EXHIBIT 4.2
EXECUTION COPY
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TRUST AGREEMENT
between
GREENPOINT MORTGAGE SECURITIES INC.
Sponsor
and
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
Owner Trustee
Dated as of December 1, 1999
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I Definitions.............................................................................................1
SECTION 1.1. Defined Terms.................................................................................1
SECTION 1.2. Other Definitional Provisions.................................................................2
SECTION 1.3. Action by or Consent of Noteholders and Certificateholders....................................2
ARTICLE II Organization...........................................................................................3
SECTION 2.1. Name 3
SECTION 2.2. Office........................................................................................3
SECTION 2.3. Purposes and Powers...........................................................................3
SECTION 2.4. Appointment of Owner Trustee..................................................................4
SECTION 2.5. Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate..................................................4
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust..........................................................................4
SECTION 2.7. Liability.....................................................................................4
SECTION 2.8. Title to Trust Property.......................................................................4
SECTION 2.9. Situs of Trust................................................................................5
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Sponsor.................................................5
SECTION 2.11. Federal Income Tax Allocations................................................................6
SECTION 2.12. Covenants of the Sponsor......................................................................7
SECTION 2.13. Covenants of the Certificateholders...........................................................7
ARTICLE III Certificates and Transfer of Interests................................................................8
SECTION 3.1. Initial Ownership.............................................................................8
SECTION 3.2. The Certificates..............................................................................8
SECTION 3.3. Authentication of Certificates................................................................9
SECTION 3.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Certificates.........................................9
SECTION 3.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Certificates.............................................9
SECTION 3.6. Persons Deemed Certificateholders............................................................10
SECTION 3.7. Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and Addresses....................................10
SECTION 3.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency..............................................................10
SECTION 3.9. ERISA Restrictions...........................................................................11
SECTION 3.10. Restrictions on Transfer of Certificates.....................................................11
SECTION 3.11. Acceptance of Obligations....................................................................12
SECTION 3.12. Distributions on Certificates................................................................12
ARTICLE IV Voting Rights and Other Actions.......................................................................12
SECTION 4.1. Prior Notice to Holders with Respect to Certain Matters......................................12
SECTION 4.2. Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Certain Matters.................................13
SECTION 4.3. Action by Certificateholders with Respect to Bankruptcy......................................13
SECTION 4.4. Restrictions on Certificateholders' Power....................................................14
SECTION 4.5. Majority Control.............................................................................14
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SECTION 4.6. Rights of Insurer............................................................................14
ARTICLE V Certain Duties.........................................................................................15
SECTION 5.1. Accounting and Records to the Noteholders, Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue
Service and Others...........................................................................15
SECTION 5.2. Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner....................................................15
SECTION 5.3. Underwriting Agreement.......................................................................15
ARTICLE VI Authority and Duties of Owner Trustee.................................................................16
SECTION 6.1. General Authority............................................................................16
SECTION 6.2. General Duties...............................................................................16
SECTION 6.3. Action upon Instruction......................................................................16
SECTION 6.4. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement or in Instructions...........................17
SECTION 6.5. No Action Except under Specified Documents or Instructions...................................18
SECTION 6.6. Restrictions.................................................................................18
ARTICLE VII Concerning the Owner Trustee.........................................................................18
SECTION 7.1. Acceptance of Trust and Duties...............................................................18
SECTION 7.2. Furnishing of Documents......................................................................19
SECTION 7.3. Representations and Warranties...............................................................19
SECTION 7.4. Reliance; Advice of Counsel..................................................................20
SECTION 7.5. Not Acting in Individual Capacity............................................................20
SECTION 7.6. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or Mortgage Loans..................................20
SECTION 7.7. Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes.................................................21
SECTION 7.8. Payments from Owner Trust Estate.............................................................21
SECTION 7.9. Doing Business in Other Jurisdictions........................................................21
ARTICLE VIII Compensation of Owner Trustee.......................................................................21
SECTION 8.1. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses............................................................21
SECTION 8.2. Indemnification..............................................................................21
SECTION 8.3. Payments to the Owner Trustee................................................................22
SECTION 8.4. Non-recourse Obligations.....................................................................22
ARTICLE IX Termination of Trust Agreement........................................................................22
SECTION 9.1. Termination of Trust Agreement...............................................................22
ARTICLE X Successor Owner Trustees and Additional Owner Trustees.................................................23
SECTION 10.1. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee...................................................23
SECTION 10.2. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee......................................................24
SECTION 10.3. Successor Owner Trustee......................................................................25
SECTION 10.4. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee.....................................................25
SECTION 10.5. Appointment of Co-Owner Trustee or Separate Owner Trustee....................................25
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ARTICLE XI Miscellaneous.........................................................................................27
SECTION 11.1. Supplements and Amendments...................................................................27
SECTION 11.2. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in Certificateholders...................................28
SECTION 11.3. Limitations on Rights of Others..............................................................28
SECTION 11.4. Notices......................................................................................28
SECTION 11.5. Severability.................................................................................29
SECTION 11.6. Separate Counterparts........................................................................29
SECTION 11.7. Assignments; Insurer.........................................................................29
SECTION 11.8. No Petition..................................................................................29
SECTION 11.9. No Recourse..................................................................................29
SECTION 11.10. Headings.....................................................................................30
SECTION 11.11. GOVERNING LAW................................................................................30
SECTION 11.12. Servicer.....................................................................................30
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Form of Certificate
Exhibit B Form of Certificate of Trust
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TRUST AGREEMENT dated as of December 1, 1999 (the "Agreement")
between GREENPOINT MORTGAGE SECURITIES INC., a Delaware corporation (the
"Sponsor"), and WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware banking corporation as
Owner Trustee.
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.1. Defined Terms. For the purposes of this
Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below. All
other capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings set
forth in Annex A to the Indenture dated as of December 1, 1999, between the
Issuer and the Indenture Trustee, as the same may be amended and supplemented
from time to time.
"Affiliate" shall mean with respect to any specified Person, a
Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls
or is controlled by, or is under common control with, or owns, directly or
indirectly, 50% or more of, the Person specified.
"Agreement" shall mean this Trust Agreement, as the same may
be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Benefit Plan" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.9.
"Business Trust Statute" shall mean Chapter 38 of Title 12 of
the Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code Section 3801 et seq. as the same may be amended
from time to time.
"Certificate" shall mean a trust certificate evidencing the
beneficial ownership interest of a Certificateholder in the Trust, substantially
in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.
"Certificate of Trust" shall mean the Certificate of Trust in
the form of Exhibit B to be filed for the Trust pursuant to Section 3810(a) of
the Business Trust Statute.
"Certificate Register" and "Certificate Registrar" shall mean
the register maintained and the registrar respectively appointed pursuant to
Section 3.4.
"Definitive Certificates" shall mean Certificates issued in
certificated, fully registered form.
"Expenses" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 8.2.
"Holder" or "Certificateholder" shall mean the Person in whose
name a Certificate is registered on the Certificate Register.
"Indemnified Parties" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 8.2.
"Instructing Party" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 6.3.
"Owner Trust Estate" shall mean all right, title and interest
of the Trust in and to the property and rights assigned to the Trust pursuant to
Article II of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, all funds on deposit from time
to time in the Collection Account and all other property of the Trust from time
to time, including any rights of the Issuer pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement.
"Proposer" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in Section
4.2(b) herein.
"Secretary of State" shall mean the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware.
"Security Majority" means a majority by principal amount of
the Noteholders so long as the Notes are outstanding and a majority by principal
amount of the Certificateholders thereafter.
"Treasury Regulations" shall mean regulations, including
proposed or temporary regulations, promulgated under the Code. References herein
to specific provisions of proposed or temporary regulations shall include
analogous provisions of final Treasury Regulations or other successor Treasury
Regulations.
SECTION 1.2. Other Definitional Provisions.
(a) All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto unless otherwise defined therein.
(b) As used in this Agreement and in any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms not
defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document, and
accounting terms partly defined in this Agreement or in any such certificate or
other document to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings
given to them under generally accepted accounting principles as in effect on the
date of this Agreement or any such certificate or other document, as applicable.
To the extent that the definitions of accounting terms in this Agreement or in
any such certificate or other document are inconsistent with the meanings of
such terms under generally accepted accounting principles, the definitions
contained in this Agreement or in any such certificate or other document shall
control.
(c) The words "hereof," "herein," "hereunder" and words of
similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a
whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; Section and Exhibit
references contained in this Agreement are references to Sections and Exhibits
in or to this Agreement unless otherwise specified; and the term "including"
shall mean "including without limitation."
(d) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable
to the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms and to the masculine
as well as to the feminine and neuter genders of such terms.
SECTION 1.3. Action by or Consent of Noteholders and
Certificateholders. Whenever any provision of this Agreement refers to action to
be taken, or consented to, by
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Noteholders or Certificateholders, such provision shall be deemed to refer to
the Certificateholder or Noteholder, as the case may be, of record as of the
Record Date immediately preceding the date on which such action is to be taken,
or consent given, by Noteholders or Certificateholders. Solely for the purposes
of any action to be taken, or consented to, by Noteholders or
Certificateholders, any Note or Certificate registered in the name of the
Sponsor or any Affiliate thereof shall be deemed not to be outstanding;
provided, however, that, solely for the purpose of determining whether the
Indenture Trustee is entitled to rely upon any such action or consent, only
Notes or Certificates which the Owner Trustee, or the Indenture Trustee,
respectively, knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded.
ARTICLE II
Organization
SECTION 2.1. Name. There is hereby formed a trust to be known
as "GreenPoint Home Equity Loan Trust 1999-2", in which name the Owner Trustee
may conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Trust and xxx and be sued.
SECTION 2.2. Office. The office of the Trust shall be in
the care of the Owner Trustee at the Corporate ------ Trust Office or at such
other address as the Owner Trustee may designate by written notice to the
Certificateholders and the Sponsor.
SECTION 2.3. Purposes and Powers.
(a) The purpose of the Trust is, and the Trust shall have the
power and authority, to engage in the following activities:
(i) to issue the Notes pursuant to the Indenture and the
Certificates pursuant to this Agreement, and to sell the Notes;
(ii) to assign, grant, transfer, pledge, mortgage and convey
the Owner Trust Estate to the Indenture Trustee on behalf of the
Noteholders and for the benefit of the Insurer and to hold, manage and
distribute to the Certificateholders pursuant to the terms of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement any portion of the Owner Trust Estate released
from the Lien of, and remitted to the Trust pursuant to, the Indenture;
(iii) with the proceeds of the sale of the Notes, to fund the
Pre-Funding Account and to pay the organizational, start-up and
transactional expenses of the Trust and to pay the balance to the
Sponsor pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement;
(iv) to enter into and perform its obligations under the Basic
Documents to which it is a party;
(v) to engage in those activities, including entering into
agreements, that are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish
the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and
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(vi) subject to compliance with the Basic Documents, to engage
in such other activities as may be required in connection with
conservation of the Owner Trust Estate and the making of distributions
to the Certificateholders and the Noteholders.
The Trust is hereby authorized to engage in the foregoing activities. The Trust
shall not engage in any activity other than in connection with the foregoing or
other than as required or authorized by the terms of this Agreement or the Basic
Documents.
SECTION 2.4 Appointment of Owner Trustee. The Sponsor hereby
appoints the Owner Trustee as trustee of the Trust effective as of the date
hereof, to have all the rights, powers and duties set forth herein.
SECTION 2.5. Initial Capital Contribution of Trust Estate.
The Sponsor hereby sells, assigns, transfers, conveys and sets over to the Owner
Trustee, as of the date hereof, the sum of $1. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges receipt in trust from the Sponsor, as of the date hereof, of the
foregoing contribution, which shall constitute the initial Owner Trust Estate
and shall be deposited in the Collection Account. On or prior to the Closing
Date, the Owner Trustee will also, upon receipt thereof, acknowledge on behalf
of the Trust receipt of the Mortgage Loans pursuant to the Sale and Servicing
Agreement. The Sponsor shall pay organizational expenses of the Trust as they
may arise or shall, upon the request of the Owner Trustee, promptly reimburse
the Owner Trustee for any such expenses paid by the Owner Trustee.
