligations under capital leases, (iv) guarantees,
assumptions or purchase commitments relating to, or other transactions as a
result of which the Company is responsible for the payment of, such
indebtedness of others, (v) renewals, extensions and refunding of any such
indebtedness, (vi) interest or obligations in respect of any such indebtedness
accruing after the commencement of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings and
(vii) obligations associated with derivative products such as interest rate and
currency exchange contracts, foreign exchange contracts, commodity contracts
and similar arrangements; provided, however, that Debt shall not include trade
accounts payable or accrued liabilities in the ordinary course of business.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section
3.08.
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"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any
series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global
Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.01 with respect to such series (or any successor thereto (a
"Successor Depositary")).
"Discount Security" means any security which provides for an
amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02.
"Dollar" means the currency of the United States of America
that, as at the time of payment, is legal tender for the payment of public and
private debts.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company.
"Event of Default", unless otherwise specified in the
supplemental indenture creating a series of Securities, has the meaning
specified in Article V.
"Extension Period" has the meaning specified in Section 3.12.
"Federal Reserve" means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
"Foreign Currency" means any currency issued by the government
of one or more countries other than the United States of America or by any
recognized confederation or association of such governments.
"Global Security" means a Security in the form prescribed in
Section 2.04 evidencing all or part of a series of Securities, issued to the
Depositary of its nominee for such series, and registered in the name of such
Depositary or its nominee.
"Guarantee Agreement" for each series of Securities has the
meaning specified in the Officers' Certificate for such series delivered
pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Indenture.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered
in the Securities Register.
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"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as
it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of each particular series of Securities established
as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Institutional Accredited Investor" means an accredited
investor within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D
under the Securities Act.
"Interest Payment Date" means as to each series of Securities
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Securities.
"Interest Rate" means the rate of interest specified or
determined as specified in each Security as being the rate of interest payable
on such Security.
"Junior Subordinated Payment" has the meaning specified in
Section 14.02.
"Lien" means any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or
other encumbrance.
"Liquidation Amount" has the meaning specified in Section 1.01
of the Trust Agreement.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the
date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein
or herein provided, whether as the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"1940 Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
"North Fork Bancorporation Guarantee" means the guarantee by
the Company of the distributions on the Trust Securities of a North Fork
Capital Trust to the extent of the Guarantee Agreement.
"North Fork Capital Trust" has the meaning specified in the
first recital of this Indenture.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
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President, or Vice President, and by the Treasurer, the Controller, the Chief
Financial Officer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company, and
delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who
may be counsel for the Company.
"Original Issue Date" means the date of issuance specified as
such in each Security.
"Other Debentures" means, with respect to any series of
Securities, all junior subordinated debt securities to be issued by the Company
pursuant to this Indenture, other than such series of Securities, with
substantially similar subordination terms, and which will be issued and sold
(if at all) to any North Fork Capital Trust established by the Company (if
any), and will be unsecured and subordinate and junior in right of payment to
the extent and to the manner set forth in this Indenture to all Senior Debt of
the Company.
"Other Guarantees" means, with respect to any series of
Securities, all guarantees (if any) to be issued by the Company with respect to
Capital Securities (if any) to be issued by any North Fork Capital Trust to be
established by the Company (if any), other than the guarantee related to such
series of Securities.
"Outstanding" means, when used in reference to any Securities,
as of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities for whose payment money in the necessary
amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying
Agent in trust for the Holders of such Securities; and
(iii) Securities in substitution for or in lieu of which other
Securities have been authenticated and delivered or which have been
paid pursuant to Section 3.07, unless proof satisfactory to the
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Trustee is presented that any such Securities are held by Holders in
whose hands such Securities are valid, binding and legal obligations
of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Hold ers of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected
in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent or waiver, only Securities which a Responsible Officer actually knows
to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes
to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect
to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor
upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
Upon the written request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish the Trustee
promptly an Officers' Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if
any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of the
Company, or any other obligor on the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company
or such obligor, and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, the Trustee
shall be entitled to accept such Officers' Certificate as conclusive evidence
of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed
therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
"Paying Agent" means the Trustee or any Person authorized by
the Company to pay the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any
Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, Corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment" means, with respect to the Securities of
any series, the place or places where the
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principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of such
series are payable pursuant to Sections 3.01 and 3.11.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.07 in lieu
of a lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Security.
"Proceeding" has the meaning specified in Section 14.02.
"Property Trustee" means, in respect of any North Fork Capital
Trust, the commercial bank or trust company identified as the "Property
Trustee" in the related Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property
Trustee of such North Fork Capital Trust under each Trust Agreement and not in
its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor property trustee appointed as therein provided.
"Quotation Agent" means the Reference Treasury Dealer set
forth in clause (i) under the definition of Reference Treasury Dealer.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security of a
series to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant
to this Indenture.
"Reference Treasury Dealer" means: (i) Salomon Brothers Inc
and its respective successors; provided, however, that if the foregoing shall
cease to be a primary U.S. Government Securities dealer in New York City, the
Company shall substitute therefor another primary U.S. Government Securities
dealer in New York City; or (ii) any other primary U.S. Government Securities
dealer in New York City selected by the Company.
"Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to
each Reference Treasury Dealer and any prepayment date, the average, as
determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Trea-
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xxxx Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount)
quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding such prepayment
date.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date with respect to the Securities of a series means, unless otherwise
provided pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to Securities of a series, the
date which is the Business Day next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
"Regulatory Capital Event" means the Company shall have
received an opinion of independent bank regulatory counsel experienced in such
matters to the effect that, as a result of (a) any amendment to, or change
(including any announced prospective change) in the laws (or any regulations
thereunder) of the United States or any rules, guidelines or policies of the
Federal Reserve Board or (b) any official administrative pronouncement or
judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, which
amendment or change is effective or such pronouncement or decision is announced
on or after the date of original issuance of the Capital Securities, the
Capital Securities do not constitute, or within 90 days of the date thereof,
will not constitute, Tier 1 capital (or its then equivalent); provided,
however, that the distribution of the Securities in connection with the
liquidation of the Trust by the Company and the treatment thereafter of the
Securities as other than Tier 1 capital shall not in and of itself constitute a
Regulatory Capital Event unless such liquidation shall have occurred in
connection with a Tax Event.
"Remaining Life" has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee
means any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office, including any
managing director, vice president, assistant vice president, assistant
treasurer, assistant secretary or any other officer of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated
officers and having direct responsibility for the administration of this
Indenture, and also, with respect to a particular matter,
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any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's
knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Restricted Security" means each Security required pursuant to
Section 3.06(c) hereof to bear a Restricted Securities Legend.
"Restricted Securities Certificate" means a certificate
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A to this Indenture.
"Restricted Securities Legend" means a legend substantially in
the form of the legend required in the form of Security set forth in Section
2.02 to be placed on a Restricted Security.
"Securities" or "Security" means any debt securities or debt
security, as the case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Securities.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 3.06.
"Senior Debt" with respect to any series of Securities means
the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any (including interest
accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for
reorganization relating to the Company whether or not such claim for
post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding), on Debt of the Company,
whether incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter
incurred, unless, in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant
to which the same is outstanding, it is provided that such obligations are not
superior in right of payment to the Securities or the Other Debentures;
provided, however, that Senior Debt shall not be deemed to include (a) any Debt
of the Company which, when incurred and without respect to any election under
Section 1111(b) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, was without
recourse to the Company; (b) any
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Debt of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries; (c) Debt to any employee of the
Company; (d) Debt which by its terms is subordinated to trade accounts payable
or accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business to the extent
that payments made to the holders of such Debt by the Holders as a result of
the subordination provisions of this Indenture would be greater than such
payments otherwise would have been as a result of any obligation of such
holders of such Debt to pay amounts over to the obligees on such trade accounts
payable or accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business as a
result of the subordination provisions to which such Debt is subject; and (e)
any other debt securities issued pursuant to this Indenture.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted
interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.08.
"Stated Maturity" when used with respect to any Security or
any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon means the date
specified pursuant to the terms of such Security as the date on which the
principal of such Security or such installment of interest is due and payable,
in the case of such principal, as such date may be shortened or extended as
provided pursuant to the terms of such Security and this Indenture.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the
outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the
Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more
other Subsidiaries. For purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means
stock which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether
at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power
by reason of any contingency.
"Successor Security" of any particular Security means every
Security issued after, and evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by, such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.07 in
exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Security.
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"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Company of an opinion of
independent counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result
of any amendment to, or change (including any announced proposed change) in,
the laws or any regulations thereunder of the United States or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of any
official administrative pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or
applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or
which proposed change, pronouncement or decision is announced on or after the
Original Issue Date of the applicable series of Securities or of the applicable
Capital Securities issued by the affected North Fork Capital Trust, there is
more than an insubstantial risk that (i) such North Fork Capital Trust is, or
will be within 90 days of the date of such opinion of independent counsel,
subject to United States Federal income tax with respect to income received or
accrued on such Securities, (ii) interest payable by the Company on such series
of Securities is not, or within 90 days of the date of such opinion of
independent counsel, will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in
part, for United States Federal income tax purposes, or (iii) such North Fork
Capital Trust is, or will be within 90 days of the date of such opinion of
independent counsel, subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes,
duties or other governmental charges.
"Trust Agreement" with respect to each series of Securities
means the Declaration of Trust with respect to such series, as amended by the
Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust with respect to such series.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a Successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder
and, if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939
(15 U.S.C. Sections 77aaa-77bbbb), as amended and as in effect on the date of
this Indenture, except as provided in Sections 1.07 and 9.05.
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"Trust Securities" has the meaning specified in the first
recital of this Indenture.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company, means
any duly appointed vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title "vice president".
SECTION 1.02. Compliance Certificate and Opinions. Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under
any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent (including
covenants compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent), if any,
provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been
complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such
counsel that all such conditions precedent (including covenants compliance with
which constitute a condition precedent), if any, have been complied with,
except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the
furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this
Indenture relating to such particular application or request, no additional
certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than the
certificates provided regarding conditions or covenants waived by the Holders
pursuant to Section 10.05) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
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such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 1.03. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In
any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by
an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters
be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one Person, or that they be
so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify
or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such
Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or given an
opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion
of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representation with respect to matters upon which his certificate or opinion is
based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care
should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to
such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions, or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.
SECTION 1.04. Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be given to or taken by Holders, may be embodied in and
evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
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similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in
writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall
become effective when such instrument or instruments is or are delivered to the
Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or
of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of
this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the Trustee
and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer
authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the
individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution
thereof. Where such execution is by a Person acting in other than his
individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority.
(c) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same,
may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient and
in accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the
Securities Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon
the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
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(f) The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a
record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to take any
action under this Indenture by vote or consent. Except as otherwise provided
herein, such record date shall be the later of 30 days prior to the first
solicitation of such consent or vote or the date of the most recent list of
Securityholders furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.01 prior to such
solicitation. If a record date is fixed, those persons who were
Securityholders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and
only those persons, shall be entitled to take such action by vote or consent or
to revoke any vote or consent previously given, whether or not such persons
continue to be Holders after such record date, provided, however, that unless
such vote or consent is obtained from the Holders (or their duly designated
proxies) of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities prior to
the date which is the 120th day after such record date, any such vote or
consent previously given shall automatically and without further action by any
Holder be canceled and of no further effect.
SECTION 1.05. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of
Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made
upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
(1) the Trustee by any holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose (except as otherwise provided in Section
5.01 hereof) hereunder if in writing and mailed, first class, postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its
principal office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument
or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee
by the Company.
SECTION 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this
Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (un-
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less otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first class
postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at the address of such
Holder as it appears in the Securities Register, not later than the latest
date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such
notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the
failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any
particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to
other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
SECTION 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. This
Indenture will not be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act except upon the
effectiveness of a registration statement as contemplated in Article XII
hereof. If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with
the duties imposed by any of Section 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust
Indenture Act through operation of Section 318(c) thereof, such imposed duties
shall control.
SECTION 1.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The
Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 1.09. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 1.10. Separability Clause. In case any provision in
this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable,
the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not
in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 1.11. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this
Indenture or in the Securities, express or im-
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plied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Paying
Agent and their successors and assigns, the holders of Senior Debt and the
Holders of the Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 1.12. Governing Law. This Indenture and the
Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York.
