Exhibit 4.1
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FLUOR CORPORATION
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Indenture
Dated as of February 17, 2004
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The Bank of New York,
Trustee
CROSS REFERENCE TABLE(1)
Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections
310 through 318, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended:
TIA Indenture
Section Section
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310(a)(1) ................................................................................................ 6.09
(a)(2) ................................................................................................ 6.09
(a)(3) ................................................................................................ N.A.(2)
(a)(4) ................................................................................................ N.A.
(b) .................................................................................................... 6.08
(c) .................................................................................................... 6.13
311(a) .................................................................................................... 6.13
(b) .................................................................................................... 6.13
(c) .................................................................................................... N.A.
312(a) .................................................................................................... 7.01, 7.02
(b) .................................................................................................... 7.02
(c) .................................................................................................... 7.02
313(a) .................................................................................................... 7.03
(b) .................................................................................................... 7.03
(c) .................................................................................................... 7.03, 1.07
(d) .................................................................................................... 7.03
314(a) .................................................................................................... 7.04
(b) .................................................................................................... N.A.
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1 This Cross Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
part of the Indenture.
2 N.A. means "not applicable."
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CROSS REFERENCE TABLE
TIA Indenture
Section Section
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(c)(1) ................................................................................................ 1.03
(c)(2) ................................................................................................ 1.03
(c)(3) ................................................................................................ N.A.
(d) .................................................................................................... N.A.
(e) .................................................................................................... 1.03
(f) ..................................................................................................... N.A.
315(a) .................................................................................................... 6.03, 6.01
(b) .................................................................................................... 6.02
(c) .................................................................................................... 6.01
(d) .................................................................................................... 6.01
(e) .................................................................................................... 5.14
316(a) .................................................................................................... 1.01
(a)(1)(A) .......................................................................................... 5.12
(a)(1)(B) .......................................................................................... 5.13
(a)(2) ............................................................................................... N.A.
(b) .................................................................................................... 5.08
317(a)(1) ................................................................................................ 5.03
(a)(2) ................................................................................................ 5.04
(b) .................................................................................................... 10.03
318 ........................................................................................................ 1.08
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION...................1
SECTION 1.01. Rules of Construction.............................1
SECTION 1.02. Definitions.......................................1
SECTION 1.03. Compliance Certificates and Opinions..............7
SECTION 1.04. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee............8
SECTION 1.05. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.....................9
SECTION 1.06. Notices to Trustee and Company...................11
SECTION 1.07. Notice to Holders; Waiver........................11
SECTION 1.08. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act................12
SECTION 1.09. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.........12
SECTION 1.10. Successors and Assigns...........................12
SECTION 1.11. Separability Clause..............................12
SECTION 1.12. Benefits of Indenture............................12
SECTION 1.13. Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial;
Counterparts...................................12
SECTION 1.14. Legal Holidays...................................12
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS...........................................................13
SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally..................................13
SECTION 2.02. Form of Face of Security.........................13
SECTION 2.03. Form of Reverse of Security......................15
SECTION 2.04. Form of Legend for Global Securities.............19
SECTION 2.05. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..19
SECTION 2.06. Forms of Conversion Notice.......................20
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES...........................................................21
SECTION 3.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.............21
SECTION 3.02. Denominations....................................24
SECTION 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating...24
SECTION 3.04. Temporary Securities.............................26
SECTION 3.05. Registration; Registration of Transfer and
Exchange.......................................27
SECTION 3.06. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.28
SECTION 3.07. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved...29
SECTION 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners............................30
SECTION 3.09. Cancellation.....................................31
SECTION 3.10. Computation of Interest..........................31
SECTION 3.11. CUSIP Numbers....................................31
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE...............................................32
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture..........32
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money.......................33
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES.................................................................33
SECTION 5.01. Events of Default................................33
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment......................................34
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee.........................35
SECTION 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.................36
SECTION 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities.....................................36
SECTION 5.06. Application of Money Collected...................36
SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits..............................37
SECTION 5.08. Rights of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium
and Interest...................................37
SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies...............37
SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative...................38
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.....................38
SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders...............................38
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults..........................38
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs............................39
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE..............................................................39
SECTION 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities..............39
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults...............................40
SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee........................40
SECTION 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities.....................................42
SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities..............................42
SECTION 6.06. Money Held in Trust..............................42
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement...................42
SECTION 6.08. Conflicting Interests............................43
SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility..........43
SECTION 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor......................................44
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor...........45
SECTION 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business....................................46
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Company........................................46
SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent..............46
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY........................48
SECTION 7.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses
of Holders.....................................48
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to
Holders........................................48
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee...............................49
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Company...............................49
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE.....................49
SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc., only on Certain
Terms..........................................49
SECTION 8.02. Successor Substituted............................50
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..................................................50
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Holders........................................50
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders..51
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.............52
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures................52
SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act..............53
SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures.....................................53
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS................................................................53
SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.......53
SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency..................53
SECTION 10.03. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in
Trust..........................................54
SECTION 10.04. Compliance Certificate...........................55
SECTION 10.05. Corporate Existence..............................55
SECTION 10.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims................55
SECTION 10.07. [Reserved.]......................................55
SECTION 10.08. [Reserved.]......................................55
SECTION 10.09. Waiver of Covenants..............................55
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES.................................................56
SECTION 11.01. Applicability of Article.........................56
SECTION 11.02. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee............56
SECTION 11.03. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be
Redeemed.......................................56
SECTION 11.04. Notice of Redemption.............................57
SECTION 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price......................58
SECTION 11.06. Securities Payable on Redemption Date............58
SECTION 11.07. Securities Redeemed in Part......................58
ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS............................................................59
SECTION 12.01. Applicability of Article.........................59
SECTION 12.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities.....................................59
SECTION 12.03. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund........59
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE.......................................60
SECTION 13.01. Company's Right with Respect to Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance............................60
SECTION 13.02. Defeasance and Discharge.........................60
SECTION 13.03. Covenant Defeasance..............................60
SECTION 13.04. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance..61
SECTION 13.05. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations
to Be Held in Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions....62
SECTION 13.06. Reinstatement....................................63
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES.................................................63
SECTION 14.01. Applicability of Article.........................63
SECTION 14.02. Exercise of Conversion Privilege.................64
SECTION 14.03. No Fractional Shares.............................65
SECTION 14.04. Adjustment of Conversion Price...................65
SECTION 14.05. Notice of Certain Corporate Actions..............66
SECTION 14.06. Reservation of Shares of Common Stock............66
SECTION 14.07. Payment of Certain Taxes Upon Conversion.........66
SECTION 14.08. Nonassessability.................................67
SECTION 14.09. Effect of Consolidation or Merger on Conversion
Privilege......................................67
SECTION 14.10. Duties of Trustee Regarding Conversion...........68
SECTION 14.11. Repayment of Certain Funds Upon Conversion.......68
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of February 17, 2004 (this "INDENTURE"), is made
between Fluor Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY") having its
principal executive office at Xxx Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx
00000, and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation (the "TRUSTEE").
A. The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called a "SECURITY"
or the "SECURITIES") to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture
provided.
B. All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
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 ratable benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series thereof,
as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.01. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
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) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
in the United States as in effect from time to time and, except as
otherwise herein expressly provided, the term "generally accepted
accounting principles" with respect to any computation required or
permitted hereunder shall mean such United States accounting principles as
are generally accepted at the date of such computation;
(4) "or" is not exclusive;
(5) "including" means including, without limitation; and
(6) the words "herein," "hereof," and "hereunder" and other of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section, or other subdivision.
SECTION 1.02. DEFINITIONS.
"Act," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 1.05.
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"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. 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.
"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.
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, United States Code, or any similar
Federal or state law for the relief of debtors.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the Company or
any duly authorized committee of such board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of one or more resolutions certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means, except as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 3.01, with respect to any Place of Payment or any other particular
location referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities, each Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking
institutions in New York, that Place of Payment or other particular location
referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities are authorized or obligated
by law or executive order to close.
"Capital Stock" for any corporation means any and all shares, interests,
rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or
interests in (however designated) stock issued by that corporation.
"Cash" means such coin or currency of the United States as at any time of
payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if any time after the
execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
"Common Stock" includes any stock of any class of the Company which has no
preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company
and which is not subject to redemption by the Company. However, subject to the
provisions of Section 14.09, shares issuable on conversions of Securities shall
include only shares of the class designated as Common Stock of the Company at
the date of this Indenture or shares of any class or classes resulting from any
reclassification or reclassifications thereof and which have no preference in
respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any voluntary or
involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company and which are
not subject to redemption
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by the Company; provided that if at any time there shall be more than one such
resulting class, the shares of each such class than so issuable shall be
substantially in the proportion which the total number of shares of such class
resulting from such reclassifications bears to the total number of shares of all
such classes resulting from all such reclassifications.
"Company" means the party named as the "Company" in the first paragraph of
this Indenture until a successor replaces it pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture and, thereafter, shall mean such successor.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman
of the Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to
the Trustee.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the corporate trust office of the Trustee
which, at the time of the execution of this Indenture is located at 000 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx - 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration, at which at any particular time its corporate trust business
shall be administered.
"Corporation" means a corporation, association, company, joint-stock
company or business trust.
"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 13.03.
"debt" means indebtedness for borrowed money.
"Default" means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or
both would be, an Event of Default.
"Defaulted Interest" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3.07.
"Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 13.02.
"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, a
clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as
Depositary for such Securities contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Dollar" or "$" means a dollar or other equivalent unit in such coin or
currency of the United States as at the time shall be legal tender for the
payment of public and private debts.
"Event of Default" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.01.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1.05.
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"Global Security" means a Security that evidences all or part of the
Securities of any series and bears the legend set forth in Section 2.04 (or such
legend as may be specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for such Securities).
"Holder" or "Securityholder" means a Person in whose name a Security is
registered in the Security Register.
"Indenture" means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to
time in accordance with the terms hereof, including, for all purposes of this
instrument and any such supplemental indenture, the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of and govern this instrument and any
such supplemental indenture, and shall include the terms of a particular series
of Securities established as contemplated in Section 3.01.
"interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount Security
which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable
after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any Security, means the
Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940 and any
statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Legal Holiday" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.14.
"Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal or, in the
case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the principal amount payable upon a
declaration of acceleration pursuant to Section 5.02, becomes due and payable as
therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Notice of Default" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5.01.
"Officer" means the Chairman of the Board, any Vice Chairman, the
President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant
Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.
"Officers' Certificate" means a written certificate signed in the name of
the Company by its Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, its
President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the
officers signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to Section 10.04 shall
be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion from legal counsel who may be
an employee of, or counsel to, the Company.
"Original Issue 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.
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"Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the date
of determination, all securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture, except:
(1) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation;
(2) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated
in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent)
for the Holders of such Securities; provided that, if such Securities are
to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to
this Indenture or provision therefore satisfactory to the Trustee has been
made;
(3) Securities as to which Defeasance has been effected pursuant to
Section 13.02; and
(4) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.06 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities
in respect of which there shall have been presented to the trustee proof
satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser
in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given, made or
taken any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action hereunder as of any date, (a) the principal amount of an Original
Issue Discount Security which shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the
amount of the principal thereof which would be due and payable as of such date
upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof to such date pursuant to Section 5.02,
(b) if, as of such date, the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of
a Security is not determinable, the principal amount of such Security which
shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount as specified or determined
as contemplated by Section 3.01, (c) the principal amount of a Security
denominated in one or more foreign currencies or currency units which shall be
deemed to be Outstanding shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined as of
such date in the manner provided as contemplated by Section 3.01, of the
principal amount of such Security, (or, in the case of a Security described in
Clause (a) or (b) above, of the amount determined as provided in such Clause),
and (d) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities
or any Affiliate of the Company or of 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, waiver or other action, only
Securities which a Trust Officer of the Trustee 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.
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"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities on behalf of the
Company.
"Periodic Offering" means an offering of Securities of a series from time
to time the specific terms of which Securities, including, without limitation,
the rate or rates of interest, if any, thereon, the Stated Maturity or
Maturities thereof, the original issue date or dates thereof, the redemption
provisions, if any, and any other terms specified as contemplated by Section
3.01 with respect thereto, are to be determined by the Company, or one or more
of the Company's agents designated in an Officers' Certificate, upon the
issuance of such Securities.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where, subject to the provisions of Section
10.02, the principal of and any interest on the Securities of that series are
payable as specified as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"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 3.06 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.
"Redemption Date" or "redemption date," when used with respect to any
Security to be redeemed, shall mean the date specified for redemption of such
Security in accordance with the terms of such Security and this Indenture.
"Redemption Price" or "redemption price," when used with respect to any
Security to be redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant
to this Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose
as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary which as of such time meets
the definition of a "significant subsidiary" contained as of the date hereof in
Regulation S-X of the Commission.
"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Security" or "Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of
this Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933 and any statute
successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
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"Securityholder" or "Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is
registered in the Security Register.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 3.05.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities of any issue means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section
3.07.
"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which an amount equal to the principal of
such Security or an installment of principal thereof or interest thereon is due
and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation of which a majority of the Capital Stock
having voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect a majority of the
board of directors of such corporation is owned by (a) the Company, (b) the
Company and one or more Subsidiaries or (c) one or more Subsidiaries.
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in effect on the date of
this Indenture, provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 is amended after such date, "Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent
required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trust Officer" means any officer within the corporate trust department of
the Trustee including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant
secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the
Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of
the above designated officers and also, with respect to a particular matter, any
other officer to whom such matter is referred because of such officer's
knowledge and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Trustee" means the party named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph of
this Indenture until a successor replaces it pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture and, thereafter, shall mean such successor.
"U.S. Government Obligation" has the meaning specified in Section 13.04.
"Vice President," when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice-president."
SECTION 1.03. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.
Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee such
certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each
such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers'
Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of
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Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of
the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth in this Indenture.
Each Officers' Certificate or Opinion of Counsel with respect to
compliance with a covenant or condition provided for in this Indenture shall
include:
(1) a statement that each Person making such Officers' Certificate
or Opinion of Counsel has read such covenant or condition;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
Officers' Certificate or Opinion of Counsel are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such Person, he or she
has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such
Person to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant
or condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, such covenant
or condition has been complied with.
SECTION 1.04. FORM 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 such
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 such Person may certify or
give 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 representations
with respect to the matters upon which his or her 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 is 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.
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SECTION 1.05. ACTS OF HOLDERS; RECORD DATES.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken
by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially 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 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 same manner provided in this Section.
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 a
certificate of a 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 or her the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his or her individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his or her authority. The fact and date of the execution 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.
The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the
same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done, omitted 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.
The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to
give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the
Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph
shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice,
declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders,
shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be
effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date
by Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities
of such series on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a
record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the
record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person
be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
to render ineffective any action taken by
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Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of
the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record
date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall
cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the
applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each
Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Sections
1.06 and 1.07.
The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join
in the giving and making of (a) any Notice of Default, (b) any declaration of
acceleration referred to in Section 5.02, (c) any request to institute
proceedings referred to in Section 5.07(2) or (d) any direction referred to in
Section 5.12, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of such series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be
entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or
not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such
action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable
Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record
date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to
this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and
with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect), and nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders
of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the
relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date
is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall
cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the
applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each
Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Sections
1.06 and 1.07.
With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party
hereto which sets such record dates may designate any day as the "Expiration
Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or
later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless notice of the
proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and
to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in
Section 1.07, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date
is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section,
the party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with
respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided
in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be
later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any
action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to
all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly
appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with
regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
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SECTION 1.06. NOTICES 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; and
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
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, Attention: Chief
Financial Officer.
The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional
or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
SECTION 1.07. NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER.
Any notice or communication given to a Holder of Securities shall be
mailed to such Securityholder at the Securityholder's address as it appears on
the registration books of the Security Registrar and shall be sufficiently given
if so mailed within the time prescribed for the giving of such notice.
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. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner
provided above, it is duly given, whether or not received by the addressee.
If the Company mails a notice or communication to the Holders of
Securities of a particular series, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each
Security Registrar, co-registrar or Paying Agent, as the case may be, with
respect to such series.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason
of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give notice to Holders of
Securities by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the acceptance
of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose
hereunder. In any case where notice to Holders of Securities is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed,
to any particular Holder of a Security shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders of Securities.
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SECTION 1.08. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with a
provision of the TIA which is required under the TIA to be a part of and govern
this Indenture, the required provision shall control. If any provision of this
Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which
may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to
this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
SECTION 1.09. 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 1.10. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of
the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
SECTION 1.11. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 1.12. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall
give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder
and the Holders of Securities, any benefits or any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 1.13. GOVERNING LAW; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL; COUNTERPARTS.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the state of New York, as applied to contracts made
and performed within the state of New York, without regard to principles of
conflicts of law. Each of the Company and the Trustee hereby irrevocably waives,
to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by
jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Indenture, the
Securities or the transaction contemplated hereby.
This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 1.14. LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
A "Legal Holiday" is any day other than a Business Day. If any specified
date (including an Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of
any Security, or a date for giving notice) is a Legal Holiday at any Place of
Payment or place for giving notice, then
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(notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities
other than a provision in the Securities of any series which specifically states
that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section) payment of interest or
principal need not be made at such Place of Payment, or such other action need
not be taken, on such date, but the action shall be taken on the next succeeding
day that is not a Legal Holiday at such Place of Payment with the same force and
effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the
Stated Maturity or such other date and to the extent applicable no Original
Issue Discount or interest, if any, shall accrue for the intervening period.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.01. FORMS GENERALLY.
The Securities of each series shall be in substantially such form
(including global form) as set forth in this Article or in such other form as
shall be established by delivery to the Trustee of an Officers' Certificate 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 or any indenture supplemental hereto,
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 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. The Officers' Certificate so establishing the form of Security, if
any, of any series shall be delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery
of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.03 for the authentication and
delivery of such Securities.
The permanent Securities shall be printed or may be produced in any other
manner, all as determined by the Officers executing such Securities as evidenced
by their execution of such Securities.
SECTION 2.02. FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY.