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust. The Owner Trustee hereby
declares that it will hold the Owner Trust Estate in trust upon and subject to
the conditions set forth herein for the use and benefit of the
Certificateholders, subject to the obligations of the Trust under the Basic
Documents. It is the intention of the parties hereto that the Trust constitute a
business trust under the Business Trust Statute and that this Agreement
constitute the governing instrument of such business trust. It is the intention
of the parties hereto that, solely for income tax purposes, the Trust shall be
treated as a branch; provided, however, that in the event Certificates are owned
by more than one Certificateholder, it is the intention of the parties hereto
that, solely for income and franchise tax purposes, the Trust shall then be
treated as a partnership and that, unless otherwise required by appropriate tax
authorities, only after such time the Trust will file or cause to be filed
annual or other necessary returns, reports and other forms consistent with the
characterization of the Trust as a partnership for such tax purposes. Effective
as of the date hereof, the Owner Trustee shall have all rights, powers and
duties set forth herein and to the extent not inconsistent herewith, in the
Business Trust Statute with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust.
The Owner Trustee shall file the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of
State.
SECTION 2.7. Liability. No Holder shall have any personal
liability for any liability or obligation of the Trust.
SECTION 2.8. Title to Trust Property.
(a) Legal title to all the Owner Trust Estate shall be vested
at all times in the Trust as a separate legal entity except where applicable law
in any jurisdiction requires title to
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any part of the Owner Trust Estate to be vested in a trustee or trustees, in
which case title shall be deemed to be vested in the Owner Trustee, a co-trustee
and/or a separate trustee, as the case may be.
(b) The Holders shall not have legal title to any part of the
Trust Property. The Holders shall be entitled to receive distributions with
respect to their undivided ownership interest therein only in accordance with
Article IX. No transfer, by operation of law or otherwise, of any right, title
or interest by any Certificateholder of its ownership interest in the Owner
Trust Estate shall operate to terminate this Agreement or the trusts hereunder
or entitle any transferee to an accounting or to the transfer to it of legal
title to any part of the Trust Property.
SECTION 2.9. Situs of Trust. The Trust will be located and
administered in the State of Delaware. All bank accounts maintained by the Owner
Trustee on behalf of the Trust shall be located in the State of Delaware or the
State of New York. Payments will be received by the Trust only in Delaware or
New York and payments will be made by the Trust only from Delaware or New York.
The Trust shall not have any employees in any state other than Delaware;
provided, however, that nothing herein shall restrict or prohibit the Owner
Trustee, the Servicer or any agent of the Trust from having employees within or
without the State of Delaware. The only office of the Trust will be at the
Corporate Trust Office in Delaware.
SECTION 2.10. Representations and Warranties of the Sponsor.
The Sponsor makes the following representations and warranties on which the
Owner Trustee relies in accepting the Owner Trust Estate in trust and issuing
the Certificates and upon which the Insurer relies in issuing the Policy.
(a) The Sponsor is duly organized and validly existing as a
Delaware corporation with power and authority to own its properties and to
conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such business is
presently conducted and is proposed to be conducted pursuant to this Agreement
and the Basic Documents;
(b) It is duly qualified to do business as a foreign
corporation in good standing, and has obtained all necessary licenses and
approvals, in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its property,
the conduct of its business and the performance of its obligations under this
Agreement and the Basic Documents requires such qualification;
(c) The Sponsor has the corporate power and authority to
execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms; the Sponsor has
full power and authority to sell and assign the property to be sold and assigned
to and deposited with the Trust and the Sponsor has duly authorized such sale
and assignment and deposit to the Trust by all necessary corporate action; and
the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement has been duly
authorized by the Sponsor by all necessary corporate action;
(d) No consent, license, approval or authorization or
registration or declaration with, any Person or with any governmental authority,
bureau or agency is required in
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connection with the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement and the
Basic Documents, except for such as have been obtained, effected or made;
(e) The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof do not conflict with, result
in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or
without notice or lapse of time) a default under, the certificate of
incorporation or by-laws of the Sponsor, or any material indenture, agreement or
other instrument to which the Sponsor is a party or by which it is bound; nor
result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties
pursuant to the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument
(other than pursuant to the Basic Documents); nor violate any law or, to the
best of the Sponsor's knowledge, any order, rule or regulation applicable to the
Sponsor of any court or of any Federal or state regulatory body, administrative
agency or other governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the
Sponsor or its properties; and
(f) There are no proceedings or investigations pending or, to
its knowledge threatened against it before any court, regulatory body,
administrative agency or other tribunal or governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over it or its properties (A) asserting the invalidity of this
Agreement or any of the Basic Documents, (B) seeking to prevent the issuance of
the Certificates or the Notes or the consummation of any of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement or any of the Basic Documents, (C) seeking any
determination or ruling that might materially and adversely affect its
performance of its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability of, this
Agreement or any of the Basic Documents, or (D) seeking to adversely affect the
federal income tax or other federal, state or local tax attributes of the Notes
or the Certificates.
SECTION 2.11. Federal Income Tax Allocations. In the event
that the Trust is treated as a partnership for Federal income tax purposes, net
income of the Trust for any month as determined for Federal income tax purposes
(and each item of income, gain, loss, credit and deduction entering into the
computation thereof) shall be allocated:
(a) to the extent of available net income, among the
Certificateholders as of the first Record Date following the end of such month,
in proportion to their ownership of principal amount of Certificates on such
date; and
(b) to the Sponsor, to the extent of any remaining net income.
If the net income of the Trust for any month is insufficient for the allocations
described in clause (a) above, subsequent net income shall first be allocated to
make up such shortfall before being allocated as provided in clause (b). Net
losses of the Trust, if any, for any month as determined for Federal income tax
purposes (and each item of income, gain, loss, credit and deduction entering
into the computation thereof) shall be allocated among the Certificateholders as
of the Record Date in proportion to their ownership percentage of principal
amount of Certificates on such Record Date until the principal balance of the
Certificates is reduced to zero. The Sponsor is authorized to modify the
allocations in this paragraph if necessary or appropriate, in its sole
discretion, for the allocations to fairly reflect the economic income, gain or
loss to the Certificateholders, or as otherwise required by the Code.
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SECTION 2.12. Covenants of the Sponsor. The Sponsor agrees and
covenants for the benefit of each Certificateholder, the Insurer and the Owner
Trustee, during the term of this Agreement, and to the fullest extent permitted
by applicable law, that:
(a) it shall not create, incur or suffer to exist any
indebtedness or engage in any business, except, in each case, as permitted by
its certificate of incorporation and the Basic Documents;
(b) it shall not, for any reason, institute proceedings for
the Trust to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or consent to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Trust, or file a
petition seeking or consenting to reorganization or relief under any applicable
federal or state law relating to the bankruptcy of the Trust, or consent to the
appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of the Trust or a substantial part of the property of the
Trust or cause or permit the Trust to make any assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or admit in writing the inability of the Trust to pay its debts
generally as they become due, or declare or effect a moratorium on the debt of
the Trust or take any action in furtherance of any such action;
(c) it shall obtain from each counterparty to each Basic
Document to which it or the Trust is a party and each other agreement entered
into on or after the date hereof to which it or the Trust is a party, an
agreement by each such counterparty that prior to the occurrence of the event
specified in Section 9.1(e) such counterparty shall not institute against, or
join any other Person in instituting against, it or the Trust, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings or other
similar proceedings under the laws of the United States or any state of the
United States; and
(d) it shall not, for any reason, withdraw or attempt to
withdraw from this Agreement, dissolve, institute proceedings for it to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or consent to the institution of bankruptcy
or insolvency proceedings against it, or file a petition seeking or consenting
to reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or state law relating
to bankruptcy, or consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of it or a
substantial part of its property, or make any assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they
become due, or declare or effect a moratorium on its debt or take any action in
furtherance of any such action.
SECTION 2.13. Covenants of the Certificateholders. Each
Certificateholder agrees:
(a) to be bound by the terms and conditions of the
Certificates and of this Agreement, including any supplements or amendments
hereto and to perform the obligations of a Certificateholder as set forth
therein or herein, in all respects as if it were a signatory hereto. This
undertaking is made for the benefit of the Trust, the Owner Trustee, the Insurer
and all other Certificateholders present and future;
(b) to hereby appoint the Sponsor as such Certificateholder's
agent and attorney-in-fact to sign any federal income tax information return
filed on behalf of the Trust, if
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any, and agree that, if requested by the Trust, it will sign such federal income
tax information return in its capacity as holder of an interest in the Trust.
Each Certificateholder also hereby agrees that in its tax returns it will not
take any position inconsistent with those taken in any tax returns that may be
filed by the Trust;
(c) if such Certificateholder is other than an individual or
other entity holding its Certificate through a broker who reports securities
sales on Form 1099-B, to notify the Owner Trustee of any transfer by it of a
Certificate in a taxable sale or exchange, within 30 days of the date of the
transfer; and
(d) until the completion of the events specified in Section
9.1(e), not to, for any reason, institute proceedings for the Trust or the
Sponsor to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or consent to the institution
of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Trust, or file a petition
seeking or consenting to reorganization or relief under any applicable federal
or state law relating to bankruptcy, or consent to the appointment of a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar
official) of the Sponsor or the Trust or a substantial part of its property, or
cause or permit the Sponsor or the Trust to make any assignment for the benefit
of its creditors, or admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally
as they become due, or declare or effect a moratorium on its debt or take any
action in furtherance of any such action.
Except as provided in Section 2.13, and notwithstanding any
other provision to the contrary in this Agreement, no Certificateholder other
than the Sponsor in its capacity as the "Sponsor" shall be deemed to have
adopted, be bound by, or succeed in any way to any representation by, or duty of
indemnification by or any other duty of, the Sponsor, including those contained
in Sections 2.10, 2.12, 3.6, 8.2 or elsewhere herein.
ARTICLE III
Certificates and Transfer of Interests
SECTION 3.1. Initial Ownership. Upon the formation of the
Trust by the contribution by the Sponsor pursuant to Section 2.5, the Owner
Trustee, contemporaneously therewith, having full power, authority, and
authorization to do so, has executed, authenticated, dated, issued, and
delivered, in the name and on behalf of the Trust, to the Sponsor, one (1) or
more Certificates representing in the aggregate a 100% interest in the Trust,
and has registered such Certificate(s) on the Certificate Register in the name
of the Sponsor. The Sponsor shall be the sole beneficiary of the Trust. Such
Certificate(s) are duly authorized, validly issued, and entitled to the benefits
of this Agreement. For so long as the Sponsor shall own such 100% interest in
the Trust, the Sponsor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust. The
Sponsor shall at all times keep and own a Certificate or Certificates
representing no less than 1% interest, and at no time will the Sponsor sell or
alienate its interest represented by Certificate(s) in such a way as to reduce
its aggregate beneficial ownership in the Trust to less than 1%.
SECTION 3.2. The Certificates. The Certificates shall be
issued in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1000 in excess
thereof. The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual or
facsimile signature of an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee. Certificates
bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
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were, at the time when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to
sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefit
of this Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall
have ceased to be so authorized prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of authentication and
delivery of such Certificates. A transferee of a Certificate shall become a
Certificateholder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the
obligations of a Certificateholder hereunder, upon due registration of such
Certificate in such transferee's name pursuant to Section 3.4.
SECTION 3.3. Authentication of Certificates. Concurrently
with the initial sale of the Mortgage Loans to the Trust pursuant to the Sale
and Servicing Agreement, the Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificates to be
executed on behalf of the Trust, authenticated and delivered to or upon the
written order of the Sponsor, signed by its chairman of the board, its president
or any vice president, its treasurer or any assistant treasurer without further
corporate action by the Sponsor, in authorized denominations. No Certificate
shall entitle its holder to any benefit under this Agreement, or shall be valid
for any purpose, unless there shall appear on such Certificate a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A, executed by the
Owner Trustee, by manual signature; such authentication shall constitute
conclusive evidence that such Certificate shall have been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder. All Certificates shall be dated the date of their
authentication.