SECTION 1.13. Non-Business Days. In any case where any
Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall
not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture or the Securities) payment of interest or principal need not be made
on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day (and no
interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, until such next
succeeding Business Day) except that, if such Business Day is in the next
succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made
on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or at the Stated Maturity, as
the case may be, such payment was originally payable.
ARTICLE II
Security Forms
SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally. The Securities of each
series and the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in
substantially the forms set forth in this Article, or in such other form or
forms as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or
more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks
of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities
exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers
executing such securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.
If the form of
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Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board
Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified
by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the
Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by
Section 3.03 with respect to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods, if required by any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, on a steel engraved
border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner
permitted by the rules or any securities exchange on which the Securities may
be listed, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
Securities distributed to holders of book-entry Capital
Securities shall be distributed in the form of one or more Global Securities
registered in the name of a Depositary or its nominee, and deposited with the
Securities Registrar, as custodian for such Depositary, or held by such
Depositary for credit by the Depositary to the respective accounts of the
beneficial owners of the Securities represented thereby (or such other accounts
they may direct). Securities distributed to holders of Capital Securities
other than book-entry Capital Securities shall not be issued in the form of a
Global Security or any other form intended to facilitate book-entry trading in
beneficial interests in such Securities.
SECTION 2.02. Form of Face of Security.
[If this Security is a Restricted Security, insert--THIS
SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY
NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED,
TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH REGISTRATION UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO,
THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THE HOLDER OF THIS
SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER
SUCH SECURITY PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS THREE
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YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON
WHICH NORTH FORK BANCORPORATION, INC. (THE "CORPORATION") OR ANY AFFILIATE OF
THE CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF THIS
SECURITY) (THE "RESALE RESTRICTIONS TERMINATION DATE") ONLY (A) TO THE
CORPORATION, (B) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE
PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE 144A"), TO A PERSON IT
REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE
144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN
RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" WITHIN THE
MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF
SUCH AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR," FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT
WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN
VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE
CORPORATION'S AND THE TRUSTEE'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER
PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF
COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMENDED AND RESTATED DECLARATION OF TRUST, A COPY OF WHICH
MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE CORPORATION OR THE TRUSTEE. THIS LEGEND WILL BE
REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF A HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS TERMINATION
DATE.]
NORTH FORK BANCORPORATION, INC.
(Title of Security)
No. $
NORTH FORK BANCORPORATION, INC., a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of Delaware (hereinafter called the "Company", which
term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter
referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to , or its
registered assigns, the principal sum of Dollars on . The
Company further promises to pay interest on said principal sum from ,
or from the most recent interest payment date (each such date, an "Interest
Payment Date") on
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which interest has been paid or duly provided for, [monthly] [quarterly]
[semi-annually] [if applicable, insert--(subject to deferral as set forth
herein)], in arrears on [insert applicable Interest Payment Dates] of each
year, commencing , , at the rate of % per annum, until the
principal hereof shall have become due and payable, [if applicable,
insert--plus Additional Interest, if any,] until the principal hereof is paid
or duly provided for or made available for payment [if applicable, insert--and
on any overdue principal and (without duplication and to the extent that
payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) on any overdue
installment of interest at the rate of % per annum, compounded [monthly]
[quarterly] [semi-annually] [annually] as Additional Interest]. The amount of
interest payable for any period shall be computed on the basis of twelve 30-day
months and a 360-day year. The amount of interest payable for any partial
period shall be computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months. In the event that any date on which
interest is payable on this Security is not a Business Day, then a payment of
the interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which
is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any
such delay), [except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding
calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business
Day, in each case] with the same force and effect as if made on the date the
payment was originally payable. A "Business Day" shall mean any day other than
(i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a day on which banking institutions in The City
of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain
closed or (iii) a day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or the
Corporate Trust Office of the Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement
hereinafter referred to for North Fork Capital Trust is closed for
business. The interest installment so payable, and punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture,
be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities, as defined in the Indenture) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest installment, which shall be the
[insert definition of Regular Record Dates]. Any such interest installment not
so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to
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the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in
whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered
at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to
Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such
Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the
Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
[If applicable, insert--So long as no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right at any time during
the term of this Security, from time to time, to defer payment of interest on
such Security for up to consecutive [monthly] [quarterly]
[semi-annual] interest payment periods with respect to each deferral period
(each an "Extension Period"), during which Extension Periods the Company shall
have the right to make partial payments of interest on any Interest Payment
Date, and at the end of which the Company shall pay all interest then accrued
and unpaid (together with Additional Interest thereon to the extent permitted by
applicable law); provided, however, that no Extension Period may extend beyond
the Maturity of this Security. During any such Extension Period, the Company
will not (i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on or redeem,
purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the
Company's capital stock (which includes common and preferred stock) or (ii) make
any payment of principal of, interest or premium, if any, on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company (including Other
Debentures) that ranks pari passu with or junior in interest to this Security or
(iii) make any guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company
of the debt securities of any Subsidiary of the Company (including Other
Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks pari passu with or junior in interest to
this Security (other than (a) dividends or distributions in Common Stock of the
Company, (b) any declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation
of a stockholders' rights plan, or the issuance of stock under any such plan in
the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such
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rights pursuant thereto, (c) payments under the applicable North Fork
Bancorporation Guarantee, (d) purchases or acquisitions of shares of the
Company's Common Stock in connection with the satisfaction by the Company of
its obligations under any employee benefit plan or other contractual obligation
of the Company (other than a contractual obligation ranking pari passu with or
junior to these Securities), (e) as a result of a reclassification of the
Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of
the Company's capital stock for another class or series of the Company's
capital stock, or (f) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the
Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of
such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged). Prior to the
termination of any such Extension Period, the Company may further extend such
Extension Period, provided, however, that such extension does not cause such
Extension Period to exceed consecutive [monthly] [quarterly] [semi-annual]
interest payment periods or extend beyond the Maturity of this Security. Upon
the termination of any such Extension Period and the payment of all accrued and
unpaid interest and any Additional Interest then due, the Company may elect to
begin a new Extension Period, subject to the above requirements. No interest
shall be due and payable during an Extension Period except at the end thereof.
The Company shall give the Holder of this Security and the Trustee notice of
its election to begin any Extension Period at least five Business Days prior to
the Interest Payment Date, [if applicable, insert--or, with respect to the
Securities issued to a North Fork Capital Trust, prior to the earlier of (i)
the date the Distributions on the Capital Securities would have been payable
except for the election to begin or extend such Extension Period or (ii) the
date the Administrative Trustees are required to give notice to any automated
quotation system or to holders of such Capital Securities of the record date or
the date such Distributions are payable, but in any event not less than five
Business Days prior to such record date]. There is no limitation on the number
of times the Company may elect to begin an Extension Period.
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company
maintained for that purpose in the United States, in such coin or currency of
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the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for
payment of public and private debts [if applicable, insert--; provided,
however, that at the option of the Company payment of any interest may be made
(except Securities in Global form) (i) by check mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Securities Register
or (ii) by wire transfer in immediately available funds at such place and to
such account as may be designated by the Person entitled thereto as specified
in the Securities Register].
The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent
provided in the Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the
prior payment in full of all Senior Debt, and this Security is issued subject
to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this
Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such
provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such
actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so
provided and (c) appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his acceptance hereof, waives all notice of
the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the
Indenture by each holder of Senior Debt, whether now outstanding or hereinafter
incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said provisions.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for
all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature,
this Security shall
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not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to
be duly executed under its corporate seal.
Date: NORTH FORK BANCORPORATION,
INC.,
[Seal]
by
[Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer,
President or
Vice President]
Attest:
[Secretary or Assistant
Secretary]
SECTION 2.03. Form of Reverse of Security. This Security is
one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the
"Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more series under a Junior
Subordinated Indenture, dated as of , as supplemented by an Officers'
Certificate dated as of , (herein called the "Indenture"), between the
Company and , as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee", which term
includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms
upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof[, limited in
aggregate principal amount to $ ].
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the
Indenture [if applicable, insert--and in the Amended and Restated Declaration
of Trust of [insert the
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applicable North Fork Capital Trust ], dated as of , as amended (the
"Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust"), among North Fork Bancorporation,
Inc., as Depositor, and the Trustees named therein,] shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Indenture or, to the extent not defined in the
Indenture, the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, as the case may be.
[If applicable, insert--On or after , the Company
may at any time, at its option, subject to the terms and conditions of Article
XI of the Indenture and subject to the Company having received prior approval
of the Federal Reserve if then required under applicable capital guidelines of
the Federal Reserve, redeem this Security in whole or in part at any time or
from time to time prior to maturity, at a redemption price (the "Optional
Prepayment Price") equal to the following prices, expressed in percentages of
the principal amount of the Securities together with accrued but unpaid
interest to but excluding the date fixed for redemption. If redeemed during
the 12-month period beginning :
Redemption
Year Price
---- ----------
[Insert year and redemption
prices]
and at 100% on or after .]
[If applicable, insert-- If a Tax Event or a Regulatory
Capital Event (each a "Special Event") shall occur and be continuing, the
Company may, at its option and subject to receipt of prior approval of the
Federal Reserve if then required under applicable capital guidelines or
policies of the Federal Reserve and subject to the provisions of Article XI of
the Indenture, prepay the Securities prior to December 15, 2006 and within 90
days after the occurrence of such Special Event, in whole (but not in part), at
a prepayment price (the "Special Event Prepayment Price") equal to the greater
of (i) 100% of the principal amount of such Securities and (ii) the sum, as
determined by a Quotation Agent, of the present values of the principal amount
and premium payable as part of
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the Optional Prepayment Price with respect to an optional redemption of such
Securities on December 15, 2006, together with scheduled payments of interest
accruing from the prepayment date to December 15, 2006 (the "Remaining Life"),
in each case discounted to the prepayment date on a semi-annual basis (assuming
a 360-day year consisting of 30-day months) at the Adjusted Treasury Rate,
plus, in each case, accrued interest thereon to the date of prepayment. In
the case of redemption on or after December 15, 2006 following a Special Event,
the Special Event Prepayment Price shall equal the Optional Prepayment Price
then applicable to a redemption as described above.]
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a
new Security or Securities of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof
will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancelation hereof.
[If the Security is not a Discount Security,--If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of this Security may be declared due and payable in
the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the
Indenture].
[If the Security is a Discount Security,--If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, an amount of principal of this Security may be declared due and
payable in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided
in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to [--insert formula for
determining the amount]. Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so
declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal and
overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company's obligations in respect of
the payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on this Security shall
terminate.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the Company and the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental
indenture or indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights
and obligations of the Company and of the Holders of the Securities, with the
consent of the Holders of not less
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than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each
series to be affected by such supplemental indenture. The Indenture also
contains provisions permitting Holders of specified percentages in principal
amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of
the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the
Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the
Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and
upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the
registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof,
whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
[If the Security is not a Discount Security,--As provided in
and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding occurs and is
continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less
than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of this series may
declare the principal amount of all the Securities of this series to be due and
payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee
if given by Holders), provided, however, that, in the case of the Securities of
this series issued to a North Fork Capital Trust, if upon an Event of Default,
the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of this series fails to declare the principal of all the
Securities of this series to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at
least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the corresponding series of
Capital Securities then outstanding shall have such right by a notice in
writing to the Company and the Trustee. The Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of these Securities may annul
such declaration and waive the default if the default (other than the
non-payment of the principal of these Securities which has become due solely by
such acceleration) has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has
been deposited with the Trustee. Should the Holders of these Securities fail
to annul such declaration and waive such
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default, the holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Capital Securities shall have such right. Upon any such declaration such
specified amount of and the accrued interest (including any Additional
Interest) on all the Securities of this series shall become immediately due and
payable, provided that the payment of principal and interest (including any
Additional Interest) on such Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent
provided in Article XIV of the Indenture.]