FLUOR CORPORATION
No._________ $___________
Fluor Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the
laws of Delaware (herein called the "Company," which term includes any successor
Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby
promises to pay to _______________________, or registered assigns, the principal
sum of ______________ Dollars on __________________ [if the Security is to bear
interest prior to Maturity, insert --, and to pay interest thereon from
____________________ or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which
interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on ____________ and
___________ in each year, commencing _________________, at the rate of
____________________% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made
available for payment [if applicable, insert -- , provided that any principal
and premium, and any such installment of interest, which is overdue shall bear
interest at the rate of _____________% per annum (to the extent that the payment
of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such amounts are
due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such interest shall
be payable on demand]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly
provided for,
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on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the
Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest, which shall be the ____________________ or __________________ (whether
or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment
Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will
forthwith cease to be payable to 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 the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert -- The
principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
Default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
Maturity and in such case the overdue principal and any overdue premium shall
bear interest at the rate of ____________% per annum (to the extent that the
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), from the dates such
amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment. Interest on
any overdue principal or premium shall be payable on demand. [Any such interest
on overdue principal or premium which is not paid on demand shall bear interest
at the rate of _________% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such
interest on interest shall be legally enforceable), from the date of such demand
until the amount so demanded is paid or made available for payment. Interest on
any overdue interest shall be payable on demand.]]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert --
any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for that purpose in ______________, in such coin or currency
of 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 interest may be made by
check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall
appear in the Security Register].
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 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.
Dated:
Fluor Corporation
By:__________________________________
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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 an Indenture, dated as of February 17, 2004 (herein called the
"Indenture", which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such
instrument), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein
called the "Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of
rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee 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 [if applicable, insert --, limited in aggregate
principal amount to $_____________________].
[If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption prior to the Stated Maturity upon not less than 30 days' notice by
mail, [if applicable, insert -- (1) on ________________ in any year commencing
with the year __________ and ending with the year _____________ through
operation of the sinking fund for this series at a Redemption Price equal to
100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [if applicable, insert -- on
or after __________, 19__], as a whole or in part, at the election of the
Company, at the following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the
principal amount): If redeemed [if applicable, insert -- on or before
_______________, ___, and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning
___________ of the years indicated,
YEAR REDEMPTION PRICE YEAR REDEMPTION PRICE
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ____________% of the principal
amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert --
(whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued
interest to the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity
is on or prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of
business on the relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as
provided in the Indenture].
[If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, (1) on ____________ in
any year commencing with the year ____ and ending with the year ____ through
operation of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for
redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of
the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [if
applicable, insert -- on or after ____________], as a whole or in part, at the
election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices for redemption otherwise than
through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal
amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period
beginning ____________ of the years indicated,
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REDEMPTION PRICE REDEMPTION PRICE FOR
FOR REDEMPTION REDEMPTION OTHERWISE
THROUGH OPERATION THAN THROUGH OPERATION
YEAR OF THE SINKING FUND OF THE SINKING FUND
---- ------------------- -------------------
and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to ____________% of the principal
amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation
of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date
but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such
Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or
more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
[If applicable, insert -- Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may
not, prior to ____________, redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated
by [if applicable, insert -- Clause (2) of] the preceding paragraph as a part
of, or in anticipation of, any refunding operation by the application, directly
or indirectly, of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company
(calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less
than ____________% per annum].
[If applicable, insert -- The sinking fund for this series provides for
the redemption on in each year beginning with the year ____________ and ending
with the year ____________ of [if applicable, insert -- not less than
$____________ ("mandatory sinking fund") and not more than] $____________
aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. Securities of this
series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through [if
applicable, insert -- mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against
subsequent [if applicable, insert -- mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise
required to be made [if applicable, insert -- , in the inverse order in which
they become due].]
[If the Security is subject to redemption of any kind, insert -- In the
event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities
of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be
issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
[If applicable, insert -- The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance
at any time of [the entire indebtedness of this Security] [or] [certain
restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security] [, in
each case] upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is convertible into Common Stock of the Company, insert
-- Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security is
entitled, at its option, at any time on or before [insert date] (except that, in
case this Security or any portion hereof shall be called for redemption, such
right shall terminate with respect to this Security or portion hereof, as the
case may be, so called for redemption at the close of business on the date fixed
for redemption as
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provided in the Indenture unless the Company defaults in making the payment due
upon redemption), to covert the principal amount of this Security (or any
portion hereof which is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof), into fully paid
and non-assessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to the nearest
1/100th of a share) of the Common Stock of the Company, as said shares shall be
constituted at the date of conversion, at the conversion price of $____________
principal amount of Securities for each share of Common Stock or at the adjusted
conversion price in effect at the date of conversion determined as provided in
the Indenture, upon surrender of this Security, together with the conversion
notice hereon duly executed, to the Company at the designated office or agency
of the Company in ________________________, accompanied (if so required by the
Company) by instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Company and to
the trustee, duly executed by the Holder or by its fully authorized attorney in
writing. Such surrender shall, if made during any period beginning at the close
of business on a Regular Record Date and ending at the opening of business on
the Interest Payment Date next following such Regular Record Date (unless this
Security or the portion being converted shall have been called for redemption on
a Redemption Date during such period), also be accompanied by payment in funds
acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such
Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of this Security then being
converted. Subject to the aforesaid requirement for payment and, in the case of
a conversion after the Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment
Date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, to the right of the Holder of
this Security (or any Predecessor Security) of record at such Regular Record
Date to receive an installment of interest (with certain exceptions provided in
the Indenture), no adjustment is to be made on conversion for interest accrued
hereon or for dividends on shares of Common Stock issued on conversion. The
Company is not required to issue fractional shares upon any such conversion, but
shall make adjustment therefor in cash on the basis of the current market value
of such fractional interest as provided in the Indenture. The conversion price
is subject to adjustment as provided in the Indenture. In addition, the
Indenture provides that in case of certain consolidations or mergers to which
the Company is a party or the sale of substantially all of the assets of the
Company, the Indenture shall be amended, without the consent of any Holders of
Securities, so that this Security, if then outstanding, will be convertible
thereafter, during the period this Security shall be convertible as specified
above, only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property
receivable upon the consolidation, merger or sale by a holder of the number of
shares of Common Stock into which this Security might have been converted
immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or sale (assuming such holder of
Common Stock failed to exercise any rights of election and received per share
the kind and amount received per share by a plurality of non-electing shares) [,
assuming if such consolidation, merger or sale is prior to ____________, 20__ ,
that this Security were convertible at the time of such consolidation, merger or
sale at the initial conversion price specified above as adjusted from
____________, 20__ to such time pursuant to the Indenture). In the event of
conversion of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities for the
unconverted portion hereof in part only, a new Security or Securities for the
unconverted portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon
the cancellation hereof.)
(If the Security is convertible into other securities of the Company,
specify the conversion features.)
[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- If
an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of the Securities of this series may be declared due
and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- If an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this series may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to -- insert formula for determining the
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amount. Upon payment (a) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable
and (b) of interest on any overdue principal, premium and 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 premium and interest, if any, on the Securities of this series shall
terminate.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of more than 50% in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture
also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in
aggregate 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 an Original Issue Discount Security, -- In determining
whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver under the Indenture or whether a quorum is present at
a meeting of Holders of Securities, the principal amount of any Original Issue
Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the amount of
the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such
determination upon the acceleration of the Maturity thereof.]
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder
of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with
respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee or for
any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the
Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall
have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of
such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee indemnity reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee, and the Trustee shall not have received from the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series
at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall
have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 90 days after receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any
suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any
payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the
respective due dates expressed herein.
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 any premium 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 Security
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one
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or more new Securities of this series and of like tenor, of authorized
denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees.
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 this series and of like tenor of a different authorized
denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
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 may 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 shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
SECTION 2.04. FORM OF LEGEND FOR GLOBAL SECURITIES.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for the
Securities evidenced thereby, every Global Security authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall 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 A
DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED
IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF
THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF
ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT
IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
SECTION 2.05. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.
The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially the
following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
[Name of Trustee],
As Trustee
Dated:______________ By_______________________________
Authorized Signatory
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SECTION 2.06. FORMS OF CONVERSION NOTICE.
To Fluor Corporation:
The undersigned owner of this Security hereby irrevocably exercises the
option to convert this Security, or portion hereof (which is $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof) below designated, into shares of Common Stock of the
company in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this
Security, and directs that the shares issuable and deliverable upon the
conversion, together with any check in payment for fractional shares and any
Securities representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and
delivered to the registered holder hereof unless a different name has been
indicated below. If this Notice is being delivered on a date after the close of
business on a Regular Record Date and prior to the opening of business on the
related Interest Payment Date (unless this Security or the portion thereof being
converted has been called for redemption on a Redemption Date within such
period), this Notice is accompanied by payment, in funds acceptable to the
Company, of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment
Date of the principal of this Security to be converted. If shares are to be
issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will
pay all transfer taxes payable with respect hereto. Any amount required to be
paid by the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Security.
Principal Amount to be Converted
(in an integral multiple of
$1,000, if less than all):
$
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Dated:
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Signature(s) must be guaranteed by a commercial bank or trust
company or a member firm of a national stock exchange if shares of
Common Stock are to be delivered, or Securities to be issued, other
than to and in the name of the registered owner.
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Signature Guaranty
Fill in for registration of shares of Common Stock and Security if to be issued
otherwise than to the registered holder.
Social Security or Other Taxpayer
------------------------ Identification Number
(Name) -----------------------
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(Address)
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Please print Name and Address
(including zip code number)
(The above conversion notice is to be modified, as appropriate, for conversion
into other securities or property of the Company.)