SECTION 3.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of
Certificates. The Certificate Registrar shall keep or cause to be kept, at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 3.8, a Certificate Register in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Owner
Trustee shall provide for the registration of Certificates and of transfers and
exchanges of Certificates as herein provided. The Owner Trustee shall be the
initial Certificate Registrar.
In furtherance of and not in limitation of the foregoing, each
Certificateholder, by acceptance of its Certificate, specifically acknowledges
that it has no right to or interest in any monies at any time held in the
Reserve Fund or the Pre-Funding Account prior to the release of such monies
pursuant to Section 8.6(d)(ix) of the Indenture, such monies being held in trust
for the benefit of the Noteholders and the Insurer. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, in the event that it is ever determined that the monies held in the
Reserve Fund or the Pre-Funding Account constitute a pledge of collateral, then
the provisions of the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be considered to
constitute a security agreement and the Sponsor and the Certificateholders
hereby grant to the Indenture Trustee and the Insurer a first priority perfected
security interest in such amounts. In addition, each Certificateholder, by
acceptance of its Certificate, hereby appoints the Sponsor as its agent to
pledge a first priority perfected security interest in the Reserve Fund and the
Pre-Funding Account, and any amounts held therein from time to time to the
Indenture Trustee and the Insurer and agrees to execute and deliver such
instruments of conveyance, assignment, grant, confirmation, etc., as well as any
financing statements, in each case as the Insurer shall consider reasonably
necessary in order to perfect the Indenture Trustee's security interest in the
Mortgage Loans.
SECTION 3.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Certificates. If (a) any mutilated Certificate shall be surrendered to the
Certificate
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Registrar, or if the Certificate Registrar shall receive evidence to its
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate and (b) there
shall be delivered to the Certificate Registrar, the Owner Trustee and the
Insurer such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of
them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Certificate shall have
been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Owner Trustee on behalf of the Trust
shall execute and the Owner Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange
for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a
new Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the
issuance of any new Certificate under this Section, the Owner Trustee or the
Certificate Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith.
Any duplicate Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute
conclusive evidence of an ownership interest in the Trust, as if originally
issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Certificate shall be found
at any time.
SECTION 3.6. Persons Deemed Certificateholders. Every Person
by virtue of becoming a Certificateholder in accordance with this Agreement and
the rules and regulations of the Certificate Registrar shall be deemed to be
bound by the terms of this Agreement. Prior to due presentation of a Certificate
for registration of transfer, the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and
the Insurer and any agent of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar and
the Insurer, may treat the Person in whose name any Certificate shall be
registered in the Certificate Register as the owner of such Certificate for the
purpose of receiving distributions pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement
and the Indenture and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Insurer nor any agent of the Owner
Trustee, the Certificate Registrar or the Insurer shall be bound by any notice
to the contrary.
SECTION 3.7. Access to List of Certificateholders' Names and
Addresses. The Owner Trustee shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Servicer, the Sponsor or the Insurer, within 15 days after receipt by the Owner
Trustee of a request therefor from such Person in writing, a list, of the names
and addresses of the Certificateholders as of the most recent Record Date. If
three or more Holders of Certificates or one or more Holders of Certificates
evidencing not less than 25% by Percentage Interest apply in writing to the
Owner Trustee, and such application states that the applicants desire to
communicate with other Certificateholders with respect to their rights under
this Agreement or under the Certificates and such application is accompanied by
a copy of the communication that such applicants propose to transmit, then the
Owner Trustee shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of such
application, afford such applicants access during normal business hours to the
current list of Certificateholders. Each Holder, by receiving and holding a
Certificate, shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold any of the Sponsor, the
Servicer, the Owner Trustee or the Insurer or any agent thereof accountable by
reason of the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from
which such information was derived.
SECTION 3.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Owner
Trustee shall maintain in Wilmington, Delaware an office or offices or agency or
agencies where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Owner Trustee in respect
of the Certificates and the Basic Documents may be served. The Owner Trustee
initially designates its Corporate Trust Office for such purposes. The Owner
Trustee shall give prompt written notice to the Sponsor, the Certificateholders
and the Insurer of any change in the location of the Certificate Register or any
such office or agency.
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SECTION 3.9. ERISA Restrictions. The Certificates may not be
acquired by or for the account of (i) an employee benefit plan (as defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA that is subject to the provisions of Title I of ERISA,
(ii) a plan described in Section 4975(e)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended, or (iii) any entity whose underlying assets include plan
assets by reason of a plan's investment in the entity (each, a "Benefit Plan").
By accepting and holding its beneficial ownership interest in its Certificate,
the Holder thereof shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that it is
not a Benefit Plan.
SECTION 3.10. Restrictions on Transfer of Certificates.
(a) The Certificates shall be assigned, transferred,
exchanged, pledged, financed, hypothecated or otherwise conveyed (collectively,
for purposes of this Section 3.10 and any other Section referring to the
Certificates, "transferred" or a "transfer") only in accordance with this
Section 3.10.
(b) No transfer of a Certificate shall be made unless such
transfer is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and any applicable state securities laws or is made in
accordance with said Act and laws. Except for the initial issuance of the
Certificate to the Sponsor, the Indenture Trustee shall require (i) the
transferee to execute an investment letter acceptable to and in form and
substance satisfactory to the Indenture Trustee and the Insurer certifying to
the Indenture Trustee and the Insurer the facts surrounding such transfer, which
investment letter shall not be an expense of the Indenture Trustee or the
Insurer or (ii) if the investment letter is not delivered, a written Opinion of
Counsel acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the Indenture
Trustee, the Insurer and the Sponsor that such transfer may be made pursuant to
an exemption, describing the applicable exemption and the basis therefor from
said Act or is being made pursuant to said Act, which Opinion of Counsel shall
not be an expense of the Indenture Trustee, the Insurer or the Sponsor. The
Holder of a Certificate desiring to effect such transfer shall, and does hereby
agree to, indemnify the Sponsor and the Insurer against any liability that may
result if the transfer is not so exempt or is not made in accordance with such
federal and state laws.
(c) The Certificate and any interest therein shall not be
transferred except upon satisfaction of the following conditions precedent: (i)
the Person that acquires a Certificate shall (A) be organized and existing under
the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of
Columbia; (B) expressly assume, by an agreement supplemental hereto, executed
and delivered to the Indenture Trustee and the Insurer, the performance of every
covenant and obligation of the Sponsor hereunder and (C) as part of its
acquisition of a Certificate, acquire all rights of the Sponsor or any
transferee under this Section 3.10(c) to amounts payable to such Sponsor or such
transferee under Section 8.6(d)(xiii) of the Indenture; (ii) the Holder of the
Certificates shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Insurer an Officer's
Certificate stating that such transfer and such supplemental agreement comply
with this Section 3.10(c) and that all conditions precedent provided by this
Section 3.10(c) have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that
all conditions precedent provided by this Section 3.10(c) have been complied
with, and the Indenture Trustee may conclusively rely on such Officer's
Certificate, shall have no duty to make inquiries with regard to the matters set
forth therein and shall incur no liability in so relying; (iii) the Holder of
the Certificates shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Insurer a letter
from each Rating Agency confirming that
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its rating of the Notes, after giving effect to such transfer, will not be
reduced or withdrawn without regard to the Policy; (iv) the transferee of the
Certificates shall deliver to the Indenture Trustee and the Insurer an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that (a) such transfer will not adversely affect the
treatment of the Notes after such transfer as debt for federal and applicable
state income tax purposes, (b) such transfer will not result in the Trust being
subject to tax at the entity level for federal or applicable state tax purposes,
(c) such transfer will not have any material adverse impact on the federal or
applicable state income taxation of a Noteholder or any Certificateholder and
(d) such transfer will not result in the arrangement created by this Agreement
or any "portion" of the Trust, being treated as a taxable mortgage pool as
defined in Section 7701(i) of the Code; (v) all filings and other actions
necessary to continue the perfection of the interest of the Trust in the
Mortgage Loans and the other property conveyed hereunder shall have been taken
or made and (vi) the Insurer shall have consented to such transfer.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the requirement set forth in subclause (i)(A) of
this Section 3.10(c) shall not apply in the event the Indenture Trustee shall
have received a letter from each Rating Agency confirming that its rating of the
Notes, after giving effect to a proposed transfer to a Person that does not meet
the requirement set forth in subclause (i)(A), shall not be reduced or withdrawn
without regard to the Policy. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the requirements
set forth in this paragraph (c) shall not apply to the initial issuance of the
Certificates to the Sponsor.
Except for the initial issuance of the Certificate to the
Sponsor, no transfer of a Certificate shall be made unless the Indenture Trustee
and the Insurer shall have received a representation letter from the transferee
of such Certificate, acceptable to and in form and substance satisfactory to the
Indenture Trustee and the Insurer, to the effect that such transferee is not a
Benefit Plan, nor a Person acting on behalf of or using the assets of a Benefit
Plan, which representation letter shall not be an expense of the Indenture
Trustee or the Insurer.
(d) No transfer or pledge of the Certificates shall result in
more than 98 other holders of Certificates.
SECTION 3.11. Acceptance of Obligations. The Sponsor, by its
acceptance of the Certificates, agrees to be bound by and to perform all the
duties of the Sponsor set forth in this Agreement.
SECTION 3.12. Distributions on Certificates. The Holders of
the Certificates will be entitled to distributions on each Payment Date, as
provided in the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture.
ARTICLE IV
Voting Rights and Other Actions
SECTION 4.1. Prior Notice to Holders with Respect to Certain
Matters. With respect to the following matters, the Owner Trustee shall not take
action unless at least 30 days before the taking of such action, the Owner
Trustee shall have notified the Certificateholders in writing of the proposed
action and the Certificateholders shall not have notified the Owner Trustee in
writing prior to the 30th day after such notice is given that such
Certificateholders have withheld consent or provided alternative direction:
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(a) the election by the Trust to file an amendment to the
Certificate of Trust (unless such amendment is required to be filed under the
Business Trust Statute or unless such amendment would not materially and
adversely affect the interests of the Holders);
(b) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture
in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is required;
(c) the amendment of the Indenture by a supplemental indenture
in circumstances where the consent of any Noteholder is not required and such
amendment materially adversely affects the interest of the Certificateholders;
or
(d) except pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, the amendment, change or modification of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement, except to cure any ambiguity or defect or to amend or supplement any
provision in a manner that would not materially adversely affect the interests
of the Certificateholders.
The Owner Trustee shall notify the Certificateholders in writing of any
appointment of a successor Note Registrar, or Certificate Registrar within five
Business Days thereof.
SECTION 4.2. Action by Certificateholders with Respect to
Certain Matters.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall not have the power, except upon
the direction of the Insurer, to (i) remove the Servicer under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement or (ii) except as expressly provided in the Basic Documents,
sell the Mortgage Loans after the termination of the Indenture. The Owner
Trustee shall take the actions referred to in the preceding sentence only upon
written instructions signed by the Insurer or the Securityholders, and the
furnishing of indemnification satisfactory to the Owner Trustee by the
Certificateholders.
(b) Upon the written request of any Certificateholder (a
"Proposer"), the Owner Trustee shall distribute promptly to all
Certificateholders any request for action or consent of Certificateholders
submitted by such Proposer, with a copy to the Manager. The Owner Trustee shall
provide a reasonable method for collecting responses to such request and shall
tabulate and report the results thereof to the Certificateholders and the
Manager. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility or duty to determine if
any such proposed action or consent is permitted under the terms of this
Agreement or applicable law.
SECTION 4.3. Action by Certificateholders with Respect to
Bankruptcy. Until one year and one day following the day on which the Notes have
been paid in full, the Owner Trustee shall not have the power to, and shall not,
commence any proceeding or other actions contemplated by Section 2.12(b)
relating to the Trust without the prior written consent of the Insurer. Until
one year and one day following the day on which the Notes have been paid in
full, all amounts due to the Insurer under the Insurance Agreement have been
paid in full, the Policy has terminated and the Indenture Trustee has
surrendered the Policy to the Insurer, the Owner Trustee shall not have the
power to, and shall not, commence any proceeding or other actions contemplated
by Section 2.12(b) relating to the Trust without the prior written consent of
all of the Certificateholders and the delivery to the Owner Trustee by each such
Certificateholder of a certificate certifying that such Certificateholder
reasonably believes that the Trust is insolvent.