[If the Security is a Discount Security,--As provided in and
subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with respect
to the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding occurs and is
continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less
than such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of
this series of all the Securities of this series to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given
by Holders), provided that, in the case of the Securities of this series issued
to a North Fork Capital Trust, if upon an Event of Default, the Trustee or the
Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of this series fails to declare the principal of all the Securities of this
series to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at least 25% in
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the corresponding series of Capital Securities
then outstanding shall have such right by a notice in writing to the Company
and the Trustee. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of these Securities may annul such declaration and
waive the default if the default (other than the nonpayment of the principal of
these Securities which has become due solely by such acceleration) has been
cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and
principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the
Trustee. Should the Holders of these Securities fail to annul such declaration
and waive such default, the holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation
Amount of the Capital Securities shall have such right. Upon any such
declaration such specified amount of and the accrued interest (including any
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Additional Interest) on all the Securities of this series shall become
immediately due and payable, provided that the payment of principal and
interest (including any Additional Interest) on such Securities shall remain
subordinated to the extent provided in Article XIII of the Indenture.]
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate,
and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in
the Securities Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of
transfer at the office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant to Section
10.02 of the Indenture duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar
duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing
and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series, of authorized
denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to
the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge shall be made for
any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither
the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered
form without coupons in denominations of $ and any integral multiple thereof.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Securities of such series of a different authorized
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denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
The Company and, by its acceptance of this Security or a
beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a
beneficial interest in, this Security intend that such Security constitute
indebtedness and agree to treat such Security as indebtedness for all United
States Federal, state and local tax purposes.
THE INDENTURE AND THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD
TO CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF.
SECTION 2.04. Additional Provisions Required in Global
Security. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall, in additional to the
provisions contained in Sections 2.02 and 2.03, bear a legend in substantially
the following form:
"This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the
Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of The
Depository Trust Company (the "Depositary") or a nominee of the
Depositary. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered
in the name of a person other than the Depositary or its nominee only
in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and no
transfer of this Security (other than a transfer of this Security as a
whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee
of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the
Depositary) may be registered except in limited circumstances.
Unless this Security is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depositary Trust Company (55 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx) to North Fork
Bancorporation, Inc. or its agent for registration of transfer,
exchange or payment, and any Security issued is registered in the name
of Cede & Co. or such other name as requested by an authorized
representative of The Depository Trust Company and any payment hereon
is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY
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A PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede &
Co., has an interest herein."
SECTION 2.05. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication. This is one of the Securities referred to in the within
mentioned Indenture:
as Trustee
By:
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE III
The Securities
SECTION 3.01. Title and Terms. The aggregate principal
amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There
shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth in an
Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of a series:
(a) the title of the securities of such series, which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities;
(b) the limit, if any, upon the aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of such series which may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and
delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in
lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 3.04,
3.06, 3.07, 9.06 or 11.06); provided, however, that the authorized
aggregate principal amount of such series may be increased above such
amount by a Board Resolution to such effect;
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(c) the Stated Maturity or Maturities on which the principal
of the Securities of such series is payable or the method of
determination thereof;
(d) the rate or rates, if any, at which the Securities of
such series shall bear interest, if any, the rate or rates and extent
to which Additional Interest, if any, shall be payable in respect of
any Securities of such series, the Interest Payment Dates on which
such interest shall be payable, the right, pursuant to Section 3.12 or
as otherwise set forth therein, of the Company to defer or extend an
Interest Payment Date, and the Regular Record Date for the interest
payable on any Interest Payment Date or the method by which any of the
foregoing shall be determined;
(e) the place or places where the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Securities of such series shall be
payable, the place or places where the Securities of such series may
be presented for registration of transfer or exchange, and the place
or places where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect
of the Securities of such series may be made;
(f) the period or periods within or the date or date on which,
if any, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon
which the Securities of such series may be redeemed, in whole or in
part, at the option of the Company;
(g) the obligation or the right, if any, of the Company to
redeem, repay or purchase the Securities of such series pursuant to
any sinking fund, amortization or analogous provisions, or at the
option of a Holder thereof, and the period or periods within which,
the prices or prices at which, the currency or currencies (including
currency unit or units) in which and the other terms and conditions
upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed, repaid or
purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligations;
(h) the denominations in which any Securities of such series
shall be issuable, if other than
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denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof;
(i) if other than Dollars, the currency or currencies
(including currency unit or units) in which the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any, on the Securities of the series
shall be payable, or in which the Securities of the series shall be
denominated and the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in
Dollars for purposes of the definition of the term "Outstanding";
(j) the additions, modifications or deletions, if any, in the
Events of Default or covenants of the Company set forth herein with
respect to the Securities of such series;
(k) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of Securities of such series that shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof;
(l) the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with
respect to the Securities of such series as shall be necessary to
permit or facilitate the issuance of the Securities of such series in
bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with
or without interest coupons;
(m) any index or indices used to determine the amount of
payments of principal of and premium, if any, on the Securities of
such series or the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
(n) the issuance of a temporary Global Security representing
all of the Securities of such series and exchange of such temporary
Global Security for definitive Securities of such series;
(o) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in
whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in
such case, the Depositary for such Global Securities, which Depositary
shall be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended;
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(p) the appointment of any Paying Agent or Agents for the
Securities of such series;
(q) the terms of any right to convert or exchange Securities
of such series into any other securities or property of the Company,
and the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with respect
to the Securities of such series to permit or facilitate such
conversion or exchange;
(r) the transfer restrictions and legends required to be on
the Securities;
(s) the definitions of Amended and Restated Declaration of
Trust, Declaration of Trust and Guarantee Agreement for each series;
(t) the relative degree, if any, to which the Securities of
the series shall be senior to or be subordinated to other series of
Securities in right of payment, whether such other series of
Securities are Outstanding or not; and
(u) any other terms of the Securities of such series (which
terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially
identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided
herein or in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in such
Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to the Securities of
any series, at the option of the Company, interest on the Securities of any
series that bears interest may be paid by (i) by mailing a check to the address
of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Securities
Register or (ii) by wire transfer in immediately available funds at such place
and to such account as may be designated by the person entitled thereto as
specified in the Securities Register.
SECTION 3.02. Denominations. The Securities of each series
shall be in registered form without coupons and shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000
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and any integral multiple thereof, unless otherwise specified as contemplated
by Section 3.01.
SECTION 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and
Dating. The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its President or one of its Vice Presidents under its
corporate seal reproduced or impressed thereon and attested by its Secretary or
one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on
the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased
to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities. At any
time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture,
the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication. Securities may be authenticated on original issuance from time
to time and delivered pursuant to such procedures acceptable to the Trustee
("Procedures") as may be specified from time to time by Company Order.
Procedures may authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to oral
instructions of the Company or a duly authorized agent, which instructions
shall be promptly confirmed in writing.
Prior to the delivery of a Security in any such form to the
Trustee for authentication, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee the
following:
(a) a Company Order requesting the Trustee's authentication
and delivery of all or a portion of the Securities of such series, and
if less than all, setting forth procedures for such authentication;
(b) the Board Resolution by or pursuant to which such form of
Security has been approved, and the Board Resolution, if any, by or
pursuant to which the terms of the Securities of such series have been
approved, and, if pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officers'
Certificate describing the action taken;
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(c) an Officers' Certificate dated the date such certificate
is delivered to the Trustee, stating that all conditions precedent
provided for in this Indenture relating to the authentication and
delivery of Securities in such form and with such terms have been
complied with; and
(d) an Opinion of Counsel substantially to the effect that (i)
the form of such Securities has been duly authorized and approved in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; (ii) the terms of
such Securities have been duly authorized and determined in conformity
with the provisions of this Indenture, or, if such terms are to be
determined pursuant to Procedures, as defined above, when so
determined such terms shall have been duly authorized and determined
in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; and (iii)
Securities in such form when completed by appropriate insertions and
executed and delivered by the Company to the Trustee for
authentication in accordance with this Indenture, authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee in accordance with this Indenture within the
authorization as to aggregate principal amount established from time
to time by the Board of Directors and sold in the manner specified in
such Opinion of Counsel, will be the legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of this Indenture,
subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency and
similar laws generally affecting creditors' rights, to general
equitable principles and except as enforcement thereof may be limited
by (A) requirements that a claim with respect to any Securities
denominated other than in Dollars (or a Foreign Currency or currency
unit judgment in respect of such claim) be converted into Dollars at a
rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to
applicable law or (B) governmental authority to limit, delay or
prohibit the making of payments in Foreign Currencies or currency
units or payments outside the United States, and subject to such other
qualifications as such counsel shall conclude do not materially affect
the rights of Holders of such Securities.
The Trustee shall be entitled to receive the documents
referred to in clauses (b) and (d) above only
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at or prior to the first request of the Company to the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of such series.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on
such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form
provided for herein executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of
its authorized officers, and such certificate upon any Security shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 3.04. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation
of definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and upon
Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities
which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, in any denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive
Securities of such series in lieu of which they are issued and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company
will cause definitive Securities of such series to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities, the
temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities upon
surrender of the temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Company
designated for that purpose without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for
cancelation of any one or more temporary Securities, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like
principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized
denominations having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and
having the same terms as such temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the
temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities.
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SECTION 3.05. Global Securities. (a) Each Global Security
issued under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary
designated by the Company for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and
delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and
each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes
of this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no
Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered,
and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in
the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a
nominee thereof unless (a) such Depositary advises the Trustee in writing that
such Depositary is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities as Depositary with respect to such Global Security, and the
Company is unable to locate a qualified successor, (b) the Company executes and
delivers to the Trustee a Company Order stating that the Company elects to
terminate the book-entry system through the Depositary, (c) there shall have
occurred and be continuing an Event of Default or (d) pursuant to the following
sentence. All or any portion of a Global Security may be exchanged for a
Security that has a like aggregate principal amount and is not a Global
Security upon 20 days' prior request made by the Depositary or its Agent Member
to the Securities Registrar.
(c) If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other
Securities or canceled in whole, it shall be surrendered by or on behalf of the
Depositary or its nominee to the Securities Registrar for exchange or
cancelation as provided in this Article III. If any Global Security is to be
exchanged for other Securities or canceled in part, or if another Security is
to be exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial interest in any Global
Security, then either (i) such Global Security shall be so surrendered for
exchange or cancelation as provided in this Article III or (ii) the principal
amount thereof shall be reduced, subject to Section 3.06(b)(iv), or increased
by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged or canceled, or
equal to the principal amount of such other Security to be so exchanged for a
beneficial interest therein, as the
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case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the
Securities Registrar, whereupon the Trustee shall instruct the Depositary or
its authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its
records. Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global Security by the
Depositary, accompanied by registration instructions and, to the extent
required by Section 3.06, a Restricted Securities Certificate, the Trustee
shall, subject to Section 3.05(b) and as otherwise provided in this Article
III, authenticate and deliver any Securities issuable in exchange for such
Global Security (or any portion thereof) in accordance with the instructions of
the Depositary. The Trustee shall not be liable for any delay in delivery of
such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in
relying on, such instructions.
(d) The Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a
Global Security, shall be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes
under this Indenture and the Securities, and owners of beneficial interests in
a Global Security shall hold such interest pursuant to the rules and procedures
of the Depositary. Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial interests in a
Global Security shall be shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall
be effected only through, records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee
or its Agent Members. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall
have any liability in respect of any transfers effected by the Depositary.
(e) The rights of the beneficial interests in a Global
Security shall be exercised only through the Depositary and shall be limited to
those established by law and agreements between such owners and the Depositary
and/or its Agent Members.
SECTION 3.06. Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally;
Certain Transfers and Exchanges; Restricted Securities Legends. (a) The
Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a
register in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe,
the Company shall provide for the registration of the Securities and of
transfers of Securities. Such register is herein sometimes referred to as the
"Securities Register". The Trustee is hereby appointed "Securities Registrar"
for the purpose
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of registering the Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security
at the office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the
same series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal
amount, of the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same
terms.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for
other Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount, of the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity
and having the same terms, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at
such office or agency. Whenever any securities are so surrendered for exchange,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or
exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Securities Registrar) be
duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer
or exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any transfer or exchange of Securities.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required,
pursuant to the provisions of this Section, (a) to issue, transfer or exchange
any Security of any
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series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the
day of selection for redemption of Securities pursuant to Article XI and ending
at the close of business on the day of mailing of notice of redemption or (b)
to transfer or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in
part, except, in the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, any portion
thereof not to be redeemed.