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ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.01. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture shall be unlimited and all principal of and
any interest on the Securities shall be payable in Dollars.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established, in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and, subject to Section 3.03,
set forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance
of Securities of any series:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from Securities of any other
series);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of the 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 Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or
11.07 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to Section 3.03, are
deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(3) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of the series
shall be payable, if other than 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;
(4) the date or dates on which the principal or installments of
principal of any Securities of the series is payable or the method of
determination thereof and any rights to extend such date or dates;
(5) the rate or rates at which any Securities of the series shall
bear interest, if any, or the method if any by which such rate or rates
are to be determined, the date or dates from which any such interest shall
accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be
payable and the Regular Record Date for any such interest payable on any
Interest Payment Date;
(6) the place or places where, subject to the provisions of Section
10.02, the principal of and any interest on Securities of the series shall
be payable, any Securities of the series may be surrendered for
registration of transfer, Securities of the series may be surrendered for
exchange and notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of the series and this Indenture may be served;
(7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which
and the terms and conditions upon which, Securities of the series may be
redeemed, in whole or
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in part, at the option of the Company, and if other than by a Company
Order, the manner in which any election by the Company to redeem the
Securities shall be evidenced;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase
Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof, the conditions, if any,
giving rise to such obligation, and the period or periods within which,
the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which
Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in
part, and any provisions for the remarketing of such Securities;
(9) the denominations in which any Securities of the series shall be
issuable, if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof;
(10) if the amount of payments of principal of or any interest on
any Securities of the series is to be determined with reference to an
index, formula or other method, the manner in which such amounts shall be
determined and the calculation agent, if any, with respect thereto;
(11) if other than the currency of the United States of America, the
currency, currencies, or currency units in which the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Securities of the series shall be payable and
the manner of determining the equivalent thereof in the currency of the
United States of America for any purpose, including for purposes of the
definition of "Outstanding" in Section 1.02;
(12) if the principal of or any premium or interest on any
Securities of the series is to be payable, at the election of the Company
or the Holder thereof, in one or more currencies or currency units other
than that or those in which such Securities are stated to be payable, the
currency, currencies or currency units in which the principal of or any
premium or interest on such Securities as to which such election is made
shall be payable, the periods within which and the terms and conditions
upon which such election is to be made and the amount so payable (or the
manner in which such amount shall be determined);
(13) if other than the entire principal amount thereof, the portion
of the principal amount of any Securities of the series which shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant
to Section 5.02;
(14) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any
Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more
dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be
the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any
purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof
which shall be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated
Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior
to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such
amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be determined);
(15) if applicable, that the Securities of the series, in whole or
any specified part, shall not be defeasible pursuant to Section 13.02 or
Section 13.03 or both such
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Sections and, if other than by a Company Order, the manner in which any
election by the Company to defease such Securities shall be evidenced;
(16) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be
issuable in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities
and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such Global Securities,
the form of any legend or legends which shall be borne by any such Global
Security in addition to or in lieu of that set forth in Section 2.04 and
any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Section
3.05 in which any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in
part for Securities registered, and any transfer of such Global Security
in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of Persons
other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;
(17) any addition to or change in the Events of Default which
applies to any Securities of the series and any change in the right of the
Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the
principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 5.02;
(18) if other than as defined in Section 1.01, the meaning of
"Business Day" when used with respect to any Securities of the series;
(19) if the Securities of the series may be issued or delivered
(whether upon original issuance or upon exchange of a temporary Security
of such series or otherwise), or any installment of principal of or any
interest is payable, only upon receipt of certain certificates or other
documents or satisfaction of other conditions in addition to those
specified in this Indenture, the form and terms of such certificates,
documents or conditions;
(20) the terms of any right to convert Securities of the series into
shares of Common Stock of the Company or other securities or property;
(21) any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Article
Ten which applies to Securities of the series; and
(22) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by
Section 9.01(5)).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except
as to denomination and the rate or rates of interest, if any, and Stated
Maturity, the date from which interest, if any, shall accrue and except as may
otherwise be provided in or pursuant to an Officers' Certificate pursuant to
this Section 3.01 or in any indenture supplemental hereto; provided, however,
that a different CUSIP number shall be obtained for Securities of any one series
that are not identical (except as to denomination). All Securities of any one
series need not be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a
series may be reopened for issuances of additional Securities of such series or
for the establishment of additional terms with respect to the Securities of such
series.
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If any of the terms of the series are 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 Officers'
Certificate setting forth the terms of the series. With respect to Securities of
a series subject to a Periodic Offering, such Board Resolution or Officers'
Certificate or supplemental indenture may provide general terms for Securities
of such series and provide either that the specific terms of particular
Securities of such series shall be specified in a Company Order or that such
terms shall be determined by the Company, or one or more of the Company's agents
designated in an Officers' Certificate, in accordance with other procedures
specified in a Company Order as contemplated by the third paragraph of Section
3.03.
SECTION 3.02. DENOMINATIONS.
Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Officers' Certificate or
supplemental indenture, the Securities of each series shall be issuable only in
registered form without coupons and only in such denominations as shall be
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01. In the absence of any such specified
denomination with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of
such series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof.
SECTION 3.03. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman
of the Board, one of its Vice Chairmen, its President or one of its Vice
Presidents, or the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer. 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 of any series executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities; and the Trustee in accordance
with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities;
provided, however, that, with respect to Securities of a series subject to a
Periodic Offering, (1) such Company Order may be delivered by the Company to the
Trustee prior to the delivery to the Trustee of such Securities for
authentication and delivery, (2) the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver
Securities of such series for original issue from time to time, in an aggregate
principal amount not exceeding the aggregate principal amount established for
such series, pursuant to a Company Order or pursuant to such procedures
acceptable to the Trustee as may be specified from time to time by a Company
Order and (3) the rate or rates of interest, if any, the Stated Maturity or
Maturities, the original issue date or dates, the redemption provisions, if any,
and any other terms of Securities of such series shall be determined by a
Company Order or pursuant to such procedures.
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If the forms or terms of the Securities of the series have been
established in or pursuant to one or more Officers' Certificates as permitted by
Sections 2.01 and 3.01, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 6.01) shall be
fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating:
(1) that the form and terms of such Securities have been duly
authorized by the Company and established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture; and
(2) that such Securities when authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
condition specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and
legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with
their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability
relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity
principles;
provided, however, that, with respect to Securities of a series subject to a
Periodic Offering, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive such Opinion of
Counsel only once at or prior to the time of the first authentication of
Securities of such series and that the Opinion of Counsel above may state:
(x) that the forms of such Securities have been, and the terms of
such Securities (when established in accordance with such procedures as
may be specified from time to time in a Company Order all as contemplated
by and in accordance with a Board Resolution or an Officers' Certificate
pursuant to Section 3.01, as the case may be) will have been, duly
authorized by the Company and established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture; and
(y) that such Securities when (i) executed by the Company, (ii)
completed, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with
this Indenture, and (iii) issued and delivered by the Company and paid for
in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of
Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the
Company enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to customary
exceptions.
With respect to Securities of a series subject to a Periodic Offering, the
Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the authorization by the Company of any of
such Securities, the form and terms thereof and the legality, validity, binding
effect and enforceability thereof, upon the Opinion of Counsel and other
documents delivered pursuant to Sections 2.01 and 3.01 and this Section, as
applicable, at or prior to the time of the first authentication of Securities of
such series unless and until it has received written notification that such
opinion or other documents have been superseded or revoked. In connection with
the authentication and delivery of Securities of a series subject to a Periodic
Offering, the Trustee shall be entitled to assume that the Company's
instructions to authenticate and deliver such Securities do not violate any
rules, regulations or orders of any governmental agency or commission having
jurisdiction over the Company.
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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.01 and of the preceding
paragraph, if all Securities of a series are subject to a Periodic Offering, it
shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers' Certificate otherwise required
pursuant to Section 3.01 or the Company Order and opinion of counsel otherwise
required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the time of
authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered
at or prior to the authentication, upon original issuance of the first Security
of such series to be issued.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent acceptable to the Company
to authenticate Securities. Unless otherwise provided in the appointment, an
Authenticating Agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so.
Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes
authentication by such agent.
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 duly
executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such
certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially
the form set forth in Section 2.05.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company,
and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as
provided in Section 3.09 together with a written statement (which need not
comply with Section 1.03 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel)
stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for
all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.
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 or otherwise produced, in any
authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities
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 that series to be prepared without unreasonable delay.
After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary
Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of
such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without
charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
temporary Securities of any series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive
Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor
and aggregate principal amount. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities
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of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities of such series and tenor.
SECTION 3.05. REGISTRATION; REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby
appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering 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 pursuant to Section 10.02 for such purpose
in a Place of Payment, 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 any authorized denomination or
denominations of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for
other Securities of the same series of any authorized denomination or
denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor, 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 registration of 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 registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of 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 registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 9.06 or 11.07 not involving any transfer.
The Company may but shall not be required (a) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange Securities of any series (or of that series and
specified tenor, as the case may be) during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of
Securities of that series selected for redemption under Section 11.03 and ending
at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (b) to register the
transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in
part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part.
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The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to
Global Securities:
(1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary designated 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.
(2) 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 (i) has
notified the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as
Depositary for such Global Security or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing
agency registered under the Exchange Act, (b) the Company executes and
delivers to the Trustee a Company Order that such Global Security shall be
so exchangeable, (c) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event
of Default with respect to such Global Security or (d) there shall exist
such circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as
have been specified for this purpose as contemplated by Section 3.01.
(3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security
for other Securities may be made in whole or in part, and all Securities
issued in exchange for a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be
registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall
direct.