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SECTION 4.4. Restrictions on Certificateholders' Power.
(a) The Certificateholders shall not direct the Owner Trustee
to take or refrain from taking any action if such action or inaction would be
contrary to any obligation of the Trust or the Owner Trustee under this
Agreement or any of the Basic Documents or would be contrary to Section 2.3 or
otherwise contrary to law nor shall the Owner Trustee be obligated to follow any
such direction, if given.
(b) No Certificateholder (other than the Sponsor as sole
Certificateholder) shall have any right by virtue or by availing itself of any
provisions of this Agreement to institute any suit, action, or proceeding in
equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Agreement or any Basic
Document, unless the Certificateholders are the Instructing Party pursuant to
Section 6.3 and unless a Certificateholder previously shall have given to the
Owner Trustee a written notice of default and of the continuance thereof, as
provided in this Agreement, and also unless Certificateholders evidencing not
less than 25% by Percentage Interest shall have made written request upon the
Owner Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as
Owner Trustee under this Agreement and shall have offered to the Owner Trustee
such reasonable indemnity as it may require against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the Owner Trustee, for 30
days after its receipt of such notice, request, and offer of indemnity, shall
have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit, or proceeding, and
during such 30-day period no request or waiver inconsistent with such written
request has been given to the Owner Trustee pursuant to and in compliance with
this Section or Section 6.3; it being understood and intended, and being
expressly covenanted by each Certificateholder with every other
Certificateholder and the Owner Trustee, that no one or more Holders of
Certificates shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue or by
availing itself or themselves of any provisions of this Agreement to affect,
disturb, or prejudice the rights of the Holders of any other of the
Certificates, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any
other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Agreement, except in the
manner provided in this Agreement and for the equal, ratable, and common benefit
of all Certificateholders. For the protection and enforcement of the provisions
of this Section 4.4, each and every Certificateholder and the Owner Trustee
shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
SECTION 4.5. Majority Control. No Certificateholder shall
have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise control the operation and
management of the Trust except as expressly provided in this Agreement. Except
as expressly provided herein, any action that may be taken by the
Certificateholders under this Agreement may be taken by the Holders of
Certificates evidencing not less than a majority interest in the Trust. Except
as expressly provided herein, any written notice of the Certificateholders
delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective if signed by
Certificateholders evidencing not less than a majority interest in the Trust at
the time of the delivery of such notice.
SECTION 4.6. Rights of Insurer. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary in the Basic Documents, without the prior written consent of the
Insurer the Owner Trustee shall not (i) remove the Servicer, (ii) initiate any
claim, suit or proceeding by the Trust or compromise any claim, suit or
proceeding brought by or against the Trust, other than with respect to the
enforcement of any Mortgage Loan or any rights of the Trust thereunder, (iii)
authorize the
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merger or consolidation of the Trust with or into any other business trust or
other entity, (iv) amend the Certificate of Trust or (v) amend this Agreement in
accordance with Section 11.1 of this Agreement.
ARTICLE V
Certain Duties
SECTION 5.1. Accounting and Records to the Noteholders,
Certificateholders, the Internal Revenue Service and Others. Subject to Sections
8.01(b)(iii) and 8.01(c) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, the Sponsor shall
(a) maintain (or cause to be maintained) the books of the Trust on a calendar
year basis on the accrual method of accounting, including, without limitation,
the allocations of net income under Section 2.11 hereof, (b) deliver (or cause
to be delivered) to each Certificateholder, as may be required by the Code and
applicable Treasury Regulations, such information as may be required (including
Schedule K-1, if applicable) to enable each Certificateholder to prepare its
Federal and state income tax returns, (c) file or cause to be filed, if
necessary, such tax returns relating to the Trust (including a partnership
information return, Form 1065), and direct the Owner Trustee or the Servicer, as
the case may be, to make such elections as may from time to time be required or
appropriate under any applicable state or Federal statute or rule or regulation
thereunder so as to maintain the Trust's characterization as a branch, or if
applicable, as a partnership, for Federal income tax purposes and (d) collect or
cause to be collected any withholding tax as described in and in accordance with
Section 8.01(b)(ii) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement with respect to income
or distributions to Certificateholders and the appropriate forms relating
thereto. The Owner Trustee or the Servicer, as the case may be, shall make all
elections pursuant to this Section as directed in writing by the Sponsor. The
Owner Trustee shall sign all tax information returns, if any, filed pursuant to
this Section 5.1 and any other returns as may be required by law, and in doing
so shall rely entirely upon, and shall have no liability for information
provided by, or calculations provided by, the Sponsor or the Servicer. The
Sponsor will direct the Owner Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall elect under
Section 1278 of the Code to include in income currently any market discount that
accrues with respect to the Mortgage Loans. The Sponsor shall not direct the
Owner Trustee and the Owner Trustee shall not make the election provided under
Section 754 of the Code.
SECTION 5.2. Signature on Returns; Tax Matters Partner.
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.1 and in the
event that the Trust is characterized as a partnership, the Owner Trustee shall
sign on behalf of the Trust the tax returns of the Trust, unless applicable law
requires a Certificateholder to sign such documents, in which case such
documents shall be signed by the Sponsor.
(b) In the event that the Trust is characterized as a
partnership, the Sponsor shall be the "tax matters partner" of the Trust
pursuant to the Code.
SECTION 5.3. Underwriting Agreement. The Servicer is hereby
authorized to execute and deliver the Underwriting Agreement with respect to the
Notes.
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ARTICLE VI
Authority and Duties of Owner Trustee
SECTION 6.1. General Authority. The Owner Trustee is
authorized and directed to execute and deliver the Basic Documents to which the
Trust is named as a party and each certificate or other document attached as an
exhibit to or contemplated by the Basic Documents to which the Trust is named as
a party and any amendment thereto, in each case, in such form as the Sponsor
shall approve as evidenced conclusively by the Owner Trustee's execution
thereof, and on behalf of the Trust, to direct the Indenture Trustee to
authenticate and deliver Class A-1 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of
$193,275,000 and Class A-2 Notes in the aggregate principal amount of
$52,370,000. In addition to the foregoing, the Owner Trustee is authorized, but
shall not be obligated, to take all actions required of the Trust pursuant to
the Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee is further authorized from time to time
to take such action as the Instructing Party recommends with respect to the
Basic Documents so long as such activities are consistent with the terms of the
Basic Documents. The Owner Trustee may rely on the Manager to carry out any
action that the Owner Trustee is authorized or directed to perform hereunder, to
the extent permitted by the Management Agreement.
SECTION 6.2. General Duties. It shall be the duty of the
Owner Trustee to discharge (or cause to be discharged) all of its
responsibilities pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and to administer the
Trust in the interest of the Holders, subject to the Basic Documents and in
accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Owner Trustee shall be deemed to have discharged its duties and
responsibilities hereunder and under the Basic Documents to the extent the
Servicer has agreed in the Sale and Servicing Agreement to perform any act or to
discharge any duty of the Trust or the Owner Trustee hereunder or under any
Basic Document, and the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or
failure of the Servicer to carry out its obligations under the Sale and
Servicing Agreement or the failure of the Manager to carry out its obligations
under the Management Agreement.
SECTION 6.3. Action upon Instruction.
(a) Subject to Article IV, the Insurer (the "Instructing
Party") shall have the exclusive right to direct the actions of the Owner
Trustee in the management of the Trust, so long as such instructions are not
inconsistent with the express terms set forth herein or in any Basic Document.
The Instructing Party shall not instruct the Owner Trustee in a manner
inconsistent with this Agreement or the Basic Documents. In acting in accordance
with the direction of the Insurer pursuant to this Section or pursuant to
Article IV, the Owner Trustee shall not be deemed to (i) owe any fiduciary
obligation to the Insurer or (ii) have violated any fiduciary responsibility to
the Certificateholders.
(b) The Owner Trustee shall not be required to take any action
hereunder or under any Basic Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonably
determined, or shall have been advised by counsel, that such action is likely to
result in liability on the part of the Owner Trustee or is contrary to the terms
hereof or of any Basic Document or is otherwise contrary to law.
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(c) Whenever the Owner Trustee is unable to decide between
alternative courses of action permitted or required by the terms of this
Agreement or any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee shall promptly give notice
(in such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the
Instructing Party requesting instruction as to the course of action to be
adopted, and to the extent the Owner Trustee acts in good faith in accordance
with any written instruction of the Instructing Party received, the Owner
Trustee shall not be liable on account of such action to any Person. If the
Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within ten days of
such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be
specified in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may,
but shall be under no duty to, notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement, take or refrain from taking such action, not inconsistent with this
Agreement or the Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be in the best interests
of the Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to any Person for such
action or inaction.
(d) In the event that the Owner Trustee is unsure as to the
application of any provision of this Agreement or any Basic Document or any such
provision is ambiguous as to its application, or is, or appears to be, in
conflict with any other applicable provision, or in the event that this
Agreement permits any determination by the Owner Trustee or is silent or is
incomplete as to the course of action that the Owner Trustee is required to take
with respect to a particular set of facts, the Owner Trustee may give notice (in
such form as shall be appropriate under the circumstances) to the Instructing
Party requesting instruction and, notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement, to the extent that the Owner Trustee acts or refrains from acting in
good faith in accordance with any such instruction received, the Owner Trustee
shall not be liable, on account of such action or inaction, to any Person. If
the Owner Trustee shall not have received appropriate instruction within 10 days
of such notice (or within such shorter period of time as reasonably may be
specified in such notice or may be necessary under the circumstances) it may,
but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action, not
inconsistent with this Agreement or the Basic Documents, as it shall deem to be
in the best interests of the Certificateholders, and shall have no liability to
any Person for such action or inaction.
SECTION 6.4. No Duties Except as Specified in this Agreement
or in Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not have any duty or obligation to
manage, make any payment with respect to, register, record, sell, dispose of, or
otherwise deal with the Owner Trust Estate, or to otherwise take or refrain from
taking any action under, or in connection with, any document contemplated hereby
to which the Owner Trustee is a party, except as expressly provided by the terms
of this Agreement or in any document or written instruction received by the
Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 6.3; and no implied duties or obligations
shall be read into this Agreement or any Basic Document against the Owner
Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall have no responsibility for filing any financing
or continuation statement in any public office at any time or to otherwise
perfect or maintain the perfection of any security interest or lien granted to
it hereunder or to prepare or file any Commission filing for the Trust or to
record this Agreement or any Basic Document. The Owner Trustee nevertheless
agrees that it will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take all action as
may be necessary to discharge any Liens on any part of the Owner Trust Estate
that result from actions by, or claims against, the Owner Trustee (solely in its
individual capacity) and that are not related to the ownership or the
administration of the Owner Trust Estate.
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SECTION 6.5. No Action Except under Specified Documents or
Instructions. The Owner Trustee shall not manage, control, use, sell, dispose of
or otherwise deal with any part of the Owner Trust Estate except (i) in
accordance with the powers granted to and the authority conferred upon the Owner
Trustee pursuant to this Agreement, (ii) in accordance with the Basic Documents
and (iii) in accordance with any document or instruction delivered to the Owner
Trustee pursuant to Section 6.3.
SECTION 6.6. Restrictions. The Owner Trustee shall not take
any action (a) that is inconsistent with the purposes of the Trust set forth in
Section 2.3 or (b) that, to the actual knowledge of the Owner Trustee, would
result in the Trust's becoming taxable as a corporation or a publicly traded
partnership for Federal income tax purposes. The Certificateholders shall not
direct the Owner Trustee to take action that would violate the provisions of
this Section.
ARTICLE VII
Concerning the Owner Trustee
SECTION 7.1. Acceptance of Trust and Duties. The Owner
Trustee accepts the trust hereby created and agrees to perform its duties
hereunder with respect to such trust but only upon the terms of this Agreement.