(b) Certain Transfers and Exchanges. Notwithstanding any
other provision of the Indenture, transfers and exchanges of Securities and
beneficial interests in a Global Capital Security of the kinds specified in
this Section 3.06(b) shall be made only in accordance with this Section
3.06(b).
(i) Non-Global Security to Global Security. If the Holder of
a Security (other than a Global Security) wishes at any time to transfer all or
any portion of such Security to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in
the form of a beneficial interest in a Global Security, such transfer may be
effected only in accordance with the provisions of this clause (b)(i) and
subject to the rules and procedures of the Depositary. Upon receipt by the
Securities Registrar of (A) such Security as provided in Section 3.06(a) and
instructions satisfactory to the Securities Registrar directing that a
beneficial interest in the Global Security in a specified principal amount not
greater than the principal amount of such Security be credited to a specified
Agent Member's account and (B) a Securities Certificate duly executed by such
Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, then the
Securities Registrar shall cancel such Security (and issue a new Security in
respect of the untransferred portion thereof) as provided in Section 3.06(a)
and increase the aggregate principal amount of the Global Security by the
specified principal amount as provided in Section 3.05(c).
(ii) Non-Global Security to Non-Global Security. A Security
that is not a Global Security may be transferred, in whole or in part, to a
Person who takes delivery in the form of another Security that is not a Global
Security as provided in Section 3.06(a); provided, that if such Security to be
transferred is a Restricted Security, the Securities Registrar shall have
received a Restricted Securities Certificate duly executed by the
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transferor Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
(iii) Exchanges between Global Security and Non-Global
Security. A beneficial interest in a Global Security may be exchanged for a
Security that is not a Global Security as provided in Section 3.05.
(iv) Limitations Relating to Principal Amount.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and unless otherwise
specified as permitted by Section 3.01, Securities or portions thereof may be
transferred or exchanged only in principal amounts of not less than $1,000 and
integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. Any transfer, exchange or
other disposition of Securities in contravention of the Section 3.06(b)(iv)
shall be deemed to be void and of no legal effect whatsoever, any such
transferee shall be deemed not to be the Holder or owner of any beneficial
interest in such Securities for any purpose, including but not limited to the
receipt of interest payable on such Securities, and such transferee shall be
deemed to have no interest whatsoever in such Securities.
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(c) Restricted Securities Legend. (i) Except as set forth
below, all Securities shall bear a Restricted Securities Legend, subject to the
following:
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE
REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR
OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION UNLESS SUCH
TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY
ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH
SECURITY PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS THREE YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE
ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH NORTH FORK
BANCORPORATION, INC. (THE "CORPORATION") OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE
CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF THIS
SECURITY) (THE "RESALE RESTRICTIONS TERMINATION DATE") ONLY (A) TO THE
CORPORATION, (B) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE
FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE
144A"), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS
OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO
WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON
RULE 144A, (D) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" WITHIN THE
MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE
ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR," FOR INVESTMENT
PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION
WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (E)
PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE CORPORATION'S AND
THE TRUSTEE'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT
TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF
COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH
OF THEM IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMENDED AND RESTATED DECLARATION OF
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TRUST, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE CORPORATION OR THE
TRUSTEE. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF A HOLDER
AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS TERMINATION DATE.
(ii) Subject to Section 3.06(d) and to the following clauses
of this Section 3.06(c), a Security (other than a Global Security)
that does not bear a Restricted Securities Legend may be issued in
exchange for or in lieu of a Restricted Security or any portion
thereof that bears such legend if, in the Company's judgement, placing
such a legend upon such new Security is not necessary to ensure
compliance with the registration requirements of the Securities Act,
and the Trustee, at the written direction of the Company in the form
of an Officers' Certificate, shall countersign and deliver such a new
Security as provided in this Article III.
(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section
3.06(c), a successor Security of a Security that does not bear a
Restricted Securities Legend shall not bear such form of legend unless
the Company has reasonable cause to believe that such successor
Security is a "restricted security" within the meaning of Rule 144
under the Securities Act, in which case the Trustee, at the written
direction of the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate,
shall countersign and deliver a new Security bearing a Restricted
Securities Legend in exchange for such successor Security as provided
in this Article III.
(iv) Upon any sale or transfer of a Restricted Security
(including any Restricted Security represented by a Global Security)
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities
Act or pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act after such
registration ceases to be effective: (A) in the case of any Restricted
Security that is a definitive Security, the Securities Registrar shall
permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Restricted Security for a
definitive Security that does not bear the Restricted Securities
Legend and rescind the restriction on transfer of such Restricted
Security; and (B) in the case of any Restricted Security that is
represented by a Global Security, the Securities Registrar shall
permit the Holder of
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such Global Security to exchange such Global Security for another
Global Security that does not bear the Restricted Securities Legend.
(v) If Restricted Securities are being presented or
surrendered for transfer or exchange then there shall be (if so
required by the Trustee), (A) if such Restricted Securities are being
delivered to the Securities Registrar by a Holder for registration in
the name of such Holder, without transfer, a certification from such
Holder to that effect; or (B) if such Restricted Securities are being
transferred, (i) a certification from the transferor in a form
substantially similar to that attached hereto as Exhibit A, and (ii)
if the Company or Securities Registrar so requests, evidence
reasonably satisfactory to them as to the compliance with the
restrictions set forth in the Restricted Securities Legend.
SECTION 3.07. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities. If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together
with such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the
Trustee to save each of them harmless, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of
the same issue and series of like tenor and principal amount, having the same
Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and bearing the same Interest Rate as
such mutilated Security, and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee
(i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security, and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or
the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the
issuing Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of the same issue and series of like tenor and
principal amount, having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and
bearing the same Interest Rate as such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
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In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of
any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 3.08. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved. Interest on any Security of any series which is payable, and is
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date, shall be
paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest in respect of Securities of such series, except that, unless
otherwise provided in the Securities of such series, interest payable on the
Stated Maturity of a Security shall be paid to the Person to whom principal is
paid. The initial payment of interest on any Security of any series which is
issued between a Regular Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date
shall be payable as provided in such Security or in the Board Resolution
pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to the related series of Securities.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not
timely paid or duly provided for, on any
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Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series (herein called "Defaulted
Interest"), shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on the
relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such
Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as
provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series in respect
of which interest is in default (or their respective Predecessor Securities)
are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following
manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of
Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and the date of the
proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in
respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to
the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such
money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons
entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the
Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest which shall not be more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior
to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt
by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall
promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at
the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such
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Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first
class, postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Security of such series at the
address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register not less than
10 days prior to such Special Record Date. The Trustee may, in its discretion,
in the name and at the expense of the Company, cause a similar notice to be
published at least once in a newspaper, customarily published in the English
language on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, but such publication shall not be a condition
precedent to the establishment of such Special Record Date. Notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid
to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered on such Special Date and
shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities of the series in respect of which
interest is in default may be listed and, upon such notice as may be required
by such exchange (or by the Trustee if the Securities are not listed), if,
after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment
pursuant to this Clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or
in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and
unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
SECTION 3.09. Persons Deemed Owners. The Company, the
Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name any Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the
purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (subject to Section 3.08)
interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not
such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of
the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary. No
holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its behalf by
a Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such
Global Security, and such Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such Global
Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing
herein shall prevent the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any
written certification, proxy, or other authorization furnished by a Depositary
or impair, as between the Depositary and such holders of beneficial interests,
the operation of custom-
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ary practices governing the exercise of the rights of the Depositary (or its
nominee) as Holder of any Security.
SECTION 3.10. Cancelation. All Securities surrendered for
payment, redemption, transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person
other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities
and Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall
be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee
for cancelation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder
which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all
Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No
Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities
canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture. All canceled Securities shall be destroyed by the Trustee and the
Trustee shall deliver to the Company a certificate of such destruction.
SECTION 3.11. Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of any series,
interest on the Securities of each series for any period shall be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and interest on the
Securities of each series for any partial period shall be computed on the basis
of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 3.12. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates. If
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to the Securities of a
particular series, provided that no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing with respect to the Securities, the Company shall have the right, at
any time or from time to time during the term of such series, to defer the
payment of interest on such Securities for such period or periods as may be
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 (each, an "Extension Period") during
which Extension Periods the Company shall have the right to make partial
payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date. No Extension Period shall
end on a date other than an Interest Payment Date. At the end of any such
Extension Period the Company shall pay all interest then accrued and unpaid on
the Securities (together with Additional Interest thereon, if any, at the rate
specified for the Securities of such
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series to the extent permitted by applicable law), provided, however, that no
Extension Period may extend beyond the Maturity of these Securities. During
any such Extension Period, the Company shall not (i) declare or pay dividends
or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment
with respect to, any of the Company's capital stock (which includes common and
preferred stock), or (ii) make any payment of principal, interest or premium,
if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company
(including Other Debentures) that rank pari passu with or junior in interest to
the Securities of such series or (iii) make any guarantee payments with respect
to any guarantee by the Company of the debt securities of any Subsidiary of the
Company (including Other Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks pari passu with or
junior in interest to the Securities of such series (other than (a) dividends
or distributions in common stock of the Company, (b) any declaration of a
dividend in connection with the implementation of a stockholders' rights plan,
or the issuance of stock under any such plan in the future, or the redemption
or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto, (c) payments under the
applicable North Fork Bancorporation Guarantee, (d) purchases or acquisitions
of shares of the Company's Common Stock in connection with the satisfaction by
the Company of its obligations under any employee benefit plan or other
contractual obligation of the Company (other than a contractual obligation
ranking pari passu with or junior to these Securities, (e) as a result of a
reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion
of one class or series of the Company's capital stock for another class or
series of the Company's capital stock, or (f) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion
or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or
exchanged). Prior to the termination of any such Extension Period, the Company
may further extend such Extension Period; provided, however, that no Extension
Period shall exceed the period or periods specified in such Securities or
extend beyond the Maturity of such Securities. Upon termination of any
Extension Period and upon the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest and
any Additional Interest then due on any Interest Payment Date, the Company may
elect to begin a new Extension Period, subject to the above requirements. No
interest shall be due and payable during an Extension
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Period, except at the end thereof. The Company shall give the Holders of the
Securities of such series and the Trustee and the Property Trustee notice of
its election to begin any such Extension Period (or an extension thereof) at
least five Business Days prior to the Interest Payment Date or, with respect to
the Securities of a series issued to a North Fork Capital Trust, prior to the
earlier of (i) the date the Distributions on the Trust Securities of such North
Fork Capital Trust would have been payable except for the election to begin or
extend such Extension Period or (ii) the date the Administrative Trustees of
such North Fork Capital Trust are required to give notice to any automated
quotation system or to holders of Trust Securities of the record date or the
date such Distributions are payable, but in any event not less than five
Business Days prior to such record date. There is no limitation on the number
of times that the Company may elect to begin an Extension Period.
SECTION 3.13. Agreed Tax Treatment. Each Security issued
hereunder shall provide that the Company and, by its acceptance of a Security
or a beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a
beneficial interest in, such Security intend that such Security constitute
indebtedness and agree to treat such Security as indebtedness for all United
States Federal, state and local tax purposes.
SECTION 3.14. CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the
Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the
Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices of redemption or other related
material as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice
or other related material may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained
in any notice of a redemption or other related material and that reliance may
be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities,
and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of
such numbers.
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ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) any surviving
rights of transfer, substitution and exchange of Securities, (ii) rights
hereunder of Holders to receive payments of principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities and other rights, duties and obligations of the
Holders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the amounts, if any, deposited
with the Trustee pursuant to this Article IV and (iii) the rights and
obligations of the Trustee hereunder), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid
as provided in Section 3.07 and (ii) Securities for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter
repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 10.03) have been delivered to the Trustee
for cancelation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to
the Trustee for cancelation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their
Stated Maturity within one year of the date of
deposit,
and the Company, in the case of Clause (B)(i) or (B)(ii) above, has
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in
trust for such purpose an amount in the currency or currencies in
which the Securities of such series are payable
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sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such
Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancelation,
for principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any
Additional Interest) to the date of such deposit (in the case of
Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated
Maturity;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.07 and, if money
shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause
(1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.02 and the
last paragraph of Section 10.03 shall survive.