(4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any
portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section, Section 3.04, 3.06,
9.06, or 11.07 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in the
form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is
registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such
Global Security or a nominee thereof.
SECTION 3.06. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES.
If (a) any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, or (b) the
Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and there is delivered to the
Company and the Trustee 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
Company shall execute and upon its written request the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in exchange for any such mutilated Security or in lieu
of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same
series and of like tenor and principal amount, bearing a number not
contemporaneously Outstanding.
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.
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Upon the issuance of any new Securities 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 of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu
of any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable
by anyone, and any such new Security shall be entitled to all benefits of this
Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that
issue.
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 3.07. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to
any series of Securities, interest on any Security 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.
Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the 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 (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 be not 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 Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to
be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities at
his or her address as it appears
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in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and
the Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable
pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Securities in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be
listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if,
after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment
pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed
practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of 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.
Subject to the provisions of Section 14.02, in the case of any Security
(or any part thereof) which is converted after any Regular Record Date and on or
prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (other than any Security the
principal of (or premium, if any, on) which shall become due and payable,
whether at Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration prior to such
Interest Payment Dated), interest whose Stated Maturity is on such Interest
Payment Date shall be payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding such
conversion and such interest (whether or not punctually paid or duly provided
for) shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or any one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on such Regular
Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding
sentence or in Section 14.02, in the case of any Security (or any part thereof)
which is converted, interest whose Stated Maturity is after the date of
conversion of such Security or such part thereof shall not be payable.
SECTION 3.08. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security
for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 and subject to Section 3.05 and
Section 3.07) 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 (or its nominee) shall have any rights under this
Indenture with respect to such Global Security or any Security represented
thereby, 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 or any
Security represented thereby for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the
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foregoing, with respect to any Global Security, nothing herein shall prevent the
Company, the Trustee, or any agent of the Company or the Trustee, from giving
effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a
Depositary or impair, as between a Depositary and such holders of beneficial
interest, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the
rights of the Depositary (or its nominees) as Holder of any Security.
SECTION 3.09. CANCELLATION.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange, or for credit against any sinking fund payment, shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee
and all Registered Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by it. The
Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities
previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever (including Securities received by the Company
in exchange or payment for other Securities of the Company) and may deliver to
the Trustee (or to any other Person for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company
has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered to the Trustee shall be
promptly canceled by the Trustee. The Company may not reissue, or issue new
Securities to replace, Securities it has paid for or delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation. 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 held by the Trustee shall
be disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practice unless
the Company directs by Company Order that the Trustee deliver canceled
Securities to the Company.
SECTION 3.10. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for
Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of any series shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 3.11. 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 as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice 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 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. The Company will promptly notify
the Trustee in writing of any change in the "CUSIP" numbers.
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ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.01. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect
(except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, 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 3.06 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 cancellation; or
(b) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year
under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee, as trust funds in trust for the
purpose, money in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation, for principal and any premium and interest to the date
of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and
payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(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, the obligations of
the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.14 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
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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 it, 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 any premium and
interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.01. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
"Event of Default," wherever used herein with respect to 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 when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such Default
for a period of 30 days;
(2) Default in the payment of principal of or any premium on any
Security of that series at its Maturity;
(3) Default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when and as
due by the terms of a Security of that series, and continuance of such
Default for a period of 30 days;
(4) Default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
warranty a Default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in
this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included
in this Indenture solely for the benefit of Securities other than that
series), 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 principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of that series a written notice specifying such Default or breach and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder;
(5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary
case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, or other similar law,
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or a decree or order approving as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization of the Company under any bankruptcy law, and such decree or
order undischarged and unstayed for a period of 90 days, or a decree or
order of a court for the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or
trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of its
property, or for the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs, and such
decree or order undischarged and unstayed for a period of 90 days;
(6) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, or other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to
be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the filing of
a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or
answer or consent seeking reorganization under any bankruptcy law, or its
consent to the filing of any such petition, or its consent to the
appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in
bankruptcy or insolvency of it or of its property, or its assignment for
the benefit of creditors, or its admission in writing of its inability to
pay its debts generally as they become due; or
(7) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities
of that series.
SECTION 5.02. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default actually known to a Trust Officer with respect to
Securities of any series at the time Outstanding (other than an Event of Default
specified in Section 5.01(5) or (6)) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee by
notice to the Company, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series by notice to the Company and
the Trustee, may declare the principal amount of (or, if any of the Securities
of that series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the
principal amount of such Securities as may be specified in the terms thereof)
all the Securities of that series to be immediately due and payable. Upon such a
declaration, such principal (or portion thereof) shall be due and payable
immediately. If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(5) or (6) occurs
and is continuing, the principal amount (or portion thereof) of all the
Securities of that series shall become and be immediately due and payable
without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any
Securityholders.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Outstanding 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 aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice
to the Company and the Trustee, 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 interest on all Securities of that series;
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(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 any interest thereon at the rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Securities;
(c) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in
such Securities; and
(d) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series,
other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series
which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have
been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
The Trustee shall have no obligations or liability for failure to act in
connection with any Event of Default not actually known to a Trust Officer.
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 interest on any Security
when such interest becomes due and payable and such Default continues for
a period of 30 days, or
(2) Default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
then 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 and any premium and interest and, to the extent
that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any
overdue principal and premium and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates
prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further
amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities 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 right, 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.
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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, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust
Indenture Act in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in
any such proceeding. 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; and 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 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 it for
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 6.07.
No provision of this Indenture 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 such 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.
SECTION 5.05. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS 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 the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, 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 collected by the Trustee 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 on account of principal or any premium
or 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 under Section
6.07; and
Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal, of any premium and interest on the Securities in respect of
which or for the benefit of which such money had been collected, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind,
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according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal,
and any premium and interest, respectively.
SECTION 5.07. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
No Holder of any Security of any series shall have any right to institute
any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for
the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder,
unless
(1) such Xxxxxx 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 aggregate 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 indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to it 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 aggregate 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 of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders, 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 of such
Holders.
SECTION 5.08. RIGHTS OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right, which is
absolute and unconditional, of any Holder of any Security to receive payment of
the principal of and (subject to Section 3.07) interest on such Security on the
Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption, on the Redemption Date) held by such Holder, on or after the
respective due dates expressed in the Securities or any Redemption Date, or to
bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective
dates, shall not be impaired or affected adversely without the consent of each
such Holder.
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
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has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in
every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders shall 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.
SECTION 5.10. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section
3.06, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or 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 other 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.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities 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 aggregate 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, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 5.13. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.
The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of all series that would be affected by such a
default (voting as one class) may, on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series, waive any past Default hereunder with respect to such
series and its consequences, except a Default:
(1) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on
any Security of such series, or
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(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of
Default arising therefrom 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.
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, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party
litigant (other than the Trustee) in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs
of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in the suit,
having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by
the party litigant. This Section 5.14 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a
suit by a Holder pursuant to Section 5.07 or a suit by Holders of more than l0%
in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or to
any suit instituted by any Holder of any Security for the enforcement of the
payment of the principal of or interest on any Security on or after the Stated
Maturity or Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by
this Indenture and the Trust Indenture Act.
(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 provision
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, but not to verify
the contents thereof.
(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 man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct
of his own affairs.
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(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
(1) this paragraph (c) shall not be construed to limit the
effect of paragraph (a) of this section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it shall be proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) 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 the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities 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; and
(4) 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 it shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity satisfactory
to it against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) 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 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
Security Register, notice of such Default hereunder known to a Trust 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 on any Security of such series or in the
payment of any sinking fund installment with respect to Securities of such
series, the Trustee shall be 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 or a Trust Officer of the Trustee in good
faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the
Holders of Securities of such series; and provided, further, that in the case of
any Default of the character specified in Section 5.01(4) with respect to
Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at
least 30 days after the occurrence thereof.
SECTION 6.03. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Subject to the provisions of Section 6.01:
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(1) 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, note, other evidence of indebtedness or
other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been
signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(2) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall
be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order or as
otherwise expressly provided herein, and any resolution of the Board of
Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(3) 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 specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(4) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection 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;
(5) 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 reasonable security or indemnity
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might
be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(6) 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, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(7) 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; and
(8) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered,
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it
to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers conferred
upon it by this Indenture;
(9) in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable to the
Company for special, indirect, or consequential loss or damage of any kind
whatsoever (including, but
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not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has
been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of
the form of action;
(10) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default
or Event of Default unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual
knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact
such a default is received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of
the Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this Indenture;
(11) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits
given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be
indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in
each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other
Person employed to act hereunder; and
(12) the Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers'
Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of
officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to
this Indenture, which Officers' Certificate may be signed by any person
authorized to sign an Officers' Certificate, including any person
specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered
and not superseded.
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 neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility
for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor
any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.05. MAY HOLD SECURITIES.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
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, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security
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 shall:
(1) pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation as
the Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing for
all services
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rendered by it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, 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) indemnify each of the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee and
their agents for, and to hold them harmless against, any and all loss,
damage, claims, liability or expense, including taxes (other than taxes
based upon, measured by or determined by the income of the Trustee),
arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of
the trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by the Company, or
any Holder or any other Person) or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, or in
connection with enforcing the provisions of this Section, except to the
extent that such loss, damage, claim, liability or expense is due to its
own negligence or bad faith.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an
Event of Bankruptcy such expenses (including the fees and expenses of its
counsel) and the compensation for such services are intended to constitute
expenses of administration under any bankruptcy law or law relating to creditors
rights generally.