The Owner Trustee also agrees to disburse all monies actually received by it
constituting part of the Owner Trust Estate upon the terms of the Basic
Documents and this Agreement. The Owner Trustee shall not be answerable or
accountable hereunder or under any Basic Document under any circumstances,
except (i) for its own willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence, (ii)
in the case of the inaccuracy of any representation or warranty contained in
Section 7.3 expressly made by the Owner Trustee in its individual capacity,
(iii) for liabilities arising from the failure of the Owner Trustee to perform
obligations expressly undertaken by it in the last sentence of Section 6.4
hereof, or (iv) for taxes, fees or other charges on, based on or measured by,
any fees, commissions or compensation received by the Owner Trustee. In
particular, but not by way of limitation (and subject to the exceptions set
forth in the preceding sentence):
(a) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment, not constituting gross negligence, made by a Responsible Officer of
the Owner Trustee;
(b) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it if such action or omission is in
accordance with the instructions of the Instructing Party, the Sponsor, the
Servicer or any Certificateholder pursuant to the terms hereof;
(c) or risk funds or otherwise incur any financial liability
in the performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder or under any Basic
Document if the Owner Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is
not reasonably assured or provided to it;
(d) by or arising under any of the Basic Documents, including
the principal of and interest on the Notes;
(e) the Owner Trustee shall not be responsible for or in
respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement or for the due
execution hereof by the Sponsor or for the form,
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character, genuineness, sufficiency, value or validity of any of the Owner Trust
Estate or for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of the Basic
Documents, other than the certificate of authentication on the Certificates, and
the Owner Trustee shall in no event assume or incur any liability, duty or
obligation to the Sponsor, the Insurer, Indenture Trustee, any
Certificateholder, other than as expressly provided for herein and in the Basic
Documents;
(f) the Owner Trustee shall not be liable for the default or
misconduct of the Sponsor, the Insurer, the Indenture Trustee, or the Servicer
under any of the Basic Documents or otherwise and the Owner Trustee shall have
no obligation or liability to perform the obligations under this Agreement or
the Basic Documents that are required to be performed by the Sponsor under this
Agreement, by the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture or the Servicer under
the Sale and Servicing Agreement; and
(g) the Owner Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Agreement, or to institute,
conduct or defend any litigation under this Agreement or otherwise or in
relation to this Agreement or any Basic Document, at the request, order or
direction of the Instructing Party or any of the Certificateholders, unless such
Instructing Party or Certificateholders have offered to the Owner Trustee
security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and
liabilities that may be incurred by the Owner Trustee therein or thereby. The
right of the Owner Trustee to perform any discretionary act enumerated in this
Agreement or in any Basic Document shall not be construed as a duty, and the
Owner Trustee shall not be answerable for other than its gross negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct in the performance of any such act.
SECTION 7.2. Furnishing of Documents. The Owner Trustee shall
furnish to the Certificateholders promptly upon receipt of a written request
therefor, duplicates or copies of all reports, notices, requests, demands,
certificates, financial statements and any other instruments furnished to the
Owner Trustee under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 7.3. Representations and Warranties. The Owner
Trustee hereby represents and warrants, in its individual capacity, to the
Sponsor and the Holders that:
(a) It is a Delaware banking corporation, duly organized and
validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware. It
has all requisite corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and perform
its obligations under this Agreement.
(b) It has taken all corporate action necessary to authorize
the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement, and this Agreement will be
executed and delivered by one of its officers who is duly authorized to execute
and deliver this Agreement on its behalf.
(c) Neither the execution nor the delivery by it of this
Agreement, nor the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby
nor compliance by it with any of the terms or provisions hereof will contravene
any federal or Delaware state law, governmental rule or regulation governing the
banking or trust powers of the Owner Trustee or any judgment or order binding on
it, or constitute any default under its charter documents or by-laws or any
indenture, mortgage, contract, agreement or instrument to which it is a party or
by which any of its properties may be bound.
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SECTION 7.4. Reliance; Advice of Counsel.
(a) The Owner Trustee shall incur no liability to anyone in
acting upon any signature, instrument, notice, resolution, request, consent,
order, certificate, report, opinion, bond or other document or paper believed by
it to be genuine and believed by it to be signed by the proper party or parties.
The Owner Trustee may accept a certified copy of a resolution of the board of
directors or other governing body of any corporate party as conclusive evidence
that such resolution has been duly adopted by such body and that the same is in
full force and effect. As to any fact or matter the method of the determination
of which is not specifically prescribed herein, the Owner Trustee may for all
purposes hereof rely on a certificate, signed by the president or any vice
president or by the treasurer, secretary or other authorized officers of the
relevant party, as to such fact or matter, and such certificate shall constitute
full protection to the Owner Trustee for any action taken or omitted to be taken
by it in good faith in reliance thereon.
(b) In the exercise or administration of the trusts hereunder
and in the performance of its duties and obligations under this Agreement or the
Basic Documents, the Owner Trustee (i) may act directly or through its agents or
attorneys pursuant to agreements entered into with any of them, and (ii) may
consult with counsel, accountants and other skilled persons to be selected with
reasonable care and employed by it. The Owner Trustee shall not be liable for
anything done, suffered or omitted in good faith by it in accordance with the
opinion or advice of any such counsel, accountants or other such persons and
according to such opinion not contrary to this Agreement or any Basic Document.
SECTION 7.5. Not Acting in Individual Capacity. Except as
provided in this Article VII, in accepting the trusts hereby created Wilmington
Trust Company acts solely as Owner Trustee hereunder and not in its individual
capacity and all Persons having any claim against the Owner Trustee by reason of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any Basic Document shall look
only to the Owner Trust Estate for payment or satisfaction thereof.
SECTION 7.6. Owner Trustee Not Liable for Certificates or
Mortgage Loans. The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates (other
than the signature and countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the
Certificates) shall be taken as the statements of the Sponsor and the Owner
Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee
makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Agreement, of
any Basic Document or of the Certificates (other than the signature and
countersignature of the Owner Trustee on the Certificates) or the Notes, or of
any Mortgage Loan or related documents. The Owner Trustee shall at no time have
any responsibility or liability for or with respect to the legality, validity
and enforceability of any Mortgage Loan, or the perfection and priority of any
security interest created by any Mortgage Loan or the maintenance of any such
perfection and priority, or for or with respect to the sufficiency of the Owner
Trust Estate or its ability to generate the payments to be distributed to
Certificateholders under this Agreement or the Noteholders under the Indenture,
including, without limitation: the existence, condition and ownership of any
Mortgage Loan; the existence and enforceability of any insurance thereon; the
existence and contents of any Mortgage Loan on any computer or other record
thereof; the validity of the assignment of any Mortgage Loan to the Trust or of
any intervening assignment; the completeness of any Mortgage Loan; the
performance or enforcement of any Mortgage Loan; the compliance by the Sponsor,
the Servicer or any other Person with any warranty or
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representation made under any Basic Document or in any related document or the
accuracy of any such warranty or representation or any action of the Indenture
Trustee or the Servicer or any subservicer taken in the name of the Owner
Trustee.
SECTION 7.7. Owner Trustee May Own Certificates and Notes.
The Owner Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner
or pledgee of Certificates or Notes and may deal with the Sponsor, the Indenture
Trustee and the Servicer in banking transactions with the same rights as it
would have if it were not Owner Trustee.
SECTION 7.8. Payments from Owner Trust Estate. All payments
to be made by the Owner Trustee under this Agreement or any of the Basic
Documents to which the Trust or the Owner Trustee is a party shall be made only
from the income and proceeds of the Owner Trust Estate and only to the extent
that the Owner Trust shall have received income or proceeds from the Owner Trust
Estate to make such payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Wilmington
Trust Company, or any successor thereto, in its individual capacity, shall not
be liable for any amounts payable under this Agreement or any of the Basic
Documents to which the Trust or the Owner Trustee is a party.
SECTION 7.9. Doing Business in Other Jurisdictions.
Notwithstanding anything contained to the contrary, neither Wilmington Trust
Company or any successor thereto, nor the Owner Trustee shall be required to
take any action in any jurisdiction other than in the State of Delaware if the
taking of such action will, even after the appointment of a co-trustee or
separate trustee in accordance with Section 10.5 hereof, (i) require the consent
or approval or authorization or order of or the giving of notice to, or the
registration with or the taking of any other action in respect of, any state or
other governmental authority or agency of any jurisdiction other than the State
of Delaware ; (ii) result in any fee, tax or other governmental charge under the
laws of the State of Delaware becoming payable by Wilmington Trust Company (or
any successor thereto); or (iii) subject Wilmington Trust Company (or any
successor thereto) to personal jurisdiction in any jurisdiction other than the
State of Delaware for causes of action arising from acts unrelated to the
consummation of the transactions by Wilmington Trust Company (or any successor
thereto) or the Owner Trustee, as the case may be, contemplated hereby.
ARTICLE VIII
Compensation of Owner Trustee
SECTION 8.1. Owner Trustee's Fees and Expenses. The Owner
Trustee shall receive as compensation for its services hereunder such fees as
have been separately agreed upon between the Company and the Owner Trustee, and
the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed by the Sponsor for its
other reasonable expenses hereunder, including the reasonable compensation,
expenses and disbursements of such agents, representatives, experts and counsel
as the Owner Trustee may employ in connection with the exercise and performance
of its rights and its duties hereunder and under the Basic Documents.
SECTION 8.2. Indemnification. The Sponsor shall be liable as
primary obligor for, and shall indemnify the Owner Trustee (in its individual
and trust capacities) and its
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officers, directors, successors, assigns, agents and servants (collectively, the
"Indemnified Parties") from and against, any and all liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, taxes, claims, actions and suits, and any and all reasonable
costs, expenses and disbursements (including reasonable legal fees and expenses)
of any kind and nature whatsoever (collectively, "Expenses") which may (in its
trust or individual capacities) at any time be imposed on, incurred by, or
asserted against the Owner Trustee or any Indemnified Party in any way relating
to or arising out of this Agreement, the Basic Documents, the Owner Trust
Estate, the administration of the Owner Trust Estate or the action or inaction
of the Owner Trustee hereunder, except only that the Sponsor shall not be liable
for or required to indemnify the Owner Trustee from and against Expenses arising
or resulting from any of the matters described in the third sentence of Section
7.1. The indemnities contained in this Section and the rights under Section 8.1
shall survive the resignation or termination of the Owner Trustee or the
termination of this Agreement. In any event of any claim, action or proceeding
for which indemnity will be sought pursuant to this Section, the Owner Trustee's
choice of legal counsel shall be subject to the approval of the Sponsor which
approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.
SECTION 8.3. Payments to the Owner Trustee. Any amounts paid
to the Owner Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall be deemed not to be a
part of the Owner Trust Estate immediately after such payment.
SECTION 8.4. Non-recourse Obligations. Notwithstanding
anything in this Agreement or any Basic Document, the Owner Trustee agrees in
its individual capacity and in its capacity as Owner Trustee for the Trust that
all obligations of the Trust to the Owner Trustee individually or as Owner
Trustee for the Trust shall be recourse to the Owner Trust Estate only and
specifically shall not be recourse to the assets of any Certificateholder.
ARTICLE IX
Termination of Trust Agreement
SECTION 9.1. Termination of Trust Agreement.
(a) This Agreement and the Trust shall terminate and be of no
further force or effect upon the later of (i) the maturity or other liquidation
of the last Mortgage Loan (including the redemption by the Sponsor at its option
of the Notes as described in Section 7.01(b) of the Sale and Servicing
Agreement) and the subsequent distribution of amounts in respect of such
Mortgage Loans as provided in the Basic Documents or (ii) the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to this
Agreement and the payment to the Insurer of all amounts payable or reimbursable
to it pursuant to the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Insurance Agreement;
provided, however, that the rights to indemnification under Section 8.2 and the
rights under Section 8.1 shall survive the termination of the Trust. The
Servicer shall promptly notify the Owner Trustee and the Insurer of any
prospective termination pursuant to this Section 9.1. The bankruptcy,
liquidation, dissolution, death or incapacity of any Certificateholder shall not
(x) operate to terminate this Agreement or the Trust, nor (y) entitle such
Certificateholder's legal representatives or heirs to claim an accounting or to
take any action or proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of all
or any part of the Trust or Owner Trust Estate nor (z) otherwise affect the
rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto.