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money. Subject to the
provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01, shall be held in trust and applied by the
Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if
any) and interest for the payment of which such money or obligations have been
deposited with or received by the Trustee; provided, however, that such moneys
need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
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ARTICLE V
Remedies
SECTION 5.01. Events of Default. "Event of Default",
wherever used herein with respect to the Securities of any series, means any
one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and
whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security
of that series, including any Additional Interest in respect thereof,
when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a
period of 30 days (subject to the deferral of any due date in the case
of an Extension Period); or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security of that series when due, whether at its
Maturity, upon redemption, by declaration of acceleration or
otherwise; or
(3) default in the performance, or breach, in any material
respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture
(other than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance of
which or the breach of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically
dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of
90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail,
to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate outstanding principal amount of
the Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default
or breach and requiring it to be remedied; or
(4) the entry or a decree or order by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises adjudging the Company a bankrupt or
insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in
respect of the Company under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or
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other similar law, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or of
any substantial part of its property or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or
order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(5) the institution by the Company of proceedings to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the
filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization
or relief under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by it
to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its
property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit for
creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay
its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to be
adjudicated a bank rupt, or the taking of corporate action by the
Company in furtherance of any such action; or
(6) in respect of a series issued to a North Fork Capital
Trust, the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, winding-up or
termination of a North Fork Capital Trust, except in connection with
the distribution of the Securities to the holders of Trust Securities
in liquidation of such North Fork Capital Trust, the redemption of all
the Trust Securities of a North Fork Capital Trust, or certain
mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as permitted by the
applicable Trust Agreement; or
(7) any other Event of Default with respect to Securities of
that series.
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment. If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at
the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the
Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series
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may declare the principal amount (or, if the Securities of that series are
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified
in the terms of that series) of all the Securities of that series to be due and
payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee
if given by Holders), provided, however, that, in the case of the Securities of
a series issued to a North Fork Capital Trust, if, upon an Event of Default,
the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series fail to declare the principal of all the
Securities of that series to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at
least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the corresponding series of
Capital Securities then outstanding shall have such right by a notice in
writing to the Company and the Trustee. The Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of these Securities may annul
such declaration and waive the default if the default (other than the
nonpayment of the principal of these Securities which has become due solely by
such acceleration) has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has
been deposited with the Trustee. Should the Holders of these Securities fail
to annul such declaration and waive such default, the holders of a majority in
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities shall have such right.
Upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) of and
the accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities
of such series shall become immediately due and payable, provided, however,
that the payment of principal and interest (including any Additional Interest)
on such Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in Article
XIII.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with
respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or
decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the
Company and the Trustee,
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may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue installments of interest (including
any Additional Interest) on all Securities of that series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than
by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at
the rate borne by the Securities, and
(C) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel.
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
series, other than the nonpayment of the principal of Securities of
that series which has become due solely by such acceleration, have
been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
The Holders of a majority in aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Securities of a series affected thereby may, on behalf of the
Holders of all the Securities of such series, waive any past default, except a
default in the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (unless
such default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has
been deposited with the Trustee) or a default in respect of a covenant or
provision which under this Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the
consent of the Holder of each outstanding Security of such series and, in the
case of Securities of a series issued to a North Fork Capital Trust, should the
holders of such Securities fail to annul such declaration and waive such
default, the holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
related series of Capital Securities shall have such right. The Company is
required to file annually with the Trustee a certificate as to whether or not
the Company is in compliance with all
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the conditions and covenants applicable to it under this Indenture.
No such recession shall affect any subsequent default or
impair any right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of written notice declaring such
an acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, with respect to
Securities of a series all or part of which is represented by a Global
Security, a record date shall be established for determining Holders of
Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in such notice, which
record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Trustee receives
such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies,
and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not
such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, however, that,
unless such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the
case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage
having joined in such notice prior to the day which is 90 days after such
record date, such notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and
annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and without further action
by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph
shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving, after expiration
of such 90-day period, a new written notice of declaration of acceleration, or
rescission and annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a
written notice which has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding
sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 5.02.
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee. The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any instalment of
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security when such
interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a
period of 30 days, or
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(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and
payable on such Securities for principal, including any sinking fund payment or
analogous obligations (and premium, if any) and interest (including any
Additional Interest); and, in addition thereto, all amounts owing to the
Trustee under Section 6.07 and Section 10.06.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities
and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securi ties of any
series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of
such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of
the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors,
(a) the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the
Securities of any series shall then be due and payable as therein
expressed or by decla-
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ration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have
made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal
(and premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest))
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any
Additional Interest) owing and unpaid in respect to the
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable and to take any and all actions as
are authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have
the claims of the Holders and any predecessor to the Trustee
under Section 6.07 and of the Holders allowed in any such
judicial proceedings; and
(ii) in particular, the Trustee shall be authorized
to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same in
accordance with Section 5.06; and
(b) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator,
sequestrator (or other similar official) in any such judicial
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments
to the Trustee for distribution in accordance with Section 5.06, and
in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due
to it and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting
the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee
to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any proceeding; provided,
however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election
of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors'
or other similar committee.
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SECTION 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession
of Securities. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment
shall, after provision for the payment of all the amounts owing the Trustee and
any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 5.06. Application of Money Collected. Any money or
property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with respect to a series of
Securities pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at
the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such
money or property on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest
(including any Additional Interest), upon presentation of the Securities and
the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:
First: to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07;
Second: to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid
upon such series of Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and
interest (including any Additional Interest), in respect of which or
for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
due and payable on such series of Securities for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest),
respectively; and
Third: the balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled
thereto.
SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any
Securities of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding,
judicial or otherwise, with
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respect to this Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver, assignee,
trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such
Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any
other Holders of Securities, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or
preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable
benefit of all such Holders.
SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive
Principal, Premium and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision in this
Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right which is absolute
and unconditional to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any)
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tion 3.08) interest (including any Additional Interest) on such Security on the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security and to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired
without the consent of such Holder. In the case of Securities of a series
issued to a North Fork Capital Trust, any holder of the corresponding series of
Capital Securities shall have the right, upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default described in Section 5.01(1) or 5.01(2) hereof, to institute a suit
directly against the Company for enforcement of payment to such Holder of
principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.08) interest
(including any Additional Interest) on the Securities having a principal amount
equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities of the
corresponding series held by such Holder.
Notwithstanding any payments made to a holder of Capital
Securities by the Company in connection with a suit directly against the
Company, the Company shall remain obligated to pay the principal of or interest
on the Securities, and the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the
holder of such Capital Securities with respect to payments on the Capital
Securities to the extent of any payments made by the Company to such holder in
any suit directly against the Company.
The holders of the Capital Securities will not be able to
exercise directly any remedies, other than those set forth in this Section
5.08, available to the holders of the Securities unless there shall have been
an Event of Default under the Trust Agreement.
SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the
Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or
remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or
abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to
such Holder, then and in every case the Company, the Trustee and the Holders
shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally
and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights
and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such
proceeding had been instituted.
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SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as
otherwise provided in the last paragraph of Section 3.07, no right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended
to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every right
and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or
otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or
otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any
other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. Except as
otherwise provided in the last paragraph of Section 3.07, no delay or omission
of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy
accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the
Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as
may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders as the case may be.
SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders. The Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on
the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture;
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow such direction if the
Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer or Officers of
the Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would be
unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not
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joining in any such direction or would involve the Trustee in personal
liability.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any written notice directing
the time, method or place of conducting any such proceeding or exercising any
such trust or power, with respect to Securities of a series all or part of
which is represented by a Global Security, a record date shall be established
for determining Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to
join in such notice, which record date shall be at the close of business on the
day the Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their
duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in
such notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date;
provided, however, that, unless the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have joined in such notice
prior to the day which is 90 days after such record date, such notice shall
automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no
further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy
of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new notice
identical to a notice which has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the
preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.12.
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of not
less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any
series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive
any past default hereunder and its consequences with respect to such series
except a default:
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security of such
series; or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder or each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and
any Event of Default arising therefrom
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shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no
such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof
shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require,
in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or
in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as
Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay
the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party
litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the
claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this
Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit
instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more
than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or to
any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities
expressed in such Security.
SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. The
Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not
at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take
the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such
law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of
any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
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ARTICLE VI
The Trustee
SECTION 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a)
Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only
such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements
of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or
opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to
be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to
examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the
requirements of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in
it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their
exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in
the conduct of his own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to
relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct except that:
(i) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect
of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved
that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
and
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(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance
with the direction of Holders pursuant to Section 5.12 relating to the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities
of such series.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee
to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if there shall be grounds for believing that repayment of
such funds or indemnity satisfactory to its against such risk or liability is
not assured to it.
(e) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability
of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section.
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults. Within 90 days after
actual knowledge by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of the occurrence of
any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities of such series, as
their names and addresses appear in the Securities Register, notice of such
default hereunder known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, unless such
default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the
case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security of such series,
the Trustee shall be fully protected in withholding such notice if and so long
as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of
directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines
that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of
Securities of such series; and provided, further, however, that, in the case of
any default of the character specified in Section 5.01(3), no such notice to
Holders of Securities of such series shall be given until
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at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this
Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse
of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of
such series.
SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the
provisions of Section 6.01:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully
protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, Security or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order
and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently
evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifical ly prescribed)
shall be entitled to receive and may, in the absence of bad faith on
its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered
or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request
or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless
such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity
satisfactory to it against the costs,
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expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance
with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, indenture, Security or other paper or document,
but the Trustee in its discretion may make such inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if
the Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it
shall be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the
Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(h) the Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any
action that is discretionary under the provisions of this Indenture;
(i) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
Event of Default unless either (1) a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee shall have actual knowledge or (2) the Trustee shall have
received notice thereof in accordance with Section 1.05(1) hereof from
the Company or a Holder; and
(j) no permissive power or authority available to the Trustee
shall be construed as a duty.
SECTION 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities. The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities or any offering or disclosure materials prepared
in connection therewith. The Trustee
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shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the
Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Paying
Agent, Securities Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
and, subject to Sections 6.08 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company
with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent,
Securities Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 6.06. Money Held in Trust. Money held by the
Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to
the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for
interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with
the Company.
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company,
as borrower on the Securities, agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in such amounts
as the Company and the Trustee shall agree from time to time (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation a trustee of an express trust);
(2) to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by
the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture
(including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or
bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee, its officers, agents, directors
and employees for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense (including the reasonable compensation and the
expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel) incurred without
negligence or bad faith, arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of this trust or the performance
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of its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending
itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise
or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
The obligations of the Company under this Section 6.07 shall
survive the termination of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal
of the Trustee.
To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section,
the Company and the Holders agree that the Trustee shall have a lien prior to
the Securities on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee. Such
lien shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an
Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(4) or (5) occurs, the expenses and
the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under the Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, or any successor
statute.
SECTION 6.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests. The
Trustee for the Securities of any series issued hereunder shall be subject to
the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. Nothing herein
shall prevent the Trustee from filing with the Commission the application
referred to in the second-to-last paragraph of Section 301(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required, Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be:
(a) a corporation organized and doing business under the laws
of the United States of America or of any state, territory or the
District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate
trust powers and subject to supervision or examination by Federal,
state, territorial or District of Columbia authority, or
(b) a corporation or other Person organized and doing business
under the laws of a foreign government that is permitted to act as
Trustee pursuant to
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a rule, regulation or order of the Commission, authorized under such
laws to exercise corporate trust powers, and subject to supervision or
examination by authority of such foreign government or a political
subdivision thereof substantially equivalent to the supervision or
examination applicable to United States institutional trustees,
in either case having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000,
subject to supervision of examination by Federal or state authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law
or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examination authority,
then, for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of
such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set
forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the
Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article. Neither the Company nor any Person
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with
the Company shall serve as Trustee for the Securities of any series issued
hereunder.