SECTION 6.08. CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such
interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to
the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture. To the extent
permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting
interest by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to
Securities of more than one series.
SECTION 6.09. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.
There shall at all times be one (and only one) Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for
Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is
eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section
and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, the combined capital and
surplus of such Person 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 with respect to the Securities of any series 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.
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SECTION 6.10. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
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 in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 6.11.
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 the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 6.11 shall
not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation or after the removal of the Trustee pursuant to this
Section 6.10, the resigning or removed Trustee, as the case may be, may, at the
expense of the Company, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series.
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 aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
If at any time:
(1) 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
(2) 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
(3) 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, (a) the Company by a Company Order may remove the
Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (b) 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 with respect to all
Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
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 Company Order, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities
of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may
be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series
and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 6.11. 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 aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series
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delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in accordance
with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11, become the successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the
successor Trustee 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 required by Section 6.11, any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least
six months may, 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.
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 to all Holders of
Securities of such series in the manner provided in Section 1.07. 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.
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.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a 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 deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each
successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (a) 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, (b) 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 (c) 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 supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees 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 supplemental indenture the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided
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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.
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 such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the
first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
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.
SECTION 6.12. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merger 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 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,
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 with the same effect
as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
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.
At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Trustee,
with the concurrence of the Company, may appoint an Authenticating Agent or
Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which shall be
authorized 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 or pursuant to Section 3.06, 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. Wherever 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 and a certificate
of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.
Each Authenticating Agent shall
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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, any State
thereof 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, State or
District of Columbia 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 anytime 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 the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, 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 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 1.07 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
provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent reasonable
compensation, as agreed upon from time to time by the Company and the
Authenticating Agent, 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 such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternative
certificate of authentication in the following form:
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This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:____________ [Name of Trustee],
As Trustee
By:________________________________
As Authenticating Agent
By:________________________________
As Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 7.01. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS.
If the Trustee is not acting as Security Registrar for the Securities of
any series, the Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(1) semi-annually, not later than January 15 and July 15 in each
year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of the
preceding January 1 or July 1, as the case may be, and
(2) 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.
SECTION 7.02. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS.
The Trustee shall preserve, 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 Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
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 by the Trust
Indenture Act.
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 any disclosure of
information as to the names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act.
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SECTION 7.03. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE.
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. If
required by Section 313(a) of the TIA, the Trustee shall, within sixty days
after each May 15 following the date of the initial issuance of Securities under
this Indenture deliver to Holders a brief report, dated as of such May 15, which
complies with the provisions of such Section 313(a).
A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company
will promptly notify the Trustee in writing when any Securities are listed on
any stock exchange and any delisting thereof.
SECTION 7.04. REPORTS BY COMPANY.
The Company shall file with the Trustee and 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 and
in the manner provided pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any
such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the
Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the
Commission.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for
informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the Company's
compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is
entitled to rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates).
ARTICLE EIGHT
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, unless:
(1) either (a) the Company shall be the continuing corporation or
(b) the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such consolidation or
into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by
conveyance, transfer or lease the properties and assets of the Company
substantially as an entirety (i) shall be a corporation, partnership or
trust organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States
or any state thereof or the District of Columbia and (ii) shall expressly
assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, all of the
obligations of the Company under the Securities and this Indenture;
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(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(3) if, as a result of any such consolidation or merger or such
conveyance, transfer or lease, properties or assets of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary would become subject to a lien which would not be
permitted by this Indenture, the Company or such successor Person, as the
case may be, shall take such steps as shall be necessary to secure the
Securities equally and ratably with (or prior to) all indebtedness secured
thereby; and
(4) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a
supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction,
such supplemental indenture, comply with this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have
been satisfied.
SECTION 8.02. SUCCESSOR SUBSTITUTED.
The successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or the successor Person 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 had been named as the Company herein; and thereafter except in
the case of a lease of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety,
the Company shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under this
Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.01. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by or
pursuant to a Company Order, 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 purposes:
(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; or
(2) 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; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the
Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such additional Events
of Default are to be for the
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benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such
additional Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the
benefit of such series); or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to
such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of
Securities in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal,
and with or without interest coupons, or to permit or facilitate the
issuance of Securities in uncertificated form; or
(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities, provided that
any such addition, change or elimination (a) shall neither (i) apply to
any Security of any series created prior to the execution of such
supplemental indenture and entitled to the benefit of such provision nor
(ii) modify the rights of the Holder of any such Security with respect to
such provision or (b) shall become effective only when there is no such
Security Outstanding; or
(6) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any
series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01; or
(7) 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 hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant
to the requirements of Section 6.11; or
(8) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or inconsistent 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 (8) shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders
of Securities of any series in any material respect.
SECTION 9.02. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all series affected by such
supplemental indenture (voting as one class), by Act of said Holders delivered
to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Company Order,
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) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium
payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the principal
of an Original Issue Discount Security or any other Security which would
be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 5.02, or change any Place of Payment where, or
the coin or
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currency in which, any Security or any premium 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 or repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or any repayment
date); or
(2) reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, the 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; or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13 or
Section 10.09, 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 Outstanding Security affected
thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to
require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the
references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section and
Section 10.09, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the
requirements of Sections 6.11 and 9.01(8).
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which 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 relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. 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.
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.
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SECTION 9.05. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the TIA.
SECTION 9.06. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution
of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if
required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee 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 Trustee and 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 TEN
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 any premium
and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of
the Securities and this Indenture. In the absence of contrary provisions with
respect to the Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of any
series may, at the option of the Company, be paid by check mailed to the address
of the Person entitled thereto as it appears on the Security Register. An
installment of principal of or interest on the Securities shall be considered
paid on the date it is due if the Trustee or a Paying Agent (other than the
Company or an Affiliate of the Company) holds on that date funds designated for
and sufficient to pay such installment.
SECTION 10.02. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
As long as any of the Securities of a series remain Outstanding, the
Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for such series an office or
agency where Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for
payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any
change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency in respect of any
series of Securities or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address
thereof, such presentations and surrenders of Securities of that series may be
made and notices and demands may be made or served at the address of the Trustee
set forth in Section 1.06, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its
agent to receive all such notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented or
surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such
designations; provided, however, that no such
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designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its
obligation to maintain an office or agency in accordance with the requirements
set forth above for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission
and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 10.03. MONEY FOR SECURITIES 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 or any premium or interest on any of the Securities of that series,
segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a
sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium and 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 action or failure so to
act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series
of Securities, it will, prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on each due
date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Securities of that
series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such
sum to be held as provided by the TIA, and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its action
or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Section, that such Paying Agent will (a) comply with the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (b) during the
continuance of any Default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Securities of that series) in the making of any payment in respect of the
Securities of that series, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith
pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in
respect of the Securities of that series.
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 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 or any premium or
interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal, premium or interest has become due and payable shall be
paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall
be discharged from such trust; and the 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
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such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, shall 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 each Place of Payment, 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. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of
each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers'
Certificate, one of the signatures of which shall be that of the Company's
principal executive, financial or accounting officer, stating whether or not, to
the best knowledge of the signers thereof, the Company is in Default in the
performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of
this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice
provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in Default, specifying all such
Defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
SECTION 10.05. CORPORATE EXISTENCE.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however,
that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise
if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no
longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss
thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 10.06. PAYMENT OF TAXES AND OTHER CLAIMS.
The Company will or will cause a Restricted Subsidiary to pay or discharge
or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (a)
all taxes, assessments and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or upon the income, profits or property of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, and (b) all lawful claims for labor,
materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the
property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that
the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or
discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount, applicability
or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or if
the Company shall determine that the failure to pay would not have a material
adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.
SECTION 10.07. [RESERVED.]
SECTION 10.08. [RESERVED.]
SECTION 10.09. WAIVER OF COVENANTS.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
covenant, term or condition 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 aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
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Securities of all series that would be affected by such a waiver (voting as one
class) 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 shall become effective, the
obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such
covenant or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 11.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity
shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for such Securities) in accordance
with this Article.
SECTION 11.02. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by
a Company Order. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of
less than all the Securities of any series (including any such redemption
affecting only a single Security), the Company shall, at least 45 days prior to
the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the
principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if applicable,
of the tenor of the Securities 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 or elsewhere in this Indenture, the
Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing
compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 11.03. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE 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), 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 of such series, provided that
the unredeemed 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 selection, by the
Trustee, of the Securities to be redeemed shall be conclusive and binding and
the Trustee shall incur no liability in connection with such selection.
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The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities
selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities selected for
partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply with
respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such
Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such
redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the
Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than
the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires,
all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the
case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
SECTION 11.04. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to
each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at the Holder's address appearing in
the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date,
(2) the Redemption Price,
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
consisting of more than a single Security are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any such
Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be
redeemed and, if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series
consisting of a single Security are to be redeemed, the principal amount
of the particular Security to be redeemed,
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if applicable,
that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(5) the place or places where each such Security is to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price,
(6) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is
the case, and
(7) the CUSIP number of the Securities to be redeemed.
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 be irrevocable.
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SECTION 11.05. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
On or prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date)
accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION 11.06. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to
be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall
be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest
to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01, installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is
on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such
Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the
close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the
provisions of Section 3.07.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear
interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the
Security.