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(b) Except as provided in clause (a), neither the Sponsor nor
any other Certificateholder shall be entitled to revoke or terminate the Trust.
(c) Notice of any termination of the Trust, specifying the
Payment Date upon which the Certificateholders shall surrender their
Certificates to the Indenture Trustee for payment of the final distribution and
cancellation, shall be given by the Owner Trustee by letter to
Certificateholders mailed within five Business Days of receipt of notice of such
termination from the Servicer given pursuant to Section 7.01(c) of the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, stating (i) the Payment Date upon or with respect to which
final payment of the Certificates shall be made upon presentation and surrender
of the Certificates at the office of the Indenture Trustee therein designated,
(ii) the amount of any such final payment and (iii) that the Record Date
otherwise applicable to such Payment Date is not applicable, payments being made
only upon presentation and surrender of the Certificates at the office of the
Indenture Trustee therein specified. The Owner Trustee shall give such notice to
the Certificate Registrar (if other than the Owner Trustee) and the Indenture
Trustee at the time such notice is given to Certificateholders. Upon
presentation and surrender of the Certificates, the Indenture Trustee shall
cause to be distributed to Certificateholders amounts distributable on such
Payment Date pursuant to Section 8.6(d)(xiii) of the Indenture.
In the event that all of the Certificateholders shall not
surrender their Certificates for cancellation within six months after the date
specified in the above-mentioned written notice, the Owner Trustee shall give a
second written notice to the remaining Certificateholders to surrender their
Certificates for cancellation and receive the final distribution with respect
thereto. If within one year after the second notice all the Certificates shall
not have been surrendered for cancellation, the Owner Trustee may take
appropriate steps, or may appoint an agent to take appropriate steps, to contact
the remaining Certificateholders concerning surrender of their Certificates, and
the cost thereof shall be paid out of the funds and other assets that shall
remain subject to this Agreement. Any funds remaining in the Trust after
exhaustion of such remedies shall be distributed, subject to applicable escheat
laws, by the Owner Trustee to the Sponsor and Holders shall look solely to the
Sponsor for payment.
(d) Any funds remaining in the Trust after funds for final
distribution have been distributed or set aside for distribution shall be
distributed by the Owner Trustee to the Sponsor.
(e) Upon the winding up of the Trust and its termination, the
Owner Trustee shall cause the Certificate of Trust to be canceled by filing a
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of State in accordance with the
provisions of Section 3810 of the Business Trust Statute.
ARTICLE X
Successor Owner Trustees and Additional Owner Trustees
SECTION 10.1. Eligibility Requirements for Owner Trustee. The
Owner Trustee shall at all times be a corporation (i) satisfying the provisions
of Section 3807(a) of the Business Trust Statute; (ii) authorized to exercise
corporate trust powers; (iii) having a combined
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capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or State authorities; (iv) having (or having a parent
which has) a rating of at least Baa3 by Xxxxx'x or A-1 by Standard & Poor's; and
(v) acceptable to the Insurer in its sole discretion. If such corporation shall
publish reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the
purpose of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. In case at any time the Owner Trustee
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section,
the Owner Trustee shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in Section 10.2.
SECTION 10.2. Resignation or Removal of Owner Trustee. The
Owner Trustee may at any time resign and be discharged from the trusts hereby
created by giving written notice thereof to the Sponsor (or in the event that
the Sponsor is not the sole Certificateholder, the Holders of Certificates
evidencing not less than a majority in interest in the Trust), the Insurer and
the Servicer. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Sponsor shall
promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee, meeting the qualifications set forth
in Section 10.1 herein, by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Owner Trustee and one copy to the
successor Owner Trustee, provided that the Sponsor shall have received written
confirmation from each of the Rating Agencies that the proposed appointment will
not result in an increased capital charge to the Insurer by either of the Rating
Agencies. If no successor Owner Trustee shall have been so appointed and have
accepted appointment within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Owner Trustee or the Insurer may petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Owner Trustee.
If at any time the Owner Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.1 and shall fail to resign after
written request therefor by the Sponsor, or if at any time the Owner Trustee
shall be legally unable to act, or shall be adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a
receiver of the Owner Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any
public officer shall take charge or control of the Owner Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation, then the Certificateholder with the consent of the Insurer may
remove the Owner Trustee. If the Certificateholder shall remove the Owner
Trustee under the authority of the immediately preceding sentence, the Sponsor
shall promptly appoint a successor Owner Trustee, meeting the qualifications set
forth in Section 10.1 herein, by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of
which instrument shall be delivered to the outgoing Owner Trustee so removed,
one copy to the Insurer and one copy to the successor Owner Trustee and the
Sponsor shall pay all fees owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee, if not previously
paid by the Trust.
Any resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee and
appointment of a successor Owner Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of
this Section shall not become effective until acceptance of appointment by the
successor Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 10.3 and payment of all fees and
expenses owed to the outgoing Owner Trustee. The Sponsor shall provide notice of
such resignation or removal of the Owner Trustee to each of the Rating Agencies.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, and in
addition to any other method of removal of the Owner Trustee contained herein,
upon a proposal made pursuant to Section 4.2(b) and the subsequent consent of
Certificateholders representing no less than a 66-2/3% interest in the Trust,
the Owner Trustee may be removed as Owner Trustee , subject to the consent of
the Insurer, which consent is not to be unreasonably withheld. In the event the
Owner Trustee is removed pursuant to this paragraph, the provisions of this
Agreement, including Article X herein, shall apply as if the Owner Trustee had
resigned hereunder.
SECTION 10.3. Successor Owner Trustee. Any successor Owner
Trustee appointed pursuant to Section 10.2 shall execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Sponsor, the Servicer, the Insurer and to its predecessor Owner
Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment under this Agreement, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Owner Trustee shall
become effective and such successor Owner Trustee, without any further act, deed
or conveyance, shall become fully vested with all the rights, powers, duties and
obligations of its predecessor under this Agreement, with like effect as if
originally named as Owner Trustee. The predecessor Owner Trustee shall upon
payment of its fees and expenses deliver to the successor Owner Trustee all
documents and statements and monies held by it under this Agreement; and the
Sponsor and the predecessor Owner Trustee shall execute and deliver such
instruments and do such other things as may reasonably be required for fully and
certainly vesting and confirming in the successor Owner Trustee all such rights,
powers, duties and obligations.
No successor Owner Trustee shall accept appointment as
provided in this Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor
Owner Trustee shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.1.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Owner Trustee
pursuant to this Section, the Servicer shall mail notice of the successor of
such Owner Trustee to all Certificateholders, the Indenture Trustee, the
Noteholders and the Rating Agencies. If the Servicer shall fail to mail such
notice within 10 days after acceptance of appointment by the successor Owner
Trustee, the successor Owner Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the
expense of the Servicer.
SECTION 10.4. Merger or Consolidation of Owner Trustee. Any
corporation into which the Owner Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Owner Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Owner Trustee, shall be the successor of the Owner Trustee
hereunder, provided such corporation shall be eligible pursuant to Section 10.1,
without the execution or filing of any instrument or any further act on the part
of any of the parties hereto, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding;
provided, further, that the Owner Trustee shall mail notice of such merger or
consolidation to the Rating Agencies.
SECTION 10.5. Appointment of Co-Owner Trustee or Separate
Owner Trustee. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, at any
time, for the purpose of meeting any legal requirements of any jurisdiction in
which any part of the Owner Trust Estate or any Mortgaged Property may at the
time be located, the Servicer and the Owner Trustee acting
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jointly shall have the power and shall execute and deliver all instruments to
appoint one or more Persons approved by the Owner Trustee and the Insurer to act
as co-trustee, jointly with the Owner Trustee, or separate trustee or separate
trustees, of all or any part of the Owner Trust Estate, and to vest in such
Person, in such capacity, such title to the Trust, or any part thereof, and,
subject to the other provisions of this Section, such powers, duties,
obligations, rights and trusts as the Servicer and the Owner Trustee may
consider necessary or desirable. If the Servicer shall not have joined in such
appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, the
Owner Trustee subject to the approval of the Insurer (which approval shall not
be unreasonably withheld) shall have the power to make such appointment. No
co-trustee or separate trustee under this Agreement shall be required to meet
the terms of eligibility as a successor trustee pursuant to Section 10.1 and no
notice of the appointment of any co-trustee or separate trustee shall be
required pursuant to Section 10.3.
Each separate trustee and co-trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be appointed and act subject to the following provisions and
conditions:
(i) all rights, powers, duties and obligations conferred or
imposed upon the Owner Trustee shall be conferred upon and exercised or
performed by the Owner Trustee and such separate trustee or co-trustee
jointly (it being understood that such separate trustee or co-trustee
is not authorized to act separately without the Owner Trustee joining
in such act), except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act or acts are to be performed,
the Owner Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such
act or acts, in which event such rights, powers, duties and obligations
(including the holding of title to the Trust or any portion thereof in
any such jurisdiction) shall be exercised and performed singly by such
separate trustee or co-trustee, but solely at the direction of the
Owner Trustee;
(ii) no trustee under this Agreement shall be personally
liable by reason of any act or omission of any other trustee under this
Agreement; and
(iii) the Servicer and the Owner Trustee acting jointly may at
any time accept the resignation of or remove any separate trustee or
co-trustee.
Any notice, request or other writing given to the Owner
Trustee shall be deemed to have been given to each of the then separate trustees
and co-trustees, as effectively as if given to each of them. Every instrument
appointing any separate trustee or co-trustee shall refer to this Agreement and
the conditions of this Article. Each separate trustee and co-trustee, upon its
acceptance of the trusts conferred, shall be vested with the estates or property
specified in its instrument of appointment, either jointly with the Owner
Trustee or separately, as may be provided therein, subject to all the provisions
of this Agreement, specifically including every provision of this Agreement
relating to the conduct of, affecting the liability of, or affording protection
to, the Owner Trustee. Each such instrument shall be filed with the Owner
Trustee and a copy thereof given to the Servicer and the Insurer.
Any separate trustee or co-trustee may at any time appoint the
Owner Trustee, its agent or attorney-in-fact with full power and authority, to
the extent not prohibited by law, to do any lawful act under or in respect of
this Agreement on its behalf and in its name. If any
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separate trustee or co-trustee shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or
be removed, all of its estates, properties, rights, remedies and trusts shall
vest in and be exercised by the Owner Trustee, to the extent permitted by law,
without the appointment of a new or successor trustee.
ARTICLE XI
Miscellaneous
SECTION 11.1. Supplements and Amendments.
(a) This Agreement may be amended by the Sponsor and the Owner
Trustee, with the prior written consent of the Insurer and with prior written
notice to the Rating Agencies, without the consent of any of the Noteholders or,
in the event that the Sponsor is not the sole Certificateholder, the
Certificateholders, (i) to cure any ambiguity or defect or (ii) to correct,
supplement or modify any provisions in this Agreement; provided, however, that
such action shall not, as evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel which may be based
upon a certificate of the Servicer, adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of any Noteholder or Certificateholder.
(b) This Agreement may also be amended from time to time, with
the prior written consent of the Insurer by the Sponsor and the Owner Trustee,
with prior written notice to the Rating Agencies, and, to the extent such
amendment materially and adversely affects the interests of the Noteholders,
with the consent of the Noteholders evidencing not less than a majority of the
Outstanding Amount of the Notes and, the consent of the Certificateholders
evidencing not less than a majority interest in the Trust (which consent of any
Holder of a Certificate or Note given pursuant to this Section or pursuant to
any other provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on such
Holder and on all future Holders of such Certificate or Note and of any
Certificate or Note issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange thereof or
in lieu thereof whether or not notation of such consent is made upon the
Certificate or Note) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Agreement or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders;
provided, however, that, subject to the express rights of the Insurer under the
Basic Documents, no such amendment shall (a) increase or reduce in any manner
the amount of, or accelerate or delay the timing of, collections of payments on
Mortgage Loans or distributions that shall be required to be made for the
benefit of the Noteholders or the Certificateholders or (b) reduce the aforesaid
percentage of the Outstanding Amount of the Notes and the Certificates, the
Holders of which are required to consent to any such amendment, without the
consent of the Holders of all the outstanding Notes and Holders of all
outstanding Certificates.