SECTION 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor. (a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of
a Successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the Successor Trustee under Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a Successor Trustee shall not have
been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a Successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to
the Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the
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Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.08 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been
a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.09
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any such Holder, or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of
its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take
charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in any
such case, (i) the Company, acting pursuant to the authority of a
Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee, or (ii) subject to Section
5.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly
situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal
of the Trustee and the appointment of a Successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for
any cause with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by
a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a Successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of that or those series. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
Successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be
appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the retiring
Trustee, the Successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment, become the Successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of such series and supersede the Successor Trustee
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appointed by the Company. If no Successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the
Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may,
subject to Section 5.14, on behalf of himself and all others similarly
situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
Successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and
each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and
each appointment of a Successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to the Holders of Securities of such series as their names an
addresses appear in the Securities Register. Each notice shall include the
name of the Successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and
the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. (a)
In case of the appointment hereunder of a Successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, every such Successor Trustee so appointed shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such Successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request
of the Company or the Successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon
payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such
Successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and
shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such Successor Trustee all property
and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of the Successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and each Successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more series shall execute and
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deliver an instrument or an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each
Successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall contain
such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to,
and to vest in, each Successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those
series to which the appointment of such Successor Trustee relates, (2) if the
retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain
such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all
the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to
the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not
retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add
to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to
provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such instrument
or supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustee co-trustees of the same
trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts
hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by
any other such Trustee and upon the execution and delivery of such instrument
or supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee
shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such Successor
Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, trusts, and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect
to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
Successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any Successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such
Successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such Successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such Successor Trustee, the Company
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such Successor Trustee all rights, powers and trusts referred
to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
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(d) No Successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless
at the time of such acceptance such Successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article. In the event that the Trust Indenture Act applies
to this Indenture at the time that any Successor Trustee is appointed, such
Successor Trustee shall qualify under such Act.
SECTION 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged
or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the
corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee
hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible
under this Article (including qualification under the Trustee Indenture Act, if
applicable), without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on
the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated, and in case
any Securities shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee
may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor Trustee
or in the name of such Successor Trustee, and in all cases the certificate of
authentication shall have the full force which it is provided anywhere in the
Securities or in this Indenture that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Company. If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims
against the Company (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. The
Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent or agents (each, an "Authenticating
Agent") with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be autho-
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rized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series
issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or
partial redemption thereof, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all
purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Where reference is made
in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be
deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America, or of any state, Territory or
the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time
an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be
merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such
Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or
substantially all of the corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent
shall be the successor Authenticating Agent hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee
or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving
written notice thereof to the Trustee and to
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the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an
Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating
Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon
such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall
cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the
Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable
to the Company and shall give notice of such appointment in the manner provided
in Section 1.06 to all Holders of Securities of the series with respect to
which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any successor Authenticating Agent
upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the
rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent
shall be appointed unless eligible under the provision of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from
time to time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made
pursuant to this Section, the Securities of each series may have endorsed
thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an
alterative certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within
mentioned Indenture.
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Agent Trustee
by
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As Authenticating Agent
by
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Authorized Signatory
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SECTION 6.15. Trustee's Rights and Obligations After
Qualification of Indenture. Following the qualification of this Indenture
under the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall have and be subject to all the
duties and responsibilities specified with respect to an indenture trustee
under the Trust Indenture Act. Subject to such provisions, the Trustee is
under no obligation to exercise any of the powers vested in it by this
Indenture at the request of any holder of the Securities, unless offered
indemnity to its satisfaction by such holder against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred thereby. The Trustee will not be required
to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability
in the performance of its duties if the Trustee reasonably believes that
repayment or adequate indemnity is not reasonably assured to it.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 6.15 shall be deemed to
abrogate any of the rights, indemnities or protections otherwise provided to
the Trustee under this Indenture.
ARTICLE VII
Holder's Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION 7.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses
of Holders. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semiannually, not more than 15 days after May 15 and
November 15, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such May 1
and November 1, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days
prior to the time such list is furnished, excluding from any such list
names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Securities Registrar.
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information, Communications to
Holders. (a) The Trustee shall pre-
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serve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and
addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee
as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Holders received by
the Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar. The Trustee may destroy
any list furnished to it as provided in Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list
so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and
the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in
the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the
same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of
the disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the Holders made
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee. (a) The Trustee shall
transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under
this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act, at the
times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) Reports so required to be transmitted at stated
intervals of not more than 12 months shall be transmitted no later than the
last calendar day in February of each calendar year, commencing with the last
calendar day in February, 1998.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each securities exchange
upon which the Securities are listed and also with the Commission. The Company
will notify the Trustee whenever the Securities are listed on any securities
exchange.
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Company. The Company shall file
with the Trustee and with the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such
information, documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be
required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times
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and in the manner provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such
information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is
required to be filed with the Commission. Notwithstanding that the Company may
not be required to remain subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13
or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Company shall
continue to file with the Commission and provide the Trustee with the annual
reports and the information, documents and other reports which are specified in
Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The
Company also shall comply with the other provisions of Trust Indenture Act
Section 314(a).
ARTICLE VIII
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain
Terms. The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into any other
Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to any Person, and no Person shall consolidate with or merge with
or into the Company or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to the Company, unless:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge with
or into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
asses substantially as an entirety to any Person, the corporation
formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or
the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases,
the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety
shall be a corporation, partnership or trust organized and existing
under the laws of the United States of America or any State or the
District of Columbia, and shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including
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any Additional Interest) on all the Securities and the performance of
every covenant and every obligation of this Indenture on the part of
the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time,
or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be
continuing;
(3) in the case of the Securities of a series issued to a
North Fork Capital Trust, such consolidation, merger, conveyance,
transfer or lease is permitted under the related Trust Agreement and
North Fork Bancorporation Guarantee and does not give rise to any
breach or violation of the related Trust Agreement or North Fork
Bancorporation Guarantee; and
(4) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such
supplemental indenture complies with this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction
have been complied with; and the Trustee, subject to Section 6.01, may
rely upon such Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as
conclusive evidence that such transaction complies with this Section
8.01.
SECTION 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any
consolidation or merger by the Company with or into any other Person, or any
conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section 8.01, the
successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is
merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to,
and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company
under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been
named as the Company herein; and in the event of any such conveyance, transfer
or lease the Company shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants
under the
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Indenture and the Securities and may be dissolved and liquidated.
Such successor Person may cause to be signed, and may issue
either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the
Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by
the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor
Person instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and
limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and
shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and
delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication
pursuant to such provisions and any Securities which such successor Person
thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee on its behalf
for the purpose pursuant to such provisions. All the Securities so issued
shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture
as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms
of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date
of the execution hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or
lease, such changes in phraseology and form may be made in the Securities
thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of
Holders. Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory, to the
Trustee, for any of the following:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Securities contained;
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(2) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any
property to or with the Trustee or to surrender any right or power
herein conferred upon the Company;
(3) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
as permitted by Sections 2.01 or 3.01;
(4) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants
are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities,
stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for
the benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein
conferred upon the Company;
(5) to add any additional Events of Default;
(6) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture; provided that any such change or elimination shall become
effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series
created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is
entitled to the benefit of such provision;
(7) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be inconsis tent with any other provision
herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Indenture; provided that such action
pursuant to this clause (7) shall not materially adversely affect the
interest of the Holders of Securities of any series or, in the case of
the Securities of a series issued to a North Fork Capital Trust and
for so long as any of the corresponding series of Capital Securities
shall remain outstanding, the holders of such Capital Securities;
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a Successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one
or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereun-
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der by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section
6.11(b); or
(9) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order
to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the
Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Holders. With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee
may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose
of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the
Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however,
that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) except to the extent permitted by Section 3.12 or as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to
the extension of the interest payment period of the Securities of any
series, change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of interest (including any Additional Interest) on, any
Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of
interest thereon or reduce any premium payable upon the redemption
thereof, or reduce the amount of principal of a Discount Security that
would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02, or change the place of
payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or
interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for
the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity
thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after the date fixed for
redemption thereof);
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, the
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consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental
indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver
(of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this
Indenture;
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13
or Section 10.05, except to increase any such percentage or to provide
that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected
thereby; or
(4) modify the provisions in Article XIII of this Indenture
with respect to the subordination of Outstanding Securities of any
series in a manner adverse to the Holders thereof;
provided that, in the case of the Securities of a series issued to a North Fork
Capital Trust, so long as any of the corresponding series of Capital Securities
remains outstanding, no such amendment shall be made that adversely affects the
holders of such Capital Securities, and no termination of this Indenture shall
occur, and no waiver of any Event of Default or compliance with any covenant
under this Indenture shall be effective, without the prior consent of the
holders of at least a majority of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of such
Capital Securities then outstanding unless and until the principal (and
premium, if any) of the Securities of such series and all accrued and, subject
to Section 3.08, unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) thereon
have been paid in full; and provided further, however, that in the case of the
Securities of a series issued to a North Fork Capital Trust, so long as any of
the corresponding series of Capital Securities remain outstanding, no amendment
shall be made to Section 5.08 of this Indenture without the prior consent of
the holders of each Capital Security then outstanding unless and until the
principal (and premium, if any) of the Securities of such series and all
accrued and (subject to Section 3.08) unpaid interest (including any Additional
interest) thereon have been paid in full.
A supplemental indenture that changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture
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that has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more
particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of
Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision,
shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture of the Holders of
Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In
executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts
created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in conclusively relying
upon, an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the
execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture, and that all conditions precedent have been complied with. The
Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental
indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under
this Indenture or otherwise, or which may subject it to liability or be
contrary to applicable law.
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture
shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture
shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of
Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. No
supplemental indenture will be qualified or executed pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act unless this Indenture is so qualified, or in connection with
Capital Securities which are registered under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, upon the effectiveness of a registration statement and the
consummation of an
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exchange offer pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement as contemplated in
Article XII hereof. Every supplemental indenture so qualified or executed
shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures. Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Company, bear a notation in form approved by the Company as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so
determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in
exchange for Outstanding Securities of such Series.
ARTICLE X
Covenants
SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of securities
that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of such
Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company
will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series, an office or agency
where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment and
an office or agency where Securities may be surrendered for transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company initially appoints
the Trustee, acting through its Corporate Trust Office, as its agent for said
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
change in the location of any such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the
Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders,
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notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive
all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more
other offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered
for any or all of such purposes, and may from time to time rescind such
designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall
in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or
agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes.
The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such
designation and any change in the location of any such office or agency.
SECTION 10.03. Money for Security Payments to be Held in
Trust. If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of such
series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest
so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its
failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it
will, prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on each due date of the principal
of or interest on any Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient
to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such
sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
principal and premium (if any) or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is
the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so to
act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the
Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such
Paying Agent shall agree with
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the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent
will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid
to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee written notice of any default by the
Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of
any payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest;
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent; and
(4) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
applicable to it as a Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held
in trust by the Company or such Paying agent, such sums to be held by the
Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the
Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by the Company or any
Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or
then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two
years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and
payable shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable
escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be paid on Company Request to
the Company, or (if then held by the Company) shall (unless otherwise required
by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property
law) be discharged from such trust; and the
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Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor,
look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee
or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the
Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment,
may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper
published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day
and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York,
notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified
therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such
publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid
to the Company.
SECTION 10.04. Statement as to Compliance. The Company shall
deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of such calendar year of
the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers' Certificate executed by
authorized officers at least one of whom shall be the principal executive,
financial or accounting officer of the Company covering the preceding calendar
year, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the
Company is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of or
compliance with any of the terms, provisions, covenants and conditions of this
Indenture, and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults
and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge. For the
purpose of this Section 10.04, compliance shall be determined without regard
to any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of
this Indenture.
SECTION 10.05. Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may
omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or condition as
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to the Securities of any
series, if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or
generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver
shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver
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shall become effective, the obligations of the Company in respect of any such
covenant or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 10.06. Payment of the Trust's Costs and Expenses.
Since the North Fork Capital Trusts are being formed solely to facilitate the
investment in the Securities, the Company, as borrower on the Securities,
hereby covenants to pay all debts and obligations (other than with respect to
the payment of principal, interest and premium, if any, on the Trust
Securities) and all costs and expenses of such Trusts (including, but not
limited to, all costs and expenses relating to the organization of such Trusts,
the fees and expenses of the Trustees and all costs and expenses relating to
the operation of such Trusts) and to pay any and all taxes, duties, assessments
or other governmental charges of whatever nature (other than United States
withholding taxes) imposed on such Trusts by the United States, or any other
taxing authority (such payments of amounts in connection with taxes being
herein referred to as "Additional Sums"), so that the net amounts received and
retained by such Trusts and their respective Property Trustees after paying
such expenses or Additional Sums will be equal to the amounts such Trusts and
Property Trustees would have received had no such costs, expenses or taxes,
duties, assessments or other governmental charges been incurred by or imposed
on such Trusts. The foregoing obligations of the Company are for the benefit
of, and shall be enforceable by, any person to whom such debts, obligations,
costs, expenses and taxes are owed (a "Creditor") whether or not such Creditor
has received notice thereof. Any such Creditor may enforce such obligations
of the Company hereunder directly against the Company, and the Company hereby
irrevocably waives any right or remedy to require that any such Creditor take
any action against any Trust or any other person before proceeding against the
Company. The Company also agrees hereby to execute such additional agreements
as may be necessary or desirable to give full effect to the foregoing.