SECTION 11.07. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at
a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires,
due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or the Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without
service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like
tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Xxxxxx, in aggregate
principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the
principal of the Security so surrendered; provided, however, that if a Global
Security is so surrendered, such new Security so issued shall be a new Global
Security in a denomination equal to the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Global Security so surrendered.
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ARTICLE TWELVE
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for
the retirement of Securities of a series, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms
of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund
payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking
fund payment." If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the
cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided
in Section 12.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption
of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of
such series.
SECTION 12.02. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES.
The Company (a) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series with the
same issue date, interest rate and Stated Maturity (other than any previously
called for redemption), and (b) may apply as a credit Securities of a series
with the same issue date, interest rate and Stated Maturity which have been
redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such
Securities or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund
payments pursuant to the terms of such Securities, in each case in satisfaction
of all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to the
Securities of such series with the same issue date, interest rate and Stated
Maturity; provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited.
Such Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee
at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through
operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall
be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 12.03. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND.
Not less than 35 days (or such shorter period as shall be acceptable to
the Trustee) 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 that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 12.02 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
delivered. Not less than 30 days before each such sinking fund payment date 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 Sections 11.06 and 11.07.
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 13.01. COMPANY'S RIGHT WITH RESPECT TO DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT
DEFEASANCE.
The Company will have the right, at any time, to have Section 13.02 or
Section 13.03 applied to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case
may be (other than Securities of a series designated pursuant to Section 3.01 as
not being defeasible pursuant to Section 13.02 or 13.03), upon compliance with
the conditions set forth below in this Article. Any such request shall be
evidenced by a Company Order or in another manner specified as contemplated by
Section 3.01 for such Securities.
SECTION 13.02. DEFEASANCE AND DISCHARGE.
Upon the Company's exercise of its right to have this Section applied to
any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company
shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to
such Securities as provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions
set forth in Section 13.04 are satisfied (hereinafter called "Defeasance"). For
this purpose, such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have
paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities and
to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Securities and this
Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and the Trustee, at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the
same), subject to the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated
or discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of such Securities to
receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 13.04 and as more fully
set forth in such Section, (i) payments in respect of the principal of and any
premium and interest on the Outstanding Securities on the Stated Maturity of
such principal or installment of principal of and any premium or interest and
(ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to the
Securities on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance
with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities, (b) the Company's
obligations with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06,
10.02 and 10.03, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder, and (d) this Article. Subject to compliance with this
Article, the Company may exercise its option to have this Section applied to any
Securities notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option to have Section
13.03 applied to such securities.
SECTION 13.03. COVENANT DEFEASANCE.
Upon the Company's exercise of its right to have this Section applied to
any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, (a) the Company
shall be released from its obligations under Section 8.01(3), Section 10.06, and
any covenants provided pursuant to Section 3.01(21), 9.01(2) or 9.01(7) for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities and (b) the occurrence of any event
specified in Sections 5.01(4) (with respect to any of Section 8.01(3), Section
10.06, and any such covenants provided pursuant to Section 3.01(21), 9.01(2) or
9.01(7)), 5.01(5) and 5.01(6) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of
Default, in each case with respect to such Securities as provided in this
Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 13.04 are
satisfied (hereinafter called "Covenant Defeasance"). For this purpose, such
Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities, the
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Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any
term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section (to the
extent so specified in the case of Section 5.01(4)), whether directly or
indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by
reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in
any other document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities
shall be unaffected thereby.
SECTION 13.04. CONDITIONS TO DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE.
The following shall be the conditions to the application of Section 13.02
or Section 13.03 to any Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may
be:
(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfied the
requirements contemplated by Section 6.09 and agrees to comply with the
provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for
the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged as
security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders of such
Securities, (a) money in an amount, or (b) U.S. Government Obligations
which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect
thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one
day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (c) a
combination thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in
a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and
discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or any such other
qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and any premium
and interest on such Securities on the respective Stated Maturities, in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities. As used
herein, "U.S. Government Obligation" means (x) any security which is (i) a
direct obligation of the United States of America for the payment of which
the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or
(ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as
an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment
of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or
(ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof,
and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section
3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any U.S.
Government Obligation which is specified in Clause (x) above and held by
such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or
with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any
U.S. Government Obligation which is so specified and held, provided that
(except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any
deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt
from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S.
Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest
evidenced by such depositary receipt.
(2) In the event of an election to have Section 13.02 apply to any
Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (a)
the Company has received from, or there has been published by, the
Internal Revenue Service a ruling or (b) since the date of this
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instrument, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax
law, in either case (a) or (b) to the effect that, and based thereon such
opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities will not
recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of the
deposit, Defeasance and discharge to be effected with respect to such
Securities and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount in
the same manner and at the same times as would be the case if such
deposit, Defeasance and discharge were not to occur.
(3) In the event of an election to have Section 13.03 apply to any
Securities or any series of Securities, as the case may be, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that the Holders of such Securities will not recognize gain or loss for
Federal income tax purposes as a result of the deposit and Covenant
Defeasance to be effected with respect to such Securities and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and
at the same times as would be the case if such deposit and Covenant
Defeasance were not to occur.
(4) Such provision would not cause any Outstanding Securities if
then listed on any securities exchange, to be delisted as a result of such
deposit.
(5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both
would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any
other Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such
deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 5.01(5)
and (6), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such
deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed
satisfied until after such 90th day).
(6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the
Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust
Indenture Act (assuming all Securities are in default within the meaning
of such Act).
(7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a
breach or violation of, or constitute a Default under, any other agreement
or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
(8) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in the
trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within
the meaning of the Investment Company Act unless such trust shall be
registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
(9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance have been
complied with.
SECTION 13.05. DEPOSITED MONEY AND U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS TO BE HELD IN
TRUST; MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all
money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited
with the Trustee or other
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qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of this Section and Section 13.06, the
Trustee and any such other trustee are referred to collectively as the
"Trustee") pursuant to Section 13.04 in respect of any Securities shall be held
in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such
Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
such Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the
Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due and to
become due thereon in respect of principal and any premium and interest, but
money so held in trust need not be segregated from other funds except to the
extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 13.04 or the principal and interest received in
respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for
the account of the Holders of Outstanding Securities.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any
money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 13.04
with respect to any Securities which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which
would then be required to be deposited to effect the Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such Securities.
SECTION 13.06. REINSTATEMENT.
If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any
order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining
or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this
Indenture and such Securities from which the Company has been discharged or
released pursuant to Section 13.02 or 13.03 shall be revived and reinstated as
though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with respect to such
Securities, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply
all money held in trust pursuant to Section 13.05 with respect to such
Securities in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the
Company makes any payment of principal of or any premium or interest on any such
Security following such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be
subrogated to the rights (if any) of the Holders of such Securities to receive
such payment from the money so held in trust.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 14.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE.
Except as otherwise provided in one or more supplemental indentures
applicable to a particular series of Securities which are convertible into
shares of Common Stock of the Company, the provisions of this Article shall be
applicable to the Securities of any series which are convertible into shares of
Common Stock of the Company, and the issuance of such shares of Common Stock
upon the conversion of such Securities, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series.
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SECTION 14.02. EXERCISE OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE.
In order to exercise a conversion privilege, the Holder of a Security of a
series with such a privilege shall surrender such Security to the Company at the
office or agency maintained for that purpose pursuant to Section 10.02,
accompanied by a duly executed conversion notice to the Company substantially in
the form set forth in Section 2.06 stating that the Holder elects to convert
such Security or a specified portion thereof. Such notice shall also state, if
different from the name and address of such Holder, the name or names (with
address) in which the certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock
which shall be issuable on such conversion shall be issued. Securities
surrendered for conversion shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee)
be duly endorsed by or accompanied by instruments of transfer in forms
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by the registered
Holder or its attorney duly authorized in writing; and Securities so surrendered
for conversion (in whole or in part) during the period from the close of
business on any Regular Record Date to the opening of business on the next
succeeding Interest Payment Date (excluding Securities or portions thereof
called for redemption during such period) shall also be accompanied by payment
in funds acceptable to the Company of any amount equal to the interest payable
on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of such Security then
being converted, and such interest shall be payable to such registered Holder
notwithstanding the conversion of such Security, subject to the provisions of
Section 3.07 relating to the payment of Defaulted Interest by the Company. As
promptly as practicable after the receipt of such notice and of any payment
required pursuant to a Board Resolution and, subject to Section 3.03, set forth,
or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate, or
established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto setting forth the
terms of such series of Security, and the surrender of such Security in
accordance with such reasonable regulations as the Company may prescribe, the
Company shall issue and shall deliver, at the office or agency at which such
Security is surrendered, to such holder or on its written order, a certificate
or certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon the
conversion of such Security (or specified portion thereof), in accordance with
the provisions of such Board Resolution, Officers' Certificate or supplemental
indenture, and cash as provided therein in respect of any fractional share of
such Common Stock otherwise issuable upon such conversion.
Such conversion shall be deemed to have been effected immediately prior to
the close of business on the date on which such notice and such payment, if
required, shall have been received in proper order for conversion by the Company
and such Security shall have been surrendered as aforesaid (unless such Holder
shall have so surrendered such Security and shall have instructed the Company to
effect the conversion on a particular date following such surrender and such
Holder shall be entitled to convert such Security on such date, in which case
such conversion shall be deemed to be effected immediately prior to the close of
business on such date) and at such time the rights of the Holder of such
Security as such Security Holder shall cease and the person or persons in whose
name or names any certificate or certificates for shares of Common Stock of the
Company shall be issuable upon such conversion shall be deemed to have become
the Holder or Holders of record of the shares represented thereby. Except as set
forth above and subject to the final paragraph of Section 3.07, no payment or
adjustment shall be made upon any conversion on account of any interest accrued
on the Securities (or any part thereof) surrendered for conversion or on account
of any dividends on the Common Stock of the Company issued upon such conversion.
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In the case of any Security which is converted in part only, upon such
conversion the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company,
a new Security or Securities of the same series, of authorized denominations, in
aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of such Security.
SECTION 14.03. NO FRACTIONAL SHARES.
No fractional share of Common Stock of the Company shall be issued upon
conversions of Securities of any series. If more than one Security shall be
surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the number of full
shares which shall be issuable upon conversion shall be computed on the basis of
the aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof
to the extent permitted hereby) so surrendered. If, except for the provisions of
this Section 14.03, any Holder of a Security or Securities would be entitled to
a fractional share of Common Stock of the Company upon the conversion of such
Security or Securities, or specified portion thereof, the Company shall pay to
such Holder an amount in cash equal to the current market value of such
fractional share computed, (i) if such Common Stock is listed or admitted to
unlisted trading privileges on a national securities exchange on the last
trading day prior to the date of conversion upon which such a sale shall have
been effected, or (ii) if such Common Stock is not at the time so listed or
admitted to unlisted trading privileges on a national securities exchange, on
the basis of the average of the bid and asked prices of such Common Stock in the
over-the-counter market, on the last trading day prior to the date of
conversion, as reported by the National Quotation Bureau, Incorporated or
similar organization if the National Quotation Bureau, Incorporated is no longer
reporting such information, or if not so available, the fair market price as
determined by the Board of Directors. For purposes of this Section, "trading
day" shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday other than
any day on which the Common Stock is not traded on the New York Stock Exchange,
or if the Common Stock is not traded on the new York Stock Exchange, on the
principal exchange or market on which the Common Stock is traded or quoted.
SECTION 14.04. ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION PRICE.
The conversion price of Securities of any series that is convertible into
Common Stock of the Company shall be adjusted for any stock dividends, stock
splits, reclassifications, combinations or similar transactions in accordance
with the terms of the supplemental indenture or Board Resolution setting forth
the terms of the Securities of such series.
Whenever the conversion price is adjusted, the Company shall compute the
adjusted conversion price in accordance with terms of the applicable Board
Resolution or supplemental indenture and shall prepare an Officers' Certificate
setting forth the adjusted conversion price and showing in reasonable detail the
facts upon which such adjustment is based, and such certificate shall forthwith
be filed at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of
Securities pursuant to Section 10.02 and, if different, with the Trustee. The
Company shall forthwith cause a notice setting forth the adjusted conversion
price to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder of Securities of
such series at its address appearing on the Security Register and to any
conversion agent other than the Trustee.
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SECTION 14.05. NOTICE OF CERTAIN CORPORATE ACTIONS.
In case:
(1) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution)
on its Common Stock payable otherwise than in cash out of its retained
earnings (other than a dividend for which approval of any shareholders of
the Company is required); or
(2) the Company shall authorize the granting to the holders of its
Common Stock of rights, options or warrants to subscribe for or purchase
any shares of capital stock of any class or of any other rights (other
than any such grant for which approval of any shareholders of the Company
is required); or
(3) of any reclassification of the Common Stock of the Company
(other than a subdivision or combination of its outstanding shares of
Common Stock, or of any consolidation, merger or share exchange to which
the Company is a party and for which approval of any shareholders of the
Company is required), or of the sale of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company; or
(4) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation
or winding up of the Company;
then the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee, and shall cause to be
mailed to all Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear in the
Security Register, at least 20 days (or 10 days in any case specified in Clause
(1) or (2) above) prior to the applicable record date hereinafter specified, a
notice stating (i) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of
such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants, or, if a record is not
to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to be
entitled to such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants are to be
determined, or (ii) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation,
merger, share exchange, sale, dissolution, liquidation or winding up is expected
to become effective, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of
Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common
Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such
reclassification, consolidation, merger, share exchange, sale, dissolution,
liquidation or winding up. If at any time the Trustee shall not be the
conversion agent, a copy of such notice shall also forthwith be filed by the
Company with the Trustee.
SECTION 14.06. RESERVATION OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK.
The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from
preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock, for the
purpose of effecting the conversion of Securities, the full number of shares of
Common Stock of the Company then issuable upon the conversion of all Outstanding
Securities of any series that has conversion rights.
SECTION 14.07. PAYMENT OF CERTAIN TAXES UPON CONVERSION.
The Company will pay any and all taxes that may be payable in respect of
the issue or delivery of shares of its Common Stock on conversion of Securities
pursuant hereto. The
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Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax which may be payable in
respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of shares of its
Common Stock in a name other than that of the Holder of the Security or
Securities to be converted, and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless
and until the person requesting such issue has paid to the Company the amount of
any such tax, or has established, to the satisfaction of the Company, that such
tax has been paid.
SECTION 14.08. NONASSESSABILITY.
The Company covenants that all shares of its Common Stock which may be
issued upon conversion of Securities will upon issue in accordance with the
terms hereof be duly and validly issued and full paid and nonassessable.
SECTION 14.09. EFFECT OF CONSOLIDATION OR MERGER ON CONVERSION PRIVILEGE.
In case of any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company
into or with any other Person, or in case of any sale of all or substantially
all of the assets of the Company, the Company or the Person formed by such
consolidation or the Person into which the Company shall have been merged or the
Person which shall have acquired such assets, as the case may be, shall execute
and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of
each Security then Outstanding of any series that is convertible into Common
Stock of the Company shall have the right, which right shall be the exclusive
conversion right thereafter available to said Holder (until the expiration of
the conversion right of such Security), to convert such Security into the kind
and amount of shares of stock or other securities or property (including cash)
receivable upon such consolidation, merger or sale by a holder of the number of
shares of Common Stock of the Company into which such Security might have been
converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger or sale, subject to
compliance with the other provisions of this Indenture, such Security and such
supplemental indenture. Such supplemental indenture shall provide for
adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the
adjustments provided for in such Security. The above provisions of this Section
shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers or sales. It is
expressly agreed and understood that anything in this Indenture to the contrary
notwithstanding, if, pursuant to such merger, consolidation or sale, holders of
outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company do not receive shares of
common stock of the surviving corporation but receive other securities, cash or
other property or any combination thereof, Holders of Securities shall not have
the right to thereafter convert their Securities into common stock of the
surviving corporation or the corporation which shall have acquired such assets,
but rather, shall have the right upon such conversion to receive the other
securities, cash or other property receivable by a holder of the number of
shares of Common Stock of the Company into which the Securities held by such
holder might have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger
or sale, all as more fully provided in the first sentence of this Section 14.09.
Anything in this Section 14.09 to the contrary notwithstanding, the provisions
of this Section 14.09 shall not apply to a merger or consolidation of another
corporation with or into the Company pursuant to which both of the following
conditions are applicable: (i) the Company is the surviving corporation and (ii)
the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company are not changed or
converted into any other securities or property (including cash) or changed in
number or character or reclassified pursuant to the terms of such merger or
consolidation.
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As evidence of the kind and amount of shares of stock or other securities
or property (including cash) into which Securities may properly be convertible
after any such consolidation, merger or sale, or as to the appropriate
adjustments of the conversion prices applicable with respect thereto, the
Trustee shall be furnished with and may accept the certificate or opinion of an
independent certified public accountant with respect thereto; and, in the
absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively
rely thereon, and shall not be responsible or accountable to any Holder of
Securities for any provision in conformity therewith or approved by such
independent certified accountant which may be contained in said supplemental
indenture.
SECTION 14.10. DUTIES OF TRUSTEE REGARDING CONVERSION.
Neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall at any time be under
any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Securities of any series that is
convertible into Common Stock of the Company to determine whether any facts
exist which may require any adjustment of the conversion price, or with respect
to the nature or extent of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the
method employed, whether herein or in any supplemental indenture, any
resolutions of the Board of Directors or written instrument executed by one or
more officers of the Company provided to be employed in making the same. Neither
the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be accountable with respect to the
validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock of the
Company, or of any securities or property, which may at any time be issued or
delivered upon the conversion of any Securities and neither the Trustee nor any
conversion agent makes any representation with respect thereto. Subject to the
provisions of Section 6.01, neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall
be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any
shares of its Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property
upon the surrender of any Security for the purpose of conversion or to comply
with any of the covenants of the company contained in this Article Fourteen or
in the applicable supplemental indenture, resolutions of the Board of Directors
or written instrument executed by one or more duly authorized officers of the
Company.
SECTION 14.11. REPAYMENT OF CERTAIN FUNDS UPON CONVERSION.
Any funds which at any time shall have been deposited by the Company or on
its behalf with the Trustee or any other payment agent for the purpose of paying
the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on any of the
Securities (including funds deposited for the sinking fund referred to in
Article Twelve hereof) and which shall not be required for such purposes because
of the conversion of such Securities as provided in this Article Fourteen shall
after such conversion be repaid to the Company by the Trustee upon the Company's
written request.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this
Indenture as of the day and year first above written.
FLUOR CORPORATION,
a Delaware corporation
By: /s/ X. X. Xxxxx
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Name: X. X. Xxxxx
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Title: Vice President & Treasurer
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Title: Assistant Treasurer
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