Promptly after the execution of any such amendment or consent,
the Owner Trustee shall furnish written notification of the substance of such
amendment or consent to each Certificateholder, the Indenture Trustee and each
of the Rating Agencies.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of
Certificateholders, the Noteholders or the Indenture Trustee pursuant to this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment or consent, but
it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the substance
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thereof. The manner of obtaining such consents (and any other consents of
Certificateholders provided for in this Agreement or in any other Basic
Document) and of evidencing the authorization of the execution thereof by
Certificateholders shall be subject to such reasonable requirements as the Owner
Trustee may prescribe. Promptly after the execution of any amendment to the
Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall cause the filing of such amendment
with the Secretary of State.
Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement or
the Certificate of Trust, the Owner Trustee shall be entitled to receive and
rely upon an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement and that all conditions precedent to
the execution and delivery of such amendment have been satisfied. The Owner
Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which
affects the Owner Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Agreement or otherwise.
SECTION 11.2. No Legal Title to Owner Trust Estate in
Certificateholders. The Certificateholders shall not have legal title to any
part of the Owner Trust Estate. The Certificateholders shall be entitled to
receive distributions with respect to their undivided ownership interest therein
only in accordance with Article IX. No transfer, by operation of law or
otherwise, of any right, title or interest of the Certificateholders to and in
their ownership interest in the Owner Trust Estate shall operate to terminate
this Agreement or the trusts hereunder or entitle any transferee to an
accounting or to the transfer to it of legal title to any part of the Owner
Trust Estate.
SECTION 11.3. Limitations on Rights of Others. Except for
Section 2.7, the provisions of this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the
Owner Trustee, the Sponsor, the Certificateholders, the Servicer and, to the
extent expressly provided herein, the Insurer, the Indenture Trustee and the
Noteholders, and nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be
construed to give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or
claim in the Owner Trust Estate or under or in respect of this Agreement or any
covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.
SECTION 11.4. Notices.
(a) Unless otherwise expressly specified or permitted by the
terms hereof, all notices shall be in writing and shall be deemed given upon
receipt personally delivered, delivered by overnight courier or mailed first
class mail or certified mail, in each case return receipt requested, and shall
be deemed to have been duly given upon receipt, if to the Owner Trustee,
addressed to the Corporate Trust Office; if to the Sponsor, addressed to
GreenPoint Mortgage Securities Inc., 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000,
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000; if to the Insurer, addressed to Insurer, Ambac
Assurance Corporation, Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000,
Attention: Surveillance Department, Telecopy No.: (000) 000-0000; or, as to each
party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written
notice to each other party.
(b) Any notice required or permitted to be given to a
Certificateholder shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at the
address of such Holder as shown in the Certificate Register. Any notice so
mailed within the time prescribed in this Agreement shall be
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conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the
Certificateholder receives such notice.
SECTION 11.5. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement
that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any
such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or
render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
SECTION 11.6. Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be
executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.7. Assignments; Insurer.
(a) This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be
binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted
assigns. This Agreement shall also inure to the benefit of the Insurer. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, all covenants and agreements in this
Agreement which confer rights upon the Insurer shall be for the benefit of and
run directly to the Insurer, and the Insurer shall be entitled to rely on and
enforce such covenants, subject, however, to the limitations on such rights
provided in this Agreement and the Basic Documents. The Insurer may disclaim any
of its rights and powers under this Agreement (but not its duties and
obligations under the Policy) upon delivery of a written notice to the Owner
Trustee.
(b) In accepting instructions from the Insurer pursuant to
Article IV or Section 6.3 of this Agreement, and with respect to any other
obligations of the Owner Trustee to the Insurer under this Agreement, the Owner
Trustee undertakes to perform or observe only its express obligations under this
Agreement, and no implied obligations with respect to the Insurer shall be read
into this Agreement against the Owner Trustee. The Owner Trustee shall not be
deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the Insurer and it is expressly understood
and agreed by the Insurer that the Owner Trustee shall not be personally liable
or responsible for the payment of any amount owing on or with respect to the
Basic Documents or for the failure of the Trust to perform its obligations under
the Basic Documents or any other agreement with respect thereto.
SECTION 11.8. No Petition. The Owner Trustee (not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee), by entering into this
Agreement, each Certificateholder, by accepting a Certificate, and the Indenture
Trustee and each Noteholder by accepting the benefits of this Agreement, hereby
covenants and agrees that they will not at any time institute against the
Sponsor, or join in any institution against the Sponsor of, any bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, or other
proceedings under any United States Federal or state bankruptcy or similar law
in connection with any obligations relating to the Certificates, the Notes, this
Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.9. No Recourse. Each Certificateholder by accepting
a Certificate acknowledges that such Certificateholder's Certificates represent
beneficial interests in the Trust
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only and do not represent interests in or obligations of the Servicer, the
Sponsor, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Insurer or any Affiliate
thereof and no recourse may be had against such parties or their assets, except
as may be expressly set forth or contemplated in this Agreement, the
Certificates or the Basic Documents.
SECTION 11.10. Headings. The headings of the various Articles
and Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define
or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 11.11. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, WITHOUT
REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND
REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH
LAWS.
SECTION 11.12. Servicer. The Servicer is authorized to
prepare, or cause to be prepared, execute and deliver on behalf of the Trust all
such documents, reports, filings, instruments, certificates and opinions as it
shall be the duty of the Trust or Owner Trustee to prepare, file or deliver
pursuant to the Basic Documents. Upon written request, the Owner Trustee shall
execute and deliver to the Servicer a limited power of attorney appointing the
Servicer the Trust's agent and attorney-in-fact to prepare, or cause to be
prepared, execute and deliver all such documents, reports, filings, instruments,
certificates and opinions.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Trust
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers hereunto duly
authorized as of the day and year first above written.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
Owner Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
GREENPOINT MORTGAGE SECURITIES INC.,
Sponsor
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title: Vice President
Acknowledged and Agreed:
GREENPOINT MORTGAGE FUNDING, INC.,
Servicer
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. XxxXxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. XxxXxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
AMBAC ASSURANCE CORPORATION,
Insurer
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxx
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Name: Xxxx X. Xxxx
Title: Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
CERTIFICATE
THIS CERTIFICATE REPRESENTS CERTAIN RESIDUAL RIGHTS TO PAYMENT TO THE EXTENT
DESCRIBED HEREIN AND IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE HELD BY OR TRANSFERRED TO A NON-UNITED STATES
PERSON.
THIS CERTIFICATE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED OR QUALIFIED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE. ANY RESALE, TRANSFER
OR OTHER DISPOSITION OF THIS CERTIFICATE WITHOUT SUCH REGISTRATION OR
QUALIFICATION MAY BE MADE ONLY IN A TRANSACTION WHICH DOES NOT REQUIRE SUCH
REGISTRATION OR QUALIFICATION AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION
3.10 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN.
NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE MADE UNLESS THE TRANSFEREE PROVIDES A
REPRESENTATION LETTER FROM THE TRANSFEREE OF SUCH CERTIFICATE, ACCEPTABLE TO AND
IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE INSURER, TO
THE EFFECT THAT SUCH TRANSFEREE IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN (AS DEFINED IN
SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA) THAT IS SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE I OF ERISA, A
PLAN DESCRIBED IN SECTION 4975(e)(1) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, NOR A PERSON
ACTING ON BEHALF OF OR USING THE ASSETS OF ANY SUCH PLAN, WHICH REPRESENTATION
LETTER SHALL NOT BE AN EXPENSE OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE INSURER.
NO TRANSFER OF A CERTIFICATE SHALL BE MADE UNLESS SUCH TRANSFER IS EXEMPT FROM
THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND ANY
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR IS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SAID ACT AND
LAWS. EXCEPT FOR THE INITIAL ISSUANCE OF THE CERTIFICATE TO THE SPONSOR, THE
INDENTURE TRUSTEE SHALL REQUIRE (i) THE TRANSFEREE TO EXECUTE AN INVESTMENT
LETTER ACCEPTABLE TO AND IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE SATISFACTORY TO THE INDENTURE
TRUSTEE AND THE INSURER CERTIFYING TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE INSURER THE
FACTS SURROUNDING SUCH TRANSFER, WHICH INVESTMENT LETTER SHALL NOT BE AN EXPENSE
OF THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE OR THE INSURER OR (ii) IF THE INVESTMENT LETTER IS NOT
DELIVERED, A WRITTEN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO AND IN FORM AND SUBSTANCE
SATISFACTORY TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE INSURER AND THE SPONSOR
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THAT SUCH TRANSFER MAY BE MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION, DESCRIBING THE
APPLICABLE EXEMPTION AND THE BASIS THEREFOR, FROM SAID ACT OR IS BEING MADE
PURSUANT TO SAID ACT, WHICH OPINION OF COUNSEL SHALL NOT BE AN EXPENSE OF THE
INDENTURE TRUSTEE, THE INSURER OR THE SPONSOR. THE HOLDER OF A CERTIFICATE
DESIRING TO EFFECT SUCH TRANSFER SHALL, AND DOES HEREBY AGREE TO, INDEMNIFY THE
SPONSOR AND THE INSURER AGAINST ANY LIABILITY THAT MAY RESULT IF THE TRANSFER IS
NOT SO EXEMPT OR IS NOT MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH FEDERAL AND STATE LAWS.
THE CERTIFICATES AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN SHALL NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT UPON
SATISFACTION OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS PRECEDENT: (i) THE PERSON THAT ACQUIRES
A CERTIFICATE SHALL (A) BE ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA OR ANY STATE OR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA THEREOF, (B)
EXPRESSLY ASSUME, BY AN AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENTAL HERETO, EXECUTED AND DELIVERED TO
THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE INSURER, THE PERFORMANCE OF EVERY COVENANT AND
OBLIGATION OF THE SPONSOR UNDER THE TRUST AGREEMENT AND (C) AS PART OF ITS
ACQUISITION OF A CERTIFICATE, ACQUIRE ALL RIGHTS OF THE SPONSOR OR ANY
TRANSFEREE UNDER SECTION 3.10 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT TO AMOUNTS PAYABLE TO THE
CERTIFICATE OR SUCH TRANSFEREE UNDER SECTIONS 8.6(D)(XIII) AND 8.5(C) OF THE
INDENTURE; (ii) THE HOLDER OF THE CERTIFICATES SHALL DELIVER TO THE INDENTURE
TRUSTEE AND THE INSURER AN OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE STATING THAT SUCH TRANSFER AND
SUCH SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT COMPLY WITH SECTION 3.10(C) OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT
AND THAT ALL CONDITIONS PRECEDENT PROVIDED BY SECTION 3.10(C) OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT HAVE BEEN COMPLIED WITH AND AN OPINION OF COUNSEL STATING THAT ALL
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT PROVIDED BY SECTION 3.10(C) OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT HAVE
BEEN COMPLIED WITH, AND THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE MAY CONCLUSIVELY RELY ON SUCH
OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE, SHALL HAVE NO DUTY TO MAKE INQUIRIES WITH REGARD TO THE
MATTERS SET FORTH THEREIN AND SHALL INCUR NO LIABILITY IN SO RELYING; (iii) THE
HOLDER OF THE CERTIFICATES SHALL DELIVER TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE
INSURER A LETTER FROM EACH RATING AGENCY CONFIRMING THAT ITS RATING OF THE
NOTES, AFTER GIVING EFFECT TO SUCH TRANSFER, WILL NOT BE REDUCED OR WITHDRAWN
WITHOUT REGARD TO THE POLICY; (iv) THE TRANSFEREE OF THE CERTIFICATES SHALL
DELIVER TO THE INDENTURE TRUSTEE AND THE INSURER AN OPINION OF COUNSEL TO THE
EFFECT THAT (A) SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT ADVERSELY AFFECT THE TREATMENT OF THE
NOTES AFTER SUCH TRANSFER AS DEBT FOR FEDERAL AND APPLICABLE STATE INCOME TAX
PURPOSES, (B) SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT RESULT IN THE TRUST BEING SUBJECT TO TAX AT
THE ENTITY LEVEL FOR FEDERAL OR APPLICABLE STATE TAX PURPOSES, (C) SUCH TRANSFER
WILL NOT HAVE ANY MATERIAL ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE FEDERAL OR APPLICABLE STATE
INCOME TAXATION OF A NOTEHOLDER OR ANY NOTE OWNER AND (D) SUCH TRANSFER WILL NOT
RESULT IN THE ARRANGEMENT CREATED BY THE TRUST AGREEMENT OR ANY "PORTION" OF THE
TRUST, BEING
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TREATED AS A TAXABLE MORTGAGE POOL AS DEFINED IN SECTION 7701(I) OF
THE CODE; (v) ALL FILINGS AND OTHER ACTIONS NECESSARY TO CONTINUE THE PERFECTION
OF THE INTEREST OF THE TRUST IN THE MORTGAGE LOANS AND THE OTHER PROPERTY
CONVEYED UNDER THE TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL HAVE BEEN TAKEN OR MADE AND (vi) THE
INSURER SHALL HAVE CONSENTED TO SUCH TRANSFER.