SECTION 10.07. Additional Covenants. The Company covenants
and agrees with each Holder of Securities of a series issued to a North Fork
Capital Trust that it will not (i) declare or pay any dividends or
distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a
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liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the Company's capital stock
(which includes common and preferred stock), or (ii) make any payment of
principal, interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any
debt securities of the Company (including Other Debentures) that rank pari
passu with or junior in interest to the Securities of such series or (iii) make
any guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company of debt
securities of any subsidiary of the Company (including Other Guarantees) if
such guarantee ranks pari passu with or junior in interest to the Securities
(other than (a) dividends or distributions in Common Stock of the Company, (b)
any declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation of a
stockholders' rights plan, or the issuance of stock under any such plan in the
future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto,
(c) payments under the North Fork Bancorporation Guarantee, (d) purchases or
acquisitions of shares of the Company's Common Stock in connection with the
satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employee benefit plan
or other contractual obligation of the Company (other than a contractual
obligation ranking pari passu with or junior in interest to these Securities),
(e) as a result of a reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the
exchange or conversion of one class or series of the Company's capital stock
for another class or series of the Company's capital stock, or (f) the purchase
of fractional interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to
the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security
being converted or exchanged), if at such time (i) there shall have occurred
an Event of Default, (ii) the Company shall be in default with respect to its
payment of any obligations under the related North Fork Bancorporation
Guarantee or (iii) the Company shall have given notice of its election to begin
an Extension Period as provided herein and shall not have rescinded such
notice, or such Extension Period, or any extension thereof, shall be
continuing.
The Company also covenants with each Holder of Securities of a
series issued to a North Fork Capital Trust (i) to maintain directly 100%
ownership of the Common Securities of such North Fork Capital Trust; provided,
however, that any permitted successor of the Company hereunder may succeed to
the Company's ownership
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of such Common Securities, (ii) not to voluntarily terminate, windup or
liquidate such North Fork Capital Trust, except (a) in connection with a
distribution of the Securities of such series to the holders of Capital
Securities in liquidation of such North Fork Capital Trust or (b) in connection
with certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations permitted by the related
Trust Agreement and (iii) to use its reasonable efforts, consistent with the
terms and provisions of such Trust Agreement, to cause such North Fork Capital
Trust to remain classified as a grantor trust and not an association taxable as
a corporation for United States Federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 10.08. Information Returns. On or before December
15 of each year during which any Securities are outstanding, the Company shall
furnish to each Paying Agent such information as may be reasonably requested by
each Paying Agent in order that such Paying Agent may prepare the information
which it is required to report for such year on Internal Revenue Service Forms
1096 and 1099. Such information shall include the amount of original issue
discount, if any, includible in income for each $1,000 of principal amount at
Stated Maturity of outstanding Securities during such year.
ARTICLE XI
Redemption or Prepayment of Securities
SECTION 11.01. Applicability of This Article. Redemption of
Securities (whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise) as permitted
or required by any form of Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be
made in accordance with such form of Security and this Article; provided,
however, that if any provision of any such form of Security shall conflict with
any provision of this Article, the provision of such form of Security shall
govern. Except as otherwise set forth in the form of Security for such series,
each Security shall be subject to partial redemption only in the amount of
$1,000 or, in the case of the Securities of a series issued to a North Fork
Capital Trust, $1,000, or integral multiples thereof.
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SECTION 11.02. Election To Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The
election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of
the Company of any Securities of any particular series and having the same
terms, the Company shall, not less than 45 nor more than 60 days prior to the
date fixed for redemption (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), notify the Trustee and the Property Trustee of such date and of the
principal amount of Securities of that series to be redeemed. In the case of
any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption provided in the terms of such Securities, the Company shall furnish
the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel evidencing
compliance with such restriction. Any such notice given to the Trustee
hereunder shall include the information required by Section 11.04 hereof.
SECTION 11.03. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. If
less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the
Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless
such redemption affects only a single Security all as designated to the Trustee
by the Company), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not
more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the
Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by
such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may
provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount
of any Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less
than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all
the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed
(unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series
and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in accordance with the
preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of
the Securities selected for partial redemption and the principal amount thereof
to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context
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otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities
shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in
part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or
is to be redeemed. If the Company shall so direct, Securities registered in
the name of the Company, any Affiliate or any Subsidiary thereof shall not be
included in the Securities selected for redemption.
SECTION 11.04. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption
shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not later than the
thirtieth day, and not earlier than the sixtieth day, prior to the date fixed
for redemption, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at the address of
such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register.
With respect to Securities of each series to be redeemed, each
notice of redemption shall state:
(a) the date fixed for redemption for Securities of such
series;
(b) the redemption price at which Securities of such series
are to be redeemed;
(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities of such particular
series and having the same terms are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective
principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(d) that on the date fixed for redemption, the redemption
price at which such Securities are to be redeemed will become due and
payable upon each such Security or portion thereof, and that interest
thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after said date;
(e) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the redemption price at which such
Securities are to be redeemed;
(f) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case; and
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(g) such other provisions as may be required in respect of the
terms of a particular series of Securities.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the
election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's
request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall
not be irrevocable. The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall
be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder
receives such notice. In any case, a failure to give such notice by mail or
any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security designated for
redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings for the redemption of any other Security.
SECTION 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. Prior to 10:00
a.m. New York City time on the redemption date specified in the notice of
redemption given as provided in Section 11.04, the Company will deposit with
the Trustee or with one or more paying agents an amount of money sufficient to
redeem on the redemption date all the Securities so called for redemption at
the applicable redemption price.
SECTION 11.06. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption.
If any notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 11.04, the
Securities or portion of Securities with respect to which such notice has been
given shall become due and payable on the date and at the place or places
stated in such notice at the applicable redemption price. On presentation and
surrender of such Securities at a place of payment in said notice specified,
the said securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and
redeemed by the Company at the applicable redemption price.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of
that same series, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount
equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented and having the
same Original Issue Date, Stated Maturity and terms. If the
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Global Security is so surrendered, such new Security will (subject to Section
3.06) also be a new Global Security.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid
upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal of and premium, if any, on
such Security shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the
rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
SECTION 11.07. Company's Right of Redemption. Unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to the
Securities of a particular series and notwithstanding any additional redemption
rights that may be so specified, the Company may, at its option, redeem the
Securities of any series after their date of issuance in whole at any time or
in part from time to time, subject to the provisions of this clause (a) and the
other provisions of this Article XI. Unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to the Securities of a particular
series, the redemption price for any Security so redeemed pursuant to this
clause (a) shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Securities
plus any accrued and unpaid interest, including any Additional Interest, to the
date fixed for redemption. The Company shall not redeem the Securities in part
unless all accrued and unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) has
been paid in full on all Securities Outstanding for all interest periods
terminating on or prior to the date fixed for redemption.
ARTICLE XII
Exchange and Registration Rights
SECTION 12.01. Exchange. (a) If specified as contemplated
by Section 3.01 for Securities for any series, the Company and a North Fork
Capital Trust holding such Securities shall enter into a registration rights
agreement (a "Registration Rights Agreement") for the benefit of the holders of
any Capital Securities of such North Fork Capital Trust which are not
registered under the Securities Act providing that such North Fork Capital
Trust use its best efforts to exchange such Capital Securities for registered
securities, by means of an exchange offer registration statement (an "Exchange
Offer Registration Statement"), issued by the Company and
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such North Fork Capital Trust with terms identical in all material respects to
the terms of the Capital Securities (the "Exchange Capital Securities").
(b) In the event that North Fork Capital Trust is successful
in providing Exchange Capital Securities to the holders of Capital Securities
as described in clause (a) of this Section 12.01, the Company shall
contemporaneously exchange the Securities held by such North Fork Capital Trust
for new securities issued by the Company (the "Exchange Securities") with terms
identical in all material respects to the terms of the Securities to such
Capital Securities, and shall further contemporaneously exchange the North Fork
Bancorporation Guarantee then held by the Guarantee Trustee under the Guarantee
Agreement for a new guarantee of the Company (the "Exchange Guarantee") with
terms identical in all material respects to the terms of the North Fork
Bancorporation Guarantee.
SECTION 12.02. Registration. If specified as contemplated
by Section 3.01 for Securities of any series, the Administrative Trustee of any
North Fork Capital Trust on behalf of the Company and such North Fork Capital
Trust shall (a) file a registration statement under the Securities Act covering
resales of the Capital Securities (the "Registration Statement"), (b) use their
best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to be declared effective
under the Securities Act, and (c) use their best efforts to cause such
Registration Statement to remain effective for as long as specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of such series. The Administrative
Trustees shall (x) promptly deliver to the holders and to the Delaware Trustee
and the Property Trustee written notice of their intent to file such
Registration Statement. All costs incurred in connection with the filing and
maintenance of such Registration Statement shall be borne by the Company.
SECTION 12.03. Liquidated Damages. If specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of any series, the Company may
enter into an agreement providing that, in the event that (i) an Exchange Offer
Registration Statement or a Registration Statement is not filed, (ii) such
Exchange Offer Registration Statement or Registration Statement does not become
effective, or (iii) such Exchange Offer Registration Statement or Registration
Statement does not remain effective within
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the time period or for as long as contemplated by the applicable registration
rights agreement, the Company shall pay to the relevant North Fork Capital
Trust, and such North Fork Capital Trust shall pay to the holders of the
Capital Securities, an amount of liquidated damages, which may be either fixed
or based on the duration and/or principal amount of the Securities or the
Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities affected thereby.
SECTION 12.04. Compliance with Law. Any registration rights
agreement entered into hereunder may provide that any Holder of Capital
Securities who is considered to be an affiliate of the Company or the North
Fork Capital Trust or any underwriter in connection with the issuance and sale
of Capital Securities be barred from participation in the Exchange Offer
Registration statement or other Registration Statement, in accordance with
applicable law or regulation.
ARTICLE XIII
Sinking Funds
SECTION 13.01. Applicability of Article. The provisions of
this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 3.01 for such Securities.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by
the terms of any Securities of any series is herein referred to as a
"mandatory sinking fund payment", and any sinking fund payment in excess of
such minimum amount which is permitted to be made by the terms of such
Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund
payment". If provided for by the terms of any Securities of any series, the
case amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided
in Section 13.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption
(or purchase by tender or otherwise) of Securities of any series as provided
for by the terms of such Securities.
SECTION 13.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities. In lieu of making all or any part of a mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to
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any Securities of a series in cash, the Company may at its option, at any time
no more than 16 months and no less than 45 days prior to the date on which such
sinking fund payment is due, deliver to the Trustee Securities of such series
(together with the unmatured Coupons, if any, appertaining thereto) theretofore
purchased or otherwise acquired by the Company, except Securities of such
series that have been redeemed through the application of mandatory or optional
sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of the Securities of such series,
accompanied by a Company Order instructing the Trustee to credit such
obligations and stating that the Securities of such series were originally
issued by the Company by way of bona fide sale or other negotiation for value;
provided that the Securities to be so credited have not been previously so
credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received and credited for
such purpose by the Trustee at the redemption price for such Securities, as
specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation
of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be
reduced accordingly.
SECTION 13.03. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.
Not less than 45 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of
securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such
Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency in which the
Securities of such series are payable (except as provided pursuant to Section
3.01) and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering
and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 13.02 and will also deliver to the
Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Such Certificate shall be
irrevocable and upon its delivery the Company shall be obligated to make the
cash payment or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the
succeeding sinking fund payment date. In the case of the failure of the Company
to deliver such Certificate (or, as required by this Indenture, the Securities
and coupons, if any, specified in such Certificate) by the due date therefor,
the sinking fund payment due on the succeeding sinking fund payment date for
such series shall be paid entirely in cash and shall be sufficient to redeem
the principal amount of the Securities of
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such series subject to a mandatory sinking fund payment without the right to
deliver or credit securities as provided in Section 13.02 and without the right
to make the optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series at such
time.
Any sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional)
made in cash plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments
made with respect to the Securities of any particular series shall be applied
by the Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent) on the sinking fund payment date on which such payment is made (or, if
such payment is made before a sinking fund payment date, on the sinking fund
payment date immediately following the date of such payment) to the redemption
of Securities of such series at the redemption price specified in such
Securities with respect to the sinking fund. Any sinking fund moneys not so
applied or allocated by the Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting
as its own Paying Agent, segregated and held in trust as provided in Section
10.03) for such series and together with such payment (or such amount so
segregated) shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section
13.03. Any and all sinking fund moneys with respect to the Securities of any
particular series held by the Trustee (or if the Company is acting as its own
Paying Agent, segregated and held in trust as provided in Section 10.03) on the
last sinking fund payment date with respect to Securities of such series and
not held for the payment or redemption of particular Securities of such series
shall be applied by the Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as
its own Paying Agent), together with other moneys, if necessary, to be
deposited (or segregated) sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the
principal of the Securities of such series at Maturity. The Trustee shall
select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the
manner specified in Section 11.03 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to
be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner
provided in Section 11.04. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption
of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in
Section 11.06. On or before each sinking fund payment date, the Company shall
pay to the Trustee (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, the
Company shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Sec-
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tion 10.03) in cash a sum in the currency in which Securities of such series
are payable (except as provided pursuant to Section 3.01) equal to the
principal, premium, if any, and any interest accrued to the redemption date for
Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed on such sinking fund payment date
pursuant to this Section 13.03.
Neither the Trustee nor the Company shall redeem any
Securities of a series with sinking fund moneys or mail any notice of
redemption of Securities of such series by operation of the sinking fund for
such series during the continuance of a default in payment of interest, if any,
on any Securities of such series or of any Event of Default (other than an
Event of Default occurring as a consequence of this paragraph) with respect to
the Securities of such series, except that if the notice of redemption shall
have been provided in accordance with the provisions hereof, the Trustee (or
the Company if the Company is then acting as its own Paying Agent) shall redeem
such Securities if cash sufficient for that purpose shall be deposited with the
Trustee (or segregated by the Company) for that purpose in accordance with the
terms of this Article XII. Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund
for such series at the time when any such default or Event of Default shall
occur and any moneys thereafter paid into such sinking fund shall, during the
continuance of such default or Event of Default, be held as security for the
payment of the Securities and coupons, if any, of such series; provided,
however, that in case such default or Event of Default shall have been cured or
waived herein, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next sinking
fund payment date for the Securities of such series on which such moneys may be
applied pursuant to the provisions of this Section 13.03.
ARTICLE XIV
Subordination of Securities
SECTION 14.01. Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt. The
Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by its acceptance
thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth in this Article, the payment
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of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including any
Additional Interest) on each and all of the Securities are hereby expressly
made subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of
all amounts then due and payable in respect of all Senior Debt.
SECTION 14.02. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution,
etc. In the event of (a) any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company, its creditors or its property, (b)
any proceeding for the liquidation, dissolution, or other winding up of the
Company, voluntary or involuntary, whether or not involving insolvency or
bankruptcy proceedings, (c) any assignment by the Company for the benefit of
creditors or (d) any other marshaling of the assets of the Company (each such
event, if any, herein sometimes referred to as a "Proceeding"), then the
holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to receive payment in full of
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on such Senior Debt,
or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or
otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt, before the
Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive or retain any payment or
distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities
(including any payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by
reason of the payment of any other Debt of the Company (including any series of
the Securities) subordinated to the payment of the Securities, such payment or
distribution being hereinafter referred to as a "Junior Subordinated Payment"),
on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other
acquisition of Securities by the Company or any Subsidiary and to that end the
holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to receive, for application to the
payment thereof, any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether
in cash, property or securities, including any Junior Subordinated Payment,
which may be payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities in any such
Proceeding; provided, however, that holders of Senior Debt shall not be
entitled to receive payment of any such amounts to the extent that such holders
would be required by the subordination provisions of such Senior Debt to pay
such amounts over
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to the obligees on trade accounts payable or other liabilities arising in the
ordinary course of business.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of
this Section, the Trustee or the Holder of any Security shall have received any
payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character,
whether in cash, property or securities, including any Junior Subordinated
Payment, before all Senior Debt is paid in full or payment thereof is provided
for in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the
holders of Senior Debt, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such
payment or distribution, have been made known to a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such
payment or distribution shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the
trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee,
agent or other Person making payment or distribution of assets of the Company
for application to the payment of all Senior Debt remaining unpaid, to the
extent necessary to pay all Senior Debt in full, after giving effect to any
concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior Debt.
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For purposes of this Article only, the words "any payment or
distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities"
shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as reorganized or
readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation provided for
by a plan or reorganization or readjustment which securities are subordinated
in right of payment to all then outstanding Senior Debt to substantially the
same extent as the Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article.
The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company into,
another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the
sale of all or substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety to
another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the
sale of all or substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety to
another Person upon the terms and conditions set forth in Article VIII shall
not be deemed a Proceeding for the purposes of this Section if the Person
formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person
which acquires by sale such properties and assets as an entirety, as the case
may be, shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, or sale comply with the
conditions set forth in Article VIII.
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SECTION 14.03. Prior Payment to Senior Debt Upon
Acceleration of Securities. In the event that any Securities are declared due
and payable before their Stated Maturity, then and in such event the holders of
the Senior Debt outstanding at the time such Securities so become due and
payable shall first be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due
on or in respect of such Senior Debt (including any amounts due upon
acceleration), or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash
equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior
Debt, before the Holders of the Securities will be entitled to receive or
retain any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities (including any Junior Subordinated Payment) by the
Company on account of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest
(including any Additional Interest) on the Securities or on account of the
purchase or other acquisition of Securities by the Company or any Subsidiary;
provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the satisfaction
of any sinking fund payment in accordance with this Indenture or as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for the Securities of any series by
delivering and crediting pursuant to Section 13.02 or as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 for the Securities of any series Securities which
have been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such declaration of
acceleration; provided further, however, that holders of Senior Debt shall not
be entitled to receive payment of any such amounts to the extent that such
holders would be required by the subordination provisions of such Senior Debt
to pay such amounts over to the obligees on trade accounts payable or other
liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company
shall make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited
by the foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or
prior to the time of such payment, have been made known to a Responsible
Officer of Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event
such payment shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
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The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment
with respect to which Section 14.02 would be applicable.
SECTION 14.04. No Payment When Senior Debt in Default. (a)
In the event and during the continuation of any default by the Company in the
payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Senior
Debt, or in the event that any event of default with respect to any Senior Debt
shall have occurred and be continuing and shall have resulted in such Senior
Debt becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it
would otherwise have become due and payable, unless and until such event of
default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist and such
acceleration shall have been rescinded or annulled, or (b) in the event any
judicial proceeding shall be pending with respect to any such default in
payment or such event or default, then no direct or indirect payment or
distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities
(including any Junior Subordinated Payment) shall be made or agreed to be made
by the Company on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest
(including any Additional Interest), if any, on the Securities or on account of
any redemption, repayment, retirement, purchase or other acquisition of any
Securities by the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that nothing in
this Section shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in
accordance with this Indenture or as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 3.01 for the Securities of any series by delivering and crediting
pursuant to Section 13.02 or as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section
3.01 for the Securities of any series Securities which have been acquired (upon
redemption or otherwise) prior to such default in payment or event of default.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company
shall make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited
by the foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or
prior to the time of such payment, have been made known to a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such
event such payment shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
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The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment
with respect to which Section 14.02 would be applicable.
SECTION 14.05. Payment Permitted If No Default. Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the
Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time except during the
pendency of any Proceeding referred to in Section 14.02 or under the conditions
described in Sections 14.03 and 14.04, from making payments at any time of
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Interest)
on the Securities, or (b) the application by the Trustee of any money deposited
with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on the
Securities or the retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the time of
such payment by the Company or application by the Trustee, as the case may be,
it did not have knowledge that such payment or application, as the case may be,
would have been prohibited by the provisions of this Article.
SECTION 14.06. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior
Debt. Subject to the payment of all Senior Debt to the extent required under
Sections 14.02 and 14.03 of this Indenture, or the provision for such payment
in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the
holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to
the extent of the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior
Debt pursuant to the provisions of this Article (equally and ratably with the
holders of all indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms is
subordinated to Senior Debt of the Company to substantially the same extent as
the Securities are subordinated to the Senior Debt and is entitled to like
rights of subrogation by reason of any payments or distributions made to
holders of such Senior Debt) to the rights of the holders of such Senior Debt
to receive payments and distributions of cash, property and securities
applicable to the Senior Debt until the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of such
subrogation or assignment, no payments or distributions to the holders of the
Senior Debt of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the
Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for
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the provisions of this Article, and no payments over pursuant to the provisions
of this Article to the holders of Senior Debt by Holders of the Securities or
the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of
Senior Debt, and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or
distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior Debt.
SECTION 14.07. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the one hand
and the holders of Senior Debt on the other hand. Nothing contained in this
Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or
shall (a) impair, as between the Company and the Holders of the Securities, the
obligations of the Company, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay to the
Holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
(including any Additional Interest) on the Securities as and when the same
shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms; or (b) affect the
relative rights against the Company of the Holders of the Securities and
creditors of the Company other than their rights in relation to the holders of
Senior Debt; or (c) prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from
exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default
under this Indenture including, without limitation, filing and voting claims in
any Proceeding, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article of the
holders of Senior Debt to receive cash, property and securities otherwise
Payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
SECTION 14.08. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination. Each
Holder of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes and directs
the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article and appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all
such purposes.
SECTION 14.09. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions. No
right of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt to enforce
subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or
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impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act
or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance
by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture,
regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or be
otherwise charged with.
SECTION 14.10. Notice to Trustee. The Company shall give
prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact known to the Company which
would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article or any other
provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of
the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or
by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall
have received written notice thereof from the Company or a holder of Senior
Debt or from any trustee, agent or representative therefor (whether or not the
facts contained in such notice are true); provided, however, that if the
Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section at
least two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any
monies may become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on any Security), then, anything herein contained to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to
receive such monies and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were
received and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary which may be
received by it within two Business Days prior to such date.
SECTION 14.11. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent. Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company
referred to in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article
VI, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to conclusively rely
upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in
which such Proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit
of creditors, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution,
delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities,
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for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such
payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and other indebtedness
of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts
paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this
Article.
SECTION 14.12. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior
Debt. The Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture, shall not
be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt and shall not
be liable to any such holders if it shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or
distribute to Holders of Securities or to the Company or to any other Person
cash, property or securities to which any holders of Senior Debt shall be
entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
SECTION 14.13. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights. The Trustee in its individual capacity shall
be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article with respect to any
Senior Debt which may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any
other holder of Senior Debt, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the
Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
SECTION 14.14. Article Applicable to Paying Agents. In case
at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed
by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee" as used in this
Article shall in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed
as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for
all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article in
addition to or in place of the Trustee.
SECTION 14.15. Certain Conversions or Exchanges Deemed
Payment. For purposes of this Article only, (a) the issuance and delivery of
junior securities upon conversion or exchange of Securities shall not be deemed
to constitute a payment or distribution on account of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on Securities
or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities, and (b) the
payment, issuance or delivery of cash, property
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or securities (other than junior securities) upon conversion or exchange of a
Security shall be deemed to constitute payment on account of the principal of
such Security. For the purposes of this Section, the term "junior securities"
means (i) shares of any stock of any class of the Company and (ii) securities
of the Company which are subordinated in right of payment to all Senior Debt
which may be outstanding at the time of issuance or delivery of such securities
to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent than, the
Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts,
each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first written above.
NORTH FORK BANCORPORATION,
INC.,
by
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BANKERS TRUST COMPANY, as
Trustee,
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