THIS CERTIFICATE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
DELAWARE, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE
OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.
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GREENPOINT HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 1999-2 CERTIFICATE
Percentage Interest: 100% Cut-Off Date: November 30, 1999
First Payment Date: January 15, 2000 Issue Date: December 22, 1999
No. 1
GREENPOINT MORTGAGE SECURITIES INC.
Certificateholder
OWNER TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Certificates referred to in the
within-mentioned Trust Agreement.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
By:
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Authenticating Agent
The Trust was created pursuant to a Trust Agreement dated as
of December 1, 1999 (the "Trust Agreement"), between the Sponsor and Wilmington
Trust Company, as owner trustee (the "Owner Trustee"), a summary of certain of
the pertinent provisions of which is set forth below. To the extent not
otherwise defined herein, the capitalized terms used herein have the meanings
assigned to them in the Trust Agreement.
This Certificate is one of the duly authorized Certificates
designated as GreenPoint Home Equity Loan "Asset Backed Certificates" (herein
called the "Certificates"). Also issued under the Indenture dated as of December
1, 1999, among the Trust and Bank One, National Association, as indenture
trustee (the "Indenture Trustee") are two classes of Notes designated as Class
A-1 Notes and Class A-2 Notes (collectively referred to herein as the "Notes").
These Certificates are issued under and are subject to the terms, provisions and
conditions of the Trust Agreement, to which Trust Agreement the holder of this
Certificate by virtue of the acceptance hereof assents and by which such holder
is bound. The property of the Trust includes (A) a pool of certain adjustable
rate home equity revolving credit line loans (the "HELOC Mortgage Loans")
(including any Additional Balances related thereto) and certain second lien
closed-end loans (the "Closed End Mortgage Loans") in each case which
substantially conform to the loan origination standards with respect to loan
balances as of the date of origination set form by the Federal National Mortgage
Association and (B) a pool of certain HELOC Mortgage Loans (including any
Additional Balances related thereto) and certain Closed End Mortgage Loans which
do not so conform.
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Under the Trust Agreement, there will be distributed on the
15th day of each month or, if such 15th day is not a Business Day, the next
Business Day (the "Payment Date"), commencing on January 15, 2000, to the Person
in whose name this Certificate is registered at the close of business on the
Business Day preceding such Payment Date (the "Record Date") such
Certificateholder's Percentage Interest in the amount to be distributed to
Certificateholders on such Payment Date.
The holder of this Certificate acknowledges and agrees that
its rights to receive distributions in respect of this Certificate are
subordinated to the rights of the Noteholders as described in the Sale and
Servicing Agreement, the Indenture and the Trust Agreement, as applicable.
The holder of this Certificate, by acceptance of this
Certificate, specifically acknowledges that it has no right to or interest in
any monies at any time held pursuant to the Reserve Fund, the Pre-Funding
Account or prior to the release of such monies pursuant to Sections 8.6(d)(xiii)
and 8.5(c) of the Indenture, such monies being held in trust for the benefit of
the Noteholders and the Insurer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event
that it is ever determined that the monies held in the Reserve Fund or the
Pre-Funding Account constitute a pledge of collateral, then the provisions of
the Sale and Servicing Agreement shall be considered to constitute a security
agreement and the holder of this Certificate hereby grants to the Indenture
Trustee and the Insurer a first priority perfected security interest in such
amounts. In addition, each Certificateholder, by acceptance of its Certificate,
hereby appoints the Sponsor as its agent to pledge a first priority perfected
security interest in the Reserve Fund and the Pre-Funding Account and agrees to
execute and deliver such instruments of conveyance, assignment, grant,
confirmation, etc., as well as any financing statements, in each case as the
Insurer shall consider reasonably necessary in order to perfect the Indenture
Trustee's security interest in the Trust Property.
It is the intent of the Sponsor, the Servicer, and the
Certificateholders that, for purposes of Federal income taxes, the Trust will be
treated as a branch. In the event that the Certificates are held by more than
one Holder, it is the intent of the Sponsor, the Servicer, and the
Certificateholders that, for purposes of Federal income taxes, the Trust will be
treated as a partnership and the Certificateholders will be treated as partners
in that partnership. The Sponsor and any other Certificateholders, by acceptance
of a Certificate, agree to treat, and to take no action inconsistent with the
treatment of, the Certificates for such tax purposes as partnership interests in
the Trust. Each Certificateholder, by its acceptance of a Certificate, covenants
and agrees that such Certificateholder will not at any time institute against
the Trust or the Sponsor, or join in any institution against the Trust or the
Sponsor of, any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or
liquidation proceedings, or other proceedings under any United States Federal or
state bankruptcy or similar law in connection with any obligations relating to
the Certificates, the Notes, the Trust Agreement or any of the Basic Documents.
Distributions on this Certificate will be made as provided in
the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the Indenture by the Indenture Trustee by
wire transfer or check mailed to the Certificateholder of record in the
Certificate Register without the presentation or surrender of this Certificate
or the making of any notation hereon. Except as otherwise provided in the Trust
Agreement and notwithstanding the above, the final distribution on this
Certificate
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will be made after due notice by the Owner Trustee of the pendency of such
distribution and only upon presentation and surrender of this Certificate at the
office or agency maintained for the purpose by the Owner Trustee in the
Corporate Trust Office.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Certificate 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 shall have
been executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual
signature, this Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any benefit
under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be valid for
any purpose.
The Certificates do not represent an obligation of, or an
interest in, the Company, the Sponsor, the Servicer, the Insurer, the Owner
Trustee or any Affiliates of any of them and no recourse may be had against such
parties or their assets, except as may be expressly set forth or contemplated
herein or in the Trust Agreement, the Indenture or the Basic Documents. In
addition, this Certificate is not guaranteed by any governmental agency or
instrumentality and is limited in right of payment to certain collections with
respect to the Mortgage Loans, as more specifically set forth herein, in the
Sale and Servicing Agreement and in the Indenture. A copy of each of the Sale
and Servicing Agreement and the Trust Agreement may be examined during normal
business hours at the principal office of the Sponsor, and at such other places,
if any, designated by the Sponsor, by any Certificateholder upon written
request.
The Trust Agreement permits, with certain exceptions therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Sponsor and the rights of the Certificateholders under the
Trust Agreement at any time by the Sponsor and the Owner Trustee with the prior
written consent of the Insurer and with the consent of the holders of the Notes
and the Certificates evidencing not less than a majority of the outstanding
Notes and the Certificates. Any such consent by the holder of this Certificate
shall be conclusive and binding on such holder and on all future holders of this
Certificate and of any Certificate issued upon the transfer hereof or in
exchange hereof or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent is
made upon this Certificate. The Trust Agreement also permits the amendment
thereof, in certain limited circumstances, without the consent of the holders of
any of the Certificates (other than the Sponsor or the Insurer).
As provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Certificate is registrable
in the Certificate Register upon surrender of this Certificate for registration
of transfer at the offices or agencies of the Certificate Registrar maintained
by the Owner Trustee in the Corporate Trust Office, accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the
Certificate Registrar duly executed by the holder hereof or such holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Certificates
in authorized denominations evidencing the same aggregate interest in the Trust
will be issued to the designated transferee. The initial Certificate Registrar
appointed under the Trust Agreement is Wilmington Trust Company.
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Except for Certificates issued to the Sponsor, the
Certificates are issuable only as registered Certificates without coupons in
denominations of $1,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As
provided in the Trust Agreement and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, Certificates are exchangeable for new Certificates in authorized
denominations evidencing the same aggregate denomination, as requested by the
holder surrendering the same. No service charge will be made for any such
registration of transfer or exchange, but the Owner Trustee or the Certificate
Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Insurer and
any agent of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate Registrar, the Insurer or the
Insurer may treat the person in whose name this Certificate is registered as the
owner hereof for all purposes, and none of the Owner Trustee, the Certificate
Registrar, the Insurer nor any such agent shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary.
The obligations and responsibilities created by the Trust
Agreement and the Trust created thereby shall terminate upon the payment to
Certificateholders of all amounts required to be paid to them pursuant to the
Trust Agreement, the Indenture and the Sale and Servicing Agreement and the
disposition of all property held as part of the Trust. The Sponsor may at its
option redeem the Notes at a price and upon the satisfaction of certain
conditions specified in Section 7.01(b) of the Sale and Servicing Agreement, and
if all of the Notes are redeemed, such redemption may result in termination of
the Trust which may effect a transfer of the Certificates; however, such right
of purchase is exercisable, subject to certain restrictions, only on any Payment
Date on or after the Payment Date immediately prior to which the related Note
Principal Balance for a Class of Notes is less than 10% of the related Original
Note Principal Balance for such Class of Notes and all amounts due and owing to
the Insurer for unpaid premiums and unreimbursed draws related to such Class of
Notes on the Policy and all other amounts due and owing to the Insurer pursuant
to the Insurance Agreement, together with interest thereon as provided under the
Insurance Agreement, have been paid.
The recitals contained herein shall be taken as the statements
of the Sponsor or the Servicer, as the case may be, and the Owner Trustee
assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Owner Trustee makes
no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Certificate or of
any Mortgage Loan or related document.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon shall have
been executed by an authorized officer of the Owner Trustee, by manual or
facsimile signature, this Certificate shall not entitle the holder hereof to any
benefit under the Trust Agreement or the Sale and Servicing Agreement or be
valid for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Owner Trustee, on behalf of the Trust
and not in its individual capacity, has caused this Certificate to be duly
executed.
GREENPOINT HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 1999
By: WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Owner Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
Dated: December 22, 1999
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto
PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY
OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER
OF ASSIGNEE
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(Please print or type name and address, including postal zip code, of assignee)
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the within Certificate, and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably
constituting and appointing_________________ Attorney to transfer said
Certificate on the books of the Certificate Registrar, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated:
______________________ *
Signature Guaranteed:
______________________ *
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* NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name
of the registered owner as it appears on the face of the within
Certificate in every particular, without alteration, enlargement or any
change whatever. Such signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible
guarantor institution" meeting the requirements of the Certificate
Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in
STAMP or such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined
by the Certificate Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for,
STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
EXHIBIT B
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF
GREENPOINT HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 1999-2
This Certificate of Trust of GreenPoint Home Equity Loan Trust
1999-2 (the "Trust"), dated as of December __, 1999, is being duly executed and
filed by Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as trustee,
to form a business trust under the Delaware Business Trust Act (12 Del. Code,
Section 3801 et seq.).
1. Name. The name of the business trust formed hereby is
GreenPoint Home Equity Loan Trust 1999-2.
2. Delaware Trust. The name and business address of the Owner
Trustee of the Trust in the State of Delaware is Wilmington Trust Company,
Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000.
Attn: Corporate Trust Administration.
3. This Certificate of Trust will be effective December 22,
1999.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being the sole trustee of
the Trust, has executed this Certificate of Trust as of the date first above
written.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Owner
Trustee of the Trust.
By:
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Name:
Title: